We are excited to be back at The Starry Plough (they serve really good food there) in Berkeley, CA on Friday April 30th for a show with The Family Hogwash & King Baldwin! Check our more details on this and other shows in our convenient tour section.
From The Mountain To The Sea has been featured on Amazon's 100 Albums For $5. The editors hand picked 100 "excellent" albums to feature for the nice price of $5. Check us out there along with Spoon, Bowie, Sinatra, Radiohead and more!
In addition to our show this Friday 2/19 at Bottom Of The Hill w/ Boy In The Bubble & Girl Band, we've added one more tour date on Friday March 26th with The Mother Hips in Chico, CA! More info here.
Yuma is featured on the 1% For The Planet, The Music (Vol. 1) album out now. You can download the entire 41 track compilation featuring songs from Josh Ritter, Jack Johnson, Mason Jennings, The Submarines, and whole lot more from Amazon for just $7.99! Check it out. 1% For The Planet is a global movement of over 1,000 companies that all donate 1% of sales to environmental organizations worldwide. Learn more here.
Head on down to the video vault for two live living room performances of Yuma from Blood Memory. Each video was produced with groundbreaking special effects (Avatar, eat your heart out). We're calling them the "Bright Lights" and "Black Fog" versions respectively.
In addition to the upcoming West Indian Girl show, we'll be headlining Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco on Friday February 19th with Girl Band, Boy In The Bubble & Here Come The Saviors opening! You can get your advance tickets here.
We'll be back at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco on Friday January 22nd w/ West Indian Girl. The show is 18+ and the cover is $10! We look forward to seeing you out.
You can now stream two more tracks from the new Blood Memory EP right here on our very own Music Page. Enjoy!
We will be playing Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco on Thursday 10/8 with The Love X Nowhere & Erin Brazill. You can get your advance tickets right here. The cover is $8 and the show is 21+. Hope to see you out!
Just a reminder that we will be playing Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco this Saturday (9/26) as part of the Bands For Books fundraiser for the Potrero Hill Public Library. The afternoon begins at 1:30PM. The suggested donnation is $20, but Birdmonster fans will be admitted for $10. AB & The Sea will also be performing and the whole affair is All Ages. Hope to see you out for this great cause.
In addition to iTunes, Blood Memory is now available at Amazon.com.
Blood Memory has officially arrived and can be downloaded from iTunes for the nice price of $4.99 or by clicking here. Enjoy!
Join us next Wednesday September 16th at Mini Bar in San Francisco to celebrate the new release! From 7 to 9:30PM we will be DJing songs from Blood Memory and serving up the signature Blood Memory cocktail along with other happy hour specials. Plus there's no cover charge. Hope to see you there.
Blood Memory will see its official release on Tuesday September 22nd as an iTunes exclusive. The 8 song collection has a nifty $4.99 price tag. Stream the single Yuma on our very own jukebox. Here's the full Blood Memory tracklisting:
01 I Might Have Guessed (Mean Version)
02 Forever Gone
03 Mine To Say
04 Scatter Your Words
05 Yuma
06 Day To Day
07 The Iditarod (Evening Version)
08 I Won't Be Long / True Romance
Choosing songs for an album is a lot like what I imagine picking favorites amongst your children to be. That is to say: not easy. So instead of picking them yourself, you try to let the songs decide…you try to get out of your own way. And if you can do that, you might find the album congealing all on its own, from start to finish, without needing any help from you. And sometimes what takes shape isn’t exactly what you intended, but still something that needs its saying.
These were some of the thoughts ambling through our minds when sifting through the 25 songs that would eventually become the 12 comprising our second album, From The Mountain To The Sea. There were a few causalities.
A year later while starting work on a new batch of ideas, we thought we’d revisit those sessions and see if there was anything there…anything that had miraculously congealed, on its own, in our absence. What we found amid the sketches and b-sides was a group of 8 tracks of a different nature altogether. It was something darker, something more perilous, more narrative, more conceptual than any of the material we’d thus far released. We found a world desperate for gunfights, confrontations with The Man On High, journeys through ice by way of the desert; a world where the ancient songs flow off your tongue sure as instinct, like memories your ancestors left flowing in your blood. If its predecessor was a stab at something concise and singular, this was a world of extremities; one where loud guitars eventually give way to desperate banjos, settling to a bed of acoustics and messy piano lines. I was left wondering, Could I have intended this all from the start?
So for now, as we return to other matters, we hope you enjoy this: Blood Memory.
Birdmonster, September 2009
We will be joining The Mother Hips for two California shows later this month: July 31st at The Starry Plough in Berkeley and the El Rey in Chico on August 1st. We can't wait!
My Fellow Americans,
About two hundred thirty three years ago, we, the fine citizens of the United States, fed up with Britain's tweedy aloofness and insistence on calling pants "trousers" and underwear "pants," decided to get our Independence on. So Thomas Jefferson took a break from having awesome hair and boning his slaves and wrote the Declaration, effectively telling Britain to take a dirt nap because the uncouth colonies were in charge of themselves now, thank you very much. Then, you know: the fighting, muskets, the French, Indians, Paul Revere, et al. After that: This land is our land, you monarch-lovers. Keep your trousers on.
In the years since, we celebrate this momentous occasion by getting blotto, staring at exploding celestial doodads and eating lots of low quality pork. This year, Birdmonster's getting into the act, playing July 4th at the El Rio with a whole slew of bands, celebrating the best way we know how: hours of loud music and dozens of jingoistic fist-pumps.
Since it's a barbeque, it starts at 1. According to the El Rio website, there is also a "totally fabulous happy hour" till 3. This gives you two hours to get totally fabulous. Plus: eight bands for eight dollars? That's a bargain. We're on near the end of the day, but please, come early, stay late.
The El Rio's at 3158 (at Cesar Chavez) and we're playing with Two Sheds, Low Red Land, Birds & Batteries, Finn Riggins, D Numbers, Writer, and Murray the Thief. And yes there is food. And yes it will rule.
Hope to see you there.
(above reposted - with permission - from the bird blog)
We'll be playing up in Sonoma, CA (the heart of wine country) with Deer Tick on Saturday June 27th, and again on July Fourth in San Francisco at El Rio for the Freedom Fest w/ Low Red Land and Birds & Batteries. Check back with the tour page for more summer shows soon!
We'll be headlining a show at the Starry Plough Pub & Nightclub on Friday May 29th with Winters Fall and The Mumlers. Come ring in the summer with us! The show is 21+ and has a $9 cover.
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