OLD TIGER

So, through an incredible twist of fate, some good luck - and a very gracious offer from one Kevin Mankins - we are officially taking our little DIY band into San Diego’s own Signature Sound Studios.  Click here to see what they’re all about.  It’s been nearly two years to the date, after our first rehearsal together and even though the time has just absolutely blazed by - it’s odd to realize that we’ve been doing this for that long without a properly recorded album.  

Anyway, for nearly all of next weekend (right on the heels of our Friday night set at Bar Pink for the 2011 San Diego Music Thing), we’ll be bunkered down at their facility doing our best to create somethin’ wonderful for your earholes.  Don’t bother calling or writing - we’ll be off the grid.  If you look at their site, you can see what kind of place we’ll be working in and those who have used it before us: Ike Turner, U2, Blink 182, Switchfoot…..it’s the real deal. It’s times like these when I think, “Heck, maybe this whole music thing CAN work out afterall!”  We’ll see, folks…..we’ll see. 

Hey y’all - click here to check out a video snapshot of the show we did at Soda Bar for NBC and SoundDiego, with New Mexico. The show was simply a blast - and we can’t say enough about the fine work the sponsors did with putting it together. Top notch! Oh yea, for pictures of the event, click HERE!

So, as it turns out, we’ve been extremely lucky the last couple of weeks. We’re playing some places and events that we normally don’t get to play and frankly – we’re pretty damn excited about it! 

First, we’ve got the NBC & SoundDiego LIVE showcase at Soda Bar tonight with New Mexico. We’d like to thank Rosey Bystrak (of www.sddialedin.com) and Eric Page for getting us in on that.  Should be very fun!  NBC played a clip of “I Got It Figured Out” during the morning news yesterday and that was pretty surreal. We also got played on Sophie Radio 103.7FM and have been told we’re going to be played on 94.9FM this Sunday night around 8pm.  You can stream it here: www.fm949sd.com.  Much love to both of those stations (Mookie and Tim) for playing our tunes. It’s a trip for us to hear ourselves over the radio waves.

We’ve also got some more exciting things coming up: this year marks the first time we’ll get to participate in the San Diego Music Thing! We’re playing at Bar Pink on 9/9 alongside local favorites Midnight Rivals, Grand Tarantula and the phenomenal Amy Lavere (who was on Conan and NPR recently - check out her website here: www.amylavere.com). It should be rad.

On 9/14 – we are completely honored to be playing the Belly Up for Nena Anderson’s Record Release Party along with Dead Feather Moon. I’d be going to this show even if we weren’t playing. Both of those artists are very much worth the price of admission alone!  We’ve wanted to play the Belly Up since….well, forever. So it’s a big deal to us.  Many thanks to Nena for asking us to play (if you can’t make the show – be sure to download her new album on her bandcamp site HERE, or off Amazon HERE). 

As if that wasn’t enough, we got selected to play the 2011 Adams Avenue Street Fair on 9/25. This thing is always off the hook, with a lot of great bands playing, so that should be fun as well. Anyway – stay tuned! Hopefully this momentum we’ve got at the moment keeps up and bigger and better things are to follow!

Dustin

Sadly, our 4x4 mini-tour is over, but it was incredible.  Our pyrotechnics only caught Matt on fire once, and the new laser show was straight-up Planetarium-quality awesomeness.  Seriously though, we’d like to thank all of our friends that came out to the gigs, and also - to all of the new folks that we had the pleasure of shaking hands with for the first time.  We put a lot of  our time and energy into the Tiger, and it’s always rewarding to know that there are people out there that appreciate our work.  Just remember to keep spreadin’ the good word - it’s the only way we get to play more shows in new places…  

Looking forward: we’ve just booked another show on 7/30 with Yovee at Bar Leucadian in Encinitas.  At the Leucadian, it’s guaranteed to be a packed, sweaty, drunken mess of musical greatness.  Those are always the best shows!  Oh, and if you don’t have a copy of our Live CD, get one while you still can (there’s only a couple left) - once they’re gone, they might just be gone forever!