“Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen is one of my favorite songs of all time, and it was such a blast covering it with Matt Payne for The Glowing Stars. We played this song since our first show with Anamanaguchi and Peelander-Z at the DNA Lounge on April 7, 2011, and we’re playing it one last time at our next show at the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on September 4.

Not sure what song we’ll cover next, but I’ll sure miss playing this one! Look out for a free mp3 download of our cover around September 4!

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It takes a lot of effort for us to put together a good cover, and we enjoyed sharing our cover of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” on our Quest Coast tour (and recording it for our special edition release of Anything Past That).

We’re planning on retiring this particular cover after we play it at the Convergence Festival in Japantown on September 4, so for a very limited time (ONE DAY!) we’ll be making the recording a FREE DOWNLOAD on our Bandcamp page! Be sure to join our mailing list (on the right sidebar) and follow us onTwitter and Facebook to get the link! We’ll release it closer to Convergence.

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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.

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”? :)

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