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members Brendan Kelly (

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and vocals) and Neil Hennessy on

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(vocals and bass) and The Loved Ones’

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(guitar and vocals).

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played guitar on the 2004 ''God Don't Make No Trash or Up Your Ass with Broken Glass'' EP but could not attend the recording session for the band's first full length ''

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'', and his spot was temporarily filled in by Kelly and Hennessy prior to Hause appearing on

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History

Kelly, the creative force behind the band, has said in interviews that the line-up would almost definitely change in order to tour successfully. Specifically, he cited Andriano's role in Alkaline Trio as making the bass player's availability for touring limited. Kelly and Andriano previously played together from 1993-1996 in the ska/punk band

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. In December 2004, the band released the EP ''God Don't Make No Trash -or- Up Your Ass With Broken Glass''. An interesting trait of the EP is that, like the name of the EP, each song has two different names in a style mimicking that of

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episode titles. The EP received a number of positive reviews. On September 26, 2006, the band released their first full-length album ''

''. The album has a very fast paced, hard sound with strong raspy vocals, in comparison to

older works, and is more similar in tone and style to their 2006 album, ''Oh! Calcutta!''. The album also features re-recorded versions of the songs "I'm So Happy I Could Just Cry Myself to Sleep -or- The Routes We Wander" and "Building the Perfect Asshole Parade -or- Scratching Off the Fleas", both of which were originally featured on the band's 2004 God Don't Make No Trash or Up Your Ass with Broken Glass EP. In 2007 they made their first music video for the song "The La-Z-Boy 500." Eli Caterer of Smoking Popes joined the band in September 2007 for a tour with

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. At an intimate show at the borderline in London on July 7, 2012, Brendan Kelly and Dan Andriano admitted Sam Russo into the band as touring guitarist and backing vocalist. On March 21, 2015,

announced that he had joined the band in his e-newsletter.

Discography

Releases

* ''God Don't Make No Trash or Up Your Ass with Broken Glass'' (2004 EP,

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) * ''

'' (2006 album, Red Scare Industries) * ''

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'' (2016 album, Red Scare Industries)

Music videos

Compilations

* '' Protect: A Benefit for the National Association to Protect Children'' (2005,

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) **Includes "Building The Perfect Asshole Parade -or- Scratching Off The Fleas" from ''God Don't Make No Trash or Up Your Ass with Broken Glass'' * '' Take Action! Volume 5'' (2007,

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) **Includes "The La-Z-Boy 500" from ''Unicornography'' * ''

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'' (2007,

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) **Includes "Blackout" from ''Unicornography'' * '' Red Scare Industries: 10 Years Of Your Dumb Bullshit '' (2014,

) **Includes the exclusive "We Are the Bald"

Uses in media

The song "Blackout" was featured in the 2007

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''.

References

External links

Official Site of the Lawrence Arms

Official Site of the Alkaline Trio

Red Scare Records

Punknews.org Profile of the Falcon (Interviews, Reviews)

Link to Brendan Kelly interview

Vinyl Collective Co-Operative
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