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“A Brief Smile Wins Sonicbids”

We won CMJ’s Sonicbids Spotlight Artist of the week.

vicious in studio

MPR

Check this out: We were played on Minnesota Public Radio today on show The Current.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/songs_played/ 
Go request that they play it again!

what’s going on tonight

we’re playing at luna lounge at 7:30 pm.  details here.

what’s going on this week

we’re playing on saturday at pianos for the antler’s record release party. not on this record, but of interest to you is the 3 song ep called cold war that he’s offering for free on his website with a cool cover of beach house’s apple orchard.

we’re playing at 10:30; bubble/gum at 9:30 and the antlers at 11:30.

should be a fun show.

in other news, we recorded some live audio and video at our rehearsal space on sunday. im trying to figure out how to convert frame rates properly because we used 3 isights and 2 dv cameras, which record at different frame rates so its annoying to edit. i think i can just convert in quicktime pro [edit: turns out i needed to convert it in Converter and it was a lot more complicated than I thought] and then import it into final cut pro and edit it as a multiangle sequence. fun! check out these screen captures!

the delancey (and the wrens) rule(s).

first: we have a show tomorrow (thursday 10.25) at the delancey. and yeah, we played there 6 days ago, but this is a really special show….here’s why:

our friends, the red chapel, are playing at 7:30 before

one member of one of our favorite bands of all time, charles bissell of the wrens, is playing at 8:30

then we’re playing at 10:30.

why the delancey rules:

somehow in the rush caused by cmj, i left my keyboard there on friday after our pop tarts suck toasted daytime showcase. we didnt realize it was missing until sunday afternoon when we went to rehearse at our rehearsal studio (interesting note: this rehearsal space is owned by the aforementioned red chapel). at this point, i expected that one of the 300 bands (rough estimate) that played at the delancey after our showcase on friday afternoon had probably taken it. i went there anyways just to check if it was still there…and to my surprise, the bartender had saved it in the office for me. well he wasn’t really saving it for me, i think he hoped i’d never come back for it, because its a pretty nice synth…but that doesn’t matter because he was honest and gave it back to me. thanks (mike?) the bartender at the delancey!

in honor of these three great things (in order of greatness): 1. playing with charles bissell 2. playing with the red chapel 3. recovering a lost synthesizer left at a club on the lower east side we are leaving our cmj week exclusive full album download up for a few more days, even though cmj week is over with.

cmj, today

we’re playing the indaba loft party show at 2pm
AND THEN

9pm – CLUB EUROPA – GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN
G Train to Nassau Ave. Stop – Walk 1 block North to Meserole Ave. & Manhattan Ave.
with Sad Little Stars, Action Painters and Shalitas

cmj week special

wrecking ball is giving away our record for cmj week. 192kbps m3ps in a zip.

visit our site to find it

3 CMJ shows + 1

a brief smile is playing three cmj shows:

Evening Showcase:
10/18 {{{9pm}}} {{{Club Europa}}}

Daytime Showcases:
10/18 {{{2pm}}} {{{Indaba Loft – Underrated Magazine}}}
10/19 {{{2pm}}} {{{The Delancey – Pop Tarts Suck Toasted}}}

Locations:

Europa – 98 Meserole Ave (@Manhattan Ave)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Indaba Loft – Bowery and Houston
The Delancey – Delancey btw. Clinton and Attorney

Information on CMJ in general.

List of other Indaba shows

{{{ALSO}}}

We’re playing with Charles Bissell of The Wrens and our friends The Red Chapel on October 25th at The Delancey.