The April Update

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Root Glen

Time has flown by since our last post…

Our trial set at Pattenburg House feels like so long ago, when in reality it was only at the beginning of this month, on April Fool’s Day. Since then we’ve recorded the majority of our next EP, booked a lot more shows (CHECK THE SCHEDULE ON THE RIGHT… NOW!), played some shows, and secured a sponsorship with Narragansett Beer Co.

Time for some highlights of the last month and stuff to look forward to next month…

April 1st – Pattenburg House
If you guys never heard of this place out in Asbury, NJ (near Clinton and Annandale) and you’re within driving distance, I’d say hit it up immediately! We played here on one of their showcase Sundays, and locked down a few upcoming shows there. The staff was great, the sound and stage were professional and we got were immediately asked back (having booked 2 dates with them + a benefit concert). Here’s a vid of us playing Under Pressure at the Pattenburg House. For what it’s worth, the two ladies dancing in the vid work there, and they’re this much fun on a Sunday at 3 pm. Make sure you don’t miss ‘em on a Saturday night :)

April 6th-14th
We knocked out the brunt of our recording in the first two weeks of April, and just have vocals and some extra instrumentation to figure out before we’re all wrapped up. The first weekend we had the pleasure of recording at Marty Eigan’s acoustically perfect rehearsal space, and he also popped in for pretty dirty Flute solo over one of the tracks…

The second weekend we tracked guitars and some vocals at my house but mostly concentrated on finalizing lyrics and figuring out additional instrumentation. Watch out for some hot vibra-slap action in this one!

Anyhoo, somewhere in between there we managed to secure a sponsorship deal with Narragansett Beer Co. who are bringing their nectar down to NJ from New England. We figure our relationship with the bars we play at will help facilitate that. What’s in it for us you ask? For starters, we recently got a box full of koozies and some t-shirts, and the promise of a supply of Narragansett tall boys (look out for that supply when we head up to the Hamilton College reunion).

April 20th & 21st
Without much time to spare, we headed to Manhattan to play a 2 hour set at The Bitter End to some late night revelers. We played with some awesome bands including Chocolate Bread, Curbside Hustle, Bury Me a Lion, and The Wild Deer. After getting home around 5am, we were off to New Brunswick a couple hours later to play at the Rutgers Radio Live at Morrell St outdoor concert with another gaggle of sweet bands. Video of The Salty Pepper here

April 26th – Langosta Lounge
Last Thursday we had the pleasure of playing at the Langosta Lounge in Asbury Park. The show went well and we locked down some outdoor shows on the boardwalk from it… should be a blast! We could tell the place was perfect for us went we walked in and there was a Talking Heads marathon playing, so needless to say we’re excited to get back down there this summer.

This past weekend we took a few well earned days off, but now its back to booking, routing, writing, tracking, mixing, arranging, rehearsing, promoting, performing etc etc. Lots of great shows coming up, so if you haven’t checked the schedule yet, give it a look.

See you soon,

- Andres

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Another new song in progress and more shows in NJ.

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Root Glen

Only one more weekend of writing to go before we try to get this bad boy recorded. 4 songs in good shape, 1 more to triumphantly finish this weekend and we have another preview for you guys as well as a some more shows that’ve been booked since our last post. The song we’re sharing today is meant to be as silly happy and dancey as possible. Shamelessly happy if you will. A guilty pleasure to listen to, lest your friends discover this is on your ipod kind of song.

This picture never gets old.

So as you may know, we’ve been trying to get into some new areas of NJ and will hopefully be playing down in the Absury Park area with more frequency. On April 26th we’ll be at Langosta Lounge and hopefully be using that as a stepping stone into Trinity and the Pope, a venue we can have the whole night.

We’ve also booked our return to Old Bay (hopefully for the release of this new EP) on May 26th. We’ve got a whole lot more planned for May and June with returns to Philly, Boston, NYC and maybe even Newport, RI if we can swing it.

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A rough jam from rehearsal and new dates announced in New Jersey.

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Root Glen

So we have about two weeks until we get back into recording mode for the spring EP. Honestly, it’s quite amazing that we’re already working on our fourth release in a year. Despite the hectic schedule, it has been such a great experience as we’ve refined our writing and recording process. It’s been said before but we’ll reiterate here that spring promises to be a much funkier jammier season compared to our darker winter, aggressive fall and lighthearted summer.

There’s about 8 or so (maybe 10 at this point?) ideas that could potentially make our cut of 5. We did some work on a couple songs this week. The one below uses the working title “Periwinkle” which we learned is the color for stomach cancer awareness after we played a benefit last Sunday.

Nevermind that it says winterEP up there, it’s just the name of an account we used to share new edits quickly. So anyway, we may put up another one tomorrow or Wednesday but for now we want to remind you what Andres looks like whenever he jams.

As some of you knew, we recently played at Triumph Brewing Co. in Princeton, NJ. We thank everyone who came out and made it a successful night. The manager, staff and booker got such great feedback that we’re officially booked there starting in early August and about every other month that follows up until May 2013. It just so happens the the May show next year falls on the 3rd year anniversary of our very first show.

Coming up much sooner, we’ll be at the Pattenburg House in Asbury, NJ on April 1st. We’re going on at 3pm and it’s part of their new band showcase that is basically a tryout for their weekend slots. That particular area may be a hard nut for us to crack but we’re hoping to build a fanbase out that ways with other shows at places like Ol’ West BBQ in Annandale.

That’s all for now. More rough jams that make me feel naked to come.

- Andres
Root Glen

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