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12.24.11

So, we went into audioconfusion on Thursday and recorded three songs with our dear friend, jalipaz . First of which was a Mountain Goats cover to appear on the Tallahassee Turns Ten compilation. AJJ ringer, Deacon Bachelor, offered percussion assistance on this song and also learned and recorded another song with us in 15 minutes! That song will appear on a compilation of PHX and LA bands soon to be released on Kingdom Mammalia records.

Lastly, we recorded a song in support of the Occupy Movement with a little help from AJJ lifer, Dylan Cook, on mandolin. It can be found here and in the spirit of the movement and the season you can download it for free. Feel free to share it. Stay warm and spend time with your loved ones!

8.11.11

Pre-orders for Knife Man are now available via Asian Man Records. Check it out! Thanks to Mike, Bob and anyone else who gets roped into shipping these out.

We are getting pumped about our upcoming tour with Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls and Into it. Over it. All the dates are up now. Also, we are playing a last minute show at Skrappy's in Tucson with Ramshackle Glory and Dr. Dinosaur next Wednesday (August 17th).

6.16.11

It has been a month and a half of madness. I just posted dates and ticket links for the small US tour we will be embarking on tonight. Better late than never. Also, as you may already know, we will be doing an extensive US and Canada tour starting in the middle of September with Frank Turner (now 100% more band) and Into It. Over It. I will get that info posted as soon as I get back. Lastly, our new album, tentatively titled Knife Man, will be shipped out for mastering very soon and hopefully available by early September via Asian Man Records. Thanks to our European friends for the fun trip last month. We had a really great time.

4.17.11

College shows on both sides of the country this month (Portland, OR and Norton, MA). UK and German Tour dates on the shows page. New album is coming together nicely. Woooooaaahhhhh!

3.20.11

Hey friends! We have added several upcoming events on the shows page. Sean is playing a couple of Chicago shows this Friday and we have some local shows in April.

We spent all of last week recording at audioconfusion with jalipaz. We are putting together our next full length and we are really excited about the new material. In the meantime, here is some ridiculous shit.

Lastly, we have an unreleased song featured on an awesome compilation. It is a great group of bands and you can pick it up by clicking on this picture:

12.26.10

The west coast tour was amazing! Thanks to everyone who came out and supported. Also, a special thanks to the awesome dudes in Royal Monsters, Matthew Thompson and Dan Trovillion.

I just looked at the No Idea Records website and they have our split with O Pioneers !!! in the "coming soon" section. So we're still baby stepping our way closer to that one.

Most importantly, we have a webstore now! There are already a few things up and more will be coming soon. Check it out:

12.05.10

We leave for our West Coast Tour with Royal Monsters in a couple of days. Please check the shows section for dates. We are playing some of our favorite venues and we're playing with some of our favorite bands. It should be a blast.

Our UK & European tour was incredible. Thanks to everyone who helped out or showed up. We're already planning our return.

9.24.10

Kepi and AJJ are headed on a big adventure for most of October. We are very excited and honored to be playing shows in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Czech Republic. We have gotten some e-mails from nice folks in other parts of Europe but we need to focus our efforts to avoid becoming overwhelmed by the trip. For those of you living in cites we will not be visiting on this tour, we would be grateful if you could come see us at the closest show. We promise to play our asses off. We will be travelling several thousand miles to get there and we haven't made plans to come back in the foreseeable future. Regardless, thanks for the love!

Thanks to Will Oxtoby, I will have an upright bass to play on the UK dates. If anyone in Berlin would be down to loan/rent me a bass for the other dates, I would be very appreciative. Even if you know someone who could let me use one for a single show, that would be awesome. I have a bass guitar I could use but it is always fun to play upright in AJJ. Just shoot us an e-mail if you can help.

Click on the Flier for an 11" x 17" printable version:

9.11.10

What a conicidence? Us doing a post today. For those of you who don't know, Sean is the singer/guitarist/songwriter of Andrew Jackson Jihad. He's currently on a really great tour I highly recommend you see. I saw the show the other night and it was incredible. Blunt Mechanic is on fire and the AJJ set is going to be different but super fun.

Check out this awesome flyer for the Phoenix show on September 24th:

8.16.10

First off, we are releasing a four-way Sheriff Arpaio themed split with Porches, Father's Day and Treasure Mammal. A test pressing is available on ebay for the next couple of days. Just follow this link. The proceeds will go to No More Deaths and the release show will be at The Trunk Space on September 24th. Before that though, AJJ is doing a sweet tour with Blunt Mechanic. I, Ben, will miss this one since we have already reached our Ben-quota for the trip. I trust you will treat my cohort, Sean, with the utmost respect. They grow up so fast...

In international news, we are indeed headed across the mighty Atlantic to make friends in The United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Holland. All of the shows will be with our spiritual leader, Kepi Ghoulie. Dates will be coming soon. I am in need of an upright bass for these shows though. If you know anyone who would rent/lend me an upright for one or more shows, let me know and I will hook you up to the best of my ability. Just e-mail us at ajjphx@gmail.com.

6.12.10

Pharewell Phoenix Phriends. We ain't goin' anywhere for good. Thank you to everyone who booked/ played/ attended the two valley shows we did today. It reminded me how awesome Arizona is. Sorry if we aren't playing your town this summer. Hopefully we will be close enough that you and your friends can make a fun road trip of it. If not, we'll see you next time.

5.04.10

In the words of John Fogerty, "Keep on Chooglin'"! Summer Midwest Tour is almost booked. Dates coming soon. Sean will be in Lexington for Crucial Fun Fest and in Louisville in a couple weeks. He'll also be in San Diego on May 21st. In the meantime, come to this awesome show:

4.7.10

Hey y'all! First off, Silver Sprocket just released a split we collaborated on with the fine folks in The Gunshy. In other split news, we have been making some baby steps in releasing a record with O Pioneers!!! Please do not mistake our delay in releasing this record as contention between us and our Houston brethren. We are just super lazy individuals. Also, we will be releasing a four-way, Joe Arpaio-themed split with our AZ pals, Treasure Mammal, Father's Day and Porches.

Other points of interest:

Fluke is a great zine created by our homeboy, Matt Thompson. There is an unreasonably candid interview with AJJ in the most recent issue.

Hey Midwest, we are coming for you in June. Protect your neck, punk!

12.13.09

We have finally started getting our shit together for the tour. Most importantly, we got a sweet new van. It is fucking huge! Thanks to Daryl Scairiot (think tank) and Ben Sears (artistic genius) we have a tour flyer too.

11.24.09

Hello Everybody. We are about to embark on yet another tour of the beautiful western states. Joining us on this trip will be our fellow miscreants, Kepi Ghoulie & Dino, Partners in 818 and John "Street Professor" Martin. Mike Park deserves copious hugs and hi-fives for setting the whole thing up. Also, we have asked one of our favorite artists to put together a tour poster which will be coming very soon. Hopefully, by the time we hit the road we will have a new 7" split with our dear friends in The Gunshy. This record will be brought to you by the big brains behind the AJJ pillowcase, Silver Sprocket Bike Club.

On a somber note, we will no longer be touring in our '94 Chevy Astro Van. Wolfenstien 3D: The Van served us well for the majority of AJJ's history and she will be missed. Countless nights were spent crying ourselves to sleep in her warm bosom. Her courage and tenacity gave us the strength to tread forward. I ask you now to take a moment of silence and pour a quantity of the nearest malt liqour on your nearest horizontal surface in her memory.

7.7.09

So, I have added several recent releases to our music section including our new full lengf, Can't Maintain. CD copies of this album will be available in September from Asian Man Records or you can get it sooner from us on our upcoming tour. Speaking of which, you can find the latest dates and info under the shows section. This tour is going to be great. We have had a lot of help putting it together and are really excited to play multiple dates with Bomb the Music Industry, Laura Stevenson and the Cans, Kepi Ghoulie, Kevin Seconds, Delay, Jackson and O Pioneers!!!.

Oh yeah, my step dad recently started blogging. So, if you're interested in the musings of an overthinking, recently unemployed resident of small-town Arizona, check out Tao of Scott. He's pretty wary of these demon boxes, but I think he's going to pull through.

3.26.09

Well, it's been a minute. Here is what's up:

We just did our Under the Influence split with Cobra Skulls. Thanks to Virgil, jalipaz, the Skulls and Mitch for making this happen. Soon we will be releasing splits with Apocalypse Meow (Pug Lyfe 7"), O Pioneers!!! (8 song split), and Partners in 818 (CD). Also, we will be releasing "Candy Cigarettes, Cap Guns, Issue Problems! and Such" on Asian Man in the near future. And if that isn't enough, we just started working on our new, yet to be named full length. See, we've been too busy to update this silly website. Thanks to Jeff, Sam, Eric, Mike, Skylar, Var, jalipaz and all the bands for getting this stuff out. In the meantime, here is a song and a pretty picture.

10.26.08

Yeah, we are headed out in two days and I am finally putting up the flyer. I am a firm believer in belated promotion. Had I posted this shit a month ago you would have forgotten by now, right? We are totally fucking pumped to hit the road and see some of our old friends, young friends and new friends. Benjamin Horowitz aka Porches will be joining us for some of these dates, further sweetening the whole deal.

8.26.08

Ha! It's been over three months since I've done anything with the website. Don't get excited not much is changing. We have a couple shows coming up this weekend (PHX, Tucson and Riverside). Also, we have a new e-mail address which receives a reduced amount of e-mails from Nigerian Princes (ajjphx@gmail.com).

Oh yeah, if you go to college and want your school to fly us out that would be awesome. Think about it, you paid an exorbitant amount for tuition, right? Some of that money goes to the exorbitant fund your schools sets aside for student events. Talk to somebody who sets up those events and let them know you've got a band that will rock your school's face off for a bargain. Contact us, track down some loaner instruments and we'll make a date.

...just a thought.

Lastly, we would like to thank all of the people who made our last tour so great. Bomb the Music Industry, Kepi, Dino, Lemuria, The Queers are all incredible humans that make excellent music. Furthermore, the whole kick-ass deal was sealed with the hard work and friendship of Pat, Pat, Julie and Carlos. Gollum was there too. To all the people we saw along the way, we whole-heartedly appreciate your love and support. We hope to see you soon.

5.19.08

It's been crazy last couple days. First, I tuned up the old lady: "Wolfenstien 3D: the Van" over the weekend. She's purring like a cobra. Today, John and I built a drum stage for the Willow House. We will be doing some pretty sweet shows down there in the next few months. In the afternoon Sean and I screened 400 t-shirts. The monotony of manufacturing gives you a taste of the days of yore. Most of the shirts are a new design crafted by the talented Elise Topinka (culprit what designed our new ep). Also, we christened Carlos for merch duty by teaching him our patent-pending t-shirt rolling process.

So, we are headed out from Phoenix on Wednesday. First stop, Carmi, IL! We will be travelling thousands upon thousands of miles in the next month. I hope that you will travel the necessary miles to come out and see us in a town near you. We have been getting a lot of e-mails from people all over the country suggesting we play their hometown. We would love to grant your wishes and we realize there's nothing quite as great as an awesome show in your town. Sadly, it's an enormous country and we got day jobs. So please, hop in the jalopy with some friends and meet us in the middle. It might be a while before we pull this drive again.

Love and Respect, AJJ.

4.23.08

"only God can judge me" should be coming out soon on Plan-it-X. There is a downloadable song in the music section. Coming Soon: Shows w/ Mike Park!, New Shirts!, Pro Gear!, Rehab! If anyone wants to put out any of our old stuff on vinyl let us know, maybe we can work something out. Write us e-mails, they are fun to read.

see you in da pit

3.4.08

Yeah, I haven't updated the webshite in a while, big whoop, wanna fight about it? We are doin' some shows soon, working on an ep, and doin' an inordinate quantity of crank. You know, taking a play from the Choking Victim/Leftover Crack book, tapping the crackhead demographic. We have also given some consideration to re-releasing the split with Partners in 818 on compact disc. Don't worry if you've already got it on vinyl, the cd version will be significantly lamer. I heard that we are going on a USA tour with some really good bands this summer but it's probably just heresay.

1.16.08

The Tour was amazing! Our collective heart goes out to everybody who booked, played, put us up, showed up or in anyway contributed to the trip. We met a lot of great people and saw some beautiful places.

If anyone has any record of the shows we played (audio/video/pictures) on tour please get in touch. We have a project in mind and could use your help. Hit us up at andrewjacksonjihad@yahoo.com.

1.06.08

Our show in Philedelphia has been cancelled. Our sincere apologies to anyone who had planned to attend. We have had a really good run of shows and this kind of stuff happens sometimes. Please spread the word if you know anyone else who was gonna come out. Meanwhile, we are gonna have a couple days off now and plan on rockin' the south like a team of flaming stallions. Speakin' of stallions, we will bringin' with us the illest, thrillest crack money millionist, travillionaire, Dan. You'll catch him slangin' rhymes and countin' cheddar at the merch booth. Much love and respect.

1.01.08

Just to keep you on your feet, the show in Brooklyn will return to Sealab 187. Maybe the 123 space doesn't even exist!? Jeff has also finalized the northeast dates with his fine music group, Bomb the Music Industry, so check out the shows page. Our AZ shows where fucking amazing on this tour. Everyone in the Midwest, Santa Fe and Denver is awesome too. We will definitely come back as soon as we get some work done back home. For now we gotta go. Love and respect, AJJ.

12.25.07

Holy Shit, other than an issue in Tacoma, WA, this tour has been incredible. We are very appreciative of everyone who has helped make this happen. It is not us, but you that makes it possible to have these amazing shows. We dearly hope that the remainder of our tour (the gauntlet) will go half as well. We are treading on uncharted territory at this point. Oh yeah, there have been some minor changes and updates to the shows page, namely Brooklyn. We'll see you all soon.

12.11.07

Yeah the tour is pretty much booked at this point. All of the details I have are posted under the Shows page. We will be bringing a bunch of new consumer goods with us including new t-shirts, split 7" w/ Partners in 818 and the Art of the Underground 45. We might even have vinyl copies of the Ghost Mice split for the second leg of the tour. Numerous heart-warming thank yous and a copious amount of praise goes out to anyone who helped book this beast of a tour. We will see you all soon and cannot wait!

11.12.07

Holy Shit it has been two whole months since I have updated this monster. Well I hope you can understand. Shit has been pretty hectic. We played the fest, what was very fun and fulfilling. Not to be a cocky jerk but we did share 70hrs. worth of driving between 4 people and 6 days. I just wanted the world to know. Thanks to Chris for the incredibly generous and comfortable 3 nights rest and for providing an international buffet of insightful and jocular europeans.(much love: Dauntless Elite, Off Shore Radio, Dylan, Gerd, Elsa, Victor and the brilliant man with the minutemen shirt (sorry, my memory is a fucked apart dead thing))

Our split w/ our ever-rocking brothers to the norf, Partners in 818, is in some of your hands already. We need to screen the rest. They will be avaliable for mass consumption on November 24 at the Trunk Space. I don't think I am going to put it in the music section because I am lazy and I have no intention of giving you free songs until we sell out of the records. You'll just have to buy the 7" and a phonograph player if you want to realize the rock thunder.

Lastly, our forecasted tour schedule is posted under the shows page. It looks pretty lame at first sight. Don't be afraid, we have more shit nailed down than it seems. But if you think you can pull something together in any of the towns that don't seem solid, please contact us and let us know if/how you can help. I promise to stay in touch more frequently. -Ben

9.12.07

Well, our album is officially out as of yesterday. Speaking of yesterday, Teague "the Foot Ox" Cullen and Co. where amazing last night. Ya'll got to check out his new cd too, it is really good. So I updated the Music page quite a bit, yep.

9.3.07

Much love and appreciation to everyone who came out to our show on Friday. The crowd and bands where incredible! Here is the news stuff. From what I have gathered in the last few weeks, Art of the Underground (NY) is going to be putting out a 7" single and the vinyl version of our split with Ghost Mice. Thanks Alex. Also, folktale records will be putting out a 4 song 7" record. Thanks Chris. Lastly, we are getting ready to record a split with our bestest good friends, Partners in 818 from the northlands of AZ (also a 7"). So steal your grandma's record player and prepare for the vinylganza. Leave me alone I'm tired. New shows posted too.

8.31.07

Tonight is our cd release show at Trunk Space with Kind of Like Spitting! It is going to be super fun and we hope that all of you come out to celebrate. If you cannot make it you can get our new album on cd or vinyl from the fine folks at asian man records (much love for mike and skylar). just follow this majestical link and you'll know what to do. Also, Benjamin Leatherman was nice enough to do a piece for us in the new times, lookeehere. See if you can catch the Eric B. and Rakim reference (I don't think it was intentional). Jalipaz rules.

8.23.07

Aight, our album ain't no "new wave" but its pretty decent. To entice you I have given you access to a select track at the end of the < p >. Come to Tucson today and see us with Blood Feather's(sorta) and Richard's amazing movie, "Towncraft". We will be at Dry River. Lastly, Please come to our cd release show on August 31st at Trunk Space. I promise you an amazing barbershop quartet with some of phoenix's finest. Until then, People II: the Reckoning.
What's more:

8.6.07

Cd is coming out really soon and we are doing a realease show at the muther krunkin funk space on august, 31st with some amazing bands. We might even practice for this one. Also, many cool CA bands, us and Malakai at Modified on the sixteenph of this month. Lastly, Ben and Alex moved to Chicago. They will be greatly missed by ourselves and the rest of the Phoenix music community.

7.18.07

So this is the new website sorta. Obviously I have not finished it but thought it may come in handy for those of you who would like to listen to some music and see what shows we have coming up. It's a curious thing really, I finish the website just in time for Sean to move to Portland (so it goes). Unsubstantiated rumors aside, please let me know what you think of the site (likes/dislikes, hate/more hate). As usual contact us at andrewjacksonjihad@yahoo.com. New record coming out very soon!