Hey we're on likezebras top 15 artist of 2010! you can get some free ringtones here: http://ping.fm/9Esth

Merry Christmas to all!

It's amazing! @Olan Rogers just posted the final episode of his "Last Scene" series watch it here: http://ping.fm/6GNkI

Writing, writing, writing after christmas there will be some free demo surprises....

It's snowing outside!

You can now play our song @Distance here: http://ping.fm/uInVt it's kinda like a guitar hero game

Our guitar player Andrew just made these videos for a contest, check them out: http://ping.fm/7B8lS

Our guitar player Andrew just made these videos for a contest, check them out: http://ping.fm/B2sl6

Our guitar player Andrew just made these videos for a contest, check them out: http://ping.fm/ubwU8

Free Demo Fridays: We're taking a break for the holiday, but we'll be back soon with lots of new stuff! Free LD ep you'll love:http://ping.fm/lmKU1

Free Demo Fridays: We've got a new remix for you today of Gold, Guns, Girls by Metric http://ping.fm/eutQz

Remixing Gold, Guns, Girls. Why not.....

"Harbor Lights" Video Shoot

 Hear: Harbor Lights 

 Watch: Olan Rogers 

We're very excited to announce that we're making a music video for our song "Harbor Lights"!  We just shot the band's performance section last night and everything went really well.  It's being filmed by Olan Rogers(also from Balloon Shop).  Check out his youtube channel from the above link.  He's quite the creative person and we we're very excited to get to work with him on this.  The video will feature a story line with an inception like theme.  These scenes will be intercut with our performance from last night.  Even though we're in land locked Tn, the ocean will be involved.  Olan was in California last week and he shot some footage at Goat Rock Beach.  Goat Rock, huh?  If for some reason that name rings a bell it's because it was one of the beaches that "The Goonies" was filmed on.  "50 dollar bill, sloth love chunk, goonies never say die"!

About the shoot:

Saturday was the day!  We left, knowing only that we were heading into the forest to film a music video.  We arrived with plenty of time for setup and were then graciously offered some apple pie.  mmmmmm.  Once the sun set, we walked back to the location to test the gear. I think everyone was really excited about the light setup that night.  I was really cool.  Next we played the song for the first of around 25 times.  Every time our music stopped we could hear the neighbors porch jams honky tonking through the trees. Competition???  The shoot was running very professionally until a crew member was instructed to wield what can only be described as a "light hammer".  We were filming some slow mo scenes involving the Light Hammer.  Let me just say, slow motion in person does not equal a straight face.  We all laughed hysterically as Chad gave his best serious face in slow mo.  I've never laughed harder at a bass player.  Luckily all the shots were captured before the surrounding square miles got tired of the valley piercing song.  It was a wrap.

Olan will be filming the rest of the video in the coming weeks and hopefully we'll have some stills from the actual camera to share soon.  (The photo above was taken with my snapshot camera)

Big thanks to all the crew that helped out on the video!  We really appreciate you guys.

Andrew,

Awake! Awake!

Our Neighbors Are Our Biggest Fans!

Storytime:

A long time ago before history(late 2006), 2 early native Awake! Awake! members were recording drums for an ep. Being the nomadic musicians they were, they made loud noises everywhere the went.  Upon this day they happened to be in a small dwelling called a townhouse.  Some other natives before them decided it would be best to build the dwellings very close together.  The walls made of straw and mud were so very thin and let all sorts of soundscapes through.  Despite this, the early Awake! Awake! members longed to beat on the animal skins and express their warrior songs.  And so they did, at a most reasonable hour when the sun was high in the sky and most grumpier elders were at work in the forests and fields.  However the elder next door did not work and others from their dwelling would leave and return several times throughout the night. Upon returning they would leave their steads idling very loudly for 30 sun dial minutes at a time.  The early Awake! Awake! members knew they were selling the forbidden forest drugs and feared even speaking a greeting to them.   Anyway the Awake! Awake!iens commenced the beating of the skins and promptly heard rapping on the front door.  They waited for it to subside and then once again commenced the beating.  This went back and forth many times and they eventually noticed the above pictured letter written by the neighboring natives.  They laughed, plotted and showed it to some returning friends.  One suggested they might mark it with the red pen of linguistics judgment and return it to the next door dwellers.  They all laughed boisterously, but then agreed that being sellers of the forbidden forest drugs they probably possessed very large boom sticks.  So they all went to Moe's Grill, ate, returned and beat the animal skins a few more times that day.  The End

The Next Door Dwellers think that:

Drums aren't part of music.

1:00am is actually 1:00pm

Polic - Is an organization empowered to enforce laws and protect

and last The Freight train smoking, sailor speaking landlord with the bitting dog actually cares about loud noises during the daytime

Awake! Awake! heavily avoids recording in these situations now and we do appreciate the letter instead of a big boom stick in the face.  We were just early natives.

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