Next up (and our last local show until September at the earliest) is a rare matinee at Growl. “Indie in the Afternoon” or something like that. We’ll be joined by friends, old and new: Itchie Richie and the Burning Sensations, Crash Through the Floor, and Oblong Cassidy and His Space Horse. Music starts at 3 PM inside the air conditioned confines of Growl, and conveniently next to Division Brewing (beer, burgers, and pizza). See ya!
It’s gonna be a fun weekend at the end of the month when we celebrate the release of our new album with friends at The Cicada in Fort Worth (Friday 6/27) and at Double Wide in Dallas (Saturday 6/28)!
We’ll have copies of the new album on vinyl and CD, as well as new White Gladis t-shirts. Come say hi and have some fun with us.
The Farmer Family Singers of Richardson TX have been running around Texas and points east for nearly 15 years now. It seems like at this point they could have written every possible song about asshole animals, fucked-up Coen brother style slice of life vignettes, shitty places and iconoclastic character narratives. But the keen observational eye of The Professor Fuzz 63 continues to gaze upon new sights to inspire.
my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U does not stray much outside of the band’s Nuggets 12-bar garage blues sound. The drums still pound out a caveman tom-tom and shaker beat; the guitars are still fuzzy and minimalist; and the British invasion organ tone still holds it all together underneath. This time we get tale of orcas reclaiming the ocean from rich bro yachts (“White Gladis”) and more keen character pieces (“The Amazing Adventures of Steak Knife and Biscuit,” “Narcoleptic Driver’s Ed Teacher,” “Hand Grenade Princess,” and “Bullshit Anime Cop”), all delivered as if the band is the ultimate Mrs. Kravitz, filling one in on the Fuzz’s neighborhood gossip. The production has more of a 1980s feel, especially the drums, giving the sound more of a Cramps vibe (dig that aluminum foil snare drum throughout the record). At times, like on “Bullshit Anime Cop,” there is a subtle pitch warble throughout like one is listening to a slightly oblong vinyl pressing that make for a certain disorientation in a good way.
The Prof.Fuzz 63 is shockingly consistent. There are no surprises here for anyone passingly familiar with what the band does, but one will want to tune in to catch up on the new additions to the Fuzz’s Tennessee Williams-esque garage rock character plays.
our new album, “my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U”, was released on june 1, and is available on vinyl and cd, as well as digital download via our bandcamp page.
to celebrate and commemorate the new record, we’ve got a new shirt design with everyone’s favorite community orcanizer and sinkayachtrock fan, white gladis emblazoned on the front, also available via our bandcamp page.
as we gear up for the record release shows (6/27 at the cicada in fort worth, and 6/28 at double wide in dallas), as well as summer tour (angel fire new mexico on 7/26 and 7/27, and the east coast via memphis, asheville, and chapel hill from 9/6-9/18) we’re stocking up on white gladis and telephone shirts, and offering discounts on remaining inventory of our classic panda attack and owls shirts (reduced from $15 to only $10 +shipping). don’t worry, we still have the screens and will make the panda and owl shirts available as print-on-demand going forward. there’s only so much room in the fuZZZmobile for gear, merch, and the fam…
so, hop on over to our bandcamp store and pick up some stuff. it won’t be bandcamp friday again until august, so why wait? we can live with them taking a cut.
Hey hey. Next Saturday. We’re back at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab for a three-band banger with King Otter and Lunar Reverb. We kick things off at 8:00, so come early and stay late. We’ll have copies of our new album (and CD) on hand for folks who want to play games of minor league capitalism. More merch too. Yeeyaw! Tell your friend. You know, the weird one.
join us on bandcamp for a listening party at 4:30 PM central to hear and heckle! then, watch the metaphorical ball drop as we release the album on bandcamp at the conclusion of the party! yeehaw. how’s that for lo-fi marketing???
The Prof. Fuzz 63 my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U
The Prof. Fuzz 63 hails from the land of endless sprawl and baked pavement—Dallas, Texas—which makes the sizzling rock ‘n’ roll they traffic in so damn cool. The trio takes the basic building blocks—cranked guitar, thwacked drums, fuzzed-out organ—cranks the engine and fries an egg right there in the garage. You? You’re salivating before the first song is over, the yolk bubbling, begging for salt. The Prof. Fuzz 63 is good eats, like the kind of alcohol-absorbing gut-busters you could cop for $2.50 at the local greasy spoon—the kind of mom-and-pop establishment long since destroyed by big business and their franchised paradise. The Prof. Fuzz 63 don’t cosplay as a mom-and-pop operation, they are in fact a singular family unit that eats together, walks together and rocks together—a real nuclear family that ain’t afraid to turn up the juice and tell everyone the news. Who are these blood relatives who share the gene for tinnitus? That would be Professor Fuzz on guitar and vocals, Sleepy Redhead on organ and vocals and official offspring Mr. B on drums. A self-sufficient unit, The Redhead’s paintings adorn the last few Fuzz LPs, including the newest offering. Like the Carter Family, the Danielson Family, 2000s Detroit punk rockers the Muldoons and Ornette and Denardo Coleman, the Prof. Fuzz 63 turns the ties that bind into the kind of shake, rattle and roll that is in short supply in the year 2025. Luckily, the Prof. Fuzz 63 got you covered with their new album, my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U.
Listen up: The Prof. Fuzz 63 is not one to sit on their hands—the trio has released seven albums in less than a decade, an impressive number by any metric. Early albums revealed an inherent rawness to the band’s presentation, but they forgo the posturing often found running rampant in garage-punk circles. The guitars are caked in grit, the rhythms hit hard and the organ has a piercing, yet tonally rich quality, but the songs are thought out, with arch lyrics that utilize word-play and several levels of irony to make their points. This is the thinking fellers’ party music. Ain’t nuttin’ wrong with getting plastered and learning a thing or two in the process. With 2020’s Owls, Prof. Fuzz 63 ratcheted up the songwriting, conjuring dense storm clouds that hinted at moody past masters like Scorched Earth Policy and Eleventh Dream Day. They also revealed an unhealthy obsession with downer-punk iconoclasts Flipper by covering two classics (“Love Canal” and “Sacrifice”), on top of updating a Ramones nugget with the biting “Sheena is a Soccer Mom.” On 2022’s Peaches & Herbicide, a version of Flipper’s “Ha Ha Ha” sounded right at home alongside head-nodding anthems like “The Forestry” and “Plastic Cup/The World (Still) Needs Nevada.” The Cinnamon Sea LP from 2023 featured smart-ass prime movers like “An Amorous History of Paper Planes” and “When Lawn Darts Are Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Have Lawn Darts.”
Now, The Prof. Fuzz 63 is DEAD2U. Recorded by Clint Niosi at Fort Worth’s Orange Otter Audio and mastered to a bruising fullness by Mario Santana, my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U is bursting with some of Prof. Fuzz’s best songs and performances to date. “The Amazing Adventures of Steak Knife and Biscuit” opens up the album with a big glam stomp like Slade and a certain Wray Linked up for a rumble in the concrete jungle. The Professor’s blade is out for the cutting “Edge of the World” about a kid who “got home-schooled on God and YouTube” and is “a real smart cat, I know the Earth is flat” as the band burns rubber trying to get away from this weirdo. “In The Devil’s Workshop Making Idol Hands” sports a slab of a riff that keeps the song chugging along, while “Narcoleptic Driver’s Ed Teacher” unravels as the band swerves off the road under the throes of a psych-rock trance. “Ohio as Seen on TV” is a topical song, throwing double-entendres at a particularly distasteful statement from our hateful buffoon-king. It only hurts when you laugh, they say. On my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U, The Prof. Fuzz 63 is cranking up the amps while they speed towards the emergency room, as good of a venue as any to shake a tail feather and get the blood pumping again.
See what’s what in the world of The Prof.Fuzz 63 family at pf63.net.
— Erick Bradshaw Spin Age Blasters with Creamo Coyl on WFMU
join us on bandcamp at 4:30 PM central on sunday june 1st to listen to our new album “my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U”! heckle and/or fawn in real time!
at the conclusion of the listening party, we’ll officially release the album on bandcamp so that you can satisfy your consumerist urges.
I have no idea what that even means, but our digital distributor just sent us a “Magnet Link” that allows people to “Pre-Save” our new album, “my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U” (albeit, with stupid spelling because apparently i’m not allowed to use “non-standard” spelling or capitalization, or non-Latin characters in album or song titles; so sue me grammar popo!).
Records have arrived! Release date is still June 1,but pre-orders will begin to ship this week, and we might just have a few copies in-hand at our upcoming shows…
More thanks to our DJ friends Mistress Jessie (of A Thousand Moods) and (Strong and Stylish) Chris Crash for playing songs off of our new album on their shows.
Friday night we’re getting fuzzed up at Red Zeppelin Records in McKinney with our friends Jean Caffeine and Thyroids!
It’s Thryoid’s album release, and the tour kickoff for Jean and Thryoids, who are heading to the east coast together on a tour that will see them perform live sets on The Evan “Funk” Davies Show on WFMU (Weds May 14 noon-3 PM Eastern).
Rumor has it that we might just have some advance copies of our new album in hand as well on Friday.
Music starts at 7 PM. Details on the flyer, below.
Big thanks to Medson, host of “Musical Dose” (For Musical Dopes) on WFMU’s Rock N Soul stream for playing “Hand Grenade Princess” on his show on Friday.
Big thanks to Evan “Funk” Davies for playing “the professor fuzz 63 theme” this afternoon on his show on WFMU. Right after our friends St. Divine, even!
True story: EFD led the popular demand that we write a theme song, so this little ditty is partially his fault. ❤
Well, for only the second time in my life, I made it to the venue but did not get to play our planned set. A phone call from our daughter about 15 minutes before we were supposed to go onstage necessitated a very last minute cancellation on our part. She’s ok. Her car is not. Be safe y’all. Don’t drive like idiots. Obey traffic laws. Things could have ended very badly for a lot of people.
Our deepest thanks to John at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab, and our friends in Red Admirals and VOLK for their understanding and support. Our apologies to anyone who came out to see us. We’ll try to make it up to everyone soon.
big thanks to DJ Terre T for playing “the professor fuzz 63 theme” on her WFMU show The Cherry Blossom Clinic yesterday!
this is the first spin of a track from the forthcoming “my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U” album. yeehaw! you should listen to her show in the archive (https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151157) for full context. “theme” hits the air at about the 1:21:34 mark.
Saturday April 19, we’re back in lovely downtown Pantego TX at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab making loud noises with our local friends Red Admirals and our Nashville friends VOLK. It’s gonna be a blast. Music starts at 8:30.
Test pressings and album art proofs have all been approved and the new album is in full production. We’re expecting records in-hand by late May. Stay tuna’d! In the meantime, please enjoy this thoughtfully-crafted promotional blurb and pictures of the front and rear covers of the album:
“my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U”: ten new tunes about haunting heartbreakers, flavorful felines, protective pups, torpid teachers, edgy incels, thematic themesongs, exalted effigies, fiery femmes, animated attorneys, and organized orcas from howdy arabia’s first family of fuzz, the prof.fuzz 63.
Test pressings for “my <3’s still beatin’ but i’m DEAD2U” have arrived! Once we’ve given them a listen, the final pressing will begin. Stay tuned for an early summer release date.
Last minute substitution time! We’re pinch-hitting at the Kiote Club up in Denison on Saturday night on a groovy punk rock bill with Stupid, Morocco, and Thyroids. Doors at 8. Music at 9. Deets in the flyer (below).
Saturday March 15 we’re gonna be fuzzing up Intrinsic Smokehouse & Brewing in Garland with our pals Oblong Cassidy and His Space Horse, and Night Terriers. It’s an early show. We go on at 6 PM. See ya there!
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