La Victoire!

Ladies and Gents--

Last night, your favourite blue-eyed-skinny-tied-soul-singers took home the gold in the UNC vs. Duke Battle of the Bands. It was a really (really) long night full of some genuine talent (please look up both The Soulless Dogs and Lake Inferior if you're not familiar with them) and a good crowd. Out of 12 acts we were voted number one by an esteemed panel of music critics, DJs, and school officials based on four categories: originality, technique, stage presence, and audience reaction. Apparently we get to play Duke's Last Day of Classes, which we are told is a fairly big event, so that's exciting. Jeah!

Also- this thursday is our on-campus show with The Love Language, an incendiary pop group that is sure to become a household name in the near future. Not only did Pitchfork blog about their SXSW show, but they were positively glowing about them! Pitchfork doesn't like anyone! It's a free show for UNC students and $5 for general public. Please come out if you haven't seem them yet, as it'll probably be one of the last few times you can see them in such an intimate setting.

(click for their Myspace page)
The Love Language w/ The Huguenots
Gerrard Hall, UNC Campus (E. Cameron Avenue)
Thursday, March 26th, 8pm
Free with UNC One card, $5 General Public

whattaweekend!

THURSDAY 3/19
Nightlight (405 1/2 W. Rosemary St.)
w/ the Catch Fire (Jon Philips of the Young Sons)
9:30pm, FREE (free!)

FRIDAY 3/20:
Snug Harbor (Charlotte, NC)
w/ The Catch Fire and Telltale (Brooklyn)
10:00pm, Free?

SATURDAY 3/21:
UNC vs. Duke Battle of the Bands
Duke Coffeehouse (Durham, NC)
6:00pm, FREE (free!)
Come out and support your hometown favourites vie against 11 other acts for an illustrious prize (we're not really sure what it is...)

COME TO ONE, COME TO ALL!
CDs, posters, new songs

Happenings

So-
After a louder-than-everyone-else performance at the Vinyl Records showcase and a weekend full of borderline-soulless solicitation from people we didn't know, we once again failed to get ourselves voted onto Vinyl Records. Pity. In the end, it's probably for the best, as we're set to work with our friend Robin Davies in getting out the inaugural 7" on her burgeoning label, as well as possibly working with the up-and-coming Neckbeard Records (helmed by none other than WKNC super-star Stevo and former DTH Diversions editor Bryan Reed). All exciting possibilities, so we're not discouraged, but forging ahead all the same!

We're trying to get that EP we talked about earlier this year finished, deciding on mixing, mastering, etc (all the annoying parts of making music...). We'd like to have it done before the summer so maybe we can do a big blowout (blow-up?) because someone will be graduating in may...

Our lovely friend Missy Thangs (de la Love Language) is also busy at work writing amazing keyboard and piano parts for our EP, and after hearing a few test mixes, they are sounding hott. Be sure to check her amazing outfit out soon if you haven't already had the experience that is the love language (CD release party @ 506 on March 28th--with max indian no less!).

We have an ass ton of new songs that we're just struggling to keep up with and learn, so please expect us to be debuting new songs at our upcoming shows. We're itching to get some new material out, so hopefully you'll benefit from our over-productiveness. Here's a quick recap of our shows, hope to see you at some of them.

Love, love, love,
Sam

3/19: The Nightlight w/ The Catch Fire (chapel hill)
3/20: Snug Harbor w/ The Catch Fire (charlotte)
3/21: UNC/Duke Battle of the Bands (duke coffeehouse, durham)
3/27: Duke Coffeehouse w/ Physics of Meaning and TBA (durham)
4/16: Tir Na Nog w/ The Magic Babies (Raleigh)