…And we’re back

Posted by Patrick at 11:05 pm on April 14, 2008

Look at how awesome this website is??? Seriously, we can accomplish great things if we work together. And this was more or less a joint effort between all of us. Thanks for coming, please keep coming. We have some new shows coming up.

23 Apr 2008 Boston - Middle East (upstairs) with The Cops!
24 Apr 2008 New York City - Knitting Factory with The Cops!
26 Apr 2008 Philadelphia - Johnny Brendas w/ Sw!ms and Explorers Club

Come on out, as these will be the last few shows for a while… The next few months will be dedicated exclusively to writing new material and blowing your mind with insane blog posts.

Daytrotter Session Up!!

Posted by Patrick at 9:47 am on January 9, 2008

Hello.. It’s been a long time. We’ve been sleeping. But we have a bit of excitement stirring for the spring. In the mean time, check out this great live session brought to you by the fine folks at Daytrotter who have an amazing live studio and website.

http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1130/take-your-time-fill-your-space-with-those-lasting-sparklies

Stay tuned for new spring tour dates, coming soon.

We’re home! / Fall Tour pics / Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by Patrick at 10:16 pm on November 28, 2007

Hey everyone, we arrived home on the 20th of November safe and sound. Thanks to Pinback, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The Velvet Teen, and Say Hi for an amazing experience over the last 2 months. Everyone of your bands are comprised of amazing people and musicians and we couldn’t have asked for a better experience, we will miss you all very much.

I apologize…

Posted by Patrick at 2:02 pm on November 7, 2007

Imagine this…

You just played a show in a foreign country in a city where they speak mostly French. You load out your gear and you and your band are looking forward to a night of sleep. You drive a few hours outside of town and find a cheap hotel to crash in. It’s probably about 3:00 am at this point and you just want to go to sleep. You go inside to get the lobby, only to be greeted by an annoyingly smug older gentleman who doesn’t really care about his job and may or may not be drunk.

After paying, he tells you that your room is Room 123 and hands you a key. You get back into the van and drive to where the room is, everyone gets files out of the vehicle leisurely while you go to the room to unlock it. You slip the key card into the slot and the green light blinks so you turn the door handle, swing the door open about 3 inches, but something is preventing the door from opening. You hear a woman scream like she is about to get murdered. It is terrifying. A few seconds later your realize that the chain slider lock is preventing the door from opening so you immediately shut it and run back into the van expecting to be shot.

It turns out the older gentleman who works the graveyard shift in the lobby of the EconoLodge in Cornwall, Ontario has problems remembering which rooms have guests staying in them. He also didn’t seemed phased at all when I told him about what happened. Responding with, “Well that doesn’t happen a lot. Let me get you another room.”

I am just glad that who ever was in that room put the chain lock on, or else she would have been very rudely awoken by 6 dazed young men and might have shot us in self defense. Anyway, lady, who ever you are and if you are reading this, I appogize for the neglect of the EconoLodge and am sorry for startling you in your sleep. From this experience, I have learned to knock on my hotel room door before opening it no matter what from now on. Thanks for understanding.

-Patrick

Here’s a photo of us visiting the Vagrant Records offices

We’re back in the dirty south

Posted by Jon at 12:15 am on October 26, 2007

I really intended on posting a lot of entries to this but due to circumstances beyond my control, and general laziness, there hasn’t been a whole lot of activity. We do have a ridiculous amount of pictures, video, etc. that we’ll try to get up here at some point when we finish this madness. So anyhow, tour has been amazing. Say Hi and the Velvet Teen have both been great, and great guys (and gal). It’s been such a whirlwind, so much happening every day, it’s hard to even keep track. I can’t believe that when we were in Fargo, North Dakota, it was still part of this same trip. The stories have just been compounding…I hope we remember all of them. We’re in Baton Rouge right now, sitting above the venue enjoying some adult beverages and I’m feeling nostalgic so here’s one of my favorite stories so far….

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California Dreamin’

Posted by Patrick at 4:18 pm on October 17, 2007

We finished up our leg with Ted Leo and The Pharmacists a few days ago and are currently about a half hour outside of San Francisco. It was sad to say goodbye after a string of amazing shows and getting to know them as people a little better. Fargo, ND will not be a night that I soon forget.

On the road, again.. NPR and WPRB shows

Posted by Patrick at 1:43 pm on October 9, 2007

A few things to note…

We’ve left again for the second leg of our Fall tour, and are currently on our way to the first show in Columbus, OH with the great Ted Leo and The Pharmacists.
Last week, we entered the WPRB studios with host Jon Solomon, to record a live set for his show. The recording will air on Wednesday, October 10th at 8:00 pm ET during my WPRB Membership Drive show.
Several weeks prior, we were guests at WXPN’s World Cafe Live for a live show/recording that will air nationally on David Dye’s World Cafe program on NPR. This set is scheduled to air on Thursday, October 18th.
National Public Radioâ€™s World Cafe with host David Dye can be heard on nearly 200 stations nationwide. Fans can find their local station by going to our website: http://worldcafe.org
or they can listen online to the WXPN/Philadelphia stream Monday to Friday 2pm to 4pm Eastern Standard Time by going to: http://xpn.org/listen_live/listen.php

From the road…

Posted by Patrick at 3:45 pm on September 27, 2007

Hello everyone,

We’ve been on the road now since Sunday and things couldn’t be going better. Last night, we played the House of Blues in New Orleans. The entire venue, down to the finest detail was amazing. After our show (it was an earlier show) we went out on the town for a crazy night of gambling, boozing, and watching Doyle chase some ladies.

Doyle won multiple hundreds of dollars on the blackjack tables around midnight and everything just got crazy from there. Didn’t get to the hotel until 6am and slept a bit, now we are on our way to Tallahassee for the show tonight at FSU. There will definitely be some photos posted soon so everyone can see a bit of what our life is like and will be like for the next 2 months.

Hope to see you out there,

Patrick

WXPN Free at Noon on NPR

Posted by Patrick at 2:22 pm on September 22, 2007

Hey everyone you can now stream our live perfomance at the World Cafe Live from Friday, September 22 on NPR.org.

The track list for the performance is as follows:

Sinking With Ship
We’re The Trees
Cinematic
Amazing Grace
Interview segment
My Heroes Have Always Been Crazy
Always In Trouble
A Florida Grove
Diamonds

Thanks to everyone who came out, WXPN, Helen Leight, and David Dye for having us.

The A-Sides - Silver Storms, out TODAY!

Posted by Patrick at 9:44 am on September 18, 2007

Our record, Silver Storms is now out and available for public consumption. It should be available at any fine retailer of music including, your local indie, fye, barnes and noble and best buy stores…

Then again, you can always use the powers of the Internets and get it from:

Thanks much. We leave this Sunday for our mega long ultra tour. Starting with a week with Pinback, who also have a new record out last week. Hope to see you on the road!

UPDATE: THE BEST REVIEW OF ALL TIME.

The A-Sides are a mountain-shattering quintet from Philadelphia, the land where Ben Franklin stood when the future one hundred-dollar bill was lit up by a lightning bolt. Philly, along with the cheese steak, is also the birthplace of Mike Schmidt’s mustache. My friend Hayley attends Temple University, also in Philadelphia, official backdrop of the movie with the same name where a flimsy Tom Hanks won an Oscar for having AIDS. Philly!

A band of leisurely constructionists, The A-Sides manufacture prize buildings of implausible mass on their second effort Silver Storms, the follow up to their 2005 debut Hello, Hello on the Prison Jazz imprint.
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