Onion Flavored Report

MRR Review of "Funny"

There's a nice review of our last record Funny in issue #320 (January 2010) of MAXIMUMROCKNROLL:

I've always been really impressed by ONION FLAVORED RINGS' vocal melodies. With the simple rhythms of Steve and Paul's stringed partnership and Erick's sharp drumming, the songs are super sing-songy, almost like nursery rhymes, which creates an incredibly satisfying listening experience. Funny is just another excellent presentation from this Bay Area pop-punk outfit that met in Amsterdam in 1972 at the squat that the RFA fled to at the peak of their infamy. Which is also funny.

No, we don't understand the penultimate sentence either.

OFR Tour 2009!

I waited as long as possible to post this, to include as much information as possible about all show locations. Alas, things being what they are, and because Mrs. McCloskey ain't a good scout, a lot of the venues are houses at risk of being shut down by law enforcement, etc. The key is, for any of the cities below where it says "house tba" just figure we'll be at the house that does shows in that city. Or if you're lucky, ONE of the houses that does shows.

We'll also be following the Twitters* and the MySpaces † and who knows what all. And, uh, posting? Come explain all this newfangled technology to us at any or all of the following places:

Sept 21 (Mon)
Chattanooga @ Anarchtica
w/ This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, ADDC, Stupid Party, Bad Blood

Sept 22 (Tue)
Athens, GA @ The Hanger
w/ Stupid Party, Bad Blood, Witches

Sept 23 (Wed)
Asheville, NC @ 288 Deaverview (house)
w/ Stupid Party, Bad Blood, Tent City Rollers

Sept 24 (Thur)
Wash, D.C. @ Black Cat
w/ Screaming Females

Sept 25 (Fri)
Philly @ The Barbery
w/ forgetters, Amateur Party

Sept 26 (Sat)
New Brunswick, NJ @ house tba
w/ Stupid Party, Bad Blood

Sept 27 (Sun)
Brooklyn, NY @ The Silent Barn
w/ forgetters, Stupid Party, Bad Blood, Wrd Wthr

Sept 28 (Mon)
Pittsburgh, PA @ tba
w/Confidence Men

Sept 29 (Tue)
Athens, OH @ tba
w/ Snarla, Delay

Sept 30 (Wed)
Columbus, OH @ 15th House (369 E. 15th Ave)
w/ Cruddy, The Read, Haywire Desire

Oct 1 (Thur)
Chicago, IL @ tba
w/Canadian Rifle, The Terribles

Oct 2 (Fri)
Milwaukee, WI @ a house(2650 N. Richards St.)
w/ The Terribles, Cruddy, Holy Shit, The Murder Trees

Oct 3 (Sat)
Minneapolis, MN @ house tba
w/ Dirtyard

Oct 4 (Sun)
Duluth, MN @ Bohemia Arts
w/ Cruddy, The Undesirables, The Delaneys, The Brothers Band

Oct 5 (Mon)
Minot, ND @ Pangea House
w/ Holy Smokes Father

Oct 7 (Wed)
Seattle, WA @ FBK house
w/ Revivr, Snuggle

Oct 8 (Thur)
Portland, OR @ The No
w/ The Estranged, Desconocidos

Oct 10 (Sat)
San Francisco, CA @ tba
w/ Year One, Dirty Marquee, Fleabag

Oct 12 (Mon)
Oakland, CA @ Purple House
w/ Al Scorch

If you come to all of the shows listed above, and you're not actually in the van with us, at the last show we'll all shake your hand!

* - Yes we Twitter: http://twitter.com/onionflavored
† - Alas, we MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/onionflavoredrings

Record Inserts

As far as we know, our records are still in print*, but as long we give away the MP3s on our Sound page we figured we can give away the inserts as well. So now in the right hand column, enjoy PDF versions of what has previously only existed as lovingly xeroxed paper found in OFR LPs.

And of course if you want to download to view offline rather than in your browser, right click (PCs) or ctrl-click (Macs--or how about option-clicking to download immediately?) and blah blah blah, you've heard it all before.

And if you use the MP3s and PDFs to make your own bootleg copies of our records, well, we salute your gritty resolve and determination. It really makes us proud.