a hard rain's gonna fall

well ... our practice space flooded.

again.

we rent a monthly space and we've been having to move our stuff back and forth because they had to strip out bottom parts of the wall, replace carpet. lots of delays. and now it was finally all back in place after approx 1 month, and we finally got to leave our stuff in the practice space after our U31 show, and damn flooded again. so, i think it's gonna be time to relocate soon. hopefully our gear is okay.

as for news, check out the latest issue of Performer Magazine, the west coast edition. There's a review of our CD release show at the silverlake lounge with swim party, eux autres and the fresas. it's not online yet, when it is, i'll provide a link.

as for saturday night, what a party. Roman Spring and Swim Party killed it at the ken. we caught about half of the focus group's set which was good too. looking forward to this spring, that's all i have to say.

the curse is stronger than we realized

so apparently the curse doesn't just apply to technology. I just returned from texas and was hoping to hit the practice space hard with the boys. unfortunately, the curse had other ideas. most notably giving matt a sickness rendering him unconcious. or at least making him stick to the couch and feel horrible. but i swear he's only a day away from a full blown coma. or at least the start of bedsores.

so expect us to be looking for a replacement singer/guitarist. or waiting til matt feels better. whichever comes first. in the mean time, me and the other boys have been running through the new material in anticipation of the upcoming shows. it's gonna be awesome. no no, it's like if you took awesome and wrapped it in a blanket of greatness. nothing like a greatness blanket keeping the awesome all nice and warm.

in the meantime, amuse yourself with music from one of the bands playing our release shows. these guys are all most excellent. hand picked, locally and organically grown:

at Silverlake Lounge show:
Swim Party - http://www.swimpartymusic.com
The Fresas - http://www.myspace.com/thefresas
Eux Autres - http://www.euxautres.net/

at Whistlestop show:
Joanie + the Secretaries (or is it The Joaniemen?) - http://www.myspace.com/joaniemen