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Be Your Own Pet Get Awkward on New LP
Song titles: "Bitches Leave", "Food Fight!", "Zombie Graveyard Party", "What's Your Damage"

Tuck those hands in your pockets, avoid any and all eye contact, and prepare to add "uhhh..." to every sentence: Nashville's Be Your Own Pet invite you to relive those lumbering teenage years as they prepare to exit theirs on Get Awkward, their forthcoming sophomore album. It's due March 18 in the States on Ecstatic Peace/Universal, and the day before in the rest of the world fromXL.
Judging by the song titles alone, the disc oughta be a blast (just like the last one), even if you spend the entire running time posted up along the wall. You can read all about the album as it was in progress right here in our interview with BYOP guitarist Jonas Stein from May.

Be Your Own Pet's mini-tour wrapped earlier this month, and, for the moment, the band have no touring plans. But, hey, um, if you're maybe not, you know, doing anything later, we could hang out...

Get Awkward:

01 Super Soaked
02 Black Hole
03 Heart Throb
04 Becky
05 The Kelly Affair
06 Twisted Nerve
07 Blow Yr Mind
08 Bummer Time
09 Bitches Leave
10 You're a Waste
11 Food Fight!
12 Zombie Graveyard Party
13 What's Your Damage
14 Creepy Crawl
15 The Beast Within


Video: Be Your Own Pet: Bicycle Bicycle You Are My Bicycle [from the Be Your Own Pet LP]

[Moshe]

November 28, 2007

Awesome Color,having just finished recording and mixing their second record due out in March, are out on the road with the mighty Dinosaur(again) and the love is flowing down the coast. We figure it's just a matter of time before Dino crashes the stage again so get there in time. Early blog love and other friendly reports from the Boston area have it that the band has found new ways to torture your groove gene. Don't be a stranger!

Nov 28 2007 Lincoln Theatre w/ Dinosaur Jr. Raleigh, North Carolina
Nov 29 2007 Blue Cats w/ Dinosaur Jr. Knoxville, Tennessee
Nov 30 2007 The Orange Peel w/ Dinosaur Jr. Asheville, North Carolina
Dec 1 2007 Freebird Live w/ Dinosaur Jr. Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Dec 2 2007 The Club @ Firestone w/ Dinosaur Jr. Orlando, Florida
Dec 3 2007 40 Watt Club w/ Dinosaur, Jr. Athens, Georgia
Dec 4 2007 House Party in Nashville ! Nashville, Tennessee
Dec 5 2007 Young Ave. Deli w/ Dinosaur Jr. Memphis, Tennessee
Dec 6 2007 House Of Blues w/ Dinosaur Jr. New Orleans, Louisiana
Dec 7 2007 Emo's w/ Dinosaur Jr. Austin, Texas
Dec 8 2007 House Of Blues w/ Dinosaur Jr Dallas, Texas
Dec 9 2007 Diamond Ballroom w/ Dinosaur Jr. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dec 10 2007 Open Lot St. Louis, Missouri
Dec 11 2007 Picador w/ Dinosaur Jr. Iowa City, Iowa
Dec 12 2007 Slowdown w/ Dinosaur Jr. Omaha, Nebraska
Dec 13 2007 Voodoo Lounge w/ Dinosaur Jr. Kansas City, Missouri
Dec 14 2007 Ogden Theatre w/ Dinosaur Jr. Denver, Colorado
Dec 15 2007 Belly Up w/ Dinosaur Jr Aspen, Colorado
Dec 17 2007 The Note Chicago, Illinois
Dec 18 2007 The Comet w/ The Cincinnati Suds!!! Cincinnati, Ohio

Press Contact: Daniel Gill at Forcefield PR


Awesome Color /Live/Euro Tour CD-R

1. Taste It *
2. Do It Right**
3. Hat Energy (w/Shahin Ex Models)*
4. See You Hear me(also with Shahin)*
5. The Moon***
6. Free Man***
7. Eyes of Light****
8. Grown**

* Fire Club, Phildelphia, PA USA 8/2/06
** 33 Anson Road Manchester, England 12/15/05
*** Point Ephemere, Paris France 12/14/06
**** Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 4/26/07

BUY IT HERE or from the band at the show.

 

 

Photos by Jason Bergman

 

Out Now:Ecstatic Peace T shirts, Thurston LP/CD, Magik Markers, MV+EE with the Golden Road, Sightings, and more....


Coming Soon: Tall Firs, Awesome Color, Black Helicopter, Free Kitten, Poor School LP, Tusco Terror/Emeralds Split LP, Okkyung Lee, Islaja, and more...

That's it for now. Thanks for the support. Tell us how we can help.

Andrew

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MV & EE with the Golden Road "Gettin' Gone"

Ecstatic Peace

 

Matt ‘MV’ Valentine and Erika ‘EE’ Elder should need no introduction to the denizens of the Foxy Digitalis micro-universe. It feels as if these two psychedelic star children have been releasing music for an eternity, exposing a true Americana that is rooted solely in good vibes. Both as a duo, and surrounded by their equally musically inclined friends, MV and EE have generated countless genre-bending mantras, fusing early American song-forms with a wide array of seemingly incongruent influences. Rural ragas? Lunar blues? Anything is fair game.

“Gettin’ Gone” finds the MV/EE axis aligned with an assortment of extremely talented musicians, some of whom they’ve worked with on past projects. Willie Lane and Samara Lubelski, both long-time associates, make an appearance, as do Ron Schneiderman and John Moloney of Sunburned Hand of the Man. J Mascis pounds the skins on a few tracks and Canadian pedal steel wunderkind Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn adds a touch of golden goodness to the proceedings. Even canine superstar Zuma shows up to rattle some bells.

Throughout its entirety, “Gettin’ Gone” carries a familial spirit – the seemingly effortless way that the players lock on to one another reveals a closeness among them, an indescribable connection. This is most apparent when the group rocks out, as exemplified on the opening track “Susquehanna (sole art trample)” and the incredibly powerful “Hammer.” The latter track is an epic reworking of a traditional work song that has been transformed into an anti-war hymn by the group. Gorgeously sung by EE, “Hammer” is an emotionally poignant, slow-burning jam in the spirit of the master, Neil Young. It has become one of my all-time favourite songs.

It seems that MV and EE are steering their ship away from astral folk territory and entering country-rock waters. Of course, they haven’t abandoned their roots, but have traversed further down the creative path, and are exploring musical ideas that seem natural. Whatever they choose to do, they do it wholeheartedly and with a sense of purity. I’m certainly not complaining!
9/10 --