sweet sweet new year

come

On the threshold of the dying day

we'll be at the Comet with Corpus Callosum, some cool kids we met in San Jose. And Smokey Brights who are so fresh they have no 'web presence' as is said. It'll be a fine time for sure, and all done nice and early so if you want to you can just go home afterwards and have a smoke and watch Ark II and still be in bed kinda early.

show stoked

If you haven't seen Op Id just get a load of what yr in for:

Rob Shreds from Operation ID on Vimeo.

We share a member w/ the PB's now. We are one fourth Pica Beat now and they are one one fourth Curious Mystery! Oh maybe we're each one eighth of each other if the member we share is half...no, one fourth. So, you know.

A survey of visionary narratives

Booking a monster tour

Big news, this week we start booking a tour that will take us across the US and back. Drop us a line if you know a good place for us to play anywhere in the country. Be it gallery, bar, vegan potluck, chilly warehouse...we just wanna spread our new album liberally around all of your affected areas. you can reach us at: thecuriousmystery@gmail.com

Shows!

we've got'm... Looks like Myspace is not displaying show listings anymore, man that thing bugs me! Hope to phase it out and start a new site in the next few months. Here we go:

Fri Nov 5th at the Black Lodge w/ Rollerball and Dramady

Sat Nov. 20th at Cairo w/ the Hive Dwellers! (Calvin's crew) and Jaguar Paw

Fri Dec. 3rd back at the Black Lodge w/ progsters Happy Birthday Secret Weapon and Wah Wah Exit Wound

Sat Dec 18th at the Josephine w/ Operation ID and the Pica Beats

Escalator Fest!

Next weekend is Escalator Fest 2.0, two nights of spacey psych rides at Lo Fi (429 Eastlake Ave E). This is a Portable Shrines happening, check them out over here

Cold creelin

I just posted two songs from out new album which is almost all finished (but won't be released until March'11). They're over at the myspace.
Also: we're playin August 1st at the Comet, didn't mention that in the last post, it's with Spindrift. Should be a good time.

Summer!

It's finally summerlike in the Northwest and we've got some fun shows coming up here! Lemme tell you about them:

First off, we're playing this Friday the 16th at the High Dive with our friends Gabriel Mintz (w/ special backup musicians Nic "Gonzo" Gonzalez and Bradford Button) and the Diminished Men! Yes! (Also beginning on 8/16 our friend Stacey Rozich who is doing all the art for our uncoming album has a solo show "Patterns of Renewal" going up at Pun(c)tuation gallery in Seattle)

Then the Weekend of the August 20th we're heading down towards Oly for the Helsing Junction Sleepover! Three days of K Records bands and other rad bands and films and dancing and organic food. We're playing Friday night sometime.

On Sunday Aug 22nd we're lucky enough to get to play the Seattle Arts in Nature Festival which is just one of the finest times you can have in this city... and it's free! While you're there check out Nic's cabin sound installation, it will be up all day Saturday and Sunday.

Here's a of my fav pics from our last show at the Comet(and first with new drummer Adam (not pictured)). All pics by the great Lord Fotog:

I've got a feeling

We went to this theater and Joseph Peter snapped some pix, a few more at the myspace... But what I'm here to tell you about is folklife. I love folklife, I know it stinks and it's overcrowded and there's dudes trippin out with "free hugs" t-shirts and stuff; but big, free, obnoxious summer festivals are part of the joys of living in a city if ya ask me. We're playing on Saturday May 29th at the Center House Theatre at 5pm and will be joined by special guest keyboard genius Aaron Otheim plus other surprises. But come early, the K Records showcase starts at 3 with the Hive Dwellers, LAKE, and Karl Blau!

Sweet Thursday!

We're playing with our friends the Diminished Men (one of the best bands of all time, fr real!), ++ the spaghetti western sounds of Federale and DJ Mamma Cassarole's spinning! Yes! It's all going down at the Comet. Then we're off to Olympia to record a new album! I could go on. I won't, not now, but it's going to be good! Hope to see ya.

Also,

Kristian Garrard is playing drums with us. He's amazing and you should check out all of his other bands!

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What we talk about when we talk about what we're talking about

Hey, it's been awhile. Some things are happening! First up we have a couple shows on the horizon:
On Feb 17th we'll be at Neumos w/the Blood Red Dancers, See Me River and someone else. Plenty of room there to really get into your own interpretive jive and just ride it all night long (highly encouraged).
Then on March 18th we're back at the Comet w/ Federale, and some other people (hopefully the Diminished Men). We're just gonna play those two shows and then in April head back to Dub Narcotic studio to record our next album with Karl Blau. And then who knows? Oh, and Folklife fest in May w/ Calvin and Karl! Yes! Hope to see ya around!