Coming to a venue near you....

Well, some exciting things happening on the DTB front! First of all, we are getting our set list really tight so that we can play for ALL our adoring fans in Los Angeles.We've also put together an acoustic trio so that we can play smaller, more intimate venues. This smaller group includes Carissa, Kevin, and Ellis. The songs sound fantastic and have really given new life to the songs we all know and love. I know what you are thinking: "how do I get updates on this fabulous band and their gigs?". Well, you can join our blog by becoming a "follower". Just scroll down the right-hand side of our blogsite and click on the "Join this Site" button.

To wet your appetite for DTB, below we have a few photos captioned by our very own Kevin...

Ellis contemplates whether lead-filled bongos were such a wise investment.

"I swear if Kevin says 'spank those bongos' one more time, I'll shoot him. No, I'll kill him. Then I'll shoot him."

Even with the headphones up all the way blasting AC/DC's 'Highway To Hell', Kevin still cannot drown out Ellis' bongo playing.

Kevin: "I swear to you guys - if I look at just the right angle I can see a little man living inside my guitar. I'm not kidding. Hey! He just waved at me!"

Ellis: "Ummm, Carissa....what did you put in those sausages?"

For certain, undisclosed reasons,  Don’t Tell Betsy very rarely schedules a rehearsal for a night with a full moon. (This photo captioned by Darrell and compliments of That British Place Rehearsal and Recording Studios.)

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Our New Single!!!! - Hear It Now!!!

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And here it is!!  A free trial listening.  What could be fairer than that?



And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Drum Roll Please....

She Already Knows is up on iTunes and Amazon. Download today for endless plays of your new favorite DTB single!

And while you are downloading this single, be sure to download our other 3 singles:

On My Mind: iTunes
The Way I Do: iTunes * Amazon
The Undead: iTunes * Amazon

Shabby Road Studios Presents!! Don’t Tell Betsy – On My Mind

We finally have a new song ready to release to you, our dearest public! We may never know its like again. This, is rock and roll at its finest. It takes no prisoners. It makes no excuses. It sweats and bleeds like a Cathy Lee Gifford sweat-shop worker.
Ears have been specifically designed to receive the kind of aural information that we have produced to perfection in this recording. We spent decades researching this before we wrote and recorded a note of this song.  We took advantage of every new technology.  Thus, this song can be heard at many different levels, depending on what volume you set your computer speaker to. It’s multi-purpose, multi-platform and multi-orgasmic with a crossover format potentiality that dwarfs all known and yet to be unforeseen media platform, crossover purposes.
So without further ado, or pre-now momentary highlighting, here is the band, the song, the movement, the legend. (It’s also quite catchy!)
And after watching this classic video, please pass it on to friends and family so that we can become as big as Rebecca Black.



If you'd like to purchase this wonderful song, please click on the cute little icon below. Buy it friends, neighbours and the pets of your neighbours. Goldfish can be surprisingly musical, once you get to know them.



We’d also like to take this opportunity to welcome our newest member, keyboardist, Johan Sendjaja.

Also: Many thanks to Daniel K. for his invaluable instrumental and mixing contributions to the song. If you need stuff mixed, go to this guy. He can do it over the internet!


We’d also like to thank Aaron T. for his magical fingers on the piano and other keys ont his song. Aaron also does amazing keyboard arrangements and recordings over the internet. Hire him yourselves!


And monster thanks to Barry Fasman of Sanctuary Entertainment for his immeasurable help with recording the vocals and harmony arrangements. You have to be in L.A. to use his fantastic know-how but he will send you very rude emails, free of charge, over the internet.


PLUS!!!

Here is the latest Death of the Author Brigade video.

Simple Song


And here’s the latest song by Death of the Author Brigade:

'Boy Next Door' is a bouncy little tune about a girl taking "Being Neighborly" to the next level. Who lives across the lawn from you?



And here is Don’t Tell Betsy’s latest video. Enjoy the spectacle.


Plus!!! Here is the seventh spectacular Don’t Tell Betsy promo for our upcoming video: Collect them!

Plus!! Don't Tell Betsy's brand new single, "The Way I Do". Give it a listen.





If you'd like to own this song, it be available below.














And on I-tunes

Download "The Way I Do" from iTunes:

The Way I Do

Don't Tell Betsy

Shabby Road Studios About to Premiere New Song

Get ready folks!  A brand new Don't Tell Betsy song is about to make its debut.  Seventeen hundred studio hours in the making, this song promises to be everything that Andy Dick isn't.  No expense was spared in bringing you this recording that you're not going to hear in this blog.  But boy, when you do hear it, you're gonna say, "Wow! That is nothing like Andy Dick at all".  And you'll be right.  So without further ado, here are some pictures of Shabby Road Studios during the making of this epic song...which you'll eventually here, but not now.



The purest of waters is but putrefied sludge compared to the noble, blessed, musical heart of our beloved guitarist. That is why 4 out of five doctors recommend drinking Kevin's heart over Evian.



“Oh my God! I just remembered who I had sex with last night.”



Sometimes a man has to stand alone. But it usually takes Ellis two to three hours to realize that he’s standing alone. Then he gets quite lonely.



Although the rest of her is still single, Carissa’s left nostril was married at a very young age.



“Hmmm. If sound can’t travel through a vacuum, why are vacuum cleaners so darned noisy?”



“Seven thousand bands in L.A. and I have to end up with Dick and the three Wads.”



“Oh please, dear Lord. If you could just whack Ellis. He’s so very old and I hear Tommy Lee is single again.”




Ellis seriously considers buying a product called, “Groupie In A Tube.”



This is what the rest of the band looks like to Carissa.



Trying to contain Kevin’s talent in one room, is like trying to hold the wind in your hand. Like trying to kiss a river. Like trying to give nuggies to the moon. Like….ah fuck it, he’s really good.


“If I can just get into these two fuckers’ wills, then I am golden.”



The band’s massive investment in a bra-piercing camera proved to be a huge disappointment.



Carissa checks out the 793 pictures that the band has taken of her during rehearsal, trying to find one that includes her face.



This pretty well fucking says it all.

Here is the latest Death of the Author Brigade video.

Simple Song


And here is Death of the Author Brigade’s brand new song.

'Boy Next Door' is a bouncy little tune about a girl taking "Being Neighborly" to the next level. Who lives across the lawn from you?



And here is Don’t Tell Betsy’s latest video. Enjoy the spectacle.


Plus!!! Here is the seventh spectacular Don’t Tell Betsy promo for our upcoming video: Collect them!

Plus!! Don't Tell Betsy's brand new single, "The Way I Do". Give it a listen.





If you'd like to own this song, it be available below.














And on I-tunes

Download "The Way I Do" from iTunes:

The Way I Do

Don't Tell Betsy

Shabby Road Studios returns to Sanctuary Entertainment

Well folks, Don’t Tell Betsy was back at Sanctuary Entertainment and we weren’t taking any prisoners. We are deep, deep, deep into the recording of two new songs. (She Already Knows and On My Mind) Thousands of man hours have been spent to ensure that you, the listening public, get the finest musical product modern technology and 73 dollars will buy. Now you are about to gaze upon the glory that is musical Rome.



Just before we start the recording session, Barry takes one last look at his bank account online to see if he really has to put up with these assholes for the next 4 hours.



While on a small break, Carissa is suddenly transported back to her nightly fantasies about the Tin Man’s hat funnel.



Kevin stands resplendent and calm. The wisdom of the Gods lay beneath his sublimely quaffed pate. There are no words to describe, nor song to adequately herald his ultimate supremeness.



Ellis waits for just the right moment, to jump up like an avenging angel and sucker-punch Barry in the back of the head.



Big D. tries to figure out how much the band would save on the session if he stole all the toilet paper from Barry’s studio bathroom.



“Where the fuck did they find a goat in Encino?”


Darrell suddenly realizes that the goat video wasn’t going to work and it was now eating Barry’s Pekinese.




This is the only way Carissa can record her vocals and keep members of the band from licking her.



“Hey Barry, I think your gold clock is busted, man?”




“For some reason, my boobs smell like Aspercreme.”



Darrell and Ellis wait for the perfect moment to tell Barry that they don’t have any money.



“Boy, if I were David Carradine, I could just chop his fucking head off with my hand and fill up this empty coke bottle with his spurting blood!”



Ellis dreams of a day when he’s so famous that he can always dress like Corporal Lebeau from Hogan’s Heroes.



The morning sun only rises so that it may catch a glimpse of his comely countenance. The moon and the mighty ocean work in tandem so that the tide may humbly lap at his blessed feet. Though empires may rise and fall and towering fortresses crumble to dust, the name of Kevin shall forever remain in the hearts of man.



Carissa after three drinks.


Carissa after three and a half drinks.


And here is Don’t Tell Betsy’s latest video. Enjoy the spectacle.


Plus!!! Here is the seventh spectacular Don’t Tell Betsy promo for our upcoming video: Collect them!

Plus!! Don't Tell Betsy's brand new single, "The Way I Do". Give it a listen.





If you'd like to own this song, it be available below.














And on I-tunes

Download "The Way I Do" from iTunes:

The Way I Do

Don't Tell Betsy

Promo #6



Promo #5