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good morning–

Wisconsin probably has more to offer than trees and flatlands, dreary mornings of rain slapping against the windshield while we drive these moribund highways — but we wouldn’t know it.

We played Chicago last night (for the first time) and the experience was nothing short of religious. Replete with wailing and stomping, speaking in tongues and false idols. ahem.

Tonight it’s Minneapolis. Then Seattle on Saturday, then we’re playing the Monolith festival in beautiful Denver, Colorado — Red Rocks, no less. Then Anaheim and the Wiltern. We used to talk about such things in hushed tones.

As of Tuesday, our record is available in selected stores on vinyl. We are simply tickled (that’s right, tickled) over it.

We will think of you as we drive these lonely highways. Tonight, for instance, we are playing the same club where Prince got his start. Ever seen Purple Rain? Yep. Totally.

More soon. We were on Zane Lowe on BBC1 the other day and we continue to threaten you with big UK news.

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Photo Credit: Frank Yang / Chrome Waves

good morning–

Wisconsin probably has more to offer than trees and flatlands, dreary mornings of rain slapping against the windshield while we drive these moribund highways — but we wouldn’t know it.

We played Chicago last night (for the first time) and the experience was nothing short of religious. Replete with wailing and stomping, speaking in tongues and false idols. ahem.

Tonight it’s Minneapolis.
Then Seattle on Saturday, then we’re playing the Monolith festival in beautiful Denver, Colorado — Red Rocks, no less.
Then Anaheim and the Wiltern.
We used to talk about such things in hushed tones.

As of Tuesday, our record is available in selected stores on vinyl. We are simply tickled (that’s right, tickled) over it.

We will think of you as we drive these lonely highways.
Tonight, for instance, we are playing the same club where Prince got his start. Ever seen Purple Rain? Yep. Totally.

More soon.
We were on Zane Lowe on BBC1 the other day and we continue to threaten you with big UK news.

we miss you and love you and would show up on your doorstep with our lives in a box, if only we could–

Photo Credit: Benjamin Hoste

good afternoon–

The hazy sky over the San Gabriel mountains makes the view from the van window look like some sort of post-modern water-color mash-up: equal parts pastoral landscape and industrial wasteland. Such thoughts drift lazily through one’s mind on days like this.

We are on our way to Arizona to play a series of shows in Tempe, Tucson and Phoenix.

The official video for our song Sometime Around Midnight is now on YouTube. You can view it here .

You can also view it on our Myspace page and on MTV and VH-1.

You can listen to a stream of our appearance on Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW by going here .

You can watch us play a bunch of acoustic songs on LiveDaily by going here .

Our North American tour begins in 10 days in Cleveland. See you there (dates below).

More soon, including huge UK news.

we miss you and love you and find ourselves spinning in ever-widening circles of surreality–

Photo Credit: Benjamin Hoste

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Photo Credit: Benjamin Hoste

good afternoon–

The hazy sky over the San Gabriel mountains makes the view from the van window look like some sort of post-modern water-color mash-up: equal parts pastoral landscape and industrial wasteland. Such thoughts drift lazily through one’s mind on days like this.

We are on our way to Arizona to play a series of shows in Tempe, Tucson and Phoenix.

The official video for our song Sometime Around Midnight is now on YouTube. You can view it here .

You can also view it on our Myspace page and on MTV and VH-1.

You can listen to a stream of our appearance on Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW by going here .

You can watch us play a bunch of acoustic songs on LiveDaily by going here .

Our North American tour begins in 10 days in Cleveland. See you there (dates below).

More soon, including huge UK news.

we miss you and love you and find ourselves spinning in ever-widening circles of surreality–

Photo Credit: Benjamin Hoste

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Photo Credit: Gary Bellville

Photo Credit: Classical Geek Theatre

TOUR DATES:

Aug 21 2008 7:00P Tempe Marketplace – EDGE 3rd Thu Tempe, Arizona
Sep 1 2008 8:00P House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio
Sep 2 2008 8:00P Mr. Smalls Theatre Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sep 4 2008 8:00P Theatre of Living Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 5 2008 8:00P Roseland Ballroom New York, New York
Sep 6 2008 12:00 Virgin Festival – Island Park Toronto, ON
Sep 8 2008 8:00P St. Andrews Hall Detroit, Michigan
Sep 9 2008 8:00P Newport Music Hall Columbus, Ohio
Sep 10 2008 8:00P House of Blues Chicago, Illinois
Sep 11 2008 8:00P First Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sep 13 2008 12:00P Endfest – Marymoor Park Seattle, Washington
Sep 14 2008 3:00P Monolith Festival Morrison, Colorado
Sep 16 2008 8:00P The Wiltern Los Angeles, California
Sep 17 2008 8:00P The Warfield San Francisco, California
Sep 18 2008 8:00P House of Blues San Diego, California
Sep 24 2008 8:00P Exit In Nashville, Tennessee
Sep 25 2008 8:00P Parish Room @ HOB New Orleans, Louisiana
Sep 26 2008 8:00P Warehouse Live Houston, Texas
Sep 28 2008 8:00P House of Blues Dallas, Texas
Sep 30 2008 8:00P The Loft at Center Stage Atlanta, Georgia
Oct 1 2008 8:00P Cats Cradle Carrboro, North Carolina
Oct 2 2008 8:00P 9:30 Club Washington, D.C.
Oct 3 2008 8:00P Orpheum Theatre Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 4 2008 8:00P Webster Theatre Hartford, Connecticut

Photo Credit: Tod Emko/ UGO Networks

Good day–

We’re thrilled to announce our first-ever full U.S. tour beginning September 1st in Cleveland, OH.

This includes 20 or so dates with Scottish juggernauts the Fratellis .

We fully expect it to be an adventure and hope we can meet you in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Des Moines, and other sunny glens along the American interstate. Dates and locations are posted below. We’ll be announcing additional ones shortly.

Spin.com named us Artist of the Day today. That was very nice of them.

We’re playing Late Night with Conan O’Brien this Friday . Hope you can watch.

Right now, we’re on the 95 South, having just crossed the Delaware River (much like George Washington did back in the day, only with guitar amps). The tour so far has been amazing and ridiculous. We’ve had a few firsts this tour, including an encounter with a bear, a ping pong tournament with M83, and a helicopter ride into the Pemberton Festival, against our better judgment. The show was fantastic, the people were lovely, Canada rocks and rolls and stays for beers after.

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Photo Credit: Tod Emko/ UGO Networks

Good day–

We’re thrilled to announce our first-ever full U.S. tour beginning September 1st in Cleveland, OH.

This includes 20 or so dates with Scottish juggernauts the Fratellis .

We fully expect it to be an adventure and hope we can meet you in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Des Moines, and other sunny glens along the American interstate. Dates and locations are posted below. We’ll be announcing additional ones shortly.

Spin.com named us Artist of the Day today. That was very nice of them.

We’re playing Late Night with Conan O’Brien this Friday . Hope you can watch.

Right now, we’re on the 95 South, having just crossed the Delaware River (much like George Washington did back in the day, only with guitar amps). The tour so far has been amazing and ridiculous. We’ve had a few firsts this tour, including an encounter with a bear, a ping pong tournament with M83, and a helicopter ride into the Pemberton Festival, against our better judgment. The show was fantastic, the people were lovely, Canada rocks and rolls and stays for beers after.

If you’d like to get a better idea, you can watch our 10-part video blog for USA Today by going to this link :

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/backstage-pass.htm

We also had our good friend and L.A. blogger Mouse along for a few days.. You can read his highly readable account on his blog, Classical Geek Theatre .

Oh, and we’ve posted our second-to-last acoustic video, this one for "Missy" . We’ll release our final video on August 5th, the day of our album release.

We hope you can keep voting for our video for "Sometime Around Midnight" at Yahoo! Music . Just follow this link :

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says “Users’ Choice” and click on our box to vote (it’s the first one). To watch the video, click on the little TV icon.

Phew. Below are our official U.S. tour dates (with the Fratellis). More to come in a bit:

We miss you and love you and dream of circling multi-colored tents in helicopters..

p.s. Have you seen this ?

http://www.zoom-in.com/spotlights/rehearsal_space_the_airborne_toxic_event

Sept 1 House of Blues – Cleveland, OH
Sept 2 Mr. Small’s Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
Sept 4 Theater of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Sept 5 Roseland Ballroom – New York, NY
Sept 6 Virgin Festival – Toronto ON
Sept 8 St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MA
Sept 9 Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH
Sept 10 House of Blues – Chicago, IL
Sept 11 First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
Sept 13 Endfest – Marymoor Park – Redmond, WA
Sept 14 Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Monolith Morrison, CO
Sept 16 The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
Sept 17 Warfield Theatre – San Francisco, CA
Sept 18 House of Blues – San Diego, CA
Sept 24 Exit/In – Nashville, TN
Sept 25 Parish Room – New Orleans, LA
Sept 26 Warehouse Live – Houston TX
Sept 28 House Of Blues Dallas TX
Sept 30 The Loft at Center Stage – Atlanta GA
Oct 1 Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC
Oct 2 – 9:30 Club – Washington, D.C.
Oct 3 Orpheum Theatre Boston, MA
Oct 4 Webster Theatre Hartford, CT

Photo Credit: Levi Pervin

Good afternoon–

We’re sitting in the sound booth at the venerable KEXP in Seattle at the moment, soundchecking for a live performance we’ll be playing at 3:00 p.m. PST.

If you live in the area, you can tune in at 90.3 FM, or stream the show live from anywhere in the world at:

http://www.kexp.org

We’ll be playing four songs and doing an in-studio interview. Hope you can tune in.

The next video of our 10-part acoustic series will be up tomorrow. (We mentioned that they would be up yesterday, but we were wrong, evidently..)

Also, please keep voting for our "Sometime Around Midnight" video at:

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

We seriously appreciate all your support. It means so much to us.

We miss you and love you and find the Pacific Northwest quite romantic this time of year..

Photo Credit: Tod Emko

Good morning–

A light rain is falling outside the Days Inn in Eugene, Oregon as we stumble towards the van with our guitars. Two nights prior it was San Francisco and madcap wilding into the night. Before that London. Seems like a lifetime ago from this quiet college town. Such is touring.

Our video for "Sometime Around Midnight" is still in the running at Yahoo music.

You can vote for it here . The word on the street is that it’s very close right now and we of course would love your vote. We’re also honored to be included with the other bands in the contest. Like Mayor Daly used to say: "vote early and vote often.

You can vote as many times as you like (simply refresh the page). To do so, follow this link :

http://music. yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says "Users’ Choice" and click on our box to vote (it’s the first one). To watch the video, click on the little TV icon.

In other news, we’d like to announce that we will be playing the NPR show World Cafe in ...
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Photo Credit: Tod Emko

Good morning–

A light rain is falling outside the Days Inn in Eugene, Oregon as we stumble towards the van with our guitars. Two nights prior it was San Francisco and madcap wilding into the night. Before that London. Seems like a lifetime ago from this quiet college town. Such is touring.

Our video for "Sometime Around Midnight" is still in the running at Yahoo music.

You can vote for it here . The word on the street is that it’s very close right now and we of course would love your vote. We’re also honored to be included with the other bands in the contest. Like Mayor Daly used to say: "vote early and vote often.

You can vote as many times as you like (simply refresh the page). To do so, follow this link :

http://music. yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says "Users’ Choice" and click on our box to vote (it’s the first one). To watch the video, click on the little TV icon.

In other news, we’d like to announce that we will be playing the NPR show World Cafe in a couple weeks.

Also, we’re very excited to announce that a great new band from San Francisco will be joining us at the El Rey.

the Morning Benders will be on just before us, just after Radars to the Sky.

Check out some stuff on their MySpace :

http://www.myspace.com/themorningbenders

The acoustic video for our song "Something New" (week 8 of our 10 part acoustic series) will be up on our myspace page within the hour. It was shot on a boat driving through the harbor at Marina Del Rey. Good times.

We’ll be playing Towne Lounge in the lovely berg of Portland, Oregon on Thursday, then Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle on Friday.

More to come soon.

We miss you and love you and wish we could have clapped along to the footsteps of the great Pre as he circled the track a block from here, molecule by molecule removing the rubber from the soles of his shoes–

p.s. – we’d just like to say for the record that the Los Angeles music scene owes a great debt to Mr. Kevin Bronson who focused the national eye on Silver Lake with his relentless reporting on our little neighborhood. Thank you, Kevin.

Good morning–

After about 22 hours of traveling and slipping in and out of consciousness, we’ve arrived safely back in the States from the U.K. While across the pond, we played the Barfly in Camden and the 229 Club just across the street from the Great Portland Street tube station. The people were amazing, the pubs were cozy, and the jetlag kept us up at strange hours of the night.

We’ve added a new show for tomorrow night at 111 Minna for Good Magazine’s Choose Good Block Party, with our friends the Morning Benders.

Good is a very cool, very intelligent arts, culture, and social activism magazine that contributes all its subscription fees to charity, and we’re glad to be a part of it. We go on at 3:45 p.m.

We also want to remind you to keep voting for our “Sometime Around Midnight” video at Yahoo! Music.

It’s super important to us, and we hope you can find time to vote 1,9, or 49 times.. The contest is up for a few more weeks, and every vote really does help.

To vote, cut and paste this URL:

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says “Users’ Choice” and click ...
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Good morning–

After about 22 hours of traveling and slipping in and out of consciousness, we’ve arrived safely back in the States from the U.K. While across the pond, we played the Barfly in Camden and the 229 Club just across the street from the Great Portland Street tube station. The people were amazing, the pubs were cozy, and the jetlag kept us up at strange hours of the night.

We’ve added a new show for tomorrow night at 111 Minna for Good Magazine’s Choose Good Block Party, with our friends the Morning Benders.

Good is a very cool, very intelligent arts, culture, and social activism magazine that contributes all its subscription fees to charity, and we’re glad to be a part of it. We go on at 3:45 p.m.

We also want to remind you to keep voting for our “Sometime Around Midnight” video at Yahoo! Music.

It’s super important to us, and we hope you can find time to vote 1,9, or 49 times.. The contest is up for a few more weeks, and every vote really does help.

To vote, cut and paste this URL:

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says “Users’ Choice” and click on our box to vote (it’s the first one). To watch the video, click on the little TV icon.

Today, we play the Download Festival at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. We go on around 1:00 p.m. Hope we can make you out in the crowd.

We miss you and love you and find that strawberry-flavored beer isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds..

Good evening–

Greetings from the U.K. We’ve just arrived in London and are taking thorough advantage of the great weather and take-away pints.

As you might have heard, our video for the song "Sometime Around Midnight" is part of a contest on Yahoo! Music, and we seriously need your help to win. We hear that voting will continue for a few more weeks, and the winner gets featured for a month on the site, etc. In other words, it’s super important and we’d love it if everyone can pitch in. It means a lot to us, as we’re up against some great acts, and every vote counts a whole lot.

We hope you can find time to support our band by cutting and pasting the following URL:

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

You can vote as many times as you want (just refresh the page).

We play the Barfly in Camden tomorrow night. Afterwards, we plan to go to a rockabilly kebab joint that totally rocks.

We miss you and love you and thought we saw you tonight at the Lamb and Flag in Covent Garden..

Good Afternoon–

We’re very excited to announce the debut of our music video for “Sometime Around Midnight.” It was filmed in April at the legendary Spaceland in Silver Lake, CA (and in various other locations around town), and directed by our good friend Jason Wishnow. We had a great time making it, and we hope you enjoy it.

Here’s where you can watch it, and where we really need your help:

The video’s premiering online at Yahoo! Music as part of a video contest called “Users’ Choice” and we would love it if you could help us by voting.

Just cut and paste this URL:

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says “Users’ Choice” and click on our box to vote (it’s the first one). To watch the video, click on the little TV icon. The timing here is crucial.

Whichever video gets the most votes during the next 48 hours wins the contest gets and featured on Yahoo! Music for a month. We’re up against some stiff competition, so whatever you can do to support the band will be rewarded handsomely with kind thoughts and witty banter.

Vote as many times as the mood strikes ...
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Good Afternoon–

We’re very excited to announce the debut of our music video for “Sometime Around Midnight.” It was filmed in April at the legendary Spaceland in Silver Lake, CA (and in various other locations around town), and directed by our good friend Jason Wishnow. We had a great time making it, and we hope you enjoy it.

Here’s where you can watch it, and where we really need your help:

The video’s premiering online at Yahoo! Music as part of a video contest called “Users’ Choice” and we would love it if you could help us by voting.

Just cut and paste this URL:

http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

Scroll down to where it says “Users’ Choice” and click on our box to vote (it’s the first one). To watch the video, click on the little TV icon. The timing here is crucial.

Whichever video gets the most votes during the next 48 hours wins the contest gets and featured on Yahoo! Music for a month. We’re up against some stiff competition, so whatever you can do to support the band will be rewarded handsomely with kind thoughts and witty banter.

Vote as many times as the mood strikes you. (Just refresh the page after each vote.)

When you’re done voting, you should also check out the videos we’re up against, by Dr. Dog, the Duke Spirit, and Darker My Love. They’re pretty neat, too.

We miss you and love you and would follow you even if it was wrong..

p.s. Above is a still from our video.