Out of Sight and the 80's Style Cougar Workout Video

I don't know why we didn't post this on here before, but if you still haven't seen it, here it is in all it's glory! Hopefully you will find it as funny as we do. If you do, please pass it around to your friends or DIGG it!! Just click on the read more option to view it!

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The Leaves Are A Changin'

Well holy shit! It's been quite a while since our last blog post. Not that there's been nothing going on, we just haven't taken the time to organize our thoughts into written form. In other words, laziness and procrastination come to mind. Either way, we have been continuously filling our fall schedule with dates all over the midwest and we are extremely excited to be playing cities we've never been to before. Unfortunately, at the same time it's hard to break into new markets where no one has heard of your band, but with every swing through we are seeing more and more faces. We're taking that as a great sign of what's to come. We are going to basically be in tour mode for at least the next year to really give this CD a chance, and by then, we'll also have an enormous amount of new song ideas for the next record. As of now, we are constantly writing new material, and we are all very pleased with the direction that we're going in. We are actually planning on premiering one or two new ideas in the next month so keep your eyes and ears attentive for that. In other news, we are about post an amateur video that we made for our song Atomism just for something fun to watch. Be careful though, it may induce seizures! I'll post that on here by the end of the week. For now check out our new video blog and help us out by giving us some new VHS tapes!! (You'll understand when you view the blog)

CD Release Party

Hey everyone,

Just a quick note to thank everyone for coming out and partying with us for our CD Release last night. We had a blast playing with the Villains of Verona, and of course, our good friends The Alarmists. We look forward to July 20th for The Alarmists' CD Release at First Ave., and hopefully a jaunt down to Chicago to play with the Villains on their home turf. Thanks to everyone who purchased CDs (you support our livelihood and our ability to tour/record/keep making music) and t-shirts, etc. Also, thanks to all of the additional musicians who played with us (Ari Herstand on trumpet, Jessy Greene on violin, Andrew Schwandt on Tenor Sax, and especially Mr. Matthew Schwandt on keys, tambourine, and whatever else we could find for him to play) -- you all helped fill out the sound and re-create the record live for everyone to enjoy.

We're going to try and keep booking shows to keep up this busy schedule. Tell all of your friends about this record and help spread the word -- remember, it can be ordered online and purchased on iTunes now, so until the national release in August there are still plenty of opportunities to get your own copy of the record.

This week is a bit more relaxed, as we've only got one show this Friday at the Cabooze opening for Ike Reilly. We're also hoping to go have a grand BBQ at Brent Sigmeth's this weekend, so if that happens we'll be sure to post some pictures of the shenanigans.

- Joe

ATOMISM IN STORES TODAY

Well friends,
The day has finally arrived. Our CD is now available in stores all over Minneapolis. In particular, the Electric Fetus, CD Warehouse, Down in the Valley, Cheapo, and Treehouse records. Borders may also start carrying it as well. Unfortunately I Tunes is still not up yet but we have been promised that it will be up very shortly. Either way, we are extremely excited to finally have our full length out there, so excited that we planned a little in-store performance this evening at the Electric Fetus. It's going to be pretty stripped down from our normal sound, which could make it quite interesting actually. So if you have the time, you should stop by. If for any other reason just to pick up the new album! Check out the City Pages tomorrow, Pioneer Press on Thursday, and the Star Trib on Friday to check out some stories/reviews of our new album. We're keeping our fingers crossed that they like it!! Either way, I hope to see a lot of familiar and new faces on Saturday. We have been putting a lot of planning into this show, and we think that it will definitely be one of our most memorable, so we hope you make it down. Until then....

-Mike

Promo Video and Video Blog #2

Hello Friends-

Well, we're getting closer with every day to our CD release and we are super anxious to get it out there. Joe's younger brother, Jim, and his friend Ian created a little promo video for the release as well and it turned out pretty cool. Check it out and let us know what you think. Also, we completed Video Blog #2 for you to take a look at. Talk to you soon!
-Mike

CD RELEASE!!

Good news everyone!

We've finally secured a date for local release of our debut LP Atomism! It will be available at select locations in the Twin Cities, as well as on iTunes and our website, on June 19th, 2007 (we'll soon know more details about where else it will be avilalble). We're also planning a national release for August, but we wanted to treat our hometown and let everyone here have a sneak peak, though everyone everywhere can order it on iTunes or on our website. The album was recorded at Pachyderm Studio during the fall and early winter of 2006, and after months of waiting it will finally be locally available (full album information follows at the bottom of this post).

That said, we've scheduled our CD release show to be held Saturday, June 23rd at the Fineline in downtown Minneapolis. We've asked our friends in the Alarmists to join us in the celebration, and we're also having a great band from Chicago come up called the Villains of Verona. The event is 18+ and starts around 8 p.m. We'd love to pack the place, so be sure to clear this date now and tell all of your friends! We're very excited and hope that everyone can make it down.

Also, thanks to everyone who came out to the Red Carpet last night. There weren't too many of you, but we played one of our better sets and had a great time with those of you who stayed around to socialize, etc. We had a crazy night getting home, and almost didn't (Mark took a wrong turn and we had to do a lot of guessing to find the freeway . . . but all worked out well in the end).

Atomism Info:

Produced by: Brent Sigmeth and White Light Riot
Engineered by: Paul Marino and Brent Sigmeth
Mixed by: Brent Sigmeth
Mastered by: Bob Ludwig
Recorded at Pachyderm Studio, Cannon Falls, MN from 9/06 through 12/06

Tracklist:
1. Charlatan
2. Atomism
3. Out of Sight
4. Dive
5. Transit State
6. Grey Divide
7. In a Shotgun Whirlwind
8. Midway Souvenirs
9. Tourniquet
10. Choice Theory
11. Our Formative Capital
12. Forever In the West

- Joe