Saints & Exiles

Our good friend Robert Woo of HardLeft Productions invited Brendan to sing on his latest video – a loving and respectful tribute to the classic Bruce Willis vehicle “Armageddon”. We hope you enjoy it! And check out all of HardLeft’s videos on their YouTube page!

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Latest tracks by Saints & Exiles

Or if you’re feeling generous, contribute to the cause! Head over to the SHOP and download from CDBaby!

Big thanks to Steve Scully for the drums and Mike Davidson for the engineering and producing!

We finally finished our new track and will release it tomorrow on CDBaby! New songs are always fantastic! Even the best songs can grow stale after one too many listens. We know you have been dying for some new S&E and we’re confident, ye bored metalhead, that this will satisfy your rage-naked-around-your-room jones. That’s just what we do. In honor of this exciting news, and out of respect for you, loyal fan, we wanted to celebrate with yet another list! Here are some other things that are great when they’re new! And because they’re great, you know they gotta be METAL!

SOCKS!

Sure a sock is a sock is a sock. Whether you’re the rockinest rocker in town, a fireman, or a mailman (persons), the sock is usually just considered one more operational annoyance required before you get to put your boots on a kick some ass (be it fans, fires, or mail routes). But, even though you may cringe when you’re given a couple of 3-pair packs for your birthday or Christmas, let’s not blame the socks. You are just a giant asshole. This is a gift! Just smile and say thank you! Besides, this sock-giver is a hero! They know how important it is to have a well-maintained cushion between your feet and your shoes. Otherwise, the holes in your socks will let water get into your feet, causing gout and death (look it up), or the lack of padding with increase the damage from shockwaves, blown knees, sore backs, sciatica, and finally death! And dying on the job is kind of metal. But saving a life is even more metal and socks save lives. So stop being a prick and take the damn socks. Christ.

She's pretty because she wears socks.

RAZORS!

Depending on how hairy you are – male or female, we don’t judge – you may not shave much, or you may go through razors like an improviser through bad jokes at a party (just trust us). Either way, you know that after a dozen or so shaves, give or take, your blade is only good for two things: ripping your skin open and ruining your chances of getting some (and then you’d be just like the improviser at the party. Sad.). A new razor glides across your skin like butter off a hot biscuit and guarantees you’ll be smooth enough to ensure some rug burn later in the evening. But, not always appreciated is the fact that you are controlling nature. Just like dams, air conditioning, and rain dances, razors raise a big ol’ middle finger to the circle of life. I know I’m suppose to be hairy. I’m a mammal. I aint stupid! I just don’t give a shit! Dominating your own humanity is so metal!

Fuck you, God!

LOVERS!

Hey. We get it. You were young. You were in love. Your S.O. had six-pack abs and didn’t fart on you. You got carried away and got married. We already established over a year ago that weddings are metal so we can’t blame you for wanting that party. But slowly that pretty person that cared about you and talked to you and liked rubbing your feet is now a flabby, hairy, complainy hagball and you have to be seen walking around town with it. Luckily you can always get some hot new thing to help renew the spark in your heart and make you feel alive again. They don’t necessarily have to be good looking. Just new. Because without familiarity, everyone tries to look and act their best. They trim themselves, stay fit, and are open to trying the helicopter move. No-boundaries sex is always metal. Sure it’ll flame out in 3 months leaving you depressed and spiraling downward through more terrible decisions, but that’s also pretty fuckin metal!

Ok, honey, we can go to Linens and Things after breakfast...

Ok, honey, you can tie me up with linen scarves and eat breakfast off my stomach...

ORGANS!

Organs are like the road crew. They keep the show going. The road crew expend energy to set up equipment, cut through the bullshit so the show goes up on time, and get rid of any shitheads that try to disrupt the flow. They are the managers, the PR, and the security.  Organs do that for the body. So even if you treat your body like the toilet you just snorted coke off of after taking a massive smash while getting a beej, the show goes on. But, even the best roadies get worn out. Luckily, we can get a replacement pretty easily. And with your new heart, liver, and kidneys, you can drink yourself into a blackout stupor, piss on the establishment and run away before the fuzz gets whiff of stale urine and whiskey outside the City Auditor’s office. METAL!

These organs are metal too. I mean, have you HEARD "Mr. Crowley"?!

So there you have it. Just a short list of other metal things that are even more metal when they’re new! New song drops tomorrow! Call up John Woo! You’re gonna need a new face after your old one gets rocked off!

This week marks the two year anniversary of when we recorded our debut album. Over eight grueling days during Boston’s only heat wave of 2009, we banged out 10 of the rockingest songs ever put down on tape. Or Pro Tools. Nine of those tunes turned into “The Lonesome Navigator”, and the 10th was classified TBPC (Too Badass for Public Consumption) and had to be locked away for everyone’s safety. BUT! We have two awesome pieces of news to help us celebrate this week!

ONE! CDBaby has made it super easy to purchase our hot tunes by creating a store widget for us! Now you can purchase our tracks directly from this website. Just head on over to the store and start rocking!

TWO! S&E returned to Zippah Studios yesterday to record drums for a BRAND NEW TRACK.  Guitars, bass, and vocals will be recorded next month. Stay tuned for release information! In the meantime, here’s a ridiculous picture.

Ouch, guy.

Our interview and performance on 91.5 WMFO’s The Lounge has been posted for posterity on the interwebs! If you missed the show or just want to remember it’s epicness, check it out!

Saints & Exiles, LIVE on The Lounge w/ Danny & Christina 5-12-11 by The Lounge

Tomorrow night is the big night. Well. It’s A big night. Maybe not THE big night. We’re still waiting to be kissed. But that will soon change because S&E hit the radio waves tomorrow, May 12th at 8pm as part of 91.5 WMFO’s The Lounge. Surely then we’ll receive all sorts of sensual attention from our sexy listeners! Tune in or stream it from wmfo.org!

The good folks at WMFO have decided that simply playing S&E’s melodious sex rhythms on the air is not enough to bring their student body to a climax. No! They have now asked us to perform LIVE on The Lounge – the Number One show at 8pm on Thursdays on Tufts Radio waves – on May 12th. That’s right, Doc! Listen in live, talk to us, win free shit, and prepare for a couple of surprises! Thursday May 12th from 8-10pm. Saints & Exiles. 91.5 WMFO The Lounge, streaming live at WMFO.org

Yeah we know. It’s been awhile. Happy New Year, MLK Jr Day, President’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and First Day of Spring! Now that we got that out of the way, here’s the scoop:  Good friends and big supporters of S&E, Anarchangel, did a set on 91.5 WMFO a couple of weeks ago, mentioned us, got “The Lonesome Navigator” played on air, and now we are on rotation. Ya hear that, TUFTS?! We’re coming for you! So while you’re poking and prodding, studying 25 hours a day, and coming up with new ways to see our dreams, you can listen to the mind-altering sounds of S&E!
So check out WMFO and rock your scrubs off!

The best independent music conference since 2009

Four days of networking, panels, workshops,  continental breakfasts, and North Hampton, Massachusetts! Oh, and this little rock band called Saints & Exiles!!

Now, we know what you’re thinking: “I don’t know. It’s kind of far. And it’s probably just for musicians right? And anyway I hurt my back yesterday lifting a box of copier paper because I gave up on fitness when I realized my youthful ambitions were co-opted by the cold comfort of a regular schedule, a coffee machine, artificial lighting, and a laughingly disrespectful, yet steady paycheck”.

Well! First of all, that’s really depressing. Seriously, dude, get it together.

Secondly, as you are well aware by now, we here at S&E, Inc. are always on the lookout for the most intense and amazing metal experiences you cannot miss! Back in August we told you about the incredible pure metalness one encounters at weddings! (We’ve been to two since then and it’s safe to say we have yet to recover – hence the lack of updates. We’re DJing another coming up later this month and there’s a good chance we’re all going to die. METAL!).

Right next to weddings on this list (not BELOW since they’re of equal badassery) is CONFERENCES! And not just those of a musical persuasion, nay! We include all conferences on this list. Don’t believe me? You need a list? You got it!

Rowdy crowd for Alice Cooper's and Snoop Dogg's discussion on re-branding.

- Name laminates! Whether you’re at SXSW or the Dayton Regional Nasal Spray Innovators Conference, you will receive a laminate with your name on it letting everyone know that you a) registered on time and b) belong there. It’s your backstage pass that, while convenient for proving your attendance in order to get your meals comped, really screams to the world: “I know my shit!”. Also it’s 15% off mixed drinks at the Welcoming Party. An inflated sense of self-worth and cheap booze = METAL!

- Networking! “But” you ask “how is socializing and working together metal?” You’re right. It’s not. That’s some fucking hippie shit. Thankfully, “networking” is neither of those things. “Networking” is a hip, modern, human equivalent of a baboon beating a rival over the head with his swollen nutsack. Oh you recorded your album using Garage Band? That’s cool. I deciphered Cubase without the manual because I’m a friggin genius! You have a Gibson SG Special? That’s almost as good as my 1971 Custom Les Paul with a pair of ZX12 MC Hammer Humbuckers! You did sound for King Diamond back in ‘84? I managed Stevie Nicks between August of 1975 and March of 1976 but I couldn’t stand her attitude so we stopped fucking. You used the XR-456 clamps in your Davidson Chest Spreader? We use XR-588s. Yeah they’re more expensive, but we’re more concerned with quality than overhead. Networking is a sword fight. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. And sword fights are METAL!

This guy totally built his own Pro Tools studio.

- Road Trip! Every conference everywhere is somewhere far away from where you are. No worries! Stock the van with amplifiers and Snickers bars, we’re hitting the road! Camaraderie! Hijinx! New experiences (Read: getting drunk in a new town)! All of these things help us grow up and all of these things are metal! And, as always, it doesn’t have to be a music conference. If you’re the Senior Assistant to the Upper East Coast District Manager of Hasbro, you’re definitely attending this year’s Plastics and Carboard Seminar in Edgarton, Kansas, and you’re definitely sharing a room at the Holiday Inn with the Senior Vice Assistant and you are definitely going to convince a couple of sales girls from the South West Division Offices to come up for some screw drivers before the Friday Night Gala. Road trips = getting some strange = METAL!

- Live Music! Any conference worth it’s shit has a party or two with live music. And not just anybody! We’re talking Grammy winning artists playing their best hits! If you follow a band that has integrity -er, uh…I mean that is lame…then you run the risk of hearing songs you’ve never heard because you only downloaded their single because the girl in the video was hot. Who wants to pay $100 to hear “My Father’s Gun” when the only tune you know is “Bennie and the Jets” because that’s what comes on the radio at the gym? Fools, that’s who! But at any good conference you are guaranteed to hear some good shit.  Sisqo will welcome you to Tallahassee with the “Thong Song” (re-written to help sell CiscoSystems’ new Wireless IP Phone) or Aaron Neville closing out the night at the Annual Sears’ Home Services Conference with “Everybody Needs a Tool”. Sometimes…

Baby I know you wanna buy (duh duh duh) a new phone phone phone phone phone

So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Just a few (by no means all) reasons to make sure you attend this year’s Independent Music Conference. It’ll be the most metal thing you do before Thanksgiving!

We here at S&E love to get our rock on. So in order to cancel a gig, it has to be for something equally or more metal than a rocking metal show. As it happens, we have to cancel our appearence at this months awesome crazy metal Lowell summer jam due to a wedding. Lucky thing, weddings are the most metal thing out there right now. Don’t believe me? Check out this list!

- Churches are metal. Every metal band uses church imagery, whether in lyrics, or music videos, or album art, whatever, at some point. Hell, even Pat Boone, a regular church-goer, covered metal tunes. It’s a cycle. Church and metal are practically the same thing.

- People take vows – ‘TIL DEATH!! \m/ and break them. Honey, you really think he’s going to stay true through thick and thin? Nope! As soon as you start rockin’ the c-section scar, he’s out. It should be ‘Til Fat Do Us Part…which is right about 3 years from now. Lies,  treachery, and never settling for fat girls are so metal.

- Drinking! No further explanation required

- Making Bad Decisions While Drinking! This also probably needs no explanation, but we’re so going to do it anyway.

Number 1! You’re 45 and had a few too many Cran-Vodkas. You simply take over the dance floor. Awful decision, but a hilarious one. Pictures of this escapade will definitely make FailBlog and haunt every job interview you ever have.

Number 2! You’re 32, newly single after breaking up with your college boyfriend/girlfriend. Eveyone else is happy. You drink away the pain knowing you just wasted 10 years and will never get married so you hit on the nearest sort-of-but-not-really cute 23 year old. Eventually you get slapped.

Number 3! You’re a 23 year old girl – a newly minted and still thin college grad, with a degree in Commuinication, a disasterous penchant for Long Island Iced Teas, and still not clear on the whole “drinking in moderation” thing (and really, who are we kidding, none of the older folks are exercising sound logic in this area either, so drink up!) You just made out with the wedding band’s drummer and now you need to freshen up but you’ve forgotten your gum in your room (because OF COURSE you’re staying in the hotel. That’s where the after party is. Duh!). The creepy 45 year old wearing a NY Giants tie swaying back and forth, yell-singing Bon Jovi tunes says he has some in his car and if you go with him, he’ll “give it to you”. Awesome! You soooo toads saved the daaaaay. Rape is not funny. But it is so totally metal.

- Clothing. The different hair, dress, make-up and shoe combinations! KISS couldn’t come up with anything better!

- Wedding Parties. First of all, they’re called PARTIES. Metal. Second, you can have themed wedding parties. Everyone is a Star Wars character. Metal. Everyone is a D&D character. Metal. You can have a Wal*Mart wedding. Metal. But the most metal part about wedding parties is that everyone is dressed the same. They’re your personal back-up singers. If you can get your bride’s maids and your groomsmen to give you some “doo wops” while you say your vows, that’d be the most metal wedding ever. Except for…

-The Shotgun Wedding. I mean, right? And why would you have a shotgun wedding? Because you were having SEX!

So pardon us, if we can’t play our summer jam…we have more metal things to do!