June means Brooklyn Tour

Thanks to Chris at MusicSnobbery.Com for the Joe's Pub show last weekend. We had a grand time, and Chris even baked us brownies to hold us over during our backstage wait.

This month, we have a residency at Pete's Candy Store every Monday night. 9:30pm, no cover, new songs. We also have two new "space capos" for our guitarists, which means less time spent tuning, more time playing songs. Five Mondays in June, six types of paninis (at Pete's).

We're also playing as part of the Northside Festival in Williamsburg. It's all day on June 13, and we play at Public Assembly, 5:30pm. Our sweet boys, Motel Motel, are playing before us.

Hope to see you!

Postcard from Texas #2 : Austin

Starring Chief, and featuring Heather's house, Barton Springs, and barbecue with Motel Motel.

Home stretch

We are about an hour away from Brooklyn. Our last show in Athens, OH
was high-energy and fun; we played with the amazing via audio, our
bros motel motel, and locals grade school. Casa cantina is a cool
co-op style mexi joint near the university. Standout of the night was
the sweet hippie-ish woman in the front row who never stopped dancing.
She was adorable and kept it up through the whole set. We ended
with 'I shall be released,' sung in chorus with the motel boys. This
came off better than expected, considering we learned it in the car on
the way to Athens. After the love-in ended, we headed to the hotel.
Today has been spent in the van. We have been passing the time with
arrested development episodes on laptop, making tour videos on imovie,
texting the motel crew to get traffic reports, and studying the good
old-fashioned paper atlas.
Although I am sad to see the tour end, two days of 10-hour drives can
really make a girl miss her own place. And the homecoming show at
Rockwood this Sunday will make us feel like the tour never stopped!
See you soon.

Cheers,
Amy

Wildflowers

Shrimp Cone

Two things we like in this band are words and facts. When we come
across good word combinations, like say, the "shrimp cone" for sale at
the funky food stand off south congress, we roll it around on the
tongue and toss it into conversational pauses until it loses all
meaning and becomes an artifact on its own. Band names are another
good word game; yesterday's was "hunkleberry funk," a side project
funk band. Auditions to be held soon. We also like facts. The iPhone comes out anytime a debate needs
resoluton or when we are approaching a new city and need some context.
Right now we are approaching Wichita, ks. We've already learned that
Wichita is the largest city in Kansas, and are considering a stop at
the native American history museum to beef up on our Midwest history.
Hopefully we will pick up some new facts about our great nation, and
some new great words to boot.
hasta,
amy

Postcard from Texas #1

friday's exploits

I'm a little too hungover to write in full sentences, so here's a list:

1) breakfast tacos at home
2) photo shoot with jezebel jen at home, mostly up a tree (that's not a
euphemism... yet)
3) motel motel acoustic at progress coffee (the drinking starts here)
4) sierra mist tent (free vodka)
5) artist lounge at the convention center (free beer)
6) the orchard happy hour (schmoozing, free beer, the ubiquitous skippy
mcfadden)
7) rendezvous with noodles senior, hank neuberger, for hella bbq--thanks
hank!!! (run into secret life of sofia, skippy again)
8) motel motel rocking at maggie mae's (drinking continues)
9) on to the rusty spur for alberta cross (pushy, trashy shot
girls--something to which we finally say no)
10) eastward to meet the botticellis at the art project (kegs)
11) then takka takka at the independent (yup, more beer)
12) finally tinted windows at pangaea (taylor hanson, bunny carlos and
james iha?? together at last??)
13) back home (bulleit nightcap, snoozes)

XXX
dan