February 2012
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February begins with a momentary return to the road. We’ve been recording drums this month, but will give Peter a break after this mini-tour with Boy Without God:
2/2 :: Portland Museum of Art :: Portland, ME :: w/ DJ Ponyfarm :: 8pm
2/3 :: Firehouse :: Worcester, MA :: w/ Guerilla Toss, Friendship & Happy Jawbone Family Band :: 9pm
2/4 :: The Montague Bookmill :: Montague, MA :: w/...
January 2012
2 posts
stoodz
Divers
It’s a new year and we’re taking this perhaps arbitrary designation very seriously. The past few months have been a ridiculous flurry of activity: touring most of November, recording with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, touring with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and now, finally settling down in Portland again, before we embark on the next great venture, which is…recording. By late Spring,...
December 2011
1 post
12
We’re back in Portland for a bit, which is sweet. You’ll notice the details of our next tour displayed above, over a calm cosmic scene of lesbian romance. One might call the whole tour a sort of elopement, except that there will be no sex and no sense of being chased by a mustachioed father with a shotgun. But we will stop at a Sonic if we see one, which could also conceivably happen...
November 2011
2 posts
A>>>>>>B
The Best Tour Ever ends tonight at Zuzu in Cambridge, with Boy Without God. Then a short break for Thanksgiving etc. and back in the saddle. Peter and I will be playing tonight as a duo and then bussing around between MA and NYC for the following week or so, for undisclosed reasons. We miss Portland a lot, but we’ll spend a good chunk of December here (kinda), so that’s good. Expect...
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November will be an onslaught of everything. Band-related tasks have crowded every moment of our time, so it’s nice to leave the nebulous world of online-promoting and get on the road. Check this for the details. And the vague synopsis is: shows of every kind with friends of all walks of music-making, from Higher Ground with Chamberlin, to a house show with Cuddle Magic, to art galleries...
October 2011
3 posts
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. And as I...
CMJ
The “Texas Hold Me” release party last night was one of the best shows we’ve ever played, for a hundred reasons. Thanks to Will Ethridge of Eternal Otter Records for helping us make this happen, to South China for opening and joining our mini-orchestra, to everyone else who shared the stage (and floor) with us, to Blainor at Mayo St. Arts, and of course to the incredible...
TEXAS HOLD ME 7"
This is the last time I’ll announce this, because it’s finally the appropriate time to announce it. On Thursday, October 13th, we will be releasing “Texas Hold Me” (b/w “Little Bird”) on vinyl via Eternal Otter Records. The show is at Mayo Street Arts on Mayo St. (!) in Portland, ME. Here’s the “Event”. It starts at 8 and South China will be...
September 2011
1 post
Jefferson
It’s been one year since Peter and I moved to Portland. We’ve met so many incredible musicians that it’s really just baffling. In fact, I think that more or less every one of the friends I’ve made is a musician, or at least very involved in the scene (i.e. sleeping with musicians). So now’s the time for a brief looking-back, a frank self-appraisal and then a willful...
July 2011
2 posts
August
The most urgent part of this post:
7/28 at The Oak and The Ax in Biddeford, ME w/ Brenda and Boy Without God
7/31 at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn, NY w/ The Grown-Up Noise, Boy Without God and Whale Belly
Come to these shows if you can!
There are lots of things coming up in August and (hopefully) every month following it. In fact, we have so many shows coming up that I’m just gonna link...
LL the heavy days are over;Leave the body’s coloured prideUnderneath the grass and clover,With the feet laid side by side. One with her are mirth and duty;Bear the gold-embroidered dress,For she needs not her sad beauty,To the scented oaken press. Hers the kiss of Mother Mary,The long hair is on her face;Still she goes with footsteps waryFull of earth’s old timid grace. With white...
June 2011
3 posts
Odds/Ends
We’ve been recording “The Golden Room EP” very slowly. So I know we said we’d have an EP by mid-summer, but we’ll have to push that approximate date back to September or so. It’s better anyway; we don’t want to over-saturate, sell ourselves short etc. Gotta make this good.
We said we wouldn’t play Portland until August and it was true. But we do...
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SUP SON!
It’s June 1st and we’re staring at a bizarrely empty calendar. One show is scheduled (June 10th at Slainte) but we are otherwise left to our own devices. Assuming we can stop drinking Bud Light Lime and throwing the football, we will be recording most every day. We hope to complete an EP by mid-summer and an LP by late fall. This means we will be recording around 20 songs...
May 2011
3 posts
This Week
Henry’s bout of solo shows is over and the band will resume its usual activities this week. YEAH! Our first show is at the Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain, MA on 5/25 with Modernist and Ruin/Renewal. Then we’ll be putting one or two new songs together for a weekend of shows at two of our favorite venues in Maine. On Saturday (5/28) we’re at the Oak and the Ax with Wes Hartley and...
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I (Henry) will be playing three solo shows in the coming weeks. Here they are:
5/12 at Blue in Portland, ME with Jose Ayerve 5/13 at the Oak + the Ax in Biddeford, ME with South China/Dan Blakeslee and Moons of Jupiter (Burst and Bloom “Spring” comp release show) 5/21 at Positive Pie in Montpelier, VT with The Devil Makes Three
I’m very excited about all of these. I’ll...
April 2011
6 posts
May
We’re at the Belfast Free Range Music Festival this Saturday, with a cadre of awesome bands. The whole day promises to be baller and, just when it’ll seem like it’s over, we can head over to the Hillytown after-party, where Mango Floss, our sister band (featuring Peter on drums and our roommate Sarah on vox) will be playing, while we all drink responsibly.
Then it’s on...
C'mon C'mon
Our next mini-tour is just around the corner. If you’re in Portland, you should take a good hard look at the poster above, take in what it says and, you know, come to the show. Here’s a feature on Hillytown about us: http://hillytown.com/news/video/the-milkmans-union-interview-exclusive-video/
Here are the upcoming dates:
4/21 Divan Orange, Montreal, QC w/ The Wind-up Radio...
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Across the pewter plate, I saw the sun erased,
but her bosom seemed to hold the light.
An airy confidence arose,
And I spoke fluidly of nothing
I felt the spell enter from below;
the ginny numbing and arousing
of the sickly senses:
the little white worm of nauseous want
Now, in the darkness of the house
I am heart-opened and callow
I soak like a body
in a bath of neutering milk.
April
We are very happy to announce this upcoming mini-tour with Milagres (Kill Rock Stars) and Husband&Wife (Crossroads of America):
4/22 The Monkey House, Winooski, VT 4/23 One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME 4/24 Flywheel Arts Collective, Easthampton, MA 4/25 TT The Bear’s Place Inc, Cambridge, MA
Hillytown.com presents the show at One Longfellow. Here’s the...
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Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns,For somebody hid hatred and hope and desire and fearUnder my feet that they follow you night and day.A man with a hazel wand came without sound;He changed me suddenly; I was looking another way;And now my calling is but the calling of a...
March 2011
2 posts
Swimmingly
The tour went swimmingly. From the star treatment we received at Club Helsinki in Hudson, NY to the packed rooms in Brooklyn and DC, from the incredible weather and cherry blossoms in the capitol to the bleak beauty of the blinking Jersey sklyline, it was a grrrreat time and we look forward to our next jaunt into this country of ours.
Thanks to Alex’s parents, who graciously put us up on...
Most boring post to date, but pretty informative...
Okay so the Portland-area stint is over and was awesome in every way. We managed to play with every one of our favorite local acts within a span of four days. Butcher Boy, Wesley Hartley and The Traveling Trees, Jacob Augustine, Brenda and Metal Feathers are all incredible in such different ways. The only sad part of the whole venture was that Jeremy and Jerusha of South China were unable to...
February 2011
4 posts
February Sampler/Tour
In anticipation of our many upcoming Portland-area shows (listed below), we are offering a pay-what-you-like “February Sampler” through bandcamp. Three unreleased tracks. One recording that will be released again in the future, a live take of the title track of our upcoming “Golden Room EP” and a solo demo of a brand new song. Doooo it.
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MMMmmm
Our affairs are in a bit of disorder right now. We’re not exactly sure where we’ll be when, but we will be playing 15+ shows in March and hopefully around that number in April as well. So, if you live anywhere between Maine and DC then there’s a good chance that we’ll be nearby at some point this Spring. The “Tour” page is woefully out of date, but this will...
January 2011
1 post
Brooks Robinson
Brooks Robinson was a Major League third basemen for the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 to 1977. He was really known for his defense, but had an MVP year in 1964 in which he hit well by most people’s standards. Here is a song about strategies one might have used in pitching to him in that particular year:
http://vimeo.com/19237394
This video was shot and edited by Luke Delahanty.
In other...