BEARS!BEARS!BEARS!

hello, friends and lovers. long time no tumbl. (this post is off to a great start.) how have you been? your hair looks great. are those new shoes? they’re really cute. you always find such great stuff, i don’t know how you do it!

oh, we’ve been alright. we recently finished recording our debut full-length over at hyde street studios with our producer scott mcdowell. we were joined by some of our good friends in finish ticket and the y axes, who came in and laid down backing vocals on a number of tracks. it was a blast. love those guys! but that’s not really what we came here to talk to you about.

we are currently in the running for a chance to play the rhythms music festival on april twenty-sixth at the sfsu library annex with THE HOOD INTERNET and TORO Y MOI. but we need your help! all you need to do is go to this picture of us over on the festival’s facebook page and click “like” to vote for us. that’s it! voting ends this sunday at midnight. tell all your friends! PLEASE RT!

love,

evan.

man, remember when myspace was a thing? like, a viable tool for musicians? what do we have now? bandcamp and soundcloud are great for hosting downloads, but lack the social aspect that myspace offered. there’s twitter, of course. and facebook, but it’s just not the same for music. it is, however, roughly the same for scene girls looking to post eighty minuscule variants of the same stupid duckface picture. (haha, LADIES BE TRIPPIN’, AMIRITE?)

are scene girls still a thing? i feel i might be more out of touch with the kids and their crazy big band music than i had originally thought.

anyway, SHOWS!

we will be playing nickel city this friday. you would be hard pressed to find a better show in an arcade environment. not only will it be our return to the place where we had our first show EVER (some twenty-five years ago), but it will be mere days after our guitarist ricky’s birthday (which is today, in fact; everyone go shout “sic semper tyrannis” and then stab him with the daggers you have hidden in your togas), so we’ll all be in the mood to party and get nuts and snort all manner of cocaine and four loko in the parking lot!* people snort four loko, right?

we’ll be playing once more with our friends the better maker (no “s,” just ignore the flier and listings), as well as new friends skyway view, reid saw a ghost, and rat trap.

you can buy tickets here, if so inclined, and you can find a facebook event page here.

so come out and drink yoohoo and play street fighter and party with us until we are all purple!

love,

evan.

*no we will not. well, maybe.

hi hi hi there.

next thursday we will be playing a show at our very favorite san francisco venue, the retox lounge! it is sure to be an evening of utmost excitement and exuberance for all. things should get going between eight and nine in the evening (i’m afraid it’s quite impossible to be sure, as ours is a highly cavalier, free-wheeling rock and roll lifestyle - but perhaps that goes without saying.) so be sure and arrive early as we will likely be performing FIRST!

the lineup is as follows:

BEARS! BEARS! BEARS!

MONARCHS

ROOFTOPS

COMMISSURE

here is a flyer for the evening, designed by myself, using the art of the lovely bear welch (no relation to us).

so come out and say hello. we will likely STILL be moderately drunk and sobbing over toy story 3. it is somewhat troubling what an impregnable stranglehold pixar has on our emotions.

love,

evan.