Friday, November 20, 2009

Touring with Neon Trees

Big news everybody,

I was recently offered the opportunity to go out on a 3 week tour playing 2nd guitar for Neon Trees. For those of you who don't know Neon Trees, they're a Provo/Southern California band who have been playing around locally for years. I've always enjoyed their music and they've recently had some exciting developments. They have a new EP "Start A Fire" coming out this month (Nov. 20th on myspace. myspace.com/neontrees) and then a full length "In Our Youth" in April on Mercury Records. I'm very excited about getting out on the road and playing music full time for a few weeks. It will be a nice break and another great learning experience for me.

Unfortunately, it delays the Winter EP I've been working on. The writing is nearly finished, I just need to record vocals and do a little trimming to a couple songs. Hopefully it will be out early next year.

But here are more details on the tour:

w/ NICO VEGA & INWARD EYE

11/27 - MESA, AZ
11/29 - LAS CRUCES, NM
12/1 - DALLAS, TX
12/2 - BILOXI, MS
12/3 - JACKSONVILLE, FL
12/5 - ATLANTA, GA
12/6 - CHARLOTTE, NC
12/7 - WASHINGTON D.C.
12/9 - PHILADELPHIA, PA
12/10 - CAMBRIDGE, MA
12/11 - NEW YORK, NY
12/13 - CLEVELAND, OH
12/14 - DETROIT, MI
12/15 - CHICAGO, IL
12/18 - DENVER, CO
12/19 - ALBUQUERQUE, NM
12/20 - LAS VEGAS, NV
12/31 - SALT LAKE CITY, UT

For more accurate info, go to myspace.com/neontrees

I'll probably put the dates up on my myspace as well. Anyway, stay tuned for videos/updates from the road!

Dave

Saturday, November 7, 2009

SLUG Magazine Review

My first review by an outsider! A critic who has never met me or heard my music before. Here's what they said:

"Spiral Diary = Dashboard Confessional + Saves the Day + Plain White T’s
This CD was a cringefest. Emo, as a genre, is sort of embarrassing by definition, even at its best, and bad emo music is so mortifying that it makes me want to curl up in a fetal position. I don’t understand––why did this even get made? Why did anyone think that lyrics like “If it seems too good to be true, / it’s probably too good to be true” needed to be sung by a dude with an annoyingly nasal breathy voice? Why, then, were flaccid, mealy acoustic guitar chords added? The whole venture is just confusing and awkward. –Cléa Major"

...noted.

I think the blurbs on my bio will have to be :

"...too good to be true..."

"This CD was ...sung by a dude with ...voice ...chords"

"Spiral Diary = ...Saves the Day"

"This CD ...is ...acoustic"

"...I ...like ...nasal ...hole venture ...s"

"This CD ...makes me want to curl up in ...an ...acoustic guitar"

"This ...whole venture is ...Major"

"...I don't understand ...lyrics ...it's ...confusing"

"This CD was ...Emo ...at its best"

"...anyone ...that ...like ...s ...a dude ...is ...awkward"

"This CD was ...ass..."

"...I ...probably ...needed to be ...a dude"

"This CD ...makes me ...whole"

"...music is ...mortifying ...it makes me ...mad..."

"I ...think ...it seems too good to be true ...with ...Clea Major"

"Why ...dude?

"This CD ...makes me ...flaccid"

"...r ...o ...n ...b ...ur ...g ...u ...n ...d ...y ...?"


It's fun playing the "make-a-blurb" game. YOU try it! Leave your comments with your best blurbs. Remember, it's gotta be in chronological order!!

love,

Dave