it's just getting better

well all of here are really excited for monday. it's our first show after a summer off, the cafe will be all picked up after our break-in and one of our fav bands, colour revolt is helping us kick off the year.

but it's getting better. daytrotter just posted colour revolt's daytrotter session from earlier this year. and in wonderful daytrotter tradition, you can download alternate versions of "naked and red," "a siren," "moses of the south," and a cover of "these few presidents" by why?. these are great for any colour revolt fan, but if you're new to them, i would still suggest listening to the original versions first so you get an idea of how creative and unique the alternate versions are.

saturday

we mention and talk about the new frontiers quite a bit on this blog (unapologetically), but just wanted to say a few quick things today about them.

their album mending is out in stores today. it's been available through itunes and at shows for a few months and was out in independent stores for a month (graywhale was the only one in salt lake) and is finally out today in full distribution (what the militia group was attempting to do here is still a mystery, one that has seriously hurt their reputation and could possibly cost them a few bands from their roster).

what do you say about an album that many people already have or have heard that you don't already know? it's easily one of my top five albums of 2008 (colour revolt's being the other so far) and is getting noticed (paste, daytrotter, absolutepunk.net have all taken an interest) for it's high quality. add to that the number of free downloads the band has made available online and there really shouldn't be any questions about the new frontiers.


the second piece of news is that they'll be playing the cafe on saturday night with a seriously good bill. they're on tour with alive in wild paint (equal vision records), formerly goodbye tomorrow and are playing with emme packer, atherton and dan curtis. tickets are available now at www.24tix.com for $7 and at the door as well. doors as always are at 7 pm.

The Good, The Bad, The Facts of Life?

Two things:

1) free andrew bird downloads thanks to the good folks at daytrotter. live versions of fiery crash and lull.

2) where does ap magazine get off giving zookeeper a poor review? last time i checked zookeeper wasn't heading out on warped tour with cute is what we aim for or say anything (not that there's anything wrong with that). the review honestly seemed like they just had unresolved issues with lead singer chris simpson for mineral and the gloria record breaking up back in the day. this is what i get for killing a few minutes in the magazine section of barnes & noble. i guess any press is good press, but seriously, i just don't get it. so let me say this: the cafe LOVES what zookeeper does. we think they might save us all. that's a maybe though. we were gonna road trip to austin to sleep on seth's porch, but it upon thinking about it, it seemed kind of creepy. click here to pre-order zookeeper's full length and if you hustle, they'll even autograph it.