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October 27, 2010 – 1:33 am

I feel like we might be spoiling you guys (like a kid with separated parents who gets 2 Christmases) with all the new music and recordings we’ve been making available this past month! We’ve got even more presents for you; our recordings from the Mobtown Studios’ Microshow.

Mobtown has made the entire show available to download for free! Go to their Microshows Page, check out our performance and some of the other great shows put on by some of Baltimore’s finest. Also check out some great photos taken by Baltimore’s photographer-around-town Tedd Henn.

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The Biggest Little Microshow

October 19, 2010 – 9:55 am

Mobtown Studios has become like a home away from home for some of us. Mat & Emily have built a super efficient, flexible and cozy environment over there and their involvement with the Baltimore music scene has really been great. A perfect example is the Microshow series they’ve been running for almost 2 years now. We were so excited when they asked us to take part in October’s Microshow. Usually when a band enters Mobtown they strip things down a lot to fit the smaller intimate environment of the studio, but we decided to strip it down, and build things up in an epic fashion.

We asked our friends Ruby Fulton & Andrew Histand from local instrumental-rock band We Used to be Family, as well as Dan Cohan from Baltimore’s favorite folk buskers The Manly Deeds and rock-duo The Water to join us on a few songs. When we first started setting up, it seemed like a spatial nightmare; rarely does Mobtown see 7 musicians in their live room during normal business hours, add 20 or so audience members and the word intimate starts to seem like an understatement. But once we started playing, all the issues of comfortability went right out the window!

The beautiful sounds of bowed instruments, plucked strings and tapped percussion bounced off the close walls and filled us all with a warm and upbeat feeling. It took us back to our early days of playing friends’ and strangers’ houses; the excitement and nervousness of playing to a small handful of listeners sitting right in front of you.

It was really a treat for us and we hope that the new arrangements and line up were a treat for those who joined us. Enjoy some photos taken by the ever-talented Emily Cartlidge and stay tuned for the recordings from the Microshow that should be available for free soon!

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October is Perfect

October 6, 2010 – 7:53 pm

October is perfect. The changing colors, the cool, fresh air. This month inspires me so much, and it only seems perfect that we let our new release out in to the world this season. I don’t think we’ve ever worked this hard for something and we are really excited to share it with our friends and family.

We’ve got a lot of things planned for next week. First we have an interview with Independents Uncovered at WGMU. They’ll be talking with us and Mike Nestor from the Beechfields Record Label, about our new EP and how the Beechfields and it’s artists work.

Next, we are pleased to take part in one of Mobtown Studios‘ famous Microshows. The concept; take a local artist, familiar with the Baltimore music landscape and make them break their mold by stripping down their songs, deconstruct and reform them…in front of a live audience and record it to tape (or hard drive). The small house-like setting of Mobtown really gives the Microshows an intimate and truly unique experience. After all of the house shows we use to play, this performance should really feel like….uh, home?! Dan Cohan from the Water will be sitting in on percussion on a few songs, and Ruby Fulton & Andrew Histand from We Used to be Family will be lending their beautiful strings on a few songs. The Microshows are free, but there is limited space to please email Mobtown and let them know you’re coming.

If you can’t make it to the Microshow next Thursday, or want to see us in full force, then our release show at the beautiful 2640 Space in Charles Village is the show for you! The wonderful people at Red Emma’s really helped us out in organizing this event and let us use this incredible space. We’ve also got some amazing bands kicking off the night, including the newest addition to the Beechfields Family, the Silent Whys and our friends from New Jersey, Communipaw. Silent Whys are a fantastic folk duo, incorporating unique instruments like accordian, banjo, dulcimer and various others. Communipaw walk the line between solid indie-rockers and the coolest breed of alt/country; in short…they rock! We are really excited about this entire week, and have put every last bit of energy we have left into making these next performances some of our best. After all the preparation and planning that we have put into this, I would love watch our own performance. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works we can’t play and spectate at the same time, and to be honest that’s not what we love doing. We love playing our music, for our friends, for our family and for people we would like to call both. If you can make it out, we would love to share the fruits of our labor…of love!

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Summertime, and the livin’s busy!

May 5, 2010 – 8:10 pm

So we are busting our asses as summer approaches. We are finishing up mixing our EP, and things are really coming together. We are also planning on how we want to package and release these songs for you guys. On top of all that, we have been planning a 4-day tour through the great state of Pennsylvania; visiting old friends, making new ones and just hoping to have a good time. So far here’s what were looking at as far as an itinerary:

Friday June 25th – Lancaster/Reading
Saturday June 26th – Pittsburgh
Sunday June 27th – Johnstown
Monday June 28th – Philadelphia

So we want to have these songs ready for the road, maybe a limited hand-made run of CD-R’s for tour, and then some serious silk screened records when we get back and do a release party for you all! So yeah, we’re busy!

Also, we’ve got a lot of shows already lined up for the summer, 2 this month, a Benefit with a bunch of Beechfields bands on June 5th, that Patty actually put together to help her raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

We’ve also been writing! New, fun, awesome songs! We’re having a lot of fun working on these songs and can’t wait to get a couple together to start working on another full length!

So come hang out with us this summer, if we’re coming to your town come have fun some fun with us and make it a memorable trip!

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Progress

March 10, 2010 – 12:05 pm

Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato

We are getting there people. We wrapped up the last bit of recording for our EP a few weeks ago, and are heading back into Mobtown Studios to finish mixing. This has been a fun experience, and we’ve really had fun experimenting with arrangements and how we can stretch our sound. We are all looking forward to sharing our hard work with you as soon as we can.

Our plan for release is to do vinyl and a digital download, everyone knows CDs aren’t cool anymore. I think our songs might be a little too long for a 7 inch, and 10 inches aren’t as cost effective as a 12 inches. So we’d like to find some friends to split a 12 inch with us. So if you or anyone you know has a couple of songs they’re wrapping up, and would like to put out some vinyl with us, hit us up!

Hoping to have this out around May or June, stay posted.

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Slow & Steady Wins the Race…In the Studio

November 10, 2009 – 10:15 pm

We started recording back in the spring at Mobtown Studios in Baltimore. We had to take a break to get the funds together to finish paying for the sessions, but we were back to work last night laying down some guitar tracks! We’re working on 2…maybe 3 songs, and their really coming together, which is why it was kind of bummer to take such a long break.


But it was good to be back. A few more sessions, then some mixing & mastering and we should have a little EP, maybe a split if any friends are interested in working with us (wink, wink).


In the meantime, here are some photos from the sessions we’ve had so far. I might even try to take some video during our next session. So stay tuned!

Silver Fox...watch over me!

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