listening room











1. Getz/Gilberto
2. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
3. Led Zeppelin II
4. Jean Michel Jarr - Oxygene
5. Brian Eno - Another Green World
6. Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads
7. Talking Heads - 77
8. Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog
9. Beach House - Teen Dream
10. Secret Twins - Ill Fit
11. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew


The Strange Echo

Welcome to our new pad called The Strange Echo.  This year we're polishing up the old tunes with a new drummer by the name of Alex Trajano.  March 2 at Club Bart in Ferndale and March 3 at Atlas Bar in Hamtramck for Blowout. Also we've abandoned the idea of an EP and have set our sights on a full blown 2nd LP.  Lots of new songs.


Working on a new EP

The last few months have found us pleasuring ourselves while simultaneously inching forth and forward, sometimes mostly backwards, on a new 6-song EP with a working title of 'The Merry Microbes'.


Here we are in our state-of-the-art electronics lab, going over some schematic diagrams.  Bem, ever the party girl, is still wearing her sparkles from last New Year's Eve.
Don't fuck with me, I'm trying to fix this toaster oven.
Here is our new drummer, with an actual name that will be revealed soon.  Or so he tells me.  He looks like he can really bring home the busk.








Stevers needs more juice in the cans.  And a nice glass of freshly squeezed orange juice after last night's bender.  Or was that me?  Or was that Burgundy.  Aw, who am I kidding guys? We are as straight edge as they come.









Burgundy figures out how to check his Facebook status on this transistor radio.

Fantasmagorie

This is pretty cool.

NVR BBQ


We join The Summer Pledge to help raise some gas money for their big tour. Also, a vinyl release show for "You Are You". Bring stuff to grill, frisbees, black cats, roman candles, lawn darts, sparklers, horseshoes, hand grenades etc.

BBQ, FIREWORX, DRINKIN', STINKIN' & NVR THINKIN! I had to google NVR.

8:30 @ the Shack.
Thursday July 1st.
$5.
1520 Merrick (Detroit).

Jambon


Gene & I were talking about setting aside a weekend of recording jams like we always do before practice. Steve brought up the fact that Can used to record this way. Lots of other sweet bands did & do, too. ___/___ even recorded a song this way & it's the one song I still like. It would be a total departure from the way we've been working so far & the way Gene & I have always worked.

I think July could be a great time for this. Computer Perfection has just a few shows, Scarlet Oaks I think is on a little bit of a break & Legendary Creatures is off for the whole month.

What do you guys think?

Single Barrel Detroit


We recently had the opportunity to record a handful of live acoustic performances in unique settings with the wonderful folks from Single Barrel Detroit. From their website:

Just north of the Ford Piquette factory is a spread of railroad tracks, once the nexus of two major lines - the Detroit & Milwaukee and Grand Trunk, which bridged much of the Midwest and Canada in an accord of industry, travel and expedience. When Henry Ford moved his tinker-y automotive operation there in 1904, the neighborhood - known as Milwaukee Junction - was pounding with other car makers, stamping plants, parts suppliers and fab shops. Home to Dodge, Packard, Regal and Cadillac, it was the nerve center of an emerging new Detroit - a Detroit built on internal combustion, efficient production, and innovative enterprise. But it was the Piquette Factory that sealed the city's fate: on September 27, 1908, the first Model T rolled off its assembly line. And from there, the Model T changed the world....

Read it all, see the videos & photos, download the MP3s at Single Barrel Detroit

So what's all the fuzz.


Dagger publishes interview with members and former members: http://www.daggerzine.com/

Also, Dagger contributor Eric Eggleson ranks us #1 in his top-ten list from 2009.

Motor City Cribs


"The Ferndale house and studio of Computer Perfection"

Thanks to Doug Coombe for photos and story. Here: http://www.metrotimes.com/culture/story.asp?id=14852

Also, another Metrotimes story on the genesis of our album artwork: http://www.metrotimes.com/arts/story.asp?id=14848