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WE'RE PLAYING SHOWS

SEPT. 2nd -- @ BSP LOUNGE -- 10 p.m. 

SEPT. 7th -- @ MOSH DEPOT W/ YEAR ON A MOUNTAIN // THESE ANIMALS -- 8 p.m.

OCT. 5th -- O+ FESTIVAL @ BSP LOUNGE

OCT. 6th -- STPP FEST @ NORTH AVE BEACH BAR IN WASHINGTON DC

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It's been a weird life of driving steadily more south; everyone's sick and still smoking cigarettes; stealing soda pop from mcdonald's, letting our teeth fall out of our heads.

In Knoxville, TN tonight at Longbranch Saloon.

In Little Rock tomorrow at The Royale. (http://www.facebook.com/events/284935814922808/)

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Playing at Silk City tonight in Philly -- 

Check out this crazy comic inspired by president's blood, drawn by Hannah Letourneau

For info on tonight: 

http://www.silkcityphilly.com/phonographic-arts-presents-phantom-tails-%E2%80%A2-tba/

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Hanging with Hank and Benny in Farmingdale, playing the Wormhole tonight at 7 in New Brunswick... 

http://www.facebook.com/events/317503764953385/

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Check out our tour poster art! Courtesy of the Salvation Recording Co. Folks, printed in the basement at 9 Innis Ave., image by Samantha Gloffke.

We'll be selling them on tour, the dates of which you can find HERE

Also, check out the merch section on our website in the coming days... we've got shirts, and they're for SALE.

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And we've been sitting on this floor for several minutes or so...

In Delaware, about to head to the Bronx for a show at Teh Olive Garden

8 P.M. tonight, 4649 Bronx Blvd

with NOATS, Old Table, Impossible Buildings, DARB MODNOC

http://www.facebook.com/events/283732978371593/

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Check out this awesome DIY music festival we're playing in New Paltz this weekend, March 29th -- April 1st! Tickets are on sale on Route 32 Fest's bandcamp: here. $15 Bucks for 38 Bands!!!

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The Last Pill

A song from the early summer... maybe it will be made into something with the full band, but for now it'll just exist like this... oh and we played it live ALOT...

I crossed the ocean in a dead-eyed car, my hands were bloated when that cop pulled me over, said "Son, the water is no place for drunks to rest, your head on the steering wheel, you're giving up the past." These bones are soft milk, and I am the last pill. Save the rent, and leave it up to me, and I'll take care not to die when crossing the street. Yeah you've got the 4 a.m. shift right after this show, and you're my brother with the tireless tongue. These bones are soft milk, and I am the last pill. I feel like a poet without any time; I feel like a pocket watch without any wind.

... ALOT

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This from our recent van fundraiser show at Oasis in New Paltz... art made by Sam Gloffke & printed by Chris Daly and Ari Kaputkin, all three directors of Salvation Recording Co...

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This for our upcoming show, Friday 1/27 with PORCHES. and Battle Ave.

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Hey ladies and gents -- I just moved into my new house with my girlfriend, Arielle, and my cat, Mama, and have been writing songs about ghosts in the basement. When I moved into the house, which is infinitely more creaky and old than the last place, I felt pretty overwhelmed by the sense that there was some kind of presence in the walls, and promptly started writing songs...

This is a demo from some kind of E.P. that will be surfacing over the winter. 

"Winter Is The Night Season"

I can't get out of the night, so I leave the lamp on. Watch the awkward shadows pooling gray on the wall -- your old house was haunted. And I've always been faking it. And I've always been seeing things. Before I fall asleep, this was a paranoid year -- this was full of ghosts, the summer heat and the winter cold didn't do a thing to make me feel less scared in my own bed, in my own house. Yeah I'd rather sleep on your floor, yeah I'd rather sleep on the lawn, yeah I'd rather die in plain sight, I'd rather lose it that way. I don't belong in the night, the season's losing its sight.  

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Nelsonvillains and Wind-Up Bird Goat Explosion Tour Fall Tour 2011

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windupbirdband:

GOAT Explosion Update: Entry #1

Wind-Up Bird and Nelsonvillains fall/winter/andbeyond tour, 2011

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Album Released & First Tour Done... Back In The Mountain Town

So we released our first album, Our Evil Inside Joke, on Oct. 6th -- played the release show at Bacchus with Wind-Up Bird, Space Ghost Cowboys, and John Warren & The Tin Can Collective, where we've been hosting a Route 32 Presents... Show every month, and it was totally surreal and awesome. It's hard to believe that the record is done and out, considering where some of the songs were conceived and how many different forms and bands and versions they went through before ending up here, their comfortable home in the Mountain Town.

The night built its own feeling: my songs are often the product of insular feelings and over-analytic mania, but all these things coming to fruition -- a steady band for almost a year and a half that has totally reworked and reclaimed every song as its own, the record finally coming out, and so much excitement for the songs and the album -- made me feel that they (the songs) had finally found a place outside my head. Sadness is always better howled about and shared than stuck in a small, dark hole, and it was that way October 6th -- we played last, to the 50 or so remaining, drunk as hell (incidentally, my mom came, which was awesome), for over an hour, and closed the long chapter that has comprised the two years leading up to the album's release, from a basement on Martha's Vineyard, to a lost year in Cold Spring, to a reclaiming of consciousness in New Paltz.

We left the next day for tour, a show at Smog on the Bard College Campus, in our shitbox Dodge Cargo Van (having had it pretty much terminally diagnosed by a mechanic the day before). The show was alright -- hipsters are weird and don't always know how to take smart rock music... it's gotta be ironic, or something easy to fist pump to, or electronic (know that's a horrible generalization, but I've found it to be pretty true), but we had fun and got drunk for free/acclimated to the sleeping on couch/in van existence, which felt great. 

The next day was a Route 9 day -- still about a half hour from home, making all the customary self-sustenance stops... but that itchy feeling of still being in New York, on tour really set in, and everybody wanted to get the hell down to the city, and then on to the next stop.

The next five or so days were about learning the ropes: after a houseshow with PORCHES., The Brooklyn What and Fatty Acid we popped a tire on the NJ Turnpike, just outside NYC and spent our first true in-van night at a rest stop, polluting the air with footsmell and causing some inter-band tempers to climax, cruel words exchanged about said footsmell and popped tires. We cooked grilled cheese and scrambled eggs by the side of the road in the morning, borrowed money to fix the tire and rattled our way to Philly, where we played an awesome warehouse show with our friends Tamarin (thanks, Pat, for inviting us to the space and showing us the beauty of $2 cheesesteaks), and met April Heliotis, a wonderful multi-instrumentalist performing with Mike Bruno & The Black Magic Family Band, who invited us to play a basement show in New Brunswick the next week. I definitely learned that night that A 40 oz. of Steel Reserve = something like 7 beers, and realized that the cloudiness during our late set might've been a result... we capped off the night by climbing a church with James Blinstrub, to check out "the best view of Philly."

We spent the next few days going further south -- an apartment show in Lancaster, PA, a show at a pie shop with a PA (Dangerously Delicious Pies), in Baltimore, MA, a stop at my Grandmother's for beds and real food... in Delaware we played a strange set-up in the university's cafeteria, but met an awesome band who were, incidentally, old friends of Cody's, called Skull Kids (check em out), and followed them up to Farmingdale to play a basement show the next day.  

After that, we hit up No One And The Somebodies' new house venue in the Bronx, The Olive Garden, and played an awesome, sauna-worthy show in the basement... unfortunately we left a nice new suitcase with about 150 albums in it by the side of road in our hurry to pack up, and unfortunately lost 'em, but, as Aaron Maine put it, "Some Bronx cocksmen is running around the city with mad Nelsonvillains merch," so losses will be losses.

The next leg of the tour was New England (with a random New Brunswick show thrown in the mix, needless to say, we spent a lot of time going up and down 95 thru Connecticut), which started with some familiar turf at Wesleyan University, playing a show with Wind-Up Bird. Then we went up to Mass., where we spent two nights at a reststop that culminated in a pretty dramatic show at All Asia -- during the last song the owner killed our mic because we were apparently too loud... easily our most rock n roll moment. The show in New Brunswick the next day, courtesy of our new friend April was among one of the best on tour -- about 20 or 30 in a tiny basement on a quiet street, and everyone seemed to really be into the music... and really great bands, including new friends Gun Lake, from Michigan. Then we hit up Pawtucket, RI, which was a ghetto ghost town full of veterans from Vietnam, but through the show at News Cafe that night we met a group of fantastic musicians, including Matt DeCosta of The Famous Winters, Austin Hevey and The Heavies, Casey of The Rice Cakes, Prairie Fires... all these guys are great musicians and great people, so check 'em out.

Tour was good. We've all collectively heaved a sigh of relief. We can do it. Not to get all sappily positive over here (wouldn't be the Nelsonvillains way), but we're en route to taking over the world. Stay tuned for postings of November Tour Dates with Wind-Up Bird.

Love,

Jake

P.S.

A solo live album, recorded by Christopher Daly at his house venue/studio, The Inn, is up on bandcamp fo' FREE. Download it, eh?

http://liveattheinn.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-inn-2

P.P.S.

Links to many of these bands/people are embedded in the page -- check them out, it's all good and new and old and awesome.

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Our album is done and up on bandcamp.... writing this right now from a rest-stop just outside Cambridge, where we're playing tomorrow at All Asia with Andrew Emmons. No one is broke or hungry just yet, and our seatbelt-less van is keeping us nice and warm in the cold New England night.

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Our good friend, Andrew Milwaukee Keck, made this hot hot hot vid to promote our forthcoming album and it's release party.