Playing a brand new venue in two days

We're very excited about our upcoming show, at The Grand Victory— the new venue where Bruar Falls used to be.  Its grand opening was on Thursday, and I have to tell you the place is absolutely gorgeous (click on the thumbnails to the left to see for yourself).

In the interest of full disclosure I am a little bit biased, as yours truly will be working there Saturday nights, so I'm a little emotionally invested in the venture.  But it really is a picturesque place to see us play, maybe the best sounding room in an intimate venue in Brooklyn, and with inexpensive drinks (or high end cocktails, whichever floats your boat).  And with a $5 door charge and a forecast of above-freezing temperatures there's really no excuse to miss this.

Joining us will be our friends Money / Paper / Hearts (their drummer, Drew Mendenhall, used to play in a side project with me and Eric) and Eagle Hawk Falcon Owl.  Both of these bands are definitely worth catching, so why not come by at 8:00PM and stay for the whole show?  I mean, it's three bands for $5.  What a deal.  Hope to see you there!

We have live video from last weekend, plus new photos from Tuesday night in the studio

Eric and Kevin and I spent several hours in the studio on Tuesday night and we posted four pictures from the evening.  I know, real exciting.  But let's be real, we both know you wanna look at them.  We are so close to finishing all the tracking, mixing and hope to have it in the mastering house by February.

In other news, Eric's sister Jayme took this video of our song "Finally Here," which will appear on our upcoming record, Spilling Blood.  This was from our show last weekend at Bar Matchless here in Brooklyn.  Hope you enjoy it.

As for the photos?  Have a gander.

Just found an article on Kevin's pedal board

I just stumbled across this article about Kevin's pedal board.  I thought I'd share it with everyone so you know just what a tech nerd he is.  Feel free to read it, if you're into that kind of thing, or just ogle the impressive photos.  And now you know (partly) how we get that Oceanographer sound.

We wrote a new song! And you can hear it this Saturday in Brooklyn

For the first time in several months we're changing up our set, pulling out a couple songs we haven't played since last year, unveiling a brand new song that sounds like nothing we've done before, and you can only hear it all for the low low price of $7 this Saturday, December 10th at Matchless in Brooklyn.

We'll be appearing with our new friends Ichicuts, our old friends Autumn Bells (who you may remember as The Bottoms Of Our Hearts from our show at Trash Bar a few months back, and you may remember features Alex Beard of the late great Hula), as well as some new bands we hope to become friends with— The Beach Arabs and The Dazzling Dooms.

The whole shebang starts around 7:30PM, and we play at 10:00PM.  Since The Dazzling Dooms go on at midnight and must be done by 1AM, set times will be pretty strict.  So just to be safe?  Turn up at 8PM and stay until the wee hours of the morning.  It's not a school night, after all.

New songs and a show on Friday, November 18th

So we've decided on a title for our forthcoming record (it's called Spilling Blood!) and we thought we'd announce this by bringing out two tracks that will appear on said forthcoming record:  "Doing Just Fine" and "Niagara."  Give them a listen so you have an idea what to expect when Spilling Blood finally gets out.  They're on the song players on the right side of the web site, if you like QuickTime, or you can go to the songs page and download them if you're old fashioned (or you want to keep them forever and put them on your iPod and listen to them all day every day).

In lesser news, we also added a page to the site with reviews and interviews, as well as an archive page and a function to search the whole website, if there should ever arise a reason to do such a thing.

Yeah.  Moving on.  In more important news, we're also playing a show this month.  We'll be appearing at Alphabet Lounge in the East Village with TinVulva and The Handsome Men.  We go on at 9:30PM sharp.  Early show.  Ten dollars.

See ya there!