Last show of 2009! We will be playing in between American Penetration and Dumpster Juice. This all starts at 9:00 Pm sharp at The Bulldog N.E. Whoever dresses as their favorite Skullcrane gets a free drink and T-shirt. Do it.

1. They Rock
2. Sexy as fuck
3. They rule
4. They roll
5. They smell like old wine
6. Together their brains weigh about 12 pounds
7. They’ve been together so long, they don’t even need to practice…….
8. People just give them money on pay pal
9. They don’t say hi, they just nod
10. You can still buy thier new C.D. (thats a hint geniuses) (www.crustaceanrecords.com)(do it).

Shows coming up:
October 31st (Halloween)@ The Bulldog N.E. with American Penetration and Dumpster Juice
December 12th @ Big V’s with The Von Erichs (Dallas TX) and T.B.A.

Also, in the mean time, check out everyones other bands:

Here they are in alphabetical order,

A Little of the Ready
American Penetration
Dokken
Jake E. Lee
Sawbones
The Ugly Fat Kids

…whatever

Long time no chat. How have you been? We should really keep in touch a little more than this. How was that thing you had to do? Good to hear, it could have been alot worse. Have you lost weight? You look good. We like your hair. Sure is a nice day.

Having that out of the way, after a brief “off again” it’s “on again”.

First of all, our new record “Columbia Heights Nights” is available everywhere. If you buy the physical record on line, do it from www.crustaceanrecords.com. The physical record has a bonus track on it compared to the downloadable version. We do a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Mother”. You can also find it at music stores across the midwest. If you don’t care about the “bonus track” and are afraid of the sun, you can get it online at your favorite online music store.

Second……Gigs. We got gigs man.
7/16 Oshkosh
7/17 Madison
7/18 St Paul
7/22 Minneapolis
8/21 Minneapolis
9/24 Lawrence
9/25 Lincoln
9/26 Omaha

Check out the calender on our website and myspace for more info.

In other news, The Skullcranes will be shooting a video for “What are all the punk bands gonna sing about now” in September. Again, if nothing else, to immortalize the fact that we oooz sensuality and are sharp dressers.

Also, Our show at The Triple Rock (20 Dollar Love C.D. Release party 8/21) will be made into a DVD for future visual and audio pleasures.

Columbia Heights got a SONIC by the way.

Allright I think that is it for now. For all you people in Minneapolis/St Paul Metropolitan Area, we need to see you at The Turf Club on Saturday 7/18. Do it, we need you. Besides, summer is half over, and you know what happens when The Skullcranes play in the winter…..Ice, Cold, Snow, Wind., Shitty with a chance of Really Shitty.

-Word.

CRUSTACEAN RECORDS
PO BOX 829

MADISON, WI 53701-0829

PH: (608) 256-3902

FAX: (608) 256-7601

www.crustaceanrecords.com

Twin Cities area punk band The Skullcranes announces the release date of their new album, Columbia Heights Nights, on Crustacean Records for Tuesday May 12th. The self proclaimed kings of “trailer park punk” The Skullcranes formed in the northern Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights back in 2000 and have been celebrating their blue collar and mildly self destructive roots ever since. Columbia Heights Nights is The Skullcranes fourth album and debut on Madison, Wisconsin label Crustacean Records.

Columbia Heights Nights follows in the vein of the previous releases with irresistible punk rock and roll anthems. Somehow melding together country, 70’s
classic rock and early 80’s East coast punk with a sprinkle of Auto Trader magazine, The Skullcranes are sure to make you want to dig out that muscle tee we all know you have tucked away in your closet. Columbia Heights Nights takes you on a ride in a huge gas guzzling pick up, drops you off at a bar where there is Belgian beer on special then slaps you around before leaving you at a giant house party in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis.

Official Release and Listening Parties for Columbia Heights Nights

Friday May 8th-The Frequency in Madison, WI-The Skullcranes with Droids Attack and 20 Dollar Love

Saturday May 9th-The Joint in La Crosse, WI-The Skullcranes with The Pimps and 20 Dollar Love

Friday May 15th-The Bulldog in Minneapolis (Uptown), MN free happy hour listening party from 7 to 10 PM

Saturday May 16th-Club Underground in Minneapolis (Northeast), MN-The Skullcranes with 20 Dollar Love, Droids Attack and Bloodcow

To obtain a promo copy of the album, request an interview or get on the media guestlist for the release shows contact Jake Shut at sales@crustaceanrecords.com or (608)-256-3902

5 weeks until the new record titled “Columbia Heights Nights” is released on Crustacean Records.
We will post one new song a week up on the myspace for your listening pleasure.

www.myspace.com/skullcranes

We don’t fuck around with big words like “pleasure” either. When we use we mean it. We are not fooling around. This is not a game. We are not playing.

People of virtual world-
The Skullcranes have always been on the edge of technology and innovation.
This a fact.
Get up to the moment bullshit on The Skullcranes by joining Twitter and become a Skullcrane Follower.
People will know you are cool if you do this.
We promise not to bombard you with super useless shit like who had the most difficult stool movement of the day.
We love you
kinda
-The Skullcranes
www.twitter.com/theskullcranes

For your listening pleasure, we have posted 4 rough mixes of the new record on the myspace. I know, I know, your welcome.
Calm down everybody. Christ.
We made plans for you local folks (Minneapolis) on the weekend of May 15th and 16th. On the 12th our record “Columbia Heights Nights” will be officially released to the public. So, to celebrate this we are hosting a happy hour at The Bulldog Uptown. This will run from 7 till 10, there will be drink specials, the new record will be spinning for 3 hours over the system, the new record will be there for sale and most importantly, we will be there so you can pat us on the back and tell us we are cool.
So, now you have the new record and have listened to it a million times. You love it. You can’t get enough of it. You wish you could eat it. You start sweating. You love the songs so much you start getting jealous and suspicious of your closest friends. The world smells better. All of a sudden, you can drink a beer like a god damn champion. You are prettier. You need more. More.
You got it.
The following evening, May 16th, we are having our C.D. Release party at the new improved Club Underground. Since you only stayed out the previous evening until 10, this should be no problem for you. You know and love all the songs because you bought the record the night before now go see if they remember how to play them.
Saturday May 16th
The Skullcranes
Droids Attack
20 Dollar Love
Bloodcow

For those of you in the Madison and Chicago areas, we will see you the previous weekend (and yes you can buy the record a week early). Check our calendar for details.
Do it.

After 8 years of struggling for street credibility, The Skullcranes have completely given up. ” Fuck it, I don’t see what the big deal is.” stated Laubach, the groups’ bass player. Management representing the upper-midwest rock outfit released a press release in a Hungarian newspaper (The Skullcranes are a pretty big deal in Hungary) stating that the 8 year media blackout is over and that The Skullcranes are now open for questions. Comparing this event to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and following disintegration of the Soviet Union and Glastnost, a Skullcrane represenative unveiled a new page on their website called “Skullcrane F.A.Q.” . “F.A.Q. stands for frequently asked questions!” said the represenative very slowly so that the Hungarian people would understand.
The “Skullcranes F.A.Q.” page is located on the right side of the bands website under “Skullcranes F.A.Q.” and is open to the public for questions and comments.

THE SKULLCRANES.

Last show for a long time. Halloween night at The Bulldog in Northeast Minneapolis.

Why should you go to this you ask?

1.Ever been to a show at The Bulldog?

2. Dumpster Juice plays after us.

3. Dan is single.

4. Johnson remembers words to songs now.

5. Number four was a lie.

6. Be the first one to hear some of the new Skullcrane songs.

7. What else are you gonna do.

8. Seriously.

9. Dan is single.

O.k.-

First of all, thanks to all of you in Oshkosh and Madison who came out to see us while and resisting the urge to throw piss soaked sneakers at us. Those of you who bought shit from us…..Double Thanks.
Oshkosh was awesome as always and I think we played well, now lets talk about Madison. Let me start out by saying sorry to Madison and the good folks at The High Noon Saloon. Please accept our apology for taking a giant shit on your stage. We are good for a real stinker every 5 or 6 shows and unfortunatley your number came up. We felt pretty bad about it that night but, I think if we talk about it and work through this with assistance from a self help audio cassette series we can get through this together,on both an emotional and spiritual level.
So other than that, we played some Tiger Woods golf on the PS2 as well as some Tekken. We had Thai food one night. Gas is much cheaper but the brakes in the van went out. Fuck.

Moving on……

FRIDAY OCTOBER 31 at the BULLDOG N.E. !!!!!!

Come early and eat. This a costume event. Don’t be too cool, just do it. It might even be free, I will double check that. We usually kick nine kinds of booty the show after we sucked really bad so you got that going for you…….

ALSO!!!!!!!!!!!

We have new t-shirts. Well, they are not really new, they are just a new color.

SEE YOU HALLOWEEN!!