Just kidding, we don’t sign bands, we just jump them into our bicycle gang.

For your own good, check out ASHTRAY, from Santa Rosa, CA. Trust me on this one. Loud, fast, obnoxious and fun. They like old crusty bands like BLATZ and FILTH.

Click “play” to hear one of my favorite songs, “Punk Rock Candy Mountain”!!! From the The Rock n Roll Three-way CD!

Or Download it! [Ashtray_Punk-Rock-Candy-Mountain.mp3 2.8MB]

The most fun I’ve had going to punk shows over the past two years has been at ASHTRAY shows. I wish I had some better pictures of them, but I’m always to busy going nuts to take any good ones, so these are from Liz.

Be friends with Ashtray on MySpace if you’re into that sort of thing. While you’re at it, be friends with us too! Pay attention for an Ashtray full-length in 2008.

Send us interesting pictures with Springman or Silver Sprocket gear, we’ll make you famous.

Nothing Nice To Say stickers available right here. And shirts over here. And new comics!

Please join me in welcoming the newest member to the Springman / Silver Sprocket team: Pelouze!

I rode past some friends while carrying Pelouze in my bicycle basket earlier, and everyone asked what kind of drugs I was selling. As if a scale of this type is accurate enough to sell drugs with!

With Pelouze’s help, the next few days will be spent updating our website to charge you more accurate amounts for shipping. This includes international rates, so you don’t have to click any low-tech funky “extra postage” bullshit anymore. Most of these updates should be working now, but please let us know if you see something not working right or have any questions.
We will start printing our own postage soon, and Pelouze will send you e-mails with tracking information! We’re coming for you Amazon.com. Why the fuck did it take this long for us to get a postal scale? It’s ok, we’re beautiful.

October 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of Sputnik-1. The momentous launch was far from being part of a well-planned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over the West. Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spur-of-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one scientist, whose team scrounged a rocket, slapped together a satellite and persuaded the Kremlin to open the space age. -A.P.

The Phenomenauts are commemorating this turning point in human civilization by unveiling our Latest flagship, The P.S.S. Hawking Cruiser. The maiden voyage on this months Western U.S. Tour will re-open the space age. (special ‘Sputnik Mission’ badge available at these shows.)

Photo: Lauren Garbutt

click here for a listing of Phenomenauts missions through the OR, WA, UT, CO, TX, NV, and CA systems!
11 Oct 2007 – 8:30 @ JOHNNY B

You have no business spending time on our website if you don’t own all of the Bouncing Souls records, they are one of the most important and consistently incredible bands of our generation.
Greg Attonito and his wife Shanti Wintergate played a mind-numbingly awesome acoustic set last Friday at The True Love Coffee Shop in Sacramento. Here is a WAV of them performing “The Something Special”: [3.5MB]

Greg and Shanti are on tour doing readings from their self-released childrens book, I Went For a Walk. This has nothing to do with Silver Sprocket, though Danny Secretion set it up. We just thought you should know.

Lots of updates and more stuff later. Come back Wednesday if you’re brave, it isn’t often that you find a Phenomenaut out of uniform.