Go get our newest song!

http://backlights.bandcamp.com/

What do you think of our methods now, hm? Doesn’t really matter that we position our mics with toilet paper, does it? The next time you reach for the TP, maybe you should think about that. Heck, you might even listen to this song while you’re doing it! Remember— Backlights guarantee to make every experience more enjoyable™.

Oh, but there’s more. This here is a clip from our performance at the Indie Darkroom’s Four Foot Studios. Head over to their site and rate our songs! Create an account while you’re at it, and become a fan of our band!

So this has nothing much to do with the band but I figure it’s not really a stretch for this here blogg, where Joe has been sake-bloggin like there is no tomorrow. And to good effect, for sure.

Up there is my first attempt at an old fashioned. I’m pretty sure that my choice of scotch was my first mistake- something I realized after I added more soda and bitters to soften things up. The Glenrothes 1985 single speyside malt scotch whisky just doesn’t play well with others. It juggernauts anything standing in it’s way and kicks you on the way down to send the message home that you should never mix it with anything ever again as long as you live. I really should have known better, but when I’m alone in the kitchen, I really can’t help myself. I start touching things and before I know it, I have orange juice in my cereal and the aforementioned scotch in my coffee.

Next time I’ll use the Basil Hayden’s and it will be pure gold.

Hey folks, thanks for coming out. Y’all looked fabulous in your winter attire!

Sunny Breezes – That’s last night’s performance of our newest song. It came right after a super-long break between songs (2 mins 7 seconds!) due to the failure of the house kick pedal. I had to replace it with my own, which, for some reason, took an exorbitant amount of time to do. Strange that it only felt like 15 seconds! It must have been the Fezziwig Ale that dulled my senses to the point where I totally lost track of time. Anyway, Joe, I owe you one.

The opening band were The Isles, who have been around for a few years, but I think they have a new lineup. The drummer had a nice, soft touch, as evidenced by his failure to destroy the equipment, like I nearly did, or push the bass drum off the stage, like the drummer from the last band, The Clox, was about to do, before he got up and moved it back into position. He actually had to do that after every single song, so it became sort of a gag by the end of their set. The soundman ultimately admitted, “We need to get a bigger brick.” I’ll say!

All in all, ’twas a fun, wintery evening. Thanks to everyone for coming out, and thanks again to Spike Hill! We’re currently booking shows for January, so stay tuned!

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.

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.

OK GO’s music videos are suprising fun and innovative!

http://www.youtube.com/user/OkGo

dude…and what’s this? http://www.youtube.com/musicianswanted  ::drop everything! signing up now!::

(wait…we don’t have videos yet!) :-/