boston

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!

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

love,
tempo

THURSDAY!

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.

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!

"วงอินดี้ที่ รู้จักกันมาตั้งแต่สมัยเรียนจนปัจจุบัน ได้ออกอัลบั้มชุดนี้ที่มีทั้งกลิ่นของ น้อยส์พังค์ แอฟริกาบีท และจังหวะเต้นโจ๊ะๆ แบบที่วงส่วนใหญ่สมัยนี้นิยมทำกัน ฟังไปฟังมาก็มันดีไม่ใช่ย่อย ไม่เชื่อลองฟังดูสิ"

wow!

Pre-order WAKING HEAT here!

source:banjerd blog

Small gear rules.

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!

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.