#the maxies

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen/purchase: Clubbin' by The Maxies

[ontournow]

THE FOLLOWING URGENT MESSAGE COMES DIRECTLY FROM INTERPOL DIRECTOR PAUL BANKS: We’ve been getting disturbing reports since 2006 of six Greenland nationals now living in Southern California. This group of super villainous “pop-punkers” have been gaining traction and popularity under the moniker THE MAXIES, spouting off offensively fun and dangerously infectious melodies.  All intelligence operations attempting to find their true identities have failed. What we do know is that THE MAXIES are planning something big. Here are the facts: THE MAXIES are coordinated. Color coordinated. Sporting their national colors of red and white, these masked rouges have been seen mixing with the likes of Aaron Barrett from Reel Big Fish fame. Reports indicate that THE MAXIES have seduced Mr. Barrett into producing their second LP on Rock Ridge Music Nuuk ‘em All (2016). On April 22, a batch of highly polished, high energy, high octane power punk agitprop will digitally detonate across the entire planet. Our team of top-notch electrosonic engineers have decoded the leaked song “Anne Marie” and found this disturbing message — We have come to eat your seals and make love to your men and women — In order to foil their plans of global domination, we ask that you do whatever you can to avoid THE MAXIES. Do not be tempted by their innocent looking Bi-Polar Bear Tom. Do not be disarmed by their amazing harmonies or jaw-dropping stage antics. Do not laugh at their crude jokes or make eye contact. Most importantly, remember this - THE MAXIES are out for YOU. Interpol has just learned that on Saturday April 23rd at 3:00pm PST, THE MAXIES will take over On Tour Now. To all unsuspecting viewers, THE MAXIES seek to spread their manifesto of inebriated debauchery, share the musical propaganda of Nuuk ‘em All, promote their free record release show that night at Out of the Park Pizza, attempt to beat the Geometry Wars 3 high score, and play Goat Simulator with host Greg Wilmot. Witness the madness on Saturday at 3:00pm PST sharp and watch On Tour Now (https://gaming.youtube.com/ontournow) for some John Wayne Gacy luchador revelry!

- Tim Maurer 

[saejimaeverywhere]

if you're not following the rbf/suburban legends/maxies joint account on snapchat you're missing out

[donnie-bangarang]

SKA!

Reel Big Fish was awesoooooome. The Maxies and Suburban Legends kicked ass too

[kamandzak]

Reel Big Fish w/ The Suburban Legends and The Maxies! - a concert review

Last week, C skyped me one night.

“Do you have any plans for the weekend? Because this is happening.”

It was a URL to the Jefferson Theater’s website, where it said, in bold letters, that Reel Big Fish was performing for $18 on Saturday night.

I flipped my shit.

I have a love of ska and reggae music, enjoying not only RBF, but also Sublime and Streetlight Manifesto. So a chance to see a great ska band for less than $20? Sign. Me. Up.

Saturday I drove to Charlottesville and picked up my brother. The plan was to go get burgers, get outside the doors an hour before the doors opened, and then experience not only Reel Big Fish, but the bands known as The Maxies and Suburban Legends. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into.

C is the best person for me to go see concerts with, especially since he went to college. We have one of the best relationships ever, and when we go to concerts, we get to be stupid and not feel like our parents are watching our every move. I think it started back when our parents would send us to our grandparents house with just the two of us, and neither of us really liked it, so we hung out and bonded with each other. It may sound dramatic (maybe I’ll expound upon this phrase in a later blog), but we had a common enemy. And what bonds people together better than a common enemy?

Anyway so I get to his apartment, he prints out the tickets, and we leave. We’re nearly to the downtown mall too, when I ask him if he has the tickets and he’s left them at home. Laughing, we go back to the apartment, get the print-out tickets, and return. We find an awesome parking spot, and then proceed to walk up and down the outdoor mall there, looking for a place for dinner. The theater’s on the mall, so it’s rather convenient.

Everywhere ends up having a long wait, so we go to this bar that I know has decent hamburgers, and we eat burgers and fries before going and standing outside the theater. We’ve been to this theater once before - it was our second They Might Be Giants concert (1st by ourselves) and the concert which we first encountered Moon Hooch. After three TMBG concerts and one Lindsay Stirling concert, we really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into with the RBF concert. But we did our usual pre-concert ritual - dinner, wearing layers because the venues tend to get hot, being some of the first 10 people in line, getting a spot right up against the stage, and drinking minimal fluids so as to decrease the amount of peeing that was going to be done. We were ready.

A few years ago, at the TMBG/Moon Hooch concert, we had our minds broken by the saxophone/drum set dubstep group. We had been standing there, throwing all sorts of shade and shit about who names themselves Moon Hooch and then had all preconceptions fucking SHATTERED. We weren’t about to judge the two opening acts for Reel Big Fish, even though we had never heard of them and the picture of The Maxies online features frightening images of men in skeleton and clown masks. Not to mention their mascot is a drunk polar bear.

Ok I lied, we were passing a LOT of judgement.

And then they arrived. They wore all red and white and had those half-face masks the robbers in the opening scene of The Dark Knight wear and it threw me off for a few seconds.

And then the music, the vulgarity, the pelvic thrusting, the sexual innuendos, and the actual polar bear mascot appeared and my life became better.

And then they were done and the second band was setting up.

And then there was a drummer, a bassist, a guitarist with one of the most fierce sets of wawa pedals I’ve ever seen, an adorable hobbit-like trumpet player, and a trombone player in a beret took the stage. Not to mention a small, incredibly happy, probably flamboyant Asian lead singer. They were Suburban Legends. And they were all fucking adorable.

And then they started to ska covers of music from The Little Mermaid.

Life was complete.

I was EXHAUSTED by the time Reel Big Fish actually got on stage. I had never been so involved and actively rocking out to an opening act before, much less two, and my feet hurt and I already couldn’t talk over the sounds of the crowd. C was getting sick so his throat was in shreds, and yet there we were. And the band came out and played a few hits I didn’t know and a few that I couldn’t help but yell out the lyrics and despite the fact that they’re an older group they were rocking like no other.

They closed with their cover of Take On Me (naturally), and we all flooded out of the theater. It was 12:15 am, about 2 and a half hours past my bedtime, and I was in pain and fucking pumped and ridiculously dehydrated, so C and I walked to a conveniently-placed convenient store, bought many Gatorades, and I took him back to his apartment. I was hyped enough to drive the hour home, so I did.

I couldn’t sing, so I listened to the oldies radio, made it home by 2 am, got kisses from the dog, fed the hedgehog, and went to bed. The next morning I could barely walk, my feet and my legs were so tired. I felt hungover from the lack of sleep.

Best damn hangover I’ve ever had.

[darksidedouchebag]

Last night, a good friend of mine took me to my first show. I'm pretty new to ska, but I dig the music and knew songs from most the bands that were playing so I was vibing basically the whole night. I honestly really enjoyed it. Even though the venue was packed, the scene was rad. Everyone I talked to there was super friendly and nice. I ended up with two bruises on my left arm (one of them is probably as big as a half dollar coin) from being in the pit, but it was definitely worth it. I had an amazing time.