Last Show

Our last show was perfect. We could not have asked for a better evening. Thank you all. We love you!

Come Out, Support a Wonderful Cause, and Say Farewell

One week from tomorrow, our band will bid Fort Wayne farewell and we will begin a new chapter in a different incarnation as a music project. Come on out and say goodbye! We are lucky to be playing this show with Timber!!! In addition to this, all of the proceeds go to The AIDS Task Force.

This project has always meant a whole lot to me and it will continue to grow and expand. Thanks to Bob, Zach, and Phil, House of Bread has surpassed any goals or expectations I ever had for the project. I look forward to making music in the future with these guys as House of Bread. Thanks to technology, it looks like we will be able to keep HOB alive between NYC and Fort Wayne. We will keep you posted and be as productive as ever. Thank you for your continued support. We love you.
-Omar Afzaal

Support Vive Le Rouge

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

April 27 will be House of Bread's last show. We will be playing with Timber!!! at CS3. 

Thanks to technology, I fully intend on keeping the project alive with Bob, Zach, and Phil long distance. Although the way the band operates will drastically change, I still feel passionate about we have done in the past and what we can do in the future. House of Bread will never be put on a back burner and will always exist in one form or another.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us in the past. We will see you next month!
-Omar

Shows

Upcoming Shows!

• Feb 02
  The Brass Rail w/ Free Energy
  Fort Wayne, IN
• Feb 08
  The Tiger Room (cs3) Calhoun Street Soups Salads & Spirits w/ Husband & Wife, Plural Pines
  Fort Wayne, IN
• Feb 22
  C2g Music Hall w/ Heaven's Gateway Drugs & The Sacred Broncos
  Fort Wayne, IN
  
  

Whammy Nomination

We are honored to be nominated for two Whammys this year. Please click on the link to vote for Hypnic Jerk as album of the year and for us in the "Performer of The Year" category. Thanks!
You can vote here.

Year in Review: 2012

   Needless to say, 2012 was a huge year for House of Bread. First and most importantly, we successfully released our 4th album on vinyl with the help of many supporters and we cannot thank you all enough!  I started this project 7 years ago without a single bit of ambition set aside for the idea, I really have to thank Bob for setting my mind straight about the the music. Without him, I think I would've continued to record half-assed noise-pop albums. It's almost jarring to me that we wrote, recorded, mixed, re-mixed, mastered, and pressed an album to vinyl with the help of a bunch of people who wanted to hear our record. Totally crazy. So yeah, the vinyl release of Hypnic Jerk tops my "Best Things That Happened During 2012" list. Now that that's out the way, let's move on. Bob and I were also super excited and lucky to add Phil Arbogast and Zach Smith to our lineup. We are better band because of these dudes and cannot thank them enough.We then spent the summer, fall, and part of winter recording 22 cover songs as a thank you to many fans who donated toward our release of Hypnic Jerk. Thanks to everyone for making 2012, The Year of Bread. Now here's some highlights:

Omar's Top 40 Albums of 2012

40. Hot Chip - In Our Heads

39. Peaking Lights - Lucifer

38. Pallbearer - Sorrow & Exinction

37. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance

36. Grimes - Visions

35. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man

34. Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune

33. Cian Ciaran - Outside In

32. DIIV - Oshin

31. The Sea & Cake - Runner

30. Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves

29. A Place To Bury Strangers - Worship

28. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky

27. Menomena - Moms

26. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

25. Dan Deacon - America

24. Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool

23. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy

22. Japandroids - Celebration Rock

21. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

20. Lee Ranaldo - Between The Times and The Tides

19. Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill

18. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory

17. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

16. Ty Segall - Twin Sister

15. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II

14. Zammuto - Zammuto

13. Deerhoof - Breakup Song

12. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar

11. Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

10. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon

9. Grizzly Bear - Shields

8. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart, Sweet Light

7. Swans - The Seer

6. Woods - Bend Beyond

5. The Walkmen - Heaven

4. Tame Impala - Lonerism

3. Beach House - Bloom

2. Twin Shadow - Confess

1. Wild Nothing - Nocturne


Best Tracks of 2012
Wild Nothing - Paradise
The Sea & Cake - Harps
Timber!!! - Eye Care
James Iha - To Who Knows Where
Tame Impala - Elephant
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Mladic
Lotus Plaza - Monoliths
Spiritualized - Too Late
Twin Shadow - Beg For The Night
Woods - Cali In A Cup
Sun Kil Moon - Sunshine In Chicago
Thee Oh Sees - So Nice
Menomena - Capsule
Grizzly Bear - Yet Again
The Walkmen - Song For Leigh
Hot Chip - Motion Sickness
Dan Deacon - Prettyboy
Smashing Pumpkins - Pale Horse
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Hairspray Heart

Zach's Favorites of 2012 (In No Particular Order)

Music:

DIIV - Oshin

Tanlines - Mixed Emotions

Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky

Twin Shadow - Confess

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

Grizzly Bear - Shields

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Wild Nothing - Nocturne

Menomena - Moms

Film (my list is stunted and there is much I still need to see):

Skyfall

Avengers

Looper

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Lincoln

Bob's Throwback Tracks & Albums of 2012

1.The Final Cut- Pink Floyd

2. Regret- New Order

3. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart- Al Green

4. 7- Prince 

5. I'm on Fire- Bruce Springsteen

6. Naked- Talking Heads

7. Empire State- Fleetwood Mac

8. All This Time- Sting

9. Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins

10. Aint Even Done With the Night- John Cougar

Phil's Best of 2012

10. Death Grips - The Money Store

9. Grimes - Visions

8. Child Bite - Monomania

7. Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship

6. Don Caballero - Gang Banged With A Headache, And Live

5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

4. Swans - The Seer

3. Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar

2. Joining House of Bread and releasing a record!

1. Marrying my beautiful wife!

LP Release

Hypnic Jerk Release Show Announcement

The day has finally come and we cannot be more thankful to you for making this vinyl release a reality!

Hypnic Jerk will be released into the wild on November 30. Thunderhawk and Outdoor Velour will be joining us to round out the night!

Those who pre-ordered the album through our Kickstarter will be able to pick up the album at the show (we'll deliver them to you if you can't make it). 

We will also be raising money for the local organization, H.O.P.E. for Animals. An art auction will also be held for this organization. More information will be made available soon.

Not only have we announced our LP release show. We are also working on the last cover request of this ridiculous project we've been busy with since June (this particular song is 17+ minutes long). This one is for Zach's dad, Ronald Arnold S

mith.

In the meantime, be sure to check out our album release show, and dig the 21 (it'll be 22 by the end of the week) covers we've recorded for some of our most dedicated fans. Thanks to you all! We're super pumped about ending this year on a really positive note.

Also, you can now order physical or digital copies of our forthcoming LP, Hypnic Jerk on our bandcamp page. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

-Omar, Bob, Phil, and Zach

LP Release Show Announcement

We are proud to announce that we will be releasing Hypnic Jerk to the masses on November 30 at the CS3 Tiger Room in Fort Wayne, IN. Fellow Indiana bands, Thunderhawk and Outdoor Velour will be joining us!

In the meantime, we have been busy continuing our cover song collection, Keeper of The Earth. We only have three more to go!

We are also still taking pre-orders of Hypnic Jerk here.

In the coming weeks we will unveil the t-shirt designs and other treats that we'll be packaging alongside the album.

Hypnic Jerk Update In Grainy Pictures

We are getting the final pieces of the vinyl in place and working with area venues to book an extra-special LP release show. So excited over here!

Sleeves are here!

...and they're gorgeous.


Here is cover request #16! Alysen Wade requested "Midnight Radio" performed by the fictional band, Hedwig & The Angry Inch from John Cameron Mitchell's rock opera of the same name.



Also, congratulations to our drummer Phil Arbogast and Christy Scott! Today is their wedding day! We will not be recording a cover next week. We will be resuming our last 6 weeks of cover requests during the first week of October. Have a great weekend.

Mötley Crüe/Brass Rail Show

Last week we recorded our 12th cover for our collection of Kickstarter requests entitled, Keeper of The Earth. This one was for Christy Scott, Phil's fiancé. Phil took some liberties with the lyrics of the second verse. This was due to the douchebag-esque contents of the original.

We hope you enjoy!

We're working on our 13th cover this week and it's for John Hartman. 

This Friday, we will be playing a show with some local heavy hitters.

Kickstarter Cover 11 of 21

Here is our 11th cover of our Kickstarter cover series entitled, Keeper of The Earth. Jon Kopecky requested that we do a rendition of the James Brown classic, "I Got You (I Feel Good)"

Inititally we were blindsided by the request and did not know what direction to take it in at all. It was Zach's idea to make it into a smoked out stoner jam. Luckily, Bob had the pipes to match the feel (pun intended). Here are the results:

FWMoA Show

Vinyl Progress

Listening to the Hypnic Jerk reference vinyl as I type this and I'm totally stoked on it. We cannot wait to share it with you all!

Keeper of The Earth keeps growing.

We've added our covers of "Climax" by Usher (for Dani Orchard) and "Canada" by Low (for Jeremy Weiks and Aly Hess). You can stream/download songs from our collection of covers, Keeper of The Earth to the right. Cover #7 of 21 should be posted this week as we await the arrival of Hypnic Jerk. Thanks!

Hypnic Jerk Pre-Orders/Online Discography

Just a quick update: We now have the entire House of Bread discography available to stream/download on our bandcamp.

Also, if you missed the Kickstarter-train, we are taking pre-orders on the bandcamp as well.

Stay tuned, cover #5 of 21 will be released within the next few days. It's for Dani Orchard and we think it's gonna be a hit.

Update

So, as we're waiting for Hypnic Jerk to be pressed to vinyl, we've been super busy working on the 21 (!) covers that have been requested of us from our Kickstarter project. We recently just finished our 4th. As a sneak peak, we'll post the original version of the song (which actually isn't the original song) here. Our cover will debut this Friday. Our cover was requested by, and dedicated to Adam and Kate Miller. We love you guys.




In addition to this, we're playing with a few great bands at The Brass Rail in a few weeks:

Also, here's a link to our collection of covers entitled, Keeper of The Earth, so far: