We’re playing in Dallas next weekend with our friends, Nervous Curtains and Beautiful Supermachines. Just look at this flyer!

This show should be about as good as that sandwich, and it was a kick-ass sandwich.

True Widow, Shiny Around The Edges, and Tre Orsi
June 12, 2009 @ the Annex House in Dallas (1207 Annex Ave)

Starts at 10 PM. We play first.

This is like our fourth Dallas show ever. No offense, big D. 

We look forward to sapping and impurifying all of your precious bodily fluids.

We are on Twitter. This should be hilarious.

There’s a lot we don’t know about our friend, Martin Iles (a certifiable genius).

Howrad, mulched.

Hi. How are you? Matt just got home from 5 weeks on the road with A.C. Newman, so we’re finally doing stuff again.

Here’s what we have coming up:

• Apr 18: we’re playing Good Records’ big Record Store Day/9th Birthday celebration. There are a million bands playing, including Erykah Badu. We play at 1:30 PM.
• Apr 25: Dust Congress are celebrating the release of their new 12″ EP, regurgitate sunshine state, at the Fra House in Denton. Not sure what time this starts, actually, but it’s them, us, The Make Believers, and Drink to Victory. It’ll be free, there will be beer (probably), grilling (maybe), and Erykah Badu (not likely).
• May 15: We make it to Austin again to play with Beautiful Supermachines and The Distant Seconds at Beerland. Erykah can’t make this one, sorry.

More shows & recordings on the way.

Related: Howard is playing with The Howling Hex at the Mohawk in Austin this Thursday, Apr 16. Matt will be running sound for them. Erykah Badu was going to sell merch, but she has a dentist appointment that night.

Also, Matt will be in Spain with The New Year at the end of May for four shows, including the Primavera Festival in Barcelona. Erykah has a warrant for her arrest in Spain, so she can’t make it. Come say hello and buy us many many drinks. (Cosmos for Howrad, Old Fashioneds for Matt.)

Our friends in Shiny Around The Edges have a new album, Holy Roller, on the great Sounds Are Active label.

In celebration, they’ve assembled a compilation of Denton bands called 20 Bands/74.4 Minutes!. Our track is called “The Visible Hand”, and we’re really happy to be a part of it.

Our long-suffering producer. Photo by howrad.

We tracked four new songs yesterday at The Echo Lab. mb engineered, Bubba Kadane ate sandwiches (as always).

We and Shiny Around The Edges and Geistheistler and another band TBA Drug Mountain Delmore Pilcrow are playing at The Majestic Dwelling of Doom (f/k/a The 8th Continent and Wisconsin) in Denton on Sunday, Feb 8.

10PM. Free. BYOB.  Email us if you don’t know where this place is.

SATE may well be selling copies of their new album, Holy Roller (on the great Sounds Are Active label, and which Matt recorded). We’ll have a bunch of new songs that we’ll probably fuck up royally. Geistheistler slays faces live. Drug Mountain had to cancel. Delmore Pilcrow — what can you really say about these guys? Maybe Bryan will bake beer bread for the show. I mean, really, the world is full of wonder and mystery and chance, so you might as well hope for the best.

We have a lot of things brewing, a lot of burners working, a bunch of metaphors, uhhh, metaphorizing. We can’t let those cats out of their respective bags just yet, tho. Suffice to say, if you like the idea of a band recording their songs, and then asking for money in exchange for copies of those recordings, your future looks pretty nice, my friend.

In the interim, here are a few things to pass the time with:

• Our Faster Now, Slower Later tour EP is out of print. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Expect these recordings to re-surface later on a more widely-available format.
• Howard posted a Flickr set of the New Year’s Nov European tour, which includes a few shots from the Tre Orsi/Dirty on Purpose/The New Year shows in October.
• Popmatters wrote a nice review of our show in Philadelphia with The New Year and Dirty on Purpose.
• French site, Millefeuille, wrote some apparently nice words we can’t read about our no. 7 7″. For the non-Francophones in the audience, enjoy the always-hilarious Babelfish translation. Have I ever mentioned how much I love France?