TEEVEE

Remember when we were on TV last night? Well, this is what it looked like. Watch Rob courageously fight off a cold while playing our Christmas song for the first time ever:



Approximately .06 seconds of our "actual" song "Backseat" made it on air, presumably because Rachael Ray decided to prepare her burgers medium well instead of the searing Jimmy requested. Which is a bummer, because here that is:



p.s. That's our buddy Dan Iead on pedal steel, whom you might've seen playing on the tour we just finished while Jared was in the studio making our next record for us. Also congratulations to The Fling, Emily Sills, and Reed and Stacy from Dangerbird for getting their faces on TV. I'm sure their respective families are proud.
p.p.s. Yes, we-reoriented the album cover 90°. Looks better, yah?

JIMMY KIMMEL TONIGHT

Don't forget! He's watching you, so you better watch him. Or something like that. I wonder if we'll get to eat whatever Rachael Ray's cooking.

Jimmy Kimmel Live
ABC
12:06 am / 11:06 pm CST
(we play at the end, naturally)

Guitar Hotel, 3 a.m.

DML on TV!

Hey, guess what, we're gonna be on Jimmy Kimmel Live next Monday! December 13. We're taking bets on who else is gonna be on. It's probably online, but we haven't googled it yet, so speculate away. Anyway, here's the deal. We're playing two songs. One of them is the Christmas song that we mentioned that you can get from Target. The other one'll be from our record. It'll be all festive and what not, and hey, it's our late-night national television debut, and that's pretty sick.

IF YOU WANT TICKETS: click on Jimmy. Do it. They're free. 'Twould be rad to see friendly faces there, and hey, maybe the back of your head'll get on TV too!

tv/impressions/strings/moranis/fries/dicks/twins

a.k.a. tour

Our First Tattoo

This is Joe. He's from Louisville. He came to Nashville last night and had this on his arm:




with Tim (asleep) and Rob



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DO NOT GET ON THIS BUS

This is one deal you should pass up.

we still want a hula hoop

Since we're driving/sledding through our first snow right now on our way out of Pittsburgh, now would be a good time to mention that you can now download and forever own our Instant Christmas Classic from Target.com. Yes, this is your Christmas present, and no you're not getting anything else.

house of cards

Tim has this card in a safe deposit box at the A.P. Giannini Bank at 3rd and El Camino in San Mateo, California. It's worth about $5.

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)