They call it labor day for a reason. This weekend we go back to the magpie cage (which is where J. Robbins concentrates his godliness) to finish drums and guitar tracking for our latest labor of love, our new e.p. "Kittens!". Shortly thereafter Pat will lay down piano (which is usually done at gun point so as to increase the "oh shitness" level of his playing) and we'll add a pinch of additional sounds and electronics. Mix and master hopefully in october/november and get it out to you clowns by Kevin's birthday, which is December 28th. Hopefully more material to come soon.
Anywho, we got a bunch of shows coming up so head over to out myspace page to check out where and when you can catch us next coach.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
New Release Announcement!!!
Ok since nothing of substance has been written here for months, I am going to make amends for that by going into great detail about stuff almost no one really cares about!
So, we’ve kept our mouths shut for a while about the state of our first full length Silk Scorpion. Part of the reason for this is that we have that whole inconvenient day job hassle and the other part is cause circumstances have come along that have made us reevaluate our plans.
Let me begin with a little background. We recorded our First e.p. "Sing Along" back in February of ’07. As many of you know, the E.P. contains 5 songs. We chose those 5 since they represented the most cohesive picture of our earliest compositions and were the most “finished” songs at the time. As many (i.e. 3 out of the 4) of you know we’ve been playing "Stop Being Paranoid" and "Spread it Like a Virus" since our very first shows. We had already written many other songs but for one reason or another we decided, even though we felt many of them were stronger than the songs on “Sing Along”, to hold onto them until we went to record our first full length.
A little while ago Kevin wrote a little ditty called Silk Scorpion that we all got really jazzed about. It represented for us a new direction for Caverns. While the song kept our trademark sound of pretty piano coupled with crazy guitar, it was a vast departure from earlier jams like This Are Syntax. We liked the song so much we decided to name our debut LP after it.
At the end of May we went to start recording songs for our debut LP. We got down 6 songs, all of which were conceived before, during or shortly after the “Sing Along” recording and all prior to the writing of Silk Scorpion. Shortly after this recording session the band went on a hiatus to attend to real life shit like our jobs. However, during this time Kevin ended going on a writing frenzy and came up with a bunch of newer material which sonically felt more like the brethren and sisthren (I made that word up) of Silk Scorpion than what we had already laid down. So basically on the one hand we have a bunch of rad shit that sounds more akin to the Sing Along material, though superior, and on the other a bunch of equally rad shit that sounds more like the new direction Silk Scorpion has taken us in.
This has left us with a conundrum: we have a slew of material that we love and desperately want to get out to you guys but is too much to put out on one record, unless we did a Use Your Illusion style deal (but we all know that is followed up by hair plugs, embarrassing sports jersey and booty shorts combinations, and albums that take 2 decades to put out). Plus, if we did that we’d have to wait until like mid ’09 to get you dudes and dudettes anything. Even for a 19 song album that’s way too long, son.
So here’s the plan: We will be releasing a 7 song e.p. entitled “Kittens!” (yep!) this fall/early winter ‘08 containing new stuff that will not only expand our sonic palette but absolutely smokes everything on Sing Along (by the way I’m not shitting on Sing Along, I am just really super stoked about this new stuff). Then, sometime in mid ’09 we will unleash the album Silk Scorpion on you clowns. Just to whet your appetites for destruction here are some song –
Kittens! track list.
1) Spread it Like a Virus
2) Brodown: High Noon
3) How to Seduce an Android
4) Stop Being Paranoid
5) Dance you Son of a Bitch
6) Arctic Phantoms
7) Resmasculator
So, we’ve kept our mouths shut for a while about the state of our first full length Silk Scorpion. Part of the reason for this is that we have that whole inconvenient day job hassle and the other part is cause circumstances have come along that have made us reevaluate our plans.
Let me begin with a little background. We recorded our First e.p. "Sing Along" back in February of ’07. As many of you know, the E.P. contains 5 songs. We chose those 5 since they represented the most cohesive picture of our earliest compositions and were the most “finished” songs at the time. As many (i.e. 3 out of the 4) of you know we’ve been playing "Stop Being Paranoid" and "Spread it Like a Virus" since our very first shows. We had already written many other songs but for one reason or another we decided, even though we felt many of them were stronger than the songs on “Sing Along”, to hold onto them until we went to record our first full length.
A little while ago Kevin wrote a little ditty called Silk Scorpion that we all got really jazzed about. It represented for us a new direction for Caverns. While the song kept our trademark sound of pretty piano coupled with crazy guitar, it was a vast departure from earlier jams like This Are Syntax. We liked the song so much we decided to name our debut LP after it.
At the end of May we went to start recording songs for our debut LP. We got down 6 songs, all of which were conceived before, during or shortly after the “Sing Along” recording and all prior to the writing of Silk Scorpion. Shortly after this recording session the band went on a hiatus to attend to real life shit like our jobs. However, during this time Kevin ended going on a writing frenzy and came up with a bunch of newer material which sonically felt more like the brethren and sisthren (I made that word up) of Silk Scorpion than what we had already laid down. So basically on the one hand we have a bunch of rad shit that sounds more akin to the Sing Along material, though superior, and on the other a bunch of equally rad shit that sounds more like the new direction Silk Scorpion has taken us in.
This has left us with a conundrum: we have a slew of material that we love and desperately want to get out to you guys but is too much to put out on one record, unless we did a Use Your Illusion style deal (but we all know that is followed up by hair plugs, embarrassing sports jersey and booty shorts combinations, and albums that take 2 decades to put out). Plus, if we did that we’d have to wait until like mid ’09 to get you dudes and dudettes anything. Even for a 19 song album that’s way too long, son.
So here’s the plan: We will be releasing a 7 song e.p. entitled “Kittens!” (yep!) this fall/early winter ‘08 containing new stuff that will not only expand our sonic palette but absolutely smokes everything on Sing Along (by the way I’m not shitting on Sing Along, I am just really super stoked about this new stuff). Then, sometime in mid ’09 we will unleash the album Silk Scorpion on you clowns. Just to whet your appetites for destruction here are some song –
Kittens! track list.
1) Spread it Like a Virus
2) Brodown: High Noon
3) How to Seduce an Android
4) Stop Being Paranoid
5) Dance you Son of a Bitch
6) Arctic Phantoms
7) Resmasculator
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Big show Tomorrow at The Black Cat
First thing is first: I'm sure in every decade since the late seventies DC musicians have yearned for "the good old days" when DC was known as a city where musicians took chances and made fresh, compelling music. However, I doubt that desire has ever been so deep as it has been lately. With the recent amount of punk pop/new wave/dance punk garabage that has been shat out of this city for the last oh say 3 or 4 years it has been easy to forget this town was once a bastion of originality and experimentalism. I think many of those who remember the first time they heard Frodus, Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses and so many other legendary dc bands are awaiting a new DC musical renaissance where the dance/new wave dragon which flew in here from New York or LA or London or some other industry town prizing fashion over music is finally slain and DC takes back its mantle (lost in large part to Baltimore where most midatlantic radness is occuring these days) as the town where the best underground music is made. That day is coming soon my brothers and sisters...but until then you might as well kill sometime and come see us play our brand of new wave dance punk with Imperial China and True Womanhood!!!!!!
Show starts at 9
We go on at 10:15
The Black Cat
1811 14th Street, NW
Washington DC 20009
Show starts at 9
We go on at 10:15
The Black Cat
1811 14th Street, NW
Washington DC 20009
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