Weerd Science sold copies all summer long on Vans Warped Tour, where he shared a joint set with MC Lars.  Weerd Science was also the one individual who dared perform TWICE every single day of the June-August tour.  In addition to his Weerd Science set, Josh also performed drums with Terrible Things.  Plus, got to hear Josh sing more on Warped as he covered some of Lars’ hooks, and took over some of Andy Jackson’s lines with Terrible Things.

Josh kept a weekly blog, which was posted to Property of Zack. Read his thoughts from the road on the very first national Weerd Science tour.

A million interviews have surfaced.  A good majority of them have been posted on the Josh Eppard Facebook Fanpage & the Fuck Yeah Josh Eppard Tumblr.

Now that Warped Tour 2011 has been wrapped up, Weerd Science is scheduled to play a Homecoming/Album Release show at The Basement in Kingston, NY on September 3rd.  Ages are 18+, tickets are $9, doors are at 9pm, and it’s gonna be one hell of a rare party!  If you’re going, or need help finding a ride/place to stay, try the official thread.

-Physical copies of Sick Kids may be obtained at the new online merch store (there’s a new t-shirt too!) at MerchDirect.
-Digitally you can download the album from Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon.

-there’s a special b-side on bandcamp

Almost forgot to mention, there’s 6 new Weerd Science MP3s!  The Weekend At Dirty’s Mixtape/EP and WS is featured on 2 of MC Lars’ Indie Rocket Science mixtape songs.

Check out the official press release below

WEERD SCIENCE
Gets SICK on May 17th
Second Album Released on MC Lars’ Horris Records
UK and US Tour dates Announced

Kingston, NY – After his eight-year daily battle with opiates, Josh Eppard has kicked his addiction and will be releasing his long awaited second full-length album SICK KIDS under his solo moniker WEERD SCIENCE on May 17, 2011. He will be telling his story throughout Spring on The British Invasion Tour and all Summer long on Vans Warped Tour (tour dates). MC Lars will be releasing this collection of rhymes, raps, and beats on his independent label Horris Records, nearly six years after Weerd Science’s debut album Friends and Nervous Breakdowns. Sick Kids was co-produced by Eppard and Dave Parker (ex-Coheed and Cambria), tracked at Applehead Studios in Woodstock, NY and Darkworld Studios in Kingston, NY, and mixed by Chris Bittner (Coheed and Cambria, Bad Brains).

photo by Ryan Russell

Sick Kids is a journey in the fragile mind of a drug addict – feelings of hurt, guilt, sadness, happiness, and twisted thoughts. During the making of Sick Kids, Eppard was back and forth with drugs – moreback than forth. He explained, “Part of the guilt that haunted me daily was to look the people who were so excited to be making another Weerd Science record in the eyes and lie. I would convince them that I was sober and ready to work, but the truth is that I was shooting dope in the bathroom pretty much the entire session.” In no way does Sick Kids follow a specific theme, but the songs that have nothing to do with drugs were his way of running from the truth. Deep down inside, this album was his cry for help. Drugs didn’t necessarily enhance his creative mind, so he kept Sick Kids as-is. “It would’ve been vastly different if I was sober,” he continues. “It would also be an injustice to my struggle with addiction to gloss my performances.” Realizing when he was sober that the more good people he knew became distant during his addiction. “You open your eyes one day and ask yourself, ‘Why am I in a car with two homeless guys and a hooker at 4am?’ The people in your life who were honest and decent are gone,” he reflects. After two years of being clean, he no longer gets the urge like he used to, back when he had dreams of getting high and would have to wake up in the middle of the night to shake it off. “It’s such a great feeling to be beyond this… I know what it’s like to not want to live and literally hold a knife to your wrist and pray to God that this time you’ll have the courage to slice.”

As a drummer, Eppard has seen the ups and downs of the music industry first hand, which was even the topic of his Weerd Science debut Friends and Nervous Breakdowns (Equal Vision). He began his career drumming in the band 3 (Universal) in 1992 prior to joining Coheed and Cambria (Columbia) in 2001. After parting ways with the band in 2006 and taking time to clean up, Eppard’s love of drumming drew him back to his current band Terrible Things (Universal Motown). Opting to release his debut on an independent label, Eppard confides, “In my opinion, a label in this day and age can’t offer me anything as an artist. Labels fail more than they succeed. Why should I sign a deal where they have their hands in my touring revenue, merch, and my everything when all they can offer me is a fancy building and some free lunch every few months?”

Eppard wanted his fans to be directly involved with this album, so he created a KickStarter campaign, and within five days, he reached his goal of $4,000 dollars. Currently, he’s surpassed his goal by nearly $2,000 and there is still seven days left. “Weerd Science can be as big as the world wants it to be,” he surmises. “I’m tired of boring music and I’m not following a system designed to limit what’s available to us as consumers.”

• $5 or more gets you a download of the album.
• $10 or more gets you a download of the album and the exclusive Rare EP, unreleased WS tracks!
• $15 or more gets you all that plus an autographed copy of the record.
• $30 or more gets you all that plus a WS shirt and autographed poster
• $50 or more gets you all that plus a WS hoodie
• $75 or more gets you all that plus a USB pill with all the digital downloads and a copy of the new video.

Pretty awesome stuff. You can even get private drum lessons from Josh himself if you pledge $500 or more, or a private show and exclusive track recorded for $1000. You won’t get those opportunities again! Please consider being an individual part of the success and awesomeness that will be Sick Kids.

CLICK HERE TO PLEDGE!

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Also check out a pretty great interview conducted by MC Lars with Weerd Science at Alternative Press here. You can even listen to a new track from Sick Kids–”Unlovable Loser”.

Kill Your Rapper is on the lookout for a preorder.

But before the album release and his UK tour in May (with MC Chris, Akira The Don, MC Lars) it looks like Mr. Eppard is gonna throwdown in his new hometown!  March 12th WS will be performing with Wavis’ rock band- The City Never Sleeps- at Valentine’s in Albany, NY for $5.

Josh also recently tweeted that he’s doing a collaboration with DJ Big Chocolate and over on facebook Weerd Science posted this dope video of him and Pugs freestyling…

MerchNow has this promotion going on all month that they’re calling MarchNOW Clearance.  Among the gazillion items on sale is the Weerd Science Butterflies t-shirt- for $5.99.  That’s like, half price!  What a steal!  Only Large and 2XL sizes are left.

The Warped Tour dates have been confirmed…  Weerd Science will be performing alongside MC Lars for the ENTIRE tour.  But before they head out there, the two are hitting up the UK with Akira the Don & MC Chris throughout the month of May!  All of the dates have been added to our shows section.

“Sick Kids” is coming out mid-year! Soon as there’s more info, we’ll be sure to share it.

The two songs, “Plague Days” and “The Spawn of Lies Spun” are up on http://weerdscience.bandcamp.com/

During his twitter spree, Josh also shared that Sick Kids will be coming out this year on MC Lars’ label, Horris Records.  There’s also rumors circulating that both rappers will be performing at the 2011 Warped Tour…

MC Lars posted a video podcast that peeks in on their writing session as well as a snippet of the track!

This song will be on MC Lars’ forthcoming record, Lars Attacks.

In KYR news, we updated the interview section a bit more as well as the audio page. Thanks to Jonathon Snyder we now have MP3′s of Weerd Science UnRapped at Art To Zen Tattoo!

The Terrible Things self-titled debut album is now in stores!  TT’s going on tour in October for seven weeks with the original line-up of MAE (it’s their farewell tour).  For complete tour dates visit www.whatismae.com

In the meantime, a few songs from the record have been posted for us to listen to!  ”Up At Night,” “Lullaby (which is a new version of an old Breaking Pangaea song),” “Wrap Me Up,” “Terrible Things,” “Been Here Before,” “Not Alone,” and the studio version of the first demo they shared with us- “The Hills of Birmingham.”

ShockHound put up a super cheap $6.99 digital download preorder.  Amazon‘s got the CD for $10…  And the band, (according to twitter) will begin selling the album at Envy on The Coast’s final Philadelphia show on August 27th.

August 28th Terrible Things are performing in Woodstock, New York with Josh’s first band- 3!

August 29th is Josh’s Hometown Release show for Terrible Things.  We haven’t heard any details yet, other than that it will be at The Basement (where last year’s Eppard Extravaganza was held, as well as Weerd Science’s first hometown show in 5 years).

August 30th the band will be at Looney Tunes record store in West Babylon, NY (Long Island) to perform and autograph copies of the album!  To get entrance into that, you’ve gotta preorder the album or a VIP package through the store here.

Tuesday, August 31st is the release!

September 1st will be Fred Mascherino’s Hometown Release show at The Note in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

They just got off a mini tour with Circa Survive and O’Brother, some Warped Tour dates, Canadian shows with Minus The Bear and a string of shows with The Offspring!  If you can’t make it to any of those special release gigs, Terrible Things will be on Mae’s national farewell tour from October 1st through Thanksgiving.

The band’s been posting some… intimate videos from tour on their Facebook page.

oh yeah, AP Magazine wrote a full page about Terrible Things and gave it 4.5 stars!

And!!! just yesterday Mazeman and Dirty Ern posted up some unreleased tracks for free download…  One we’ve already got on here, “Bedroom Emcees,” and one featuring Weerd Science that we haven’t heard before!  ”Tech Echoes.”  Ant Masington plays guitar and sings on a couple of the songs too.  Wavis also lent his hand to a bunch of the tunes.

Oh! We also added a cool interview with Josh and Fred Mascherino to the Interviews Section.

Terrible Things just returned from their first tour. On their way out west and back they played with Circa Survive, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Story of the Year, Dashboard Confessional… They’re heading out East in May with Anberlin and SOTY. April 17th Terrible Things released a 7″ single of the “The Hills of Birmingham” demo and the “Up At Night” acoustic demo for Record Store Day. We found this super cool 2 part video interview with Josh and Fred Mascherino

Also while scouring youtube, Kill Your Rapper came across some live footage of Terrible Things’ San Francisco show captured by Josh’s uncle, John The Baker!  And Alternative Press’ video of “Up at Night” from their “100 Bands You Need to Know in 2010″ SXSW showcase.

As of yesterday, we finally have a chance to hear a studio track from Josh’s new band!!! It’s called, “Revolution.”
myspace.com/terriblethings

In Weerd Science news- Rick Whispers posted a dope song featuring Josh titled, “Everywhere That We Go.”
myspace.com/rickwhispers

Lurking around Dirty Ern and CJB’s twitters, Kill Your Rapper has learned the two Super Posse of Awesomeness members are working on a project together- Flannel Channel.  They’ve been posting about it on @FlannelChannel and streamed live from Applehead Studio on Wednesday while Weerd Science was in the vocal booth!  The duo have been sharing video clips and photos on flannelchannelmusic.tumblr.com.  Last month they posted a video of Josh on drums.  Flannel Channel sounds like a truly awesome project!  They’ve tweeted/facebooked/tumblr’d about Ant Masington (Session 606), Gartdrumm, Joey Eppard, Emily Long, Mazeman, Rick Whispers, Pugs, Alanna Quinn (Medicated Kisses), Jared Colby, Ryan Moran (The Midnight Renewal), Phil Puma, and the female rapper Sarai also being in the studio over the past few months!  It was really cool watching Josh write/record on the stream.  Can’t wait to hear the finished song!

Sorry that the forum has been dead and glitchy and fucking shit. SMF is not a forum software that likes WS apparently. Maybe it’ll be better now? Test it out!

I also added a TERRIBLE THINGS section to the forum, to discuss Josh’s newest project, previously called Initials. He’s back on the drums!