A few days before New Year’s we were asked to play a party at the Cake Shop with our friend’s brother’s band, The Subjects. It was a tough decision, but how could anyone say no to playing music, getting free drinks, and avoiding the midtown crowds. Below are some pictures taken by our friends Tsugumi and Brandon.
(posted by Abe)
Last weekend it snowed too and we were guests on WNYC’s Soundcheck program. You can download a podcast of the episode here
In other news it’s very cold in the Northeast this weekend, so spend your nights inside with the warmest hearts in new music, Ravens & Chimes. We have some shows this weekend. They are our last of this fall tour, so then next chance you will have to see us in the flesh is, uh, early January for the Winter tour.
:::Thursday, Dec 13 @ Haverford College
:::::Friday, Dec 14, 8:30PM @ Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel (w/ Mobius Band, The Epochs and Middle Distance Runner)
:::::::Saturday, Dec 15, 10:30PM @ Brooklyn – Galapagos (Deli Magazine holiday party)
In the meantime, here’s a sneak peak of our live show. The video is from our performance last month on WOXY radio in Cincinnati.
Click here to watch on YouTube.
(posted by Abe)
Things are heating up around the release so I think it’s about time I started taking part in this blog.
We’re playing our release show at Union Hall in Brooklyn on October 11th with Division Day and the first of our CMJ shows on October 16th at Fontana’s. Then we’re hitting the road on tour November 8th.
Stay tuned to our myspace page for more show info. If you live in Chicago and you can help us out with a show then drop us a line.
In case you guys didn’t know there’s an article on us in the new issue of V magazine with the picture of Brad Pitt on the cover.
Also we got a really sterling writeup here:http://rawkblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/first-look-ravens-chimes-reichenbach.html
Anyway if you love our music you will be able to buy it on October 9th from Amazon or iTunes or your local independent record shop. We are going to throw a party on October 9th where us and all our buddies go to Other Music and buy it together! If you want to come and then get a drink at Black and White email us through our contact link on this here site.
I’m turning 25 on Saturday. No more “early 20’s recent college grad” and on to “twentysomething”
Wish me luck.
Good vibes,
Asher
(posted by Asher)
I leave New York for two weeks and the streets are now paved with gold.
Some good things happened recently:
parasitesandsycophants.blogspot.com
We’ve got some more tour dates lined up for you to ogle our beautiful mugs.
At Soundfix Records with Carina Round and Medium Cool
10/16 at 6:30pm FREE
located at 110 Bedford Ave in Brooklyn
At Monkeytown with our friends Ava Luna for their CD release party
10/14 at 10pm
located at 58 N 3rd in Brooklyn
We also have some shows in DC and Chicago in the works. Stay tuned
T-Shirts, Stickers and our souls will be available soon for purchase.
(posted by Abe)
We’re Back in NYC … that was fast
(posted by Avery)
Last night we played UCLA with Meho Plaza, and the night before we played the Scene Bar in Glendale with Nationale, Wallpaper, and the Politics. It was great to finally meet our label-mates Meho in person at the UCLA show. Their set was excellent — quirky and energetic. It was especially fun since we’ve all been listening to their album, and could sing a long a little.
Today and tomorrow will be spent in “Grey Rock Studio” recording a little before we continue up the coast. In other news, I stupidly forgot the cable for my camera at home … but I promise to get another soon and start sharing some of the photos I’ve taken.
(posted by Avery)
We’re staying north of LA in Woodland Hills until our next gig. The weather has been beautiful, but so far, a lot of our tour has been spent driving from place to place.
(posted by Avery)
At this very moment Rich is watching History Chanel, drinking High Life and letting peanut shells fall on his bare chest. Asher asked, “when did you become a 50 year old man in Montana?”
Other than that, we were walking down some nameless five lane highway in the valley today and found this on a car. Enough said.
(posted by Abe)
We just had our last rehearsal before we head out to the west coast. We’re playing Union Pool tomorrow in Brooklyn, and then Friday early morning hopping on a plane for LA!(posted by Avery)
The first entry to our tour diary. Maybe someone will publish the next batch? Gothamist? I’m looking at you guys!
So Brittany flew into New York last night to start rehearsals with the Ravens. We’ve got a busy few weeks ahead of us, and I applaud her for making the 15 hour journey to New York for all the hard work in store.
Of course by “15 hour journey” I mean that she spent 15 hours flying from Seattle to New York! Her plane had to land in montana for “medical problems,” whatever that means. I guess this is just a warm up to our 50+ odd hours of driving to look forward to.
Stay tuned for the next entry as I try to learn how to stream the tour live on www.justin.tv
(posted by Abe)
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