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Benefit Show – May 25th at the Echo in L.A.
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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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
