:: Friday, March 28, 2008 ::

i am so excited to announce that the vinyl is available and the street date for those of you who still go into record shops is April 14th. Our friends at Southern Lord have already sold out of the first pressing and until they repress, those of you who need to have them shipped can order them from our online store (starting this Monday) or through our label Barsuk Records.
anyway, it looks absolutely stunning- the printer did a fantastic job (although he was unable to give me an upper lip!) as did stephen o’malley with his re- arrangement of the layout and beautiful new take on the back cover. anyway, as i mentioned it is a double record and it has a bonus track "smiling serene" and also a very limited amount of peach/pearl colored vinyl is available. i don’t know about you, but i intend to hold that colored plastic up to the sun and just stare through it for hours while i spin the record on my pinky finger. these are limited edition pressings, so act quickly if you want one!! also to report, we just spent last weekend (from friday noon till 7 a.m monday morning) in the studio (avast) with the exceptional mell dettmer at the helm, mixing some songs that eric recorded at his house and mine! eric mixed the last song starting at 3 in the morning-yikes!! we had a good time, and these songs will be available when you see us live-which brings me to the next batch of news....europe dates are still being worked out and there is more then just talk of a west coast jaunt with our friends in EARTH in june-cant wait!!! ok,well, see you soon j.s
:: Phil 9:19 PM ::

The artist David Levinthal will be using the song "reckless burning" in an installation that is part of a series of shows. The first opening will take place in Hong Kong the 25th of February. Then, the exhibition will travel to Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York,
Moscow, London and Paris. i am very honored to be part of anything this guy is doing,as i am a huge fan of his work! http://www.davidlevinthal.com/index.html
:: Phil 11:53 AM ::

Sweet,sweet love.Well,here we are in Zurich tonight...tour started out on a great note,played a festival in Rotterdam and got to play on the same stage right before Deerhoof...they are my new favorite band....and amazingly cool poeple too.i cant figure out the puctuation system on this swiss computer so please excuse the.....anyway,things are going well and the people are being very kind to us.i promise i will write more later,but sound check is starting.One last thing though-thankyou to all you folks that came to our cd release shows in seattle....it was amazing...and to all our good pals back home we miss and love you guys

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:: Phil 9:47 AM ::

Happy new year!!!Just to remind you,the new record LIKE, LOVE ,LUST AND THE OPEN HALLS OF THE SOUL will be in stores FEB 6th....and the new site will be up in 3 to 4 weeks!YAY!!!jess
:: Phil 10:40 AM ::

howdy folks,happy holidays to you all.Just giving you a heads up that we will be going out on tour for a month with the amazing Sparklehorse-lucky us!!So check the tour dates in the next week as it is a full North American tour.Also be on the look out for a new website as we are getting tired of this old one-if any of you know someone who is good at designing them but not too expensive,do let us know-soon!!!I like simplicity but i would also like to have a few bells and whistles added so the kids find it exciting!Just thinking out loud...ok,off to the park to run the dog....xojess
:: Phil 9:11 AM ::

For all you movie buffs out there who are also fans of our music,go rent "12 and Holding" .Its by the same director who did L.I.E which was a pretty dark movie but i thought extrememly interesting and complex in its approach to dealing with pedophilia.This movie has gotten some pretty good reveiws-though mixed( i have yet to see it) but supposedly the kids who act in it are amazing( i think it deals with how these kids cope when one of their friends is killed)...anyway, the movie has one of our songs in it-"Reckless Burning'.Pretty sure its avaliable at any video store that has a good indie selection- and yes, i think this too is a pretty dark picture!Hope all is well....just finishing up the album artwork which was once again done by the talented Jay Bryant.Take care-jesse
:: Phil 4:45 PM ::