We're about halfway through our latest tour so get down on your knees because we're about to blog all over your face.
We've been getting a lot of really nice, flattering press on our new album, Heave Yer Skeleton. Thanks to all of the writers who continue to support our insanity. Below are a few links for you to check out:
seattle weekly
san francisco weekly
la weekly
oc weekly
the a.v. club austin
obscure sound
the cleveland plain dealer
the new haven advocate
the jh weekly
this is book's music
l.a. music blog
So far we've visited many wonderful places, from Connecticut, New York and Philadelphia to the Dirty South. We even hit up some new places like Lexington, Kentucky for the first time. We played a very cool bar called The Green Lantern, which prides itself on selling Absinthe.
(a slutty fairy high on pixie dust)
Sam felt adventurous before the show and decided to try a quick shot. Unfortunately the bar had run out of sugar cubes and instead of a shot gave him a full glass of the green magic on the rocks. Luckily he found his good buddy Keith to carry him out of the bar later that evening...
(Keith and Sam and the green fairy)
You may know Keith Twichell from such cult film classics, The Babysitters Club, Alien Smoke Out, and Sweet Dreams. He's also our co-writer for our upcoming video for "Vampires" (coming very soon...)
So we road the green fairy down to Nashville, playing with our great friends; Six Gun Lullaby, Fuckshow and Thelma and the Sleaze. We love these bands and they've given us a nice little home in Nashville. Later that week we played at a great club in Altanta called the Drunken Unicorn. Don't get too excited. There weren't any unicorns there, let alone a drunkin unicorn. But there was a drunk guy in the corner with a raging boner. That kinda looked unicornish. We ended the week in Birmingham, Alabama with what turned out to be a very interesting night. We were scheduled to play a venue called Magic City Wholesale. Things seemed to be running smoothly. The first band Den of Lions was rippin through their fierce set when all of a sudden the electricity went out on the entire block. Girls began screaming and ripping off their clothes. "I'm melting" yelled one, "My skins burning" yelled another. Men started jumping out of windows and fires erupted all around us. A priest in the crowd yelled, "The end is nighe!"
The promoter from Steel City Booking swooped us up and screamed, "Follow us if you want to live!" We jumped in the van and headed down the street to the Bottletree - where we played on the floor to a very appreciative crowd of survivors.
(Okay, we may have exaggerated, but the electricity really did go out and we did end the night at the Bottletree...it was a shining example of southern hospitality. Thank you Wes for hookin it all up.)
We ended that leg of the tour with a Halloween show in our lovely hometown of Cleveland. The land of Cleve was definitely in the halloween spirit, decked out in some amazing costumes including; Teenwolf, Tobias Funke (from Arrested Development) and a stripper cop who could barely walk. Very classy. Mom would be proud.
Now onto the wild west. Stay tuned for more exciting adventures boys and girls, and don't forget to send in your proof of purchase to get a free decoder ring.
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