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.

enigk's all i got...

last week was a good run of shows at the cafe. on friday night, swans of never played and added local songwriter emme packer. not quite sure how to say this or be clever about it, but emme's music is amazing. her vocals are haunting and she's really good at guitar. just thought you'd want to know since that's the whole point of this blog. it seems she also loves jeremy enigk which means she can always play the cafe (she even has a song about him which begs the question: why aren't there more artists writing songs about sunny day real estate's main man?)

emme released joy, the machine on her own blue siren records in january of last year. the quality is great, the album art is incredible. catch her at the cafe on march 20th with bradley hathaway.

the week of music...

monday: hung out in the studio with brighten (who work with jeff schneeweis of number one gun) and listened to them work on their new ep.
tuesday: surrogate show (magic, magic).
wednesday: weatherbox and jet lag gemini at the cafe.
thursday: the new frontiers and atherton at the cafe (you are dumb if you miss this show).
friday: swans of never and emme packer show at the cafe.

if you like music, that's a good week.