The Last Joke Band: Archive

Pegasus News: North Texas’ top five artists of... →

1. Ryan Thomas Becker: A man with many bands — RTB2, Hares on the Mountain, Satans of Soft Rock, and RTB & Last Joke, for starters — Ryan Thomas Becker been making music in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for quite a while now, but this year he earns top honors for his incredible talents and unending devotion to great music. For Becker, it seems that the man lives, breathes, even eats...

Dec 27th

SHOWS

Posters by Tony Ferraro. Also, Last Joke has a Dallas show on Saturday, January 7th at Bryan Street Tavern.

Dec 22nd

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"No Time Lover" on 2011 Hearted Songs List...

The persons over at Subservient Experiment included our recording of “No Time Lover” on SubEx’s Favorite Local Songs of 2011 list. Go on over n’ take an earful. “In the second and final installment of our end-of-year link bait extravaganza we list our favorite local songs from the past 12 months.” -Cory Graves

Dec 20th

"Tom Petty Summer" on Year-End list...

The folks over at Side One: Track One have our cover of Leatherbag’s “Tom Petty Summer” on their Year-End list. Swing over to the site, read the blurb, turn on the tune, crank up the speakers, open the windows, and laugh at the fucking rain! “Ryan Thomas Becker And The Last Joke: Ryan Becker and Grady Sandlin of Denton TX based, RTB2, decided to record covers of some of...

Dec 15th

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Watch

Floating Ryan Head says, “No, we can’t be friends.” Last Joke Band limited edition 12” vinyl record now available thru Bandcamp.

Dec 14th

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Dual Tape Deck: #6: Bagel Earth, part 1 →

Leatherbag (our Austin pally pals) hung out and spun some tracks on the Dual Tape Deck blog. They happened to play our rendition of their song ‘Tom Petty Summer’. They also spun a track by The Blurries (our Dallas buds) and a BRAND NEW track from Grady and Ryan’s other project, RTB2. Check out the post, and listen to the podcast… dualtapedeck: We here at Dual Tape Deck...

Dec 6th

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Put your hat on your feet.

We had a radballs kinda weekend, ch’all. Last Thursday at Club Dada was stellar. Here’s proof (via The Music Enthusiast). Saturday’s benefit show at Hailey’s went swimmingly. Here’s a pic (via mbriggs). We are now gearin’ up for a coupla shows in early January with our pals Leatherbag (Austin) and El Cento (Austin/Dallas): Thursday, January 5th at Dan’s...

Dec 5th

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