We’d like to thank everyone who has come out to the last few shows. We have another one coming up at Cheer Up Charlie’s in Austin on the 17th that should be a lot of fun. The video above is from the last Tantra show with Topher Sipes doing the live digital painting. We’re heading back out to the barn over the next couple of weeks to get some more of the album finished, so check back for some more video/audio/stories soon.

Here’s a video from the Maple Creek Block Party that Matt put together. It’s one of the newer songs we’ve been playing lately. We’re playing tonight at the Beauty Bar with The Means. Hope to see you there.

Hey everybody- we haven’t posted in a while, but we have been practicing a lot!  With the San Marcos block party last week, the upcoming two-set show at Tonic Lounge in north Austin (this Friday), and the surprise show at Beauty Bar this coming Tuesday, we’ve had our hands full.  Several new songs have sprung up in the process, and we’re having fun playing both old and new stuff.  This video will give you an idea of what practice can be like.  Enjoy!

P.S. There’s been some talk of trying to stream our rehearsals- what do you think?  Hope to see you at the upcoming shows!

We will be playing a SXSW show at Cafe Mundi (East 5th St.) on Saturday the 20th. We play at 10:25 AM, so come on out and we’ll have a good ‘ol fashioned breakfast rock show. We’ve got an all new set of some of the songs we’re in the process of recording. It’s been a while since we played a show so we’re all looking forward to it and we’ll be trying to get a few more together soon.

Just wanted to stop by and upload this short teaser video Matt put together for the new album. It gives some brief glimpses inside the barn and we have a slightly more in depth “barn tour” video on the way. We have six songs tracked excluding vocals, here is the list with working titles:

Bottom of the Gun
White Light Heat
Modern Age
E Song
Science
Blame the West

We’ll be doing another couple weeks of songwriting to finish up the remaining five or six songs and then more recording. Check back soon for more clips and things.

Hello everyone, I’m back in civilization for a bit to make this post. We’ve been holed up in a barn since Saturday recording tracks for the record. It’s been very cold and very exciting. Drums have been tracked for “Bottom of the Gun” and “White Light Heat”. We finished electric guitars on “White Light Heat” last night and Matt laid down some nice thick delayed guitar on “Bottom of the Gun”. The vibe out here is great and it’s coming through on the tracks. Dark, woody and raw. Matt and I have been playing with video cameras and a projector Johnny was kind enough to bring out. Channeling our inner psychedelia. Matt has also been filming constantly and we’ll get some of that up here soon. I’m trying to post small snippets to twitter whenever possible. Until next time, here is a clip of us cutting some vocals.

Hello 11 daily visitors to the site who tend to stay for 8.24 seconds and are almost all in the United States. I hooked up google analytics, so I can track that kind of information now. We promise to use this information for good only. Unless someone offers us lots of money for it. Anyhow, we’d like to thank everyone who came out to Eric’s place the other night, as well as Eric himself. It was a lot of fun and we got to try out some of the new songs we’ll be recording in about a week and a half. We also want to thank Bradley Oliver and Roger Sellers for playing, check them out. We got some video of the show we’ll put up later, until then here is some practice footage of a new song.

Greetings and happy early Thanksgiving everyone. Just wanted to check in and try to keep this semi regular posting going. We’ve had a couple productive practices up in Austin last week and are chugging along finishing the songs for the next full length record. The plan is to find a place to occupy for about a week and just record without too much distraction. This week’s media selection is an iphone recording of one of the songs that will probably be on the record. It’s Zac and I jamming in the garage of the duplex months and months ago and is actually the very first time the “song” was ever played. So there you have it, the recorded birth of a song. Hope you enjoy.

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when the drummer is away?  Synth.  Lots of it.  haha-  Actually, we got together in Zac’s absence to work out some of the new songs acoustically in preparation for some upcoming recording sessions.  With no fat beats to rely on, we’re forced to figure out the more subtle themes and movement of each song.  That was the idea, anyways.  We figured out some new sections to songs, and brought in our friend Johnny, a talented and creative writer among other things, to listen and perhaps create some short stories and themes to inspire and accompany the music.  I brought my newly beefed up recording rig to capture what happened.  The following excerpt comes from the later part of the evening when the acoustic guitars went away and the synths came out.  The drum machine sound comes from Chris’s Omnichord.  Just a jam- check it out

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