Ahead of our hometown show on March 31 at the Middle East downstairs (tickets here!), we’re posting previews about the bands joining us.  Last week, Tallahassee.  Today: Spirit Kid. We first met Emeen Zarookian, the brains and braun behind Spirit Kid, when he donned a top hat and added a little whine to his normally…

Today, Esquire Magazine put “Mannequin Man” on their “Future of American Music” playlist. That’s awesome. Here’s how they did it: “we asked Esquire’s seventy-thousand-plus Facebook friends to post links to the songs and artists they recently discovered from their Facebook friends. We culled through the results and picked ten tunes: a playlist that speaks not…

Ahead of our hometown show on March 31 at the Middle East downstairs (tickets here!), we’re going to post some previews about the bands joining us.  Today: Tallahassee. For two glorious nights – March 30 in Providence and March 31 in Boston – we get to share the stage with Tallahassee.  They’ve got musical merits…

We admit it, we’ve been quiet on the internets of late.  Admittedly, we’ve spent much of the Winter since our EP release in January electronically hibernating.  We’ve apparently taken our roles as bears in our “I don’t wanna go home” video to heart. * That’s all changing, with some updates going out to our mailing…

Anxious for the new Springsteen album?  Blogness on the Edge of Town has some advice (note: the advice includes us). “As for the lyrics, they’re keenly tuned in to the way we live now, as exemplified by the moody album closer ‘House On The Hill,’ an almost Springsteenesque indictment of the American dream deferred. Bruce…

We’ve gone global (sort of).  Earlier this week a music blog in Spain wrote about our new EP.  Of course, we already knew Spanish (no we didn’t), but we figured let’s be totally accurate and hire a crack team of translators (our buddy Tony).  Click the picture below for the translation, and we’ll be practicing…