Stepping out for a few days

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. We've been busy!

Scott McDowell asked us to play in his new 70s folk obscurity cover band called New Mexicoe (named after the Rick Danko song). Kyle from The Shift and Lindsay from Radical Dads are in it, too! We had our first rehearsal (AT WFMU!!!!!!!!!) this past Tuesday, while The Best Show was doing its 6-hour marathon double-shift two floors below us. I don't think we'll get to practice there again, sadly, and while I somehow forgot to bring both a dictaphone AND camera with me, Scott recorded everything, and when I've got something to share I'll post it here.

What else...

We've skipped a couple pegs of geekery and are now building our own synth modules from PCBs. This one--a 5-channel bi-polar mixer/attenuator from Fonitronik in Germany--is our first attempt. We bought two boards and cannot wait to burn ourselves soldering them together.


Next up: the Master Divider and the Pulse Divider circuits from Cat Girl Synth. Woo hoo!

On to more important matters: we are leaving for Portland, OR tomorrow to record the new Iran-Contras record! Even if it's a "bad" Contras record, it's going to be an album of the year contender. Believe that. News, stories and tabloid photos when we get back.

Also happening when we return to Bay Ridge:

NEW CDs FROM THE SHAMBLERS, THE SPEERS AND JOHN & BENJAMIN WITH THE SHAMBLERS!

Have a great week, everyone!