Three willfully geeky guys from New Jersey who play pop punk with speed, power and a mighty smirk (which occasionally belies the fact they sometimes mean what they say), the Ergs (or, as they like to call themselves, "The Near-Sighted Three") came together in 2000, with Jeffrey Erg (Jeff Schroeck) on guitar and vocals, Joey Erg (Joe Keller) on bass, and Mikey Erg (Mike Yannich) on drums and lead vocals. The band wasted no time preserving their music for posterity, putting out two self-released CD-R's in their first year as a band, but the group first attracted attention outside their peer group with the five-song Three Guys, Twelve Eyes EP, released by the Whoa Oh label in 2001. In a bid to raise their profile by being sued, the Ergs next issued The Ben Kweller EP in 2002, which borrowed the artwork from Kweller's disc EP Phone Home and featured a song poking less-than-charitable fun at the indie-rock protégé. In 2003, the Ergs put out their first full-length album, Dorkrockcorkrod, which earned enthusiastic reviews in the punk press and spread word about the band outside of their home state. After an initial release on Whoa Oh, the album was picked up by Don Giovanni records, who distributed the Ergs' next EP, 2005's Jersey's Best Prancers (whose title and artwork was a play on the 1997 Lifetime album). In 2006, the group was chosen to back Dave Parasite of The Parasites as he launched a tour to support a Parasites "Best Of" CD, and they signed with Dirtnap Records, who scheduled the band's second full-length album, tentatively called Upstairs/Downstairs, for the spring of 2007.
Mark Deming, allmusicguide.com
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There's some good pop punk happening right now but these guys aren't part of it.
-anonymous
punknews.org
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Ergs logo in blue
on black t-shirt $11ppd
Upstairs/Downstairs
15 song full length LP or CD (Dirtnap Records) $11ppd
Track List: Your
Cheated Heart/ 2nd Foundation/Boston, Mass./ Clocks, The Clocks/It'll Be Ok/Bike
Shoppe/Flourescent Stars/See Him Again/Things I Could Never Find A Way To Say/Hysterical
Fiction/Stinking Of Whiskey Blues/Girls Of The Market Square/ Trouble In River
City/Books About Miles Davis/Upstairs/Downstairs
Jersey's Best Prancers 7 song CD(Don Giovanni Records) $6ppd
Track List: Kind
Of Like Smitten/Short Stories/Aja/Finn/Bridge/Man of Infirmity/Radio K
dorkrockcorkrod
full length 16 song CD (Whoa Oh Records) $11ppd
Track List: First
Song, Side One/Very Pretty Song About Very Special Young Lady pt II/Extra
Medium/Fishbulb/Most Violent Rap Group/Pray for Rain/Saturday Nite Crap-O-Rama/Running,
Jumping, Standing Still/It's Never Going to Be the Same Again/August 19th/Maybe
I'm the New Messiah/Rod Argent/Everything Falls Apart (and More)/Vampire Party/I
Feel Better Tonight/180 degree Emotional Ollie
Ergs/Lemuria split
7" (Whoa Oh Records, Art of the Underground) orange vinyl $5ppd
Track List: Little
Silver Children/Clean/Introducing Morissey/Hey Jealousy
Ergs/Modern Machines
split 7" (Salinas Records) green vinyl $5ppd
Track List: Bus
Stop/She Don't Know That She's Alone/More Vox in the Monitor/Not a Second Time
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You Never Heard in Your Life 7" (More East Records) black vinyl $5ppd
Track List: Flip
Your Wig/Saturday Nite Crap O' Rama (original version)/Caroline/Nervous Breakdown
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