crickets chirping

oh man. it's been QUIET in olympia town lately.

sorry about that. wish we had some news for you, but there just ain't no news!

without going into a detailed rant about business and music industry bullshit, we didn't land any of the tours we were hoping that we'd land for the fall, and we didn't just want to throw together a crappy tour just for the sake of touring and then end up broke at the end. we want to come back and see you on tour, but we'd rather do it in style and with awesome bands and then everyone's happy and everyone's face gets rocked off.

last night we got together for the first time in weeks and started writing some new songs. this is our first time writing since last time this year, when we were finalizing songs before we headed up to boston to record emergencies. we were mostly playing around with different skeleton ideas of songs that had been floating around, but we definitely got a lot of progress on one song and it's a fucking ripper. nick got a new computer, and once that's up and running, we're gonna rig up a way to record some rough demos so we can take the songs home and do our homework. it feels good to write again, and we're excited to see what we can come up with.

fear not, even though we aren't touring till later this year, we are doing some one-off shows and a few long weekends. people living in the northeast can expect to see us in mid-october and we'll post some dates really soon. sitting at home is driving us crazy, so we're excited to get back out on the road even if it's just for a little while.

see you soon! keep it awesome.

love,

phil