January 2012
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Goods news! From the depths of winter, we’re able to start releasing news about touring plans for the coming months - and we hope to see all of you out there. Starting in early March, we’re going to spend a month crossing the Western half of the country with our good friends the Parson Redheads, including a very eventful stop by SXSW in Austin (for the first time since 2009!), before...
December 2011
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Greetings from New York City! So many things to share, but to start, we are debuting our new single “Might Find It Cheap” TONIGHT on The Late Show with David Letterman. Tune in at 11:35 PM (10:35 central) to CBS to see the performance! To celebrate we have a special gift for all of you - a free download of “Might Find It Cheap.” Get it below!
November 2011
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October 2011
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WatchA few of us were lucky enough to tag along with the Smoke Fairies today to Nashville where we backed them up on a few songs, recording in the legendary United Record Pressing plant. Great people…amazing place. Who could have known James Brown would make an appearance?!
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WatchThe first of many chunks of tour footage to come over the next six weeks. Tomorrow we’re at the Manship Theater in Baton Rouge - for a list of all the upcoming dates click here.
Footage shot and edited by Luke Norby
September 2011
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Enter "My Home Town" Video Contest →
We’ve got a song on the new record called “My Home Town”. Now, we want to make a music video filled entirely of video clips from YOUR hometown and we’d be much obliged if all you creative types would submit some footage. AND! Your name will be entered into a drawing to win prizes - posters, t-shirts, backstage passes, etc. You can find more information on what and when...
Pre-sale tickets: Portland and LA shows added!
We are stoked to announce that we’ve added both Portland(!) and LA(!) shows to our long Fall run with the inimitable Dawes crew. Pre-sale tickets are now available in limited quantities, and general public sales start next Friday, Spetember 23.
For pre-sale tickets to our Portland show (11/12) at the Crystal Ballroom go here.
For pre-sale tickets to our Los Angeles show (11/17) at the Music Box...
WatchBehind the scenes of our record release yesterday.
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WatchThe Whole Damn Record! Right here! Now stream it America, STREAM!
August 2011
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WatchWe are very excited to announce a new single, available for free, to you, kind fan. “Love The Way You Walk Away” is a mid-tempo summery jam replete with banjos, casios and slide guitars - and some melancholy lyrics. We also hope to have a video done for this song very soon. Hope you guys dig it!
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Big Thank Yous Abound!
As we are about to shift into high-gear with the album release and a big tour upcoming, we want to take a minute to thank some folks that made The Best of West tour so successful:
All of the fans from the entire Midwest and Mountain West that came out! You guys were so bomb, a pleasure to play for and so open to the new tunes we are strumming now. Thank you. Also a big merci to our dear friend...
July 2011
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WatchOur last show of the tour brought us to the amazing pillared and vaulted Seasons Performance Hall. Once again, AgesandAges blew our minds, so I crushed all their heads. Seemed only fair. Thank you AgesandAges!!!
WatchStrange things afoot as our caravan rolls on through my ancestral Iowan homeland. Lost in a labyrinth of corn fields we spontaneously pulled over and wandered as though lost only to come upon this wondrous apparition.
WatchSlugging along the Kansan Plain and entered this field of lightning and pre-tornadic rain swells. Toto! No!
WatchWalking SLC’s eschatologically wide streets we bore witness to this…um…double…whatever. Actually, never-mind.
WatchSo it begins. The long road east along the snaking gorge before turning south toward the Wasatch. Tomorrow, SLC’s temple pronged horizon.
AgesandAges to Open This Thang Up! →
Our wonderful Portland brethren AgesandAges will be opening this little upcoming tour - and we are stoked to have them along. Check them out here. In spite of their picture, they are not a cult, at least in the strictest sense of the word.
Listen to American Goldwing →
Oh snap, the title track off our new record is streaming on p4k!
June 2011
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We'll Buy You A Drink If...
…you come participate in our new video THIS FRIDAY June 24. Come to one of these 3 venues, or all of them, and hang out and get video’d - we would super-appreciate your presence and we’ll play you a new song from the upcoming record and maybe a few more. Schedule is:
11:00am - The Woods in Sellwood
1:00pm - Mississippi Studios
5:00pm - Ella St Social Club
Seriously, we’ll buy you a drink!...
Boom! We are playing Musicfest NW! →
As a festival that has gotten better and better every year, we are elated to announce that we are playing the 2011 Musicfest NW! The festival runs September 7-11, the best time of year to visit Portland. I’m pretty sure we will be playing September 9. Don’t quote me - I’ll get get back to yall with the proper details soon! Come enjoy a ton of awesome bands and enjoy our fair city...
May 2011
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Summer Tour Dates Yo!
We are very excited to announce the dates of our little Summer tour! It will take us out to Chicago and back - blazing a trail through the mountains and Midwest. And to all of you who don’t live near these cities we promise that we will see you this fall, with a new record in tow, and new songs to sing for all y’all.
Tuesday 7/19/2011 Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City UT
Wednesday...
April 2011
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Record Store Day 7" Available Here! →
Were you too hungover to bear the crowds on Record Store Day? We were! And that’s why we had Sub Pop send us a special shipment of our Maybe Baby 7” just so we could peddle them to you. This pressing was limited to 1500 copies and there are about 100 left. Comes with a download code as well. Click here to go to our merch page.