We are jumping out of our chairs in anticipation of our April residency at The Echo. It starts this Monday, April 5th, and continues every Monday of the month. Here’s the rad artwork Veronica Rodrigues-Lima made for it. Check out the other great bands playing with us…
We are playing a rare acoustic set LIVE on Friday, April 2nd at 1 pm. Go to http://www.kscr.org/ to listen. Thanks for tuning in!
We are thrilled to announce our debut full length “Measures” will be released on May 25th. Here’s the track list and artwork. Weeee!!!
01. The Cause
02. In A Dream
03. Final Chaper
04. As A Volunteer
05. Let It Go On
06. Arso
07. Don’t Be Fooled
08. What We Forgot
09. Shake The Cold
10. Standing In The Threat
We have been hidden away for a good bit finalizing what we feel is a great new album of songs entitled ‘Measures’ We plan on releasing this album, and going forward under a new name ‘Walking Sleep’. Nothing has changed, same music, same members, same address for Kwanzaa cards.
We still love you very much and have lots of plans for this year including heading out to South by Southwest music festival in March stopping to play a few shows along the way in Texas, and a glorious month long Monday residency in Los Angeles at our second home ‘the Echo’.
Please check out a new hilarious video we made regarding some of these announcements here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkDRqQm7dg
And stop by our new Myspace to check out tracks from the album (as of now planning on an April release).
Hello!
We It’s the new year. And with a new year comes new ventures, restructuring of goals, and general restardingness. FTO is no stranger to these elements and will no doubt attack this year until it is bested and soaked in our piss. The piss, of champions.
(please don’t burn our CD just because of that last sentence)
Show!
First of the year, bang, zoom kapow!
Monday, January 4th, 2010, 9:00pm
The Viper Room w/ the Mulholands & That Noise (21+ / RSVP for $7 list )
We play an early show at 9:30. The Viper Room is really fun to play, we will make YOU have fun too.
8852 West Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069
*** Email us (NOT ON MYSPACE) to RSVP for the $7 list by 5pm Monday night ***
News!
Hey, we don’t mean to toot our own horns, but the album is coming out really cool. We are mastering first thing February so the race is on to put the best 10 or so of these (15) tracks together and call it an album. We will have updates on that, streamable tracks, and shocking additional news later this month. Brace your shit.
Daniel has all kinds of conspiracy theories, Ethan won’t cut it out with the magic tricks, Adam is filming all kinds of shit in HD that should never be in HD, Hunter learned how to spell dessert VS desert recently (so sad), Aaron has tons of shit from Keihl’s to make his skin silky soft, and Sara dyed her hair brown. No lie.
Love,
Us
Tusk!
Fleetwood Mac. You like them. We like them. We like them so much we are doing a whole set of FMAC covers, and our best to vaguely (and in some cases creepily) dress up like them while playing this set.
[LA] HALLOWEENISH BASED COVER SHOW @ THE ECHO
TUES 10/27, (18+ / $5 / FREE w/ costume)
1822 W. Sunset, Echo Park 90026
It’s not just us doing a set of covers. Our friends in The Karabal Nightlife, the Monolators, and the Voyeurs will be performing as T-Rex, ABBA, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
It will be insane for sure. You will be very sorry if you miss this one – we’ve got Brittney from the Damselles sitting in with us on vocals for 3 part harmonies the whole show. We will blow your face off with FMAC.
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News!
Still finishing overdubs on the new full length. A few more vocals, a lot of strings, and some autoharp action too. It’s turning out to be quite epic of an album. We will have to weed it down to the best of about 15 tracks in the end.
Other than that: Hunter has back pain and feels like an old man. Sara is going to San Antonio to revive her inner Texan. Aaron owns six basses and plays one. Adam’s cool pedal is broken and he keeps forgetting until we get to practice. Daniel is frustrated with Mick Fleetwoods consistancy of drum patterns. Ethan just acquired some Beatles multitrack sessions and is planning a total remix of the entire collection ‘his way’. This last fact clearly pushes our album’s finish date to 2013. Psych!
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Love,
FTO
Advanced Forewarning,
Some months back, Radio Free Silver Lake (a wonderful source for new music and LA show info) and New & Used Records (a similarly awesmatic blog and label based in San Francisco) devised a sweet ass plan to trade off hosting great local shows featuring a bands from each other’s respective music scenes.
This is totally cool because newer bands who may have no problem filling their home town clubs often find themselves marooned in strange new cities without the support of local bands/audiences/press to break them in.
Back in April we were the featured band of the first show of this series hosted at El Rio in San Francisco with local (and awesome) band French Miami supporting and basically supplying the audience. Now it’s our turn to host, and we are totally stoked to announce the first local LA concert.
So with the help of Flavorpill, and INDIE Online Radio here is the all new “LA (heart) SF” concert series.
We can comfortably promise more than our usual share of surprises and lustre the likes of which you won’t want to miss.
LA (heart) SF – [LA] @ THE ECHO
FTO w/ French Miami, the Monolators, Kissing Cousins,
& special guests the Damselles / Thursday, July 16 8:30pm (18+ / $5)
We have no shame in saying that all these bands are totally awesome. No lie.
If you live in LA, don’t miss this show.
Love,
FTO
Read Here:
Hey everyone. We’ve been real busy like pulling together shards and strands of material to finish writing / recording our full length that we are totally excited about. Like Jem and the Misfits, it will be “Truly truly outrageous.”
In other related news, we have four special shows coming up including one THIS SUNDAY NIGHT OH MY GOD!!!
[LA] – Sunday 05/31/09 FTO @ Pehrspace:
w/ Cale Parks, Meredith Meyer, & One Trick Pony ($5 / ALL AGES / BYOB / 7pm sharp)
www.pehrspace.org (look here for directions before you go.. trust me) Quick show put together to support Cale Parks (Polyvinyl) who is on tour. Meredith Meyer and Randolf (from one trick pony) are extremely great crooners who are right at home in this small art space venue. We play 10:30pm
[San Diego] – Tuesday 06/02/09 FTO @ UCSD the loft:
w/ Japanese Motors, & the Growlers ($10 gen / $5 Student / 8pm)
http://www.artpwr.com/categories/loft <– info
N E A R F U T U R E S H O W S :
[Orange County] 06 11 09 – Gypsy Lounge w/ Union Line & Venus Infurs
[LA] 07 16 09 – The Echo w/ Monolators, Kissing Cousins, & French Miami
Please tell your San Diegan, and Orange Countian friends about us?
Hey good lookings! Got a couple shows coming up this week and we just can’t wait. We’ll finally be playing a slew of new material that *will soon be available, and our new singer Jamie will be droppin’ some sweet vocals all over that shit. On top of that we are playing with some extremely cool bands that make the shows worth going to even if you HATE us. On another note, if you hate us you are clearly not invited (catch 22 sorta.. sorry).
THIS WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY OH MY GOD!!!
[LA] – 9:00 Wednesday (Tomorrow) 04/08/09 FTO @ Bordello Bar:
w/ Local Natives, Union Line, and Eastern Conference Champions ($8 / 21+)
901 E. First St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.bordellobar.com
[San Francisco] – 9:00 Saturday 04/11/09 FTO @ El Rio:
A part of Radio Free Silverlake & New and Used Records ‘LA [heart] SF’ series.
w/ Birds and Batteries & French Miami ($8 / 21+)
158 Mission St. (@ Cesar Chavez), San Francisco, CA 94110
www.elriosf.com
Please tell your San Franciscan friends about us. Please?
