Please note that many links on this page are broken and refer to pages from days yonder.

11-03-06 The new album, The Morning After has been sent off to be pressed and should be released sometime in December. Check back for more info. Album cover is pictured on the right.

7-11-06 T-minus Band has been invited to perform at the Atlantis Music Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlantis will also include the T-minus Band song "Two Bit" on a compilation CD. We will be playing at The 585 at 10 pm on Thursday, October 5th.

Also, for those of you anticipating the new T-minus Band album called The Morning After below is a song from that upcoming release. The song is called "If It Ever Was At All" and features some great vocals by Tanya West of Trees With Bells.

Click here to download "If It Ever Was At All". (Right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" or something similar. Or just go to the T-minus Band MySpace page and it'll start playing.)

6-27-06 The new T-minus Band album is finished! It's called The Morning After. Now I just have to get some artwork and then release it. Not sure how long that will take. Not planning on doing any shows this summer but that could change. Also, I don't think it's that interesting but click here to read the first installment of the SXSW diary.

5-12-06 The new album (I still think in terms of albums) is for real almost finished and I think it will be done by the end of next week. I don't have artwork yet so if any of you artists out there want to submit artwork you can email me. I have to give props to my old stomping ground, T-town (aka Tuscaloosa) for giving T-minus Band some press. Here is an article from before we went out to Austin and it was written by a nice guy originally from Canada named Ryan Hickman. The Canadians have always been good to T-minus Band and it was pleasant getting to know Ryan when he came over one day for the interview. And while I really can't bear to listen to myself talk (in a recording that is) perhaps you want to hear an interview I did with WUAL which happens to be a great NPR station. The show is podcast only but they used T-minus Band music in the first 5 shows and then did the interview/story which you can find here. I've had some people write me and ask what gives with the SXSW diary and I promise a first installment this week as well. - T

4-12-06 We had a great time at SXSW and I'm going to try and get some pictures up from the trip soon. The response to our show was overwhelmingly positive and I'd like to give out a special thanks to all the hometown people from here in Birmingham who came out to support us. I've been very busy finishing the mixing on the new album and I'm happy to say it's pretty much finished and it sounds great. Hopefully next week I'll get those pictures up and maybe a song of the new album as well. I'm also trying to finish a SXSW diary. - T

3-3-06 Our SXSW showcase is on Thursday, March 16th at Karma Lounge in Austin at 8pm.

Trees With Bells has been added to the show at the Nick on Friday, March 10th.

2-22-06 The new Ferocious Bubbles CD entitled Save Yourself and Run Away recorded and co-produced by Troy T will be released at Sakura in Birmingham on Sunday, February 26th. Show starts around 10 or so. You can check Ferocious Bubbles out here.

2-18-06

Show at the Nick on Friday, March 10th.

2-1-06

The latest news is that we have been invited to play SXSW this year but we don't know the date or time yet. We're planning on going for the whole week though. We also have a show on Friday, March 10th at The Nick but I'm not sure who else is playing that night. I also put some pictures up from the fall and plan on making that an entire section of photos eventually. Right now, you can see our trip to the South Park Music Festival or the show we did at Egan's in Tuscaloosa back in September. - T

1-11-06 Happy New Year

Hope you all have a great new year and we hope we have a great new year too. I don't have any shows booked right now but have a couple of things stirring in the pot, so to speak. Have also been working on mixing the new album which is taking some time as I'm trying to get a 100 thousand dollar sound from a 2 thousand dollar studio set-up and I end up spending 5 hours on little things that most of you probably wouldn't notice. That's what happens when you are a perfectionist though. I also still want to overhaul this site and I have some new pictures to add so hopefully I'll get that done soon (fingers crossed)... T

10-12-05

Show - November 24, 2005 Thanksgiving Night Show at The Nick, Birmingham, Alabama

This night is usually a fun night as there are a lot of people back in town for the holiday. Most of them want to get out of the house after a spending the day consuming food with the fam. T-minus Band will play 2 sets and based on our recent show at Egans in Tuscaloosa, T-minus Band might be best with 2 sets. So we're looking forward to this show and hope to see you there.

T-shirts

Yes, due to the constant "when are you guys getting T-shirts?" question we finally have a T-shirt and you can order them right here.

We're also finishing up the new album and we're excited about it.

Check back soon for pictures from our trip to Colorado and the show at Egans.

8-3-05

Upcoming Shows

Thursday, September 1st at the Nick, Birmingham, AL with/ Delicate Cutters and R-Tist
Friday, September 9th at the South Park Music Festival, Fairplay, CO
Friday, September 23rd at Egan's, Tuscaloosa, AL

Details below:

Thursday, September 1st at the Nick w/ Delicate Cutters and R-Tist

10 PM R-Tist
11 PM Delicate Cutters
12 Midnight T-minus Band

This is the Thursday night before Labor Day weekend, so get your vacation started early with us at the Nick.

10 PM R-Tist will kick off the show and if you haven't seen him you should. In case you aren't familiar with R-Tist and his music, you can go here to listen to a song and hear an interview:

his song "Community (Come Unity)" is also featured on the Skybucket compilation "Low Dose Exposure"

11PM Delicate Cutters haven't played in a few months and have been busy recording a new album. Delicate Cutters is a project led by Janet Simpson of Teen Getaway and she has a most wonderful voice. Other members of the band include Pete of Ferocious Bubbles/Trees With Bells, Brian from The Maisleys and Chance the drummer who when not rocking out makes horror movies.*

12 Midnight T-minus Band email me if you have a certain T-minus Band song you'd like to hear and we'll see what we can do.

One thing I cannot emphasize more about this show at the Nick is that it really will start at 10 PM. So come early and see all the bands.

*Chance's movie "Hide and Creep" was a big hit at the Sidewalk Film Festival and there is a tie-in with T-minus Band in that our song "Under the Radar Screen" is featured in the trailer for "Hide and Creep" and you can see this really cool trailer here.

T-minus Band at the South Park Music Festival, Friday, September 9th.

T-minus Band was accepted to play the South Park Music Festival in South Park Colorado. This looks like it's going to be a lot of fun so if anyone wants to plan a fun vacation to the mountains come on out with us! The festival is free to the public and there is free camping. For more information on the festival go here.

T-minus Band is scheduled to play at 11PM on Friday, September 9th at the Fairplay Hotel.

T-minus Band at Egan's, Tuscaloosa, Friday, September 23rd

We've always wanted to play Egan's and what better time to play than the night before the first home SEC game in Tuscaloosa this year. The Arkansas Razorbacks will be in town, and since the show is on Friday night before the game everyone will still be in great spirits. We're going to do 2 sets at this show and it is free because "there's never a cover at Egan's". This is going to be a lot of fun so try to come out to this one. If you don't know where Egan's is, just go to the Strip area of Tuscaloosa (right by the campus of the University of Alabama) and ask someone. It would be impossible not to find it.

7-5-05

Thanks to all of you who came out to the show on the 1st. We had a really good time and special thanks to Trees With Bells and Vesper for playing with us. We're looking at booking some shows in the fall and one thing we might try is an "unplugged" type show at Rojo where we can play some songs that don't get played at the "rock" shows we normally play. I'll post more details as they develop. We are also going to get back to work on finishing the new album as we took a break from that to rehearse for the live performance.

We received some press/exposure for the show on July 1st that some of you may have missed and might be interested in. Black and White did an interview with Troy T and the Birmingham Weekly did an article on the band. There was also a radio interview/feature on the local NPR affiliate here in Birmingham, WBHM that was part of their weekly art series called Tapestry. Go here to listen to the archived Interview/feature. If these links become broken you can also find these interviews in the reviews section.

Add T-minus Band on MySpace

UPCOMING SHOW
Friday, July 1st at The Nick
Birmingham, AL

This show will be our first in a while so mark it on your calendars and make plans to kick off your 4th of July weekend with some T-minus Band as well as awesome Vesper and Trees With Bells. The lineup is this:

4-7-05

Well I promised an update and here it is. Work on the new T-minus Band album/CD is going well. As I mentioned before this album will be a departure in that it is being recorded by a full band instead of by one person. And it's going better than anticipated. We've recorded 16 tracks so far but want to get up to 20 before we discard around 6. About half of the 16 tracks are close to being completed and the other half are in various stages of production.

I can't say much about it now but I think we may start booking shows again hopefully starting this summer. Keep an eye out for updates on that.

On another note, I recently jumped on the myspace bandwagon (no pun intended) and it's been entertaining. Like all internet fads though, the thrill is diminishing. But, if you are on myspace and want to add us as your friend then go here for our profile.

O.K. That's it for now.

t

1-20-05

It's been some time since an update. There's been some problems with our hosting but soon those issues will (hopefully) all be resolved. Work has begun on a new T-minus Band CD/Album and it will be a departure from the two previous releases in that this time it is being recorded by a true band instead of all by Troy T. The recording is again taking place in Troy T's home studio and after demo-ing several songs the first keeper tracks were laid down just this week. The project will take a while to complete but look for a new T-minus Band release this year.

For now, no shows are planned as recording is the main priority.

Since it's been so long since an update, here are a couple of things that might be of interest even though they are a little late in mentioning:

The song "Under the Radar Screen" from the Four Legs to Three CD was used in a trailer for a great little indie movie made right here in Alabama. The movie is a horror/zombie flick called "Hide and Creep" and you should really check it out. To see this awesome trailer, click here.

Added an "About" section to the site.

Click on the "Music Fit for Kings" on the left. It's amusing.

Someone forwarded this press clipping to me from The Huntsville Times:

Thursday, March 25, 2004
Huntsville Times
By Clay Broussard

New music

I don't know if you have been to CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com) since I wrote about it a few months ago, but it is well worth a visit. It's the most productive way on the Web to discover new independent music. And speaking of CDs, baby, I was recently cruising the site, searching for cool music by state, and the state I chose was - of course - Iowa. Just kidding - I was cruising Alabama when I discovered a gold mine: "Technostalgia," by the T-Minus Band, a one-man "band" created by Birmingham's own Troy T, a veteran of several regional bands who grew tired of the rock 'n' roll rat race and retreated to his studio, emerging with the most interestingly disparate collection of lush, dreamy future-retro pop I've heard in some time. Check out "Elusive," a whimsical tune that McCartney must have heard once in a dream. Troy T is one to watch!

Ok, that's it for the update and once I get the hosting situation ironed out I promise the updates will come more often.

t

9-15-04
Skybucket Records CD Release Show

Skybucket Records is releasing a compilation of Birmingham bands called Low Dose Exposure. T-minus Band has a track on the compilation and is playing one of the CD release shows on Friday, October 1st at Cave 9. The line-up will be as follows (in order of first to last):

Nowhere Squares
Ferocious Bubbles
T-minus Band
Teen Getaway

I'm not sure of the showtime but as Cave 9 is an all-ages venue I think their shows get started around 7pm. Copies of Low Dose Exposure will be available at the show.

Thanks to all who came out to the show at Sakura on July 25th. The turnout was great and it was a fantastic show. A recording was made of the show and I'll try to post some of the highlights in the near future.

7-8-04

Show on Sunday, July 25th

T-minus Band will be performing here in Birmingham on Sunday July 25th. The show will take place at Sakura in five points. The line-up is as follows:

10 PM T-minus Band
11 PM Ferocious Bubbles
12 AM Teen Getaway

Cover is $5

Call 933-1025 for details.

12-11-03 Check out some mp3s from the 11-23-03 show at Sakura.

Mr. Big Boy
2084
A Different Lane
Elusive

There are some other good tracks. If you are interested email me and maybe I'll put a few more up.

9-8-03 Received 2 new reviews from ErasingClouds.com and Adequacy.net. Reviews can be found at the Four Legs to Three reviews section.

7-22-03 Received another review for Four Legs to Three from themorningnews.org. Check the review in our updated reviews section or go see the original article here.

7-17-03 T-minus Band received some publicity for the upcoming show on the 24th from the Black and White and the Birmingham Weekly. Check out the press in the general section of our newly redone reviews section.

6-11-03 Read the first review of Four Legs to Three from Fleabomb.com or in the reviews section.

5-1-03 CD RELEASE: There will be a special Four Legs to Three CD release show on Monday, May 19 at the Bombshelter, located in an unmarked building behind Mike's Pawn shop between 1st and 2nd Avenue North and 24th Street in downtown Birmingham. This will be an early show (9 PM) and T-minus Band will be the only band to play. For more information email.

4-19-03 CD release details coming soon. On another note, about two weeks ago we put 3 songs from the "Technostalgia" CD on garageband.com and were fairly amused when two of the songs shot up the charts to relatively high rankings. On Tuesday the 22nd, "2084" will be the "Alternative Song of the Day" on garageband.com. It's currently ranked at 75 on the alternative charts. So, if you want to keep up with T-minus Band on garageband.com thenclick on the nifty icon below.

To counter this amazing news please read a message that was received from a fellow garageband.com user.

3-13-03 T-minus Band will be opening for Crooked Fingers at the Chukker in Tuscaloosa on Thursday, March 27. We are the first on this three act bill. The second band is fellow Birminghamians 1945.

3-9-03 Four Legs to Three, the new CD by T-minus Band has been sent off to be pressed! It should be available within 6 weeks. Click on the picture to the right to get a better look at the cover. I'm planning a CD release party at ROJO, the coolest new place to eat and drink in town. There will probably be another accoustic performance at the release party. If you are interested in attending, email me.

3-7-03 Finally finished recording the Nowhere Squares new album, Girls Who Work Alone. It sounds great and promises to be one of the best releases this year for a Birmingham band. Check out their site here for more information and to download some of the tracks.

3-1-03 Birmingham's own Skybucket Records has requested a T-minus Band Song for an upcoming compilation CD. Their first compilation called "here's to last summer" was a great sampling of Birmingham bands. Keep an eye out for more info on this and feel free to check out their site here.

2-15-03 The accoustic show at the Chukker went well and we did an hour long interview at WVUA. I'm still waiting to get a recording of the show from one of the radio guys who recorded it. If I ever get it I'll put an mp3 or two up.

1-26-03 The only radio show that I listen to on a regular basis is the Paul Finebaum Show, a sports talk show that features discussion of college football, particularly Alabama Crimson Tide football: 4 hours a day, five days a week, 365 days a year. That's almost (but not quite) enough 'Bama football talk for me. So, it was a personal honor last week when the producer, Pat Smith, chose to play Legacy as an intro to a segment of the show. Not only that, the segment was about Coach Bryant, who passed away 20 years ago today (sad to say). For most people in the world, this probably isn't very impressive or notable. As for me, I can't help but feel humbled. So, in honor of two great men who made an enormous impact on Alabama (where I live) and beyond, feel free to download in its entirety, Legacy, from the Technostalgia CD. In case you are interested check out the lyrics.

1-21-03 Yep, it's the new year and time for a much needed update. There will be a short show on Feb. 8 at The Chukker in Tuscaloosa at a fundraiser for WVUA, the college radio for the University of Alabama. This show will be an "unplugged" performance so it won't exactly rock but being that I love the Tuscaloosa, The Chukker and WVUA, and have had a good bit of history with all three I jumped at the chance to participate. On another note, Four Legs to Three won't be released until March. I'm planning a CD release party at ROJO, the coolest new place to eat and drink in town. There will probably be another accoustic performance at the release party. If you are interested in attending, email me.

12-11-02 Here are two more songs from the upcoming Four Legs to Three CD. Grab Under the Radar Screen and Fort and as requested lyrics can be found here. My mp3 encoder makes the mp3s sound a little hot but oh well...

12-06-02 As promised, here is one of the songs from Four Legs to Three for your pre-release listening pleasure. It is called "Voices Fallen". Keep in mind that like Technostalgia, one song is not representative of all the songs, except that it is T-minus Band. Download "Voices Fallen" here. Also, if you want a promo picture that makes a nice wallpaper then click here.

11.20.02 The new CD is almost finished. Just a few more tweaks and the music will be done. The title will be Four Legs to Three and I'm working on the getting the artwork together now. On another note, due to requests I've added a lyrics section to the site so check it out if you want.

10.21.02 Quick update: Almost finished recording the new album/CD. Should have the recording done by the end of the month. Next will be artwork and pressing which will take some more time. Anyway, I'll put up an mp3 soon of one of the new songs soon.

9.3.02 OK. Time for an update. I feel guilty for not finishing the new album yet. It's been a weird summer and I'm not usually very productive in the summer anyway. I think it's because of the heat. I have over 20 songs in various stages of production. I'll try to complete one soon and post it just to put out something new. Check back later. The Etc page is updated including a couple of links to some mp3s of some other Birmingham bands.

7.29.02 I am very pleased to announce that the final version of the video for the song "2084" is complete and available for your downloading pleasure. Let me take this space to express many thanks to the man who created this video, Paul Painter. He did an incredible job and the video is amazing. Trust me, I'm not using the words 'incredible' and 'amazing' lightly. Paul has truly achieved what video should do - create a whole new dimension to the original song and makes it better. So head on over to the downloads section to download the video or just click here.

7.24.02 Check out this T-minus Band interview in fleabomb.com. Fleabomb is a cool website that has been a nice addition to the Birmingham 'scene'. It promotes art and music and has some interesting commentary as well. Check it out here.

The Nowhere Squares are currently on tour. They've taken a special E.P. called Working Class Girls to sell on tour that contains 4 of the songs we've recorded for their upcoming album. Check out one of the songs here.

7.11.02 Check out this letter from Hugh Sunday who does a popular morning show on Bfm, a radio station in Auckland, New Zealand. I did a little research and found that Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand and has a little over a million people in a country that has a total of 3.9 million people living there. Hugh's show is cool and you can listen to it on the net here. They can say all sorts of things you won't here in this country. Anyways, I'm not trying to make a huge deal out of this so here's the letter:

Hi Troy, thanks for the CD and your letter, and it's good to have you
listening to bFM! I don't know what time of the day you listen, but if
you've been listening during breakfast you may of heard yourself?! I like
your CD, particularly Take the ride and a couple of other ones that I
haven't work out which one they are yet! (I normally listen all the way
through and don't remember the numbers! Anyway thanks again and know that
you are being played in New Zealand, let me know how things go and maybe we
can get you on the phone one morning....

Take Care

Hugh Sundae
95bFM

6.8.02 Summer is here and it's hot. Work on the Nowhere Squares album is moving right along. Technostalgia was featured in a fan-zine in Britain called Leicester Bangs. They don't have a website but you can see the review here. They also included "Take the Ride" on a CD that came with the 'zine. Work on the new T-minus Band CD has not really started yet, just a bunch of demos so far. Also, on this recording I'll have some help from the others make up the live version of T-minus Band. Rehearsing for a first show possibly at the end of the summer.

4.22.02 Technostalgia reviewed by www.erasingclouds.com. Go check out the review here. Recording with the Nowhere Squares (see below) went well and we're shooting for having their record done by July. Rehearsals with the band component of T-minus Band are going well and we will be working on the new CD a lot after this week.

4.4.02 Oh how time flies. This site is not dead. There is much going on right now. I'm working on the new T-minus Band CD, have been rehearsing with what is to be the actual T-minus Band that will play live, and on the weekend of April 12-14 I'll be recording the new CD for the Nowhere Squares. So, in the meantime go to the chat or download areas and have some fun...t

1.02.02 Happy New Year! Keep an eye out for some new stuff in the coming weeks!

1.01.02 Found a new review on the site www.inmusicwetrust.com. Check the review out here.

11.18.01 - Technostalgia a featured review in www.splendidezine.com. Check out the review here.

10.15.01 - Madonna and Winger fans: Check out this review from www.Adequacy.net.

10.08.01 - "Longing for October" a featured single on www.globalevil.com. Check their whole catalog here.

10.08.01 - T-minus Band one of the bands featured on Linklog radio. Linklog is a great site with really cool links. Check it out.

10.03.01 - Technostalgia featured as "Album of the Week" on www.themorningnews.org - check it out here.

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