We’re finally ready to announce the first or our SXSW shows.

We’ll be playing at The Liberty in Austin with Sondre Lerche, ARMS, Pepper Rabbit, Little Scream, and some other bands, as part of our good friend Rawkblog’s day party with Twetyfourbit.

More info and RSVP here

More SXSW show announcements soon!

We’ll also be playing The Mission Creek Festival opening for Colour Revolt at The Mill in Iowa City on March 29th and doing some dates there and back so stay tuned for more mid west show announcements.

Get ready for Carousel to air on the MTV show Skins on March 7th. MTV will also be offering up the song as a free download the week the episode airs.

Can’t wait to see you all again.

Tonight, November 30th at 10PM on “Yowie” — details here.

We’re playing 3 shows this week as part of the CMJ festival.

Hope to see you soon,
Avery

Tuesday 10/19 7:30pm
The Rock Shop
with Diamond Doves, The Barr Brothers

Friday 10/22 9:00pm
The Trash Bar
(free beer!)

Saturday 10/23 1:00pm
The Delancey
Rooftop (acoustic)
with Savoir Adore, Ruby Coasts

We’re playing our first show back at The Bowery Ballroom opening for Voxtrot on June 26th almost two years to the day from the last time we played there at the end of the Reichenbach Falls tour.

Can’t wait to get it mixed and start playing out again.

We’re playing September 23rd  (tomorrow)  at Southpaw!  Should be a fun show — hope to see you there.

-Avery

September 23rd 2009 at Southpaw

We’ve all been busy of course. Working on new songs here in New York. As of now we have half an album recorded and it looks like we’ll be heading back up to Montreal in a few moths to get more songs on tape.

We have a couple of shows coming up including CMJ so definitely check out the myspace page for upcoming dates. We will be debuting some new material and putting out general good vibes for those of you who are around.

In other news we are planning to put out a new 7” in late Fall. It will be two new songs one of which we recorded with Howard Bilerman and Larry Crane at the Hotel 2 Tango back in April called Clarissa Explains It All. The other song is one we recorded here in New York with Patrick called Hearts Of Palm.

John Richards from KEXP will be premiering Hearts of Palm on his show this week so tune in to KEXP (90.3 Seattle, 91.5 New York, KEXP.org Everywhere) from 9-noon EST to hear it.

Hope you enjoy. Talk more soon.

Asher

We’re back in Montréal at Hotel2Tango, recording the beginnings of something.  The new studio that Howard and the rest have built is really wonderful – it retains all the charm of the old location, with the addition of some amazing new facilities.  The main tracking room is huge and the resulting sound (most notably on drums) is huge.  There is even a new espresso machine (it’s a Gaggia)!  We are lucky enough to be working with our friend Howard Billerman again, as well as Larry Crane.  Won’t say too much more because I don’t want to incur the wrath of lord mother Ash-tron, but suffice it to say, tape is rolling, and things are sounding great so far.

See you all soon,

Avery

I’ve been getting a lot of email from fans in Europe who heard “This Is Where We Are” on the soundtrack for the upcoming isenseven film about skateboarding. For those of you don’t know about them check it out http://www.isenseven.de/blox/index.php?page=music

While don’t have any immediate plans to tour Europe or the UK because we don’t have a label or an agent there we are working on fixing this and will be across the pond as soon as we can get there.

Until then keep sending the emails and thanks for the good vibes, it really means a lot.

Last week I went to see Leonard Cohen play at the Beacon. It was fantastic. Over the summer we all got to see a few songs from backstage in Toronto (it’s a long and crazy story). He’s a real hero of mine and if you can get a ticket you should go!

Ran into Howard at the show and got introduced to Bob Johnston (he produced Songs from a Room, Bookends, Blonde on Blonde, and Live at Fulsome Prison among others). WOW! He told me a story about telling off Johnny Cash for asking him to pick up some drugs.

Anyway, much more news to come. In the meantime keep checking myspace.com/ravensandchimes for upcoming shows and radio appearances. Stay warm.

All the best,

Asher

p.s. this is a picture of us making a bonfire at Lake Washington while we were on tour this summer