The Rubber Thongs

The Rubber Thongs

 

Rubber thongs are cheap summer footwear worn year-round in The Rubber Thongs' former hometown of Miami.

The Rubber Thongs are now based in Jersey City NJ's Powerhouse Arts District.
“Cuz lately it all sounds the same to me.”

— Joey Ramone

“The irony is that the parody is what’s taken over.”

— Junior Brown

“The two most important words in the world are honesty and sincerity, if you can fake these you've got it made.”

— Groucho Marx

“Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr. Epstein.”

— Dick Rowe

"Affection" 

Our new single "Affection" is a cover of a Steve Van Zandt song that's long been a favorite of ours. Van Zandt recorded it with his band The Lost Boys. Their album was never released but "Affection" was used in an episode of The Sopranos and made its way onto one of the show's soundtrack albums.

It also has one of the best lines ever in a rock song.

This Land Is Your Land 

We used to play this song as an encore back when we could do encores. We started recording it back in November when there were cars lined up at food banks all across the country, and we couldn’t help thinking how the three verses we always sang speak to our world just as well as Woody Guthrie’s. 

Of course it took us so long to get the song finished that food banks are no longer in the news, though they should be.

Adam Schlesinger 

Adam Schlesinger died one year ago today, the first musician’s death from COVID-19 that we heard about. Too many more would follow.