Dear vagabonds and gadabouts,

If you’re growing tired of your itinerant lifestyle, boy do we have an opportunity for you. This Thursday, May 3rd — which depending on where you live and/or your unique interpretation of time may qualify as tomorrow — you can stand in one place for up to 27 minutes and watch us plow through a visible stack of new songs (plus some old, totally un-reworked ones!) at Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY. It will feel just like home, provided you grew up in a Vaudeville-era theater.

We’re playing with Hard Nips (it’s their album release party!!!) and Gross Relations and DJ The Magick Report. We go on last, so let’s figure 11pm? That should give you plenty of time to wander the planet beforehand, especially if you start now.

Union Pool is located at 484 Union Ave. Pledge the presence of your corporeal being right here >>>

We hope to see you there!

These dudes are the best dudes, and their new album will put your face into a permanent mask of happiness. Get your physical/digital/metaphorical copy in the Uninhabitable Mansions e-commerce web portal.

Plus feast your retinas on SND’s new video for “Genghis Khan”:

Dear body/brain discoverers,

Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, star of Rembrandt’s painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, gave it his best shot. However, he was slightly off the mark. Because while the forearm has its uses, a more mysterious musculature (ok, not exactly a musculature) merits attention. It is found inside the bony labyrinth of your ear, within a spiral-shaped cavity that is sensitive to vibrations and other types of input. It is called the cochlea.

We would like to don florid collars and classic Dutch facial hair in order to have our way with this cavity tomorrow night (4/5) at Death by Audio in Brooklyn, NY, where we are playing a show with My Teenage Stride, The Hairs, and The Numerators. We go on around 10:30pm. 

Discover the operating theater’s location and dimensions: http://www.facebook.com/events/277303232344288/

We hope to see you there!

Here’s some Rad Dads related media that has recently hit the internet, collected here for your viewing enjoyment.

Tide’s Out, performed in our practice space for Aputumpu.

New Age Dinosaur and Recklessness from the We Listen For You secret show at SXSW.

Dear cool dudes of the universe,

We just flew back from Texas and boy are our private helicopter pilots tired. Our band, however, is very well rested, which is why we are playing two shows in Brooklyn in the next few days. More specifically:

Thursday, March 22nd at Shea Stadium
Aputumpu Festival w/ The Suzan, Habibi, Osekre and the Lucky Bastards, Toothache
20 Meadow St. Brooklyn, NY | 8pm
Formalize your intention to attend >

Monday, March 26th at Glasslands Gallery
w/ Backwords (record release!!!), Dear Lions, Vassals
289 Kent Ave. Brooklyn, NY | 8:30pm
Click until your mind explodes >

We hope you can make it to these extraordinary events at this extraordinary time in all of our lives.

Dear Appreciators of Abbreviations,

This week we’re fulfilling our guitars’ lifelong dream of flying thousands of miles in a dark and freezing cargo hold by taking them on a plane ride to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. If you’re going to be there, our custom signature model axes would love to see you — y’all could visit the Texas Pavement Preservation Center together.

Here is when and where and how things are going to happen:

Thursday, March 15th
Treehouse Diddly / Sapporo / Datapipe Showcase
Cheers | 416 E 6th St, Austin, TX
We play at 8:30pm
RSVP

Friday, March 16th
The Orchard Day Party (Private/for industry bigwigs only)
Parkside Upstairs | 30 E 6th St, Austin, TX
We play at 12:30pm

Friday, March 16th
KXLU and The Smell present What by Whatever 2012
Domy Books | 913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
We play at 4:20pm
RSVP

Saturday, March 17th
ReThinkPopMusic Showcase
The Lodge | 411 E 6th St, Austin, TX
We play at 6pm
RSVP

We hope to see you at one of these shows, or maybe we’ll meet you at the midpoint of a Texas taco, which sounds like a euphemism, but in fact is not.

Dear Professional Phrenologists,

I. We have a new music film for “Hurricane”
Paola Suhonen of super-cool fashion house Ivana Helsinki made a lovely music film for our song “Hurricane.” She used found film footage and other amazing analog materials, and the result is like a shiatsu massage for your optic nerves. The film premiered today on Stylecaster.  You can also watch it right here:

Yes, it’s that Shea Stadium, and we’re taking the field with BITCHES, Street Gnar, and Newport Reds. We’ll be warming up in the on-deck circle around 9:45pm. Please note this will be your stereotypical loud RD performance. Click buttons on Facebook >

And you are all invited! See the aforementioned music film projected onto a wall, watch us play songs in an unusually quiet (but emotionally volatile) manner, listen to Scandinavian slow jams selected by DJ Annie Hart of Au Revoir Simone, and try on numerous fancy dresses. The party is at the Ivana Helsinki store at 251 Elizabeth Street in NYC. 8-10pm. FREE. RSVP yourself, dudes and lady dudes >

It’s Arts Week in New York and we’re playing the closing party of First Truth, an exhibition at Camel Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, curated by Uninhabitable Mansions co-founder Sara Jones. The party is from 6-10pm, there will be all-you-can-drink absinthe, and we play (again, somewhat quietly, although you know things are smoldering under the surface) around 8pm. What would we do without Facebook???

Dear inhabitants of the serpentine pad,

One of the most common excuses for not coming to a Radical Dads show is “You’re playing too late and I’m quite old you know and I get tired easily and I need to be at my job at a certain time the next morning or else I’ll get weird looks and/or a demotion.” For our next show — this Thursday, February 23rd at the Mercury Lounge in NYC — that excuse will not hold water, nor any other type of liquid, because we are playing very early. 7:30pm? 8pm? As we all know, time is neither uniform nor absolute. So here are some other excuses you might want to consider for this week:

+ It’s your friend’s birthday and you’re going to dinner uptown, which isn’t your top choice, but hey it’s your friend’s night

+ You’d love to make it, but you probably (well, definitely) have to work late

+ You’ve been out like five nights in a row and what you really need is a quiet evening at home with some Pinot and a few chapters of Malcolm Gladwell

If none of these excuses meet your needs, tap into your creative side — that’s what your MFA is for, right? Also please note: This show is presented by Arts & Crafts, and we’re playing with Zeus, Eight and a Half, and Gold & Youth. It costs $12, or $10 if you pony up in advance.

We hope to see you there!

Being experts on the subject of cranial catastrophe, we are very pleased to be part of Exploding In Sound‘s new compilation, Brain Damage for Beginners. There are a lot of loud guitar bands on it, so it makes us feel like we have a place in the world, or at least in the afflicted alcove of one person’s skull. You can stream and download the comp for absolutely zero dollars right here on BANDCAMP.

And here is the full official listing of comp tracks:

 
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.