Birdmonster

Berkeley Show Friday April 30th!

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:11:45 PDT

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.

Birdmonster on Amazon's Editor's Choice "100 Albums For $5"

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:42:15 PDT

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!

One More With The Mother Hips

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:05:55 PST

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.

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:39:54 PST

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Yuma On The 1% For The Planet Benefit Album

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:11:39 PST

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.

Yuma Times Two: Bright Lights / Black Fog

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:06:41 PST

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.

Date Added: Bottom Of The Hill w/ Boy In The Bubble

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:28:42 PST

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.

Date Added: Bottom Of The Hill w/ West Indian Girl

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:32:23 PST

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.

More Blood Memories

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:33:50 PDT

You can now stream two more tracks from the new Blood Memory EP right here on our very own Music Page. Enjoy!

Bottom Of The Hill w/ The Love X Nowhere Thursday 10/8

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:31:21 PDT

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!

Bands For Books This Saturday 9/26

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:01:31 PDT

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.

Blood Memory Now Available On Amazon

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:20:20 PDT

In addition to iTunes, Blood Memory is now available at Amazon.com.

Blood Memory Out Now On iTunes!

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:19:42 PDT

Blood Memory has officially arrived and can be downloaded from iTunes for the nice price of $4.99 or by clicking here. Enjoy!

Blood Memory Listening Party At Mini Bar 9/16

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:18:58 PDT

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.

More Blood Memory Details

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:11:11 PDT

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

Blood Memory EP Available Online 9/22!

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:33:02 PDT

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

New Tour Dates Added With The Mother Hips

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:19:23 PDT

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!

4th of July Freedom Fest At El Rio This Saturday

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:59:55 PDT

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)

2 New Shows Added

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:42:40 PDT

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!

Berkeley Show Added - Friday May 29th!

Tue, 12 May 2009 22:06:01 PDT

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.

Birdmonster Covers the Boss: On BruceSpringsteen.Net

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:04:38 PDT

Head over to the Boss' official site to see us cover "The Promised Land."

Headline Show at Cafe du Nord Added

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:36:14 PDT

We're headlining Cafe du Nord on Tuesday, April 21. It's 18 and over show - grab your tickets here!

New Photoset: Sundance 2009

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:45:38 PST

Head over to the Galleria for a handfull of shots taken by Fred Hayes at the ASCAP Music Cafe at the Sundance Film Fest this January.

Acoustic Happy Hour At Diesel This Thursday

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:49:31 PST

We'll be playing an acoustic set this Thursday 2/26/09 at the Diesel store in San Francisco. Aaron Axelsen, Papercuts and Sean Moeller from Daytrotter are all DJing before our performance. The event is from 5:00 - 9:00PM. Our set is scheduled for 7:30PM. You must be 21 and you can RSVP to happyhour@plusonemusic.net.

'Cause You Can Video SLAM

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:57:55 PST

The original 'Cause You Can video SLAM by Greg Crane is now on display in the video atrium.