indie rock motherland (omaha nebraska)

so we spent the day today in Omaha Nebraska which is what i would say is the current 'motherland' of the indie rock scene. home to artists like bright eyes, home to saddle creek records, home to indie rock super producer mike mogis... we are all huge indie rock fans so its quite cool for us to be hanging out in omaha... unforunatetly though mostly holed up in our hotel room as the outside temperature plummeted below zero. Honestly... i cant tell much of a difference between anything below say 20 degrees... its all just really damn cold to me. but the wind... ohhh the wind... when that starts kicking its all over... that'll do some damage. I dont know how you folks in the midwest hang with this... although im sure ya'll (and yes i did just use the texas colloquial term ya'll) think its crazy that we texas folk go out and do functional activity in the 100+ weather. honestly, i think thats crazy too.

anway, the show in lincoln was great last night... wonderful room... i saw some posters on the wall for a show that had happened a few nights before with one of my favorite singer songwriters Martin Sexton... man i bet that was a good show. He's amazing. If you've never heard him... pick up his record called, "the american" its a great driving and traveling record. ok so the show.. we debuted a new song last night called "The Arsonist." We've played it at a few soundchecks recently and then for the first time last night in front of a live audience... it went over smashingly so i think we're going to start integrating it in to the live show when we can. very excited about it... hopefully any and all of you out there will hear it at a show in the near future.

so, big news... next week on Feb 5th we will be releasing an Itunes exclusive 'Cinematica Preview EP'. It's just a little taste from the forthcoming record... it'll feature our first single 'Sell Out' (which the video for said song will be appearing all over the place very soon... be on the lookout) as well as a select other cuts from the 'Cinematica' full length. We couldnt be more excited to start getting that stuff out to folks... its a long time coming!

So the rest of the boys are out having dinner with some friends in Omaha... i again am resting in the hotel trying to get to feeling better... the sickness is subsiding, but slowly... still trying to take it easy when i have the chance. We all did a phone interview earlier with a new and upcoming publication called Soundcheck Magazine... should be a piece on us around sxsw (mid march), very nice folks at Soundcheck. Ok... tomorrow we have a show in Omaha at the Waiting Room with the wonderful band 'Ludo.' Our merch manager Kelly was tour managing a band a few years ago and they were on the road with Ludo... said that they're amazingly nice guys. Can't wait to meet em and see their show... I hear they are quite entertaining. Alright... i'll report more later.

LAng