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NEWS November 2008 It's great to be back in Baltimore again after a month on the road. The Baltimore Round Robin Tour was an amazing experience---thanks to all of the other bands, buddies, helpers, and herders for making it awesome. Check out the Baltimore Round Robin website for links to reviews, photos, videos, and to download MP3s of the tour compilation CD. View more photos in the BRR Flickr Pool. In other exciting news, two Baltimore nights of the BRR Tour have just been announced at Sonar on December 18 (Eyes night) and 19 (Feet night). Tickets are on sale now! September 2008 The Baltimore Round Robin Tour is coming in October to a city near you! Check our shows page or the Baltimore Round Robin website for more info or tickets! Since we'll be traveling as a group of 60 people, we are in need of places to stay as well as veggie oil for our bio-diesel tour bus. If you can offer a place to stay for 5+ people for two nights, please email us. If people wind up staying at your place, you'll get into the shows for free! August 2008 Tour dates for the Baltimore Round Robin tour in October have just been announced! Featuring 24 of Baltimore's finest, including Double Dagger, Dan Deacon, Beach House, The Deathset, and Video Hippos, the Round Robin tour will be stopping in nine cities for two nights of ultimate Baltimore-ness. Click here for dates. Our two new 7" EPs are officially out! You can order then from Terra Firma Limited, Toxic Pop Records, Interpunk, and probably some other places... you've got the internet, right? In the meantime you can check out this CityPaper interview where we babble on about the new releases. June 2008 Our two new 7" EPs are now available for pre-order from Terra Firma Limited and Toxic Pop Records. Get 'em now... the first 100 copies of each are pressed on colored vinyl! We're super excited about both of these records. The Sophisticated Urban Living 7" features a brand new recording of Luxury Condos For The Poor. This is the definitive version of the song, the way that we've been playing it live. The B-side has two new songs, including No Allies, which you can listen to on our MySpace page. The Toxic Pop 7" features two unreleased tracks from the Ragged Rubble sessions, plus an absolutely amazing remix by Chalmers of I Was So Bored I Wanted To Hang Myself On The Dancefloor. We should hopefully have both of these at our upcoming shows, but if you want the colored vinyl, order them now. See album art and full track listings. May 2008 Double Dagger got some nice mentions in Rolling Stone last month--- tell your dad to check it out! For the rest of you, we also got "blogged" on their website. Best quote: "skull-fuckingly loud." Catholic University Rag also ran a nice write-up and interview with us last month. April 2008 Ragged Rubble is now available for download from iTunes! Double Dagger were guest reviewers last week on Paper Thin Walls. You can read our reviews here. Paper Thin Walls also reviewed one of our tracks, Stripes, from Ragged Rubble. We've got a handful of shows coming up this month... see you there! February 2008 We got some great end of the year album picks and shout-outs. You can check out a few of them on the press page. Plus Ragged Rubble received a good review on Pitchfork. Ragged Rubble is now available through Insound - iTunes distribution coming soon! PLUS! We'll be posting some brand new songs on our MySpace page in a few days, so check it out an let us know what you think. You'll be able to hear some of the new shit in person at one of our upcoming shows. January 2008 Last minute DC show at the Black Cat on Tuesday the 29th. Come! Happy New Year to everyone. We got some nice year-end shout outs including one of Dan Deacon's 2007 picks in Pitchfork. (thanks Dan!) And check out this Tiny Mix Tapes portrait of the Baltimore music and art scene. Plus+++! mark your calendar for these rad shows coming up. You can hear some new songs and give us the thumbs up or down. December 2007 We're taking a couple months off to work on some new songs. Stay tuned for awesome shows plus brand new 7"s in early 2008! In the meantime, make it a merry Christmas and download free MP3s of Materials' self-titled CD/book. Ho-ho-ho! November 2007 Thanks to all who attended our shows last month--- we had a great time. Be sure to come see us with Melt Banana on the 14th. Our CMJ afterparty show got a nice write up from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Nolen also annoyed some whiny writer from the Village Voice. All in all it was a good show! October 2007 Awesome month of shows... we're psyched! New York shows: VICE Records CMJ Afterparty at the Cake Shop; Columbia University w/ No Age + Baltimore and DC shows w/ Old Time Relijun and AIDS Wolf... and more coming up! September 2007 Baltimore City Paper awarded "Luxury Condos For The Poor" Best Song in its 2007 Best of Baltimore issue! Read the review and see some of the other winners here. Thanks to everyone who came to all of our shows this past month. They all ruled (except for Boston). We've got some stuff coming up next month with our awesome pals AIDS Wolf and Old Time Relijun---worth checking out. Ragged Rubble LP has been going fast, so if you want to get a copy on sexyclear vinyl, don't wait too long. August 2007 Great new album review from The Washington Post! Ragged Rubble vinyl is out now! The LP is a numbered edition of 300 copies on heavyweight, clear vinyl featuring a hand screenprinted cover. Package also includes a limited edition insert print. You can order a copy of the LP directly from Stationary (Heart) Recordings or pick one up from us at a show. Speaking of shows, we've got a slew of them coming up in the next month or so. July 2007 Check out this City Paper review of Ragged Rubble and this Washington Post review of Whartscape 2007! Ragged Rubble CD is out now. You can get a copy from us, Stationary (Heart), Morphius, or your local record store (if they don't have a copy tell 'em to order one!). Limited edition vinyl version will be out later this month. Lots of shows in various cities coming up in July and August. Hope to see you there. June 2007 Big summer shows. Ragged Rubble out on CD June 12! >>Listen to some MP3s from the album>> >>Order a copy of the CD>> Major website update: new photos, songs, shirts, posters, shows, reviews, links, and more! May 2007 Thanks to everyone who came to the CD release show at Current Gallery. We had an awesome time. The official release date for the CD and vinyl is June 12. Buy. We're doing some shows in June if you want to pick up a copy. Ragged Rubble CD/LP release show on May 26!!! We're having an awesome CD release show at Current Gallery in downtown Baltimore with Thank You, The New Flesh, and Smart Growth. It's your chance to pick up a copy of the new album before its official release on June 12. Not to be missed! You can hear a few tracks from Ragged Rubble on our MySpace page. Also, a few tour dates in June in the mid-west including a Chicago CD release show. >>NEWS ARCHIVE>> |