Radiation City National Tour Dates Announced

These guys have to be my favorite band at the moment. I first saw the four-piece play in Alameda, CA at Autobody Fine Art with other bands I love - Foxtails Brigade, Whiskerman, and Ladies & Gentlemen (who is really just Dustin Smurthwaite - we had him play trombone during The Glowing Stars’ set at PulsewaveSF) - and their music is incredibly dreamy. Matt Payne even joined them during the last two songs of their set playing trombone alongside Smurthwaite, and Andrew Wilke on trumpet. Their debut album, The Hands That Take You, also has a bit of Payne on it recording trombone for their song “The Color of Industry.”

And that’s not to say that this band is my favorite at the moment because of all these weird connections I have with them. Their mix of warm analog sounds, soulful harmonies, and Lizzy Ellison’s mesmerizing vocals has had me listening to their album over and over and over.

So if you see that they’re in your area, you should really check them out. Here are the dates they posted. I’m definitely seeing them at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco in September:

8.8.11 Pendelton, OR Great Pacific 
8.9.11 Boise, ID Visual Arts Coll. w/Finn Riggins 
8.10.11 Ketchum, ID Sego
8.11.11 Provo, UT Muse Music Cafe
8.12.11 Grand Junction, CO TBA 
8.13.11 Denver, CO YEllow Feather 
8.14.11 Lincoln, NE Clawfoot House
8.16.11 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry w/ Usonia & Santah
8.18.11 Chicago, IL Strobe session
8.20.11 Chicago, IL HIdeout 
8.21.11 Youngstown, OH TBA 
8.22.11 Pittsburgh, PA TBA

8.23.11 New York City, NY Pianos w/Abadabad,
Dinosaur Feathers
8.24.11 Brooklyn, NY Spike Hill w/ Abadabad
8.27.11 Philly, PA JR’s Bar w/Gracie, Dizzy Dearest,
& Rivka
8.28.11 Charlotte, NC Snug Harbor 

8.30.11 Chapel hill, NC The Nightlight 
8.31.11 Atlanta, GA Drunken Unicorn

9.1.11 New orleans, LA Maison w/ King Rey, Jonesbirds

9.3.11 Austin, TX Emo’s w/ Whalers
9.5.11 Albequrque, NM Burt’s Tiki w/ Story Ark
9.6.11 Tucson, AR Club Congress w/ Boreas 
9.7.11 San Diego, CA Tin can Ale House 
9.8.11 Los Angeles, CA TBA 
9.12.11 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of the Hill w/ Appetite 
& Blackbird Blackbird
9.16.11 Davis, CA Sophia’s Thai Kitchen w/ 
Birds and Batteries

Did you know The Glowing Stars also did an 8-bit remix of “The Color of Industry”? :)

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I miss Portland already. Video by AJAPOPFILMS. Song: “Got It Bad” acoustic version featuring Matt Payne on melodica. Shot at Apes Tapes haus in Portland, OR. 6/23/11

Back from tour. A LOT has happened since Maker Faire 2011 and now, I’ve just been too busy to update this thing. So you’ll probably see random updates in no particular order throughout the week. :)

Here’s a video by AJAPOPFILMS on the Portland, OR portion of our Quest Coast Tour with crashfaster.

If you haven’t seen this yet, you kind of have to.

theglowingstars:

Last month, tech host Veronica Belmont stopped by our studio and interviewed us for Chevrolet’s Cruze-arati series. Matt Payne explains how to use original 8-bit hardware, like the Nintendo Game Boy, to create music, and even creates a new song for Veronica by recording car sounds and converting them into 8-bit. Check out the video above, and even catch a bit of our latest release “Group Study,” which is only available on True Chip Till Death’s “Chip In: Japan!” compilation.

If you like the video, please help us out by rating it on YouTube and sharing it with your friends!

(Source: theglowingstarsband.wordpress.com)

This is coming up fast! Really, less than two weeks?! Gotta keep practicing.

This is also the first (of many) videos we did with my awesome friend, Dane Frederiksen of Digital Accomplice. He’s great, and the turnaround for these videos was really fast.

Anyway, I’m really excited about the show, and also excited for these short webisode things we’ll be putting out. If you want to see them first, make sure you subscribe to my band’s YouTube channel.

Also, check out our official website at http://www.theglowingstars.com . We did cool promo shots with my friend Eric Hooten. They turned out pretty damn amazing.

Happy holidays, GamesRadar style. I finally just finished my last work day of the year, and am looking forward to spending the next week concentrating mainly on my new 8-bit indie rock band with fellow former Sputterdoll member, Matt Payne.

But before we get into any of that, click play above for a special Talkradar episode: A GamesRadar Christmas Carol. It’s basically the whole staff of GamesRadar doing a videogames version of the classic Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but with really bad fake British accents. It’s only about 20 minutes, and a really fun listen, so listen! I play three different characters, with each accent worse than the last. So I wasn’t made to act.

I also put together this list of videogame-related holiday cards we’ve received this year (and some probably last year). Check it out below. We also included a special GamesRadar holiday card just for you.

GamesRadar: Happy Holidays from the people who make your games

Happy holidays, everyone. Keep checking back for updates on my new band. We already have a few songs written with more to come!

Here’s a video of Sputterdoll’s “Bad Romance” cover at Thee Parkside on August 21, 2010. Video by AJAPOPFILMS. Pardon the loud audio and parts where I sing off-key. :) PUNK ROCK?!?!?!