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15 Mar
2011

If you’ve been going to shows in New York City, you KNOW Robbers on High Street. The indie rock sextet has been selling out venues throughout the city and is ready to release their highly anticipated forthcoming album Hey There Golden Hair. First, they visit Austin for SXSW. Frontman Ben Trokan took a few minutes to answer some of our questions. Enjoy them below:

Robbers on High Street has been performing publicly for almost 10 years now. How do you think you have evolved through out the decade? What’s something the 2001 version of yourself would tell the 2011 version?

Ben: It’ll be 10 years next year. That’s nuts, I never thought about that. You think we’d have some more records out. To me it feels more like 2 different bands, the band as we were before we released Grand Animals in ’07 and the one after. It’s a better band now and it’s definitely a lot more fun.

As far as 2001 Ben, he really wouldn’t have shit to say. If anything I’d rather have 2011 Ben tell 2001 Ben stuff like don’t eat that tuna sandwich in the green room at Carson Daly, buy that van from Major World in Queens even though the salesman will slap you on the ass, and say no to that Beatles festival in Louisville unless you want to have an olfactory sensation of smoked turkey leg every time you hear “Anytime At All.”

Your new album Hey There Golden Hair is your first full length since 2007. How did you prepare differently for this record?

Ben: The preparation was about the same, I’d make demos and we’d practice them live, but the recording process was different. We bought a 16 track and stayed on tape the whole time which has some great limitations to work with and you get some interesting end results – mono drums, four dudes singing back ups around one mic, etc. And mixing was literally very hands on, it was like a performance in itself which is so much nicer than a bunch of dudes sitting around one guy on a computer.

Your songs have been featured on several different movie soundtracks. If someone were to make a movie about the band, who would you want on your soundtrack?

Ben: Is this a cleverly disguised what are your influences question?
Grassroots, Flop, The Action, Buzzcocks, Pretty Things, Kinks, 20/20s, Music Machine, ELO, Five Day Week Straw People, Thin Lizzy, The Eyes.

At SXSW, every band plays tons of showcases, some that even have a wild mix of different genres. If you were to put on your own SXSW, who would you want to play it?

Ben: Charles Bradley, Dungen, The Bees and I’d go big too. Get some ridiculous sponsor money and try and work out a Jam reunion. C’mon guys get over yourselves and do it already!

Free “Electric Eye” MP3

Catch Robbers on High Street at SXSW:

Wed Mar 16: Official SXSW Showcase @ Momo’s 11PM

Thurs Mar 17: Trumer Pills Afternoon Social @ Klub Krucial 12:45PM

Thurs Mar 17: .MUSIC Presents Texas Tornado Showcase @ Rusty Spurs 2:30PM

Fri Mar 18: Come To Mecca Party @ ROIAL Midnight

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09 Mar
2011

.MUSIC presents TEXAS TORNADO at South by Southwest on Thursday, March 17th at Rusty Spurs from 12noon to 6pm. In association with Sideways Media , Tijuana Gift Shop and The Force Agency, Texas Tornado at SXSW is an official day party that will showcase buzz-drenched artists over two stages. The event is also a benefit for Invisible Children, a movement seeking to end the conflict in Uganda and stop the abduction of children for use as child soldiers.

Texas Tornado at SXSW is open to all SXSW badge holders and the general public through RSVP.

INSIDE
12:30 – The Chapin Sisters
1:30 – Shayna Zaid & The Catch
2:30 – Robbers on High Street
3:30 – Headless Horseman
4:30 – Voxhaul Broadcast
5:00 – Augustana

OUTSIDE
1:00 – The Madison Square Gardeners
2:00 – David Berkeley
3:00 – Brooke Fraser
4:00 – The Stone Foxes
5:00 – The New Mastersounds

Friday, March 18th from 12noon to 6pm is TEXAS TORNADO at Red Eyed Fly. Also presented by .MUSIC and in association with Tijuana Gift Shop & Sideways Media, this unofficial day party will celebrate the launch of The Force Agency. Two stages of great bands, you must be there! Texas Tornado at Red Eyed Fly is open to the public, but we ask that you please RSVP

INSIDE
12:10 – Shayna Zaid and the Catch
12:50 – The Forms
1:30 – My Cousin, The Emperor
2:05 – The Silent Comedy
2:50 – Vanaprasta
3:30 – Hugo
4:15 - Lenka
5:05 – A Silent Film

OUTSIDE
12:30 – We Are Hex
1:10 – Frankie & The Heartstrings
1:50 – Purple Melon
2:30 – Taylor Locke & The Roughs
3:10 – Viva City
3:50 – Deluka
4:35 – Big Rock Candy Mountain
5:20 – Deep Dark Robot

We’re proud to co-sponsor this event with Swing House, Jakprints, Metromix, GigsWiz, Crystal Head Vodka, Barefoot Wines, El Grado Tequila & Monster Energy Drink. Be sure to support them ALL and we’ll see you in Austin.

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.MUSIC is the exclusive, global community-based top-level domain name that gives music entities a unique identity online and an industry standard for official music websites. The specialized .MUSIC web address enhances a brand’s visibility online. It ensures that .MUSIC websites are associated with a memorable, self-explanatory and trusted badge restricted to the music community: www.YourName.music

The objective with .MUSIC is to connect a Top-Level Domain with a purpose-driven initiative that is committed in creating value for the music community and making a difference that matters for artists. The mission of the .MUSIC initiative is focused on the music community owning and controlling their home and brand on the Web in a transparent, accountable, trusted way, while experiencing the benefits of the .MUSIC network effect which will be global, every person with a .music address will be discovered and the ability to discover all entities of music in all aspects from all over the world.

17 Jan
2011

Robbers On High Street will be playing a FREE SHOWCASE at PIANOS on THURS, JAN 20th at 8pm. Head out early for a set from the Brooklyn sextet as they flaunt new music from their forthcoming album, Hey There Golden Hair.

Robbers have already been accepted to perform multiple shows down in Austin during SXSW and KEXP has been premiering tracks on air from the upcoming release.

Robbers On High Street
Thursday January 20, 2011
Piano’s
158 Ludlow Street
New York City, NY
FREE

14 Dec
2010

Robbers On High Street will be interviewed and performing live on Newtown Radio today at 3:30pm for a NEWTOWN RADIO STUDIO SESSION from SWAN7 studios in Bushwick. Listen live @ http://newtownradio.com.

The Robbers also took the time to dust off a holiday offering in “The Rocking Disco Santa Claus” as a free download. Take a listen or download from here. The track is a cover, originally recorded by The Sisterhood and released on the Bar/None song poem Xmas compilation, Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?

You can also download ROHS current single “Electric Eye” courtesy of FUSE TV here

Newtown Radio Studio Sessions
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02 Nov
2010

TIJUANA GIFT SHOP, THE AUDIO PERV & METROMIX PRESENT WILD TURKEY FEST AT BOWERY ELECTRIC ON NOV 23rd

SETS FROM ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, MY COUSIN, THE EMPEROR, ONLY LIVING BOY & HEY BATTLEFIELD

Tijuana Gift Shop & The Audio Perv are joining forces for WILD TURKEY FEST on November 23rd at Bowery Electric in NYC. The pre-Thanksgiving event will feature music from Robbers On High Street, My Cousin, The Emperor, Only Living Boy and Hey Battlefield. Doors are at 8pm, tix $5 and there will be WILD TURKEY drink specials all night long.

Tuesday, November 23 – 8pm
WILD TURKEY FEST @ Bowery Electric
327 Bowery
New York, 10003
21+
$5
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165420370149494&num_event_invites=0

Robbers On High Street
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http://robbersonhighstreet.com/

MetroMix Profile
Robbers On High Street “Electric Eye”>

Jon Pareles of the NY TIMES recently stated, “There’s a lot of the Beatles, especially their piano-pumping side, in the songs of Robbers on High Street, updated with Elvis Costello’s gruffness and a matter-of-fact desperation.” The Brooklyn outfit released the “ELECTRIC EYE” vinyl single this summer with b-side “Face The Fog” via Engine Room Recordings. The two tunes are pulled from a collection of songs comprising the band’s forthcoming third album, Hey There Golden Hair, possessing a new sound that harkens back to the brash, instantaneous pop appeal of their debut Tree City.

Fans of the Robbers’ previous single, “The Fatalist,” will recognize the calculated strut of “Electric Eye,” a song packed with enough soul claps to fill even the most discriminate dance floor; while “Face in the Fog” bounces playfully between a Gal Costa backing track and a soaring chorus dripping with vocal harmonies. Alana Harper of WNYC’s MUSIC HUB called “Electric Eye,” “an aggressively catchy tune that harks back to the big, beautiful, horn-filled pop-rock of the ’60s and ’70s.”

My Cousin The Emperor
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MetroMix Profile

My Cousin, The Emperor “Nothing Left For Us To Find”

“Hailing from the green pastures and rolling hills of Brooklyn, NY, MY COUSIN, THE EMPEROR is a young band of country punks with a book full of ragged honkey-tonk anthems,” attests RELIX MAG. They released their debut album A Long Way From Home last year and won the WNYC “Battle OF The Boroughs” for BEST BAND IN BROOKLYN and the IMA for “Best Alt Country Song.”

“They say the Devil is in the details, but God is in there too,” notes John Schaefer from WNYC-Soundcheck. “It’s those little details that can make or break a song, and I hear those details in My Cousin, The Emperor’s songs.” My Old Kentucky Blog says, “A Long Way From Home is filled to the brim with both alone-in-the-pouring-rain ballads and throw-me-another-whiskey barroom romps.” Time Out New York says “My Cousin, the Emperor makes happily gnarly music; the band’s debut album, A Long Way from Home, trades in rolling country rock & roll.” and Brooklyn Rocks blog calls the music “Reverb-heavy melancholy that is very comparable to songs from artists like Chris Isaak and Roy Orbison.”

MC, TE are releasing a single disc, double EP “THE SUBWAY EPS” in Feb 2011.

Only Living Boy
http://www.myspace.com/onlylivingboymusic
http://onlylivingboy.com/

Only Living Boy eats raw hearts for breakfast. Fueled by life’s stunning brokenness, the band offers an authentic and poignant experience through a distinct rock sound. The trio’s unrivaled style is a combination of 70s vinyl inherited from their parents and the alternative rock of their own MTV adolescence, rounded out with bits of jam, blues, reggae and punk. Thanks to their hometown’s suspension between Pennsylvanian woods and New York City concrete, Only Living Boy’s Northwest New Jersey roots help define its sound and attitude—organic with an edge.

Throughout two years of constant national touring (150-200 shows/year) the band has developed a ravenous, grass roots fan-base, which continues to grow with each and every show. They recently released of the double A Side Digital Single – “Worthless/Homesick”, possess the road chops of a band twice their age and the songwriting prowess that only comes from real experience.

Hey Battlefield
http://www.myspace.com/heybattlefield
http://heybattlefield.bandcamp.com/

“Indie-approved alt-country with touches of Caribbean and doo-wop sounds blended with their generally rollicking approach. Sounding like a mix between Bob Dylan and Joe Strummer, albeit with more irony, singer/guitarist Jason Rossi was perfunctory with a detached charm.” – BROOKLYN VEGAN

Hey Battlefield is an example of great music made outside the grips of major-league record labels. Three masterful practitioners of various instruments and multiple genres, creating a seemingly endless stream of perfectly orchestrated original songs, and motivated by a mutual love of making and sharing music.” – V MAGAZINE

” The lyrics materialize by his low and authentic voice, complemented by a subtle use of harmonica.” – INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

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Set Times!

11:30pm – Only Living Boy
10:30pm – My Cousin, The Emperor
9:30pm – Robbers On High Street
8:30pm – Hey Battlefield

16 Oct
2010


Jon Pareles of the NY TIMES recently stated, “There’s a lot of the Beatles, especially their piano-pumping side, in the songs of Robbers on High Street, updated with Elvis Costello’s gruffness and a matter-of-fact desperation.”

The Brooklyn outfit released the “ELECTRIC EYE” vinyl single this summer with b-side “Face The Fog” via Engine Room Recordings. The two tunes are pulled from a collection of songs comprising the band’s forthcoming third album, Hey There Golden Hair, possessing a new sound that harkens back to the brash, instantaneous pop appeal of their debut Tree City.

“Electric Eye” MP3

CMJ DATES:
Thurs, Oct 21st – Brooklyn, NY – Cameo Gallery (93 N. 6th St, Brooklyn, NY) – 11pm – GREEN ROOM MUSIC SOURCE Showcase
Sat, Oct 23rd – New York, NY – MOSCOT Gallery (118 Orchard St, NY, NY) – 4pm – FREE DAY PARTY

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22 Sep
2010

Second Wave of CMJ 2010 Artists Announced

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The next round of CMJ artists have been announced. Interesting to see that Phoenix’s show at Madison Square Garden on October 20th is part of CMJ. Check out the lineup below:

1995 • +/- • 2 Cow Garage • A Classic Education • A Life Once Lost • A Million Years • Acid Washed • Acid Westerns • Adam Haworth Stephens • Adult Themes • Afternoon • Agent Ribbons • AIDS Wolf • The Aikiu • Air Waves • Alcoholic Faith Mission • Alessi’s Ark • Alexandra Richards (DJ set) • Alfonso Velez • All Out • Aloud • Ambassadors • Andrew Belle • Andrew Cedermark • Andrew Vladeck • Andy Davis • Angus & Julia Stone • Anita Maj • Anni Rossi • Anthony Jeselnik • Apollo Run • Appomattox • The Armchairs • Arms & Legs • The Arms Akimbo • Arpline • Art Of Fresh • The Art of Shooting • Asa Ransom • Asobi Seksu • At Sea • Atomic Tom • Atypicals • Audacity • Autodrone • Auto-Matic Vaudeville • Autumn Owls • Ava Luna • Avey Tare (DJ set) • The Aviation Orange • Azealia Black • Baby Copperhead • Bad Books (feat. Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra) • Bad Cop • Balance and Composure • Battle Circus • The Bamboo Kids • Baptized In Blood • Baths • Bayside • Beach Fossils • Bear Hands • Bears of Blue River • Beau Jennings • The Beauties • Beauty Feast • The Beauvilles • Bebe Fang • Ben Allison • Ben Talmi • Bewitched Hands on Top of Our Heads • The Big Big Bucks • Big Freedia • The Bigger Lights • Bikini • Billy Nayer Show • Binary Marketing Show • The Black Atlantic • Black Cherry • Black Feelings • Black Label Society • Black Sheep • Black Taxi • Blackbells • Blackbird Blackbird • Blaire • Blip Blip Bleep • Blood Red Shoes • Bloodgroup • The Bloodsugars • The Blow • Bo Burnham • Body Language • The Bogmen • Bonfires • Boom Boom Satellites • Boot Camp Clik • Bottle Up & Go • Boy Crisis • BRAHMS • Braids • Brass Bed • Brent Arnold • Br’er • Bridges and Powerlines • The Broadfield Marchers • Brodinski • Bronze • Brothers Frank • Built By Animals • Calibro 35 • Canasta • The Canon Logic • The Capstan Shafts • Car Bomb • Care Bears on Fire • Carl Palmer Band • Carusella • Cast of Cheers • Casxio • Caveman • The Chain Gang of 1974 • Chainsmokers (DJ set) • Chamberlin • Champagne Champagne • The Chapel Club • The Chapin Sisters • Chappo • Charlotte Sometimes • Children of Bodom • Chip Fu • Chris Bathgate • Chris Cubeta and Liars Club • Christian Rich • Christina LaRocca and Heavy Weather • The Cinnamon Band • Circle Pit • City Riots • The Class Machine • Click Clack Boom • Cloud Nothings • Clutch • Cobra Skulls • Cojoba • The Colonels • Comanche • Communist Daughter • Conversion Party • Coolrunnings • Corin Tucker Band • Cotton Jones • Coyote Eyes • Craig Wedren • Crayon Fields • The Cringe • Cubic Zirconia • Cults • Cute Is What We Aim For • Cyndi Harvell • Dada Trash Collage • Daily Bread • Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr • Dan Black • Dangermaker • Daniel Pujol • Daniel Wayne • Danny Ross • Darien Brockington • Dark Dark Dark • Darren Hanlon • Das Racist • Dash Rip Rock • David Dallas • David Dondero • David Vandervelde • DaVinci • De Staat • Dead Heart Bloom • Dead Leaf Echo • Dead Man’s Clothes • Dead To Me • Deakin • Dean & Britta • The Dean’s List • Dear Comrade • Death on Two Wheels • Debutaunts • Delicate Steve • Deluka • Denison Witmer • Dennis Padula • Dent May • Derik Foreal • DeScribe • Devin Therriault • DeVotchKa • Dharma Bums • Diamond District • Diamond Doves • Diamond Rings • Diehard • Dinosaur Feathers • Dinowalrus • Dirty Penny • Disembodied • Diwon • Dom • Dominant Legs • Dominique Young Unique • Drazy Hoops • Dream Diary • Dred Scott Trio • Drink Up Buttercup • Drop the Lime (DJ set) • The Drums • Drunken Barn Dance • Dujeous • Dylan LeBlanc • Earatick Statik • Earthless • Eisley • Eklin • Electric Tickle Machine • Elizabeth and the Catapult • Elk City • Ellis Ashbrook • Emergency Service • Emergency Service • Emil & Friends • Emilie Simon • Emily Long • Eprhyme • Erin Barra • Eternal Summers • Everything Everything • Everything Is Terrible • Excepter • Extra Lens • Fabulous DIamonds • Fake Problems • Family Cactus • Fan-Tan • The Feens • The Feiros • Fenech-Soler • Feral Children • Ferraby Lionheart • Fifth Nation • Filligar • First Aid Kit • The Flatliners • The Fleshtones • The Flower Machine • Foam Castles • The Foot • Forro in the Dark • Fort Wilson Riot • Four Tet • Francis and the Lights • Frank Dukes • Frankie and the Heartstrings • Franz Nicolay • Freddie Gibbs • French Horn Rebellion • Freshkills • From A Fountain • The Front Bottoms • Frontier Brothes • Futurebirds • Gamble & Burke • Game Rebellion • Gary Lucas • Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates • Generationals • Gentleman Jesse and His Men • Ghost Ghost • Ghostface Killah • Giant Cloud • Goes Cube • Gold Streets • Golden Animals • Golden Bloom • The Golden Filter • Good Kids Sprouting Horns • The Good Natured • Good Old War • Grand Hallway • The Great Collide • Greg Barris • Greg Dulli • Grillade • The Grip Weeds • Grooms • Grouplove • Guards • Guitars • Guy Blackman • GZA • Hacienda • Hall of Justus with Big Pooh, Chaundon, Joe Scudda, Jozeemo, & Roc C • Hammer No More the Fingers • Hank & Cupcakes • Harper Blynn • Hazard Adams • Heavy Birds • Heavy Cream • Hedgehog • Heidi Spencer • Helmet • Heypenny • His Mischief • Hollis Brown • Holy Boys Danger Club • Holy Ghost • Honeychild • The Honeymoon Thrillers • The Honors • Hoodie Allen • Hopewell • Hot Lava • Hot Press • HotChaCha • Houses • How To Dress Well • Howlies • Huasipungo • The Hush Now • Hussle Club • Hypernova • I Am Oak • I Led 3 Lives • I Love Monsters • Ian McLagan • The Idle Hands • I’m Turning Into • In Cadeo • Incan Abraham • Incognito • In-Flight Safety • Iron Age • Ivan Julian • Ivri Lider • Izabo • Jack Skuller • Jackson Wetherbee • Jaill • James V McMorrow • Janka Nabay • Jared Evan • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit • Jason Simon (Dead Meadow) • JD Souther • Jean Grae • Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher • Jessica Mayfield • JessUbline • The Jezabels • Joel Plaskett • Joey Ryan • John Grant • John Shannon • John Vanderslice • Johnny Flynn • Johnny Marnell • Johnny Whitney • Jonny Hirsch • Jradio • Jukebox the Ghost • Julia Easterlin • Julius C • Justin Townes Earle • Kaiser Cartel • Kate Rogers • Kate Tucker • KAV • Keepaway • Keepaway • Kelley McRae • Kelsey • Kendra Morris • Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band • K-Flay • Kids of 88 • Kiko Klaus • Kill Krinkle Club • Kinch • Kinetix • Kiss Kiss • Kisses • Kittens Ablaze • The Knocks • Koli Calhoun • Kopecky Family Band • Kosha Dillz • The Krays • Kris Gruen • Kudu • Kurt Braunhouler • Kyle Rapps • La Big Vic • La Sera • La Strada • Langhorne Slim • Last Chance to Reason • Lavish • Lawrence and Leigh • Lawrence Arabia • Le VICE • Leeroy Stagger • The Left (Apollo Brown, DJ Soko, Journalist103 • Leo Blais • Lesands • Lia Ices • Lido Lido • Life and Times of • Life Size Maps • Light Pollution • Lights Resolve • Like Trains and Taxis • Lily & the Parlour Tricks • Linfinity • Liptease • Lisa Bianco • The Lisps • Lissie • Little Fish • Little Racer • Little Teeth • The Lives of Famous Men • Living Days • Long Division • Loomis & the Lust • Lord Huron • Los Doggies • Love Trio (Bill Han, Jesse Murphy, Kenny Wolleson) • Lower Dens • The Lucid • Lucius • Lugriphonic • Luluc • The Luyas • Ma Mentor • Madison Ave Boys • MAE • Magestic Legend • Magic Bullets • The Main Street Gospel • Majorleans • Mama Bear • Man Benu • Manic Bloom • Marco Polo with Torae & Ruste Juxx • Marie Stella • Marit Larsen • Mark Kelly • Mark Mulholland • Marz Lovejoy • Math the Band • Matt Duke • Matt Mays • Mayday • McAlister Drive • Me and My Arrow • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes • The Megaphonic Thrift • MegaRex • MEN • Michael Daves • Midnight Spin • Mikix the Cat • Milagres • Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson • Million Young • Mimicking Birds • Miniature Tigers • Miniboone • Miniboone • Miracles of Modern Science • Mirror Queen • Miz Metro • Modern Rivals • Moe Green • Mon Khmer • Monogold • Morning Teleportation • Moss • Motel Motel • Mother/Father • Moto Boy • Murder Mystery • Mussels • Muy Cansado • My Dear Disco • My Jerusalem • My Other Friend • The Mynabirds • Naam • Naam • Nada Surf • The Narrative • Nathan Halpern • Neek The Exotic feat. 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01 Jun
2010


Three years since the release of their second LP Grand Animals, the Robbers On High Street have moved on from delicate, early ‘70s balladry and grown confident and unabashed in their grasp of mid-60s anglophilia a la the Pretty Things & Status Quo. The Brooklyn outfit will release the “ELECTRIC EYE” vinyl single on June 8 with b-side “Face The Fog”via Engine Room Recordings. The single will release digitally on June 22. The two tunes are pulled from a collection of songs comprising the band’s forthcoming still untitled third album, a new sound that harkens back to the brash, instantaneous pop appeal of their debut Tree City.

Fans of the Robbers’ previous single, “The Fatalist,” will recognize the calculated strut of “Electric Eye,” a song packed with enough soul claps to fill even the most discriminate dance floor; while “Face in the Fog” bounces playfully between a Gal Costa backing track and a soaring chorus dripping with vocal harmonies.

You can stream both tracks from the 7-inch here
http://www.engineroomrecordings.com/music/?albums_id=67

Always an exciting live act, coolly walking the line between syncopated bursts of song and Miller High Life, the Robbers on High Street will be taking their vinyl on the road for four Northeast shows to celebrate the 7-inch “Electric Eye” single release with their Engine Room label-mates The Bloodsugars.

June 10 – Philadelphia, PA – The M Room – 9pm – w/ The Bloodsugars, The Fleeting End
June 11 – Washington, DC – Velvet Lounge – 9pm – w/ The Bloodsugars, Kaiser Cartel
June 12 – Brooklyn, NY – The Knitting Factory – 8pm – w/ The Bloodsugars, Israel Darling
June 13 – Boston, MA – TT The Bears – 8:30pm – w/ The Bloodsugars, Israel Darling

Recording started in October of 2009 on the boy’s newly purchased Tascam MS-16 1” tape machine, which was lovingly dragged to several studios across Northwest Brooklyn before settling at Tommy Brennick’s (Budos Band, Menahan Street Band) Dunham Studio for mixdown. While the veterans of the band, Morgan King (bass, vocals), Steven Mercado (guitar, vocals) and frontman Ben Trokan still remain, they have been playing as a five-piece for the last three years with drummer Mikey Post and keyboardist David Sherman. Produced by Trokan and engineered by Matt Shane (Flight of the Conchords, Rosanne Cash) this was the current line-up’s first foray into a proper recording session, drawing little help from the outside save that of a horn section borrowed from the Daptone House of Soul.

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