http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/

Maybe it gives some insight as to why I’m (we’re?) in a band in the first place – yes I like indie rock music and I love me the free drink ticket, but being in a band is also a way to be different from what I’ve been expected to be by my parents, and what the general population expects to see from someone like me (although I still think I have fallen into a different subset of a Type of Asian girl, i.e. Hipster Grifter-esque?) It’s just sometimes hard to say “I’m in a band” without it simply meaning “I’m in a band” and people respond to it like, “oh big deal, so was I (in my suburban house).  I mean, jeez, I grew up in the Bronx, the first tape cassette I bought was A Tribe Called Quest and Mary J Blige on CD and um, I didn’t know who Pavement were till much later in college and I still refuse to actively listen to Zeppelin and any other classic rock artists just out of principal. Which makes me think, “damn, our band is really good because it’s fucking original”.  I feel like there’s little rhyme or reason as to how we formed but somehow it works.  We’re (I’m) not trying to follow after anyone’s footsteps, we just want to explore, create and do the things that no one ever said we could do.  I think that’s awesome.

Our next show has been moved to Saturday, April 30th at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  More info to come, but we’re psyched!

At Spike Hill!

Boyd Shropshire played a great set as usual, Bandname was actually alright despite hailing from Philly (and the bassist played her bass upside down and lefthanded!) and I had fun playing yesterday!  I got a massive tambourine bruise on my thigh during the FTR song.  I guess we were really rockin’ out.

On a slight whim I entered a design into the Weezer/Hurley t-shirt contest. Okay you don’t have to vote for my design, just your mere participation would be appreciated   But part of me feels like, “hey, I could win not because my design is really good, but because my competitors’ are really bad!”  Plus if I win I’ll give an xtra percentage of $ to the making of the Backlights EP!!

contest ends July 8th and you can vote for all the designs on a scale of 0-5  “)(“

That’s one of my cats!  He is confusedly sitting in front of two album covers that I really like by the Silver Jews.  I am an embarrassingly awful music reviewer so simply put, this is just one of my favorite bands.  I love their music and their lyrics and I think their album covers are a good reflection of how they sound.  I guess this is starting to turn into a photo critique but I like how the images are so simple but can still elicit complex emotions of nostalgia and mystery.  Here are close-ups, note that the pushpins were placed by me.

During another DIY recording session at my place, XM, just like a pro, made a delicious apple pie:

Check out the awesome lattice work:

All this while the rest of us recorded keys and acoustic guitar:

A tasty and productive night, I say!

But VH1′s Behind the Music is coming back and there’s really no reason for it to ever go away again!!!!  All of our obsessive iphone/HTC phone documenting of our bandantics will be rewarded in 3-20 years time!!

But of course, our precious fans, are getting a sneak preview of it all here first.