shows shows shows

We Modlins have a bit of a break from playing, until our show with Roxy Jones, LA's The Happy Hollows, and The Dimes (from the PDX) at the Soda Bar on Saturday April 25th. But while we are catching our collective breath, it looks like the rest of San Diego is blowing up? yo? here's just a taste:

tues apr 7 : The Howls, Gray Ghosts, Joel P West, Longstay @ the Casbah
thur apr 9 : Republic of Letters & Finding Fiction @ Bar Pink
fri apr 10 : Writer, The Knew, & Tape Deck Mountain @ the Ken Club
sat apr 11 : Apes of Wrath, Da Bears, Chaz, Valley Arena @ the Che Cafe
wed apr 15 : while we tentatively have scheduled our final mixing session for album #3, there is also Apes of Wrath, Roxy Jones, and Transer @ Soda Bar
thur apr 16 : Scarlet Symphony, The Art, & Braaiins @ Soda Bar
fri apr 17 : Wavves, Christmas Island, The Dabbers, Bipolar Bears, DJ Mario Orduno @ the Casbah
sat apr 18 : Writer, Calico Horse, Menomena @ the Casbah

oh its good to be back home.

last friday, and beyond

Ah, the warmth of wool-knit Ken Clubs. I forgot to bring my camera, but did not forget to bring cash for $3.50 vodka-tonics. And didn't forget to bring my roommates, who conveniently also brought money for more vodka-tonics, or "maybe not the best idea" as nixo called them. anyways, Silverleaf, you all were most excellent. while i'm quoting people, i'll stick with it, and include the recap of eric saying "man why couldn't i have wrote this song?"

and while i am pretty sure "written" is better grammar, it just doesn't fit the memory right, so there. and with the Heavy Love closing out the night? and you know we love any chance to drop in The Holiday Song (our holiday classic off the HTBH-precursor The Michael EP)! am i right?

anyways, speaking of beyond, Joanie Mendenhall is playing with us and Wendy Darling on the 20th at the Beauty Bar, which should also be super excellent. and we are confirmed for our first show of the New Year, 1/16/09 at the Ruby Room, with Swim Party, Team Abraham, and Gamma Gamma, in celebration of Jason's Birthday! booya!

Friday Dec. 5th, Ken Club with The Heavy Love

The holidays have been keeping us busy, what with a new album heavily in the works getting much of our precious time. ... so we've slapped together this flyer to remind you all that (1) we are still alive and (2) we've got a show to usher in the holiday season!!!





With our dear friends (and one roommate) The Heavy Love! ... you like motown? (and who doesn't) you gotta hit this show up. The Heavy Love play a great mix of oldies and motown covers and are Always a good time.

Of course, expect us to dust off a few of those seasonal hits (The Holiday Song from the Michael EP, anyone?) and a timely cover or two as well. Don't Miss out! The Modlins are coming ....

with shakes like these

no, not milkshakes. although that does sound good right now. maybe i should go eat lunch before blog posting... anyways, 5.4 outside of Chino, good times. almost rocked me as hard as The Casbah last night. yea, you like that transition? i thought so. pictures, and possibly video evidence, to come later this evening, but in the meantime, just a quick shoutout thanks to everyone who came to see us last night, which included, but was not limited to, all the guys from Swim Party, Roxy Jones, Joanie Mendenhall, the most excellent Cafe La Maze crew, Stoph's brother Tom (visiting from the ILLinois), and 4 out of the 5 irish guys who are spending their summer living in the apartment next to mine. and a huge thanks to Apes of Wrath, The Happy Hollows, Eef Barzelay, Tim Pyles the maxmister master of ceremonies, my roommates who got home from Vegas at 3am Monday morning but still stuck it out, all the other ladies, and everyone else who stayed through the whole show. It was a bit of a late Monday night, but what a great one!

We're getting ready to log a few more hours in various studios, as we are jealous of all these other bands with their CD Release shows left and right, but in the meantime, see you Friday at the Whistlestop, and hopefully, at the Ken Club later that night!

the double double

looks like friday just got more complicated as well : already mentioned Vision of a Dying World / Scarlet Symphony / Thin Man casbah , but didn't know about Writer / The Howls / Lisa The Lush ken club free show. well, not really free because you know you're gonna buy at least a couple PBRs. or maybe thats just me. what to do, what to do...

art around adams

another post mostly for my own good, but

http://www.artaroundadams.org/performance.htm

if you haven't seen it, some good stuff on there. apes of wrath @ the ken @ 2:10pm, with echo revolution thereafter, and team abraham after them. predicates @ "smitty's service" at 4:35. anna troy band at lestats around 6pm, and the might that can only be described as Secret Apollo back at the ken at 6:30pm. what a saturday. wham bam bamina. just hoping i can recover from the casbah night tonight early enough to get to my grandparents' house early enough tomorrow AM to eat lunch quick enough to get to adams ave by 2... keeping fingers crossed...

missing lamps!!!

i don't know why i didn't blog about this earlier, but we're missing two of our lamps. the matching green lamps that we use during our set (courtesy of the rhanor's living room) have ran off in the heat of the night. last seen outside the ken club on 2/29 ..... if you have any information on their whereabouts let us know. here's the craigslist post with a pic:

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/laf/601141694.html

coming up next ...

if you made it out last night, you know how great it was. but we refuse to stop (you know, that whole objects in motion tend to stay in motion thing?) .... we're cooking up some big things in the modlins idea pot, and they're almost soup. what big things you say?

maybe a music video, a tour, a TV performance?

yes and yes.

more details to come in the next week or two on all these fronts, but don't think we're slowing down. in the meantime, we've got 2 amazing shows coming up. Double up fridays! we return for a friday night gig at the ken club with up and comers Syndicate and Repeater (from Long Beach). last time i saw Repeater at the Ken, i was amazed. they had a kind punk-y wolf parade-ish quality to them. I think we all bought EPs after their set. you'll not want to miss it.

then friday next week, Apes of Wrath's CD RELEASE PARTY at The Beauty Bar!!!

shows aplenty

the calendar is stacking up with shows. we're giving you nearly a month off from the mods before we come back. Hard. in addition to the previously announced 2/29 ken club and 3/7 beauty bar (both fridays for those who can't stand midweek shows) ... how about an all ages saturday show and a free sunday at the casbah? yeah, cause we're that nice. here's how it's looking ....

02/29/08 The Ken Club .... w/ Syndicate, Repeater
4079 Adams Ave
San Diego, CA 92116

03/07/08 The Beauty Bar ..... w/ Apes of Wrath, Music For Animals
4746 El Cajon Blvd
San Diego, CA 92115

03/22/08 The Habitat (ALL AGES!!!) .... w/ The Facets, more TBA
21st & Broadway
San Diego, CA 92102

03/30/08 The Casbah - CD Release for Staring at the Sun Compilation
2501 Kettner Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101

The Casbah show will be extra good as we're playing with Secret Apollo, Anna Troy, Echo Revolution and Andy & The Haunted Honky Tonkers. apparently The show is FREE!!! (wha?!) ... a FREE compilation will be given out (free music,what/!?) and the drinks .... will still cost money. but with all that money you'll save at the door and on merch, you can now buy enough booze to get you and your friends drunk without breaking the bank (and still afford the taxi home). yay sundays!