Recordeded

Tracked 13 songs in 4 days.

Thanks Faygo!

Oh No Ono – European dates

Tue   11/may   Fly to Copenhagen Denmark

Fri     14/may    BE    Gent   -  Handelsbeurs
Sat    15/may    FR    Paris  –   La Fleche d’Or
Sun   16/may    FR    Paris  -  private party
Mon   17/may    UK    London  –   Luminaire
Tue    18/may    UK    London  -  The Forum w/ Wolf Parade
Wed   19/may    UK    Liverpool  -  Liverpool Sound City Festival @ The Kazimier
Thu    20/may    FR    St Breuc  –   Art Rock Festival
Fri      21/may     off / travel
Sat     22/may    DE    Hamburg  -  Prinzenbar
Sun    23/may    DE    Berlin  -  Karrera Club @ Comet Club
Mon   24/may    DE    Cologne  -  Studio 672
Tue    25/may    DE    Frankfurt  -  Nachtleben
Wed   26/may    DE    Munich  -  59:1
Thu    27/may    IT    Milano  -  Salumeria della Musica w/ Wolf Parade
Fri      28/may    IT    Ravenna  -  Bronson
Sat     29/may    AT    Kleinreifling  -  Seewiesen Festival
Sun    30/may    CZ    Prague  -  007 w/ Jeremy Jay

Tue    1/June    Fly to JFK in New York
Wed  2/June    Day off

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Surfer Blood – East coast dates

Thu 6/3/   Hamden, CT – Daniel Street Club
Fri 6/4/    Rochester, NY – The German House
Sat 6/5/   Buffalo, NY – Tralf
Sun 6/6/  Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
Mon 6/7/  OFF
Tue 6/8/   Memphis, TN – Hi Tone
Wed 6/9/  Birmingham, AL – Bottle Tree
Thu 6/10/ Tallahassee, FL – Engine Room
Fri 6/11/   Orlando, FL – Club Firestone
Sat 6/12/   Miami, FL – Grand Central
Sun 6/13/  Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits
Mon 6/14/  OFF
Tue 6/15/   Carborro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Wed 6/16/  Washington, DC – Black Cat

Light pollution album finished!!!!!!
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Label: Carpark
release date: Early June (I think)

http://www.thechromeattic.com/

Come over sometime, it could be great.

Here’s the offspring of a crab hand, organ, acoustic guitar, pair of drums, and a 4 track cassette-tape recorder that Matt Engers and I created.
Enjoy,
CRABJAM.mp3

Hand jobs for CASH!

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Featuring: Mike Doyle and Ryan Glassman.

Victor has begun recording his second solo album.

Proof:

Today started as a lazy sunday, I popped on some music and continued lounging around the house. As I was listening to Wiretap Scars by Sparta, (it’s been a few years since I last gave it a listen) I remember really liking the production on it and the album as a whole. So I did a little wiki-searching for who produced/engineered it.. A man named Jerry Finn.

I had never heard his name before, but the list of albums he’s had his hands in blew me away. Records I grew up listening to. Here are a few:

Green Day
Dookie!
Insomniac

The Vandals
Hitler Bad, Vandals Good

Rancid
Life Won’t Wait
…And Out Come the Wolves

The Living End
The Living End

Blink 182
Enema of the State

Sparta
Wiretape Scars

Alkaline Trio
From here to Infirmary
Crimson

I continued reading on, and noticed that he had passed away a little less than a year ago in 2008. As unfortionate as that is, it’s quite possible that without this man doing his job, records that motivated me towards developing a taste in the music industry could possibly have never done so the same way. Or possibly never even created. I tip my hat to you Jerry Finn, thanks for doing what you did, and doing it well.

In the studio recently, other than Graham – the warehouse kitty, is Victor Villareal (cap n’ jaz, owls, ghosts n vodka). He’s had a slight break from music to fulfill other interests, and is now back in action and recording albums and playing out.

He’s been working on a solo album recently and plans to have it out within this month. The album features 3 songs recorded and mixed by me, here in Dekalb, and a handful of others completed in Chicago.

Light Pollution record: 75% done.

Gardens record: Coming along great (I’m getting ahead of myself when I say .05% complete.)

Dr. Manhattan record: Drums are finished, the rest is in the hands of Casey Bates and Chris Conely in Seattle, WA.

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The House Cafe is still hoppin’

Web design is still clenching it’s feet on my shoulders like an angry pirate bird. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.. Spending a week in Austin, TX. at SXSW doing sound at a friend’s stage.

Vacation anyone?