Tour presses on!!!! We (regretfully) had to leave Colorado last Thursday night, but not before two awesome shows in Boulder!!! Thanks to the Mule (Sean Lamborne) we were able to capture some sweet pics from the show at Laughing Goat.....




Friday night in Omaha, NE we hooked up with our favorite Nebraska band, Madness Sale, for a show at PS Collective. Nick Sondag got some cool shots from the show and we'll have them up for you soon. Saturday it was Minneapolis for a triple dip at The Acadia in Downtown Mpls.... After some much needed rest (one day off) it's back on the trail to glory with some shows in the Midwest (Madtown, Chi-town, Mish-town, K-twon, and Grand Rapids-townburgville). We'll keep you posted, and how about keeping us posted... drop us a line, let us know you're reading this damn thing. Cheers!!!

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What a week!!! We arrived in Colorado and immediately rocked out with our good pals, Longest Day of the Year, at Avery Brewery. The following night, we returned to Jamestown, CO for a show at the Merc and some roasted pig... It was good, but we're from BBQ country and have high standards for our roasted animals. After much rocking, drinking, and merrymaking, we headed out to Conifer, CO to continue working on the new album at Sole Sound Studios. This new album will in many ways be a testament of how to rock face with just two people and those of you who are anticipating the "new one," hold on tight!

We then returned to Boulder for two shows downtown and will say goodbye to Colorado this evening... but we'll be back, oh yes, we'll be back...

So far the tour has treated us well and provided many good tunes and times. Before our show in Memphis on Wednesday we went exploring on Beale St. and saw (and heard) some great blues and wicked cool motorcycles.

After a Thursday night at Kirby's in Wichita, (which was none other than a rockin' good time, as usual!) we made the drive into Colorado. Last night we played at Avery Brewery with Longest Day of the Year-tasty, tasty brews, friends, and . . . snow. Yes, it is (still) snowing at the beginning of October. We are totally not prepared for this! We write to you all in blog-land with many layers of clothes on, drinking hot chocolate. Ole!

Well hey there!!! We just took off for the first half of our Fall Tour!!! We'll be getting some new video, mp3s, pics, etc., your way... for now, here's some shots from our homecoming show at The Grey Eagle back on 9/4/09....






Tiny, I know... but damn it was fun.... we'll have some audio from this show up shortly, along with some tracks from our last Summer Tour (Denver, CO; NEK Festival, VT; Boulder, CO....). Keep tuning in as the post will start coming your way more regularly.

Wohoo! At long last, we have a chance to fill you all in on how our wonderful, busy summer tour has been going for the last (almost) three weeks in the northeast. First, we had a great time at the Northeast Kingdom Music Festival--here's a video of "That's Why" from our main stage set on Saturday.





It was great to get a chance to check out some other bands like Enter the Haggis, Luminescent Orchestrii, and our friends Hot Flannel. After much merriment and music, we headed down to Burlington, VT. At our show at the Red Square, we dragged Chris' cousin, Jeff, up onstage to shred some with us--it was great to share the evening with family and some new friends!

After we left Vermont (for a little while) we drove south to Binghamton, NY where we always have a good time at the Cyber Cafe West. We were greeted with lots of StereoFidelic tees and a very enthusiastic audience. On Saturday, we drove down to Bethlehem, PA to share an evening at the Wildflower with Michael and Tamara Fritz. We always enjoy playing a show with them and Chris got a chance to squeeze in some gear talk and guitar playing with Michael. On Sunday, we headed into the Big Apple to play our first show ever in Manhattan proper. We were lucky enough to get a parking spot right in front of the door to the venue, which made the rest of the evening quite a pleasant experience. It was wonderful to play for such an enthusiastic crowd in NYC; at this point in the tour we've just about ran out of stickers and sold out of all the discs that we brought with us--it's definitely been a success!

On Monday we decided to do some sightseeing, so we walked all around Greenwich Village and 5th Ave., wrapping up the day by posing with a $27,000 Batman made of Legos. Back up North on Friday, we played in Maine at Hempstock in Harmony, where the smell of patchouli and other aromas were strong in the air...we left after our set to start the drive down to Portland. With no rest areas in sight, we were directed to go to the 24 hour L.L.Bean Flagship store in Freeport. The next morning we went back to see the extra large boot in the daylight-quite a rewarding experience. That evening we played at Slainte in Portland to a packed room with Dead Man's Clothes, Gin Circus, and Take One Car. Yesterday we drove across New Hampshire into western Vermont for the Turn of the Tides music series. We had a great time here on our last Northeast tour and were excited to get back. This time the potluck dinner was amazing (just like last time!) and we now have a new appreciation for home-grown zucchini (zucchini muffins were fantastic, as well as grilled zucchini, zucchini au graten, etc. ) Lovely folks and a lovely way to wrap up the long New England portion of this tour.

We've been busy getting our October CO/midwest tour wrapped up and our November Northeast tour booked--keep an eye on our schedule page for new dates!

After back-to-back Salt Lake City shows, we pulled an all-nighter so we could make the drive to Boulder in time for our show at Avery Brewery on Thursday. After much merriment, beverages, and rocking out with the Longest Day of the Year, we drove into the mountains for some late night studio time (we're keeping that all pretty hush-hush for now. . .). On Friday, we went on-air at the Naked Stage on KGNU to play a 30 minute radio show. Saturday was a music-filled celebration and we were thrilled to be a part of two of our friends' special day!
Our last day in the Rockies was Sunday and we spent it playing a wonderful Denver listening room, the Walnut Room, with the Radical Knitting Circle, Lisa Genee, and an old college friend's new project, Beast Haus. We promise to have some live tracks from that show posted soon. . .

This week is a quick trek across the midwest through Wichita (Kirby's was FUN as usual), Indianapolis (we were able to perform this time, unlike last time we were scheduled at the Melody Inn and half the band was hospitalized with severe pneumonia--we played extra hard for the crowd that missed us last time!) and tonight is Cleveland. See you in the North East!

Well, we're at the point in the tour where we're following signs that say "East," but we still have a ton of shows left to play before we return home. We had a GREAT time at Mountain Sage last Saturday. We were excited to have the chance to share the stage with Blue Turtle Seduction from Tahoe and play for some rowdy Yosemite-ites. (We'll have some photos posted soon. . .) It was wonderful to see some return folks from last summer's excursion, have some delicious hearty food (thanks again!) and get pointers on where to spend our Sunday in Yosemite. One of the places was this beautiful mountain lake-Chris enjoyed a stroll along the beach at about 6000 ft. above sea level.
We started the drive towards Salt Lake yesterday and passed this seemingly Star Wars themed exit in Nevada. . .
We just got some pictures from our Hutington Beach show a few weeks ago--thanks to Erik for sending these along!

We started heading up the California coast for Oregon last Saturday and got to make a quick stop at the ocean, which was freezing.

We heeded the warning and made sure to stay the hell away from the huge icy waves.
After our show and house party in Arcata (where it's just as chilly and foggy as San Francisco) we headed inland a bit to the Redwoods National Park. We stopped off at Corkscrew Tree
and got inside.
After spending some time feeling really tiny, we floored it up to Crater Lake National Park, which we definitely wanted to experience on one of our days off. Crater Lake is so high up that it's just now springtime and the snow is still melting. We took some time for a quick snowball fight. . .

Then there was this bear who has the weirdest fetish....
Alright, it has become a damn vaca slideshow. New pics and video from shows coming next time, promise!

We crossed into California last Thursday after lots of driving, little sleep, and much heat. That night we played at the Blue Cafe in Huntington Beach, CA and were coincidentally paired with Brown Shoe, a band from Folsom, CA that we played with in Chicago on our last tour. . .crazy. . .Friday we played a show at the Good Hurt in LA (where all the wait staff dresses in short nurse-maid outfits) with our old friends and their new band, Pet the Dog. After much catching up, partying, and general mischief, we headed out of the city to Redlands on Saturday. Playing at the Vault was as much fun as we remember it being last time we were in Oso Rey country. The crowd was super-enthusiastic and danced all though our sets. We had a blast having Spiro (the one, the only Spiro) up for some tunes.
Monday we left for points North and headed up California Rt. 1, ocean-style. We passed through many beautiful and interesting towns, including the artichoke capitol of the world. Note the large artichoke feature of this building:
We hit Hayward, CA on the way into the city to play at the Bistro, the best beer selection in the most, um, "up and coming" area we've hit yet. Once we hit San Francisco on Wednesday, we made a point to drive through Chinatown on our way to the venue, Grant and Green, which, ironically, was located at the intersection of Grant and Green right outside Chinatown. We had a great show with some more old friends playing under the name Otto Mobile.
Yesterday we went on a hike around Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve in the hills outside of Oakland. We stumbled upon this really interesting labyrinth in the bottom of an old quarry.
Once we got back from our hike, we crossed the Bay into San Francisco to play an in-store performance at the Apple Store. It was really humbling to play the same stage the the Counting Crowes have played on and it was great to reach a whole new group of people with our music. We found this picture online with a caption that read "Musica en directo en la Apple Store de San Francisco. The StereoFidelics, me estan gustando mucho y son muuuy buenos. Macs y musica en directo igual a EPIC WIN" (thanks so much for the kind words and for taking/posting this shot!!) We had great sound and really enjoyed meeting and chatting with everyone after we played.
On to points north!

We spent our two days off relaxing in Mesa Verde National Park and looking at some really old buildings.
The view off the mesa was absolutely stunning as well.
Today we headed down to Durango a little early to walk around and see the downtown . When we were loading in, this guy was taking a break from things and relaxing on a bench. Chris found this very amusing.
We had a great show this evening at the Summit in Durango. We played with Aftergrass (actually, we played after Aftergrass) and in the middle of our first set, Will from Hendersonville, NC showed up out of the blue. It was a total suprise for everyone involved!
We took some time to catch up a bit after the show was over, and then packed up and hopped in the car to start the trek to Huntington Beach, CA tonight. . .

We got to Colorado on Wednesday and hurried into Boulder for our show at Pearl Street Pub. After seven hours of driving, our three and a half hour show went by so quickly! We reconnected with an old friend I hadn't seen in about six years and got all caught up at set break (he's now playing banjo with members of String Cheese Incident). At the end of our show, we caught wind that Vince Herman from Leftover Salmon was in attendance that night--a pretty exciting way to start our string of Colorado shows!
On Thursday we made the trek into the mountains to Jamestown, where the London Broil Steak Dinner was fantastic. We enjoyed visiting with the Jamestown folks again and always love playing for such an enthusiastic, genuine audience.
We had a great time on Friday in Nederland, CO at the First Street Pub with our friends Longest Day of the Year. Keep an eye out for video from that show as soon as we get it uploaded. . .

We were busy on the 4th of July, first we joined Longest Day of the Year at their show at the Boulder Farmer's Market (which is actually more like a bi-weekly street festival), then we played some on Pearl Street, and in the evening we played our show at the Laughing Goat. We were thrilled that folks decided to spend their 4th of July evening with us!

Yesterday we headed down to Conifer, CO to record a little bit at Sole Sound Recording Studios; we'll be finishing that little project the beginning of August and then. . .hmmm keep an ear out this fall (that's all we're at liberty to say right now). . .

This morning we crossed the Continental Divide and stopped at a great overlook to cool the brakes down. We've got our first day off today and tomorrow, so we'll be relaxing and enjoying the area for a

We finally got the video online. Please excuse the poor visual quality; we promise to learn how to use our camera better in the future. In the meantime, please enjoy our gas-station-surveillance-style record of part of our show at Kirby's.
Now that all that's done, we're headed out to enjoy the mountains this afternoon. . .

So since you all in blog-land have waited so long for an update from us all at the StereoFidelics camp, we're going to not only post some fun road pictures and show pictures, but also a video. That's right--we have both still pictures and moving pictures!

On Saturday we were in the Lake of the Ozarks, MO braving the oppressive heat to play at Donna's. We love going back there every time we drive through and it's always a surprise to see what we're paired with. Saturday it was pork tenderloin, as you can see. . .delicious and fun. . .
On Sunday and Monday we played both Jerry's Bait Shops in the greater KC area. The pizza at the Lee's Summit location is AMAZING and playing both nights with the Lonely H and the Stolen Winnebagos was on par with the pizza. . .

Last night we returned to Kirby's Beer Store in Wichita and had a blast. Yesterday was exactly one year since the first time we played there. Weird. The crowd at Kirby's is always so enthusiastic and rowdy, even on a Tuesday night--we're excited to be getting back to Kirby's in almost a month on the Eastward bound leg of our summer tour.
Today we drove through Hays, KS on our way west. I was very suprised to see that the official name of the shopping mall in Hays was "The Mall." I guess there's only one shopping mall in Hays.
We always keep a lookout for interesting and strange signs, sights, and smells, and since we found the camera a few days ago, we were able to snap a shot of this thought-provoking truck cab. Hmmmm. . .

Last night in Memphis was great. We played with our pal Jobu Babin at his CD release party at Neil's Music Hall, had great sound (which makes it easier for us to give y'all great sound. . .) and had an enthusiastic audience. Unfortunately, we just found our camera this afternoon, so we didn't get any pictures. Our friend Heath was up in Memphis on business--it's always great to hang out with a friend from home when you're on the road!
This evening we were in St. Louis at the Atomic Cowboy, home of some mighty tasty grub and two stages. Phew. We played for 4 hours, so we're pretty exhausted--gonna try and get some rest for tomorrow night at Donna's in the Lake of the Ozarks. It's been close to 100 degrees the past few days--some swimming tomorrow afternoon perhaps?

Back out on the road! We headed out on Tuesday for Athens, GA and rocked out with Catawba and Romanenko at a pre-Athfest show at the Caledonia Lounge. The Athens music scene has been turned upside-down since the Georgia Theater burned down last Friday. Last night we were in Nashville at Cafe Coco. Gradually we're working our way west! As soon as we figure out where we packed the camera we'll start posting tons of pictures too. . .

Well, we sure have had an interesting finish to this tour. . .last night we got Chris up on his feet long enough to play at Bell's Brewery in Kalamazoo, MI. It's a great venue and we had been looking forward to playing there for quite a while. It was also great to see that we'd be sharing the weekend with another Asheville-based band.
This morning Chris finally decided to go to the doctor about his fever he'd been running for almost a week. Turns out, he rocked out last night with pnemonia in one lung, so we're hanging out in the hospital for a few days until that clears up. We'll both be healthy and chipper when we head out for our summer tour in a few weeks-we're both looking forward to that!

We've been having (mostly) a great time winding up the Northeast part of this tour. In Bethlehem, PA last Thursday we took over the airwaves on WDIY chatting with Little George and then rocked out the Wildflower Cafe with Michael and Tamara Fritz. The next day we drove a short little jaunt into Philly to play at Fergie's before taking Memorial Day Weekend off (just wondering: how can you have a "day weekend"?)
It's a good thing we had a little time off because Chris has unfortunately been under the weather the past few days and we're trying to get him in tip-top shape for the end of this tour. We unfortunately had to cancel tonight's show at the Melody Inn to try to get him to rest some, but we'll be back in Indy on August 5th--looking forward to seeing all you Hoosiers then!

We had so much fun in Jamaica Plain tonight. Midway was a great dive-y little music venue--perfect for a Wednesday night. So good to see some folks we met at the beginning of this tour from Jo Henley Thanks to Harry for snapping this picture and posting it!