New Music from THEESatisfaction "and that's your time"

My lovely ladies have blessed us with another mixtape.  Chase away your post summer blues.


Please enjoy.

xo

Erik Blood at Chop Suey July 6th

It's been a busy spring and its going to be a busy summer. Busy=good!

Come see me and my boys perform at Chop Suey on Saturday, July 6th with Fox and the Law, Atomic Bride, and Creepoid. This will be a fun one. 

Thank you to those of you who were early enough to catch my set at Sasquatch. For those that missed it, here's what was said about it. 

"Erik Blood's early set at the Yeti stage was the perfect way to start things off." - Stereogum

"Erik Blood saved the day." - The Monarch Review

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for new music from myself, THEE Satisfaction, Night Cadet, Wishbeard, and more this summer. 

XO

THEE Satisfaction "awE naturalE" released today!!!

At long last, THEE Satisfaction's full-length debut album "awE naturalE" is out today on Sub Pop Records!


Listen to them perform live on KEXP (www.kexp.org) today at 1pm and go to their in-store performance at Easy Street Records on Queen Anne.

Thursday night at Neumos, THEE Satisfaction will be throwing their album release party with OC Notes and Chocolate Chuck supporting. There will be some surprise guests performing with THEE Satisfaction, as well.

Great Music Happened to Me Last Week

Great music happened to me last week.

First, the new Serena-Maneesh track "I Just Want to See Your Face" has my heart all a flutter. Based on this track, and the earlier single "Ayisha Abyss", I haven't been so excited for an album's release since...

The new Dead Mellotron album is out and it's great! And free, for now. I would love to work with this guy. Or tour with him.

And to complete the triangle of free fantastic music, the only thing that dislodged the previous two artists from my ears is THEE Satisfaction Loves the Sa-Ra Creative Partners. If you're like me, you've been waiting for these five tracks (in just under 10 minutes) for a long ass time. Perfect.

The Little Penguins played a show with The Glasses last Saturday and I have to say I totally loved The Glasses in their current incarnation. Check them out when you can.

KEXP tomorrow at noon. NEUMOS tomorrow night at 10:30. You know you want it.

Don't you forget about me!!!

Driving it home, once again, BRING YOUR ASS to the Reverb Festival this Saturday! So many amazing bands, including mine! See what Seattle Weekly says about it.

7:30 p.m. ~ Erik Blood Erik Blood must have taken all this renewed Beatles fervor to heart, because he's getting by with a little help from his friends. In assembling his seven-piece backing band, Blood's swiped members from his former band the Turn-Ons, his current band the Little Penguins, a guy from Coulter, and another one from Altspeak. It seems the benefit of being a producer/artist is getting to poach your favorite musicians to work on your own project. This set will feature all the great tracks off his fabulous debut The Way We Live and a yet-to-be-recorded track about adult cinema, which promises to be the prettiest song about porno you've ever heard. MA'CHELL DUMA LAVASSAR

That's at The Sunset Tavern in Ballard, by the way. Right before me and my band is Telepathic Liberation Army who are not to be missed. Other suggestions from me are Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, Fresh Espresso, Levator, Cute Lepers, Tea Cozies, Coconut Coolouts, and Redwood Plan, all of which are kind of happening around the same time as each other so you can't lose, but you can never really win.

Also, my girls from THEE Satisfaction are back in town to perform for us at NY Fashion Academy at 9:30. If you haven't seen them, you really need to. They'll put a smile on the most sullen face and bring a sway to the most rigid hips.

Click HERE for all information about the festival.

Quickie

Can't stop listening to Gossip's new album "Music for Men" but when I do, I'm listening to Fresh Espresso's "glamour." and THEE Satisfaction's "That's Weird" so I just can't go wrong.

DJing tonight at The Eagle in Seattle from 10pm to 2am.

100 degrees outside and I'm dying.

The (kinda) one year anniversary of my live band performing out is coming up, and to celebrate, we're playing the same club with one of the same bands. August 7th at Kelly's Olympian in Portland with Charmparticles and The Ravishers.





xo

New Music: MISSING!!!

I'm not sure if everyone has heard the story of The Turn-ons last album "Curse" but I'm going to give you a quick rundown of the events that lead up to it's release. We tracked 16 songs and on the last mixing day, our hard drive died causing us to lose everything. Luckily, I'm analogue guy and all but four of the songs were still on the 2" reels at MRX. After re-tracking the 4 missing tunes and remixing the album for the second time, nearly two years had passed from the beginning of the process. I thought it would be a good idea to name the album "The Curse of The Turn-ons" but Singapore Sling apparently has dibs on that title, so "Curse" had to do.


Today I listened to that album again for the first time in over a year and I STILL hate that we lost those first four songs. If only we had backed up that hard drive...

Cut to one month ago.

My home computer is acting all weird and suddenly I'm unable to access certain files. Particularly my iTunes library. Normally, this would have sent me into a fit, but as I learned from "Curse" about backing up, I'm sure we only lost maybe a month's worth of input, which I could easily get. WRONG! Last back up was in January. FUCK! 6 months of music gone! And I don't know about you, but for me that's a hell of a lot of music.

There is a happy ending to this story, though. I'm now almost completely whole again thanks to a new Mac and my beautiful friends (who are also avid music geeks.) Here's some of the new shit that's making me smile on my earbuds...


1. THEE Satisfaction - Thats Weird
Okay, so this wasn't one I lost, but it is one I found at the Bend It! festival on Friday June 26th in Cal Anderson Park. I had gone there to see Redwood Plan and afterwards gone to get some food. On the way back through the park, my friends and I were stopped dead in our tracks by this amazing hip-hop duo. Brian and I dragged a few more people with us to see them at the Pride festival on the following Sunday (Oh, did I forget to mention that they're a couple?) Really looking forward to their upcoming "Snow Motion" coming soon.


2. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
This was my most treasured loss of the last 6 months. Every song makes me bliss out in a summertime Supremes style shuffle down the street. No shit! If I'm at home, I pair Camera Obscura with a Firefly sweet tea vodka and lemonade. Thanks to John for bringing this to me.



3. Hunx and His Punx - EVERYTHING
No albums yet, but I have almost all of his singles now. I've been obsessing over "You Don't Like Rock and Roll" and "Cruising" since I saw his videos on You Tube. Bubblegum girl group tunes done by a punk fag is kind of the best thing ever. His set at The Funhouse on Pride day was a very intense 20 minutes. Read more about this show HERE!



4. Micachu & the Shapes - Jewellery
Damn! This is some crazy great shit. I don't even know what to say about it except listen to "Calculator" and if you dig it like I do, buy the whole album. Thanks to Frank for bringing this to me!



5. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
When it comes to new music, I have a bunch of shit talking friends (and if you're friends with me, you know I'm one of them) but I'm happy to say that those who spoke ill of this Friendly Fires records are mistaken. The production is adventurous in cool way, the melodies are super addictive, and I've heard these boys are terribly cute. Thanks to Phil for bringing this to me!


SEE YOU AT THE COUNCIL!!!

XO