Tag: Sex & Sound
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hope. desire. destruction.
Early this January, sometime after 3 a.m., alone in a rest stop bathroom, I walked along the wall of electric hand driers and, one by one, pressed each of the rusty metal buttons to turn each one on. A short minute later, when they had all shuddered to a stop, I did the same thing…
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Winter 2013 Tour Dates
We are pleased to announce a 5-date tour this winter that will take us across the western U.S. back to Los Angeles! Find all details on the SHOWS page or FACEBOOK. Come in from the cold and come hang with us this winter! JAN 6 – Denver, CO – Lion’s LairJAN 7 – Salt Lake…
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Fall 2012 North American Tour
We are hitting the road again next month! Our fall tour begins on October 19th in Madison, Wisconsin, where we are thrilled to be opening for Army Navy at UW Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace! Find all details on the SHOWS page and follow our FACEBOOK page for all new show announcements. See you on the…
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HEATWAVE Homecoming
Now six months into 2012, Joel and I have been out on the road a full three, and so have been spending most of that time sleeping in the back of of our minivan, eating out of a cooler, showering at YMCAs and truck stops, and, of course, driving for hours on end. And the…
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Rest Area Record Deal
Early one morning on tour this winter, somewhere between New York and North Carolina, while Joel was still asleep in the van, I sat alone on the cold tile floor of a rest area near a power outlet, as I did nearly every morning, sending emails. This morning seemed much the same as always, with…
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The Edge of the World
As I write this, Joel and I are on a westbound desert freeway some 300 miles outside of Los Angeles. We have played the final show on our tour and are headed back to where we started from two months ago. After being gone for so long and being so far away from everything familiar…
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miniature monster
For the past six weeks, Joel and I have been hard at work on our first music video for The Violet Lights. This being the case, our weekends and evenings continue to never be quite long enough for all that needs to be done. Sometimes amusing, other times frustrating, it seems that whatever project we…
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No, we haven’t gone completely crazy…
No, we haven’t gone completely crazy, but yes, last night we did coat the windowpanes of our apartment in bright green latex paint. Well, first we actually covered them with black paper and then taped individual sheets of letter size green paper over that, realized this initial plan was not going to work, tore it…
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sound it out
Recording thirty station liners in one afternoon = gradually forgetting how to talk. Joel and I recording station liners for CMJ stations that put Sex & Sound EP on their top 30 lists during our college radio campaign with AAM Promo this summer.