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WE ARE ON ITUNES PEOPLE!

Swing over to your itunes store and pick up the new album! Whoo hoo!

PJ

"[Once] you get into it . . . you start to pick up little pieces that you like, and you start to notice that the whole song is little pieces that you like. Then after a while . . . you start to see that the whole album is like that, and that . . . makes it work. But if I would liken the entire listening experience to anything, it is like sitting in a dark room with a fire place, and outside the sky is purple and you sit with your friends with your eyes closed for most of the time and just talk about life."

"On MacGyver vs. Matlock's debut album the band achieves something that takes other groups years - they successfully meld several different styles into a homogenous sound."-The Notre Dame Observer

go to our website and order it!!!!!
click on this cute little picture of the album to head over to the webstore and buy it!

OR! if you don't want to wait for a CD to be shipped to you...You can download it here!

Excitement!

Martin and Patrick

p.s. The Dog and The Wolf will soon be on iTunes!
p.p.s. You will soon be able to special order our CD from any record shop
p.p.p.s. Our official website looks like a website from 1993!

Check out Martin playing his new song "Camden Town" in the studio.

Check me out playing my new song "Back With Your Shield Or On It."

February 26

Ageen Thee Eend

NEW SITE THROWS ME OFF: Hey all, if you haven't been keeping up with the Stlog, we are nearly done tracking everything for the new record. Then it is up to ll' Martin to fix everything up real fancy. Anyhow I just sent Martin my last demo and we should be done tracking entirely by the end of the month. Martin has just shared with me a new little diddy - the last of his for the album and it is great. Hopefully Martin can get a new tasty morsel for all of you to chew on til May! Pat

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January 24

Roar!

Martin here:

Wanna hear a sneak peak of the first half of The Dog and The Wolf?
Check out that Dog and The Wolf sampler over there in that player!!
These are still rough and unmastered...but hopefully these tasty bits will get you pumped for The Dog And the Wolf, out spring 08.
Songs in the sampler include studio recorded versions of:
"Heroes Don't Call Themselves Heroes"
"Do you Have Any Idea What Tomatoes Do To Us?"
"In the Grand Scheme of Things, Such As Geology, Ten Years Is Not So Very Long"
"Tin Cans and String"
a brand new song currently called "Slippery Slope"
and "What Happened To You Man? You Used To Be Beautiful."

compare these sweet studio sounds to the demos in the player that we recorded with garageband in dormrooms, basements, and Pat's pole barn.

Love,
Martin

IF YOU ARE TRYING TO FIND THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE, THERE ARE STILL A HANDFUL OF DEMOS WE ARE TRYING TO UNLOAD! (See below for details.)

I am telling you right now, once the Dog and the Wolf comes out, they will be impossible to get ahold of!

Ahoy and Aloha:

From blustering/blistering South Bend, Indiana. I miss you guys. I really do, so I wanted to give everyone a cute little update.

So, as the semester draws near its end, Martin has nearly completed mixing our first 6 tracks. Though I am sure you are starved for some new tunes, those will not be ready for public consumption until they have been mastered (TBA).

However, I have convinced Martin that we need to give you some sort of Winter Soltice gift . . . and we will. I am not sure what it will be yet, but rest assured it will be brimming with holiday cheer (that isn't a hint - it is not for certain going to be holiday themed). I will let you know more when I can, expect something around x-mas time.

Ho ho ho,

Frosty the Patman

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December 7

TON-O-STUFF!

Big Mart just sent me some rough mixes, and they are pretty tasty . . . mmm. More coming soon! He said he is sending more. I just wanted to make you jealous.

UPDATE!

"What happened to you man, you used to be beautiful" is going to absolutely blow your minds . . . well, the whole album will, but I am listening to that one right now! It is a spectacular piece of writing and I can say that objectively having not written a word of it.

This is Martin's lyrical magnum opus in my opinion. I cannot wait to share this will you!!!

HEARTPAT

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I did a little acoustic gig and I played our brand new songs for the very first time! Its called "Slippery Slope" and you can watch it RIGHT HERE!!!

Its a little rough, but you get the idea. I hope you like it.

We will be doing a lot of moving and shaking in the coming months - and for the first time, that's probably true. I did a few covers with Chris at the show. I might put them up a little later. We will see what kind of response this one gets.

Anyway, be ready. 2008 will be the year of the dog and the wolf.

Sniggles:

P. Jiggles

p.s. Feel free to embed some vids on your myspace! Maybe this weekend I will get around to tending ours!

p.p.s. A lot of new albums coming out in October: Dashboard Confessional, Emery, Say Anything, Saves The Day, Armor for Sleep and THRICE!!!

luvya

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Udpate!!!

Three songs are now being recorded. One is very near completion(a very sweet sounding Geology). It may be up for your listening pleasure very soon.

Pat liked the album title so The Dog and The Wolf may be the official title.

I'll be in the studio again tomorrow night...so more things will be happnin'

SWEETBAMCHOOGAWOWEEBLEEBAZAP,
Martin

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November 27

D&W Update

Recording was had this weekend past, and I suppose it went about as well as it could have, which is good news for everyone.

Now, Martin and I must work on our theses. Too bad for you mine is a tax comparison between the US and Canada. Good for you, Martin's is our new album. I am going to try to convince Main Marty Mack to clip you off a taste of what we have on the cookie sheet. Salmonella or no!

Anyhow, Martin and I agree, 30 Days of Night is a good flick. Go check it out.

I say: New Say Anything album, In Defense of the Genre, is phenomenal. I would go drop some candy change on it. You get 27 traxxx for 12 bucks! Put 'er there Chuckaroo!

I think Martin is endorsing the new Coheed and Cambria joint, some long named thing about no world or some other thing. He will have to confirm this.

- - - -SIDENOTE: For anyone interested, I was very confused, and the whole Coheed thing works like this: There is a story (which we knew, but hadn't materialized to me). It is told in 4 parts.
2. Second Stage Turbine
3. Silent Earth
4. Good Apollo etc. (which is comprised of the last two albums.)

1. The next one is supposed to be the prequel and final piece. I hope this is helpful.
- - - - END SIDENOTE

I don't know how secretive we are being, but eff all that noise. This ain't China.

The traxxx we have recorded thus far are as follows (chronologically, if it really can be):
1. In the Grand Scheme of Things, Such As Geology, 10 Years Is Not So Very Long
2. Heroes Don't Call Themselves Heroes
3. Do You Have Any Idea What Tomatoes Do To Us?
4. Tin Cans and String
5. What Happened to You, Man? You Used to Be Beautiful.
6. Slippery Slope (considering name change, feel free to suggest, if yours gets picked you can get a free demo cd!)

So that is what we got and now M must furiously edit, cleanup, blah blah blah, mix, master etc. We will see what of these make the record and in what order but it will be a while. Be ready for a summer/spring release - this is mere speculation.

THE DOG AND THE WOLF ARE COMING!

Love,
Pat

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November 12

NEW TIME NEW GRIME

Yo!

So, as Martin said, we are unbelievably busy in our own separate ways, but I just wanted to let everyone know that things are still moving and shaking.

Tomorrow, I will be going to Muncie again to do some more drum tracking. We will keep you updated. We have been taking lots of pics and such. It will all come out in due time. Please don't stop loving us. We will be famous soon, and we will invite all of you to a big bash and there will be confetti and elephant rides.

PJ

HEY!

tracking and mixing is happening...slowly but surely

I've got a full class load, a part time job....and I'm doing all the music for a a few hours here and there.

what I have done
sounds very good
and i am excited for the finished product

pat is coming down in november to track drums for 2 more songs

and that's my update

Martin

p.s. Thrice's album, water, doesn't sound anything like Kid A...so just stop...stop it.

p.p.s. I have a pet squirrel that that hangs outside the window...i feed him peanuts.