Freshkills entered the studio just before the holiday break to record their third album with drummer Jim Sclavunos of Bad Seeds/Grinderman fame producing. Sclavunos is also responsible for producing the first Horrors and has earned an incredible reputation over the past 20 years drumming along Nick Cave in both the Bad Seeds and Grinderman.

The band joined Sclavunos on December 15th at Andrew Schneider’s studio where, basically, the entire Hydrahead Records catalog has been recorded.

From Plug in music

Freshkills will be the sole support for MOB’s show at the Bowery Ballroom on the 29th.

18+
Doors 8pm
$20 tickets

http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/3766

Pics, videos clips and a review by Audrey Dimola.

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“Taking its name from the vast old landfill in Staten Island, Freshkills, appropriately enough, injects a degree of trash rock into its post-punk hybrid. The band’s painstakingly constructed hooks put them at the top of the heap of late-eighties revivalists.”

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/nightlife/2009/08/24/090824goni_GOAT_nightlife

Pendu presents: NY Eye & Ear Fest II … a massive 4-day New Music and Arts Fete showcasing some of the most exciting bands, artists, and filmmakers currently living and working here in NYC. In addition, NYE&E assembles aRecord Fair featuring NYC-based Record Labels and Vendors selling LPs, CDs, 7”s, cassettes, lathes, comics, zines, stickers, and art prints.

_1:00am Blacklist
12:30am Martial Canterel
12:00am John Wiese
11:30pm Freshkills
11:00pm Infinity Window
10:30pm Living Days
10:00pm Axolotl
_9:30pm Island’s Eyelids
_9:00pm Grasshopper 

“The bands and tacos begin at 2pm in the courtyard and, after 8pm, the live music migrates to the back room. At 10pm the DJs start upfront and at 2am, the bands stop and its just DJs front and back. ”

More info at New York Night Train >>

3rd Crocodiles- ex Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower dudes. Pitchfork doesn’t dig them and that’s good enough for us.
2nd Freshkills-still teething.
1st The Sundelles- A bridge we haven’t burnt yet.

Union Pool: 484 Union Avenue, corner of Union & Meeker
Doors: 8pm

UK tour went very well. And we hope to be back in the Fall to followup. Check out some photos on our myspace and facebook pages. And if you have any pictures or stories, please share:

freshkillsband@gmail.com

Mum was the word prior to the show. Sorry. And it was our first show with our new bass player, Mishka. He only had one week to learn 7 songs and he did smashingly. Here’s a review, some pictures and tenacious user comments from Brooklyn Vegan.

One night at Kokies we saved the life of Nick Zinner. He was caught in a glue trap and about to be devoured by a ferel bay area “pirate-punk” in capris and a GoGoGo Airheart badge that doubled as an eyepatch. She had a disconcerting jaw twitch, a visibly annoyed drummer boyfriend, and kept referring to herself in in seafaring terms, so we bopped her over the head with a Budweiser miniture and got him out of there. Ever since, he’s been in our debt.

Some debts can only be repayed in remixes. Thanks, Mr.Zinner!

Grab the song from RCRLBL:
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Freshkills/track/Revelations_Nick_Zinner_Remix