A Sunny Day in Glasgow

We have a few t-shirts left over from our recent european tour and they are now for sale over at Mis Ojos Discos:

NITETIME RAINBOWS EP — Out on March 2, 2010
on clear vinyl 12″/ digital download only

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A1 Nitetime rainbows (new mix)
A2 Daytime rainbows
A3 So bloody, so tight
A4 Piano Lessons

B1 Nitetime rainbows (Buddy System remix)
B2 Nitetime rainbows (Acid wash edit by Benoit Pioulard)
B3 Nitetime rainbows (Ezekiel Honig remix)

We are on tour right now!

4/15 - Goteborg, Sweden - Jazzhuset (Website)
4/17 - Stockholm, Sweden - Record Hunter (2pm)
4/17 - Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser (Website)
4/19 - Oslo, Norway - Mono Cafe (Website)
4/20 - Bergen, Norway - Landmark (Website)
4/21 - Kristiansand, Norway - Trash Pop @ Charlies (Website)
4/24 - Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso (Buy tickets)
4/27 - Luxemboug, Luxembourg - Dqliq (Website)
4/29 - Dijon, France - Kill Your Pop Festival (Buy tickets)
4/30 - Lyon, France - Le Sonic (Website)
5/1 - Rorschach, Switzerland - Mariaberg (Website)
5/3 - Prague, Czech Republic - Meet Factory (Website)
5/4 - Budapest, Hungary - Durer-Kert (Website)
5/5 - Zilina, Slovakia - Stanica (Website)
5/6 - Kosice, Slovakia - Tabacka Kulturfabrik (Website)
5/7 - Wein, Austria - B72 (Buy tickets)
5/8 - Offenbach, Germany - Hafen 2 (Website)
5/9 - Leipzig, Germany - UT Connewitz (Website)
5/10 - Berlin, Germany - Bang Bang Club (Website)
5/11 - Duisburg, Germany - Steinbruch (Website)
5/12 - Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits Botanique Festival
5/13 - Nottingham, England - Spanky Van Dykes
5/14 - Manchester, England - Islington Mill (Buy tickets)
5/15 - Glasgow, Scotland - Nice N Sleazys (Website)
5/16 - Belfast, Ireland - Queens University
5/17 - Galway, Ireland - Roisin Dubh
5/18 - Dublin, Ireland – Whelans (Website)
5/20 - London, England - Luminaire (Buy tickets)
5/21 - Paris, France - Glazart
5/22 - Reims, France - Centre Culturel St Exupery
5/23 - Limoges, France - La Fourmi
5/24 - Montpellier, France - Secret Place (TAF)
5/25 - Bordeaux, France - Le Saint Ex
5/26 - Toulouse, France - Le Saint Des Seins
5/28 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival (Website)
5/29 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival

2/26 - New York City, NY - Mercury Lounge (Buy tickets)
2/27 - Pittsburgh, PA – Brillobox (Buy tickets)
2/28 - Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig (Buy tickets)
3/01 - Columbus, OH - Cafe Bourbon (Buy tickets)
3/02 - Champaign, IL - Mike N’ Molly’s (Website)
3/03 - Chicago, IL – Schubas (Buy tickets)
3/04 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews (Buy tickets)
3/05 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive (Buy tickets)
3/06 - Salt Lake City, UT - Burt’s Tiki Lounge (Website)
3/08 - Vancouver, BC - The Media Club (Buy tickets)
3/09 - Seattle, WA - The Vera Project (Buy tickets)
3/10 - Portland, OR – Holocene (Buy tickets)
3/11 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern (Website)
3/12 - Davis, CA - Technocultural Studies (TCS) Building @ UC Davis
3/13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Mint (Buy tickets)
3/14 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar (Website)
3/15 - Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture Gallery (Buy tickets)
3/17 - IODA Party @ Emo’s Annex (12:30pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/17 - Force Field / Terrorbird Party @ Red 7 (5:15pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/18 - Anso / Brooklyn Vegan Party @ Spiderhouse (1:30pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/18 - Live Interview @ Studiio SX @ The Convention Center (4:30pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/18 - Impose Party @ Longbranch Inn (8:30pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/19 - Official Showcase @ Lambert’s (11pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/19 - South by South Mess @ 21st Street Co-op (2am) Austin, TX SXSW
3/20 - Drugs, Roll, & Sex Rock @ Urban Outfitters (1pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/20 - Waterloo Records (5pm) Austin, TX SXSW
3/20 - Mich’s House (8pm???, more details soon) Austin, TX SXSW
3/23 - New Orleans, LA – AllWays Lounge (Website)
3/24 - Oxford, MS - Proud Larry’s * (Buy tickets)
3/25 - Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree * (Buy tickets)
3/26 - Nashville, TN - The End * (Buy tickets)
3/27 - Charlotte, NC - Snug Harbor * (Website)
3/28 - Washington, DC - DC9 (Buy tickets)
3/29 - Brooklyn, NY - Bell House (Buy tickets)
3/31 - Boston, MA - Great Scott (Buy tickets)
4/01 - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie (Buy tickets)
4/02 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison (Website)
4/03 - Montreal, QC - The Green Room
* w/ Japandroids

4/8 - London, England - Windmill Brixton (Buy tickets)
4/9 - Amiens, France - Faites Danser Les Garcons @ La Lune des Pirates (Website)
4/10 - Paris, France - Faites Danser Les Garcons #1 @ Fleche d’Or (Website)
4/11 - Paris, France - Gals Rock (acoustic showcase)

While we were on tour last Fall we stopped in New Orleans for a few days and the Court 13 guys shot a video for us!  Check it out:

Annie and Ryan wrote up stories about shooting this video.  It was a crazy and basically we are all freezing in every part of this video…. (more…)

ASDiG in the Radio K bathrooms, photo by Radio K-ers

On our Fall tour we stopped at the U of Minnesota’s radio station, Radio K.  They have lots of bands come through and play sets on the air.  We played there back in Summer 2007 and we were excited to come back.  Anyway, they sent us a recording of our set from November and I kinda like it, so here it is for download…

A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Live on Radio K, November 21, 2009

1. Failure
2. Passionate introverts (Dinosaurs)
3. Shy
4. Close chorus

So we are all back home from tour, trying to stay warm and getting ready for the next massive round of touring in a few months… In the meantime, here are a couple of videos we recorded while on the road in the December.  The first one was recorded in NYC by Ray Concepcion for Pitchfork’s “Tunnelvision” series.  The second was recorded by the blog, the New Gay, before our show in DC.  (Acoustic ASDiG, yikes)  I would just like to say that, at the NYC show, my guitar was way louder than that.   These board mixes are tricky…  enjoy!

We are on tour now!  It is really fun and we set up a tumblr to document the many adventures we’ve been having.  We’ve only been on tour for 3 days and already there have been 3 car accidents! (everyone is ok).

anyway, we named it “Sitting Contest” because that is what tour feels like sometimes. Check it out:

http://sittingcontest.tumblr.com/

Released November 10, 2009
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1. Shy
2. Walking pneumonia
3. Curse words (A place where we can hide for a little bit mix)

So many people have been in ASDiG since the project started in 2006 - touring members especially have come and gone.  But I am happy and excited to let you know that we now have what could really be called a stable line-up now.  The sad news is that Robin & Lauren are no longer singing with ASDiG.  For various reasons (out of state grad school; boyfriend’s broken limbs, work) neither were readily available while we were recording Ashes Grammar.  These were dark times!  But then all of this great stuff started to happen where Josh and I just said fuck it and kept working on the album.  And then longtime fan and west philly neighbor Ryan Newmeyer wrote out of nowhere to ask what kind of fuzz pedal I use (<3<3<3 love you so much zvex fuzz factory <3<3<3) and I asked if he knew any singers.  And he did!  And her name was (is) Annie Fredrickson.  Josh, Annie, and I would spend many many many late nights in Lambertville and West Philly and South Philly and anywhere we could make noise starting from scratch, ultimately finishing the album, and generally coming together as friends and as a band. Good times!

And then, when Ashes Grammar was done and we all got really drunk and got some normal sleep and listened to songs that weren’t our songs etc… and the three of us decided we really liked the album and wanted to go on tour for as long as we possibly could to support it. But no one else wanted to go, so it was kind of dark times again.  But then it turns out that Ryan plays bass!  And then Josh’s friend Adam Herndon joined to play drums (Josh now plays guitar/synths/whatever and sings)! And then we had this singer search where so many incredibly talented singers from all over the world sent us demos and tried out and it was crazy, we had no idea there were so many people who would want to join our little band.  It was a really hard decision but in the end we are very happy to introduce you to Jen Goma when we go out on tour next week.

Anyway, things feel really good now. Everyone in this band really wants to be in this band and they are all talented people.  It feels like we actually are a band and can give alot of ASDiG songs the live treatment (I think) they deserve.

Also, we’ve already recorded another album’s worth of new songs and we are going to be touring so so so much next year in addition to this fall.  Hope to see you out there!

xoxo
ben

(asdig, ben excluded:)

Mis Ojos Discos has sold its last copy of the special color vinyl for Ashes Grammar, which means it is all gone except for a few we set aside to have on tour with us later this Fall.  More on the tour later!

xoxo