“OMG! Ricky Reed, of Wallpaper. fame, is missing. Gone! Completely vanished. Unfortunately, his stellar world tour has now been cancelled. Fans are riotous with the news. The far reaching world tour included stops to Tanzania, Tucson and Tokyo. We even heard Wallpaper. was venturing to Antarctica and the Vatican City to make sure he reached every last fan.
He was last seen somewhere in the Amazon’s bamboo forest. We hope he doesn’t meet up with a T-Rex. We’ve heard they’re fierce.
What You Can Do to Help: You can buy his recently released EP on iTunes. Apparently all of this started when Reed found out that Grand Theft Auto IV out-sold his EP. (Can you believe it?) If we can boost the numbers, maybe Reed will come back. Maybe. Only time will tell. Please call (510) 493-7835 if you have any information or leads. Click here to view the last known footage of Ricky Reed.”
That’s right! Wallpaper.’s EP is finally available at your all your favorite digital music stores.iTunes has an exclusive remix of “Evrytm We Do It”. Also, the “Evrytm We Do It” 7″ is now up for preorder. The B-side is that “Evrytm We Do It” remix that can be found on iTunes. When you buy the 7″, you also get a code to download the entire EP for FREE! You can find that on theEenie Meenie Store. The 7″‘s should start shipping in about a week.
Division Day has had a stellar week! First, appearing on Kat Corbett’s “Local’s Only” show, then on Morning Becomes Eclectic with Nic Harcourt and finally playing to a packed house at the Troubadour on Friday night. You can check out their KROQ interview here. Morning Becomes Eclectic here. and footage from the Troubadour show here and here. The band will be recording some demos for their new record for a while, so you’ll see them around here and there.
Great Northern are recording some demos in their home studio and took a little time out to record this session in TV Guide’s studio which you can check out by clicking here.
Wallpaper. will be releasing T Rex digitally on April 29th, so check the tourdates on the right to see when he’ll be making his way to your side of Los Angeles!
The last night of Great Northern’s tour with The Gutter Twins brings them back home to The Avalon on April 2nd. The shows have been wonderful and the band has really enjoyed playing all over the country with their new friends and seeing new faces at the sold out shows!
Their welcome home will be made even MORE fantastic when they appear on Morning Becomes Eclectic on KCRW! The band will be on the show the morning of April 1st and this is no April Fool’s joke…
They aren’t the ONLY eenie meenie band to be getting some radio love this month: Division Day played KCRW’s official SXSW showcase at Buffalo Billiard’s with The Duke Spirit, The Ting Tings and Jesca Hoop. They made quite an impression on Nic Harcourt who asked them on the spot to come down and do Morning Becomes Eclectic as well on April 16th! The band also played the donewating.com party with Joseph Arthur, the LA Independent Media party with The Mae Shi and their friends, The Henry Clay People, and a Waterloo Records in-store! The band will be popping by the KROQ studios as well to visit pal Kat Corbett just before their all ages show with Facing New York at the Troubadour on April 18th.
Wallpaper. played Hell Ya! this week on a special night which was co-sponsored by our pal Jeff Weiss of Passion of the Weiss. The digital ep comes out April 29th and there’s a number of L.A. dates in the works at some of your favourite weekly parties so keep checking back for more info!
Check out the From Bubblegum to Sky page for a brand new bio including info about the upcoming record: A Soft Kill. More info to come about that and about some other special FBTS goodies you can take home!
That’s all for now, so set aside your ipod and turn on the radio this month — we’re SURE you’ll hear eenie meenie somewhere!
Great Northern kicked off their tour with The Gutter Twins with a bang at two Bay Area shows last weekend with their own stand (and pre-tour preview) at Popscene and then a SOLD OUT show at Bimbo’s with The Twins.
Both bands were a hit among Noise Pop attendees and locals and it’s only making us itch for their return home for the show at Avalon in L.A. on April 2nd.
We’ve been listening to Saturnalia in the office and lemme be the first (on this site) to say it rocks!
Wallpaper. also made a splash at this year’s Noise Pop at the Rickshaw Stop. In fact, he dominated The Tripwire Day Four
The release of T-Rex will be April 29th, so keep checking back for more news and info about tour dates!
Division Day is kicking off their tour with the A-Sides with a bang this weekend and they’ll be carrying along with them a couple hundred copies of their very own DVD!! The band has collected some footage from the archives including: backstage interviews, recording in the studio and some behind the scenes footage from their video shoot for “Tigers” and they’ll be offering it up DIY-style as a FREE gift with purchase if you buy Beartrap Island on the road!
But what happens if you’re not along the tour route? No worries! We’ll be putting up one clip from the DVD every day on their very own CHANNEL! We’ll also be uploading them around the web on imeem, Virb, myspace, iLike, and all your other favorite places to watch and share videos of your favourite bands!
Check out the tour dates to the right and on the tour page so you can get a copy of the DVD (there’s only a limited amount so don’t miss your chance!) and keep an eye out for the videos.
For a sneak preview of the DVD, click the image below to view the trailer!
As many of you know we have an autism benefit CD we put out a couple years ago called Dimension Mix – To Benefit Autism Charities. The album has songs by Beck, Stereolab, Apples in Stereo, Eels and our own Oranger, Irving, DJ Me DJ You, From Bubblegum To Sky and Blue-Eyed Son as well as some others.
We just found out that Hawaii is trying to pass a bill that will require insurance companies in Hawaii to cover autism (anything deemed “medically necessary”)
(from the Hawaii Chapter of the Yahoo Autism Group)
Please let your legislators know how important this bill is to the families in Hawaii!
The bill numbers are: HB2727 and SB2532.
Go to this website to locate and write/email/call your
The general website for the legislature is www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
“We will need testimonies from as many people as we can! If you can’t be there, then fax it in, or have someone go for you! We can only get Dylan’s Law passed if we work together!!!
Mahalo!
Kalma
Dylan’s Mom
Ok, so why did we push back the release? SO many reasons, but the most important one is the badass gift with purchase we’ll be revealing to you very shortly. We promise the pretty artwork and the *secret surprise* will be worth the wait, but if you can’t wait that long to hear the songs, you can always head on over to iTunes and get yourself the digital copy.
Keep your eyes peeled to this site and our webstore for details on the EP and the very special packaging. If you’re wondering if we’re going to impress you with it, no worries it’s “in the bag”.
Our own Division Day will be heading out on the road again, this time with Philadelphia’s The A Sides (Vagrant) for a tour stringing into the midwest, northeast and southwest taking the long way to end up at Austin’s big dance, South by Southwest in March. The tour kicks off in Chicago on Sat. Feb. 23rd and will take the east-meets-west combo through Ames, Minneapolis, Omaha, Lawrence, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Costa Mesa, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson before winding up in Austin.
We’ll have tons of content and more details about the tour including definite dates as they roll in… but for now, head over to iTunes and pick up copies of Division Day’s Beartrap Island and The A Sides Silver Storms. Both are not to be missed!
After a successful debut online only, Great Northern will make their prequel ep, Sleepy Eepee available to hold “in your hands” on Feb 19th. The digital version can be purchased online now on iTunes, but if you want to tear open the shrinkwrap around the CD you’ll get your chance very soon. Keep checking back to the site and the eenie meenie store for freebies, giveaways and special packages!
Scissors for Lefty will be doing a string of shows in Feb/Mar:
29 Feb 2008 UC Berkeley (free, all ages, noon show) Berkeley, Ca
29 Feb 2008 The Uptown Lounge (21+) Oakland, Ca
1 Mar 2008 The Blank Club (21+) San Jose, Ca
SFL will also be heading off to SXSW along with Division Day who will be heading out with The A Sides beginning Feb 21. Check back for dates as they are confirmed, and no worries, there will be an L.A. stop for this tour since we wouldn’t miss it for the world!
Great Northern 
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