May 1
"No Control" was recorded at Avatar with Steve Hardy manning the Neve board and 2" HD tape at 15 inches per second. Working only with 16 tracks was equally limiting as it was freeing. We ran Roto's guitar through a Lezlie and I played a '63 Fender Jazz that was aqua colored. Many of you have heard this song as we've gigged it around the past few months, but it is the first of the next album to be recorded. John has seven other songs written if not fully fleshed out like this one. Though we're still promoting our new album, not even two months in stores and online, we're already hard at work on the next Cringe album. Don't be surprised if you hear tidbits of it being worked out on the road on stage, in hotel rooms and in the van that's passing you on the highway.
-Matt Bass
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February 2
the shows keep rackin in, so far strictly New England dates, but we have plans for a midwest and west coast tour, maybe even some stops in Mountain country.... Rock, keep checkin the show locations and we'll be near you soon. In the meantime, just keep listening.
-Matt Bass
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February 1
It's going to be great. We have the room to ourselves for the night (Knitting Factory - Tap Room) and we've hand picked our special guests (Big Secret) and we've polished our picks and dragged our guitars down dirt roads of steel. Raj the Sitarist will be in full regalia. Xylophonery will be sounding. Percussionia will be pounding. Extended sets like back in the days before recess and sushi conveyer belts. It's going to be a gong worthy night of rock.
Feb. 20th, the day, 7pm doors open, the time, 8 dollaridos, the meager price, and 10+ the musicians on stage at times. The madness is overwhelming in its fortitude!!
The place: Knitting factory in NYC. If you can't make it to NYC by train, bus or handcart, please hold tightly to your swivel chairs, we're coming to a town near you soon
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January 31
So you've probably heard we are all about analogue and tape.... ok. Well, lets take a step further off the beaten path, we did not pitch correct, autotune, beat correct, sample, or use a computer in ANY WAY AT ALL, during this album. Laptops were banned from the control room just in case binary might slip from their keyboards in a vain attempt to promulgate their syndicate. We recorded using all vintage basses, guitars, amps, and machinery. All pre-1969 stuff, with the exception of this one Phil Lesh designed bass that was a full double octave neck, a real monster from the 70s. I used it on only one tune (I'll withhold that info for now). We recorded in a two story all wooden dome that had a ring of mics up in the roof top so we got natural reverb, no effects, real deal. We even mixed on tape, something that engineers haven't done since there primary education. But, let's take one step further into the raspberry bushes, we then cut the final directly from tape which hasn't been done in 25 years! We had to cajole and bug Howie Weinberg for nearly a week to get him to do it, but he did. Btw Howie mastered Nirvana's seminal "Nevermind" and almost all the records of note in the past 25 years.
Myspace lets us show you a mp3 of the songs. Mp3's suck, literally, they are a vaccuum of sound, a digital wasteland of noise in comparison to the actual sound of our songs. We nearly didn't post them since it was a desecration of sorts to put something so tenderly analogued and taped and preserved every step of the way, only to be thrust into the cold depths of the digital era without a blanket or a hankie, but we did because we wanted you to at least hear the stuff. So, if you are the audiophile that you led me to believe you were.... check it out in the real deal format just click on the banner at the top of the page to buy it OR see us live OR listen to your friend from the local dive bar's copy, but don't steal, in some countries they take hands for that sort of chicanery. Think about it.... then eat chocalate moose.
-matt bass
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January 30
We hit the 50,000 marker yesterday. A little woo hoo, then back to work rubbing guitars together and smashing cymbals.... someday it'll rain.
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Ssugarcore
Not only are you guys from my homecity, but you rock
harder than anyone I know from Manhattan
posted Sep 09
calamityxscene
I might come and see you =]
posted Aug 10
GarrettSullivan
Hey guys, I checked out your \"California\" video and
thought it was brilliant! If you\'re looking for
places to share it, Grouper is launching a video music
magazine this summer called Sound Check where indie
bands and fans can upload and share their music videos,
EPK%u2019s, backstage moments, and live shows! Check it
out: http://www.grouper.com/outreach/soundcheck
posted Jun 21
Amityville-Kyle
hey, i really like your sound. maybe i could play you
in my next podcast. e-mail me a couple mp3\'s, if you
are interested. -Kyle Wallace blue216@rogers.com p.s.
my music is @ purevolume.com/kylewallace & my podcast
link is on there too.
posted Jun 02
playthegameintomyhead
freakin amazingg...loveee itt
posted Apr 01
tanacea
My band uses this great free service. I thought you
might want to check it out. www.scriggle-it.com
posted Feb 25
HannaPlume
damn...just awesome...nothing more to say...=)
posted Feb 24
DIpunk
u guyz r sick, blame iz awesome itz just like my bandz
music!
posted Feb 22