This Friday, September 9th, The Hardcore Jollies will be performing FREE FREE FREE! at The Fifth Estate (506 5th Ave btwn 12th and 13th st Park Slope Brooklyn NY).  Also, thrashing about will be metal monsters, Switchblade(at 9pm) and more musical magnificence served up by Generator Ohm(at 10pm).  The Hardcore Jollies(at 11pm) will be topping off the night.

.....a junkman's convention, a diamond heist, identical switched suitcases, a chase scene.....this is the story of The Hardcore Jollies. Not only are we a rock band and a lifestyle, we are an enigmatic puzzle never to be solved. We are journeymen on our way to a civilization beyond the discotheques and psychedelics of America. We are the Hardcore Jollies.

Monday, February 7, 2011

An Interview with Mitch Masterson by Rodney Dezmund

This is an excerpt taken from hotcomb blogspot ...... 

I'm Rodney Dezmund.  Guitarist of neo-pre-post band The Hardcore Jollies, Mitch Masterson, has a reputation for being quite a hot headed and violent tempered thug.  News stories of Masterson's run ins with the law seem to surface weekly and they're usually a result of his insane outbursts and uncontrollable rage.  At least that's what the media would have you believe.  Mitch seems to have spent the better part of his life looking out at the world from behind iron bars and barbed wire fences.  And when he's not seeing the world from behind bars, he's usually seeing it from behind some two dollar hooker's big ass.  Mitch Masterson lives fast and hard.  However, there is a more gentle side to Mitch that is rarely seen by the general public.  Over the weekend, I had the pleasure to visit Mitch at his upstate New York mansion and listen to some of his new material.  Mitch and his lovely wife of the moment, Twatta, cooked a huge feast consisting of homemade haggis, deviled eggs, and instant mashed potatos drenched in ketchup.  After our meal, Mitch took me into his six-million dollar recording studio, lit up a huge blunt, and threw on some of the tracks from the upcoming Jollies album.  But my attention soon drifted from the sounds booming from the speakers to the incredible collection of Lassie memorabilia that adorned the walls and shelves of the huge studio.  I found it unusual that a man with a reputation like Mitch would be interested, actually, obsessed with such a wholesome all American TV show.  I asked him what it was about Lassie that sparked his interest.  Mitch turned the music down and became very serious........

Read the article in its entirety at hotcomb blogspot

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