New Press

Patti and I did an interview with Bob Mehr of the Chicago Reader for his column The Meter. They took some fancy pictures of the four of us, and my big-ass head is on the front of section three.

Chicago's Newcity called us one of the city's ten bands on the verge. Big ups to our pals Bang! Bang! and Patti's other outfit, The Dials, for also being "on the verge". We're all on the verge of something.

Nick and my interview with Mike Gibson is up and running on the 75 Minutes site. We sound like nerds and talk about the internet alot.

Maximum Rock N Roll gave us a nice review. I'm paraphrasing but I believe it was something like "a great release from a band I dig or something. I mention it because Maximum Rock N Roll sort of intimidates me, so I'm glad that they were nice.

We're getting our pictures taken again tonight for UR Magazine, whom Rachel had a talk with, and Shea has been working like crazy getting us a bunch of press for the upcoming tour.

GO BUY THE RECORD.

In Stores Today!

Can you believe it? Time Attack in stores today!! It's been quite the journey. You can get it at your favorite local record store or insound.com. Liam and I talked to Mike at 75minutes.com last night, it was also pretty cool. Through the magic of COMPUTERS he was able to record our conversations over internet phone from different parts of the country (NY, Ohio, Chicago) and he will the ASSEMBLE them into a hopefully cool interview. Podcasts are pretty cool. At first I couldn't really figure them out, but it's turned out to be pretty easy. The wave of the future they say.

It was my birthday yesterday. I had a good day.

vinyl update

we got test pressings back the day of the listening party, and ultimately approved them, so they are being pressed as we speak. i guess i haven't talked much about this, so here's the basic deal of how it went down:

we had trevor slightly modify the cd mastered version (trim the end of devil, add a little to the end of the record) and then send the files to masterdisk. meanwhile i designed the labels following the classic sound org design and sent it off to masterdisk as well.

quick caveat about sound org (since mike was asking) it started originally as a vehicle to put out the ng kindheit 7" (my old no-wave/experimental band) in 1998. the name originally came from tim miller, the kindheit guitar player and had sort of a double meaning at the time - sound (read: solid, togther, secure) org (organization) and sound (sonic) org - which we thought was cool. since then it's been releases of something i've been a part of, this being SORG-005. also, as part of a label identity, all of the LP or CD labels follow the same design, something labels used to do in the 60s. i was inspired by old London, and RCA record labels - and keep that consistant across releases. since kimball and i met up in 2000, it's mostly been the two of us "running the label". there are boxes upon boxes of old releases laying about my house - it's not a very profitable operation!

back to time attack. andy vandette (blues explosion, beastie boys, david bowie, bruce dickinson and kid rock among tons of others) took trevors files and made a laquer. the laquer is basically a very fragile record. the music is played through the neumann cutting lathe, and the stylus vibrates cutting a path in the laquer much like your needle will at home. except the laquer is very fragile. once this laquer is cut, it is sent to the pressing plant to be plated - where they make an inverse mold of the laquer - this is a large metal stamper. once they have that mold, the stamper presses into the hot vinyl wax making a resulting record. that's the uber quick explanation of it all.

so the pressing plant makes a short run of 5 copies called test pressings - that they send to us to approve or reject before doing the whole run. these have simple white labels with the matrix number hand written on them (SORG-005) but otherise are just like the record will be in weight and playabilit. we got the pressings last week, listened to them and they sound great. so now they're being pressed at the plant (33 1/3 - the pressing is outsourced by masterdisk)

RECORD RELEASE WEEK

A huge thank you to everyone that made it out to our listening party last night. A much huger thanks to Chuck and Neil at Club Foot for their hospitality and an even huger (hugest? hugiant) thanks to DJ John Benetti and DJ SCRVNR for their work on the ones and twos.

Record release shows Friday and Saturday.

FRIDAY SEPT. 23rd
ALL AGES! BRING YOUR BABIES!
w/Russian Circles, Hanalei, Maps And Atlases, Karma With A K
The Texas Ballroom

SATURDAY SEPT. 24TH
w/The Life During Wartime DJ's
Hideout Chicago

Nick turns 21 on Monday, so someone should buy him his first drink. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRASKA

New Reviews/Articles

1. Pick up the new issue of Venus Magazine for an interview with us. The article doesn't mention that I SCHOOLED EVERYBODY IN SCRABBLE.

2. If you're in Chicago, you can pick up the first issue of THE MACHINE. If you're everywhere else, you can look at this PDF on page 25 for a story about us.

3. A review of Time Attack from Exclaim! magazine

4. A review of Time Attack from Slug Magazine

5 Some monkeys ride dogs to the record store so that they can buy Time Attack. It's true. I talked to the monkey.

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