The Airborne Toxic Event

Good afternoon,

We are thrilled to announced that we will be returning to the first place we ever played a show for a very special benefit concert to raise funds for the Neda Project, a series of events we are doing with Amnesty International about Neda Agha-Soltan and digital democracy in Iran. 

The show will be in two weeks on May 25th, 2010 at the Echo here in Los Angeles. Tickets are very limited and will be first come, first served. They went on sale today at noon PST. They are $30 each. All proceeds will benefit the Neda Project. Here is the LINK to purchase tickets.

The Neda Project
Neda Agha-Soltan was a young woman living in Iran—a student, who was shot in the street by government militia for participating in peaceful protests against the disputed election of Mahmoud Ahmadenijad. Her death was captured on video, uploaded to YouTube and within hours seen by millions around the world. She quickly became a symbol for the resistance and for the brutality of unchecked tyranny. 

Like millions of people, we were deeply touched by the video and the horrific treatment of Neda and her family by …
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Boston radio station WFNX will invite twenty listeners and their guests to Ames hotel for a stripped-down performance by the Airborne Toxic Event. The band’s set will be the latest in a series of invite-only Ames Acoustic Sessions presented by the station and the new hotel in downtown Boston.

Fans must win their way into the session by listening to WFNX. The station will record the Ames Acoustic Session and broadcast it on-air and at www.wfnx.com on Monday, April 12th at 11:00 pm, during its new music feature “The Nightly News.” WFNX and Ames plan to release a compact disc of songs from the sessions in late 2010.

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Good morning,

We’re in New York today, about to head over to Trenton to play a show tonight, where we’ll be debuting a bunch of new songs. We’re excited about it, and we hope to see you there.

Make sure you check out tonight’s episode of Last Call with Carson Daly after Jimmy Fallon on NBC for a previously unaired performance of “Gasoline” shot at the Glass House in Pomona. On the show, we’ll also be giving an album update from our rehearsal space.

At the airport:

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Good morning,

The earth was shaking early Monday morning here in Los Angeles. If you’ve never been in an earthquake, it’s kind of terrifying and exhilarating. Equal parts doomsday and roller coaster. Luckily, nobody was hurt.

We are playing four shows to work on new songs we’ve written for the new record. They will be in four cities nationwide. Jack Daniels is sponsoring the whole thing.

Photo Credit: Prue Hyman

You can get free tickets by going to the Jack Daniels website. You must be 21 to attend. (Sorry to those under 21. We promise to get you back when we swing back into town with shows sponsored by a milk company or something.)

Dates:

Thu Mar 25 – Trenton, NJ – Kat Man Du – FREE TIX

Wed Apr 7 – Boston, MA – Royale – FREE TIX

Sat Apr 10 – Atlanta, GA – The Loft – FREE TIX

Mon Apr 12 – Scottsdale, AZ – Martini Ranch – FREE TIX

We’d also like to point out that we will probably play some songs from the first record too.

We’re also putting the finishing …
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we miss you-

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We’d like to thank everyone who made it out to the Troubadour in West Hollywood Wednesday night for our charity benefit for L.A.’s Friendly House. It was a crazy, fun night dedicated to recognizing and supporting one of the oldest treatment centers in the country for women recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. Thanks to those of who you who bought tickets and participated in the silent auction, we were able to help raise $40,000 for the organization. We had an amazing night and hope you did, too.

The night also featured our friends Aushua, who played an awesome set. We urge you all to check out their music.

This Saturday, January 30th, we’ll be playing a special concert with the Louisville Orchestra at the beautiful Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, as part of their BB&T Strings Attached series. We’ve been busy these past couple of weeks adapting our songs for an orchestral performance, and we can’t wait to perform them. We hope you can join us.

Also on the bill are Tucson’s own Calexico.

For info, click HERE.

For tickets, click HERE.

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…at the Staples Center. The Lakers won. By a lot.

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Good afternoon,

We’re proud to announce that we’ll be playing a very special “Rock the House” benefit concert on January 27th at the Troubadour in West Hollywood to benefit Friendly House, a non-profit organization aimed toward helping women suffering from alcoholism and drug addiction.

For information about the organization, you can visit their website at www.friendlyhousela.org.

It’s an extremely important cause, and one that’s close to our hearts, so we hope you can attend. General Admission and VIP tickets are available now online through Ticketmaster.

General Admission: $45
VIP: $150

All proceeds go to Friendly House.

You can also call Ticketmaster at 1.800.982.2787, or Friendly House at 213.389.8810.

More about Friendly House:
It is their mission to continue to provide an environment in which women can recover from the devastation  of drug and alcohol addiction and progress toward healthy families and communities.

They seek to achieve a stabilized recovery from addiction, renew family relationships, and help reintegrate each woman back into the community. In order to help achieve this goal, Friendly House has daily round table meetings as well as off-site trips to Alcoholics Anonymous. Friendly House sponsors a women’s AA meeting each Thursday night.

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Good afternoon,

It’s incredible to be back in L.A. after being away from home for so long. We’re happy to be sleeping in beds that aren’t speeding along the highway and doing normal things again, like hanging clothes in closets and eating lunch. Thanks to everyone who came out to our shows these past two months, and to our fans in the U.K. and Ireland who made London, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester, and Oxford the perfect, chaos-driven, booze-fueled end to the tour.

Of course, we’re not quite done with the year yet. We’ve been hard at work, planning and prepping our show at Walt Disney Concert Hall, which goes off this Friday, December 4th. We look forward to seeing all of you, and we promise there will be plenty of guests and surprises…

We’re also putting together a special DVD package of the show that will include a “behind the scenes” documentary. We’ll let you more about this…

Loveline Tonight
We’ll be guests on Loveline tonight with the endlessly knowledgeable Dr. Drew. Hope you can tune in and listen to us give questionable advice to impressionable teenagers.

Gasoline Video
Our bicycle video for “Gasoline” is available now on iTunes, as part of …
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