Hey, our next show: Wednesday, July 15th, at Reggie's Rock Club, for some ages 17 & over fun! We're on first at 8pm and YOU CAN BUY TICKETS AHEAD OF TIME! Seriously! Be there!

ALSO!

NEW EP! Artwork coming soon.

5-22-09

NEW SINGLE COMING SOON! A new promotional single that we plan on passing out at this year's Wizard World Chicago is almost upon us. It's called "Snickety Snikt Snikt" (or maybe "Likes His Scotch By The Quart") and will feature four 'new' tracks: Wolverine, Iron Man, I Like Revenging (Thomas Jane Edition) and D'OH. I will be posting these MP3s and printable artwork for you to cut out and fold into a CD case so you can show it to your friends and say "I LOVE HIRED GOONS!" That would be awesome. Hopefully we'll have everything by the end of next week!

5-10-09

Star Trek was good.

4-25-09

Hired Goons will be at G-Mart Comics on Saturday, May 2nd, as part of FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. Free Comic Book Day is exactly what it sounds like. Please come on by to pick up your free comics. Then hang around, Goons follow a special performance from New Millennium Theatre at 6pm. G-Mart is at 2641 N. Kedzie in Chicago (Across the street from the Logan Square blue line stop).

4-17-09

Here's the interview. Thanks again to Cooper St. James for the good times!

4-10-09

Hired Goons will be on Chicago's community radio station WLUW, 88.7FM, on April 13th, 10am, as part of the Cooper St. James show (www.cooperstjames.com. Tune in! If you CAN'T tune in, Cooper tends to make some of his broadcasts available on his site.

3-29-09

Extra special thanks to everyone who checked us out at Harlem & Irving's HOT TOPIC on Friday the 27th. An awesome time was had by all...a bummer that Otto couldn't be there, but we're told that there may be future opportunities to play. Since we don't play many all-ages shows (something we'd like to change of course!) we're happy to play at the mall almost any time. Whee!

3-8-09

Last minute addition: we're playing on Sunday, March 15th at Reggie's, their 21 & over stage, 9pm. See the shows page for more details.

Hey, check out this review from the Illinois Entertainer!
Hired Goons pays tribute to "The Simpsons" via catchy punk songs on Everything's Coming Up Milhouse. The band understandably draws inspiration from the Ramones for cartoon tales like "Let's Go To Moe's" and the title track, though "The Homer" also taps into The B-52's. A cover of The Monkees' "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" adds to the fun, and Hired Goons takes on Shakespeare with the clever "I Like Revenging." - Terrence Flamm

Thanks, Terrence!

3-6-09

Thanks to the usual gang of Goonies for coming out last night at Cobra. We did our best and it's tough when you have to follow two bands after they start late so thanks for sticking around, I hope we rocked your socks off, and thanks for the bday wishes to Homer.

Next up: For sure, Homer and Monty (and maybe Kodos) will be doing an acoustic set at Hot Topic at the Harlem & Irving Plaza (aka the Hip) in Norridge, just across the street from Chicago. Take the Irving Park bus all the way down to Harlem or Cumberland and that's where we're rocking out. More details soon, but it's free and we'll be playing some NEW MATERIAL SPECIFICALLY FOR THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR, including some non-Simpsons related subjects. The date is Friday, March 27th, 6pm so get there early and bring money to buy a lot of overpriced t-shirts. Otto will be enjoying some fun and sun in California. Lucky bastard.

Oh, it'll be your last chance to get the physical copy of Vote For Kodos Single so either start downloading it off the music page or show up and get a copy there.

Coming soon: um, a forum.

2-22-09

Well as soon as it was offered, it was taken away; no Goons acoustic show last Friday. But we are preparing a set for such a thing, including new material specifically for it. Yay!

Though I don't want to post demos of EVERY new song we write, I'm excited about The Sea Chantey, which is going to rock your socks off. Homer came up with the music, Monty the words, and it was up to Kodos and Otto to make it the heavy metal monster it has become. If the recording sounds good (we tend to record multiple versions of every new song so that we can hear it over and over and over...) I'll post it.

A REVIEW IS IN! From our friends at Roctober, who also published one of Homer's strips. Here's the review:
Songs about the Simpsons (successfully obsessive) done in the style of the Ramones (sorta). Do I even need to describe any further? Seriously, you need more? They have Simpsons names and do a love song to James Woods' doomed "Grimesy" character.

Well they spelled "Grimey" wrong, and it wasn't James Woods who played Grimey, but "Successfully Obsessive" will be the quote you read from this from now on. Roctober editor Jake Austen is also the man behind the puppet at Chic-A-Go-Go, which we appeared on in January, and you can see that clip in our video page.

I'm adding videos from some previous shows as I type this.

2-16-09

Homer got a little tired of the old page and dealing with the blog-like layout and not being able to change the layout and thus not having what looked like a rock band's site, so he is starting this one from scratch.

There might be an acoustic Goons set on the 20th.