Cartoon Violence

Cartoon Violence is largely my friend Blake and I. We’ve known each other since sixth grade and have dabbled in musical projectery many times. Cartoon Violence is our attempt to take that dabbling into the doing phase and started with an RPM project in 2008 which became our demo, Beer and Pickles. About half the songs from that demo have migrated into our live set in one form or another and have been joined by new songs yet to be released.

We have been playing shows lately with my teen punk idols, Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits in Oakland and look forward to many more. We are working our songs into a polished enough form to go record our first studio album. Currently this involves me working out arrangements and practicing drum parts since we appear to be suffering from Spinal Tap Drummer Syndrome. We have had three drummers so far for various shows, practices, and recording sessions, none of which has stuck around.

We are currently in the TMBG phase, that is two dudes backed by casio keyboards, drum machines, computers, and other whatsits. We would love to have a full band to play our songs with, but the people we enjoy playing with never have the time. So for now, we will be using various children’s toys and parlor tricks to simulate the experience of more musicians.