We once ran into some Freemasons in Freeport whose freethinking ideas toed the free throw line that separates “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” from “And I’m free — free fallin’.” Their carefree mental freestyling took them down freeways we hoped to one day enjoy a free ride upon, and, if we may be freespoken about it, that day has arrived.

This Wednesday night (1/18) we are playing a free show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY as part of the 100 Proof Project, which is presented by Southern Comfort, which purveys spirits purported to encourage free-spiritedness. It will be a free-for-all of art and mixology and in addition to being able to see (free) Radical Dads play for free, you’ll also be able to experience the free enterprise system in action and drink free drinks served to you — for free — by freewheeling freeholders who have never freebased in their lives (to our knowledge).

In order to be a free agent at this event, all you have to do is RSVP, which can be done by freehanding your mouse right here to this location >>>

The event starts at 8pm and we go on at 10pm, so you’ll have plenty of time to free-swim and/or free-float through some drinks that will quickly have free rein over your liver.

The Knitting Freectory is located at 361 Metropolitan Ave in Williamsburg. We hope to see you and your freeform dance maneuvers there.

Dear Distopian Dream Girls,

At the mention of Friday, a youngish band’s thoughts naturally turn to the German author Alfred Döblin, who wrote, “If you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you’ll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.”

What’s interesting about this quote is not its encapsulation of workweek ennui, but rather the way it was later borrowed by the restaurant chain T.G.I. Friday’s for an ad campaign that expressed, “The world is a void, and lacks most notably justice, unless you’re talking about buffalo wings with friends on a Friday night!”

Which bring us to this Friday night, the 13th, hands down the spookiest day of the year so far. We’re playing at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn, NY with Backwords, Moonmen on the Moon, Man, and Yanqui. Click some stuff on Facebook here >

The show starts at 8pm, we’re on at 11pm, and $7 gets you in (unless you bring us a copy of the Döblin book containing the above quote AND a clamshell container of buffalo wings [provenance not important], in which case you’ll get in for free and we’ll serenade you on stage, also for free).

Cameo Gallery is located at 93 N. 6th Street in Williamsburg, in the back of the Lovin’ Cup Cafe. We hope to see you there!

We talked with a mainstream media outlet about one of our favorite topics.

We have a lot of stuff to talk to you about, like for example are you ever going to stop smoking and find religion and talk some sense into your sister and finish The Corrections and get married and give us some adorable grandkids? And also these things:

The Skateboard Bulldog 7-inch is out today
Our new 7-inch is available now! It’s about exactly what it sounds like it’s about: a genetically malformed canine that shreds its brains out. Open up your kind wallet >

Listen to our new song called “Know-It-All”
This semi-newish song is the B-side on Skateboard Bulldog. If you know how to count, you’ll dig this. Jam a free download >

Or listen right here:
Know-It-All by RadicalDads

The Mega Rama vinyl LP is out today
Mega Rama charts the life story of Meg A. Ra, M.A., the master’s degree-toting lovechild of Meg Ryan and Sun Ra. It’s also our first album, available now on wax of the blackest variety thanks to Loud Baby Sounds. Snag it before it snags you >

We’re playing Cake Shop this Thursday, 12/15
We’re celebrating these manifold releases at Cake Shop this Thursday with Hilly Eye (ex-Titus Andronicus), EULA, and Libel. It’s the Whatever Blog’s holiday party, so wear your good cardigan, Kurt. 8 beans. We go on at 11pm. Do something on Facebook >

Here’s the poster:

We’re doing the Brooklyn Night Bazaar this Friday, 12/16
Eat food, buy locally hewn trinkets, and watch us butcher “Jingle Bell Rock” on Friday night at 149 Kent Ave in Williamsburg. We’re playing with Fucked Up, Dom, Big Troubles, Caged Animals, and the DJ versions of Frankie Rose and Bill Pearis. 10 bones, all ages, we go on at 7pm. Acquire thine tickets >

We hope you’ll buy our stuff and come see us play this week!

Our friends Pursesnatchers took some excellent artistic liberties with our song “Little Tomb” and we completely APPROVE. Thanks Doug! Brooklyn Vegan said some nice things about it, and you can listen to the remix right here!

LITTLE TOMB – Pursesnatchers remix by RadicalDads

Whoa, more holiday celebrating! We’re playing the Brooklyn Night Bazaar on December 16th with Fucked Up, Big Troubles, and Caged Animals. In addition to experiencing these rock bands, you can buy gifts from the people who make them, eat holiday-appropriate foodstuffs, and ogle works of art. This all-ages event is happening at 149 Kent Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Doors open at 5pm. Read more about the Bazaar or get tickets for the show.

We know you are likely recovering from a shopping bender of Homeric proportions, but if you purchase just one more object this year, perhaps it should be a ticket to our next show — the Radical Dads Holidad Radtacular — taking place next Wednesday, December 7th, at Webster Hall in New York City.

You’ve seen us play in dingy clubs that smell like bleach; now’s your chance to cross one more thing off your bucket list and see us play a tarted-up auditorium that smells like Matthew McConaughey. We’ll be accompanied by a 92-piece children’s orchestra, a flock or herd or gaggle or whatever it’s called of reindeer, 12 retired Rockettes who still got the moves, and an aging castrato ready for his final curtain call.

Also appearing live onstage during the Holidad Radtacular will be Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [sic] and Waters, who may or may not be the actual John Waters. You decide.

According to the numbers guys we keep on retainer, there are not many tickets left, so we kindly exhort you to secure your tickets now >>>

This past summer we made a savage pilgrimage to the center of the American maw: Rock Island, Illinois. The first thing we did when we got to Rock Island was eat the ever-living daylights out of some chicken salad sandwiches. Have sandwiches ever been laid waste to in such a vigorous manner? It is very unlikely.

The second thing we did when we got to Rock Island was record some songs at Daytrotter. Now, after a multi-month gestation period, the songs are ready to spring into the world like wheat grain being rapidly shot out of a threshing machine into the faces of unsuspecting passersby. Can passersby be anything except unsuspecting? We didn’t think so.

Listen to our Daytrotter sesh here!

From a New York Times article on the changing neighborhoods of the NYC Marathon:

One thing about Radical Dads will never change, and that is our love of synthetic materials.

Shellac: Yes please.
Urethane: Lay it on us.
Polycarbonate: Don’t mind if we do.
Astroturf: Naturally.
Naugahyde: Hells yup.
Kombucha: Pour it down our gullets, posthaste.

Now we are psyched to death to announce our favorite new synthetic substance: thick hot black VINYL with the nine songs of MEGA RAMA etched into its surface.

The excellent dudes at Loud Baby Sounds are releasing Mega Rama on vinyl on December 13th! You can pre-order it now, along with our new Skateboard Bulldog 7-inch, which comes out the very same day. Of course, you’ll get your greedy mitts on the MP3s immediately.

We hope you enjoy Mega Rama on this incredible new substance!