this week in rock shows

TONIGHT ! PITTSBURGH . BRILLOBOX
WEDNESDAY . COVINGTON, KY (Cincinnati) . MAD HATTER
THURSDAY . ASHEVILLE . GREY EAGLE
FRIDAY . NASHVILLE . MERCY LOUNGE
SATURDAY . CHICAGO . METRO

In other news, we did a session last month at the Village Recorder (whose control room is the very control room pictured on the back of Countdown To Ecstasy and in VH1 Classic Albums - Phil Collins: Face Value, and where we've played before) with Nic Harcourt for livebuzz.com, and it looks like this:





Go to livebuzz.com to see the rest (which is "Backseat," "Dear Author," and the hot new "Rain Down South," as well as an interview)

the results are in

Behold the fruits of our labor on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic yesterday! If you stick around long enough, you'll hear a brand new song called "Rain Down South," and another song that's not quite new but which you've probably never heard before.

Set list:
1. Backseat
2. Split Minute
3. New America
4. Maple Day Getaway
5. Trail the Line
[interview]
6. Dear Author
7. Cry On Me Woman
8. Rain Down South
9. 'Tis a Great Art To Saunter
10. June Bloom

Seriously huge thanks to everyone there for having us in - they're so important to us, in fact, that they're the only broadcast entity to have their own keyword on this blog. It was a real joyous occasion for us, which we topped off with our first (!) trip to Canter's on Fairfax, which not only has Babe Ruth's favorite pickles, and is not only where Saul Hudson earned the nickname "Slash," but has the only reuben in town you can eat and not feel like a zeppelin after. Legend'ry.

And yes, Jason Bentley talks like that all the time.

DML on Morning Becomes Eclectic tomorrow!

Turn on, tune in, drop out, roll over, etc. Wednesday Sept. 15, 11:15 a.m. PDT. KCRW 89.9 FM in L.A.; watch and listen at kcrw.com worldwide.

We'll play some songs, get smoothly interrogated by the velvet-throated Jason Bentley, and then we'll play some more songs, kinda like last time. We have to wake up really early.

This is what we look like on Morning Becomes Eclectic

Set list:
1. Northern Soul
2. Blue Day
3. A Lovely Game (which is brand new and tentatively-titled)
4. Helium Heels
[ interview ]
5./6./7. All the Hurry & Wait / Waves / Talking Words
8. Two Ways Out
9. Little Hands (by Skip Spence)

Fun fact: This is the room in which Steely Dan recorded Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown To Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, Aja, and Gaucho. Among others. And now, this.