The Dirty Pickles Spook NYC on Halloween and Rock the Socks Off of the 2009 NYC Marathon.
An account by Paul Shallenberger - Pickle Roadie and One of Our Biggest Fans
If you could catch lightning, hot glowing green, which way would you point it? If you had a seed accidentally planted at the northern edge of nowhere, sprouting, wriggling and writhing its way, where would you guide its vines? To New York City Man! Okay, drop the flowery metaphors and kick out the jams! A "budding", (Oops!), rock band from a forgotten working class city like Erie Pennsylvania can so easily remain there till they "wither" (Again, sorry) on the vine. But not if said plant/band can't help but flourish like a weed or outgrow its pot! MATTY B AND THE DIRTY PICKLES are this band! Too mean and too green, they're growing up and out and pointing themselves your way!
Rock Erie Music Awards 2009
Matty B and the Dirty Pickles have been nominated in this year's Rock Erie Music Awards for best alternative band. Their album, 'Picklebilly', is up for album of the year as well as 'The Way it Goes' for best song of the year. The Pickles will be performing their nominated song live at the award show on September 27, 2009 at the Bayfront Convention Center.
Photo by Chris Cambell
Update:
Watch a video from the show!
2008 New York City Marathon
Matty B and the Dirty Pickles just rocked out NYC this weekend, Saturday night at Uncle Mike's club in Tribeca, courtesy of Turnstyle Music, and then on Sunday at the 2008 NYC Marathon. After avoiding crisis Sunday morning, the boys rocked out hard for 4 hours in the freezing cold to support the runners. They were ecstatically greeted and cheered on as 39,000 people ran past and stopped for pictures and high fives from the group! In October, they opened for the 2nd time for the Misfits in Cleveland, OH.
Picklebilly
The Dirty Pickles just released their first full-length album Picklebilly. Check it Out!
Read what Dr. Rock of the Erie Times-News had to say about the album.
Also in August, Matty B and the Dirty Pickles won the Rock Erie Award for best Alternative Rock Band!! Congrats guys!!
Tonight, the music lives
September 07, 2007
Starting September 7th through the 22nd, the Dirty Pickles with original drummer Matt Kickin' Korytowski will perform as Buddy Holly and the Crickets in the Roadhouse theater's new musical biography "Buddy Holly: The Day the Music Died". The show will be performed on Friday and Saturday nights so come out and support the Pickles' first attempts to work a theater crowd. Check our [shows] page for dates and times.
[Click here to read the article that ran in today's edition of the Erie Times-News.]