Ideas and Etc.
Email Nuggets #1: Origins
As a band that's kind of scattered throughout Long Island and Brooklyn, we've made a lot of use of email to stay in touch and make decisions. As a result, we've built up quite a sizable archive of exactly what we were thinking and talking about at a point in time. In light of this, we're publishing a continuing series of snippets of our email conversations.
To kick things off, we have us naming both our band and EP. A bit of context is probably necessary to understand the following exchange. We were calling ourselves Dreaming Kids at one point, but decided we didn't really like the name. Secondly, Andrea and Eric used to play together as Vampires. Hope you enjoy the emails below.
Alphabet Lounge and Tortilla Factory got cancelled
If you've noticed, we're playing a lot of show in the next few months. We're not used to dealing with this kind of volume, and managed to double book ourselves for April 9th and 10th. As a result, the Alphabet Lounge show on April 9th and the show at the Tortilla Factory on April 10th have been cancelled. Our bad! However, all of you looking forward to delicious tacos should not worry too much, because we're going to be rescheduling the Tortilla Factory show with our friends in Weed Hounds and Big Soda. I'll post the replacement shows in a bit.
Spring Tour 2010
We are very pleased to announce that we'll be embarking on our first tour in March with the excellent Holiday Shores. We're leaving New York on March 13th to play a show in Philly, driving to Austin for SXSW, making a stop in Mexico for MtyMx, and then winding our way back to New York via the wonderful dates below:
| 03/24 | March 24th at Hailey's Club (Denton) | Hailey's Club | w/ Holiday Shores, Manned Missiles, Writer |
| 03/25 | March 25th at Proud Larry's (Oxford) | Proud Larry's | w/ Holiday Shores, Young Buffalo |
| 03/26 | March 26th at Al's Bar (Lexington) | Al's Bar | w/ Holiday Shores, Idiot Glee |
| 03/27 | March 27th at Nachbar (Louisville) | Nachbar | w/ Holiday Shores |
| 03/28 | March 28th at The Bishop (Bloomington) | The Bishop | w/ Holiday Shores |
| 03/29 | March 29th at Huckleberry's Pizza (Rock Island) | Huckleberry's Pizza | w/ Holiday Shores |
| 03/30 | March 30th at The Box Social (Chicago) | The Box Social | w/ Distractions, Holiday Shores, Thin Hymns |
| 03/31 | March 31st at Case Western (Cleveland) | Case Western University | w/ Holiday Shores |
| 04/01 | April 1st at Glasslands (Brooklyn) | Glasslands Gallery | w/ Holiday Shores |
Cool Daddy-O (George's Basement)
This song we are thinking of bringing on tour with us, among a few others we've been working on. Andrea is playing drums! She wouldn't let me post this unless I mentioned she hasn't played drums in over a year. She used to be our drummer before Bryan moved back.
Clear Nectarine
Here is the mix of Nectarine before we put it through Gabe's tape player.
I Want A House (Instrumental)
Just found a bunch of alternate mixes of songs on a CD in my Mom's car today. Will post another tomorrow.
Well Kept Cavern
I made the backing sounds this past summer, then Eric sang over it one night in December after making fruit baskets all day.
Color Your Life
We're almost done with a new EP! It'll be our first "official" release, meaning it'll be reproduced physically (vinyl!!) and come out on Infinite Best Recordings. It's going to be called Color Your Life.
Here's the tracklist:
The Other Side of Your Face
Lady Daydream
Milk & Honey
All Around and Away We Go
Galaxy Plateau
Phenomenons
Ribbon Bow
Ribbon Bow is something I did a couple of years ago, and then promptly lost. Thankfully Eric had a copy.
Nostrand Ave
We've had a rash of thefts in the world of Twin Sister over the last couple of months. After our show in Philadelphia, somebody broke into my sister's car in Bushwick and stole half of our equipment. Luckily, none of it was irreplaceable, and they didn't grab Eric's father's beautiful Silvertone guitar.
Then, last night, somebody stole my digital recorder that I was using to record our set. So, as a eulogy of sorts, I'm posting the last recording we made with it. It's an idea that we wrote during practice on Sunday, and we're all pretty excited to get some vocals written for it. Initially, we weren't going to post this recording, since it's very much still a work in progress, but in light of recent events, I figured what the hell.
International Dust
Here's a little mix called 'International Dust.' Listen close for tidbits of unreleased Twin Sister ambiance between songs.
It also features tracks by two of our favorite people, Joe Meek (pictured above) and John K.
When I Cannot
Here is Bryan, Jonny, and Joe in Austin, Texas about two years ago. I'll post more another time.
Eastern Green (demo)
New song we've been tossin' round. Needs some chiseling, some Dev, Gabe, and Andrea.
PS: Excuse the Garageband reverb, I forgot it was there until I checked to see if I suceeded posting on Dev's Spectacular New Website.
Ringtones 4 Teens
The first installment of our ring tone collection "Ringtones 4 Teens." These original compositions are perfect for your Crunchberry or ePhone!
iPhone owners: How to make your own ringtones
EP Promo #3
Bubby waits around near the door for Twin Sister's new EP