+ May 04, 2007 (Friday) 01:17 AM
Containing news of the fact that we are big ol' liars.
Not three days go by and we go against everything that was claimed in our last news entry. Recording is starting off slower than we'd like, we miss the stage, and we got a great offer to open for Loney, dear (from Sweden, on Sub Pop Records) and Great Northern (from Los Angeles) at the end of the month. I know you no longer have any reason to trust us, but come hear us play some new songs and let us redeem ourselves. Check out the calendar for the scoop.

-Jack

+ May 01, 2007 (Tuesday) 01:41 PM
Containing news of our recording plans.

As you may have noticed, our calendar is completely empty when it comes to shows at the moment. After our last show in March we have been taking some time off to work on some recordings for our debut album. It's slow going, thus far, but we've got 12 songs picked out and I'm working to complete the orchestral arrangements (some for 15+ extra players!) before we go into the studio to start tracking anything. Hopefully we'll have some songs in completed form by late summer, but you never know with these things, and it's certainly not a good idea to rush. But it'll be nice to have something current and fully-formed to represent us, even just for our sadly neglected MySpace player!

-Jack

+ February 04, 2007 (Sunday) 10:08 AM
Containing news of new band members.

We have added some new folks to the lineup, which you may have noticed if you saw our performance last night at the Funky Church or last week at the roller derby. Eric decided to step away from the group at the beginning of January, and Nick Lawrence is now seated at the drum throne. We've also been joined by Becky Brosnan, who will be playing organ and electric guitar.

We're very excited to have both of them as part of the combo, and we're going to be playing minimally over the next few months while everybody gets comfortable with new songs. We hope you'll come see us and check out the new lineup at our next show -- we're playing with Strength and The Catch at the Artistery in Portland on Saturday, February 24th.

-Jack

+ December 09, 2006 (Saturday) 11:20 AM
Containing news of new photography, further band auditions and upcoming shows.

Perhaps you have noticed the new photography that is gracing the pages of this website. The images were captured by the estimable Ryan Russell-Christy, the same trigger finger who was responsible for the last set of shots that gave spice to our little web presence. Go check out his other photography on Flickr -- I think you'll be impressed. He is off to Newfoundland for awhile, so I am sure soon enough we will be seeing a lot of imagery of the great white north over there.

You can also see some shots Ryan took of two of our recent shows with the four-piece lineup. He was there to capture show #83 at the Doug Fir and show #88 at Mississippi Studios.

Now that we have had a bunch of successful performances together and Eric is firmly in place at the drumstool -- we super-glued him there, just to be safe -- we are searching for the final two members we need to flesh out our ideal 6-member stage lineup. We hope to find two female additions so that our gender ratio will be equal and so vocally, as I like to say, "We can have our Beach Boys and our Supremes." If you or someone you know is a multi-instrumentalist and singer, lives locally and might be interested, please get in touch with us. Guitar and/or piano abilities are most important, but talent on viola/violin or trumpet are also huge pluses.

Our next two shows are at Doug Fir on the 28th of December and at the Towne Lounge on 18th of January, both of them in Portland. We want to see you in that audience! Visit our shows page for all the details.

Hope you are all having an enjoyable wintertime despite the cold and that you haven't worn out playing "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey quite yet.

-Jack

+ September 28, 2006 (Thursday) 10:38 PM
Containing news of a last-minute show, our first with the new drummer.

There is a fundraiser for Portland Radio Authority taking place at Doug Fir next Wednesday night. Heroes & Villains were slated to play and they unfortunately have to bow out due to circumstances beyond their control. We've been tapped as a late replacement. So our first show with our new drummer (Eric) will be happening a lot sooner than expected!

Update 09/30/06: The details keep changing, but here's what I have for you now: headlining will be The Shaky Hands, a group called Arcularius (formerly Le Push) will be playing, and Graves will be on the bill as well. We're going on first, and the show should start promptly at 9 PM. The Doug Fir, need I remind you, does not observe the traditionally late "Portland show time.")

We hope you'll come cheer us on, but if you can't, there is word that the event will be streamed live by PRA and later podcasted. More info about that can be found on PRA's website, and more about the show itself and the bands playing can be discovered via our shows page.

-Jack

+ September 25, 2006 (Monday) 05:59 PM
Containing news of photo integration.

A little bit of time was spent at the end of last week implementing some new stuff on the website. Visitors have always been able to peruse pages which document shows that the band has played, wherein one can click on a tiny thumbnail to check out photos. Well, now when a visitor reaches that page of images, the photos themselves will be linked to bigger versions that reside in the band's Flickr account.

Feel free to comment on individual photos, or better yet, send us links to photos of us you've posted on Flickr so we can link to them! And if you have photos you've taken of us at a show that aren't hosted anywhere, you can e-mail them to us and we'll put them up on our account -- we'll be sure to give you credit, of course!

-Jack

+ September 14, 2006 (Thursday) 06:33 PM
Containing news of our new drummer.

There's been no news in awhile, we realize. That doesn't mean nothing's been happening, just that we've been chugging along, playing shows, learning some news songs -- and finding a drummer. Yeah, it looks like we finally found somebody, but due to our past history with drummers signing on and then dropping out before we even got three steps forward, we're understandably reluctant to reveal too much about the newest member of our combo until he shares the stage with us. That'll be in mid-October.

For now, however, we have one more show as a three-piece, tomorrow night at the Towne Lounge here in Portland. Click over to the calendar for the details. We hope you can make it!

-Jack

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