Hey guys,
It's been too long, and I miss you...
That being said, we're playing the Annex, that wonderful club down in the LES. So come out on April 1st at 9:00pm and enjoy our fantastic blend of easy listening and folk rock, in the style of Loggins and Messina.
Love,
Frans Mernick
Hello Children--
Well, this past Saturday was our first Valentine's Day, as we don't really remember much from the pre-BF era, and it was party time at its finest. We were invited by our friends, Downtown Equipment, to play a romantic Double Date show at Fat Baby in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
The clock struck 8, and we were off, electrifying the masses that swarmed in with love in their hearts and Keytar in their ears. The highlight of the night for us, and hopefully many others, was the debut of a new song, "Motherfucker," obviously written with the tenderness and love that this holiday epitomizes.
Thank you to the thousands that came out and the bartenders, sound guy and managerial types over at Fat Baby. An extra special thank you to Downtown Equipment for thinking of us out of all the other electronic rock bands they've been fooling around with as of late.
Let the merriment commence! We'll be joining our friends I Hate This Place, A Million Years, and Bona To Vada at the Public Assembly in Williamsburg on December 16th to rouse the rabble, down the egg nog, and make Santa embarrass himself dancing.
Don't wake up on the 17th thinking, "I've made a huge mistake." Come party with us!
Arlene's Grocery has invited us to move in for the month of December, so we'll be there every Monday night at 9, buttering you up for Arlene's raucous karaoke. The shows are free and plentiful, and it's not like you're booked every Monday night in December. All the shows are FREE FREE FREE! That's free - typed three times!
(Bellevue resident) Quinn Marston and the Seduction Kit will be on before us every week at eight. REPPIN IT!
As you may have gathered from our media blackout around October 4th, we didn't gig this past weekend. In fact, we briefly suspended our band in order to help fix the credit crisis. However, we're back with, like, a shitload of killer news.
We've added a bunch of dates for the next month or so, including the release party for 10010 at Arlene's Grocery on the 20th. Then we'll head up to Boston for a gig at Emerson College on the 29th. Right now we're saying Emerson because we don't know *where* exactly, but we'll keep you posted.
What's more, we've got our BTR Live Studio set available as a free download (neatly tracked and labeled, to boot), 'cause we don't want to cramp your mobile lifestyle. "?!??!?!??" you ask? Stream it now!
A week ago we stepped into a West Side studio with DJ Maia to record a live performance and interview for BreakThruRadio.com. She asked the hard questions, and we played all the tracks from our new EP, as well as three new ones, so head over there and take a listen.
Huzzah!
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: The release of our first EP, 10010. Recorded over the course of 2008 at our home studio, its five swashbuckling tracks will tantalize your eardrums and lay waste to your inhibitions about dancing in public. We're 100% sure it justifies all this hyperbole. You can listen to the whole thing (WOW!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!) at our space, and when you finally succumb to your iPod's demands, you can download the whole EP at a super-fine 320kbps for a cool $4.99 — less than five dollars! The good news doesn't stop there! We'll be featured this Friday on BTR Live Studio, but we'll have more on that when the time is right. Which is this Friday, obviously.
