8.22.2010

Lest we be accused of harboring pro-XTC sympathies, we will be breaking our relative live show silence a few times over the next month including another surgical air strike on the upper Midwest in September. Join us won't you?

5.21.2010

To hasten the process of strangers locating, sampling and immediately disliking (but still pirating) our music, we have set up a site on Bandcamp that will allow you to stream all of our records (including the as-yet-unreleased Great Plains!) and purchase our earlier works in a digital form. After the new record is released on the 29th, it will be for sale there, too. If you listen very closely, you can hear the sound of hundreds of physical copies of Bismarck records not getting sold.

5.15.2010

Alert the street team! The new Bismarck album, Great Plains, is set to drop on May 29, 2010. And by "drop", we mean "show up in our merch tub". To celebrate this momentous occasion, - OK, occasion - we will be playing a rock show at the Rendezvous with our good friends in Police Teeth* and Man the Guns. These things only happen once every three years so don't wait until 2013 for your chance to get a Bismarck album while it's still brand new and stylistically unpopular.

* This makes two Bismarck record release shows in a row for Police Teeth. Consider this your Seattle Rock Ghetto Sabermetrics data point for the day.

2.6.2010

Welcome to 2010 - it's the year we make contact, I'm told. While you're patiently waiting for that to happen, you can now amuse yourself with some moving pictures that Eric has lovingly assembled. These videos do contain Strong Language, Adult themes, Brief Sensuality and Sci-Fi Violence and are rated M for Mature. Put the kids to bed first.

10.13.2009

In two days, The Bismarck sets off on its first journey by aeroplane to play a trio of shows in the Midwest. If you're close to one of the lucky cities, come witness the calamity!

8.11.2009

The Bismarck is saddened to report that profits for Q3 of FY09 were severely hurt when their twenty-two year old Ford van unceremoniously shit the bed in Lincoln, Nebraska a mere three days before the spring tour was to conclude. The last minute purchase and installation of a "rebuilt" transmission (and the subsequent rebuilding of the "rebuilt" transmission upon their return to Seattle) reduced per-share dividends from the projected $0.23 to fuck all. To usher in a brisk Q4, The Bismarck is happy to announce that they will be travelling back to the Upper Midwest via aeroplane for a brief four day tour in mid-October (final show info coming soon!). If their past history with mechanized transport is any indication, the plane will be crashing somewhere in rural Canada as the band is en route to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Wish them luck.

In the meantime, we've got a show coming up at the end of the month with our good pals in Police Teeth and IfIHadAHiFi where all eight of our post-Blood-o'-Patriots songs will be paraded about as though we were the cock of the walk. Well I tell you, The Bismarck is the cock of nothing!