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Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:10:47 -0400

Drink Up Buttercup + Skins

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:43:09 -0500

Wanted to let everyone know that our song Sosey and Dosey will be on Skins on MTV tonight. You can find more info about the show at the Skins website. The song is available for download on itunes and at yeproc.com.

Yep Roc Best of 2010 Sale

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:28:25 -0500

If you haven’t picked up our album Born and Thrown on a Hook yet, but plan on doing so, today is thee day to do so. Yep Roc is having a sale on it’s best releases of the year and Born and Thrown on a Hook is the featured album today. Follow the link posted below to snag as many copies as you’d like.

YEP ROC STORE

Philadelphia Weekly Love

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:53:25 -0500

Michael Alan Goldberg led off the Philadelphia Weekly’s top 10 Album’s of 2010 list by naming Born and Thrown on a Hook as his #1 album of year.

PW also recommends you go to our show tomorrow night at John and Peter’s in New Hope. Since we’re going to be playing all new material tomorrow night some of these words might not ring true, but they are nice words nonetheless:

Drink Up Buttercup are a movie street scene rich in detail and activity, made to seem spontaneously chaotic while meticulously orchestrated. The bright whirling melodies suggest a careening carnival sweeping anyone nearby up in its bustling energy. Like a love child of the Flaming Lips and Sgt. Pepper’s, the Philly quartet’s psychedelica bubbles with playful experimentation, sudden bursts of instrumentation and abundant wonder particularly apparent in the soaring harmonies. Their ragged shambling gait imbues everything with a lively vibrancy as though muttering “light as a feather” might enable them to take off. After all the buzz that greeted this year’s debut LP Born and Thrown On a Hook, I wouldn’t bet against it. -Chris Parker [ link to original article ]

10pm. John & Peter’s, 96 S. Main St., New Hope. 215.862.5981. johnandpeters.com

Andrew W.K. | News: Andrew's #1 Remix!

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:42:00 -0500

Andrew W.K. | News: Andrew's #1 Remix!:

In case you weren’t aware, Andrew loves dance music and techno. And he’s been creating dance and techno remixes for all kinds of different musical artists. Andrew is happiest when he’s creating things to PARTY with.

It just so happens one of Andrew’s remixes, for the band Drink Up Buttercup, was chosen as the best remix of 2010 by SHIFT!

Perfect timing for the ultimate PARTY time… New Years Eve! Show your dance movies and PARTY spirit as you dance from 2010 into 2011 with Andrew’s very own dance music flair!

Listen to it HERE via YouTube or download the remix along with SHIFT’s other top remix picks HERE!

Updated Show List

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:26:00 -0500

SSIA loLZ!!!!!

Dec 11 at Siren Records
in Doylestown, PA
http://www.sirenrecords.com

Dec 20 at Stage on Herr
in Harrisburg, PA
http://www.myspace.com/tntcollective

Dec 30 at John and Peter’s
in New Hope, PA
http://www.myspace.com/johnandpeters

Jan 14 at The Night Cat
in Easton, MD
http://www.nightcatmusic.com

Interview from http://thedenofbushwick.com/

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:20:01 -0500

Interview from http://thedenofbushwick.com/

New Shows Before Year's End

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:08:23 -0500

We’ve got a couple of shows before this year comes to an end. We’ll be playing local style at Big Heads with our good buds Illinois, heading up north to do a show with Ra Ra Riot, and saying “late” to 2k10 with friends at John and Peter’s. We’ve been working on lots of new tracks as well, so chances are we are going to be trying out some more of them at these shows.

Nov 24 at Big Heads T&C w/ Illinois
Horsham, Pennsylvania
http://www.bigheadspub.com/tandc.asp

Nov 30 at Town Ballroom w/ Ra Ra Riot
in Buffalo, New York
http://www.townballroom.com

Dec 30 at John and Peter’s w/ Blackhawks, New Motels
in New Hope, Pennsylvania
http://www.myspace.com/johnandpeters

Knitting Factory w/ Givers Review

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:28:48 -0500

Knitting Factory w/ Givers Review:

We played a show this past weekend with one of the greatest live bands we’ve ever had a chance to share a stage with, Givers. This review ( http://paper-spaceship.com/music/343-drink-up-buttercup-knitting-factory- ) sums up the night pretty well.

The guy in this photo is telling you that he better see you at...

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:31:08 -0400

The guy in this photo is telling you that he better see you at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn this Sunday. He’s playing with one of his favorite bands, Givers, and would really love you to be there. Buy tickets here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/16951

Time Stamp CMJ Show Review

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:58:00 -0400

We played a new set with some new songs at CMJ last week. Here is a really cool song by song rundown of our set by thedenofbushwick.com so you can see what went down if you missed it:

11:24 PM – Bowery Electric

Arrived just in time to say what’s up to my boys in Drink Up Buttercup. Packed house, let’s loose a thundering rhino from Philly in it.

11:45 PM – Drink Up Buttercup

Jim (frontman for DUB) just said they are playing 4 new songs tonight. Now I am really excited. The next evolution of Drink Up Buttercup is something I ponder much. I was hoping they’d treat some new songs for CMJ, and it looks like will be the case. Solid!

Blood is gon’ stain the mattress.

That’s graphic.

11:48 PM – Drink Up Buttercup

New Dub. Holy shit. Wow. Bounce house. Drummer gon’ bruise his leg, that Mike T. And can’t nobody harmonize like this band. I challenge. Beautiful like a breeze.

11:51 PM - DUB

New song into “Young Ladies.” Again, each time I see them, the songs are slightly different, meticulously evolved. Now the cymbals are smashing the docks of my ear canals.

11:55PM – DUB

Into “Gods and Gentlemen.”

What. The first 4 songs have been one continuous track, like the trains from borough to borough.

It’s the anthem for a generation, and they don’t even know it. Top form. It might be the best I’ve ever heard them.

“Even Think”

This song gets me man. Best chorus for miles, I challenge all Chair/Lunch/Dinners, a la Mitch Hedberg.

Singer/keyboardist Farzad Houshiarnejad is playing an electronic loop between songs, in which a voice eerily similar to that of the Speak & Spell is telling us to “buy Drink Up Buttercup merchandise.” On the Stephen Hawking tip.

So much better than actually saying it.

12:03 AM – DUB

New song “Meatman,” bring on the David Lynch soundtrack.

Let’s go clobber some mailboxes down from a speeding bulldozer. This song is tougher than “LA Woman.” Ben Money on bass, walking in.

12:07 AM – DUB

New song. Opening harmony. Damn. Goddamn. They are so good. This is DUB’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Song structures more colorful & surprising than Lego houses.

12:12 AM – DUB

My mind is blown by that last song. Now into “Heavy Hand,” so debaucherous this drink-shattering track. Like, I’ma finish my whiskey and throw the glass against the wall. Then crunch on the chunks when I gallop over in my CHUCKS.

12:17 AM - DUB

“Seasickness Pills.”

12:20 AM – DUB

Farzad & bassist Ben Money stand behind Jim when he goes operatic in “Seasickess Pills.” I guess one’s ears might be at risk, if standing in front of that vibrato-laden howitzer of a howl.

Still gets me every time. It’s as if my entire body had fallen ‘asleep,’ and then when that end part comes, I start to tingle all over, like my collective being as a whole is waking up, changing position, unfreezing.

DUB are legend.

12:37 AM – Bowery Electric Bar

Edison light bulbs are ubiquitous in NYC. So are unexpected moments, like hearing a song that makes you shake with the chills.

12:40 AM – Bowery Electric Bar

A blind fellow just strolled up to the bar, and is ordering a beer. That’s the third blind person I have seen today, fearlessly navigating the streets of fucking New York City. I can’t even imagine, holy shit right? And to think, all they need is a stick and memory.

Thas’ a tess’.

View the original article here: http://thedenofbushwick.com/2010/10/22/cmj-day-3-a-time-stamped-adventure/

Drink Up + CMJ Next Week

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:00:01 -0400

Perhaps we’ll be playing some new songs off of this new album we’ve been working on?

Chameleon Club Oct 16th

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:37:00 -0400

We return to Lancaster October 16th to play a headlining show at the Chameleon Club.

Get your tickets for the show at chameleonclub.net and check out an interview we did for the show below.

Neo-psychedelians Drink Up Buttercup play Chameleon

By MICHAEL C. UPTON, Correspondent

After cutting its first full-length album in Philadelphia and building up its fan base with a cross-country tour that included a stop at the high-profile South by Southwest festival, Drink Up Buttercup decided to return home to Doylestown.

The four-member psychedelic rock band bought a house with the intention of turning it into a studio, and immediately committed to a last-minute appearance at a local arts festival. They did not get the homecoming they expected.

“We thought, ‘Let’s do this as kind of our hello,’” frontman Jim Harvey said. “We got kicked off the stage after two songs. It was a little bit too raucous for the merchants in town.”

Drink Up Buttercup loves the reception they get from Lancaster crowds and will return to the area Saturday, Oct. 16, for a show at the Chameleon Club. The music of Drink Up Buttercup isn’t so much offensive as melancholy, and the band has unmistakable “influences.”

“When we first got together as a band, we would just … get a little bit messed up and play music,” Harvey said by phone from inside a tour van traveling back to Pennsylvania from a show in Chicago. “It wasn’t something we were going for, it was just something that happened.”

Drink Up Buttercup treads on the scary edge of psychedelic, the same place pop music visited in the late 1960s behind the Syd Barrett-influenced Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones’ “Their Satanic Majesties Request.” Mix in a little Beach Boys, and you’ve got Drink Up Buttercup.

“I don’t know if we are directly influenced by the Beach Boys, but … me and my brother [keyboardist Farzad Houshiarnejad] have very similar voices,” Harvey said, “and we ended up using the harmonies over pop songs. It was more influenced by us wanting to fill out our songs with vibrant vocals.”

Harvey, who grew up around classical and choir music, sings and plays guitar. Ben Money — or in some circles Ben Mazzochetti — plays bass and organ. Mike Cammarata rounds out the band on drums.

The band’s influences range from classical music to alt-rock bands like Cake. But it isn’t always music that drives Drink Up Buttercup. “Super Mario” may be a bigger influence than Brian Wilson.

“We are big into old VHS and 8-bit Nintendo games,” Harvey said. “That kind of stuff has an equal amount of influence on our music as other bands and musicians.”

Drink Up Buttercup’s first album, “Born and Thrown on a Hook,” was released in March, but Harvey says performing live is the band’s thing.

“[Psychedelia] is not like it was in the late ’50s and ’60s, but there is definitely an audience for it,” he said. “It’s a sound that appeals to all different types of people.”

Perhaps more so in Philadelphia than Doylestown.

Harvey harbors no ill feelings toward the people in Doylestown who pulled the plug on his show.

“I think the band that was playing after us was geared for the kids. It was like a kids sing-along thing,” Harvey said. “I was like, ‘Oh, God. One of our songs is going to be featured on “Weeds” next season on Showtime.’”

Drink Up Buttercup will perform Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Chameleon Club, 223 N. Water St. The Ben Roth Band will open the 8 p.m. show.

We Are Having a Halloween Party

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:55:00 -0400

We’re having a party this Halloween at World Cafe Live in Philly. Dress up and it’s cheap to get in… From the World Cafe Live website:

Described as “Beatle-esque but in a kitchen sink kind of way,” (Brooklyn Vegan) and “60’s psychedelic carnival” (Stereogum) Drink Up Buttercup’s nuanced yet bombastic live show is a vital part of its growing legend, with the New York Times saying that DUB, “mesmerizes and clobbers live.” Join them for this special Halloween show & don’t forget to wear your costume!

Artist’s website | Artist Videos

Also Performing:

Screwjack

Levee Drivers

Sunday, October 31, 2010 | Show 8pm | Upstairs Live

Regularly Priced Tickets:
General Admission Seating/Standing*: $12 ($10 ticket + $2 processing fee)

Save Money by Wearing Your Halloween Costume!
General Admission Seating/Standing*: $7 ($6 ticket + $1 processing fee)

Who’s hot dog is this?

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:20:46 -0400

Who’s hot dog is this?

Crossbow Shopping/Too Many Rambo Movies

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:26:00 -0400

Crossbow Shopping/Too Many Rambo Movies

Time Travel

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:32:10 -0400

Time Travel:

Cool words on us.

Just as we were starting to getting all comfortable in our new...

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:48:00 -0400

Just as we were starting to getting all comfortable in our new studio/home we are about to hit the road again. We’ll be joining our buds Jukebox the Ghost for a small jaunt this week and then working our way out to Ohio and Chicago for the Midpoint and Pygmalion music fests. We’re kicking the dates off tomorrow night in Philly at The OX (2nd and Oxford), which should be a good old fashioned time/warehouse party/show/ass whooping. Check out the dates below.

New Tour Dates

09/14/10    The Ox in Philadelphia, PA w/ Jukebox the Ghost
09/15/10    Great Scott in Allston, MA w/ Jukebox the Ghost
09/16/10   Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY w/ Jukebox the Ghost
09/17/10   Sonar Club Stage in Baltimore, MD w/ Jukebox the Ghost
09/18/10   The Southern in Charlottesville, VA w/ Jukebox the Ghost
09/22/10    Dark House Tavern in State College, PA (PSU)
09/23/10   Thunderbird Cafe in Pittsburgh, PA
09/24/10   Midpoint Music Festival in Cincinnati, OH
09/25/10   Pygmalion Music Festival in Champaign-Urbana, IL
09/26/10   Subterranean in Chicago, IL w/ North Highlands
10/07/10   Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY w/ Grooms

DUB Recording House + Bucks County Shows

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:03:09 -0400

We are saying peace to Philly for a bit and going back to our roots in Bucks County to begin the recording of our next album. We recently got hooked up with a “sick” pad in Doylestown where we’ll be living and fleshing out ideas for our next record. To celebrate/totally coincidentally we will be playing two Bucks County shows this weekend. Saturday we’ll be at Big Heads and Sunday we play for free (at 11 in the morning? yes, at 11am) in the streets of Doylestown proper.

Drink Up + Weeds

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:07:00 -0400

Drink Up + Weeds:

Our track Sosey and Dosey is going to be on this week’s episode of Weeds. The episode airs Monday 9/13 on Showtime and you can find any other info you might need to know here: http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do