Posted by Alex - Thursday, March 18 2010 11:40pst

 

Over the course of our ever approaching 5 year mark as a band,
we have learned a few things. Don't eat indian food right before
your set. Don't stress when the headliner takes a two hour sound
check, giving you none. Don't combine redbull and whiskey right
after your indian food. And finally, don't pack so many laptops,
samples, click tracks, and technology that playing becomes ZERO fun.
    
The last of those is what ultimately could have ended us a band.
We were trying to sound so "professional" and polished that we
actually weren't playing our instruments anymore. We literally became
robots. Well, I'm here to say that, we've said "fuck the laptop" and
we've started to freakin' jam again. If you come to a show now, you
will see a raw energy not experienced yet in our career. There will
be mistakes, loud feedback, partially shit singing at times; but at
last the errors themselves will not include: "the loop we were playing
to got cut short".
    
If you come to see our free Echo show this Mon 3/22, you will not hear
any hits, or anything that remotely sounds like the future MTV single.
You certainly won't hear such aging frequency classics as "Talk To Me",
and our blackberry commercial "Jim Gordon, pt 2". You know why? Cause we
are getting too fucking old to not have fun onstage. We've got a new bass
player, a young free spirit named Sam, who has helped bring new life and
ideas into the band. He plays Fender bass, and 70's Moog bass. We asked
him if he wants to add a floor tom to bash with mallets as part of his
set up. His reply: "the 'bands with floor toms' idea is a little tired."
    
I just came from the best rehearsal we've had in years. Our songs are
long, psychedelic, and possibly thunderous - all set to a video projection
screen that may cause seizures, or least make you forget that Lady Gaga
and Kiss FM still exist. If you want to call us psych-rock, retro, floydy -
none of it matters. We've brought back that honesty and soul that me and
Marc had back when we were a college jam band many years ago. In short,
the music is less produced, more naked, more fun to play, and we hope....more fun to watch.

And remember....easy on the curry before backstage band huddles. 

-alex

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Posted by Marc - Tuesday, March 9 2010 10:27pst

Upcoming show 3.22.2010 in Los Angeles... 

 

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Posted by Marc - Thusday, March 4 9:47am pst

The good people at NME.com have done another feature on us,
including 2 free downloads from Absence of Giants. The first
track is called "Love Is One", which will open the album. The whole
song is 11 minutes but is divided into separate tracks on the record.
The other is "Carbon People".

You can get them both at NME by clicking HERE.

 

And here is what "Carbon People" looks and sounds like on the stage:

 

 

 

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Posted by Marc - Tuesday, February 09 2010 12:23pm pst

Black cover with punched out letters (move your mouse over the cover
picture to see what is behind it making the lovely colors...this collage
of photos, which is still in progress, will make up the inner record sleeve:

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by Marc - Thursday, January 28th 2010 11:54pm pst 

Greetings. We've started this blog to give you a preview of all things
regarding our new album. It's just about finished.

We've arrived at a name for the new record. We are calling it ABSENCE OF GIANTS.
We hope you will like it.

The first track you can preview is in the mp3 player
on the right. It's called "HUMANS PLAY".

Our goal is to release it properly sometime within
the next few months. In the meantime, we will be
posting preview tracks, outtakes, artwork, videos,
free downloads and other random things so check back often.

Here is a little compilation video of studio and rehearsal clips:

And here is some fine art created by Alex after he discovered
the "Glass" filter in Photoshop: