This week has been busy. Thanks to everyone who came to the show on Friday — it was great and a lot of fun — and to the band for playing. Also thanks to Andrea Maxand for getting me on the bill.
In other news, the details are a bit confusing yet, but it looks like Iowa Anvil was a top 5 add at 14 college radio stations around the country this week, and has been added into rotation at a number of other stations. I’ll make a list when I know what to write down.
We’ve been going for adds this week, and so far I think I’m being played in at a station in Florida, one in North Carolina, and one in Duluth, Minnesota. The Duluth station’s playlist says otherwise, which is confusing. At any rate, they seem to like me in Alaska — check out the top 5 adds at KRUA.
The graze was mentioned in the Seattle Times on the 4th, which is really neat. You can read it here.
I should point out that I’m no longer averse to spandex and makeup, so if any of you want to see some of that in the live set, you just, you know, just let me know.
Hiya. There are some new tour dates added to the tour page, which is good. Chicago and Baltimore, ‘sup? The Baltimore gig is interesting, because it means I have to drive 10 hours to Charleston the next day, then 10 hours back to Arlington the day after that. All those years in the Kiss Army have made me equal to this task.
In other news, I played with Rosyvelt (my other wife) and a band called Mouseheart Factor on Friday in Anacortes. It went really well, and if you get a chance to see Mouseheart Factor, you definitely should. They were essentially prog rock, if they’ll forgive me for calling it that.. kinda Muse, kinda Radiohead, kinda Yes. The band employs two keyboardists and some very sophisticated (proggy) songwriting, but they’re also seriously emotive and melodic.
Speaking of cool bands, I saw wesafari at a house party. They were yet another ridiculously talented local band that I’ve never heard of, that ought to be widely listened to and admired. Among the more instantly notable aspects of this band is that their drummer plays what sound like Bjork techno beats — which he does continuously — and the singer plays a Rhodes electric piano through an array of effects pedals. Lots of Line 6 delay modelers all around, and they know how to use them.
I played on Seattle’s KEXP 90.3 FM last Saturday (the 19th). You can check it out for up to two weeks after the fact here — the date to select is 6/19/04, and the hour was 8:00pm.
