We’ve got a lot of really good stuff coming up.

We’re super pumped about playing two Pitchfork Festival after-parties. The first is Saturday night (8/17/10) at Schubas with Here We Go Magic and the second is Sunday night (8/18/10) at Double Door with Netherfriends. Here’s the info for both shows:

Saturday, 8/17/10
Here We Go Magic, Sharon Van Etten & A Lull
@ Schubas
Chicago, IL
10:00pm, $12 ($6 with  Pitchfork Fest wristband), 18+
Click here for tickets.

Sunday, 8/18/10
Wine From the Moon Presents: Pitchfork Bands Together for Haiti
Netherfriends, The Alaya Concious & A Lull
@ Double Door
Chicago, IL
9:00pm, $15-30, 21+
Click here for tickets.

We’re also hitting the road later this month and again in early August. We’ll be heading to Denver on 7/24/10 for The UMS music festival. We’ll be playing on the ShareTheMic Stage at Moe’s Original Bar B Que. Badges appear to be sold out, but you can still snag a wristband for $30 thru 7/21/10 or for $40 thereafter. Click here for information about purchasing a wristband.

Then it’s back to New York. We’ll be playing a few shows on the way there, in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and three while we are there. We’ll be at Littlefield in Brooklyn on 8/6/10, Pianos in Manhattan on 8/7/10 and Union Hall in Brooklyn on 8/9/10. Below is the full run down, which may not be the final list as one or two more shows may still be added. Check here for the most up-to-date show information.

8/2/10 – Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class
8/3/10 – Toledo, OH @ Frankie’s Inner City
8/4/10 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Thunderbird Cafe
8/6/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Littlefield
8/7/10 – New York, NY @ Pianos
8/9/10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall

So, that’s where you can find us between now and then. We hope to see you there.

We’ve got a newly designed website, shooting for the video for “Weapons for War” was completed yesterday and Confetti’s just about done…There will be more to come very, very soon.

“Chicago avant-pop sextet A Lull have a full-length scheduled to drop later this year; in the meantime, they’ve made a 7″, “Weapons For War/Spread It All Around”, available for free download over at their MySpace. The A-side features pounding, layered percussion and warm vocalizing.”

Thanks Pitchfork!

Its been a minute since we last played, but we’ve had a productive couple of weeks. Confetti is FINALLY nearing completion and we’re ready to get back out there playing some of the songs that will be on it and some old ones that will not. So, we’re going to be playing soon (June 13, 2010) at Subterranean and to mark the occasion, the wildly talented Bill Connors has made beautiful (5-color process, silk screened) show posters. They are pretty awesome, as you all can see.

Check out more of Bill Connors’ work here.

Here are the details for the upcoming show at Subterranean:

Look Mexico, Destry and A Lull
@ Subterranean
Chicago, IL
8:00pm, $8-10, 17+

The new vinyl single, “Weapons For War/Spread It All Around”, has come in!!! Pre-orders will begin shipping Monday.

We are very excited about these and they sound absolutely great! Thank you! And see you this weekend.

We are pleased to announce the upcoming release of “Weapons For War/Spread It All Around” on 7″ vinyl!!!!

The records will be for sale at our show at SXSW and and the subsequent shows after that. We will begin shipping pre-orders in the first week of March. If you live in Chicago, come pick get one at Subterranean on April 3, a show that looks like it will serve as a sort of belated release party.

Both songs will be on our forthcoming full-length, “Confetti,” but we wanted to get something in your hands in the mean time.

As well as the vinyl release, both songs are available right now for free download on our website and are streaming on our Myspace page.

Of course there’s more. Accompanying the digital release of “Weapons For War/Spread It All Around” will be four remixes of “Weapons For War.” The tracks were remixed by Triobelisk, Soft Crest, Kiko Correa and Burrows, and they are great, individual takes on the original.

So, order one now or wait and pick one up at SXSW or Subterranean, but either way,we’d love it if you headed over and download the two songs and the remixes right now. ENJOY!!

Thank you!

We drove the new van to Texas, and when we were 40 miles east of Austin, a clogged radiator totaled the motor. Pistons shot through the engine, destroying it, and leaving us stranded again, this time in Texas instead of Alabama. We couldn’t believe that this was happening again. There was a lot of towing and maneuvering, and in the end, we made it to Austin to play the show, and the next day some of us came back to Chicago in a rental car and some of us stayed in Austin until the engine is replaced in the van.

The only thing worse than totaling two vans in one week would have been actually totaling them in accidents and injuring our bodies along with the vans. In spite of all that’s happened, we’re thankful that everyone is safe and that we’re talking about mechanics and engine transplants rather than doctors and organ transplants.

It isn’t all bad. The church we bought the van from is getting some money back to us to cover the engine. The mechanic is a solid dude who is getting us a really good deal on a new engine. It was a bummer to have to cancel a bunch of shows, but on the bright side, we’ll come out of this whole thing with a practically new van, ready to take us back to Austin for SXSW next month.

We’ll be laying low until then, writing and recording more songs for our elusive debut full-length album, which we promise will be completed soon. Also, we may have a couple other secrets up our sleeves, maybe. Keep checking back in the coming month for more info.