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Day 1 Recording - Dirty Hands

Last night was Night 1 of recording. Got to the Skate Park Studio (or Fuzzy Rainbow) around 9, got home around 2:30 this morning... the session has to begin so late due to the skater boyzzz (and girls!) making their ruckus downstairs. we tracked drums, bass, guitar, and vocals for Dirty Hands. It went rather smoothly. A little too smoothly:) ha. I wanted to sing out of an amp, since I sing better for some reason hearing it back at me like that, but SOMEONE was vehemently against it. I won't name names:). That's ok, vocal performance turned out alright. I did this reeeeeally high backing vocal on the pre-chorus, and everyone kept saying it sounded like Krull. I thought it sounded kinda silly, but we may put it way in the background ... far left or somethin. Anyways, bass sounds nice and dirty and nasty, but de-cockified. I can't wait to blow out the drums, and put some nastiness on my vocals. Should be fun! Some pics of the session to come. Our engineers love us so much that they showed us "CakeFarts" to end the evening. I thought it was a reference to CakeWalk, but no, its actually CakeFarts.




-A

Recording .... Documentary .....

We're going into the studio next week to begin RECORDING our LP!! YAY! We have about 15 songs written/half written... I probably want a 9 or 10 song album. no more.

Saturday afternoon we're going to the New Haven Artspace to be filmed for Hells Bells Productions' "SWAN DAY" Documentary. Very excited to answer questions all about myself! haha. I never know what to say. Any ideas? Maybe I'll make up an elaborate story of how i got into meth and cocaine, and music was the only thing that saved me.

Only a couple shows coming up (SWAN Day April 3, EC PopFest May 15). we're trying to focus on recording. I have a love-hate relationship with recording. A lot of the time what I hear in my mind can never be replicated on tape. Its exhausting. And another thing I love is when you record something really, really late or when you're really, really f*cked up and you think its the greatest piece of music EVER. Then the next day its a complete piece of shit. It works the other way too, so maybe it all evens out. We're recording with 2 really great engineers this time, so I'm hoping it'll go more smoothly.

that's all for now...

-A

RIP Lee McQueen

So sad.... RIP Mr. McQueen.

Take a look at this beautiful collection, my personal fave: 2009 Fall RTW

EULA - Lit Lounge 1/23

Saturday's show went SPLENDID. Honey Wagon (CT) kicked off the evening, followed by Les Vinyl, then Conversion Party. EULA closed the show with a bang. Big Thanks to Eric Rex and Edwina of King of the Gigabitches for coming out to the show and taking some amazing pictures! Oh, and I how can I forget this rad write up....

"Eula remind me of sharks in that there is the sense that if they as a band stop moving forward, they will die so they destroy the past in anticipation of the next kill. I had seen Eula back in October, so I knew what to expect from the live performance; tight and precise instrumentation with a fierce commitment to the art of performance.

Not a second spent on stage is still as Alyse alternates gentle crooning with nonsensical vocalalizations in the style of Molly Siegel of Ponytail. She will reach up to caress the microphone, and then step back to lock eyes with drummer Nathan Rose dropping her hands to her instrument as the guitar and drums produce a complex interplay onstage for a handful of bars before that element of the song vanishes off the cliff of the track and the rest sounds desperate, clawing towards something unobtainable and the instruments dance playfully; as Alyse and bassist Jeffery Maleri come together and break apart so often you’ve lost count and as you think you’ve grasped what’s happening on stage that suddenly…silence… a brief look up, a “thank you” and then…

It’s a new song.


Saturday’s thirty minute set was filled with new songs, one so new that it came with a bit of a caveat from the band that was a bit warranted as the track fell apart within the first 16 measures but they got through it the second time. However, each track was “new” in its own way, as the arrangements varied from the copies of The Language of Threat. Sometimes mildly, such as on the Locomotive Rhythm tracks of “Rosie”, and new bass elements on Housewolf; while tracks like Fight Riff become nearly whole new affairs, which I find to be a shame as that opening guitar is as near a distillation of what youth feels like as has been captured in a studio.

Talking to Alyse after the performance, they will be recording the new material within the next month and are looking to see if they can grab any sort of label interest or they may release it on their own as they did for The Language of Threat. Their next show is in Williamsburg on Feb 18th at Bar Matchless. Their EP The Language of Threat is available for free from them at shows or you can buy it from iTunes."

Photo courtesy of Edwina Hay.

Daniel Street fun-ness

Pics courtesy of jen wells

Top 10 and Bottom 5

With all the 2009 Top 10's & "End of The Decade Best of Lists" going around, we thought we would look to the future and give you the 10 things we are most looking forward to next year, and the top 5 things we couldn't care less about. Enjoy!


10-Chromeo album
Cause its always good to shake your ass!

9-CSS/Tily and the Wall ~ Live Documentary DVD

8-Jay-Z new “indie” album.
As soon as Blueprint 3 came out Jigga had blueprints drawn for his next album. This one to take a more “indie” approach. His words stated that this album would not appeal to everyone, and with his stops over the summer at various indie shows(Grizzly Bear, Dead Weather) and ongoing collaboration with the likes of MGMT - we’re looking forward to deciding for ourselves.

7-Eula moves to Brooklyn!!!
It’s been some time in the making and by this time next year we hope to be freezing our arses off in NY.

6-Portishead-new album

5-LCD Soundsystem-new album
Let there be light! LCD lights!!

4-MIA-new album
2010 is shaping up to be a boogey down year with Chromeo, Jay-Z, LCD, and Hot Chip all dropping next year. Get your dancing shoes ready!

3-Hot Chip-new album

2-Erykah Badu--“New Amerykah, Part II”
The album features production from J Dilla, 9th Wonder, James Poyser, and Madlib, and drumming from the Roots' ?uestlove.
Hopefully it’s a bit closer to her debut and sophmore release than her more recent, almost free form jam style we’ve heard lately.

1-dinosaur feathers-full length
Eula has been wearing down our copy of DF's '09 EP, and playing the new single ‘Vendela Vida’ multiple times a day. It’ll be nice to have a whole album to daydream to.

and...


5 Things We Couldn’t Care Less About:

5-Wavves next LP, 7”, or tempertantrum.
Until you stop purposely making your records sound like crap, I really don’t care. That goes for the rest of you lo-fi’ers.

4-The next celebrity to “f” up their life.
We know all celebrities are perfect, but isn’t there anything else on t.v.?

3-Smashing Pumpkins-44 song opus

2-White Stripes-live dvd, album, 7”, or pretty much anything Jack White is involved in. I know we’re all supposed to bow down to any standard blues song he recreates, but sorry, we don’t.

1-Weezer-hearing the sure to be awful songs from the new album on steady repeat on every top 40 station.