Indie Rock Blood Libel!

                Hey guys it's been a long while.  What's up?  Lots is up with us.  I noticed that the last post was Dec. 18th so here's what's happened since then-

Shows Played:
Dec 20th at Bunk Bar
Dec 30th at Tonic Lounge
Jan 3rd at Ash Street Saloon
Jan 4th at Plan B
Jan 10th at Ella St.
Jan 14th at Slim's


A show on the 19th got canceled and we were scheduled to go play the Horned Hand in Bend a couple days ago but Jay was in the hospital.  He's not anymore though so it's cool.  We've got some more stuff comin up that we'll fill you in on when the time is right.

Here's a vide'er of us playing at Slim's



Pretty kewl.

We somehow also got a write up in the Willamette Week ("the hipster bible"- Gay Mcanus").  Read all about it.  The first part pretty much says we're ripping off Built to Spill's first album but he says some nice stuff at the end.  Here's a way cooler write up.  This dude happened to be at one of our shows and said some pretty nice stuff about us on his blog.  Makes me feel all warm and nice inside.  His blog is sweet so check it out.
                Even though tons of awesome stuff has been going on this past month, in my mind, the last 30 days have existed only to frustrate and enrage me (seriously though).  Flash back to a month ago- We decided it was time to record some new demos that would reflect our current sound and feature some new material to be consumed and then defecated out the anus of the internet.  We got a bunch of gear and set up in Fred's Basement Ⓡ.  A few days were spent recording basic tracks in the basement (we'd never used the gear before so that took some figuring out) after which we moved the whole operation back to our jam space where I could finish up the overdubs and vocal tracks.  None of that was too awful but as always, the universe in it's infinite majesty intervened and made sure that however smoothly things had been going up until that point, the final stages of production would suck really really really really really hard.  Mixing tracks that have been recorded at an assortment of radically different volume levels is the shittiest thing ever.  Fire Bombing of Dresden, shmire shmobbing of shmesden.  The only thing worse than spending days "mixing tracks that have been recorded at an assortment of radically different volume levels" is losing the final mix because the software you were using was pirated two years ago and the evil programmers of said software decided it was time to punish those less fortunate among us, who didn't want to pay $500 for what is for all (my) intents and purposes, a digital eight-track, by (after two whole fucking years!) presenting me (i'm too bitter for 1st/2nd person consistency) with a dinky little error message and eating everything.  Everything.  Hours upon hours of hellish, tedious, this-fucking-sucks work- now gone forever.  Erased from space-time, infinitely, unless that same universe in it's same infinite majesty decides to construct, out of randomly assorted atoms, identical WAV files, in the some desolate, godless, sioux-fallsless region of space, quintillions of years down the road.  
                As Fred's lease is due to run out at the end of the month, we had mere weeks- because of our work schedules and time constraints i.e. noise complaints, mere days to re-assemble what we had lost.  With some help from the Gods (and goddesses [just kidding, girls can't play guitar]) of Rawk we managed to do just that.  "So Isaac, where are these demos?" you might ask.  Well reader, with our gear safely back in our beloved practice space, I'm going to spend the next few days recording (or re-recording) overdubs and vocals.  Since everything was recorded at consistent levels this time around, mixing will be a relative breeze compared to the Augean Stables cluster-fuck mentioned previously.  If all goes well, the new, legally acquired recording software will treat us with a greater kindness and the demos will be up on world wide web in the next few days (we also sacrificed an innocent, gentile toddler to those same God's of Rawk just to ensure everything goes smoothly).  Fingers Crossed.


As is now customary on this blog, here is some cool music I found while perusing the internets.




Talk to ya soon