“These guys can rock and scream….a strong full-length.”
- Maximum Rock N’ Roll(about Senior Discount's "There Were Four Who Tried...") “The band really acts out their emotions….Every track from the album is an anthem to punk rock’s principles.”
-AbsolutePunk.net(about Senior Discount's "There Were Four Who Tried...")
Senior Discount is a punk/pop-punk band from Providence, Rhode Island. Winning Best Punk Band two years in a row in the Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll 2007 and 2008 (click each articles to read ) and selling out the premiere for their first full-length movie in a 350-person capacity theatre Senior Discount continues to prove their worth and build their fanbase all around New England with their energetic live show, diverse sense of writing, and the continual release of their hilarious episodic videos that help them reach more and more people every day.
Their first full-length album, "There Were Four Who Tried..." received critical acclaim (album info and reviews here), and their infamous videos have earned them over 20,000 views on Youtube and Dailymotion combined (all videos available here).
Senior Discount has shared with the stage with such bands as Gym Class Heroes, A Wilhelm Scream, Just Surrender, Boys Like Girls, the Street Dogs, The Ataris, Bad Larry, Monty Are I, Daly's Gone Wrong, Big D and the Kids Table, Brain Failure, Zox, Catch 22, Darkbuster, Stealing Jane, Rehab, River City Rebels, Someday Providence, Mickey Avalon, Streetlight Manifesto, Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys, the Bloodshot Hooligans, Tip The Van, MC Lars, Badfish, Mastamindz, Whole Wheat Bread, Suburban Legends, Patent Pending and many more.
Senior Discount is looking to play out and tour as much as possible, now that all the college-bound members have graduated with varying degrees including Elementary Education, Political Science, Communications and Film.
If you'd like a more in-depth explanation of Senior Discount please check out the two-page spread about them in the New York magazine Perpetual Toxins
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A Senior Discount fan, Adam Machado, has made a Youtube video collage of all pictures of Senior Discount, using Senior Discount lead singer Chuck Staton's acoustic song "Fiddlestick Encore" - check it out!
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Tues June 3, 2008
LIVE SENIOR DISCOUNT COMEDY SHOW! GET TICKETS NOW!
I don’t know who knows this and who doesn’t yet, but basically, Senior Discount is doing a live comedy show. Think of the videos, but live. It’s sketch comedy, and a little improv and stand-up. It’s really going to be a special, awesome thing. We’re working really hard on it and it’s going to be rowdy and funny.
There are only 100 tickets total.
50 tickets for each night, two nights.
You can pick up tickets by emailing Sousa by going to www.SousasComedyBonanza.com, or by messaging S*D on Myspace, or bycalling Tom Wells at 401-301-2250
Tom Wells will also be working at the Seekonk FYE selling tickets on:
Wednesday (June 4th) from 9 AM - 9 PM
Thursday (June 5th) from 9 AM - 5 PM
Friday (June 6th) from 9 AM - 5 PM
These two shows are definitely going to sell out so please get tickets ASAP! Please repost this so that the real S*D fans get the tickets!
Sun May 11, 2008
S*D WINS AGAIN/HUGE HOMESHOW WITH CLOSE FRIENDS!
So we won the Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll 2008 for Best Punk Band! This is the second year in a row we've won it and it's all thanks to you guys voting for us and helping us out! Thanks alot! Read the article by clicking it above for a bigger version!!!
We've also got a BRAND NEW practice space!!! You can check out the pics on our myspace by clicking here - for some reason we have complete control over a huge office building with a main room big enough for three bands to practice in, a front desk, a kitchen, two bathrooms, and 11 full-size offices. Why do we have it??? We're not quite sure but check out the pics!!!
Also, we'll be playing with Someday Providence, Lemon Lime Tennis Shoes, and Stealing Jane at TWO huge shows coming up - one in New Hampshire (May 17th) and one CRAZY homeshow in Providence (May 24th)!! This will be our first big local homeshow with the new line-up, so I hope everyone is ready to come out and hear a BRAND NEW Senior Discount (and I hope everyone's excited to hear the new versions of "I'm Crazy" and "Explode RI") Message us on myspace for tickets by clicking here - or call us for tickets if you need them at 401 - 301 - 2250
So S*D has some new shows coming up, including our HUGE homeshow with our old pals in Penrose and Stealing Jane, as well as our new pals in Intros Never Last! We'll have a new song for you guys at this show and we will be playing our album-closer "WE ALL FALL DOWN" (flyer at the bottom of this post)
Here are our shows!
March 11th - Boston @ the Midway Cafe w/ Taj Motel Trio and In Discretion - ALL AGES!
March 20th - Somerville/Boston, MA @ the Abbey Lounge - 21+
March 29th - Saratoga, NY @ The VFW 420 w/ Sugar Eater - ALL AGES
April 11th - RHODE ISLAND HOMESHOW AT THE LIVING ROOM IN PROVIDENCE!!!
Hope to see you guys there!
BTW - big changes in Senior Discount coming soon. BIG changes. Stay tuned!
So we have updated our myspace to include our news page, as well as links to our Biographies, All Videos, F.A.Q.s, Merch and our Reviews! We realized that myspace, although it is where go to read about bands they like, is pretty limited in info compared to our website, so we wanted to make sure all the people who are myspace-only when visiting band sites, get to see everything about us!
So people who don't normally go to our site - EXPLORE!!!! Maybe buy some merch!? ;) ;) ;)
We hope you guys enjoy it!
Hey fellas! We know we haven't updated the site in a while so today we did! We updated the Reviews page with our articles from the Providence Phoenix and Perpetual Toxins, as well as added all our newer videos to the Videos section! Go check em out!
We also have some new show dates:
Jan 28th, Boston, MA - S*D, Faulty Conscience, Death By Fame, and Crash Midnight @ the Middle East (and for some reason, Ticketmaster is selling tickets to this show) Feb 9th, Glen Head, NY - S*D, Daly's Gone Wrong, Patent Pending and Stealing Jane at the Rocklobster DOB Fest - EARLY SHOW! Feb 22nd, Lowell, MA - S*D acoustic with the Ataris acoustic March 7th, Bristol, RI - S*D @ The Topside Lounge
TOUR CANCELLED - S*D AND WHOLE WHEAT BREAD ANNOUNCED
So the tour has been cancelled. This is a sad day for everyone, but as most of you know, our booker promised us a 22 day tour and delivered one when where he booked only 10 days. The 24 hours before we left it became 8 days. Then we showed up for our first show and we weren't even booked there (maybe this was the club's fault - that's besides the point, it was still part of what happenned on tour), and then I personally got an email from another place cancelling a show, so at that point we were down to 7 shows, then we got a text from the booker saying another show was cancelled, leaving us with 6 dates spread all-throughout NY, PA, MD, TN, GA, and FL over a 22 day period.
At this point, we realized that we were driving a van that costs $80 in gas every 300 miles, and were going to get paid (IF we got paid) for 6 shows instead of the projected 22 - meaning we have to pay for 5 people to eat and drive for over three weeks on a salary that consisted of about $600 (which would mean $100 a show, which was NOT going to happen).
So we had to head home.
BUT we did have an awesome 5 days on the road, and we learned alot about living together, touching eachother, and agreeing to unwanted sexual intimacy if it means Tom will stop complaining for five minutes!
We are planning a tour in the Fall, and a smaller tour in the Winter - speaking of which - if you know any good venues to play around the US that are actually VENUES and not BARS or places that are 21+, let us know! - but before then, we have a few tricks up our sleeve (including a very special surprise show this fall, and a new track we just recorded that we are VERY excited about), but the only one being revealed today is this:
Whole Wheat Bread
Senior Discount
Brunt Of It
Joey Herbz
The Unibrows
LIVE @ the Living Room!!!
Saturday, September 8th - 8:00 PM!
We miss all our pals and fans! If you need to contact us for any reason - even just to shoots some shits - message us on myspace at www.myspace.com/seniordiscount !
CLICK "MERCH STORE" ABOVE TO BUY THE S*D DVD OR CD!!!
A Message From Senior Discount: We believe that Myspace music pages are for promotion and spreading knowledge of new bands, and their shows and music. Preventing HTML comments on your band's page is purposely stunting the growth of spreading the word of other bands. We strongly believe in helping other bands promote. We will promote on your page, and welcome you to promote on ours.
That being said, if you post a flyer, or advertisement on our page that is obnoxiously large, it will be deleted.
Keep the flyers small! As long as they're readable and eye-catching, you don't need a whole window filled up with your flyer to get someone to go to your show.
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Hey! Just a reminder, if you haven't dowloaded the new free album, get on it! It's available at www. backstoprecords. com/shop. htm Thanks again for all the support!
