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News Archives
The newest news is always on the homepage.
7/30/2008
HUGE down HERE gets another CD review published online! We thought they might have forgotten about us, but The Compendium finally got around to listening to our record and took some time to write about it and even find a few nice things to say! Check it out! We also would like to apologize for the flurry of scheduled-and-then-promptly-canceled open mic gigs over the past several months. We haven't played out since December and we would really like to get back out there, but things just keep coming up and happening to make those plans evaporate. There was the cut on the thumb of oB's pick-holding hand that negated any strumming for days; there was the broken toe that ended up not being broken but was ridiculously painful (and happened on the eve of a scheduled gig); there was the softball game that got rescheduled on a gig night; there was the day I drank almost a full two liters of coke, which caused me to only get about 3 hours of sleep because I was so wired (and happened on the eve of a scheduled gig, thereby making me ridiculously tired the next day); the list goes on. We are going to actually attempt to play every Monday night in August at The Fire. We'll see how that goes. We've also been laying low because finishing the last record really took a lot out of us. We spent enormous amounts of energy on that thing, then the CD release show was a total bust, and the response the album got was lukewarm at best - when we thought we'd made our best record. We've taken our sweet time beginning the next one and are happy to say it is finally happening, after a solid 6 month break. Look for that sometime in the distant future, though it would probably be a miracle if we finished it before '09 was over. But you never know! We've been doing some writing lately and even finished a couple of good songs which you will probably hear us play at the upcoming gigs. Feel free to check out the lyrics to those new tunes. We've also got some sweet new KICKASS merch, so go check out our T-Shirt selection! You also probably didn't know that we recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of us being a band. And that's pretty cool. Even if it's hot out there.
3/5/2008
HUGE down HERE's newest record, Leave An Impression, gets reviewed in the March 2008 issue of Origivation Magazine! They use awesome words such as "nice", "interesting", "solid" and "intolerable". To find out which one of those referred to gazing into my big brown eyes, you're gonna have to go over here to read it. In other news, we have a probable gig at The Fire's open mic on 3/17/08. Blarney!
12/14/2007
HUGE down HERE is totally co-opting an open mic on Thursday, December 27 as our very own CD Release Party! It's at Crossroads Coffee House in Roxborough (in NW Philly, 6156 Ridge Ave. to be exact) and it runs 7-9 pm, so we could be on anywhere in that time span, playing 3 of your favorite songs. We've never actually been there, but we only hear good things about the ambience, awesome food, and friendly staff and clientele. Come check out the local talent! And also us!
The new record, Leave An Impression, will be available December 18 - yes, this Tuesday - so be sure to get your copy before the gig so you can sing along. Or if you're super lazy and only like to grovel in public, you can probably get a CD at the show, but only if you ask loudly and like a jack-ass.
We're actually mixing the very last track from the album tonight and finishing up the artwork and will start pressing copies over the weekend. More new tracks will be put up on the ol' MySpace player and here on the website for your further critique and possible disappointment and/or astonishment. Check back soon!
We totally love you. -HdH
ps - so we just found out that the very brave, very kind host of the Crossroads open mic has made HUGE down HERE the featured act of the night on 12/27... so we go on at 8ish, for sure, and we get an extra song! Holy crap.
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We hate the old cliches, whenever a band puts out a new record... they always say THAT album is "our best work". They always say "it rocks harder". They always say "we've never sounded better". It's bullshit.
So let's just be honest here. We have a new album coming out Tuesday, December 18, 2007. It's another collection of songs that we wrote. It's called Leave An Impression. And for real - it fucking rocks harder, sounds better, and is the best work we've ever done. No bullshit.
Well, at least it's as good as we could do. So go hear for yourself... four tracks from the new CD are up on the website for your perusal.
enjoy!
in rock we trust,
HUGE down HERE
11/2/2007
HUGE down HERE is super psyched. We've not only been ripping out the vocals in the studio and making fantastic progress, things are actually going better than expected. After 6 weeks we have 3 songs mastered, 4 more with vocals that need to only be mixed, leaving 5 that need vocals recorded and then mixed. It's even surprising to us that the studio work has been persistent and consistently good. We put up a teaser track (Whiskey & Women) on our MySpace page a couple weeks ago and you have to go there to hear it (no downloads yet); ironically, we've already slightly altered and re-mixed that song. When the record is finished we'll put up more songs there and here. The official release date for Leave An Impression is December 18, 2007 and probably by the end of this month we'll announce a date for the release party/open mic performance. We would also like to welcome any pre-orders for the record, starting now. Just send us a quick note or post a message on MySpace and let us know you want one; we'll extort money from you at a later date. You'll see a big push when the record is finished - we're planning on lots more MySpace adds and bulletins, submissions for review from local music 'zines, etc. We're pretty proud of it, so we hope a few of you will be, too. Rock it out. Stay tuned.
9/19/2007
HUGE down HERE can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel... so let's just hope it's not a firefly fucking with our brain. At any rate, we've really been getting down to business in the studio lately and have been cranking out good stuff. We've practically wrapped up all instrumentation excpet for some percussion add-ons and maybe another guitar lick or two; we need to track all vocals and then mix, but that's it. Last album's vocal sessions took 27 studio hours and less than a month. We probably won't work that quickly, and we'll most likely end up laying down one or two songs per week where we'll do vocals and then mix right away, as we get them done. This beast might actually even be finished before the end of the year, possibly as early as November. All this recent studio work even included a complete re-do of all the acoustic tracking we'd done for Temperature, which was lost due to yet another [different] studio glitch. That's really been the only hard drive problem, and we've been furiously saving and backing things up; it's because of that backing-up that we didn't lose Temperature's drums. Things are sounding great and really rocking - we're hoping to open some eyes this time around and we can't wait to let you hear it. In other news, we've cranked out a couple new tunes, one of which is awesome and one of which is OK. Inverted is a definite potential lead-off track for our next record and Everything may show up on the one *after that*. But those are the only two songs we've written all year, so that's good news, and we almost have all the tunes we need for the next record. We've played a couple more open mic gigs since the last update, and had planned on several more... but shit happened and things got canceled and delayed and now we're putting off our next gig probably until we either get the record finished or fix the pick-up on oB's stage guitar. We'll definitely be hitting a show somewhere whenever this CD comes out so we can hand out some free copies to anyone who is brave enough to listen. We did break out a brand new cover (Summer of '69!) and a new version of Whiskey & Women at those gigs, and you can hear those live MP3s right now if you like. So go listen to the live sounds, check out the gig blogs, the pictures from those gigs, and follow the progress in the studio and keep an ear out for new tune previews on our MySpace page.
6/2/2007
HUGE down HERE makes enormous progress and then does nothing for 7 weeks! Extra! Extra! Yeah, that's our headline, pretty much for life. Over the course of a month or so in March/April, we laid down basic guitar tracks for FIVE tunes, almost finishing all rhythm tracking for the entire album (that leaves us with one or two left). And then we did squat for almost the next 2 months, basically. Why? Who knows. We're lazy. And we suck. That stuff we laid down is pretty solid, so it's mostly a lot of details left... bass tracks, extra guitar parts, acoustic fills, percussion, vocals. Oh yeah, vocals. That's a pretty big detail. In time. Things sound good, they just need to happen faster. We're getting back into it. In great news, we're also in the middle of writing a couple of sweet new tunes. This is a big deal because we haven't written a song since November of last year. And both of these sound pretty promising so far... incidentally, the second one happened by accident as we were trying to come up with parts for the first one! The new jam worked well with some lyrics-in-waiting that were needing some music. We're still pondering the future probability of putting up some live video footage. We're still playing the occasional open-mic gig, including a few weeks ago (our 4th this year; gig blog is now fully updated). Got a couple more on tap and hopefully things continue to improve. There's now no way in hell our new record will be done by the end of spring, so now we're just hoping for THIS year. Cross your fingers for us... peace in the middle east.
1/8/2007
HUGE down HERE would like to apologize for our delay. We know how much you want to know what's going on inside the HdH inner circle. Here's the straight dope: we're still working on our next record, and it's not close to being finished. OK, now you're up to speed. We haven't been putting much effort into it as of late, however, we're definitely renewing our focus on the project. A few things have happened recently that will allow us to better do just that. We were able to put down some new drum tracks that we're really excited about, so stay tuned to the studio log for up-to-date details on the recording process. We've got a few new songs in our pocket, and a couple of those are even scheduled for the new record. You can check the songs page if you want - otherwise we're keeping it on the down low. We've been continuing to play some live gigs here and there, mostly open mics, but we also opened for Fooling April in September at our guitarist's wedding reception! It was a fantastic one-song set! The gigs are great, it's a good time to play new songs and we keep putting up live MP3s on here for your perusal, along with pictures and detailed gig blogs for you diehards. It's entirely plausible that we could soon be putting up some live video footage from some of those, too. We'll be trying to hit more gigs this year (starting tonight). That's about it for us, except for what we promised last time: our new record shall be called Leave An Impression, it's due sometime in 2007 and that's as detailed as we're gonna be able to get right now, with the possibility of a late spring release if all goes well. Rock it out in 2007. We'll be right there with you.
At some point in the summer of 2006...
There was a news update in June, we think. It may have gone something like this, but we're not really sure.
HUGE down HERE is excited but frustrated, tired but energized, pissed but meditative, yin but yang. That's how it works in rock and roll, you take the good and the bad. We've been trying to continue work on our new record but for some reason the Rock Gods don't seem to want us to finish it. We got some good stuff done just prior to the Big Studio Move of '06, back in February. We got things all set up and good to go, and it's a comfortable spot to create. We call it Twin-B Studios and it's in Drexel Hill, PA. Since the move, it's been a constant struggle just to not have things magically erased from our studio hard drive. We can't tell you how many things we've started and re-started, ad nauseum. It's been mostly drum programming, but we've lost complete tracks after spending hours and hours on them. We haven't exactly been prolific on the songwriting tip, but we have managed to pull out a couple of keepers about the wife-to-be, namely Never Better and Wednesday. We had a couple of interesting gigs at The Fire and are beginning to really love the place. I know we promised you album name and cover art last time, but it'll have to wait for now. Next time, we swear, and we wouldn't lie to you. Twice.
1/25/2006
HUGE down HERE is coming along nicely. We think. We just played maybe our best gig, yet - two days ago at The Fire in Philly, PA. Another 3-song open mic, including two songs until that point never performed, a new cover, new friends in the audience, and the host even remembered our name! Hells bells yeah. It was superfun. We've got two live MP3s up already over in our downloads section for your perusal, dispersal, or recycle-bin-al. And of course, there are photos galore and more details than you ever wanted to know over here, too. And some extra pictures. Special thanks to Jim & Amy for coming out. It's not even the only open mic gig we've had since the last update. I know. We played a shorty 2-songer at Steel City on 12/29, as well. This was was a bit crazier... oB's parents and Steph's mom & fiance were also in attendance. The crowd was rowdy and chatty as all hell and it wasn't all that enjoyable, but at least the parental units got to see the band rock the house. And of course, there are photos and a download from that one, too. We'll try to keep our next gig(s) listed at the top of this little news section in case anyone is actually wondering. And they'll be over at our MySpace page, too. We'd like to be going to The Fire every 4-6 weeks and become a semi-regular. We'll see how that goes. The HdH camp and studio will be relocating at the end of February, so maybe we'll find another venue closer to home to call home. [FYI, the 12/19 Fire gig mentioned in the last update was canceled due to scheduling conflicts. Our apologies.] We've had a mini-run of good studio work recently, finishing up another tune and working on more and more drums (and re-doing more and more drums). We've got about 1/3 done and are humming right along. Next update, we'll give you album title and cover art. We haven't finished any new songs in a few months, but we've got one almost close to being complete, and it's rockin', of course. Details to come. Stay chill, and always remember - polar bears want to rock.
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