UPDATE: Things are still all wrong. The last five 10 days have felt like five lifetimes, and we still don't have much of a sense as to exactly when we'll be leaving Portland. Our engine is presently being rebuilt by the resentful and put-on staff that destroyed our engine to begin with. We've started calling it our "lost weekend"--and drinking accordingly. Is it still a lost weekend if it lasts for two weeks?
We are finally on the road. We'll be picking up our shows beginning with the Cambridge show on the first. Thank you for your patience!
I sort of get the feeling that no one really noticed our absence at Tuesday's Sunset Rubdown show, but in case you did: we come bearing the gift of more free music, and more (presently hypothetical) tour dates. I hope we're still cool.
Firstly, the dates:
Rubdown & Redemption 2008
SEPTEMBER
16th- Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY*
18th-First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA*
19th-Black Cat, Washington, DC*
20th-Skully's Music Diner, Columbus, OH*
21st-Beat Kitchen, Chicago, IL
22nd-The Cinemat, Bloomington, IN
24th-Beachland Tavern, Cleveland, OH^
25th-Bug Jar, Rochester, NY^
27th-Sneaky Dee's, Toronto, ON^
29th-Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ottawa, ON^
OCTOBER
1st-Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge, MA^
2nd-Cake Shop, NYC^
4th-Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington, DC^+
6th-Clementine Cafe, Harrisonburg, VA^
8th-Village Tavern, Mt. Pleasant, SC^
9th-Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA^
10th-JJ's Bohemia, Chattanooga, TN
11th-The End, Nashville,TN^
13th-Maintenance Shop, Ames, IA^%
14th-Hi Dive, Denver, CO^
15th-Kilby Court, SLC, UT^
16th-Neurolux, Boise, ID^
17th-Vera Project, Seattle, WA^#
18th-Department of Safety, Anacortes, WA^
19th-Whaam, Bellingham, WA^
20th-The New Frontier, Tacoma, WA^
21st-Backspace, Portland, OR^
* w/Sunset Rubdown
^ w/Evangelicals
+ w/These United States
% w/Dressy Bessy
# w/Catfish Haven
Next-most, Matt Carlson is offering up a free download of his latest LP, entitled, American Standard. Matt's description:
"American Standard is an album I worked on (and off) for about 8 months, recording whenever I wasn't working or doing Parenthetical Girls stuff. The music was an attempt to bring together disparate musical interests of mine into a cohesive whole. "Vortex" is basically drone meets EAI with a pop melody on top. "Let's Move (into the store)" is Krautrock-pop using additive processes. The only real unifying aesthetic I guess is minimalist techniques put into song form, making use of an extended time scale. Really it's an EP with songs that are so long that it becomes a full-length."
Check out the hit single "Let's Move (into the store)", and then download the rest right over here:
AMERICAN STANDARD
And here's those covers yet again:
Deerhoof - "GUT Symmetries (feat. Zac Pennington)"
The Dead Science - "Young Eucharists"
No Kids - "This Regrettable End
Hopefully this will tide you over until we're fully functional again.
Love,
(((GRRRLS)))
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Is there a designated "lost weekend" drink yet?
Also! American Standard, A+
Posted by: Cait at September 18, 2008 11:39 AMI can't speak for the rest of them--okay, well I could probably speak for Matt--but personally, it's been a particularly caustic Margarita-in-a-bag mix with some fanciful, fictional General on the back. Lose yourself.
Posted by: zac at September 18, 2008 12:20 PMI didn't actually go to see the New York show because I found out about your tour van... That's a horrible shame. What's even more shameful is that I am almost 20, and thus I will not be able to get into the Cake Shop show. I hope you come back here someday.
Good luck with everything and the van.
(And try to lower the drinking age so that I can go to things. It can't be that hard to change the laws...?)
xx
Posted by: allison at September 18, 2008 07:54 PMI paid for the sunset rubdown show and mercury lounge (the box office) wouldn't refund me, even though they advertised the show with you being on the bill (at least when i bought mine). it's okay-they gave me a plastic bag once when i really needed it.
GODSPEED.
Posted by: Corey Smith at September 19, 2008 09:53 AMCome to Moscow some day, please
(:
PARENTHETICAL BITCHES
i accept the terms of your absence under condition you return to black cat one fine day
Posted by: s at September 20, 2008 08:27 PMHow much Shiner would I have to buy you to get you to come to Texas sometime? Seriously, you need to come down to the dirty south.
Posted by: ShinesunShine at September 28, 2008 01:55 PMno san francisco date still?
Posted by: emily at October 1, 2008 08:25 AMzac make a surprise appearance at the dead science's show at the knitting factory tonight, please :3
Posted by: andrea at October 1, 2008 09:33 AMI second the request for a San Francisco show.
Posted by: david at October 3, 2008 04:41 PMone more for san francisco.cushion works again??
Posted by: lauren at October 4, 2008 01:26 AMI attended the longest show ever at the Rock n' Roll Hotel in DC last night and purchased your Safe as Houses LP. This morning I woke up far earlier than I wanted or needed and decided to make the best of the situation by putting the record on. When my clock radio came on during a song transition and started talking about the financial crisis it was disorienting and made me think that your record was beautiful, poignant, timely, topical, and foresighted. I am glad to see you enjoy fancy teas. I have a serious habit only satisfied by Earl Gray from Harrod's. In conclusion, will you ask Rachel if she will marry me?
Posted by: Jim at October 5, 2008 06:53 AMYou were great last night! I hope our floor suited!
Posted by: Rachel at October 7, 2008 07:11 AMWith all these covers coming out, I wondering if a Matt Carlson rendition of one of the songs is in the works. Also, it's about time for a new Christmas EP. You guys gonna keep w/ the bi-annual tradition? People want to know.
Posted by: yates at October 8, 2008 07:55 PMwhen is entanglements coming out on vinyl? i have been waiting long enough, sir!
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