…so come out and see us on the Abalone stage. 2PM to 3:30 in beautiful Morro Bay, right on the Embarcadero.

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After a break, we’re back live this month!

	Show 1: Tuesday, March 15, Santa Maria CA O’Sullivans, 9PMwith Asteroid M from Portland (we play first, come early) » Facebook Event Page » Map It 633 E Main, Santa Maria, CA
	Show 2: Thursday, March 24th, Paso Robles, CA The Pour House, 8:30PM » Facebook Event Page » Map It 1331 Vendels Circle, Paso Robles, CA

Click for a bigger view of the band name spelled out in lights / cool long-exposure + glow-stick technique!

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work by Greg Rasmussen, thanks Greg!

Plus, we got Vectorized!

BEHOLD the Awesomeness!

Too Late for Roses in Pasta

Yes – it’s Too Late for Roses, written out in Pasta on toast.  What else?

…well, our Street Team at least.   Check out our flyer campaign in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan!

Now well see how many free EP downloads we get from Japan…

…with Chad Schmid of the Wadsworth Bluff Rats.   All Ages!

<12/13/2010> Update! Well, that went super-ly. Thanks to everyone who came out we had (yet another) fabulous time at the Clubhouse. The ugly sweater party was a bonus, and the Bluff Rats reunion opening set was a treat. Photos below…

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Kyle Batty joins us on Drums for a night of original music.

Rock, post-rock, mountain surf music, percussion, flute, synth, bass, drums, voice…
Full bar, it’s out in the woods, let the good times roll.  \”/

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Address:  The Clubhouse at This Old House, 740 West Foothill, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401  Google Map

Our new pals.

Well, at last – Too Late for Roses is up and live on Pandora.com. Check us out over at our Pandora page.

The process changed from a couple of years ago – then you could just send music directly to Pandora (no pre-qualification required), and eventually they’d let you know if you got ‘in’. It’s worth pointing out that Pandora is fairly picky – they need to keep the quality of the less-known artists high enough so that when they mix them in with (say) Death Cab for Cutie, the listener isn’t repulsed by the crappy song that came on AFTER Marching Bands of Manhattan and bails out of the site altogether.

Now, you have to get your CD available for physical sale on Amazon.com, with a valid UPC (bar-code). CDBaby.com is probably the best way to do this, plus get your stuff on iTunes and virtually all the other sales channels. Then and only then you can submit a couple of songs at http://submitmusic.pandora.com/ , and wait to hear if you got the green light.

[ This is a convoluted way of saying "we feel pretty" that Pandora deemed us worthy. Whee! Let's give our mastering guy, Joe Gastwirt some of the credit too. ]

Now the interesting stuff happens – it’ll be fascinating to see how Pandora compares to the new nerds on the block, i.e. thesixtyone.com, jango.com, spotify.com etc. My sense from chatting with random folks around town (“hey dude – is your band on pandora yet?”) and from seeing the number of restaurants / clubs that use Pandora on a netbook for background music (BTW – does ASCAP/BMI just freak out about that or what?) is that Pandora has crossed the tipping point from being a niche site that nerds know about to a site that regular civilians know about and more importantly, use.

If true, we should see an up-tick in site visits, listens, downloads, and (who knows) sales. It’s cool that Pandora has the buy-now link on each song played.

So, getting on Pandora is a long, fairly demanding process. But…it’s a big audience.

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Update!  Great turnout, great opener by Ryan and Josh, full house.  Fun.

This is what you're doing Saturday night. Just FYI.

7:30PM (early, so you can get your discoteque on later) with Ryan Sayer playing a cool Americana set to open.  The show is ALL AGES.

740 W. Foothill Drive, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
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Stoked to play, stoked to see you there!

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The rough cut of “Masks” premiered in New York on the 18th of June, and we had a great turnout for the night.  Pat Smith showed all of his short films, from “Drink” (his first, and the first one I did the music for as well), “Delivery” (another PS / KvK collaboration), then onto “Handshake” and the darkly hilarious “Puppet”.  Then the piece-de-resistance – “Masks”!

It was well received by the 92Y Tribeca crowd.  We did a quick Q&A session, mingled with the animation fans (a pretty different world than the usual rock-show crowd), and headed out into the downtown New York summer night.    Good times…   In a couple of weeks Pat and I will make a few edits and tweaks , make a 35mm film print, and hit the film festival circuit in the Fall.

Want a preview? Check out the soundtrack now:

Also see:  More Music | Other Videos | Photos | PatSmith.com

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92Y Tribeca, Friday, June 18th, 8pm – Presenting The Twisted Animation of Patrick Smith

‘Traditional Animation is far from dead.. it’s just resting in the dark imagination of Director Patrick Smith. Come see a collection of Smith’s recent short films, featuring the World Premiere of his latest animated film “Masks”, his darkest and most twisted short to date. “Masks” is based on the experimental audio talents of Karl von Kries, who has previously worked with Smith on his short films “Drink” and “Delivery”.  Also screening will be a behind the scenes mini-doc directed by filmmaker Liz Lyons.  Patrick Smith will be in attendance for a Q and A after the show.’

For anyone in the NY Metro Area, this is a great chance to see “Masks” for the first time, and to hang out for the Q&A afterwords (Karl will be joining the Q&A as well).   http://92ytribeca.org/ (tickets, more info)

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