SIC WAITING

Derailer West Tour starts tonight in LA!!

Welp, we’ve been to the Southwest US, Fest 14 in Florida, Puerto Rico, New Jersey, New York and Mexico over the last month! It’s been a wild ride, thank you guys for coming out, listening online, buying shit, throwing shit, and hangin pretty tough. Check out the pictures over on the Facebook page and check out some other cool shit below! Shit!

Next we have the Felony Records Holiday Party December 12th with buds Pour Habit, Eken is Dead, Skipjack, Kill Corporations and Emmer Effer. Holy hell that’s a lineup, bring on the ‘nog! We have some fun stuff in the works for next year, so we’ll be laying that out as soon as we can. 

In the meantime, let’s try to get the rest of the world to chill out, have a drink, and be fucking good to each other again please.

Dying Scene Radio featuring Jared of Sic Waiting

Bird Attack Punk Rock Radio featuring Sic Waiting

The Punk Archive Review of Derailer

For the Love of Punk Review of Derailer

New Noise Magazine Interview with Jared

San Diego Punk Review of Derailer

Here’s a crappy video we threw together, mostly just pictures of us drinking with our friends.

So much has been going on lately it’s hard to keep up! So I’ll try to itemize most of it all here.

The latest song in the streaming series just released today. ‘War is the Answer’ is streaming over at For the Love of Punk, with all donations going to the nonprofit Art & Creativity for Healing. Their mission is to support emotional healing through art & creative expression for those living with abuse, critical illness, military service, homelessness and grief.

LISTEN TO AND DOWNLOAD ‘WAR IS THE ANSWER’ HERE

We had a really nice write up of Derailer come in from the guys over at The Punk Archive

THE PUNK ARCHIVE REVIEWS DERAILER HERE

San Diego Punk also had some nice stuff to say about the record!

SAN DIEGO PUNK REVIEWS DERAILER HERE

Don’t forget we have a tour coming up that hits the West US, East US, Fest 14 and Puerto Rico. Fiesta time Cabrones!!

DERAILER FALL TOUR 2015

And you can still preorder the record, and get the last of the limited color vinyl (clear and translucent red) over at the Felony Records Store!

PREORDER DERAILER HERE

Back again! So this week Dying Scene is giving you guys the song ‘Maps’ off of Derailer to stream AND download! Again, ALL donations go to the Tony Sly Music Foundation, so kick down ya cheapskates! In addition to the download, Dying Scene is running a contest to see who can pick out all the references in the lyrics to ‘Maps.’ Top two win a vinyl or CD preorder bundle!

http://dyingscene.com/news/sic-waiting-premiere-new-song-maps-win-a-vinyl-or-cd-copy-of-their-new-album-derailer/

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Maps is sort of a tip of the cap to a lot of the music that influenced us up to this point. The lyrics are comprised of references to records and songs that we grew up and are growing old listening to, but the song itself still has an underlying progression. I think ultimately it just illustrates the power of music in general to be anything at all to any different person; to be whatever that person needs it to be, and this is why it's so important to us in our scene and to society as a whole.

This week's charity is the Tony Sly Music Foundation. TSMF raises  to support children's music education through various projects, all in memory of the late Tony Sly from No Use For a Name.Tony and NUFAN meant a whole lot to Sic Waiting, and we were lucky enough to play some of the last US shows with them and get to know Tony a bit. His loss shook our whole community to the core. We've worked with TSMF on a couple projects over the last couple years, and it seemed only natural to involve them in this record, and specifically this song. So help support 'em, and get 'Maps' a month before it's released for as little as $1! You can learn more about the foundation, donate on your own, and get more involved at http://www.tonysly.org.

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DERAILER RELEASE EVENT/FALL TOUR 2015

The Derailer Release Tour has been announced! See a lot of you this Fall!

DERAILER TOUR EVENT

PREORDER limited clear and translucent red vinyl, cd’s and package bundles with tons of merch at the Felony Records store HERE!!:

FELONY RECORDS DERAILER PREORDER

We are also stoked that New Noise Magazine is streaming ‘Active Alumni,’ the first song off of our new full length album Derailer, out 10/23 on Felony Records (link below)! But wait, you can actually download that song right now? Whaaa?

NEW NOISE MAGAZINE GIVES YOU SIC WAITING’S ‘ACTIVE ALUMNI’

For the next few weeks you'll get to stream a new song per week from Derailer-that's normal promo for a release. This time though, you're going to be able to purchase it, weeks before the record is available to anyone, anywhere, with all the proceeds going to various nonprofits we support and have had ties to. You'll only be able to get each song for a short time, so get on it! This week, all the proceeds from the New Noise Magazine Limited Early Release of 'Active Alumni' will go to the nonprofit organization To Write Love On Her Arms. TWLOHA is an organization dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. Over the years, a number of people around Sic Waiting have dealt with these issues. They're dark, dangerous issues that require real treatment. No amount of help is too small, so thank you New Noise for hosting the stream and guys for doing something good today!

See ya next week for another tasty treat!!!

So it’s finally that time! Time to start laying out what we’ve been planning for the past what seems like forever.

-We signed to Felony Records for this new full length album, Derailer, out 10/23 on LP/CD/digital. It’s 10 songs and we’re stoked! There’s one streaming now at www.theFelonyfamily.com!

-PRESALES are up now! We have a bunch of different packages with vinyl, shirts, hoodies, flasks, koozies and a lot more. Check them out at www.theFelonyFamily.com store!

-We’ll be supporting this with tour dates to be announced real soon, around the West US, Fest 14 in Gainesville, Puerto Rico, the Northeast, and Mexico!

Keep watching over the weeks leading up to Fest for new songs from Derailer and special treats to be rolled out for you!

In COM101, you will learn how to communicate not poorly. First lesson: study the habits of SIC WAITING on tumblr, and don’t do that. Lesson over.

Anyways, tour was rad. And also 2 months ago. There are pictures but just go to Instagram and search the #sicwaiting or #swhighwaymiles hashtags to see them because seriously, I’m probably never posting them elsewhere.

Believe it or not, we are actually really busy with shit right now. There’s a lot, like a lot, happening this fall and it’s proving to be quite the undertaking (even for a jobless, homeless degenerate middle-aged man like me). So either get me an assistant (of my choosing), find me an intern (of my choosing), or shutup and be patient.

Once we get shit set we’ll announce it, but one thing we can all clinky-clinky for now is FEST! We’ve been trying to get involved for a couple years and this year we finally broke down those walls (see above re:COM101) but annoying them a lot. We are playing on Halloween this year. We;ll have venue, times, lineups etc in the coming months but get stoked!

More details to come, but you can be sure that we aren’t selling our children and flying to Florida just to play one damn show....

We will have a lot of new merch for Fest, of the wearing and listening variety, and more! But help us with that and go buy some of that old shit NOW, at discounted prices, over at http://sicwaiting.storenvy.com

Upcoming Shows:

July 26- House of Blues, San Diego, CA w/ The Ataris and Shady Francos

July 30- Redwood Bar, Los Angeles, CA w/ Margate (CD RELEASE), D-Cent Jerks, Cubicle

July 31- 1250, Tijuana, MX- YEAH BUDDY FEST w/ D-Cent Jerks, Fools Rush, Old Friends, No Talent, Shinjoku Riot

August 1- Tower Bar, San Diego, CA- YEAH BUDDY FEST w/ Great Apes, Western Settings, Fools Rush, D-Cent Jerks, All Eyes West and more!

Ok cool, talk to you in like another year.

Hi! Soooooo we’re going on tour next month! We’ll be spending a couple weeks in the western US seeing your (insert adjective here) faces. Your lineup is in that there picture, Jared, Andrew, Yotam, and Anthony ( L to R). And as an added incentive to get into the double digits in show attendance, there’s a TOUR EXCLUSIVE EP with 4 unreleased songs that we’ll have for you! Check out all the good shit below, stoked to get out!

Opening the whole tour is our bud Yotam from Israeli punk band Useless ID. Yotam is also playing bass in SW, so buy the man a single glass of red wine for pulling double duties! Then buy Anthony and Andrew a craft beer, and Jared a one-way ticket to rehab. Party!

HIGHWAY MILES Track Listing:

1. The Salesman (Unreleased)

2. Last Line of Defense (Anchors Astray b-side)

3. My Reputation Precedes Me (Acoustic)

4. Lines in the Road (Acoustic)

Tour Promo Video: Shaun Colon of Dang!Records, with live shots by Ron McIntyre of Felony Records

Album Art: Tyler Gibson, Doom Toof Design

Tour Poster: Jim Nadorozny

Hello nerds! So begins the month where we tell you about stuff and things that will be happening in the coming weeks and months, and stuff. First things first, we are hitting the road in April!

(Poster by Jim Nadorozny) We are stoked to head out to see the Western US, and to have our bud Yotam from Israeli punkers Useless ID opening the tour! And since you can never get enough Yotam, he’ll be playing bass for SW as well! We will have a full stock of merch on this tour, as well as some other special things that we will roll out in the coming weeks. It’s time to get radical, don’t be a bummer!

But before that happens we grease the wheels in San Diego on 3/21 with Punk Rock Karaoke, Implants and Torches to Triggers. Another rad punk rock party brought to you by Slabratory!!

Anthony from Lowbrow is also in SW, and so is Andrew from Surefire Loss and Adam from Drown the Witness. While the lineup is sometimes changing due to various reasons one thing is constant, and that is the core belief of every person involved that the band should keep moving ahead. And these dudes sacrifice a lot for a band that started a long time ago. Personal lives be damned, this thing just won’t die. So again, blame it on them.

Then there’s the old dudes, and not Howard J. Reynolds, though I am listening to Less Than Jake at this exact moment and am glad that worked out. Anyways, Brian helped us get a new record done this year that you might someday hear, as did Jason from Parade of Horribles, G has been available from the east coast for shows at our call should we need him, and Dylan has been repping it in Texas. Dave, as always, has been sitting in Vegas ready to hit the road at word one. So you see, this fucking thing just won’t die. So blame them.

There’s Paul Meyer, who got Chasse’s intial job and niced it up super nice. But first there’s Chris Chasse, who upon us asking him to track a cover tune we were doing for the A Fat Wreck doc promptly scoffed, made us eat vegan shrimp and weird ketchup, spit into an old school tin like in the old western movies, then literally shoved his hand in our dark place and pulled a full record of (methinks) the best music we’ve done to date out of us. That isn’t saying much, but it’s a tweet’s worth of something. He wants everything to die, including us, but we just won’t. So blame him.

Lastly, there’s everyone I forgot because I drink and everyone on this here interwebs. Those of you that send messages or leave comments or make thumb uppy things, you all mean a lot. Especially when our lives are full of drunken depression and resentment. Seriously, I don’t think anyone that’s ever been involved in this band expected very many other people to like it, and I know that at this exact point in time the music is more nostalgic than original. But even when we want to let it die, you just won’t let us, so blame yourselves.

2015 will see some more extensive touring again, as well as some new releases and fun collaborations. Blah blah blah.

That sounds like it should be a title of a Shell Corporation blog post. In any case, hi what's up? How have you been? You know, we don't talk enough. We should change that. From now on, we're gonna call each other every week!

Ok but seriously, if you want to hear from us more regularly, you need to be checking the twitter and the facebook. And maybe soon we'll be on Jello or Ello or whatever new invention you crazy kids and Bill Cosby come up with. But that's where most of our pointless yet poignant insights reside for the time being.

On to the business:

We have new auditory entertainment! Last we posted here, we were starting a new record. It's done. When will it be in your grubby hands you ask? Who the hell knows, we say. The artwork is being done as we speak, and we're looking for some friendly folk to agree, probably out of sympathy, to release it. There is also a split in the works that we'll be able to announce more info on soon. But here's a hint: it's with a band that rhymes with DC Fallout.

We have commerce! In an effort to make sure two FULL years didn't go by, we've finally put all the old merch up for sale at our exclusive store on the interwebs. So now no matter where you are in this crazy mixed up world, you can use your Netscape Navigator or your AOLs to use your monies to buy our stuff! We then take your monies and make more stuff for you to spend your monies on. It's the slow, agonizing circle of merch life. As time goes on, we will actually have some neat web-exclusive items and deals here. Check it out at 

http://sicwaiting.storenvy.com/

We have live dancing monkeys! We are playing a few shows in some Western US cities between now and the end of the year to get the juices flowing again (cue the porno music). The always fun, great cause that is the Punk Rock Food Drive on Nov 8th at Til Two in San Diego features a shitload of rad bands and radder friends. Check out www.punkrockfood.com for more info. Then the following week at Redwood Bar in LA it's an old fart reunion of sorts with The Shell Corporation, DC Fallout and maybe some youngin's to spice it up. A couple more will be finalized and added soon, so keep watch.

I think that's about it for now. Don't go changing.

(photo: David Ulrigg)

There’s no one I like talking to more, or who’s opinion I respect more than Me. Just ask me. So when I asked Me for a short interview to discuss Sic Waiting, the current state of affairs, plans for the future, and life in general and I agreed, well needless to say I wet our pants just a little. Enjoy.

Jared: First off thanks for talking with me, I’ve really looked up to you for a long time. You are awesome and funny and you have cool-ass hair and your nose isn’t big at all.

JARED: No problem, and that’s only natural. Though we are the same height, you will always look up to me.

Jared: So let’s start with the obvious, where the hell have you guys been this year?

JARED: We’ve been doing our own things a bit this year. Though we did do some rad shows with Unwritten Law, A Wilhelm Scream and the Flatliners earlier this year, we kind of fragmented off after last year’s national tour ended. Dylan moved to Texas with his girlfriend and got busy gettin’ busy, and now they have a head-butting mini-shredder on the way. This is going to shock some people, but playing in an independent punk band isn’t as lucrative as it seems. So when you have a family starting, it’s often better to make a graceful exit.

Brian has been married with child for years and always has worked at Costco like in that movie ‘The Watch.’ Brian is in charge of the alien portal ray thing. They sample it every Saturday and Sunday at the end of the frozen foods aisle. He hasn't toured with us for years either, but he stopped playing locally and recording with us at the beginning of the year so he could get a bit more focused. Now he plays in a Bad Religion tribute band called Generator, and they kick ass. He also just got his pilot’s license, so I’ll be taking the train everywhere from here on out. Just kidding, he is piloting our next tour like Bruce Dickenson did with Iron Maiden.

G’s still here talkin’ all ‘New Yawky,’ and has been a horrible influence on me this year because he’s very persuasive and has a cultivated drinking habit like I do. However he also finished recording a record with his other band All Things End that is being released in the next few months. They are playing some shows on the east coast this winter, which of course is the best time to tour the east coast. If you like Off With Their Heads, Banner Pilot, Jawbreaker, Nothington etc. you’d like All Things End.

I’ve been on a couple Dead Frets acoustic tours with Matt Salkeld this year, better known as SW roadie extraordinaire Bob Evans (look him up on the facebook), and I’ve been writing. We are hoping to get a split out by the time we hit the road again this December. We’re gonna call it Dead Frets and Matt Salkeld’s “Huge Steaming Pile of Split.” He is not yet aware of this.

Jared: That answer was too long, and no one is reading anymore. You are boring, tighten it up. What about Dave? I met your drummer and his name was Dave, and he had cool hair and a lot of yellow shit.

JARED: Dave, who has done the last two national tours with us as well as saved our asses on a number of occasions and always at the last minute, has been working in Vegas and probably partying way, way too hard. He’s in a really good band called War Called Home. He’s also the fifth Ninja Turtle by night and I think he’s going to kick my ass next time I’m near a sewer grate in Vegas to get me back for the torment I talked him into signing up for two years in a row.

Jared: Speaking of Vegas, didn’t you guys have a team at Punk Rock Bowling?

JARED: Had a team, got drunk, kicked ass and got 15th place, won $200, spent $200 at the bar within 15 minutes of receiving it, somehow ended up back in San Diego 3 days later. Oh and we got posters, which is sweet. The team was named 3 Drunks and a Driver, but it ended up just being 4 drunks and no driver.

Jared: Sounds fun, I sure wish I could have made it. So what about Sic Waiting? You guys are done?

JARED: Wrong, stupid. God, you’re so stupid. I’ve been writing for SW too and I have about a full-length’s worth of material. We’ve demoed out about half of it and are in the middle of working out the rest. The acoustic shit is fun, but the SW shit is where my and our heart and total financial investment is. To quote every musician ever, “this new record is going to be the best thing we’ve ever done.” But seriously though, this is going to be the best record we’ve ever talked about doing. We have some cool people helping us get it done too. Anthony from Lowbrow is helping write it, Mike from Death by Stereo is helping out, Andrew from Surefire Loss is on it, etc. It’s a dysfunctional, disjointed way of doing things, but then that seems to be the only way we do things.

We’re only playing one show until 2014 though, as far as I can tell. It’s October 11th in San Diego and it’s our only SD show this year. It’s the Payoff (members of Bombpops and Murderland) cd release show. Gonna be a party. I’ll probably get drunk, ya know just to change things up not at all.

Jared: Why is everyone leaving? Are you that much of an ass hole? Or is it because you have stupid ideas for the band like interviewing yourself?

JARED: Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Sic Waiting has been at this for going on 14 years now. In any business we’re an exemplary failure. In punk rock there’s a prevailing mentality that the longer you “rage against the dying light,” the more valid you become. Point is, this never was and still isn’t about accolades or bank accounts or validation. It’s just something I got used to doing and decided to keep doing. Some people come in and move out, some people come in and stay a while, there’s no one better than the other. There’s just honesty, with yourself and the environment you choose to keep yourself in. That coming from the guy who created a fake interview to get his message out.

Jared: Way to be light and amusing, my many readers will appreciate your lack of brevity. Soooooooo anyways…..what’s the plan for next year then?

JARED: Well if you know anything about this band you know that we ALWAYS make good on the things we say we are going to be doing in the next few months. That being reiterated, we’ll be touring Syria right after the new year because we are expecting there to be a strong American fan base established there soon. Then on to Mars so we can play a show for the Curiosity rover and thus the whole planet. Then Oklahoma City to tattoo Garrett Dale from Red City Radio in his sleep and lastly to Port St. John, Florida so I can stop feeling bad about leading Lauren from Dying Scene on about playing there for three straight years.

Or the short answer: get lineup, record, release, tour. Same ol’ shit.

Jared: Your answers suck and I’m beginning to regret accepting this interview. But those all sound like some lofty plans for a guy with half a band…

JARED: One more outburst like that and I will jump through this mirror and kick my ass, buddy.

Jared: OK calm down. Lastly, do you actually think people are going to be interested in reading an interview you conducted both sides of? Or do you think they will just think you’re a narcissistic dickhole dancing for attention?

Hey look! We still have a Tumblr account! Wondering what we've been up to? Well, we've been hard at work relaxing, partying and keeping up our every-two-months-posting-an-update habits. We've also been preparing new material for a couple releases coming up in the Spring and Summer, one of which is a split with our pallies DC Fallout on Felony Records and one that's all by our lonesomes. We played a fun-as-fuck show with Unwritten Law in Palm Desert, CA last month, and we have an equally fun-as-fuck show coming up in March with A Wilhelm Scream, the Flatliners, Vultures United and Lowbrow at Slidebar in Fullerton, CA. We're stoked to be playing with all these bands again, because they make us multiple-eargasm.