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7/21/04

Tommorrow night July 22nd Lovely Recordings Showcase 2 will be our last show in Pittsburgh for three months.  So come on down to Club Cafe its going to be quite a night.

 

7/15/04

Hello everyone!  It’s been a while.  We are playing Saturday at Gooski’s with Life in Bed hope you can all attend.  We are currently finishing up work on our new ep that will hopefully be coming out in August or September.  There is no title yet but we will let you know soon.  So stay tuned and turned on there’ll be something coming at you soon.

 

5/18/04

We want to send out a big thank you to everyone, in New York, Toronto, and Hamilton, for making this past trip a complete success and an extremely fun time.  We are playing this Saturday at the Quiet Storm with The Last Night on Earth and Anita Fix.  Hope you can all come out and welcome us back to the Burg.  We are happy to be home.

 

4/26/04

ROCK OVER PITTSBURGH!  This is going to be just the weekend to do it.  Friday Shade, The Black Tie Review, and Camera will be playing at CMU. As if that wasn’t enough, on Saturday Shade, The Wynkataug Monks, and Soloflyer from Cleveland will be playing at Gooski’s.  The Monks will be releasing their new ep ‘Tanks’ at this show as well.  Show up or shut up! 

 

3/24/04

Thank you to everyone in Pittsburgh and D.C. for making this one of the best weekends in a very long time.  We hope that you all enjoyed it as much as we did.  Hope you still have the strength to come see us tonight at Mr. Smalls.  Rock On!

 

3/17/04

What’s Up Everyone.  Head on down to Washington D.C. on Friday and your in for a treat.  That’s right shade and The Chrome Yellow Co. we are playing at the DC9.  If for some reason you’re not up for that just stay in Pittsburgh until Saturday and head on down to the 31st St. Pub for the Lovely Recordings Launch Party.  Four of your favorite bands will be playing: shade, The Wynkataug Monks, The Chrome Yellow Co., and The Olympus Mons.  Everyone pick up some newspapers this week, especially Pulp, you might find a word or two about us in there.

 

2/25/04

We just got back from a great weekend road trip.  Big thank you to Two if by Sea for their hospitality and excellent playing.  Another thank you goes out to all of our friends that came to the shows especially the two out of town ones, its always very nice to see you.  We have two shows in March.  First on the 19th in D.C. with everyones favorite Canadians The Chrome Yellow Co..  Then on the 20th for the Lovely Recordings launch party we play at the 31st St. Pub with The Chrome Yellow Co, The Wynkataug Monks, and The Olympus Mons.  That’s all for now hope everyone is fine and cheery spring is just around the corner.

 

2/12/04

For anyone looking for a little love this Valentine’s Day we are offering.  Just make your way down to the 31st St. Pub at about 10:00.  We got some more new pictures up so go check them out as well.  Next week we have some shows: Thursday the 19th in Pittsburgh at Mr. Smalls and Friday the 20th in Baltimore at the Talking Head Club.  So get your cars ready and hit the road it’s guaranteed to be a great time for all.

 

1/22/04

Happy belated New Year to everyone!  Thanks to everyone who came to the shows in Pittsburgh and New York last week they were both great shows.  As well as a big thank you to Orangepark.  We have some new pictures up on the site from the Luxx Fashion show so check them out.  We are playing tonight at Club Café so we hope to see you there.  Our next show is on Valentines Day (Feb. 14th) at the 31st St. Pub with the Black Keys.  Following that we play on the 19th at Mr. Smalls and the 20th in Baltimore at the Talking Head Club.  We would love to see you all at them all. 

 

12/08/03

Well it’s been a while.  We played in New York and New Jersey last week both shows went fine.  For anybody who hasn’t heard our car was broken into in New York.  They smashed one of the back windows and stole some stuff out of the back seat.  Other that that though the trip was great, and a big thank you goes out to Sparks Fly from a Kiss for their hospitality.  You can check out some live clips from the dvd we made in LA if you would like just click here.  Only some real short clips right now since we don’t have the finished product yet.  We are playing in Hamilton Ontario on December 20th for the Chrome Yellow Co.’s CD release show.  It will be a great time if anyone wants to make the trip.

   

10/09/03

We just got back from LA this week.  Everything went fine.  We have one show in this month, The Luxx Fashion Show at The Rex Theater with Camera and The Olympus Mons.  That is on October 18th.  We have one more in town show next month at Club Laga on November 9th.  Most likely these will be our only shows in Pittsburgh before the new year so see us while you can.

 

8/28/03

We have three shows coming up in September and one this week.  This Saturday we play at Howlers with the Wynkataug Monks and the Black Tie review.  Next we play September 8th at Rosebud with Monarch and The Violet Burning from California.  We have two shows at the end of the month as well.  On September 25th at Modern Formations Gallery with Sparks Fly From a Kiss from New York and on the 27th at the 31st St. Pub with the Wynkataug Monks and the Olympus Mons.  Then it is off to LA to record a CD and to make some videos.  Hope we will be seeing you soon.

                                                     

7/03/03

We have four shows coming up in the next week.  It would be nice to see you at all at two of them at least.  Friday and Saturday we are playing with our good friends from Canada the Chrome Yellow Company.  If any of you haven’t seen them before they are awesome.  Tuesday we are playing with Phaser from DC, again awesome, and Wednesday with Camera, need I say it again, awesome.  So I guess you should come to all four.

 

 

6/10/03

This is the week.  Our first show in two months in Pittsburgh is Saturday night at the 31st St. Pub.  We are playing with the Silver Thread and the Waxwings from Detroit.  Be there.  Our split 7” with the Silver Thread also got reviewed this week in the City Paper.  Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet.

 

 

5/22/03

Thank You New York, thank you Columbus.  Akron here we come.  See you in the ‘Burgh with the Silver Thread on the 14th.

 

 

5/12/03

Thanks Louisville, or at least Matt and Pam for making it a fun time.  We got some pictures up on the site from the Louisville trip if any of you are interested.  We also got an article written about us on a Louisville website if you would like to read it click here.  Hope you are all planning on coming NYC this weekend because it makes no sense not to.

 

 

5/1/03

Big Thank You to the Chrome Yellow Co. and Levi Ride for making the Canada trip such a great time.  We can’t wait to come back.  We have a couple of new pictures up on the sight taken by everyone’s favorite photographer Grec.  Check them out.  That’s about it for now.  We will see you all back in the ‘Burgh in June. 

 

 

4/14/03

What’s up everyone?  We have a show coming up this week at Club Café with the Wynkataug Monks.  It promises to be a great time.  We are also going to Toronto the week after.  A good time is guaranteed for all who make the trip.  We are pretty much done recording our new EP so hopefully we will have some new music in a month or so.  That’s about it for now.

 

 

3/13/03

We would like to give a big THANK YOU to the Chrome Yellow Company for coming all the way down from Canada to do some shows with us.  It was a hell of a weekend.  Check out the pictures at: http://www.thechromeyellow.com/pittsburghphoto.htm.  We are not playing until the 22nd at Buskers.  We do hope to see you all there though.

 

 

3/6/03

We are playing Friday night at the 31st St. Pub.  We have two great bands coming from out of town.  The Chrome Yellow Company from Toronto and Racermason from Akron.  It promises to be a great show.  Hope to see you all there.

 

 

2/27/03

Thanks everyone who made last weekend an awesome weekend.  We love you all.  We are going to New York tomorrow if anyone is up for a road trip.  Its gonna be a wild time.

 

 

2/18/03

SATURDAY – WYNKATAUG MONKS & THE OLYMPUS MONS – ZYTHOS

SUNDAY – STARFLYER 59 – REX THEATER

ITS GONNA BE AN AWSOME WEEKEND!

 

 

2/10/03

What’s up everyone?  We would like to say thanks to Racermason for the show in Akron and for putting us up for the night.  It was a great time.  We don’t have any shows until the February 22nd when we play with our good friends the Wynkataug Monks and The Olympus Mons.  It promises to be a great night of music so we hope to see you all there.

 

 

1/28/03

Thanks to everyone who came to Howlers we really appreciate your support.  Thanks also to Leviride and the Telefonics for having us to Toronto and Erie.  We had a great time.  We even got some label interest in Toronto.  We are playing this Wednesday at the Lava Lounge with the Silver Thread and hope to see all of you there.

 

 

1/13/03

Hello everyone.  Thanks to all of you who came out to the Pub last Friday.  We are playing this Saturday at the Warsaw Tavern.  There will be two bands in from out of town playing with us, The Telefonics from Erie and Levi Ride from Toronto.  Hope you can all come out.  We are also heading to Erie on Friday and Toronto on the 25th to play with both these bands if anyone feels like a rode trip.

 

   

12/30/02

For anyone that was planning on coming we are sorry that the Gooski’s show was canceled it was beyond our control.  We are playing on the 10th at the pub so hopefully we will see you there.  If you haven’t picked up a cd yet you can now get them in some local music stores.  Paul’s Cds, Dave’s Music Mine, Record Village, The Record Exchange, and Cd Warehouse in Oakland all have copies of the cd.  Happy New Year everyone and again hope to see you on the 10th.

 

 

12/09/02

This past weekend the Tribune Review did a little write up about us, if you are interested in reading it click here.  Our cd was also recently reviewed by pittbands.com and inmusicwetrust.com.  We are playing this Friday the 13th at Nick’s Fat City.  If you don’t come to that we hope to see you all at Gooski’s on the 28th.

 

 

11/20/02

Thanks to everyone who came to the Lava Lounge show last Wednesday.  We have two shows coming up this weekend.  Friday night at the 31st St. Pub with New Invisible Joy and Saturday night at the Rea Coffee House at Chatham College with Olympus Mons and the Wynkataug Monks.  The Saturday night show is all ages and starts at 7:30.  Hope to see you all at least one if not both of the shows.

 

 

11/11/02

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the show this past weekend.  It was a great time.  Hope you all enjoy the record.  In music we trust.com has just done a review of our cd.  If you are interested in reading it just click here.  Hope to see you all Wednesday at the Lava Lounge.

 

 

10/31/02

Happy Halloween everyone.  Just wanted to let you all know, if you don’t already, we are playing two shows this Saturday one at the club café and one at Gooskis.  We are also playing on the 8th at the 31st St. pub with The Silver Thread and the Wynkataung monks.  We will be releasing a split 7 inch with The Silver Thread at this show.  You might even get one for free.  Hope to see you all there.

 

 

8/30/02

Well the cd release is today hope to see you all there.  The Pittsburgh paper Pulp has just done an article about us.  If you are interested in reading it pick up a paper or just click here.  The Post Gazette has also done an article so pick up one of those as well or just click here.

 

 

8/20/02

The venue for the all ages cd release party has changed.  Instead of being at Chatham College it will now be at the American Music Café.  Hope to see you all there.

 

 

8/18/02

While we still don’t have any whole songs from the cd up on the web.  You can now take a listen to excerpts from the cd at cdbaby.com.

 

 

8/13/02

We have decided to do an all ages cd release show for all of our younger fans.  This will be at the REA Coffeehouse in Chatham College on Monday August 26th.  We have also just been added to the play list at www.pittsburghnetradio.com.  Check it out you might be able to hear a little before you buy the cd. 

 

8/01/02

Well we have just got back from our tour of California.  It was an extremely successful trip.  We have just set the date for the cd release party and that is Friday August 30th at the 31st St. Pub.  We will be playing with Up the Sand Box and Life in bed.  Hope to see you all there.

 

6/20/02

Shade’s first full-length album is set to come out the first week of July.  The album is tentatively titled, “Forever Now, Nowhere Tomorrow.”  The release party, however, will most likely not take place until we return from our tour of California.