DML in ICT Magazine!!!

Awesome interview with Rob by JamBase's Brennan Lagasse in the new ICT Magazine, from when we played the Hellenic Theatre in Berkeley, in which he discusses the transcription of our newborn album. Highlights excerpted below:

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"JamBase: You impact a pretty unequalled sound. What bands impact influenced you?

Rob Barbato: I conceive with the newborn achievement Evangelist Phillips from The Mamas and The Papas was a pretty bounteous influence, and apparently the Grateful Dead, CCR (Credence Clearwater Revival) and clog aforementioned that. But also bands aforementioned Big Star were a pretty bounteous impact for us. Who added would you feature Will?

Will Canzoneri [organ/clavinet]: R.E.M.

Rob: Yeah, R.E.M. as a past sound.

JamBase: Well that’s pretty modify since there’s an R.E.M. calculate in your intermixture shack backstage.

What’s inspired your songwriting and penalization compositions beyond singable influences?

Rob: Friends and kinsfolk are Brobdingnagian inspirations, and also added friend’s music... That’s ever something that gets me rattling agog to create.

The achievement was transcribed in San Francisco at a flat where some added famous tracks impact been recorded. What prefabricated you opt that site?

Rob: Hyde Street was where CCR had the Cosmo’s Factory where they transcribed their prototypal digit or threesome records before they touched to Fantasy in Berkeley... All of Herbie Hancock’s depression records were finished there, and Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty were finished there.

JamBase: There’s awful interplay between you and your bandmates. Do you conceive that comes more from the instance you’ve locate in practicing, transcription or touring?

Rob: It’s mainly from touring.

JamBase: What do you wager in the forthcoming for DML?

Rob: Make added record, indite modify songs, that’s it. And impact recreation activity shows."



On drummer Dan Allaire:
"Yeah, Dan [Allaire] has totally denaturized the band. He’s an awful drummer. Andy [Ganelli] was an awful drummer, but Dan does clog differently... It’s a bounteous care and he’s an awful sheik and an awing drummer, so it’s rattling enthusiastic to impact him in the band."

On producer Nick Huntington:
"With Nick it was more of cooperation in the creation area, and he’s an awful musician, composer and producer, so we were rattling lucky... I would fuck to impact with him again whether with DML or otherwise."

On fans:
"I conceive we impact fans every over the locate that imbibe up. We impact fans in England and here and there, but I would feature existence a West Coast adornment makes it more a West Coast abstract [laughs]. But we impact assorted listeners, especially with the newborn record.

We intercommunicate to a clump of assorted people."


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Full interview available here.

Memories

of last month:


Greek Theatre, Berkeley







Greek Theatre, LA




Liberace Plaza, home of the since-closed Liberace Museum, and Goodtimes Bar & Nightclub, home of the $2 Recession Special.


It's the World's Largest Rhinestone.


Yes, those are American flag hot pants. Hot for the Bicentennial.




Panis, with the iced green tea he ordered.



photos by will.

TOUR

Time for our big annual fall tour! With Delta Spirit. We play, and then they play. It's a damn good bill.

Nov 15. Lawrence, KS. Jackpot Saloon
Nov 16. Columbia, MO. Mojo's
Nov 17. Rock Island, IL. Speakeasy
Nov 18. Madison, WI. High Noon Saloon
Nov 19. Milwaukee. Turner Hall
Nov 20. South Bend, IN. Legends of Notre Dame
Nov 22. Buffalo. Tralf Music Hall
Nov 23. NYC. Webster Hall
[HAPPY THANKSGIVING]
Nov 26. TBA
Nov 27. Pawtucket, RI. The Met
Nov 29. Baltimore. Ottobar
Nov 30. Pittsburgh. Brillobox
Dec 1. Covington, KY. The Mad Hatter
Dec 2. Asheville, NC. Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
Dec 3. Nashville. Mercy Lounge
Dec 4. Chicago. Metro
Dec 7. TBA
Dec 8. TBA
Dec 9. Santa Barbara. Soho
Dec 10. San Diego. House of Blues

Highlights to include winter-home shopping in Milwaukee, visiting Rudy's grave, Thanksgiving dinner at Rob's folks' house and then going to Foxwoods (it's the world's largest casino), driving thru the Tim Hortons by Foxwoods, playing in a college town over Thanksgiving Break (hint hint), finding the brothel whose services Mayor Jerry Springer paid for with a personal check and then eating at the chili parlour next door, and playing (ahem) The Elite Club. Oh, and driving.

Europe Redux

For starters, we're back. The tapes and our stuff and our bodies made it back intact to the harsh reality that is real life, post-Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp. So now, while we're waiting patiently for our Major Label to decide what they think of our new record and which song they're gonna lube up and slip down the gullet of mainstream rock radio, entertain yourselves with this recently-excavated footage from the fall (as in, a few months ago), when drove ourselves around Europe, broken up into two EZ-bufferin' clips.


part 1


part 2

Europe: Days 1-15

Won a sweepstakes for a free monthlong trip to Europe for you and your 4 closest friends, so to make some extra spending money we put a band together and made up some songs and played a buncha shows with a band called White Lies in many old European theatres for many European teenagers and/or their European parents and the rest of the time did this:


Day 1: Amsterdam. Killing time until it gets dark so we can go to sleep.


Day 2: Driving to Eindhoven. First show. Late.


Day 3: Paradiso, Amsterdam. Still trying to learn songs.


Day 4: Jail, Rotterdam. This was where we figured out that we don't like putting sheets on our own beds.


Day 5: Dan makes a friend in Alkmaar (celebrating 750 years!)


Our picnic in Alkmaar. Thanks to the fine folks at Subway.


Day 6: Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Working hard.


(see above)


St. Bavo's Cathedral, Haarlem. 10-year old Mozart played that organ. So did Handel, except he wasn't 10.


Day 7: Brugge (Bruges). Frites'ed up before we even left the train station.


Brugge Cruise


Day 8: de Noordzee in Oostende, where Marvin Gaye wrote "Sexual Healing." You can see why.


French hackin', outside McDonald's, somewhere in Picardie (look closely).


Day 9: us in like 5 years.


Day 10: Paris. Tim thought the housekeeper stole his iPod. Turns out she didn't.


Day 11: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, home of Jim.




Parisian bum eating McDonald's

Day 12: previously documented here


Day 13: Luxembourg


Day 14


Halloween in Luxembourg


Band photo, featuring unknown creepy guy, possibly Gene Simmons (at left)



photos by Will

London / The Fall

We've added a fall London show. November 17 at KOKO with... The Fall. There's a possibility this could be our only UK show, so tally ho and get tickets here. We're hoping there will another show or two, but as it stands right now, this is it.

Attn: Western World

Two tours rolled into one long slithery thing. It's a migratory beast, that, with the shortening of days each autumn, journeys to climes where the days are even shorter and the nights are even colder. It will be easily distinguishable from what you may have seen of it in the past by its prominent upper incisors, mottled snout, golden underbelly, and crispy exoskeleton. This time, it will snake from Philadelphia back west to Los Angeles, leaving its slime trail through the south. Then it will head further east to Europe, where it will speak 8 different languages, sometimes simultaneously, before cooling off in London and neighbouring villages for a spell. Details follow.

Leg 1:
Meeting in the semifinals of the 2009 tour-off will be European bracket winners A Place To Bury Strangers and U.S. victors All the Saints, in keeping with the official band New Year's Resolution to do as many tours as possible with as few bands as possible. For the environment's sake.
(If you don't recall, we've already toured with each of those bands this year, and it was so much fun we're back for more [and sorry for the abrupt switch to first person. That third person thing was getting old.])
This also means there will be even more high-stakes backstage poker, especially given the fiery, tight-fisted presence of Jim Crook of All the Saints and the here-take-my-money-ness of the good-timin' Ollie Ackermann.
A Place To Bury Strangers headlines. Dates here:

10.4. Philadelphia, PA. Johnny Brenda's
10.5. Washington, DC. Rock & Roll Hotel
10.6. Chapel Hill, NC. Local 506
10.7. Atlanta, GA. Drunken Unicorn
10.8. Tallahassee, FL. Club Downunder
10.9. New Orleans, LA. One Eyed Jacks
10.10. Dallas, TX. Club Dada
10.11. Austin, TX. The Mohawk
10.13. Tucson, AZ. Plush
10.15. San Diego. The Casbah
10.16. L.A. The Echo


Leg 2:
After taking a few hours to catch our breaths on the 17th, we'll teleport to Europe, where we're supporting White Lies. This is most exciting because we get to play Luxembourg, and who ever gets to do that? Next time, Liechtenstein and/or Andorra.

10.20. Eindhoven, Holland. Effenaar
10.21. Amsterdam, Holland. Paradiso
10.22. Rotterdam, Holland. Watt
10.28. Paris, France. Elysee Montmartre
10.29. Brussels, Belgium. AB Box Club
10.30. Luxembourg. Den Atelier
11.01. Cologne, Germany. LMH
11.02. Hamburg, Germany. Ueber
11.04. Stockholm, Sweden. Berns
11.05. Oslo, Norway. Sentrum
11.06. Copenhagen, Demark. Vega
11.07. Berlin, Germany. Postbahnhof
11.09. Munich, Germany. Backstage
11.10. Vienna, Austria. Arena
11.12. Rome, Italy. Piper Club
11.13. Milan, Italy. Alcatraz
11.14. Zurich, Switzerland. Kaufleuten

And then keep the 16th thru the 20th open for some UK dates.

Here's a poster Tim made. It's more fun if you print it out.

Cranberries

Tonight's our 9th consecutive show. Columbus, Ohio. Tomorrow's the day, tonight's the night. Our one day off over the course of 5 weeks: tomorrow. We've spent the whole tour saving up for a nice bed and a full plate of food. Oh, and it's, like, Thanksgiving or something. A real happy one to you.

wild wild life

Our travels allow us to see parts of our country most people never get to.

photos by W.P. Canzoneri

this was what america looked like (part 3)

The final installment. So, you know, we can get back to words n shit.


Malibu vs. Iowa






The Breakfast King. If you're ever hungry, in Denver, and it's before noon or so, go here.


Aspen, in several colors.


Look again.







these were taken by Will.

this is what america looks like in black + white (part 2)

Here's more of said photos. If you didn't see part 1, then, duh, it's below.


The Dandy Warhols in Toronto




Montreal...






Boston


The Dandys lightshow




Ghosts, man.


Meet the greatest 3-and-three-quarters-year-old ever to have lived. Pictured with boyfriend.








Aspen, without all that distracting color bullshit.












...and a long road home.

Photos still by W.P. Canzoneri