Hello again there, friends, and Happy New Year! Welcome back to Cover Song Tuesday! This week’s feature song is Northcote’s “Free Tonight” from his 2011 release, Gather No Dust. Please enjoy, and remember to subscribe to our YouTube page to get next week’s feature cover song first, as well as more of our music and videos! Thanks again and see you next week! #coversongtuesday >> read more

“When the world ends this year and it’s not all fire and brimstone and raining blood like they say it’s going to be, I want to be buried with a telephone for safe measure and my tombstone to read ‘Here lies Dan Ball. F***k you, Tyson.” – Dan’s brief thoughts on the afterlife and the apocalypse Well, Christmas came and went and we survived the apocalypse! What an incredible thing! We hope that everyone out there had a wonderful holiday season at the end of 2012, and we would just like to continue our well wishes and say a very Happy New Year to you all, friends, fans and family! Let’s make this the best damn 2013 it can be! Aside from the great start to the new year, which >> read more

“My lunch was so unsatisfying. I feel like a fucking rabbit. I need all the burgers and fries.” – Brian, after his second green salad of the day Guys, we really want you to hear these mixes! It’s really so unfortunate that we can’t show you how this project is sounding so far! We are very excited and continue to be very happy and grateful for every day that we get to spend in Rattlebox North Studios with our friend Brian Moncarz, in whose ears we trust. He’s a great man with a passion for great sounding things, teaching, gear-hording and salads. Why just yesterday we helped him out with a feisty battle on eBay for a deal on a rather expensive old guitar amplifier while waiting for a track >> read more

Tyson, through the talk-back mic: “Why doesn’t Martin just come in here and play piano on this part? He could nail it in seconds.” Martin, to the rest of us in the control room: “Why does he think I can play piano? I’ve never played piano in my life.” Excellent week! We just spent the last 4 days at Revolution Recording getting drum sounds and tracking drums and piano for the new record, and guys, we have to tell you, it is sounding incredible! In no other room could you get these fat tones and natural reverb and we honestly spent the entire time in awe of the quality of the studio and equipment, and results of our experimentation so far. Shane has been an absolute champion and he managed >> read more

Dan: “Uggh, I feel like I got hit by a bus.” Shane and Jeff in unison: “Really?? Cause you don’t look like it.” – asshole humor Pre-production for Album 3 is complete! We spent a spectacular, romantic getaway, holiday week and weekend with The Brian Moncarz at The Sound rehearsal rooms in Concord last weekend, eating lots of bananas and healthy cylindrical shaped objects while staring into each others eyes, realizing the importance of breakfast, waking at dawn and how a good rehearsal space is hard to find – a big thanks to Scott at The Sound for hooking us up at his beautiful studio and being lovely – and we have successfully narrowed our upcoming 2013 release down to 10 hot, brand new tracks. It was a lot of >> read more