Looksie

We played a pretty wonderful show with all of our friends at the Skihouse a few weeks back, and thankfully our pal Brad Krischel filmed a lot of it and put together this awesome video!

We're taking a little time right now so Chris can sort out his Antartica adventure, but we are also working on finishing up a lot of recordings we've done over the past year to hopefully release them as a full length LP! So, if you want to help us with that, we'd love you forever.

You can now get our new EP in physical form via a cassette from Skihouse Tapes, which is a split with our friend Rob Jacobs. Get one, they look cool! Oh yeah and it has 2 more songs that aren't available anywhere in the digital world, we recorded them in Chicago on our most recent tour. You can still get the digital version on our bandcamp.

Okay thanks, talk to you soon!

Don't Miss

Back Home

Tour was awesome, we've been too exhausted to get bloggy but we will give you the run-down soon. Come see us play tonight, we are super excited about it! We will have these J.D. posters available:

Hump day.

We're halfway done with tour! Holy shit it's flying by. Here are some of my favorite snapshots from tour so far...

-Chris

1) Shaving a crucial lightning bolt into Marcus' scalp... and swimming in the Atlantic!


2) Having lively discussions in the van.


3) Getting drunk and sweaty as hell in Nashville with Diarrhea Planet.


4) Making friends in Richmond.


5) Sleeping in the clean, dark and air conditioned bliss of the Infinity Cat Records HQ in Nashville... and admiring Taylor Swift and Hanna Montana's gold records.

TOUR DATES

7/22 : Nashville TN @ The Parsonage
7/23 : Asheville NC @ Broadways
7/24 : Durham NC @ Motorco (early show 3p)
7/25 : Richmond VA @ Sprout
7/26 : Philadelphia PA @ House Show
7/27 : Brookyln NY @ Brooklyn Fireproof
7/29 : Boston/Allston MA @ Problemhouse
7/30 : New Brunswick NJ @ The Alamo
8/01 : Chicago IL @ Empty Bottle
8/04 : Carbondale IL @ Varsity Theater

New EP Release & Tour

We played in St. Louis this weekend, it was fun, our friend Brad Krischel took these pictures.

We are having an EP release show for the new EP on Thursday, June 30th at Hangar 9. Our friends in Rob Jacobs Ensemble, and PUJOL from Nashville, will be playing too. Here is a link to the event page. For now the EP will be released as a limited CD and a split cassette tape with Rob Jacobs & John McCowen. We have a bandcamp page now, where you can hear/down the new EP and the Belle 7".

We are also going to go on a tour, almost all of the shows are booked, here is the schedule!

7/19 - Carbondale w/ Useless Eaters

7/22 - Nashville

7/23 - Asheville

7/24 - Chapel Hill

7/25 - Richmond

7/26 - Philadelphia

7/27 - NYC

7/ 28 - NYC

7/29 - Boston

7/30 - New Brunswick

7/31 - Athens

8/1 - Chicago

8/2 - tba

8/3 - tba

8/4 - Carbondale

See you soon!

Recording

Is done.

Postcard from New Zealand

THANKS TED!!

Stuff

Today is my birthday. I'm sitting in my room listening to this old pressing of The Birth Of Cool by Miles Davis (just realized how funny that is..) that I got for really cheap on Record Store Day, and I feel pretty nice and want to tell you about some cool stuff we are doing.

We're playing two shows on Friday. They will both be pretty cool, you should come. We will have nice prints of this poster available, drawn by our friend Natalie Miller. Here is info on the first show and here is info on the second.

We've made some new recordings. They are almost ready for you to hear them. They are trapped in this box for now but you will hear them soon. Promise.

Mary, Chris, and Zach are going to see the Arcade Fire tonight. Marcus and I are going to stay home and play Dizzy Gillespie songs with our friend Kevin and maybe have a little party. See you on Friday, keep your fingers crossed it doesn't rain.

xoxo

Friday @ Skihouse

We've just added a last minute show, this Friday at the Skihouse with our friends from Nashville JEFF The Brotherhood and Diarrhea Planet, and our friends from across the street Staring Problem. We love playing at Skihouse it is where we practice, and we love all of those bands, and we love you so come out!

Oh yeah here are some pictures from that last show we played with Lost In The Trees at Hangar 9, it was really fun, we're playing at Hangar 9 again next week (Mar 4) see you there!

Saddle Up

It's been almost a year since we've messed around with this thing, and a lot of stuff has happened since then. Mary and Marcus graduated from school and got crazy jobs doing awesome things, Zeke built a cabin and is going back to school, Chris and David did a lot of weird stuff.. but we'll be checking in here more often, and if you really want to follow what's going on you can look at our facebook page because we update it more. We've got a whole bunch of new songs, and we've started working on a number of recordings and videos but we haven't finished them yet. We're going to play a lot of shows in the next few months, so you will see a lot of us again soon!

love,

nighty night

SHOWS:

1/28/11 @ Hangar 9 w/ Lost In The Trees - Cardondale IL

2/11/11 @ Glove Factory Surplus Gallery - Carbondale IL

3/04/11 @ Hangar 9 - Carbondale IL

3/11/11 @ Schlafly Taproom w/ Theodore - St. Louis MO

3/16/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

3/17/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

3/18/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

3/19/11 @ SXSW - Austin TX

Tour Friends

Best Fwiends. Thanks to all the wonderful people that helped make this tour crazed. We tried to keep a running list of everyone we seriously bonded with and changed our weird tour lives. We love you all and you should all come to Carbondale and we can have a giant sleepover in my basement. This is how they appear in my notes:

01. Bill Meanie
02. Kev & Agnes
03. Bandit Hair
04. Sarah the cute waitress
05. Jefferson Foxy
06. The frat friends who bailed on giving us a place to stay.
07. The Bachelorette
08. The Creative Bum
09. Superfan Diana
10. JJ
11. Lew
12. The Guy From Alton
13. Josh & Katie & Novi
14. Greyhound Mustache Man
15. Hillary & Phil
16. Follow That Bird!
17. Weed Smokin' Lit
18. Steve Subzero Doorman
19. Katie
20. Cat Rat Double Parakeet
21. Kingsize Mitch
22. Lizzy
23. Jared
24. Mystery Roomate
25. James the Oil Rig Guy
26. Tennessee Williams Girls
27. Clapper, Amy Winehouse, and the Bum who stole their plates
28. Lady Capricorn
29. Prachi
30. James Lovey Dovey
31. Adam Opposable
32. Didi
33. Sarah & Chris
34. Al & Kara
35. the Puppies
36. Curly
37. Eric & Steph & Arlo
38. Moctoc
39. Veronica
40. The Asheville Girl
41. Sarah Barista
42. Ryan & Jack
43. Nick Dreads
44. The Reggae Dudes
45. Joanna (& Guapo)
46. Lauren
47. Patrick
48. Kate
49. Paisley
50. Ryan
51. Noel
52. Jay
53. Kim & Nathanael
54. Joel & the other J guy at Static Age
55. Megan
56. State Champion & Giving Up
57. Simon
58. Pete
59. Rachel
60. Chris
61. Casey
62. The Girl from the Record Store
63. Tin Tin Can
6finity. All our awesome loved ones who came to visit us.

Pretty damn good. Everyone one of you.




(edit: just noticed that i missed the Denton page so skipped what should have been 9-15..)
so now:
65. Chris' Brother's Doppelganger
66. Beauxregard
67. The Racist Girls
68. The door girl who loved Chris
69. Bumpit
70. Bryan

Days 14-18

Woahhh the last few days were crazy, so we didn't really get round to bloggin'.

Asheville was way beautiful and fun and we stayed in the amazing home of Kim from Pilgrim and Nathanael, where this little monster kept us up all night:


and I found a long lost relative.

Then we played the wild Temptation Club in Murfreesboro with some cool bands from Chicago/Louisville, and caught up with Megan in Nashville. After a stop at Waffle House, off to Bloomington it was, where a truckload of our friends showed up and things got crazy. We played a fun house show with Kentucky Nightmare and Simon drove his car into our van, I am still not sure if it was an accident or not.

Woke up early and hauled azz to Chicago, finally got there after a stop in scenic Gary IN and at that McDonalds in the middle of the toll road. Played in Record Breakers which was fun and ate hot dogs and my bass fell off in the last song. Then went to Sultan's Market mmmmm and played a fun loft show w/ Tin Tin Can, The Distractions and the lovely Black Fortys.

Then ended things like every tour should end, with a stop at Cozy Corner.



Don't get the Triple Decker Club Sandwich, it is too big to fit in your mouth.

Tour was rad. Being home is weird.

The End!

We're home! Last show of the tour tonight! Blog about the last few days soon!

hijack

i had a conversation about nighty night recently with a group of people. we all came to the realization that knowing these people intimately or not, their music brings goosebumps and wet undies to all that hear. i was really surprised cause i just figured i was alone in this and probably felt so in awe of Mary that i wanted to shrink her and keep her in a music box that i would carry everywhere. so last night when they played in Bloomington the audience was equally as "moved" by their music...which is crazy cause not only were these people complete strangers, this music was new to their ears...and dey fuckin felt dat sheit.

(by rosie)