Bootleg

We are thrilled to be returning to The Bootleg Theater tomorrow night in Historic Filipino Town. This will be our first show in town since our wonderful experience at The Hammer Museum in late July and we could not be more excited about the line-up.

Starting things off will be our friends The Smiles at 8: 30

followed by Line and Circle at 9:15

Norton Wisdom will be joining us for our set at 10:00

flying in from Washington D.C. will be U.S. Royalty at 11:00

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The Bootleg is located at

2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057-2208

Coffee at home altitude tastes better. Thank you to all you wonderful people at Blue Jay Jazz for making last night wonderful. We had a great time. Weather!!!

This is A Blog Post episode 2

It has been quite a while since a blog post and the truth is, I have been telling myself to sit down in front of this screen and work on just doing it, but then....as it always goes I get distracted and forget and by the morning the whole vicious cycle of non-blogging continues.

We have been up to a bit more than this blog would suggest-but what is most important is what is happening this week. It still seems to not feel real and in watching last weeks Hammer Show it is unbelievable that we are a part of what we have considered a summer tradition for the last couple of years.

If you plan on coming I would like to suggest that you show up early around 7 or so and stake out a spot in line, parking is very very crazy.

The show is completely free and we have been working very hard with the help of our closest artistic and amazing friend on a slew of new merchandise-some that is free and some that will hopefully help get us started on our newest endeavour of getting into the studio. We can't wait to be in the confines of the Hammer Courtyard in only a few days.

We will be playing at 8 PM and our good friend Norton Wisdom will be joining us on his canvas

Voxhaul Broadcast will be playing directly after us at 9 PM

click here for more info

and listen to KCRW all week and for the rest of your life

while reading Buzzbands

For those of you that care to check this at any frequency---sorry I suck at this blog stuff

Standing about ten feet from the stage at hotel cafe awaiting dr dog...woh. I need to post soon i will.

Pencils Suck

Lots of unfamiliar people-Lakers: Nick and Mike say "sweet"...Drew and Matt say"O.K."-Drew's UMB hooded sweatshirt is keeping me warm right now on a semi-beautiful Venice night. We watched most of the game and got some vocal tracks recorded on a few new songs.

Spaceland was an amazing treat- it was quite nerve racking to finally play one of our favorite places to see bands but it was great to meet so many of you who were kind enough to show up early and give us a listen. Thank you Buzzbands, Vanaprasta and Spaceland for an amazing night-I realized today that my I.D. is still at the bar as part of a rental agreement for a pen need to head back soon.

Tomorrow-Graduation Party!!!!!!!

Spaceland

We will be performing this evening at Spaceland in Silverlake. It has been an incredibly busy but amazing week...we are honored to be playing and can't wait to make our first journey.

Crazy crazy spaceland

that was a party

Wow...last night was something else, Bar Pink/San Diego-you are a fantastic place and it was a pleasure seeing so many familiar faces in a town we had yet to play. We will return shortly and it was a treat to get back to our familiar set and play some songs that we have neglected in the past week.

Maren and Crew--that was fun

Tonight we finish out what has been a truly amazing run of shows and are thrilled to be doing it in a place that we have grown to love in the past 6 months...

here is our set list from last night

Bar Pink, San Diego-6/12/10

Empathy

This Town

The Current State Of Our Future

Who Are We To No

San Diego

Luck

Dark Sunglasses

Maybe It's The Distance

Static,

Thank you all so much for staying out late on a Thursday after your Los Angeles Lakers lost last night, we were so honored to be playing with such great musicians...and that is no bullshit

-Francisco The Man you are one of the greatest three piece bands I have ever seen-Gamble House-you made things that are supposed to be incredibly difficult look effortless- you are both amazing bands and it was a pleasure sharing the stage with you-

I also really wish all of you could have heard the sweet sounds of DJ Golden Sugar Bear as he was spinning some of the best songs of all time in perfect order and made the night--you are awesome kind sir!

Today has been a nice breather-I think last night was the first time we all actually slept in a bed in the last few days. Thank you so much to those of you that let us crash at your places along the way in the great Northwest you provided us with great times and comfort that we will never forget and we are back at it tomorrow night in San Diego...

Getting back to the E.P. as well

Oh yea. Golden Sugar Bear!!!!! Cant describe excitement levels in the van this gentelman has been a one of a kind friend for a long time now, cant wait to hear

This Is A Blog Post!!!

(San Francisco)

I write from sunny Market street here in San Francisco after playing Milk last night. We were treated to some amazing music from all the locals and everyone treated us incredibly well. We can't wait to be back in town soon and could not be happier with the way these shows have been going...it has been an honor to be a part of this Rumble Tour and stopping where it originated was a pleasure.

(Portland)

Everything about Portland was a treat.....

Holocene, Portland,--thank you for being one of the best music venues in the country-thank you for being overly helpful-your enthusiasm about music and your city was beyond refreshing

Priory--one of the most unique and eclectic sets we've heard in a long time---after the first song the set just got better and better and leaving to fill up my water glass mid-set felt blasphemous--to meet four/5 of the coolest people in the world is always fun as well-thank you for being such kind people-we really appreciate it

Blood Beach--how do you do what you do?--you are fucking awesome

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The last three nights of our west coast adventure have been incredible, it brought to light how foolish we were for neglecting the Northwest, we can't wait to return---we have been so fortunate--Thank You!!!

Heading to pick up our gear now--then a quick run to Amoeba across the street--I am terrible at this blogging stuff but We can't wait to be back home tonight at one of the best venues ever created--with bands we are really excited to hear and be playing with!!!!

Portland tomorrow!!

I am limited to 160 so i apologize for the many posts...we are so thrilled to be done with our first show of the rumble tour...thank you seattle you rule!!

In an attempt to stick to my inter web word and Blog every day in june i write from drews phone outside of the lovely club we just played here in seattle....

Washington...

I write this rainy Sunday morning from the corner of Columbia and 8th in Vancouver, Washington. Mike and Drew spent all night driving while Nick and I comfortably caught up on sleep in the back two rows of our newly lent home. It is crazy that we are already here in Washington and I can't wait to see what the next few days have in store.

For some reason this was on my mind when I woke up:

Wild Yaks: "River May Come" from cutandpaste on Vimeo.

In a brand new whip On the 5 about 50 miles from the capital of of our fine state. Good to be here again...more soon!

Thanks!!!

Thank you Hot Hot Heat for having us at one of the most enjoyable and unique shows we have ever played, thank you for introducing us to The Bootleg where magnificent people work and thank you finally to introducing us to people who have loved your band for a really long time and are super excited about what you are doing...it was a pleasure and we were honored to play. We can't wait for the record>>>:

We will be leaving Saturday on our Futuresounds Adventure, we can't believe it is already June and we can't believe we are doing a Rumble Tour, something we have wanted to be a part of since the day we met the fine people at Futuresounds.

We spent the later half of the day today rehearsing after fighting miserable traffic this afternoon in a location very familiar to us but somewhat far from home. It seems that everytime we go we have some of the most productive things happen in preparation to play out...we can't wait to share these new songs with cities we have been wanting to play for a long time. We start things in Seattle and we are still figuring out our wheels but we'll be there this Monday with Motopony and we can't wait.

Watching hot hot heat soundchecking now. pretty neet canada...starting with a new one tonight, come early!!!

Hot Hot Heat

This Wednesday, June 2, we will be opening for Hot Hot Heat.

It will be our first trip to the Bootleg theater and I could not be happier supporting one of the first bands I ever really understood and loved and am honored to be opening as they promote their new record.

We leave for a short run of shows up the coast this Saturday and would love your support before we head out.

Here is a link to Pre-Sale Tickets

Here is a link to Facebook Event

-Matt

Rabbit, Rabbit?

I will be making an entry every single day in June on this here blog. Each post will have things worth sharing. I know that in the past I have neglected this blog and I would like to change my pattern so here it goes...

Goodbye friend, you were a fine machine(a photo tribute to our beloved van)