After two weeks on the road around the northeast and great lakes regions of the U.S. with our new compadres, mOck, we have all returned home to take a two week breath and prepare for our big trek overseas. We have managed to survive all the winding curves of the first leg of our journey, which have brought us both wonder and joy as well as unfortunate encounters with psychodads and inexplicably stripped tires. That being said, we can’t wait to do it all over again in a new and foreign place!
We owe many thanks to all of those who booked us, offered us hospitality, or who were a part of this first half of the tour in any way. You know who you are! Photos and other media objects by which we have documented this quest shall be posted in days to come.
Okay, now go check our schedule to see where we’ll be in Europe. Also, order a copy of the split 7 inch here. I just bought my compressible pillow and am ready to get on that plane!
We are finally happy to announce that our split 7″ record with mOck is now available for pre-order in the U.S. through Love/Hate Records. All of those who get in on the early action will be rewarded with free shipping and a tour poster for our upcoming two-legged jaunt with mOck. Copies will be available later in Europe through Asymmetrie.
This will be available on sweet slabs of blue, transparent vinyl and – if all goes well – we should have them ready for you to pick up as early as our late July shows preceding the tour.
Oh! The only thing that could debatably be more exciting than this release is our upcoming tour with mOck to promote this release. Most of the U.S. dates and some of the Europe dates have already been posted. Check them out here or on our myspace.
We just posted one of our new tracks which will be released on the intercontinental split 7″ with mOck this summer on our myspace, so please head over and check it out to get pumped for what’s to come. (Tour dates for the U.S. and Europe, as well as info on how to order the 7″ will be posted soon!)
We’re also proud to announce that another new track will be available on the upcoming Love/Hate Records’ “Friends With Benefits” compilation, which should be released toward the tail end of the summer. On behalf of the label, we hope that you wouldn’t mind checking out the mission statement and consider kicking in for the online fundraiser here. If you “back” the project, you get some free stuff thrown in from us too. Oh – and you only have 7 days left!
Also, look forward to a handful of shows coming up in the area in July, including a trip out to Ohio for A.R.M. Fest and a couple nights with White Problems from Milwaukee.
Thanks to Chris Koestner of Rescue Rocks, and our Long Island buds for making this past Sunday on the Island a charm for us.
Two shows coming up in our home state of New Jersey to kick off next week on Sunday and Monday with Richmond’s Mouthbreather. They are worth checking out, so get out to these shows, at least to catch them! Lots of other good bands too, may I add. Get in touch with us if you need information on either show.
We’ve got three great shows coming up in the NJ/NYC area over the course of this week. Starting with a show with Grownups and 1994! at the Bushwick Music Studios in Brooklyn tomorrow night. Followed by a basement show in New Brunswick on Thursday, and a house party at our place down near Trenton Saturday night. Check the Shows page for details on how, where, and when to come party with us this week.
We are also very proud to announce that plans are finally starting to come together with some upcoming releases we are working on. A split 7″ with our friends from Berlin, mOck (to be released on Love/Hate Records in the U.S., and also on another label to be announced in Europe) is in the works. As is a split 7″ with our former bassist Brian’s new band in Milwaukee, White Problems (to be released on Providence based Tor Johnson Records).
Elated would be a good way to describe how we feel about these releases, as well as the plans we are putting together to tour with mOck for four weeks this summer, looking at August and September. More details and dates on that to come.
In the meantime, feel free to feast your eyes on a little collaborative video experiment we pulled off with Pollifax, a New Brunswick-based online zine of sorts. Videos of us performing a couple tracks (acoustic!) have been posted as part of their Wanderer Sessions series, which places local and touring bands in rather unconventional “venues” or spaces to play throughout town, in a city which – for the most part – lacks the presence of any real music venue. In one of these videos, you will find, perhaps most fitting for us, that we get a chance to perform on public transit.
Jeff Ramirez from Sleep Bellum Sonno assembled this pretty animation video that will tell you a thing or two about our upcoming tour that begins at the end of this week. For the rest of the information, just click above this for “Shows”.
Old man winter has been putting up a good fight here in our Garden State home. Fortunately for us though, we haven’t let him meddle too thoroughly with our plans.
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been getting our ducks in a row in preparation for the split 7″ with Berlin-based mOck. Tracking and mixing has been finished for this release, among others which will be announced soon.
Northeasterners have a chance to catch us perform this new material live in the coming weeks at one-off shows in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Long Island. Cast your sights to the right to learn more.
On top of that, we are very excited to announce our East Coast Spring Break (!!) tour dates with Sleep Bellum Sonno have all been confirmed as well…
3/12 New Brunswick NJ
3/13 Wilmington DE
3/14 Richmond VA
3/15 Wilmington NC
3/16 Rock Hill SC
3/17 Durham NC
3/18 Harrisonburg VA
3/19 Philadelphia PA
3/20 Brooklyn NY
Happy New Year! Sorry we’re a little belated on the greeting, but when you party hard, sometimes you need a little recovery time, nahm sayin? Anyway, we’ve got some big news to ring in the new year (and decade), so now’s as good a time as any to let some trickle out and for you to take in.
The tracking and most of the mixing on four new tracks has been completed, and we are very much looking forward to letting these little demons out of Pandora’s box to run amok. Chumbuckets has done a superior job on recording these, so we can’t wait to unleash them. Plans for their release are still getting worked out, but to give you a clue in the meantime, we recommend you check out our friends from Berlin, mOck.
Also, we are currently booking a short tour of the East Coast for the month of March and looking forward to seeing old friends and places, and meeting new times and faces. Dates for this tour will be with Sleep Bellum Sonno, who are from that mystical isolated slip of land to the east of New York City. Details on the trip will be posted very, very soon, so keep vigil.
This weekend we are joining our chum, Buckets (Brian Buckets of Risk Relay) in the recording studio as we drop the tracks for four new songs. We are excited to be getting some fresh new material documented for the first time in well over a year and plan on keeping you posted how and when we will be releasing this.
After this weekend, we are embarking on a weekend adventure over the Mason-Dixon line to bring our jams to southerly climes and friends. We will be sharing the carpet with bands like The Reptilian and The Fordists, among others. Hopefully we’ll be seeing you there.
And for those who couldn’t make it out to catch us perform some covers on Halloween, you can check out a clip here on Vimeo.
Courtesy of Look Again Media, who has contributed to the release of our debut full-length record, Machinery Saints now appears available for digital download in its entirety on the iTunes store. If you just can’t wait to get your hands on this record via mail order, you are now capable of instant digital gratification, so do it to it.
In other news, we are planning a good handful of shows for the coming months, a lot of which we will be with our buds Edhochuli (Pittsburgh), The Fordists (D.C.), and The Reptilian (Michigan).
Here’s some details on a full weekend of October that we’re booked:
10.22 – NEW BRUNSWICK NJ @ Jackie One w/ Constants, Meroki, Marloneisha 10.23 – BUFFALO NY @ 99 Custer St. w/ Edhochuli, Inerds, Ordinary Men and Women 10.24 – ENDICOTT NY @ The Death Trap w/ Smith Hill
For Halloween weekend, we will be performing around the NYC/NJ area with Edhochuli, and have a set of FUGAZI covers that we will be performing at these shows. We’ve been taking long extra hours practicing to make sure we do these songs justice and confidently stand by our opinion that we will get pretty damn close to it. Nuff said. Here are some details on that weekend:
10.29 – BROOKLYN NY @ The Charleston w/ Edhochuli
10.30 – NEW BRUNSWICK NJ @ Pet Cemetary (we play as FUGAZI) w/ Fun Ghouls (as The Misfits), Edhochuli, Mattress (as Dead Dead Kennedys)
10.31 – PHILADELPHIA PA @ The Ox (we play as FUGAZI) w/ Edhochuli
