Ahead of Saturday’s Washington show at U Street Music Hall (tickets here), an interview with the great DC blog Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie, in which Naseem talks favorite DC eateries (anyone disagree?), late night Mt. Pleasant parties, nuclear weapons, and, of course, dancing.  Oh, and a free download…

And from our trip out (mid)west recently, a collage.  From our Chicago show at the Hideout, and from Culver’s somewhere in Wisconsin.  Somehow, we pulled off the Chicago show after Culver’s. Many thanks to Joe Mazza, who captured some great shots at that Chicago show (here).

After many submissions to both our facebook page and our email account and after much stressful deliberation, we have a winner of our “name our mini-tour” contest. The winner clearly demonstrated an understanding of the geography, timing and most importantly, was kinda witty with the whole ‘may’ and ‘May’ thing. Congrats to Melanie Morin, and…

It’s been a while since we gave anything away, and in honor of next week’s mini-tour out (mid)west, we’d like to change that.  Plus it’s Friday, and people like Fridays.  So, because everything in this world needs a name, the challenge: NAME OUR MINI-TOUR. We’ll be hitting Cleveland (May 2), Madison (May 3), Chicago (May…

RIP Levon. You were just as great later as you were earlier.