Sofia Grey postcard

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SOFIA-FLIER-2, originally uploaded by Jeff Coleman.

Postcard promotional image for Sofia Grey, …

www.worldracketeeringsquad.com is up!

As of this moment, www.worldracketeeringsquad.com is officially up!

You can subscribe to RSS feeds for new blogs, news and lyrics, and we'll be updating the site frequently with all that stuff as well as new mp3s and videos.

Enjoy!

Excellent self-portrait by Alister Blake

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Self-Portrait, originally uploaded by AlisterBlake.

Here's a haunting self-portrait by the …

Hoarse Angel (Carousel Lounge, 1/5/2008)

The jukebox came on at the beginning of my guitar solo on this one! Spot the bartender bringing us free beers to make up for it later in the song.

Perfume or fabric softener?

NY Times' The Moment blog:

Not only is Chloé an uninteresting, clichéd floral -- why are houses still launching saccharine, vaguely unidentifiable composite flowers? -- it smells like a perfume masquerading as a fabric softener. What's worse is that there are some …

New demo: "You know what I mean"

World Racketeering Squad live at Carousel Lounge, December 27, 2007

We had a few technical difficulties with the video, meaning a couple of songs are missing, including our closing number, the best "Screwed You" ever!

Thanks to everybody who came out and had a great time at the show!

WRS Flier January/February 2008

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WRS Flier January/February 2008, originally uploaded by Isaac Priestley.

Flier advertising …

Filmmakers try to justify He-Man movie to themselves, the world

LOL. I just have no words for this:

"There are no invented new characters plopped into it-and if we and Mattel have our way there will never be. We're talking about the He-Man mythology. So what we're talking about doing, in the same way as Batman Begins, we're …

We got a gig!

We got our first proper gig!

We've been playing at open mics and we've gotten to know a local band called Blue Squeezebox, led by a really charismatic frontman on the accordion.

Last night after they played, our singer Reed congratulated him on the set, and they started …

World Racketeering Squad's first studio recording: Panic!

Every Monday we play an open mic at Conan's Pizza, where the host, Billy, is really friendly and always does a great job on our sound, especially for what is basically a funky little PA system set up in a pizza shop!  He makes it sound terrific.

Anyway, last week he …

Join the World Racketeering Squad mailing list!

Now that we're playing more around town, we're getting our mailing list together to let fans know where we'll be and what we're up to. Just pop in your email address and you'll be informed anytime we've got a show coming up!

We won't sell your email to anyone, we'll …

Isaac Priestley portrait by Alister Blake

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isaac_priestly, originally uploaded by AlisterBlake.

Can't wait to see this finished!

Gig report: Conan's Pizza, Monday 11/19/07

Back at Conan's Pizza on Monday, first show with the new amp. This was a rough one.

I've had some serious noise complaints from my upstairs neighbor who apparently thinks he should be living over a family of church mice, as he calls the apartment management or the …

World Racketeering Squad live at Conan's, Trophy's

This was a busy week for us. Three gigs in a row! Here are the videos from Conan's Pizza, on Monday, Nov 19, and from Trophy's, on Tuesday, Nov 20. At Trophy's we decided to mix it up and play one of our newer songs, "Screwed You", as practice to play it at Carousel …

Gig report: Carousel Lounge, 11/21/07

Terrific show at the Carousel Lounge last night opening up for Blue Squeezbox.

It was fun and inspiring, lots of our friends showed up, and the guys in Blue Squeezebox were enthusiastic and very cool. 

Both Reed's folks and my Mom showed up, which was nice!  …

Gig report: Trophy's, Tues 11/20/07

Things are moving fast! More new developments in the ongoing saga of the World Racketeering Squad.

Picked up an EH Big Muff Pi pedal on Tuesday. We don't really even have that many songs that call for fuzz, but I'm trying to build up a pedal set and it's flashier than …

World Racketeering Squad at Carousel Lounge

Here's the full video of our gig at Carousel Lounge. Enjoy!

Isaac

WRS Photos: Panic in the Studio!

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Panic, originally uploaded by Jeff Coleman.

Photo array of World Racketeering Squad recording …

World Racketeering Squad logo concept

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Possible WRS logo, originally uploaded by Jeff Coleman.