See us with three great little-known rock bands this weekend:

Novox and Bald Eagle Burger on Saturday in Houston;

Honey and Salt on Sunday in Austin!

And don’t forget, Monday is Labor Day, so you can go out and have fun on Sunday even if it’s normally a school night.

More exciting news tomorrow. Ish.
Flyer for the Sunday show:

Hi there, Jonx fans. Let’s keep this short like a four-day workweek.

The Jonx are playing Friday, April 10, at Rudyard’s British Pub, with the Gary, of Austin, TX.

The Gary is a new project from Trey Pool of Sad Like Crazy. The best way to describe them is that they sound like ’90s indie rock. If you like Superchunk, Silkworm, Sebadoh or other bands from that decade that begin with the letter S, you will probably enjoy them. Honestly, they are pretty damn solid for a band that hasn’t even been together a whole year. Hear them at:
www.myspace.com/thegaryatx

In case you care, we are continuing to grind through the process of making our third full-length, which we suspect is going to be called Vocabularian Herds. That is an actual true piece of information, people. It looks like we’re done arguing over track order, so the next step is mastering. As usual, we’ll be doing a few of these songs on Friday. Further bulletins as events warrant.

Dear Austin friends,  

I just wanted to let you know that the Jonx are playing in Austin this Saturday evening. So if you’re not doing anything, y’know. . .

Details:

Sach x Sachwest!
Saturday, February 28
United States Art Authority (29th and Guadalupe, conveniently located next door to Spider House)
Doors at 6 PM, bands at 7
This is a benefit show, in that it benefits everyone attending by not charging them admission. In other words: FREE

We’ll be playing some songs from the new record (working title- “Do I dare to eat The Jonx?*”) that we are THIS CLOSE to being done mixing. I will give you a completely objective opinion: they are good.

Also playing, in this order:

Butcher Bear
The Corndawg
The Jonx (that would be us)
Strong Silent Type
Woodgrain
Fingaar Bangaar
Chili Cold Blood

Chili Cold Blood is headlining. So that would mean we’re playing third, which I guess would put us on around. . . I’m gonna say somewhere between 8:30 and 10.

Playing right before us is The Corndawg, aka Jonny Corndawg. The Corndawg is from Nashville, and boy is he something else. I highly recommend that you check him out. Click on his name above.

Many of these, including Strong Silent Type and Woodgrain, are excellent and very new local bands, and they have myspaces and whatnot, in case you would like a preview.

Perhaps you are still undecided. Let me break it down for you:

PRO:
- Free
- Cheap beer
- Good location (i.e. lots of stuff to do if you get bored)
- The Jonx
- The Corndawg
- Other good bands

CON (potential):
- Loud
- Conflicts with preexisting plans
- Forbidden by post-surgery medical instructions
- You hate fun

There you have it- the decision is yours.

Danny
* We respectfully decline to part our hair behind. We are not sure how that is supposed to work anyway.

We are currently working on the third full-length Jonx record, which is still nameless. We can’t share any of it with you because Chris Ryan hasn’t gotten around to finishing the mix yet (HINT HINT CHRIS), so to tide you over here’s a list of the artists from which we consciously borrowed, off which we unconsciously ripped, and to which the songs were compared (by us, Chris or other people who heard them) during the making of this record:

Big Business

No Knife

Van Halen

Silkworm

The Police

The Who

Led Zeppelin

Fugazi

The Fatal Flying Guilloteens

Dinosaur Jr

Duluoz

R.E.M.

Husker Du

Bob Seger

The Black Crowes

Wire

The Cure

U2

The Jesus Lizard

Maserati

Helmet

Sharks and Sailors

Hot Water Music

311

Nomeansno

Hum

Steely Dan

Queens of the Stone Age

High on Fire

Smashing Pumpkins

Mr. Bungle

Mastodon

Sebadoh

Primus

Elastica

Hello people,

It’s 2:15 AM so I will keep this short (for me). We’re playing tonight at the Mink with 500 Megatons of Boogie and Bright Men of Learning.

The Mink is located on the 3700 block of Main Street, at Alabama, two doors down from the Continental Club. Fun place to hang out.

Students who have been paying attention may remember that 500 Megatons of Boogie contains two ex-members of the Squishees/ Slurpees. I think they might have a new record coming out. Ask for their cover of “Sexy Sexy Sexy;” you won’t be sorry. They will drop a bomb on you. Do not ask me about the size or composition of said bomb, I humbly beg.

Bright Men of Learning, led by Marshall Preddy, Esquire, and features former members of De Schmog and Lucky Motors. Recommended if you like the Replacements and Tom Petty. Marshall’s Bright Men blog is fun too.

We start recording our third full-length album Saturday the 24th. It will be called “. . . Too Tired to Think of a Funny Fake Title”. . . sorry The album’s gonna be really good though, I swearz.

To sum up:
Jonx (last), 500 Megatons of Boogie (second), Bright Men of Learning (first)

At the Mink, Main @ Alabama

Starts roughly 10 PM.

*urk* dead

Danny