1 WEEK ONLY! You Weren't There : A History Of Chicago Punk 1977 -1984

You snooze you lose... so watch it now! You don't wanna miss this one...

Why'd You Pass The Bum On The Street?! Cuzz He Bothered You?!

Obedient Waves in Pomona

Hi guys.... any Pomona people out there? If so... come out to Aladdin Jr. tomorrow night for a kickass, all ages Obedient Waves show. It's being put on by The Glass House a few doors down & should be massively entertaining. We've been flirting with the idea of adding a bass player back into the mix, so this night will be especially memorable, as our new buddy, Ross, will be sitting in on the last three songs. He's got this whole Les Claypool thing happening and, really, it doesn't get any cooler than that.

Obedient Waves @ Friar Tucks Tonight

Dayum... where does the time go? I can never get to all the things I mean to do in a day & now all this social networking business (that's suppose to HELP my business) is causing even more time suckage than usual. I am truly baffled by how some people do it. How does one take a band to the masses, working at a level that actually pays the bills when there are a million other bands clamoring for the spotlight? Ditto for an artist. Unfortunately, I have both problems, and I don't know how else to be. Obedient Waves is playing Friar Tucks in Pomona in less than two hours and here I am just now putting this flyer up. Bad- starving artist. Bad! Bad!

RUMBLE FiSH CD Release Party

Tonight's the night, boys & girls, to get your hot ass on over to Fern's in Long Beach to help Obedient Waves celebrate the release of our 8th ep in 2 years... RUMBLE FiSH! We'll be playing in the middle of an awesome Face Machine - Mutiny sandwich, and I swear to you on a stack of bibles that it's gonna be a damn good time.

RUMBLE FiSH track list:

1. Holy Roller
2. Phantasm
3. Stunner
4. Angeleno Blues
5. If Love Was More

Obedient Waves at Friar Tucks tonight

We haven't been doing the local thing much this summer & I don't know how local you consider Pomona, but we're playing Friar Tucks tonight. Should be a very fun show. Come & rock out w/us!

xo -Obedient Waves

RUMBLE FiSH

Have you pre-ordered your copy of Obedient Waves' RUMBLE FiSH yet? Well, why the hell not?! At least have a listen. Your ears will thank you...

RUMBLE FiSH : Track List

1. Holy Roller
2. Phantasm
3. Stunner
4. Angeleno Blues
5. If Love Was More

NEW! Punk Rawk

Obedient Waves is working on setting up some shows with three newish punk bands we recently discovered & I thought it'd be a most excellent idea to share them with you all, this fine Saturday morn. They are, in no particular order...


Fay Wrays (Fresno, CA)


Toomstoners (Phoenix, AZ)


Face Machine (Los Angeles, CA)

Holy Roller (lyrics)

I feel like we've been recording & mixing this new record (RUMBLE FiSH) forever, and I'm dying to show it to you. It'll be up on our MySpace on July 15th & available for purchase August 21st but, in the meantime, I can't resist giving you a lil sneaky peak of my favorite track's lyrcis. It's called Holy Roller & it's personal, damn it.

HOLY ROLLER

Holy Roller
Keep your head up your ass
Holy Roller
Preach that shit on mass - yo
Holy Roller
Yeah no thanks but I'll pass
Holy Roller
Holy Roller

Holy Roller
None of us need saving
Holy Roller
It's our blood that your craving
Holy Roller
But your mind's depraving
Holy Roller
Holy Roller

Jesus wants his name back
He's rollin in his grave
Why you talking such smack
It's you you better save
AInt nobody warned you
The truth will set you free
Doin what you're told to
Patriarchy

Holy Roller

Holy Roller

Holy Roller

Holy Roller
Holy Roller

Holy Roller
Self Righteousness
Holy Roller
Never The Less
Holy Roller
Sin in excess
Holy Roller
Holy Roller

Holy Roller
Spreading like a disease
Holy Roller
With that need to please
Holy Roller
Talking all that cheese

Ho-Ho-Ho-Ho-Holy Roller
Holy Roller

Holy Roller
Keep your head up your ass
Holy Roller
Preach that shit on mass - yo
Holy Roller
Yeah no thanks but I'll pass

FREE Punk Show TONiGHT!

We go on just after midnight at The Relax Bar in Hollywood tonight. It's all punk & FREE- our favorite four letter word!

See ya there...
jo/Obedient Waves

p.s. If you haven't nabbed your copy yet, we're still giving away "We Never Liked You Anyway", our latest 3 song ep, also for FREE.

FREE-HEE-HEE...

Thursday with Obedient Waves

You're coming, right?!

Obedient Waves

FREE Shit! Cuzz We're Cool Like That.

(This is a repost from another blog I keep for Obedient Waves on MySpace. You can check that out HERE...)

Well shit... this last month was pretty eye opening in terms of what giving away free music can do. We gave away our latest ep "We Never Liked You Anyway" in exchange for mailing list signups & the results were quite pleasing. In fact, we were so happy to get our tunes in your hot little hands that we were kind of bummed when May was over & our special offer ended. But then we realized- what the fuck? We're an unsigned band and as independent as it gets. We can do whatever the hell we want and change our minds as many times we feel like it and we're gonna. From now until eternity or the next time we change our minds... "We Never Liked You Anyway" is FREE! FREE! FREE! Whoopee! Whoopah! Suck on that, Rupert Murdoch!

Om Song (lyrics)

"OM SONG" - Obedient Waves

om song
i'm taking air in by the yard
om song
i am unthinking but it's hard
om song
i'm stringing daisies in my brain
om song
all this not trying is insane

look at me- I'm so hardcore zen
I can starve myself for days
chanting, panting, pagan, vegan
hold a ready steady gaze
Wrap my ankles up around my neck
And fold my forehead down
Into my lotus-tattooed torso
Listing, twisting out my praise

om song
i'm taking air in by the yard
om song
i am unthinking but it's hard
om song
i'm stringing daisies in my brain
om song
all this not trying is insane

listen up - my words enlighten
when i get into a trance
Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Nichiren
mold my funky spirit dance
blame my body for my naughty deeds
because it's of this world
unlike my light internal presence
housing my eternal soul

om song
om song
om song
om song

(lyrics by : Joanna DeVoe for Obedient Waves)

Ride The Waves w/Obedient Waves

KOSHi, my illustration biz, took a back seat in recent years to Obedient Waves, a crazy-fun punk rock band I write & sing (and, of course, draw) for in & all around L.A. It's become my first love, professionally speaking, and I love that I get to pour all of the different sides of my personality into one amazing project. Billy Gruber's music has made my poems and VERY basic melodies come to life in a way I never could have imagined, and it's so cool to get to perform in front of an audience, design rock posters, make records & videos, and just dream BiG. I do, however, still have this nagging voice inside that's like, "what about KOSHi???" What about it? I think I'm still figuring this out, but I have some ideas & am going to attempt to bring the two together in my own kooky way. So, KOSHi is about to take a very Punk Rock turn & lose some of the pink girlishness that, quite frankly, I've outgrown. Hopefully, you all will take that turn with me.

"To everything... Turn. Turn Turn... There is a season... Turn. Turn. Turn..."

OBEDiENT WAVES