Saturday, December 23, 2006

GIG! December 22nd: Maxwells

December 22nd 2006

w/THE MOONEY SUZUKI & The Pierces

F.B.C./K.A.R
1039 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ (201)653-1703
www.maxwellsnj.com

Doors: 9:30 (we go on first, so get there early!)
Tickets: $10
Available at TicketWeb.

Hey!
Maxwell's advance tickets are now available via TicketWeb. They may also still be purchased at Tunes and Other Music, but no longer at TicketMaster. Please go to Ticketweb.com or call (866)468-7619.

Friday, October 27, 2006

GIG! October 27th: Ottos Shrunken Head

October 27th 2006

w/The Dark Marbles

Otto's Shrunken Head
538 E 14th St
New York, NY 10009-3347
Cross Street: Between Avenue A and Avenue B
Directions: L at 1st Ave

Friday, September 01, 2006

GIG! September 1st: Lakeside Lounge (Ave. B & 10th)

FREE! FREE! FREE!

Lakeside Lounge
162 Ave B
New York, NY 10009-4644
Cross Street: Between 10th Street and 11th Street

Time: 11pm - SHARP!


Friday, August 18, 2006

GIG! August 18th: Wild Spirits (1843 1st Ave)

The Subway Surfers Team Up With Their Arch Nemesis: THE VON GHOULS

Wild Spirits
1843 1st Ave
New York, NY 10128
Cross Street: Between 95th Street and 96th Street

Check back for set times and price.

Visit www.wildspiritsnyc.com for more info.


Pix from the show:










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Saturday, July 08, 2006

GIG! July 8th: Sin-E (150 Attorney St.)

Last minute booking! Together again: the Subway Surfers and PINK STEEL - NYC's #1 Gay Heavy Metal Band.





Sin-é
150 Attorney St.
New York, NY
Sin-e is located between Houston & Stanton and 3 blocks east of Avenue A

Check back for set times and price.

Visit www.sin-e.com for more info.

Friday, June 23, 2006

GIG! June 23rd: Knitting Factory (Tap Room)

Everyone's talking about the amazing show that The Subway Surfers put on at Otto's Shrunken Head last Friday night. If you missed it, you get a chance to see what all the buzz is about this FRIDAY.

7:30 doors
7:45 - The Demos
8:30 - The Booty Olympics
9:00 - The Subway Surfers
10:00 - The Singles

Come out to The Knitting Factory Tap Bar and see for yourself. The doors open at 7:30 and we play at 9:00, so be sure you get there early. Also, make sure you tell the club that you are there to see The Subway Surfers! The other supporting bands are The Demos and The Booty Olympics. Headliners the Singles are coming all the way from Detroit.

Knitting Factory Tap Bar
74 Leonard Street, New York, NY
Cross Street: Between Broadway and Church Street
Directions: J, M, Z; N, R, Q, W; 6 at Canal St

ALL I GOT

Courtesy El Squid Productions

See pics from the show here

Friday, June 16, 2006

GIG! June 16th: Ottos Shrunken Head

June 16th 2006

w/The Dark Marbles

Otto's Shrunken Head - POP Gear!
538 E 14th St
New York, NY 10009-3347
Cross Street: Between Avenue A and Avenue B
Directions: L at 1st Ave

Friday, May 05, 2006

GIG! May 5th: Wild Spirits (1843 1st Ave)

Cinco DeMayo

Announcing the first Poptown Records Showcase Night! Here’s some advanced notice…plan to spend Cinco de Mayo (that’s Friday 5/5) at a special showcase night at Wild Spirits, NYC with 9 killer bands! Included will be The Scared Stiffs, Lipstick Killers, The Skeevotz, Ugly Friend and The Subway Surfers!

Visit www.wildspiritsnyc.com for more info.

Wild Spirits
1843 1st Ave
New York, NY 10128
Cross Street: Between 95th Street and 96th Street


  • 7:30 Sukker Punch

  • 8:15 The Skeevotz

  • 9:00 The Subway Surfers

  • 9:45 The Challenged

  • 10:30 Lipstick Killers

  • 11:15 The Scared Stiffs

  • 12:00 Ugly Friend

  • 12:45 The Young Werewolves

  • 1:30 Black Flamingo


See pics from the show here

Thanks to Tony the Squid for taking pics and to Miss Leesie for just being there.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

GIG! April 8th: Desmonds (30th & Park)

April 8th 2006

9:00 Los Blankitos
10:00 THE SUBWAY SURFERS (with guest drummer Mike Sin of the Insomniacs)
11:00 The Anything People

433 Park Ave S
New York, NY 10016-8002
(212) 684-9472
Directions: 6 at 28th St.







See more pix here!

Thanks to Terre T. and Tony for taking pics!

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Three Chord Monte

Last year the Subway Surfers were invited to play on WFMU's Three Chord Monte. You can listen to our live set here.

This year's fundraiser premium, "Never Mind the Belocks, Here's Even More Guests:" collects live performances from the Three Chord Monte show covering 2003-2005, this time including exclusive tracks from Mr. Airplane Man, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Subsonics, the Martinets, Muck & the Mires AND THE SUBWAY SURFERS!!!

Joe Belock = Real Rock!

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Buy It Now!

Three Chords & A Mission $10.00
Brand new from Jersey City's own garage punk sons. Three Chords & A Mission features 13 new garage rockers including a cover of the Replacements' "Color Me Impressed" and the hit single, "I Hate New York". BUT IT NOW

Vindicated: A Tribute To The Fleshtones $15.00
w/The Hoodoo Gurus, Insomniacs, Nomads, Swinging Neckbreakers, Woggles, Handsome Dick Manitoba & More!
BUT IT NOW

The Morgue The Merrier $14.97
Includes "Crash Test Dummy"
BUT IT NOW

Garage Justice I $10
10 NYC Bands vs 10 Austin Bands
Includes the original version of "Good To Go" BUT IT NOW

SOLD OUT!
Subway Surfers S/T EP $5
Satan Island/New Girl/Good To Go/Fallout Shelter
"Sounds like some great 45 lost since 1977"
Lindsay Hutton, The Next Big Thing

Meet The Band

Name: Eric Fusco
Nickname: Fuzzco
Hometown: Jersey City.
Gear: World Beat Maracas, unknown brand tambourine
Favorite bands: Replacements, Ramones, Fleshtones, Damned, Kinks, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Rockpile
Favorite movies: "The Great Escape", "Apocolypse, Now", "Repo Man", "Buckaroo Banzai", "A Clockwork Orange", "Fathom", the James Coburn "Flint" movies
Songs/albums that changed your life: "Hotel California"- I remember hearing it when I was little. I hadn't heard any music that I liked yet, but I knew I DIDN'T like that!
First show you saw: John Denver @ Brendan Byrne Arena. (Second show: Replacements @ The Ritz)
Best show you ever saw: The Cramps during the "Date With Elvis Tour"? Fleshtones @ Wildgirls Go-Go-Rama? Any Untamed Youth show?
All time favorite babe: Tiffani Amber Thiessen
Fave food: Pizza from Famous Ray's on 11th & 6th.
Fave drink: Brooklyn Lager
What do you want written on your tombstone: It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

Name: Larry Higgs
Nickname: Mopar Larry
Hometown: Jersey City NJ
Gear: Hagstrom Big Swede, Rickenbacker basses, SWR 4004 Workingman's bass head, SWR Goliath cabinet
Favorite bands: The Ramones, Undertones, Fleshtones, Mosquitos, Pandoras, Pretty Things, Real Kids, Flatmates, Sonics, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Shop Assistants, Johnny Thunders, The Waldos.
Favorite movies: Rock N Roll High School, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Warriors, The Big Sleep, Them!, Deadline USA, Bullitt, The French Connection, Hot Rods to Hell
Songs/albums that changed your life: Richard Hell, Blank Generation and the first Ramones LP. garage.
First show you saw: Ramones, probably at the Showplace in Dover
Best show you ever saw: The Ramones at The Hole in the Wall, a biker bar in Rochelle Park NJ off Route 17. We had to check the chains on our leather jackets...
All time favorite babe: Riff Randall
Fave food: good NY Thin crust pizza with meatballs.
Fave drink: good coffee, Brooklyn Pennant Ale
What do you want written on your tombstone:
"They had the patrol car floored and still couldn't catch me!"

Name: Rocco
Hometown: Transylvainia
Gear: Les Paul Jr., Marshall jtm45 combo
Favorite bands: Ramones ,The Doors, The Stooges, Velvet Underground,The New York Dolls, The Sex Pistols, The Damned Johnny Thunders & the Heart Breakers, David Bowie, Blondie, The Cars, The MIsfits, Reverend Horton Heat, 50's Rock etc....
Favorite movies: "Jaws", "Mad Max", "The Big Lebowski", "Bram Stokers Dracula", "SLC Punk", "Filth & the Fury", "Swingers",
Songs/albums that changed your life: Songs, Light My Fire-Doors, Venus In Furs-Velvet Underground, Smash It Up-Damned, Dream On-Aerosmith, Born to Lose - Johnny Thunders, Johnny B. Goode-Chuck Berry. Marquee Moon -Television, The New York Dolls(self titled). The first 5 Ramones albums
First show you saw: The Earth Day concert in '92
Best show you ever saw: Iggy & The Stooges
All time favorite babe: Bettie Page, Julianne Moore, Rachel Leigh Cook, LizHurley
Fave food: Prime Rib
Fave drink: Tea ( iced/hot/long island)
What do you want written on your tombstone:
Do Not Mourn My Loss, Celebrate My Life

Name: Christian Diablo
Hometown: Westfield, NJ
Gear: Pearl Export Select Drumset 7 piece but usually play a 5 piece. DW Snare, Vic Firth 5B Wood Tip Sticks, Heads Vary on mood and sound being produced, Cymbols: Zildjan K Crash-16 and 18 inch, 22 inch Zildjan Avedis Ride, 14 Inch Zildjan K Hi-Hats, 22 inch Paiste China, Zildjan Bell, and other effects cymbols and percussion.
Favorite bands: Ramones, Social Distortion, The Who, Gaslight Anthem, Crass, The Queers, The Sex Pistols, The Bouncing Souls, Dropkick Murphys, The Skels, The Buzzcocks, The Dead Kennedys, Pennywise, Stradford Mercenaries, Devo, Creedle, and The Subhumans.
Favorite movies: The Office, Spinal Tap, The Mighty Wind, Momento, Slingblade, and Shaun of the Dead
Songs/albums that changed your life: The Who, "Tommy" and Social Distortion, "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell"
First show you saw: Some Doo Wop concert with my dad when I was a little boy. Even got autographs.
Best show you ever saw: Jimmy Cliff at the Starland Ballroom or Mephiskapheles at Montclair State University
All time favorite babe: Bettie Page, Karla Homolka, and the sisters...Lori and Reba Schappell
Favorite Food: Pizza, Brick oven and 5 cheese
Fave drink: Coke
What do you want written on your tombstone: He wrote the soundtrack to his life.

About The Band

First Round Semi-Finalists
Little Steven's Underground Garage Battle of the Bands


“Sounds like some great 45 lost since 1977”
Lindsay Hutton
The Next Big Thing


“Yes! Yes! Real Rock & Roll !!!”
Jolly, Resident Punk
Punk Magazine

Subway Surfers interviewed for Fufkin

Airplay on:
  • Bill Kelly's Teenage Wasteland
    WFMU


  • Mike Murray's Whole Lotta Shakin'
    WITR


  • Coffee 'n' Smokes with Alex
    WMFO