Hey folks. Next Saturday, June 26, we’re stoked to announce our return to Metal Up Your Tap. It’s a great bill: High Spirits, Chapstik (Detroit), Zuul, and yours truly. We’re playing first (around 9:00), so get out there early and check out all these great bands.

Here is the totally rad flyer for the show:

The Red Line Tap is in Rogers Park near the Morse Red Line. 7006 N. Glenwood. $5 to get in.

We’ll be returning back to Cal’s on Friday, 5/28 with Thunderunderus, White Rhino (from Austin), and Wife (from Madison).  This should be a really good time.  You may remember Thunderunderus from the widely publicized 8/8/08 show that we played with them a while back.  This is sure to be a non-stop Rock N Roll party, so be sure not to miss it!  Things should get going around 10.

Cal’s is at 400 South Wells Street.

We’ll be making out Double Door debut on Friday, May 14th with our friends, The Last Vegas.  This should be a really fun show.  The Crank County Daredevils from Asheville, NC and Bitter Wigs from Chicago will also be playing.  Our good buddy DJ Erik will be spinning between sets, as well.

Doors are at 8, and we play first, so be sure to get there by 9PM.  Advance tickets can be purchased here.

Double Door is at 1572 N. Milwaukee Ave, right in the heart of Wicker Park.

This is fucking huge people. Thursday, April 1, we’re going to be at the Cobra Lounge with Slough Feg (from San Francisco) and Bible of the Devil. If you don’t know Slough Feg, you really should. This is going to be a phenomenal show. SF and BOTD are kicking off a US tour that night, so let’s everyone come on out and make it a good one.

You could scroll down and find the address, but here: Cobra Lounge is at 235 N. Ashland.

This Saturday we’ll be playing at Quenchers with the heavy dudes of Knife of Simpson and also the heavy dudes of I Love Rich. Good times. It’s a CD release show for Knife of Simpson so you should come out and buy that shit.

Quenchers is right at Fullerton and Western. Starts around 10 probably.

We’re very excited to be playing the 666th annual Richmass at the Cobra Lounge. If you’re unaware of Richmass, it’s a time-honored Christmas spectacular in which Rich reaches new heights of magnaminity by dressing up as Santa and throwing presents at everyone. They also play their songs. It’s going to be fun as hell, so you should come out and enjoy the holiday spirit in whatever way you think best. As for me, I’ll be celebrating secular humanism and the pursuit of rational inquiry.

I think I heard we were playing first, which means that Come On Come On will hit the stage after that. ILR headlines, of course. It’ll start whenever shows start.

The show is on Wednesday, December 23, and the Cobra Lounge is at 235 N. Ashland, which is just a bit north of Lake.

Hey friends. We’re hitting up Quenchers again on Friday, October 23. If you missed our Metal Up Your Tap show (“I went to go see the Melvins instead,” “it’s all the way up in Rogers Park,” blah blah blah) you should definitely come out to this one. We’ll be joined by Voluntary Mother Earth, who are from fuckin’ Japan, and how often do you get to see a band from fuckin’ Japan? I think it’s happened to me like twice. So that’s gonna be exciting.

Pretty sure there will be a third band, but that is TBD. I’ll update this accordingly.

Quenchers is at 2401 N. Western in Chicago. Things will probably get going around 10.

There’s been a lot of stuff going on in the world of Hay Perro lately, and we are back in business with a bunch of news:

First thing’s first – we thought we’d shake things up a bit and redesign the website. We’ve also added a new merch section, where you can buy stuff directly from us here.

Also, we’re extremely happy to welcome our new bass player, Dan Agosto into the group. We’ve known Dan for as long as Hay Perro has been around, and the more savvy among you will recognize his name as our primary sound engineer from albums past.

Finally, we have a new show coming up this Saturday, the 26th at the Redline Tap. We’re excited to take part in our first Metal Up Your Tap show. We’ll be playing with The Reptoids, Czar, and ((THORLOCK)) from St. Louis. It is guaranteed to be a brutal evening, so be sure to make it out and welcome Dan in his Hay Perro debut.

Redline Tap – 7006 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago, IL

That’s right – we’re finally doing a 7″. It’s a split with our friends the Venom Lords. It rocks pretty hard, and we’re very excited about it. Plus, we did this thing where we saved some money by letting the pressing plant use whatever color of vinyl they wanted to get rid of. So when you buy it, it could be literally any color imaginable. That is some Golden Ticket type of shit right there.

We’ll be releasing the record at Cal’s Liquors on Friday, August 14. Show will probably get going around 10. The Venom Lords will be playing, of course, and we’ll be joined by I Love Rich. So you know it’s going to be a tremendous evening.

However, despite all this amazing shit, the night will be bittersweet. We’re sad to say it will be Ben’s last show with us for the foreseeable future. He’s starting grad school in Ann Arbor next month, which means that the Perro will be on a bit of a hiatus while we figure out where to go from here. This is all the more reason why you need to come to this show. There’ll still be an Hay Perro, but there will no longer be this Hay Perro. So let’s get this done one last time.

This Friday, the 24th, we’ll be heading out West to Gasthaus in Elgin, IL to play with our friends (and Elgin legends), The Repulsators. Also playing are The Bungdoons. It should be a fun night, so head on out and take advantage of Gasthaus’ all you can eat fish fry.

The Gasthaus is at: 15 N. Grove Ave. in Elgin.

Things should get going around 9PM so bring your finest army helmet and get there early!