February 2012
3 posts
The interview I did that Facebook won't let me... →
Scandalous!! Actually, not really. Facebook thinks one of the links on the page I’m trying to share is “spammy” because it uses an unusual domain extension, but it’s not spammy at all.
Anyway, in advance of the Attempt’s next show in New Haven (TOMORROW, Friday the 17th at Elm Bar), CTIndie, Connecticut’s leading online source for independent music news and...
I conducted an interview with CTIndie.com over the...
January 2012
3 posts
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
New album sampler download
Hey, so as some of you know, my band, The Tyler Trudeau Attempt, has had an album in the can for a little while now. It’s called “Something, Anything Else,” and the only thing it needs is a platform, by which I mean, like, a label. (Hey, look, this record is fantastic, and if I had the means to hire a publicist, I’d put it out myself, but those are means I don’t...
September 2011
3 posts
The Tyler Trudeau Attempt is playing a show in a backyard in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn on Sat. Oct. 1. This is a link to the FB event thing.
July 2011
3 posts
UPCOMING TYLER TRUDEAU ATTEMPT SHOWS
WED., AUG. 3: Spike Hill, in Brooklyn, with Little Racer, The Rotaries and The Denzels.
SAT., AUG. 6: Elm City PopFest fundraiser show at Elm Bar, in New Haven, CT, with Dead Wives and Celebrated Tigers.
WED., AUG. 10: Don Pedro’s, in Brooklyn, with Dialogue from a Silent Film and Libel.
TUE., AUG 30: Rock Shop, in Brooklyn, with Blown Woofer and others TBA.
In mere days we’ll be...
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
3 posts
Just converted some demos...
April 2011
1 post
This is an interview I did.
So this past Thursday, I did an overseas interview. Nik from the blog Records Make Great Pets e-mailed me a bunch of questions, mostly about my band Women’s Basketball, and I answered them and he posted the whole thing. I got the impression he didn’t expect me to answer all the questions, but answering questions isn’t hard. Have you ever asked someone how they’re doing and...
March 2011
2 posts
The other day, as I was muscling through the throng of exciteable jerks on the stairway out of the Bedford Avenue L stop, I suddenly had the awareness of a five-day rager on a manmade island in the North Sea, the former HQ of a British pirate radio station and the current home of an influential torrent website. Attendees were to meet in Ibiza, where they’d depart in a flotilla of armored hot...
Post-moving moving post.
I’ve moved again, from a basement apartment on the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy border to a fourth-floor walkup in South Williamsburg with a killer view of the Hasidic enclave. There’s something eerie and amiss about an empty room you used to live in. Sweeping the floor and hearing your voice echo in the room in a hollow way it’s never echoed since you moved in, your awareness of this new void grabs you in...
February 2011
2 posts
Things that Are Happening
TONIGHT, FRI., FEB. 25: The Tyler Trudeau Attempt is playing at Lit Lounge in the East Village, with The Haunted Continents and Frost Watson. It’s an EP release show for The Haunted Continents, a great band that contains super-talented guys we’ve known for yeeears. Show starts early: When they say 8:30, we believe ‘em. And the Attempt is on first.
SUN., MAR. 6: CT TV...
Women's Basketball Self-Interview, #2
On the eve of the release of the Women’s Basketball EP Don’t Be Mad at Me Just Because I Challenged Your Worldview, and in light of rumors that this would be the final Women’s Basketball release, Tyler Trudeau from The Tyler Trudeau Attempt sat down to interview Tyler Trudeau from Women’s Basketball. This is what went down.
TT: Hey, thanks for taking the time to do this. I see you’ve already got a...
January 2011
6 posts
Here’s a preview of the upcoming...
Friday
Everyone should come to Matchless on Fri., Jan. 21 to see The Tyler Trudeau Attempt, Boy Genius and Slam Donahue. I seriously love both of the bands we’re playing with, and I’m super-stoked for this. We’ll be rolling out new songs like “I Promise I Will Get Really Drunk, Fall Down a Flight of Stairs and Try to Make Out With You” and “Are You Still Seeing That...
A thing with music on it that you can download for... →
The free, 19-song compilation One Year of Original Music from February Records is available for download now, via the FebRecs site and their Bandcamp site, for free. I’d say the title says it all — there are tracks here by each act that released music on February Records during 2010 — but the title doesn’t exactly say it all. More than just a retrospective, there’s...
These are shows
SUN., JAN. 16, 7 p.m.: The Tyler Trudeau Attempt and Life Size Maps at The Swiss Chalet, New Haven, CT High-energy maximalist pop music, for free, in a kinda-secret location; e-mail tylertrudeau at gmail dot com for the dirty details.
FRI., JAN. 21, 8 p.m.: Boy Genius, The Tyler Trudeau Attempt, Slam Donahue and one other TBA at Bar Matchless, 557 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, NY Enjoy killer pop...
The train whines into action above the street as the snow drives down, fine and prickly. A quick sequence of snaps, and the showers of sparks shoot from the rails, here, ten feet away, half a block away. The sparks arc over the sidewalk, orange and knuckle-sized, and fall hissing in the fresh snow. On the ground, we scatter — skinny young white people in jeans and wet sneakers, stocky...
December 2010
9 posts
Women's Basketball - "Indian Lunch Buffet" →
Here’s a late Christmas present, and I hope it works. Click on the header! It’s a link to a track by my side project, Women’s Basketball, a band in which I’m the only member. The song is called “Indian Lunch Buffet,” and I recorded it this past summer for a proposed EP that I ended up scrapping. Nonetheless, this song lives, and it’s going to be coming out...
This is what's happening.
Doing some housecleaning at the end of 2010. In retrospect, although there have been periods when it seems like I’ve done nothing but wait and wait and wait, I’ve accomplished a lot of what I set out to do. We started the year by releasing An Octopus, but Like, an Octopus with Massive Wings, and Junk, the debut album by my side project, Women’s Basketball. Then I found some...
November 2010
3 posts
October 2010
2 posts
Kanye was right the first time; everyone else just...
A propos of nothing, other than the fact(s) that this has been bouncing around in my head for ages, I just thought of it again, and it’s too long for Twitter: Good Ass Job is a way better album title than My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and not just because at this point it seems Kanye West is unable of having any fantasy that doesn’t somehow manifest itself, thus becoming reality...
15 Songs for Free →
Earlier this year, I put together a CD-R called Hey Turdo!: Seven Unlikely Years of Tyler Trudeau — songs by the Tyler Trudeau Attempt, Women’s Basketball and The Blowout! (the band I was in before the Attempt), plus some solo cuts. Mostly “the hits.” Some deep cuts. I usually have a few copies with me when I leave the house; I use it to introduce myself to other musicians...
September 2010
2 posts
Couple shows via the Way-Back Machine.
I don’t normally go in for nostalgia. But, I’m playing a couple shows this week with the Attempt that are bringing back all kinds of memories, and I like it.
We’re playing at the Sierra Grill in Northampton, MA, on Thursday, and again at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn on Friday, with Jason Bourgeois and Death to New England. It’s something of a reunion. I think I can...
August 2010
4 posts
Record release day is now.
I’ve just spent the past few days in Connecticut, my home state, where I took some time to assemble copies of the new Attempt single, deliver records to record stores, practice with a couple bands, hang with my mom and check in with some comrades. It was extremely Connecticut. We’re talking getting pulled over by small-town cops on a winding forest road on account of a busted...
Me vs. PayPal Automated Tech Support
Sarah - PayPal : Hi. I’m Sarah, PayPal’s automated customer support assistant. How can I help you today? You : I need to find the e-mail code for an item I’m selling — not the web code. I don’t really know what this means. Sarah - PayPal : Could you tell me more about your issue? You : I have a product I’m selling via PayPal. I need the e-mail...
