San Francisco writer, Reyhan Harmanci and designer, Eric Heiman have created an amazing poster for the next issue of McSweeney's (presented by SF Chronicle) visually outlining "a partial survey of the past 50 years of popular and unpopular music in the San Francisco Bay Area".
In case you haven't noticed, we are taking a hiatus from shows right now while we mix our fourth, yet to be titled album. If you have any brilliant (or almost brilliant) suggestions for album titles please send them our way, as we are somewhat challenged in that respect. The album is our first as a three piece and is sounding more swooshy and thumpy at the moment.
Smalltown Supersound will be releasing the album next year and we plan to tour a bit to support it. We recorded this release with Thom Monahan and Andy Cabic in Sacramento in during the hottest week of 2009. Here are a few photos from the session:
Dang, we won! thanks everyone that voted for us!!!!
This is exciting for us, bc we never win anything. special thanks to friends, family and fans that voted. This year, SF Music awards, next win will be the Grammys. I can smell it.
coverage of the awards ceremony here: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2009/10/sf_weekly_music_awards_better.php?page=2
invisible ocean, mendocino, in the mf'in redwoods, yo! On a farm where they make their own beer! wish you were here.... we shredded. nathan pats the heads of elves (not pictured here) obligatory band photo before the long drive home^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes. O.K. Hole is going monthly. Tussle is playing a the kickoff night along with Jonas Reinhardt and Windsurf at Amnesia on Valencia street, Amnesia is one of the last standing music venues in the mission.
O.K. Hole is a new party night at Amnesia. The resident DJs will be Muffin Bronze and Rob Bronze, and myself. The theme is "no theme", except playing music that we like. So anything can happen, things could get ugly.
This is also a launch party for LOUDFARM, the website and the cute little print magazine that you might be been seeing around town in cafes, record stores bookstores and clubhouses. www.loudfarm.com
On June 22, SOMA magazine, asked us to make a collage out of the most beautiful thing we heard that day.
Our response is on the last page of the July issue of the magazine (with Jarvis Cocker on the cover), check it out at your local newsstand or I heard they have it at Whole (Paycheck) Foods too.
UPDATE: I just found out that you can check it out online too: http://www.somamagazine.com/soma.php
We are honored to be included in "THE WIRE ON AIR" Radio program presented by WIRE MAGAZINE in the UK. You can stream the program or download it for free right here.
The Wire On Air Since January 2003, The Wire has been hosting a weekly show of new music on London's arts/community access station, Resonance 104.4 FM. The show is broadcast across central London on 104.4 FM every Thursday, 9- 10.30pm GMT (and repeated every Wednesday, 7-8:30am GMT), with simultaneous streaming at resonancefm.com
The latest issue of WIRE MAGAZINE ( June 2009) includes a great review of our latest album CREAM CUTS (and the great Ornette Coleman on the cover!):
"Tussle, take the muscle and momentum of motorik and liberate it twith a joi de vivre that makes Cream Cuts endlessly listenable." -- Nick Southgate, Wire Magazine, issue# 304
Tussle is headed into the studio in a few weeks to begin recording the fourth Tussle album. To be released in 2010. We have a hand full of new songs to record within a hand full of days. Here are some photos from the last recording session for Cream Cuts in 2007/2008:
DC: Smithsonian Nat'l Zoo: Free The panda was eating from a brown grocery bag! The tiger has a pretty nice crib. Man, I would hate to be an elephant at the zoo. I'd probably at least ask for a robe. Oh, and red panda, I'm sorry that you are endangered, but you better be glad that I'm a vegetarian and that you were behind a cage, because I would've eaten you just for being so cute!
we still had a long day of driving ahead of us to make it to where we were staying for the night, but by the time we came to joshua tree, we couldnt resist stopping for at least a short visit. Of course joshua tree is a huge park, and without paying anything, we could only explore the outer margins. But it was well worth the stop. We didnt see the actual Joshua Trees, but I noticed how there were plants living throughout the canopies of these trees. Kinda like epiphytes, or air plants, tilandsias, perhaps? But they were everywhere! I thought that maybe that was even cooler than getting to see the fabled Joshua Tree, or.....hm, Yucca Brevifolia... Actually, I didnt realize that Joshua Tree was Yucca...I reckon we did see some then...oh well...the air plant curiousity was what got me, and how subtle the colors are,,,until BAAM! some scarlet red cactus needles, or the bright fuschia blooms popping of the edges of those pancake lookin cacti! And the stark intricacies begin to reveal themselves out of the sandy wash that seems to begin with the inner logic of minerals. Also, I finally decided to try the timer function on my camera...oh the elusive band photo...still tryin to get it.
