theglowingstars:

A huge news day for us!

In late August, we were interviewed by our two local publications, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Bay Guardian. Today, they’re both published and in print! But don’t worry, they’re also online. Check them out at the links below! If you’re in the area, be sure to grab a copy!

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Reprogramming the hardware

San Francisco Chronicle | The Glowing Stars taps Game Boy for its chiptune

theglowingstars:

Earlier this week, Lizzie was interviewed by The Joystiq Show about The Glowing Stars for their music episode. It went live today, so check it out!

The Joystiq Show - 006: Musical Players 

Meanwhile, Matt’s wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy! 

While we’ve been on a break from shows this month, we’re still cooking up a lot of things behind the scenes. Lizzie is getting ready to do a few shows withcrashfaster in the next few weeks. Catch their sets on Saturday, August 27 at PAX Prime 2011 in Seattle, and Thursday, September 8 at The Stork Club in Oakland. 

The next The Glowing Stars show is in just two weeks! We’ll be playing at Convergence Fest at the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco. Here are our upcoming show dates:

9/4/11 @ Convergence MMXI Festival, Japantown Peace Plaza, San Francisco, CA
With Teenage Sweater, SpaceKraft, Planet Booty, and The Bran Flakes
12 pm | FREE | Facebook | Flyer

9/28/11 @ Red Devil Lounge, San Francisco, CA - Jonathan Mann’s 1000th Song-A-Day / Album Release Show!
With Jonathan Mann & The Rock Cookie Bottoms, The Backorders | 7pm | $8 | Facebook

10/28/11 @ The Crepe Place, Santa Cruz, CA
With The Phenomenauts and The Bloodtypes | 8pm | $12 | Facebook

We have some more upcoming shows in October that we can’t quite announce yet, but when the time comes, you’ll know! Be sure to subscribe to our mailing list on the right sidebar. Also, Facebook and Twitter.

Totes going to this. Tickets acquired.

hitrecordjoe:

I’m heading to San Francisco to ‘hitRECord at the movies’ on August 24!

Wanna know what the show’s like?  Check out this video recap of our show in London!

Tickets are on-sale NOW!

(Source: hitrecord)

I miss this. Here’s a video of the song we opened with at the first PulsewaveSF at DNA Lounge on July 7, 2011. We got to have a really awesome opening video by AJAPOPFILMS play before we got on stage. It highlighted the shows of our Quest Coast Tour. After the video played, we started our set with “Epilogue.”

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”? :)

Radiation City on Facebook

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

Holy!!! My band The Glowing Stars finally played our first show opening for Anamanaguchi and Peelander-Z at DNA Lounge last night, and it was seriously the best night of my life. Wait, yeah, it was. Those who weren’t actually at the show totally missed out, but were able to catch it on the livestream. BUT, if you STILL missed that, someone luckily posted our entire set on YouTube.

I had so much fun, and the guys from Anamanaguchi and Peelander-Z were so awesome. I’m super glad crashfaster (who hooked us up with the show) got to perform for a bit before us as well. Also DJ-ing between sets on his iPad was Doctor Popular who played a GREAT selection of music.

So what’s next from here? Well, finishing up our EP, of course, which people were able to start pre-ordering at our show. We’re releasing a limited run of physical copies in the form of custom USB drives made out of old Game Boy cartridges. We’ll be opening up pre-orders online probably next week. We also have a show lined up for May, and a few shows in June, as part of our first West Coast tour. More on that later.

If you took any photos last night, feel free to share them on The Glowing Stars’ Facebook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/theglowingstars

Also, I FINALLY updated my links page and added a BUNCH of cool people you should check out, including the people I mentioned above AND Digital Accomplice (who helped with our band’s mini webisodes), Mike Hales (who designed the flyer for the DNA Lounge show), and Jonathan Mann and Tommy Wallach, who are playing a show in San Francisco in THREE DAYS! Please come! I’ll be there!

I also updated my articles section, which includes all of the print work I’ve done so far. The online portion isn’t really updated… I’ll have to look for those.

Thanks to everyone who made last night amazing!

I’m really excited to be back in the whole music scene again with all The Glowing Stars stuff, but also being immersed in just a flood of other talented musicians in the Bay Area and beyond. My friend Jonathan Mann of YouTube Song-A-Day fame, and who has also played at MacWorld 2011, will be playing a show at Sub-Mission Gallery in the Mission District of San Francisco in two weeks along with my other friend Tommy Wallach, also of YouTube fame (one of his videos was shortlisted for the Guggenheim/YouTube Play exhibition).

Also playing is Lucky Cloud, a cool band referred to me by my friend Lewis Patzner of Judgement Day (um, best local band ever?). Zach Ehrlich of Lucky Cloud is formerly of The Boticellis, and currently in a new jazz fusion band with Lewis called So.

That said, if you like good music, cool spaces, cheap drinks, and an easily accessible venue, you should come hang out with me at this show. The Sub-Mission Gallery holds a place near and dear to my heart since my old band Sputterdoll played a show there November 19, 2005 (I remember this because I made the flyer). They’ve since renovated the space, and I was just there tonight and it’s made me even more excited for this show. They now have a stage, full P.A. system, bar, and holy crap - the bartender is a sweetheart. Here are some notable videos to check out:

Jonathan Mann’s Song-A-Day #807 - Happy Birthday Lizzie Cuevas (yeah, I know)

Tommy Wallach - Charade of the Encore

See you at the show! Look these people up, because they’re awesome.

Jonathan Mann & the Rock Cookie Bottoms w/ Tommy Wallach and Lucky Cloud

Monday, April 11th, 2011
8 p.m.
All Ages
$7

Jonathann Mann & the Rock Cookie Bottoms
http://www.songatron.com/

Tommy Wallach
http://www.tommywallach.com/

Lucky Cloud
http://www.myspace.com/luckycloudband

Just got back from a fun, sort of last-minute trip to Las Vegas, though I realize if you’re not really much of a clubber or party-goer (Me? Party-goer? Never.), then all there really is to do in Vegas is stuff yourself into oblivion with their many buffets. Yes, that’s what I did.

But also! You can walk around at 4 a.m. taking pictures of random things with your iPhone until the sun comes up. Lately I’ve been on the whole Instagram hype - it’s a free iPhone app with many cool filters to use for your photos. Unlike Hipstamatic, which is a similar app that costs $1.99, you can edit photos straight from your Camera Roll instead of having to take a new one each time. This makes it a lot easier to frame your image the way you want. The filters are also free, whereas Hipstamatic only gives you a few free options, then you have to pay for each additional filter separately. I really haven’t even opened up Hipstamatic anymore since I got Instagram.

But Instagram sort of became a gateway drug to other iPhone photo apps. Since friending Doctor Popular on Instagram, I’ve learned the ways of #appsperiment, which is basically using various iPhone photo apps to edit a photo. Here are some I took in Vegas:

This was taken of a huge chandelier-type decoration at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Used Camera+ to edit, then a filter on Instagram.

Took this walking along the strip and edited with TiltShiftGen.

Outside of Caesars Palace. Can’t think about this place without thinking about The Hangover anymore. Photo taken with TrueHDR.

And this is personally one of my favorites, and the very first picture was taken the same way. For a city that is known for its nightlife, the city really does sleep - unless you have a gambling problem. But this arcade at the New York New York hotel in Las Vegas was completely dead at 4 a.m. It was fun, and kind of creepy, to walk around the arcade ghost town. This photo was taken with Camera+.

For more photos, follow me on Instagram - @lizziecuevas. (Sorry, non-iPhone users!)

But now that Las Vegas is out of the way, I’m really looking forward to attending my first PAX this weekend in Boston, MA. I’ll be there with most of the TalkRadar crew. It’s also the week before Chris Antista’s and my birthdays, so I think a celebration is in order. I also have The Glowing Stars stickers to give away!

Oh, and on that note, we announced last week that we’ll be opening for Anamanaguchi at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco on 4/7. SO EXCITED!

Something to add to your holiday mixtape. I have no other words for this - it’s too awesome.

Ashkon is the same artist of the San Francisco Giants’ “Don’t Stop Believin’” fame. You may have seen the video here.