08.11.08
Tickets are on-sale for the record release party of our new album Eyes at Half Mast! The show is on Sat, September 20th at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland and is All Ages and 21+ so everyone can attend! Opening up for us are World's Greatest Ghosts and Panther. If you're interested in buying tickets, click HERE.Our new album officially comes out on Tues September 16th, of which we're very excited about. For those of you who live outside of the friendly confines of the Northwest, we'll be kicking off a US Tour at the end of September! Those dates will be up on our site very soon we promise...
05.23.08
We're hitting the road with fellow Oregonian's Helio Sequence for a California Tour in June. The tour is going to feature a lot of All Ages shows which is really awesome too! Our new record, Eyes At Half Mast will be released on September 16th by the Arena Rock Recording Co. The album is our third to date, and is 14 tracks long. We are very proud of the album and are excited for Fall. Here are the dates:
CALIFORNIA TOUR 2008
THU JUNE 12th LOS ANGELES,CA @ ECHOPLEX (ALL AGES!)*
FRI JUNE 13th SANTA BARBARA,CA @ SOHO (ALL AGES!)*
SAT JUNE 14th IRVINE,CA @ UCI FEST (4:30 pm) ALL AGES
SAT JUNE 14th COSTA MESA,CA @ DETROIT BAR*
SUN JUNE 15th SOLANA BEACH,CA @ BELLY UP TAVERN*
MON JUNE 16th VISALIA,CA @ THE CELLAR DOOR*
TUE JUNE 17th SAN FRANCISCO,CA @ SLIM'S (ALL AGES)*
*all shows with HELIO SEQUENCE
Here is the track listing for the new record! And the cover!
01 Leaving Light
02 Ending the Orange Glow
03 Duality of Deathening
04 Shattered into Dyes
05 Tides in their Grave
06 Civilian
07 Black Wood Crimson
08 March Movement
09 Dim Sky
10 Shallow Doldrums
11 Dust and Heat
12 Huancayo Orchestrelle
13 Dream by Heart
14 A Hundred Faces in the Neon Forest
01.17.08
We have been super busy finishing up our new album, which will be headed off to the mastering suite next week! Almost two years of recording and three months of mixing...it is almost finalized. All that is left is the final sequencing and mastering.
I can't explain how excited we are!! On that note, its time to announce our
WINTER TOUR!
Here are the dates:
THU FEB 7th Seattle,WA @ The High Dive
FRI FEB 8th Portland,OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
SAT FEB 9th Eugene,OR @ Sam Bonds Garage
MON FEB 11th San Diego,CA @ The Casbah
TUE FEB 12th Los Angeles,CA @ Spaceland
WED FEB 13th San Francisco,CA @ Rickshaw Stop
11.24.07
It has been so long since we updated our website and we apologize. We
have been completely wrapped up in the recording/mixing process of our new record. We also played a couple of shows at the end
of October with a nice band from Iceland. We're proud to announce that
our third record is now completely tracked out and about 60% mixed. Their
is around 22 songs to pick from come album slim down time. We spent the
past three months recording all the string tracks in a large home in Lake
Oswego. Due to its very open nature, as in not really lived in, we captured
many natural room sounds and reverbs to add depth to the string parts,
which are larger and fuller than ever. Half of the drums were recorded
with Skyler Norwood at Miracle Lake, and other half were done at Talknumeric.
Most of the instrumentation was also done at Talknumeric. Its impossible
for us to aptly express how excited we are about this record, and we are
shooting for a late spring release. We are planning on touring the West
coast in February as well, where we will be playing many of the new songs.
Check back for more information on our third record....Here are some photos
in the meantime taken by Jason Quigley...
9.17.07
Today is a proud day for us, with the first international release of our
second album.. Beat Romantic hits
the shelves today in the UK and neighboring
European nations. London based Tangled Up! Recordings,
a subsidiary of One Little Indian releases the album today. Thus far,
the new batch of press for the record has been stunning. The album features bonus material including a cover of Brian
Eno's "Sombre Reptiles" and a video for "Mountain Cats".
The album was preceded by the single for
"Cascade Locks", which also includes a live version of "Manhattan
'81" recorded this past June at the Earl in Atlanta, Georgia.
9.1.07
We're excited to announce the winner of the artwork contest for our first UK single, "Cascade Locks" from Beat
Romantic. Dustin Williams' design for the cover is below.
The album will be releasing on September 17th in the Uk. It features additional material, including the video for "Mountain
Cats" and a cover of Brian Eno's "Sombre Reptiles". The "Cascade Locks"
single also features a live recording of "Manhattan '81" from our recent
show in Atlanta this past June. We are also hitting the studio hard recording
our third record...which we hope to finish in the next couple months.
7.24.07
After five weeks of awesome touring, we are home! We are proud to announce
that it was our best tour yet on all levels. Thanks to all of you for
coming out to see us. We love you!
5.27.07
Yes, its finally time to announce our SUMMER TOUR
dates! We will be launching our tour this Saturday with a show
in Missoula and then we will join THE NATIONAL for a couple weeks of shows! Then we meet up with our brethren HORSE FEATHERS
for a two night stand in New York. Next we brave our way through the south
and up through California. We hope to see you out there!! Check out our
new tour poster, done by none other than Tyler Stout. Here are the dates...
TALKDEMONIC STORMS SUMMERTIME:
6/02 Missoula,MT@ The Palace
6/06 Detroit,MI@ The Magic Stick *
6/07 Chicago,IL@ The Metro *
6/08 Minneapolis,MN@ 400 Bar *
6/09 Madison,WI@ High Noon *
6/11 St. Louis,MO@ Blueberry Hill *
6/12 Louisville,KY@ Headliners *
6/13 Atlanta,GA@ The Earl *
6/15 Cincinnati,OH@20th Century Theater *
6/16 Columbus,OH@ The Basement *
6/18 Cleveland,OH@ Beachland Ballroom *
6/19 Pittsburgh,PA@ Rex Theatre *
6/20 Washington,DC@ 9:30 Club *
6/21 Cambridge,MA@ Middle East *
6/22 New York,NY@ Mercury Lounge^
6/23 Brooklyn,NY@ Union Hall^
6/25 Philadelphia,PA@ Johnny Brendas
6/29 Dallas,TX @ The Cavern Club
6/30 Austin,TX@ The Mohawk
7/02 Tucson,AZ@ Plush
7/03 Los Angeles,CA@ Spaceland
7/05 San Francisco,CA@ Cafe Du Nord
7/07 Eugene,OR@ Sam Bonds Garage
7/13 Portland,OR@ The Aladdin Theater (all ages!)
* with the national
^ with horse feathers
5.8.07
We're playing a show this saturday night in Eugene at the WOW Hall for
KWVA's 14th annual Birthday bash. We love college radio!!
4.25.07
We're headed to Walla Walla, WA this saturday April 28th for a show at
Whitman College with Menomena, our old friends
and tour mates. We'll also be announcing dates for our national tour in
June/July shortly. A sneak peak of these can be found on the shows page.
More soon...
4.11.07
With great pleasure we present the first Talkdemonic
video for the song "Mountain Cats" from Beat Romantic.
The video was directed by Jeremy Johnstone.
3.14.07
GREAT NEWS! HUGE NEWS! We have signed a record deal with One
Little Indian in the UK!
They will be releasing Beat Romantic
this summer on their subsidiary label Tangled Up.
The release will be an expanded version of the record including a bonus
track and a video for "Mountain Cats" by Jeremy Johnstone. The video will
be up on the site very soon as well!!! More soon...
2.16.07
I just got back from a trip to New York to attend the
PLUG AWARDS with Justin from HORSE FEATHERS who were nominated
for Americana Album of the Year! Although we didn't win, we did have a
damn good time hanging out with Jon Cohrs and all the lovely folks in
his Williamsburg neighborhood. It was cold as hell, and busy as heck.
The "sportsman" at THE LEVEE was the drink of choice. Ands thanks to the
Greenpointe Tavern for all those 3am 32oz beers.The highlights of the
awards show included Deerhoof, El P, and my favorite comedian as host,
David Cross. On the TALKDEMONIC front, I
have some huge news to announce this week!!!
2.04.07
Kevin is hard at work on the third talkdemonic
record. The album is starting to take shape and has a
few working titles. He will be recording it for the next three months
at talknumeric....Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on our recent
tour. It was a great time! More good news soon, I promise....
1.05.07
We're kicking off the dust and hitting the road for a weeks worth of dates
down the WEST COAST beginning in Seattle.
We would love to see you out there...The dates are below for the tour!!
And yes as always, we will be bringing gizmo...
Thu JAN 11th Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe
Fri JAN 12th Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Sun JAN 14th Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
Mon JAN 15th San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
Wed JAN 17th San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord
Thu Jan 18th Eugene, OR @ Sam Bonds Garage
12.06.06
We're excited to announce our WEST COAST TOUR DATES
!!! That's right, we're getting back on the road soon. Here are the dates,
including the two sold out shows with the Decemberists in Canada....
Wed DEC 13th Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom w/ Decemberists (sold
out!)
Thu DEC 14th Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom w/ Decemberists (sold
out!)
Thu JAN 11th Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe
Fri JAN 12th Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Sun JAN 14th Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland
Mon JAN 15th San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
Wed JAN 17th San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord
Thu Jan 18th Eugene, OR @ Sam Bonds Garage
11.23.06
We've been invited to play a couple shows in Canada
opening for the Decemberists! The shows will
take place on December 13th and 14th at the
Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver,
British Columbia. We're also heading out for a West
Coast Tour in January. Click on the shows section for all the details.
11.02.06
As you've probably noticed, we won't be playing any shows until January
2007, which really isn't that far away if you measure in the holidays..
We will be hitting the road for a west coast tour around then. In the
meantime, Kevin is working on recording the
third talkdemonic record at Talknumeric and
Lisa is currently on tour with the Decemberists. More soon....
10.02.06
Make sure you catch Lisa performing with
the Decemberists tonite (TUES OCT 2nd) on the LATE
NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN SHOW!!! Seriously, we're not joking, tune
in at 12:35am.
09.22.06
It is official, Lisa is now also a touring member of the Decemberists.
Catch her wielding many instruments along Colin Meloy and co. in Oct/Nov.
This does mean that we will not be touring this fall, and finding time
instead to begin recording the third album.
Don't fret though, Talkdemonic will be hitting the road again in January
for a west coast tour.
09.05.06
We are playing this THURS SEPT 7th at the
Doug Fir Lounge as a part of MUSICFEST
NW! We were able to hand pick bands for the show, so its going
to be a good one. The show will be our only show of the fall at home in
Portland, so its a special one. We're going on late (1 AM!!) but make
sure you come out early for a few of Lucky Madison's finest new bands,
Please Step out of the Vehicle and Horse Feathers, and Husky Rescue from
Scandinavia. Hope to see you thursday. xo.
08.17.06
Check out the updated PRESS QUOTES by clicking
on the press word on the previous page. TINY MIX
TAPES gives Beat Romantic a 4.5/5,
DIW Magazine calls Beat
Romantic an "instrumental masterpiece",
and SIGNAL TO NOISE describes the album as
"beautiful, complex and compelling"... In other news,
we will be filming our first video for the
song "mountain cats" from our new album Beat
Romantic, this saturday with the talented JJ Johnstone from
Madison, Wisconsin. Some of it will be shot outside of McMinnville in
a barn. As soon as its finished, we will post it on our site.
08.14.06
Thanks to everyone who came out and saw us on our tour this summer, we
love you!!! A special thanks goes out to the kids who drove all the way
to Nashville from Louisville. We loved the drawing too! We've been home
for a spell now, and the website hasn't been updated. Sorry, my computer
was pretty beat up in San Francisco when a stand collapsed, but we've
finally gotten her fixed! We have a few more shows coming up. We'll be
playing a KEXP Presents show on FRI
AUGUST 25th at the SUNSET TAVERN in
SEATTLE. We're also playing MUSICFEST
NW on THU SEPT 7th at the DOUG
FIR LOUNGE. We'll also be posting some pics from our past couple
national tours and our tour with Quasi, soon....
06.05.06
We wanted to take this chance to announce our SUMMER
TOUR dates! We will be touring relentlessly in the blistering heat
of a great american summer to be with you. Some of our shows will be alongside
THE WALKMEN as well! More dates will be added in the coming weeks so keep
checking back to see if we'll be hitting your town. Check out the amazing
tour poster designed by TYLER STOUT below. We've just added NY, Missoula,
and more. Here are the dates:
TALKDEMONIC SUMMER TOUR 2006!!
WED JUNE 14th SAN FRANCISCO,CA @ CAFE DU NORD
THU JUNE 15th LOS ANGELES,CA @ THE ECHO
FRI JUNE 16th SAN DIEGO,CA @ HOUSE OF BLUES w/ THE WALKMEN
SAT JUNE 17th TEMPE,AZ @ THE CLUBHOUSE w/ THE WALKMEN
MON JUNE 19th AUSTIN,TX @ LA ZONA ROSA w/ THE WALKMEN
TUE JUNE 20th HOUSTON,TX @ WALTER'S w/ THE WALKMEN
WED JUNE 21st DALLAS,TX @ GRANADA THEATRE w/ THE WALKMEN
FRI JUNE 23rd NASHVILLE,TN @ EXIT/IN w/ THE WALKMEN
SAT JUNE 24th GREENSBORO,NC @ GREEN BEAN
SUN JUNE 25th BALTIMORE,MD @ TALKING HEAD
TUE JUNE 27th PHILADELPHIA,PA @ KHYBER
WED JUNE 28th BOSTON,MA @ T.T. THE BEAR'S
FRI JUNE 30th NEW YORK,NY @ MERCURY LOUNGE
SUN JULY 2nd MONTREAL,PQ @ ZOOBIZARRE
MON JULY 3rd TORONTO,ON @ HORSESHOE TAVERN
WED JULY 5th CHICAGO,IL @ SCHUBA'S
FRI JULY 7th DENVER,CO @ HI DIVE
SAT JULY 8th SALT LAKE CITY,UT @ KAYO GALLERY
SUN JULY 9th MISSOULA,MT @ THE RAVEN (ALL-AGES)
MON JULY 10th SEATTLE,WA @ SUNSET TAVERN
SAT JULY 15th PORTLAND,OR @ DOUG FIR LOUNGE w/ THE JOGGERS
SAT JULY 22nd SALEM,OR @ SALEM ARTS FESTIVAL
05.09.06
Our WEST COAST TOUR with QUASI
was a great time!! Thanks to everybody who came out to the shows,
especially our new friend who was at every show that week. And thanks
to Sam and Janet for having us out..... We'll be playing a show tomorrow
night (Wed May 10th) in Seattle
at the Crocodile. This will be our first show
in Seattle in quite awhile. We'll be playing at 9pm sharp, so make it
out early if you can....Also, we will be touring the US again in June/July,
including some dates with The Walkmen. Click
on the shows icon to check those out. More dates to be added soon. Dates
in Canada as well!!!!
04.25.06
Tour has been awesome thus far....We're in San Diego drinking french press
stumptown coffee at a friends house before we pile back into the Econoline.
Yesterday we hit the beach on our day off, resulting in a major sunburn
for Kev. He is a rock lobster.
04.18.06
We've been invited out for a WEST COAST TOUR
with the portland-great QUASI! Here are the
dates and hopefully we'll be seeing you.
FRI APRIL 21st LIVE PERFORMANCE ON KPSU
at 5pm in PORTLAND,OR
SAT APRIL 22nd SACRAMENTO, CA @ THE BLUE LAMP w/ QUASI
MON APRIL 24th SAN DIEGO, CA @ THE CASBAH w/ QUASI
WED APRIL 26ht LOS ANGELES, CA @ SPACELAND w/ QUASI
THU APRIL 27th SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ CAFE DU NORD w/ QUASI
FRI APRIL 28th SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ CAFE DU NORD w/ QUASI
04.13.06
In its third week at college radio, Beat Romantic
edges up to #47 in the CMJ TOP 200!! A big thank you to all the stations
playing it!
04.12.06
In only its second week at college radio, Beat
Romantic climbs to #64 in the CMJ TOP 200!!
04.08.06
Thanks to everyone who came out for our in-store performance at Music
Millennium on friday! It was awesome. Check out our live performance video
and an interview we did at SXSW on COOL
HUNTING. Also, check out our WEST COAST TOUR DATES with QUASI
in the shows section.
04.05.06
WOW!!! Check out the review of Beat Romantic
on PITCHFORK!
04.04.06
WE ARE HOME! We want to thank everyone who came out to see us on our tour
and all the great bands and people we played with, The National, Scout
Niblett, The Velvet Teen, and more. We certainly had quite a blast out
on the road, and we look forward to seeing you all again soon. Our album
release show this past Saturday at holocene in portland really capped
it off for us, such a great show. We are so lucky to be from the amazing
place that is Portland Oregon. With the exception of having half of our
gear stolen from our van in Denver, our tour was completely awesome! I'm
going to post a bunch of photos here in the news section very soon if
you wanna check them out.
03.06.06
WE BEGIN OUR US TOUR TOMORROW NITE IN PORTLAND!!!
It is safe to say that Lisa and I are ready to hit it! Here are the dates
and we hope to see you out there. Keep checking back here for TALKDEMONIC
TOUR DIARIES if you're so inclined. AHHHHH! WE ARE SOOO EXCITED!!!!
We'll be touring in support of our new record, "BEAT
ROMANTIC", which releases on MARCH 21st.
SEE YOU SOON!! Here are the DATES!!!
TUE MARCH 7th PORTLAND,OR @ DOUGFIR LOUNGE ^
WED MARCH 8th EUGENE,OR @ WOW HALL^
THU MARCH 9th SAN FRANCISCO,CA @ CAFE DU NORD^
FRI MARCH 10th SAN DIEGO,CA @ CHE CAFE^
SAT MARCH 11th LOS ANGELES,CA @ ECHO^
MON MARCH 13th TUCSON,AZ @ SOLAR CULTURE ^
WED MARCH 15th AUSTIN,TX @ LATITUDE 30 (SXSW)
SUN MARCH 19 th WASHINGTON,DC@ BLACK CAT #
MON MARCH 20th NEW YORK,NY @ THE MERCURY LOUNGE
WED MARCH 22nd CLEVELAND,OH @ BEACHLAND BALLROOM !
THU MARCH 23rd GRAND RAPIDS,MI @ THE INTERSECTION !
FRI MARCH 24th CHICAGO,IL @ THE DOUBLE DOOR !
SUN MARCH 26th DENVER,CO @ HIGH DIVE
MON MARCH 27th SALT LAKE CITY,UT @ KILBY COURT w/ the double
WED MARCH 29th LOS ANGELES,CA @ THE TROUBADOUR !
THU MARCH 30th SAN FRANCISCO,CA @ THE INDEPENDENT(NOISE POP)!
SAT APRIL 1st PORTLAND,OR @ HOLOCENE (BEAT ROMANTIC RELEASE PARTY)
! with the national
^ with scout niblett
# with the go team
02.22.06
In TALKDEMONIC NEWS, one of Kevin's drum
tracks from the BRIDGETOWN BREAKS LP will
be featured on a major motion picture called "THANK
YOU FOR SMOKING"! The film comes out in theatres across the country
next month...Make sure you head out for the HOLOCENE
REMIX COMPILATION release party this Thurs Feb 23rd at holocene.
The first track on the compilation is a TALKDEMONIC
reinterpretation of a part of a Menomena song. The cd is free with admission!.
Kevin recently spent a week recording in BANFF,
ALBERTA with his friend Jon Cohrs. What a trip it was...Again,
"BEAT ROMANTIC" comes out on March 21st,
2006. The full US TOUR DATES will be up on
the site shortly. Check out what's been booked so far by clicking on the
shows section.
01.21.06
Our long absence is slowly coming to an end! We are going to be playing
SXSW this year in Austin,Texas for the ARRCO
Showcase. We'll be making our way down south for a week's worth of dates
with SCOUT NIBLETT. Again, our new album, "BEAT
ROMANTIC" comes out on March 21st. We will be playing some sort
of release party shortly after returning from our tour. The new album
has been pressed into clear green vinyl, and is burning a hole in the
floor of my basement. They are eagerly awaiting turntables across North
America....
11.21.05
Hey everbody. If you haven't noticed, we aren't playing any shows until
our album comes out on March 21st, 2006.
During these coming holiday wintery months, we will be
missing you. And when we are playing again, which will probably be the
first weekend of March, our long absence will be so sweetly over, and
we'll be able to make out again! Until then, check out our TOUR EP, which
will be available through the website pretty soon. Okay, till then we
luv u.
11.01.05
The TALKDEMONIC INTERVIEW ON TINY MIX TAPES
is up on their totally awesome site. Check it out by clicking right here
-->TINY
MIX TAPES!!!!!!!!!!
The 10.11.05
The TALKDEMONIC TOUR EP will be available
this week in Portland at Jackpot Records, Ozone Eastside, Anthem, EM,
and Music Millennium. The EP features two songs from the forthcoming BEAT
ROMANTIC LP, two songs from MUTINY SUNSHINE
and an even newer song that we recently finished. The EP art was designed
by DANNY SEIM of MENOMENA and looks amazing.
Thanks again to STUMPTOWN PRINTERS for doing
such a great job on them! ... In other news, LUCKY
MADISON has just signed a distribution deal with NAIL!!
That means that MUTINY SUNSHINE will finally
be distributed in US and CANADA starting on JAN 10th, 2006. YESS!!!
10.02.05
We have one last show in Eugene,OR this tues with Clap Your hands and
the National. Our tour has been completely amazing. Thanks to all who
came out, and to everybody who put us up.Thanks to everyone who came out
to our sold out return show at Dante's...Check out these neat articles
about us by the SEATTLE
WEEKLY and WILLAMETTE
WEEK !
09.26.05
Our shows in Chicago and Minneapolis were awesome, great turnouts and
good times all around. Minneapolis on sat was possibly our best show of
tour. We drove all day sunday and stayed in a creepy hotel in the middle
of nebraska. We went swimming in a david lynch-esque pool that had a creepy
whirlpool with a tornado in the middle. Today we drove all the way to
Denver where I'm sitting in the awesome HI DIVE bar as Lisa and Dustin
check out some rocks and nature up in boulder. Also tonite, we are meeting
back up with the SWORDS crew which is exciting. Here are a couple pics
from our CMJ SHOW at PIANO's on the 16th. When we get home, we will have
TOUR EP's for sale at our show at dantes' with clap you hands and the
national. See you soon.
09.22.05
So I can't really remember where we are or what we've done...its all kinda
washing out. No actually we are in LOUISVILLE,KY staying in a comfort
inn with the national boys. The past four shows have been amazing, we've
been witnessing the phenom that is CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH and the awesome
delivery and strength of THE NATIONAL. All good people, and good times.
The past four nites have been sold out and insane. We played soccer for
an hour last nite in Newport, ky at the southgate house. I would like
to announce that the national/talkd team kicked the junk out of the cyhsy
team. They went down. I can't believe the bartenders allowed it, guess
they liked us. Tomorrow we're back in Chicago. NY was insane, two good
shows and lots of money spent on $80 drinks. I spotted Steven Seagal on
the street on central park south. Our host, the amazing wendy, lived right
on central park south. I got to see neat paintings at the met and walk
around the great city of ny. We are bringing the love of talkdemonic to
the people....a late nite random rant.
09.16.05
Okay, seriously, we are in New York right now staying in trump plaza,
just got here after a crazy ass load out from a packed ass PIANO"S
on the lower east side. SO our TOUR Diaries. SO I've posted a bunch of
random rants which i would call THE TOUR DIARIES...
CHECK THEM OUT FROM HERE on down, they are un edited!!!!!!!
9.15.05 Our tour seems to get better by the minute. our show in chicago
was awesome, the best sound system and sound man (steve) we've ever come
across. even better sounding than the dougfir. hard to believe i know.
schuba's was the place. chicago is a huge city. wow....N> MANCHESTER,INDIANA
is where its at. a small town in the middle of nowhere with an all ages
club called THE FIREHOUSE where all the shows are FREE and the place is
run by a teacher named jabin, the raddest dood ever, and a bunch of high
school kids. it is basically heaven on earth for them. the ceilings are
covered in blankets, couches are everywhere and the kids rule it. it truly
was a perfect place....they even hooked us up with hotel rooms. we played
with this band from toronto named CREEPING NOBODIES who were spastic like
the talking heads, and edgy like the minutemen. super good. the swords
and us went out drinking after the show with jabin. free fry nite at the
inn. needless to say, we are a little hungouver today on our drive. we
are driving through ohio on our way out to new york. hopefully we'll get
in tonite. the church van is rocking for us, something we were a bit worried
about. i think it helps to have my GIZMO doll leading the way with his
big ears on the dash, watching the road for us.
9.12.05 Probably the coolest day of tour yet. A two day straight drive
from Moscow to minneapolis. We left at 10am on sunday and got into minneapolis
at 7pm on monday. We hardly even stopped, drove through the night to get
to the 400 bar on time. Dylan, the nice promoter from moscow called us
around 10 last nite to tell us that we had forgotten our cymbal bag and
milk crate with all of our cords and my sound card. dood, what amateurs
we are! his good buddie bennie has been nice enough to fed ex the cymbals
and stuff to new york. thanks man. but last nite was saved by the northern
lights, taking up the whole sky, a total religious experience for me.
maybe i believe in god again. it was the best display nature has ever
thrown my way. on two occasions, the sky just lit up. for 10 to 15 minute
periods. wow, it was holy. especially coming from the baptist van......the
show at 400 bar was awesome. very mellow and nice, tom was the coolest
promoter i've ever met. he told us stories about wynona rider and other
rock giants from minneapolis. now we are staying in lizs' mansion of a
house. i will write more about the greatness of today tomorrow. oh yeah,
we also went to fargo today and bought new cords and some gear. a very
underrated place for sure. nice people, and a slammin 5 dollar chinese
buffet. werd. analog blog. dustin is the king of buffet, we've found out,
he ate five plates of food.....the show went great in minneapolis even
with our substitute gear. tomorrow we drive to chicago.
09.11.05
We are travelling on the highway 90 on our way out to minneapolis, a two
day 21 hour drive that has been fun so far. Our van chugs atleast a gallon
of gas every 11 miles, not a very cost effective way to travel, but we
are really comfy. we've made it through two shows so far, moscow idaho
was last night. really fun, good crowd, lots of old friends too. swords
played first then us, in the land of university free shows. FRI nite was
a little tramatic for us since someone ripped off one of our bags that
had $500 cash, and all of lisa's stuff in it. The cops called us the next
morning before we left and returned the bag with her wallet, sans mullah
and no cell phone. It's sad that had to happen to us right before we left,
and on our home turf at berbati's. it just takes one butthole i guess.
the show was totally awesome though, lots of nice people we met that night.
My girlfriend liz has really really bad gas, and its blowing us out of
the van. We slept in a munchkin style room last night at our friend luke's
house in moscow idaho, where we thought at any minute jon cusack would
pop out of the closet talking about jon malkovichs' brain. It was really
cold in moscow, kind of a shock for us. We had really yummy coffee and
organic stuff at the moscow co-op, and ran into our friend mark and sarah.
hey guys.
the sky has opened up for us in montana and the trees are swaying gently
in the wind as the sun peaks in the side window of our church van. jesus
must be smiling as the talkdemonic train heads out east to turn over the
youth of america to the dark side of satanism. no, not really okay liz,
i was joking.
lisa is eating crunchy organic cheetos, which seems like a non-entity
to me. dustin, our road dog, is sitting in the front seat staring into
space. we are going to drive and drive for two days. maybe i'll write
more later, put liz to sleep.
08.20.05
The TALKDEMONIC FALL TOUR 2005 will
be high-tailing across the country this september for our first trip out
to the east coast. On the way out to New York we will be playing with
Arena Rock-mates SWORDS, and we'll
be touring back from CMJ with our friends
in THE NATIONAL and CLAP
YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH. Thanks to E*rock for making the killer
poster. And we just added another New York show!
Here are the dates:
FRI SEPT 9th PORTLAND,OR @ BERBATI'S (MUSICFEST
NW)
SAT SEPT 10th MOSCOW,ID @ UNIV OF IDAHO
MON SEPT 12th MINNEAPOLIS,MN @ 400 BAR
TUE SEPT 13th CHICAGO,IL @ SCHUBA'S
WED SEPT 14th N. MANCHESTER,IN @ THE FIREHOUSE
FRI SEPT 16th NEW YORK,NY @ PIANO'S (CMJ MUSICFEST)
SUN SEPT 18th NEW YORK,NY @ MERCURY LOUNGE
MON SEPT 19th CLEVELAND,OH @ BEACHLAND BALLROOM
TUE SEPT 20th COLUMBUS,OH @ LITTLE BROTHERS
WED SEPT 21st NEWPORT,KY @ SOUTHGATE HOUSE
THU SEPT 22nd LOUISVILLE,KY @ UNCLE PLEASANTS
FRI SEPT 23rd CHICAGO,IL @ SCHUBA'S
SAT SEPT 24th MINNEAPOLIS,MN @ 400 BAR
MON SEPT 26th DENVER,CO @ HI DIVE
TUE SEPT 27th SALT LAKE CITY,UT @ KILBY COURT
THU SEPT 29th SEATTLE,WA @ CROCODILE CAFE
FRI SEPT 30th PORTLAND,OR @ DANTE'S
TUES OCT 4th EUGENE,OR@ WOW HALL
08.14.05
Wow, PDX POP WAS AMAZING yet again
this year. We thank all the neat people that came out to the shows all
weekend. Our faves included Mr. ALAN SINGLEY, 31 KNOTS, THE KINGDOM, THE
SNUGGLE UPS, PJ WA, THE PLANET THE, STRENGTH and i can't get to all of
them cause their were so many amazing performances. Thanks to the festival
for having us on sunday nite to closer her down. .. IN OTHER td news,
the tour dates for our fall outing in SEPT are up on the shows section
and will be posted with our sweet tour poster made by our friend erock
here soon.
07.19.05
Thanks to all the people who came out to our show on Friday night at the
Doug Fir. You rule! We had a ton of fun as well. And again, thanks to
Nice Nice and Prime
Meridian for sharing the bill with us.... We have some other good
news to share! We have joined the BIGSHOT
TOURING team for our extra awesome booking needs. They are
very nice people and are very good at what they do. We are honored to
be a part of their world....On that note, we will be touring out to CMJ
in NYC this September with SWORDS and touring
back with our friends and faves THE NATIONAL
and another band from NY that is supposed to be really amazing called
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH. We will have the
TOUR DATES up on the shows section of the site as soon as they are confirmed.
07.14.05
We are playing tomorrow (or tonite) depending on when you are reading
this, that
is FRI JULY 15th at the DOUGFIR
LOUNGE at home in Portland with NICE NICE
and PRIME MERIDIAN. We hope to see you there!!
07.06.05
The NEW TALKDEMONIC
PAGE is now up on the Arena Rock website.
Check out some new pictures, a squeaky clean bio, and a preview of the
cover of "Beat Romantic". .... of which, by the way, will be
released for sure in January 2006. Sorry,
but you're just going to have to wait. We promise beautiful green vinyl
and a record that will ease the frigid attack of winter. Click above to
go to the talkdemonic arena rock page.....Reminder: our show with the
great NICE NICE and PRIME
MERIDIAN is coming up next week at the DOUGFIR
LOUNGE on FRI JULY 15th.
06.27.05
Once again, TOTAL FEST 2005 in Missoula,
Montana proved to be a great time. Over 40 bands, packed into two barnburning
days. Thanks to Josh Vanek of Wantage USA for having us out, hooking up
the awesome bbq, and the great show at the RECORD SWAP outdoors on Sat.
I even scored a copy of Kurtis Blow's first record. Heck-yes. . . The
artwork for "beat romantic" is about finished, a very spooky layout put
together by our friend justin ringle who also plays music as Horsefeathers.
Check back soon for a peek at the cover and tour photos from the west
coast trip.
06.20.05
HEY ALL!! We are back from our TOUR with
MENOMENA and THE NATIONAL.
It was an amazing time for us. Other than our van breaking down in Vacaville,
CA (which ended up being a rad thing since we were able to hang with MENOMENA
and NATIONAL more in their vans) all went off without a hitch. We already
miss our fine friends in THE NATIONAL and we wish them the best in europe
next month. Thanks to all the nice people who put us up and all the cool
folks we met at our shows. We love u. We will have more stories and
pictures up on this site very soon.
05.31.05
We have SOLD OUT of the first pressing of
"Mutiny Sunshine" on cd. Luckily, the second pressing will be
arriving just in time for our MOUNTAINTOPS IN CAVES
west coast tour with Menomena and The National, kicking off next week.
We hope to see you out there....The master for "Beat Romantic"
has landed on our laps care of Mr. Roger Seibel at SAE. He has taken a
golden comb to our new album. It sounds amazing. Now we finish up the
artwork and set a release date.....IN OTHER NEWS, we will be playing the
CMJ MUSIC FEST this September 17th, our first
show in NYC. Sigh.
05.07.05
We are proud to announce that TALKDEMONIC will be on the 2005
PDX POP COMPILATION, featuring new music from a collection of Portland's
finest. Last years comp ruled....THE MOUNTAINTOPS
IN CAVES JUNE 05 TOUR now has some confirmed dates for you to check
out. Here they are, all dates are with MENOMENA
and THE NATIONAL:
MOUNTAINTOPS IN CAVES JUNE 05 TOUR
WED JUNE 8th SEATTLE,WA @ CROCODILE CAFE
THU JUNE 9th PORTLAND,OR @ BERBATIS PAN
FRI JUNE 10th SAN FRANCISCO,CA @ CAFE DU NORD
SAT JUNE 11th LOS ANGELES,CA @ SPACELAND
TUES JUNE 14th SACRAMENTO,CA @ THE BLUE LAMP
05.02.05
Thanks to everyone for coming out to our SOLDOUT
show with M83 this past Wednesday. It was
a great one......We are playing our first show in EUGENE,
OREGON this coming Wednesday May 4th at the WOW HALL with our good friends
MENOMENA. They have also invited us out for
a WEST COAST TOUR in June. We will have the
dates posted in the shows section as soon as they are all confirmed. We
will also be playing alongside Brooklyn, NY's THE
NATIONAL on the dates.
04.27.05
We are playing an early show tonite with M83
and ULRICH SCHNAUSS at HOLOCENE.
The show starts at 8pm sharp, so get down there early to make sure you
can get in. WeLOVEu.
04.10.05
TALKDEMONIC has been voted
PORTLAND'S BEST NEW BAND 2005 by the Willamette Week. We were fortunate
enough to play a sold out show at Berbati's this past Friday to celebrate
the honor alongside Pt. Juncture Wa, and Wet Confetti. Check out the article
HERE!
03.22.05
We are playing a show this THURSDAY with HOOD,
of England, one of our favorite bands!! We're also playing with the creative
dub-tronic trio known as NUDGE. A very solid
bill indeed. The show is this Thursday 3/24 at Berbati's
Pan. Hope to see you there. Also, if you're in the PULLMAN/MOSCOW
area (e-wa represent), you can come out to the final solo outing of talkdemonic
in moscow, idaho at the kiva theater this sat mar 26th at 7pm.
03.16.05
Thanks to everyone who came out to our show this past Saturday at the
Dougfir. Both TRACKER and YACHT
ripped it up. It is always a pleasure playing shows with such talented
people. We are busy this week continuing the mixing process of the new
record, with a trip to JACKPOT on thursday and some other mixing at home
at Talknumeric.
03.10.05
The BRIDGETOWN
BREAKS LP is now available at Jackpot! record stores and 360Vinyl
here in portland. The 12" is a collection of raw live drum tracks from
Kev of Talkdemonic, Danny of Menomena, Charles of Quivah, and Josh from
Systemwide. It even features a drum battle via Danny and Kevin. All the
drums were recorded at Jackpot studio onto 2"tape with our friend Jon
Cohrs manning the knobs. We are very happy with the way the drum tracks
came out, sample away hiphop break produciones.....We have a show this
weekend with TRACKER and YACHT at the DOUGFIR LOUNGE, SAT MAR 12th. The
show starts at 9pm sharp with my fave electronic laptop musicman YACHT.
Hope to see you there.
03.02.05
Our hearts go out to our friends in SUBTLE
whose van hit a patch of ice a few days ago on tour near Omaha, Nebraska.
Dax Pierson suffered a shattered vertebrae but is awake and hopefully
on his way to a full recovery. We wish them the best in this unfortunate
event. Our thoughts will be with them.
02.25.05
Our show in seattle this past saturday was massive. Extra special thanks
to SUBTLE for inviting us up for a show, they are extremely awesome fellas.
We are still hard at work mixing the new record and collecting possible
pictures and such for the artwork. ... Kev played drums with Viva Voce
last nite alongside Sam of Modernstate, Danny of Menomena, and Mike of
Wet Confetti. For all that were there, it was a quadrophonic drum experience,
as we set up in the four corners of Holocene.... The Bridgetown Breaks
record should be coming out soon, it is an LP of all drums from four portland
drummers. More info soon.
02.10.05
More good news! We have been invited to play with a show with SUBTLE
(dose one, jel of themselves/anticon fame) and with another of our favorite
bands DEPARTMENT
OF EAGLES in Seattle on February 19th. We are incredibly stoked!!
Subtle's new record is called the new white and was released recently
by the UK's LEX records. Department of Eagles' album Whitey on the
Moon is one of our fave records of 2004, cutting across the gamut
of musical genres, from hiphop to pop to beat-driven-electro. The show
is Sat Feb 19th at the Chop Suey in Seattle.
02.08.05
HUGE NEWS!!! HUGE NEWS!!!! We have officially signed onto the ARENA ROCK RECORDING CO. for a late August 2005 release of our second album
tentatively titled "beat romantic." We are heading back into Miracle Lake
and Jackpot! for some mixing and polishing of the record.
Thanks a ton to all the people who came out to our shows this past week at the Dougfir, PSU, and the Fresh Pot anniversary party. Along with Menomena and the Kingdom, we managed to sell out the Dougfir on fri, rocked the lunchtime studiers at PSU on wed, and finally brought the cops to a packed mississippi Fresh Pot along with our LM family members the Snuggle Ups. The sat nite freshpot affair was also lisa's birthday!
02.03.05
Welcome to the brand spanking new Talkdemonic website!!!! It has been
an incredibly busy new year for Lisa and I thus far. We have finished
recording our second album, tentatively titled "beatromantic", and is
slated for a August 2005 release followed by a full on TD US tour.
Also, January 2005 also has brought the release of our first album "mutinysunshine"
on blue vinyl. I tell you what, they look really good, (a cloud stopped,
and a Nebraskan tour daydream was realized).