NITETIME RAINBOWS EP — Out on March 2, 2010
on clear vinyl 12″/ digital download only
Order from Insound
Order from Piccadilly Records
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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)
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:
so we got back from europe last week. the trip was so much fun and it was nice to get back to the UK with the full band this time! In each place we went Josh would buy a whole bunch of postcards and then he would draw cartoons of what we had been up to and then he would mail those to various friends back home. i think he’s going to try to collect them all and make some sort of book out them which we’ll put up here. it should be like a tour diary type thing but, you know, interesting. but i think for me the best thing was getting to wear sweaters in july. i need to move to a place where that can happen.
now we’re all back and starting to get ready to record the next record. before europe we spent the summer recording demos and we are excited to see how they turn out when we record them “for real”. the album is not going to be called ‘evil with evil against evil” anymore tho. i dont know what it will be called.
xoxo!
I think maybe everyone should get our Tout New Age album and listen to the song “Yellow”?
We just got back from playing several shows out in California. They were very fun, here is a quick story about them… We got to San Francisco Thursday afternoon and went for a huge walk around everywhere. We are all horribly out of shape as the walk to Coit Tower nearly finished us off. We then met up with Mike from Slumberland Records for fancy pizza by Washington Sq. I only just realized that Slumberland originally put out “Switch On” by Stereolab which is one of my favorite records of all time. Mike had lots of other good stories too, like the one about Wali.
Anyway, the show at the Edinburgh Castle was a bit chaotic at first as no one seemed to know what was going on, but it all went great. Delipub and Thousand Names were nice enough to lend us their amps and drums. After playing Delipub’s AC30 I think I decided I need to get rid of my super reverb and get one of those instead. Extra bonus about playing in SF was that our old friend Michigan J now resides there and it was great to hang out with that guy. By the time we played we had been awake for like 25 hours or something and none of us really knew what was going on but I think it went well.
The next morning we went to KUSF to talk with Irwin on his radio show. I always love going to radio stations and this one was extra awesome because they had the “I Don’t Believe You” / “When I’m Not Looking You’re Not There” 7″ by the Magnetic Fields. I have lost so many ebay auctions for this record and the version from the 7″ is a million times better than the one from “i”. If anyone has a copy they want to sell, please write to us-asunnydayinglasgow (at) gmail (dot) com (or if you have mp3s you could email that would be awesome too). But after KUSF we went to Amoeba records and bought a ton of records. We then walked around Haight St. for a while before going back to Amoeba and buying a ton more records.
We somehow wound up at the Exploratorium which is totally amazing. We didn’t actually go inside, but the facade is so bizarrely grand it was great. SF is just too nice, it’s weird. There were hundreds of people wind surfing in the bay with the golden gate bridge in the background. I bet this would look kind of nice in Philly on Deleware River with the Ben Franklin bridge in the background, but people would probably throw bottles at you or something.
The Davis show was that night and it was also great. I really love Davis. We all stayed up way too late hanging out with Simi and Navi and everyone and then next day there was this big parade in Davis which was really kind of sweet in a main-street-old-timey-america kind of way. I feel like I need this kind of stuff in my life right now. But Destroy Tokyo were really great and you should check them out when they go on tour this summer!
After the parade was the long drive to LA where we played at Pehrspace again. I really like it there and for some reason we all got realy drunk before this show. This was the most out of it I have ever been for an ASDiG show. Apparently it was very loud, but I think it went well. It was nice to meet Ale from Dublab and Marion from Squaregirls and all the other people whose names I can’t remember now. Also, No Little Kindness were pretty amazing and I highly recommend checking them out.
The next day we flew a couple scary planes home and made it back with all the gear intact. I think we got maybe 5 hours of sleep the whole trip and we are all slowly getting back to normal. Look out next month for our cover of “Something I Think About You” by the Pastels out on Slumberland Recs and then, a week later on June 3 Geographic North Records will release a 7″ of a couple new songs which are:
A: (cult of) The Cemetery Flowers (mandolins version)
B: Walking Pneumonia
THEN, hopefully in early July our record Scribble Mural Comic Journal will be released on double 180g vinyl by Ruined Potential Records out of Austin. This version of SMCJ will feature a remix of “Ghost in the Graveyard” by Ulrich Schnauss and a remix of “Summerlong Silences” by Asobi Seksu. There might be one more remix as well.
THEN THEN, we are going to Europe for some shows! We will be playing at the MIDI Festival in the south of France and then some shows elsewhere in France, Germany, and the UK. Incidentally, if you set up shows in Paris, Cologne, or Berlin, and would like to put us on, please get in touch.
THEN THEN THEN is too far away to speculate.
So this Saturday afternoon was kind of boring and I decided to try to do one of those Radiohead remixes. I’ve never done a remix before, it was kind of fun. I don’t think art/creative stuff should be competitive, so please don’t feel compelled to vote, but check it:
Pete & Pete was a show on Nickelodeon in the 90s. i vaguely recall robin and lauren really being into it when we were kids but i never really watched it. they got a cassette single of the theme song from a cereal box or something like that, which i borrowed for a while I remember.
Anyway, i never watch tv but robin just lent me all of her Pete & Pete dvds. i’ve been watching them sequentially and i just got to an episode from season 2 called “The Call”. It’s pretty much the best TV show episode I’ve ever seen (I still need to see The Prisoner which Josh and my dad tell me is amazing). but i found it on someone’s myspace and it’s below. check it out cuz it’s great. hub! sigh…
Mackenzie Astin? John Waters? Okay, so maybe running into John Waters can be somewhat expected when you’re out in Baltimore (He does live there, and goes out like people do), but it still makes you giddy. We ran into Mr. Waters, wearing a long scarf, at Club Charles after playing a fun show at the new Lo-Fi. I have to say, the man looks like you would expect, but it was nifty to see him face to face. While we thought this was cool, and maybe going to be the most notable part of our weekend adventures…we were way off.The following morning, we met up with a bunch of close friends to go to one of my favorite places for brunch. The food was great, hanging out with people I don’t see all that often was wonderful, but wait! Doesn’t our waiter look like that guy from that show? Did Mackenzie Astin just hand me my breakfast, and refill my coffee? His Dad does live in the city that reads, but really, he’s waiting on me? We all recognized him, but come on. We busted out the iPhone and looked at info (thanks to wikipedia for sealing the deal) only to make the confident decision that it was him. The Facts of Life, Iron Will, OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!! This was the most notable part of the weekend. Thanks Mac.
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