Blog

July 17, 2011

The Three Of Us

Hello friends. Just wanted to give you a heads up that This American Life is replaying The Break Up episode this week which is where our version of “The Three Of Us” originated from. TAL contributor Starlee Kine’s brain-mind. She, a non-musician, set out to write a pop song about a break up with a little help from Joe McGinty and Julia Greenberg…..and Phil Collins. Yes, and Phil Collins. Anyway, they (minus Phil) wrote a song and then had a remix/cover contest, which I entered. It was judged by the songwriters and Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis from Sound Opinions. You can see the contest results here.

It is a great episode. If you haven’t had a chance to hear it on your local NPR affiliate, you can download the podcast here for this week only. Also support them with monetary generosity.

June 23, 2011

We Were Pirates with The Wooden Birds @ DC9 7/16

Thanks to Gig Posters by Rich for the incredible poster.

June 7, 2011

The NRIs’ New Record….

Gabe’s other band, The NRIs just put out a new record called Kings And Birds. It is the real deal.  So you should be purchasing it with the money now. Actually, I don’t know if that is an option yet, because I got it at their cd release show. But I’m sure it will be soon enough.

Anyway, it was a real community effort. Lisa shot their photos and made them all look like super-hot J Crew sari models and also made sure Gabe wasn’t too weird-looking, Kate played some cello on the record, and her husband Jesse designed the shit out the record. It looks rad. Also, they recorded some horns in the WWP bat-cave studios.

Your Moment by The NRIs

Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Music Festival

So, we had the privilege of playing The Sweet Tea Music Festival that our good friend Dave Mann from Mittenfields organized this weekend. Because of a mis-communication, Ben wasn’t able to play drums….and we found this out 3 days before the show. But, because Kate and Gabe are badasses, we decided to switch instruments around and play a stripped down acoustic set. Kate played the cello and Gabe shifted over to the drum kit. We would be lying if we said we were sure it was going to work…but it did! Or at least I think so.

Check out the video and make up your own mind.

Thanks to my sister, Christin, who shot our last two songs on her handy flip cam.

May 18, 2011

We’re Playing With The Wooden Birds…

As a long-time American Analog Set fan, I’m pretty excited to be playing with Andrew Kenny’s new-ish project: “The Wooden Birds.”

Read why I’m a fan here at Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie and check out the details of the show on DC9′s site, and check out The Wooden Birds’ new single “Two Matchsticks”.

May 2, 2011

Helping James Harris Moore Bring The Rock…

February 9, 2011

Nominated for Deli Magazine’s “Artist Of The Month”

So do us a solid and vote for us!

February 7, 2011

What?! A new record?!?

Yes yes. All those pesky internet rumors are true. Tracking has begun on a new album.

Additional news to follow……

October 22, 2010

We Were Pirates on DC101

Thanks to DC101fm for playing “Settle Down”. Feel free to be like, “Hey DC101, I like that song by that one band. I wouldn’t mind if you played it again.”

September 3, 2010

WAMU rebroadcasting our in-studio today

Locals can turn on 88.5fm at 1pm and non-locals can stream it here.  I’m pretty sure it’s the only time we’ve played an acoustic set.  Definitely the only time I played guitar and sang while stomping on a tambourine.

Also, David Furst, the long-time host recently announced that he is leaving the show to move on to different things.  Many thanks to David for having us on the show.  He is a cool dude.

« Newer Posts — Older Posts »