Monthly Archives: April 2010

Erin and I were in Fort Worth for the weekend and I thought I’d be missing out on the third annual Record Store Day, but then I just happened to drive past Doc’s Records And Vintage, so I got to participate after all. We also stopped at Forever Young Records in Grand Prairie on the way home. If you’re in Houston on Saturday, check out Cactus Records where our friend (and drummer on some of the songs on our upcoming EP) Freddie Steady Krc will be playing.

Most of us have gotten used to an age of unsexy gigabytes of files on hard drives and we’ve all listened to songs stolen from the internet with terrible file compression. Sorting through bins of used CDs, watching an LP spin, and having to be more selective when your hard earned cash isn’t able to go as far on a new album, does make the recorded music experience something a bit more special than the norm of the last 10 years. There’s really something to say for a physical medium and I’d suggest taking a step back and letting it supplement your iPod on occasion.

- James

Even though we didn’t play any gigs, March was a really busy and productive month for us – we spent two weekends in Austin in the studio, and I spent an additional weekend in Austin at SXSW for work. When I wasn’t in Austin, I was busy having every illness known to man, one after the other (it all started with the Erin-gitis back in February). Things have calmed down, and I’m working on setting up more shows. Our next scheduled performance will be on June 10th with my friends the Invincible Czars. We’re really excited about teaming up with the Czars, and I’ll give you more info in a future post.

In other news, our EP is almost complete. Justine and I are going to work with our friend Josh Applebee at Sugar Hill to add piano, and then James and I will be making one more trip back to Mark Younger-Smith’s studio in Austin to finish the vocals and electric guitar on a couple of the tracks. We don’t have an exact release date yet, but it will be this summer.

More info soon!

love,

erin