Tempo No Tempo

Live from the Terrorbird Party

2009-11-06T13:28:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Ben Cruz!

mixtape!

2009-11-02T17:44:00.001-08:00

hey

we made a mix of some of the songs we love for the bay bridged.

we listened to all of these, a lot, when we made/wrote/argued about WAKING HEAT

it's not everything (we excluded dirty projectors, deerhoof and metallica for the sake of the flow) but it's a nice mix, and you can download it here:

http://www.thebaybridged.com/2009/11/02/exclusive-tempo-no-tempos-waking-heat-mixtape/

boston

2009-10-16T08:39:00.001-07:00

you are cold and awesome.

thanks to the oxfam café for our first show east of the mississippi.

today we venture off to New Jersey. yikes.

one thing we DID see that kind of blew our minds, though, was the SPHERICAL KEGS of Boston.

WHAT?? A SPHERICAL KEG? WHY IS THIS BEER CONTAINER PERFECTLY ROUND?

we didn't get a chance to investigate further, but our minds...are a little blown.

kids in irvine!

2009-10-04T11:45:00.001-07:00

who knew?? thanks to acrobatics everyday for what might be our most fun LA show ever!

love,
tempo

THURSDAY!

2009-09-29T11:41:00.000-07:00

i love designing flyers. more accurately, i love designing flyers with century gothic fonts:

TEMPO NO TEMPO
FRENCH MIAMI
Amnesia SF
10/1
$7
21+
9pm

We always knew dude was crazy.

2009-09-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

But according to the SF Weekly, dude works insanely hard.

If I knew THIS is what dude was doing when he was getting wild on his copy of Fruityloops back in the day, I might've asked for a listen earlier in the game.

I got a chance to peep the album a few months early -- and between the way-out bizarro hyphy-via-digi Afrobeat tracks and the huge bangers, I'm still figuring out how I feel about it. But I do know that more than once, I might've gotten my doodoo face on. On the real.

Congrats to Eric/WP for the SF Weekly piece, it makes us tired just reading it.

Buy Doodoo Face on Eenie Meenie Records here.

what they're saying in the press!

2009-09-21T16:51:00.001-07:00

"วงอินดี้ที่ รู้จักกันมาตั้งแต่สมัยเรียนจนปัจจุบัน ได้ออกอัลบั้มชุดนี้ที่มีทั้งกลิ่นของ น้อยส์พังค์ แอฟริกาบีท และจังหวะเต้นโจ๊ะๆ แบบที่วงส่วนใหญ่สมัยนี้นิยมทำกัน ฟังไปฟังมาก็มันดีไม่ใช่ย่อย ไม่เชื่อลองฟังดูสิ"

wow!

Pre-order WAKING HEAT here!

source:banjerd blog

Small gear rules.

2009-09-18T14:34:00.000-07:00

Fuck your complicated, heavy-ass setups.

We're touring the East Coast in a Subaru, and dammit, we're finding new ways to have less shit.

Tiny amps.
Micro snares.
No crash cymbals.
Mini casios.

You name it, we're getting less of it.

Speaking of, here are our full tour dates for the next few months::

9 - 26 : Green House w/ Magic Johnson (Portland, OR)
9 - 27 : The Off Center Café (Salem, OR)
10 - 1 : Amnesia w/ French Miami (San Francisco, CA)
10 - 3 : UC Irvine w/ Railcars (Irvine, CA)
10 - 4 : Que Sera (Long Beach, CA)
10 - 8 : UC Davis (Davis, CA)
10 - 16 : Chestnut Hill (Boston, MA)
10 - 17 : J.R.'s Bar (Philadelphia, PA)
10 - 19 : Goodbye Blue Monday w/ Jon Shina (Brooklyn, NY)
10 - 20 : Velvet Lounge w/ BLDGS (Washington, DC)
10 - 21 : Terrorbird Day Party @ Cake Shop (New York, NY)
10 - 22 : CMJ Showcase TBA (NY, NY)
11 - 5 : Rickshaw Stop w/ Maus Haus (San Francisco, CA)

yes! at war with at war with the mystics!

2009-09-17T13:28:00.000-07:00

I really wanted to like 'At War With The Mystics,' the last Flaming Lips album, but to me, it always suffered from a lack of song ideas. It sounded really cool, and there are a few gems, but it just didn't hold up to my ears.

So I am ALL for the direction of their new record, 'Embryonic,' now dousing Lips style with krautrock influence, and a heavier dose of acid/psych guitar. Hell to the YES.

They played on the Colbert Report last night, and it was awesome:

The Flaming Lips - Convinced of the Hex (live on Colbert Report)

I would call their last 4 LPs many things, but "brutal" isn't one of them. This, however, is mighty brutal. It seems simplistic, until the middle of the song when shit just won't stop.

A few photos from Tiny Telephone

2009-09-16T10:13:00.000-07:00

The real VMA scandal of last night

2009-09-14T10:30:00.001-07:00

Is that people are giving a shit about Muse. Really? They're like retarded Radiohead.

Matthew Africa drops another amazing mixtape

2009-09-13T14:00:00.000-07:00

Okay, usually this blog is for band-related dumbassery, but I'll use our occasionally-read internet outlet to vouch for one of our favorite Bay DJs, cratediggers and mixtape badass: Matthew Africa. Yes, it's his real name.

Matthew made one of my all-time favorite mixtapes, the 69-song stunner "Dirty R&B: The Best of R. Kelly," which is an endlessly listenable, perfectly sequenced double-disc mixtape highlighting the best of Kells, either on guest verse, paired with Jay-Z or by his brilliant self. I've listened to that mixtape more times than I can count, and when he followed up with the Southern-fried fight rap mixtape "Hard As Fuck," I was knocked out by the 1-2 punch of these mixes.

So it's no surprise to me that Matthew took one of my favorite current rap genres, jerkin, and delivered a killer podcast of jerkin tracks that probably deserves its own CD release. If you're not aware of jerkin, this is a pretty good place to start, although you can read up on it on Wikipedia, although it reads a little dry for my taste. Basically, jerkin sounds like "Vans" by the Pack, as it's minimal hip hop made mostly by teenagers, but the lyrics are usually about eating pussy. No lie.

You can listen to it here, and it's absolutely worth your time to check it out.

chile relleno burrito

2009-09-13T10:18:00.000-07:00

i love you so.

wow, we haven't posted here in forever

2009-09-11T18:09:00.001-07:00

It's true!

But we're alive, and ready to blog all kinds.

Here are the things we've been doing:

- Making an LP. It's awesome! We made it at Tiny Telephone, which is the best studio in San Francisco, and it's called "waking heat". Wanna hear it? We've got some tracks here, our excellent Muxtape page.
- We made a video with Wiretap Music, that you can see on their site. We talk tacos, arguing, practicing and why we only have 3 favorite bands.
- Moving to San Francisco! At least, me and Alex.
- Not buying "Blueprint 3". Because, let's be honest, odds aren't good that it's enjoyable.

We'll be posting more shit here soon...OH also, download our song "The Rat" for free at Under The Radar::: click HERE

bye,
tnt.

"Line Drawing" Live @ Noise Pop 2008!

2009-04-17T11:06:00.001-07:00

next friday!

2009-04-14T13:59:00.000-07:00

the opposite of drank

2009-04-08T00:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.drinkfour.com/#

it's called FOUR LOKO.

24 ounces, 11% ABV. this shit is not fucking around, and comes in orange, fruit punch and grape flavors.

of course, i bought three cans for scientific purposes. we shall see what happens this weekend. my prediction? us, shirtless, punching the air alone in our living room.

oh, sparks, we miss you. and now we stoop to such lows for the same fix...

new health single!

2009-04-06T12:43:00.000-07:00

http://healthgetcolor.com/

damnnnnnn

hey, sxsw photos!

2009-04-06T10:22:00.000-07:00

there were only two, but still:

two shows at the end of the month that rule super hard -- til then, we are chillin makin records.

Drank

2009-04-03T15:32:00.000-07:00

We bought about 10 cans of this, the first "Extreme Relaxation Beverage", when we were in Austin. it's not sold on the West Coast, and as claimed, it does indeed "slow your roll".

It contains Melatonin and no alcohol. We're not sure about the beverage as far as replacing Sparks (R.I.P.), but Chris has claimed it is quite enjoyable. And you can't fault too many things that are grape-flavored. See: Dimetapp, sizzurp, Kool-Aid, most blunts rolled in Oakland.

tyler's side project, our kelly

2009-03-31T10:24:00.001-07:00

it's our interpretation of "real talk".

we are very proud.

ghosts on tape + yet another pitbull JAM

2009-03-26T15:44:00.000-07:00

we played with ghosts on tape a few months ago, and it appears that folks are FINALLY picking up on this shit! he is ostensibly releasing an EP very soon, check the tracks here:

http://www.myspace.com/ghostsontapesf

and another pitbull song, this time it's 'calle ocho'. fuck if this guy isn't writing all my favorite songs right now.

new obsession:

2009-03-10T16:23:00.001-07:00

hat report

2009-02-16T10:26:00.000-08:00

ON THE FUCKING EDGE OF FASHION WITH GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND HOVA.

wow....just...wow.

2009-02-02T11:55:00.001-08:00

gangsters don't ask questions. UNLESS THEY ARE RHETORICAL, MR. F. BABY.