It’s about time we hit you with a new single from We Are All Strange Friends, and rather than just push it out through our own channels, we partnered with the lovely people at HITS Daily Double (shout-out to Erica Ramon!) to premiere it on their The B-Side blog! The post is up here, meaning you can listen to our brand new track, “It’s Only Talk,” at this very second. We hope you all love it and can’t wait for you to hear the rest of the album!
Also, in case you are not a fan of sidebars, we’ve announced a whole slew of new shows in November and December to close out the year. One last chance to get your face rocked off before the Mayans kill us all! Dates are below:
Well folks, after more than a year of blood, sweat, and tears, we have finally finished our brand new record, We Are All Strange Friends. After completing the recording with engineer Ian Bennett at Moshi Productions, we headed to historic Ardent Studios, the birthplace of our biggest influence (Big Star), and mastered the album with the amazing Larry and Kevin Nix at L Nix Mastering.
Here’s a personal message from the band:
“We arrived home safely this evening from our Memphis mission. It was 100% worth the 38 total hours of driving. We got our album mastered by Larry and Kevin Nix and got to walk the halls of Ardent Studios and mingle with its ghosts and legends. We got to see Sun Studios and stroll down Beale Street. We got rowdy in Nashville, and recorded at The Ryman. We enjoyed spicy barbecue and warm hospitality. It was a fitting way to finish our new album. Since it began, we’ve watched as friends and family have come and gone. We responded by going and doing; by setting out and accomplishing. And we thank everyone who has stuck by us, who have come to our shows, who have talked to us afterwards, and who believe that we’re up to something good. The album is done. And it’s coming at you really soon!”
You won’t have to wait to long to hear some of the finished material, either, as we’ll be returning to 107.7 WRRC The Bronc on Thursday, September 20, at 10:30pm to play THREE TRACKS from the album! Just click here at showtime to listen live. And if you’d like to hear one of our new songs right now, in live form, you can take a gander at the below video from our performance at EJ’s in Seaside Heights, NJ, on September 7. Enjoy!
Speaking of EJ’s, we’d like to give huge thanks to the guys in Midnight Mosaic for bringing us out and for being unbelievably cool dudes! We just played the last of three Seaside shows with them last night, and we all had a blast. How much of a blast, you ask? I think the video below, featuring members of both bands, should cover it. Thanks to the amazing Amanda Guthrie for recording it! Now, go listen to Midnight Mosaic!
We’re excited to announce that we will be playing this year’s University Fest at Binghamton University on Saturday, September 1, from 1-2pm! We’ll be busting out quite a few songs from We Are All Strange Friends, plus several tracks from our older albums and a couple of covers for good measure. We played Binghamton once before in March as part of its Late Nite Binghamton series and had an absolute blast. Now, we’re looking forward to coming back bigger, badder, and stronger!
If you’ve never been to University Fest before, check out some scenes below:
We’re extremely excited to debut our new live video for “Short Woman“! This performance was professionally recorded by the always amazing staff of Riverview Studios in Bordentown, NJ, who also recorded our Bored in Town concert DVD, and comes from our June 24th show at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park. Let us know what you think!
TONIGHT at 7pm, we will be the featured band on Myxer Social Radio’s Indie Spotlight! Just click here (http://myxer.fm/room/2868973) and sign in with your Facebook account. We’ll be playing tracks from our debut mini-LP, Face Forward, as well as our new single, “Cooking Up an Accident.” But that’s not all! Brian, Frank, and Scottie will be in the room to chat live, share stories, and talk about each song as it plays. Don’t miss it!
