The story behind “Karma”

As you know, almost all of the songs we write tell stories. We want to share those stories with you.  Just as we did for our first two records (see the stories behind the songs on our first CD 13 and the songs on our second CD Again), we’ll post the story behind each song […]

The story behind “Monkey in The Middle”

As you know, almost all of the songs we write tell stories. We want to share those stories with you.  Just as we did for our first two records (see the stories behind the songs on our first CD 13 and the songs on our second CD Again), we’ll post the story behind each song […]

Ready for Richmond: See you Saturday at the Tin Pan

  We’ve got two sets. We’ve got new songs. We’ve got a blister on our little finger, and a blister on our thumb. See you THIS SATURDAY NIGHT at the Tin Pan in Richmond, VA. Road Trip! The Tin Pan is a great place to see a show, have dinner, and enjoy some craft cocktails. […]

New Music in Richmond: The Bitter Liberals at the Tin Pan SATURDAY June 30

We’ve been building set lists including eleven new songs to debut at our Richmond show Saturday June 30th.  We hope you can join us at the Tin Pan.  The venue is one of our favorite places to play—a great listening room with outstanding cocktails, great food, and a warm atmosphere. Please help us spread the […]

The Bitter Liberals Play Richmond Saturday June 30th

We are super pleased and excited to officially announce our upcoming show in Richmond on June 30th (a Saturday) at the Tin Pan. We’ve played the Tin Pan many times, and absolutely love the venue. Great cocktails and live original music, what’s not to like? Here is a poster for the show designed by April […]

Eleven Songs

Well well well. Turns out that the Bitter Liberals have 11 new unrecorded songs in the pile. You know what that means, right? Time to get into the studio and record them! We are having a great time in the new configuration, and our writing has been deeply influenced by our killer new Bitter Liberals […]

This Week’s Musica Snowed Out

So much for the first day of Spring! You may recall that we call Bitter Liberals band practice “musica” so that we don’t have to say “practice.” By any name, there was none due to an actual real snow storm. About 4 inches of snow and still coming down pic.twitter.com/jFLk3uuyZt — noplasticshower (@noplasticshower) March 21, […]

On Cocktails and the Bitter Liberals

Rumor has it that our band is named after a cocktail. That’s at least partway true. Our “band cocktail” is called the Liberal. You can even see the Liberal represented graphically on our stickers. The only challenge with the Liberal is that it requires something called Amer Picon. Nobody imports that into the United States, […]

Secrets and Lies

There are two secrets. 1. You can already get tickets for our early summer Richmond show at the Tin Pan here http://bit.ly/BL-tinpan18. We love playing the Tin Pan. This week one of our favorite performers, Aimee Mann, played there. Here’s what we had to say about that on twitter: Pretty cool to know that @aimeemann […]