yes, it is true The Blakes have completed the tracking on a new record!! 14 new songs drenched in reverb and sounding very much like your uncles vintage record collection. It is being mixed in Seattle this weekend. The 2010 Sept tour is happening as well! We will be taking 6 weeks or more to visit you in your city. BTW There are lots of new things and exclusive material in our store that you should have a look at. we will be selling the record exclusively from our store at first.. more to come on that soon!
We are taking a week off to take a road trip to see an outlaw legend Merle Haggard at a festival in NY. Then Back to the studio to track a bunch of new stuff for a new record. We have written many new songs in the last few months and can’t wait to get them down.
We had a great time on our mid west tour this past week! We played in Milwaukee WI’s Summerfest and found Milwaukee to be very nice! A short jaunt to Schubas in Chicago where we shared the stage with an extremely talented and beautiful group of ladies from Norway called Katzenjammer. Over to Rock Island, IL for some late night river fun and wrapping it all up in the always lovely Indianapolis, IN. Thanks everyone for coming out and Sept tour dates will be posted soon!
Love Always,
the blakes
We have been out for the past week playing festivals and shows. thanks to everybody who came out and to all the new friends we have met! A bunch of shows surrounding a national are in the works!
In other news we are working a collection of new songs and will have ready for release soooooooon! We’ll try to get a video up of the process shortly, just for you!
love always
the blakes
We will finally release this on I tunes. Previously we had only sold this E.P. at a few shows. It will contain 6 new songs mixed and recorded in 2008 in two different Seattle studios. Engineered and Mixed by Producer Brian m. Brown. It should be out in a week or so.
We heard that a new song of ours “Caroline” was played by John in The Morning on KEXP yesterday! How he got a hold of it? I don’t know. Keep your ears open for new stuff! We’ve tracked 21 songs so far. Keep checking in to hear more! In other news there are rumours of a tour in early June out to some festivals and clubs shows. Sounds like fun! We will keep you posted. Here is is the” Caroline” demo in case you missed it!
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After a long tour supporting the release of Souvenir, we decided to take a break for a while and record another record! We headed straight for the woods and locked ourselves in a log cabin for the winter. With the quiet of the falling snow and a wood stove warming our bones, we embarked on the journey of writing, recording, and mixing a new record entirely ourselves. It’s been a beautiful and challenging experience. We’re really excited about all of our new material. We will be sharing some songs with you soon!
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted on the site, so I’d like to take an opportunity here to put up a few news items at once. For one thing, the video for Magic has been picked up by MTVU and is currently in rotation. Make sure to put in a request or two.
Also, I have yet to put up our contribution to uber-photographer Chase Jarvis’ Songs for Eating and Drinking musical shindig, which took place at the historic Sorrento Hotel in Seattle. Here it is:
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Also, our likenesses appear in Chase’s new book, The Best Camera Is the One that’s With You, which features accomplished and handsome photos taken with an iPhone.
I also wanted to make quick mention of that fact that our songs have appeared in both 90210 and Jersey Shore in the past month.