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.

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!

If You Were Me (and not going on tour)

.... you'd have a pretty sweet line-up of show coming up. here's the breakdown (and extensive rambling since today is basically my friday) ....

Thursday, April 3rd:

if you were me, you would for sure hit up TNT at the MOCA in downtown. Exfriends are playing with F.U.Z.Z. and Longstay. according to the ex-friends mailinglist, they play from 9-10pm. after that, you'd better haul ass over to the beauty bar to catch Frantic Romantic, The May Fire and Fascination .... though now that you're thinking about it, last time the first band started at 9:30 (sorry Joanie! we started at 10 ... i didn't know!) so maybe this plan will be a failure. well, if you were me, you'd maybe have to skip the exfriends cause you already caught them last wednesday at the Ken, and you haven't seen frantic romantic in awhile (esp since their Alibi show got cancelled, and you're bummed about it). Anna Troy is also playing the Ken thursday, but you just saw her at the Casbah on sunday, so you can skip this one. bummer also, red pony clock is playing chasers and you haven't seen them in awhile .... geez. okay, thursday just sounds exhausting, so much good stuff.

but if you are me, you'll be playing The Beauty Bar in Vegas with The Roman Spring and Action Cat, you'll be up second. you will drink lots. there will be dancing.

Friday, April 4th:

holy! if you were me, you would be pissed that they didn't just add (The) Swim Party and The Henry Clay People to the "THE FEST" at the casbah. Casbah does it up again with The Sess, The Muslims, (the?) Vision of a dying world, (the?) red feathers, (the?) fantastic magic. so yeah, Ken Club's got a small but super sweet line up, Casbah brings the heat. You haven't seen the Sess or fantastic magic, and it's been awhile since you saw vision of a dying world. and you saw swim party last friday, but you really liked Henry Clay when they played Zombie Lounge a couple months ago. so again, you hate everyone. you'd probably learn how to split yourself in two, and send your doppelganger to one of the shows. (you also probably know at least one person who is strongly considering going to Viejas Dreamcatcher for Bret Michaels "Rock Of Love". and not in an ironic way).

but if you are me, you'll be playing at The Ruby Room in Phoenix with Sister Cities (who apparently are the next best thing since sliced bagels), The Former Young Americans and, of course, The Roman Spring. you are are also pretty happy the high is suppose to be 85 degrees as opposed to 105 the last time you played there.

Saturday, April 5th:

if you were me, you'd probably be tired from the work week. you'd do some laundry, maybe hit up Torpasta. Then you'd probably head to the casbah for a pretty sweet "out of towner" night. The Little Ones (from LA) are playing and ever since you were called a "Retro Rock version of The Little Ones" in Performer Magazine you've been meaning to check them out live. you've also heard good things about Ra Ra Riot and The Morning Benders, so you figure "yeah .... that sounds good." Echo Revolution is also playing the Beauty Bar that night for their CD release, so you thought about hitting that up, but since you caught them at the casbah for the Staring at the Sun CD release, you've had your fill for now.

... but if you are me, you just crossed into uncharted modlin terriority, and you're gearing up to play your first New Mexico show at The Tiki Lounge with Lousy Robot and Cherry Tempo. oh yeah, and THE ROMAN SPRING.

Sunday, April 6th:

YES!! boy are you happy. if you were me, you'd be loading up on some Stone Beers and heading to The Habitat to check out Dave Williams and Trash Can Fires. you love The Habitat, yes you do. and Roy, that guy's alright! afterwards, you've thankfully worked out the schedules and somehow managed to find away to catch everyone at the Zombie Lounge (including Writer and Joel P West) and everyone at the Ken (including Roxy Jones). you're pretty proud of yourself. look at you, so smug. you act like your shit don't stink. and it don't!

but if you are me, you'll be playing your last show of the tour at The Hut with Tucson locals Ultramaroon. did i mention Roman Spring will be playing too? Heck Yeah!

and if you are me, this will be your road map:

you also are wondering if this whole "if you were/if you are" thing makes any sense. you're sorta realizing it doesn't .... but you don't care either way, you're gonna keep doing it.

you also don't understand the concept of "labels for a post" and went ape shit.

you shouldn't quit your day job.

if you were me

... you've been sick the last 5 days, and watched more movies than you have fingers. you missed great shows from Roxy Jones, Roman Spring, Vision of a dying world, The Prayers, the muslims, the sess (who i've been wanting to see), Anna Troy, the list goes on.

hopefully you're feeling better and looking forward to a show this tuesday at the Zombie lounge. Secret Apollo, us, Love Pentagon. it's gonna be ... legend ... wait for it ... dary!!!

so yeah, come on out. if you don't trust us. take these guys words for it:


"The Modlins are busy spreading their pop-rock seed in support of their second album With Friends Like These. Love Pentagon is an all-female band from Las Vegas with a thing for 'psychedelic dance rock' and unicorns. I could tell you something about Secret Apollo but, well, -it’s a secret." -SD City Beat

"Well-heeled indie oddities the Modlins bolster what's already been a catch-all week for Zombie Lounge. (Keep it up, undead booking guy.) Check out last year's Shins-y Here's to Being Happy and tell me again San Dagans cain't do Baroque. Cherry bill includes Love Pentagon, Secret Apollo, Pan de Sal, DJ Ding Dong, and Horror Nate" -SD Reader

phew .... who needs a nap?

so we've been brainstorming how we're going to get this all done. we want to have the album out by the end of the year (clean slate, fresh start for '08) so we're frantically working on the album. matt and i did more vocaling on monday and mr. smith will be swinging by to put his sweet pipes to tape today. we're also working on securing a venue with some local favorites we've either enjoyed or been meaning to be playing with. all in all, things are good in the modlins camp. we just played the tower bar with anna troy, which was a blast, and an acoustic set for loverlee's CD release which went really well. check out loverlee's new CD "musical chairs", it's pop goodness.

this weekend is another busy weekend, saturday evening our friend Emma Goo is having a solo art show down at the magpie boutique/gallery in south park (across from the whistlestop) from 6-10pm. That evening we'll be playing at The Ken Club for Roxy Jones' CD release show. should be a hoot. with squiddo to close out the night. then, the following day heading up to LA for a show with compilation-mates "sons and lovers" at the gig. Hot TV to support. check it.