Presidents of the USA – News & Australian Tour Special

March 7, 2013 PUSA base PUSA

The Presidents of the United States Of America – 2013 Australian Tour Special:

The Presidents of the United States Of America’s Australian tour is about to start. They have already done plenty of press stuff. Interviews, TV show(s) and other tour and music promotion. Of course this blog post covers other Presidential happenings too! Feel free to submit stuff I have missed.

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Videos:

The Presidents played at the Morning Show (Australian TV show):

“American rockers Presidents of the USA perform a special ‘Cow edition’ of their massive 90s hit ‘Lump’.” – Click here to view the VIDEO and here’s the Youtube one.

Here’s Peaches VIDEO from the same show, and “Millions Of Artichokes” VIDEO.

Australian Tour Photos

Gallery of PUSA photos from Australia

Chris Ballew – “We’re So Green” Video:

“Chris Ballew (aka Casper Babypants), has teamed up with Seattle’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment to produce this Schoolhouse Rock style ditty, “We’re So Green” – View full original article

Presidents of the USA interviews

Sorta Rotten And Insane – Great Chris Ballew interview about the 90’s PUSA fame.

Interview – Chris Ballew, Presidents Of The United States Of America – January 2013 – magazine.100percentrock.com

We chat with The Presidents Of The United States Of America – tonedeaf.com.au

Presidents of the United States of America – everguide.com.au

PUSA cover video:

Ashes (AU) – Naked And Famous (Presidents of the USA Cover):


ASHES – Rock band from Sydney, Australia doing a acoustic cover of “Naked and Famous” by The Presidents of the United States of America. ASHES will be supporting PUSA on March 15, 2013 at the UNSW Roundhouse. Head to ashesau.bandcamp.com to check out the band’s self-titled EP.

PUSAFAN:

Also check out Pusafan at the Facebook (Australian PUSA fan who keeps us entertained with Pusa collector’s items, and of course the Presidents visiting Australia)

PUSABASE is also on Facebook (Visit my page)

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Presidents of the USA – March news – Week 1

March 3, 2013 PUSA base PUSA

PUSA News: Australian tour, photos, Rocksmith, fan covers, VIP tickets, Andrew McKeag, Chris Ballew, Caspar Babypants

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Next week the Presidents of the USA starts their Australian tour. But there are other great PUSA news to be shared too. But let’s get the tour dates first!:

Australian tour dates:

2013-03-08 – The Hi-Fi, Brisbane, Australia
2013-03-09 – Coolangatta Hotel, Gold Coast, Australia
2013-03-10 – Palace Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
2013-03-14 – HQ, Adelaide, Australia
2013-03-15 – The Roundhouse, Sydney, Australia
2013-03-16 – Metropolis, Freemantle, Australia
2013-03-16 – Metropolis, Freemantle, Australia

New Zealand “tour” dates:

2013-03-18 – Studio The Venue, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand

I will be posting those tour specials after the gigs, so make sure you send me ticket scans, photos, videos, setlist details, Chris Ballew’s shoes…and everything else you can get from those PUSA shows. Not sure about if those shoes are easy to get, but you never know…

New Presidents of the USA album coming?!?

Holy crap. Chris talks about possibility about making a new album with the Presidents!:

See the interview at the cooltry.com.au

How come I have missed this interview. People send in your interviews! (about the presidents, not yourself)

 

Shooting Presidents of the United States of America (at the Pusafest 2013)

Rasmus Rasmussen shot the Pusa members with his camera. Check out his photo gallery from Pusafest 2013.

Stephanie Savoia was there with her camera, and there’s another great photo gallery at the Facebook:

Here’s the gallery: PUSAFest 2013 @ Showbox Market, Seattle 02.16.2013

Hopefully the gallery work without Facebook account (you should have one, as I’m there also posting pusa stuff – Link goes to the Pusabase facebook site)

Andrew McKeag – Epiphone Guitars:

There’s news article about Andrew McKeag touring with a new Epiphone 50th Anniversary “1962” Crestwood Custom guitar.

See the news: Andrew McKeag of Presidents of the United States of America Tours With Crestwood

PS. Epiphone people. If there are any extra copies left of that Crestwood. Feel free to send one. My Epiphone Custom SG could use a friend. 🙂

Presidents of the USA – Rocksmith Game:

There’s one interesting thing that my brother noticed. Presidents of the USA is one the bands that Rocksmith likes on Facebook! Their list of likes is pretty short, maybe that means we’ll be seeing PUSA tracks on Rocksmith game? Rocksmith is a video game you play with real instruments! I have one, it’s great. Now we need some PUSA songs to play with!

Brisbane: Sold out. Also, some upgrade options – VIP Ticket upgrades!

Info about the Australian VIP tickets at the presidentsrock.com page.

Win tickets to see The Presidents of the United States of America – March 18 at Auckland’s Studio the Venue on K-Road (New Zealand)

If you don’t have tickets to PUSA’s New Zealand gig. There’s always a lottery. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose (usually you lose, but winning sounds good)

“Pop rock band The Presidents of the United States of America will perform in New Zealand this March – and you could win one of two double passes to the show! ”

More info: http://nz.entertainment.yahoo.com

Caspar Babypants – I Found You! Another review

I Found You another review of the I Found You album by Caspar Babypants

All the Caspar Babypants albums can be listened via Spotify! (Not sure about the country limitations, but they work just fine here in Finland)

PS. Caspar Babypants is Chris Ballew from the Presidents of the USA
PPS. Presidents haven’t been played here yet. Just wanted to add that interesting fact to this blog post.
PPPS. Presidents of the USA albums are on Spotify too.

Chris Ballew – Flip A Switch ( Quantum Conundrum Main Theme )

Main theme from the video game Quantum Conundrum.

Chris Ballew and Kate Endle interview:

For some reason I have missed this interview:

Presidents of the USA – Youtube covers

Zach Lombardo – Naked & Famous

We Were Evergreen – The Presidents of The USA – Lump (Cover) – Session Acoustique

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Presidents of the USA News – European tour, videos and more!

February 20, 2013 PUSA base PUSA

The Presidents of the USA – 2013 European Tour, Youtube videos, Caspar Babypants and more

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Here’s a quick collection of what is happen in the PUSA world:

PUSA: European Tour 2013:

Jason Finn (from the Presidents of the USA) revealed some of the upcoming European tour dates today. Two shows confirmed:

2013-07-06 – Tivoli, Oudegracht, Utrecht, Netherlands
2013-07-07 – Parkstad Limburg Theaters, LIMBURGzaal, Heerlen, Netherlands

“I’m afraid they will probably be the only European ones this year, although I do get to announce a BRITISH FESTIVAL of some note soon. So……I’m going to bed, but THESE GO ONSALE 9AM ON THE 20TH WHICH IS IN LIKE AN HOUR!” – presidentsrock.com

See the complete 2013 Tour list.

Pusafest 2013 Specials:

The Presidents played three Pusafest special shows, and checkout the traditional Pusabase special (including setlists, videos, photos, posters, press etc.) of each concert:

2013-02-15 – Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR, USA

2013-02-16 – Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA, USA

2013-02-17 – Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA, USA

Presidents of the USA – Epiphone Commercial

Chris Ballew and Andrew McKeag can be seen on the Epiphone 140th Anniversary video:

Caspar Babypants (Chris Ballew) – I Found You! Review

Shame on me, but I still haven’t listened the latest Caspar Babypants album (I got it in advance, and I feel bad that I didn’t do much promotion on my part).

Anyways. See the album review of “I Found You!” at therockfather.com.

PUSA Vinyls!

You know records, LP’s, those large plastic circular thingies. They were cool, uncool, and now cool again:

“we’ll be in touch again soon, because we are going to try some cool stuff this year, like VINYL FRIGGEN RECORDS and stuff….”

New song! Finger Monster!

From the mid 90’s recording sessions, unreleased PUSA song called “Finger Monster” got played at the Pusafest 2013:

Song starts at 2:45.

Presidents of the USA – 2006-05-24 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherland VIDEO:

Once again I feel bad for not sharing this concert recording earlier. Thankfully the Youtube now allows videos longer than 15minutes. Here’s the whole Presidents of the USA Paradiso concert from 2006! I know it’s not the typical 1080p super-hyper-quality I tend to upload. I had the original Flash download on my HD, and just uploaded as it is! I might come back with edited higher definition version… Enjoy this 360p while waiting. (but don’t hold your breath!)

Video: 2006-05-24 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherland

Video Killed the Radio Star / Tiki Lounge God / Kitty / Highway Forever / Boll Weevil / Improvisation (Working On My Drumset) Feather Pluckn / Lump / Zero Friction / Froggy / Munky River / Volcano / Some Postman / Dune Buggy / Mach 5 / Back Porch / Peaches / Kick Out the Jams / Jennifer’s Jacket / Love Everybody / Candy / We Are Not Going to Make It

Chris Ballew (PUSA, Caspar Babypants) Discusses Video Content | Anchor Line

The Presidents Of The United States Of America – Ghosts Are Everywhere (Full Band Cover)

Not the typical choice for the cover. I like it:

Hey Geronimo – Pizzas (live) – Peaches cover:

My Own Private Plebeian Breaker – Kitty (The Presidents of the United States of America)

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PUSAfest 2013 Day 3 – Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA, USA

February 18, 2013 PUSA base PUSA

The Presidents of the USA – 2013-02-17 – Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA

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The Presidents Of The United States Of America with Campfire OK, Aaron Daniel’s One Man Banned, Godfrey Daniel’s and The Red Balloon

Date: February 17, 2013
Location: “PUSAfest 2013”, Showbox at the Market, Seattle, WA, USA

Setlist & Videos:

 

Boll Weevil
Kitty (Video #1)
Mixed Up S.O.B.
Feather Pluckn
Drool at You
Some Postman
Back Porch
Lump
More Bad Times / Praise you
Last Girl on Earth
Dune Buggy
Poor Turtle
Candy
Finger Monster
Love Everybody
Munky River
Tiny Explosions
Deleter
Tiger Bomb
Peaches (Video #1 clip)
We Are Not Going to Make It (Video #1)

Encore:

Video Killed The Radio Star
Ghosts are Everywhere
Kick Out the Jams

Supersonics (Video #1 distorted)?

Note: Setlist incomplete!

Press, Reviews and other:

From Presidents to Babypants, Seattle’s Chris Ballew rocks all ages (Chris Ballew Interview) – mynorthwest.com
The Presidents Will Debut a Never-Before-Heard Song This Weekend at The Showbox (About the Sunday gig) – blogs.seattleweekly.com

Looking back on Presidents’ Day with Campfire Ok and PUSA – seattlemusicinsider.com

Presidents of the USA – Tiny Explosions free MP3 download:

Photos:

Presidents of the USA Live at Showbox @ The Market (2/17/13) (GALLERY) – facebook.com

Looking back on Presidents’ Day with Campfire Ok and PUSA (Photo Slideshow) – seattlemusicinsider.com

 

 

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