Some local Fresno dudes have produced a new skate video featuring our music. It's pretty, um . . . you know . . rad!

Carpe Diem: Just Skate (DEMO)

More great reviews for our new record "Hover"

"Hover" has been out a few months now, but the positive reviews are still coming in. The current issues of Skyscraper (issue 30) and Under the Radar (issue26) both feature pretty stellar reviews of our latest release. Check them out at your local news stand. The fine folks at Dagger Magazine also love our new record and you can read that review here. For those of you who speak French here's a cool review from Raw Power magazine.

Finally Jack Rabid from the Big Takeover continues to play us on his excellent radio program at breakthruradio.com, check it out!

SXSW update on bigtakeover.com

Well, sorry, South by Southwest was so much fun that I sort of stopped updating our blog, and then I allowed that laziness to carry through after we got home. Anyway, the good news is that I wrote on article on our experiences, and you can read the whole at the Big Takeover website here.

SXSW day a million

Hard to believe we've been on the road for five days already and I'm just now getting around to posting. Ok, so Saturday we played in San Diego at the Soda Bar with Aimless Never Miss, The Union Trade and The Burning of Rome. The show was super fun, the Burning of Rome guitarist was kind of nuts, jumping around the club, playing on top of the pool table, good times.

After a lot of traveling, we finally got to Austin last night. This city is so beautiful, it's really great to be back. We ended up at a house party last night, to see Aimless again and my cousin's band Saything. It's always fun to see bands in someones living room, loud but fun!

Tonight's the big night the Devil in the Woods showcase at the Independent. If you're in Austin, come on by!

Noisepop Happy Hour

We played the Noisepop happy hour event last night and it was super rad. If I can be reflective for a moment, I just realized that we've now played both the Noisepop and the South by Southwest festivals. I think back to when we started this band years ago, playing those two events was something we really wanted, and now we can say we've done it!

Ok back to Nosiepop. The show was at a really cool bar called Bender's which was on Van Ness in the Mission. The decor was pretty cool, the ceiling was decorated with hundreds of origami cranes.The staff, the owner, bartenders, soundman, door guy were all super friendly and helpful and made us feel very welcome. Also, free Tecate and PBR's for band members, so bonus!

We got there early, and at first it seemed like attendance might be kind of light, but around 5:30 like clockwork, people started pouring in and soon the place was packed. First band on was Evacuee, a really cool, rocking, loud three piece. Actually all the bands were three pieces, it was power trio night! One neat thing about Evacuee is that they switch instruments between every song, like an indie rock chinese fire drill.

We were on second, and I felt like we played pretty well. We had a great time on stage, I was very relaxed and having fun, and we got a great response from the crowd.

Our friends and labelmates Aimless Never Miss were on next, and they put on a great show as usual. Johnny is just a fantastic guitar player and singer, Eric is one of the best drummers I have ever seen, and Macey is just super solid on bass.

So, all in all, a really good night, probably my favorite show we've ever done in San Francisco. Next month should be great as well, we've got SXSW again plus some other things cooking, so stay tuned.

Thanks to intercom for the image

Breakthruradio.com and Levator

We're pleased to announce that Jack Rabid editor/publisher of the fantastic Big Takeover mag, will be playing a song from our new record Hover on his show on breakthruradio.com on 2/16/09. The show will be playing all day today. If you get there late, don't worry, you can still find the show in the archives, just go to "multimedia archive" find Jack Rabid's name in the DJ list, click search, and then click 2/16/09. Jack has great taste, so check it out and prepare to be introduced to a ton of new music.

I also want to take some time to trumpet the new album The Biggest Waves Come at Night from the great Seattle band Levator. Their new record is beautiful, and they are also amazing live so please check them out.

Free Music, that's cheaper than like one cent!

Emusic has been kind enough to offer the new compilation from our label Devil in the Woods for free. The comp, titled Builder features the song Tremble from our new record Hover, out Feb 10. Also featured are our label mates, Aimless Never Miss, Light FM and Buildings Breeding. To download this free compilation follow this link. Yeah!

Yes! We are playing the Noise Pop Festival in S.F.!

Hello Blogsters, hipsters, and other un worldly creatures.
It is true..See The Sleepover Disaster,Aimless Never Miss,and Evacuee at Benders in SF, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25, Free Show, 21+.

More info here: NOISE POP 2009.

We'd love to see you there!
-Eric

49% man

Our Fresno release shows went great, looking forward to San Francisco tonight. We should have some pictures from all the shows posted soon.

I was reading edluv's blog today and was intrigued by the idea of the gender analyzer. Well, it turns out the gender analyzer is 51% sure this blog is written by a woman. I guess this explains why I always got picked last for flag football.

Record Release

Well it’s almost that time. Our new record will be available on Feb 10 as a physical release, and a Jan 28 as a digital download. To celebrate we’ve posted some new tracks up on our myspace page, please drop by and let us know what you think. We’ve also got a ton of record release shows planed all over the state. Here’s the rundown.

Fresno

Jan 23 at Kuppajoe w/ Lost Ocean, Dizmas,and Bluff
Jan 24 at Audie’s Olympic w/ Sweet and Tender Hooligans

San Francisco

Jan 28 at the Knockout w/ Saything and Vir

LA

Feb 13 at Downtown 81 @ Silver Factory Studios w/ The New Room and Moscow

We’re all very excited about this release, our first for the Devil in the Woods record label. We’d like to thank Mike and Zoe from the label for helping to make this possible. For an advance review, head to your local bookstore or newsstand and pick up issue #63 of the Big Takeover with Death Cab for Cutie on the cover. There is a very favorable review of our new record "Hover" inside. For an excerpt, check here.

That’s all for now, if you come to one of the shows, don’t forget to say hi.

CD's are here

We got some CD's back from the plant, and they look great. It's really weird to think that this might be our last release in the CD format. They way things are going, the next album will probably be digital download and vinyl only. Doubly weird that vinyl is making such a huge comeback in the digital age. Makes sense though, analog has always sounded better. Plus, there is something very impermanent about digital music. When it comes to archiving, analog still rules.

Well, maybe CD's will make a comeback. I mean if vinyl can come back, and even the humble cassette tape can become cool again, it could happen.

We got some good news today, the San Francisco Weekly made us their mp3 of the day. Checkout the write up that mentions our upcoming SF record release show at the Knockout on Jan 28th. For all you Bay Area people, come on out, grab a Tecate tall can, and bliss out.

New album artwork revealed

Here is the cover of our new album "hover". We'd like to thank the artists that made it happen. Ronald Dzerigian provided the cover painting, and Zoe Cobb, from Devil in the Woods, provided additional images and did the layout. Thank you all!

We headed up to San Francisco last night, to hang out with the Devil in the Woods people and pick up some CD's. While there, we scooted over to the Knockout to see Rademacher and David Dondero. All in all it was a really fun trip.

Our record is out officially on Feb 10th, though it will be available digitally starting Jan 22nd. Or if you want it even earlier, come to one of our CD release shows. Details at our myspace page.

Inaugural post and 2008 recap

Hello everyone, and welcome to our first blog post. Starting up a blog for the band has been something we have been meaning to do for a long time, but just hadn't gotten around to. Well, the new year seems as a good a time as any, so here we go.

2008 was a great year for us. We finished recording our new record, which was a sometimes fun, sometimes exasperating process. We played the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas for the first time ever, which was super rad. We got singed to Devil in the Woods records, which was also super rad. We played a ton of shows, including a really great tour of the Pacific Northwest, that I think was the most fun mini-tour the band has ever done.

2009 should be cool too. Our new album "Hover" comes out Feb 10. Look for more news and happenings from us at this blog, and whatever other random stuff we feel like posting about.

Luke