been working hard on all kinds of new jams this fall. played some on our trip to Portland and Moscow back at the beginning of the month, have some more that we’ll have ready for our upcoming show here in Boise on SATURDAY DECEMBER 3rd — big Radio Boise party and fundraiser at the Empire Building (10th and Idaho) with our buddies Le Fleur, Atomic Mama, Storie Grubb & The Holy Wars, Run On Sentence (pdx) and Bonefish Sam & His Orchestra. for more info on this show click HERE

lots of exciting things in store for 2012. in the meantime, enjoy this new song that was released back at the beginning of the month on the new Tender Loving Empire compilation “Friends and Friends of Friends Vol. 4″. this song is called PARKOUR, it was written and recorded specifically for this compilation, many of you may have heard it this summer and fall at our shows. enjoy!
Finn Riggins – Parkour by Finn Riggins

we have another new song that will be unveiled in early December that was written and recorded for a collaboration with Jason Sievers and Trey McIntyre Project. stay tuned!

Happy Thanksgiving!
xoxo
FR

lots of rocknrollin at the ‘ol homestead right now. recording on the nearing horizon. we’ve all been loving being home and in the midst of the stellar vibes of the Boise scene // hard to beat Idaho vibes. lots of excitement in the air. it’s energizing. and the jamz are hottt

we have a few regional shows this fall while we finish up work on a new recording. pumped for all of these.

10/21/11 LA GRANDE, OR @ Eastern Oregon Film Festival
10/27/11 BOISE, ID @ Neurolux w/ Mr. Gnome >>>> more details
11/3/11 PORTLAND, OR @ Holocene w/ Radiation City + Brainstorm + more (TLE Comp Release Party)
11/5/11 MOSCOW, ID @ John’s Alley w/ Boy Eats Drum Machine

let’s hang out soon.

FR

what a fantastic summer! so good to see you all. we’ve been havin a blast with all our Western friends. definitely starting to miss our Midwestern, Eastern and Southern friends though, but it’s going to have to wait to 2012. we’ll be spending most of this fall holed up in cabins and studios finishing up a new batch of songs to be released early next year. we do have a few fall dates around the West, but mostly close to home… very excited to be kicking it off with three dates next week with our good friends and heroes TARTUFI

FINN RIGGINS FALL 2011 TOUR DATES

9/6 GARDEN CITY, ID @ UBER TUESDAY at Visual Arts Collective w/ Tartufi
9/7 HAILEY, ID @ Sun Valley Brewery w/ Tartufi
9/9 BEND, OR @ The Astro Lounge w/ Tartufi
9/10 PORTLAND, OR @ Music Fest NW (TLE Showcase @ Rontoms)
9/17 TRAIL CREEK, ID @ Idaho Basecamp Feastival
9/23 MOSCOW, ID @ Prichard Art Gallery Block Party w/ Atomic Mama
9/24 SEATTLE, WA @ Vera Project w/ Atomic Mama
9/25 BOISE, ID @ Muff Mansion w/ Mega Bog + Kusikia
10/21 LA GRANDE, OR @ Eastern Oregon Film Festival
10/27 BOISE, ID @ Neurolux w/ Mr. Gnome

while in Denver this summer for The UMS we played a day show at a rocknroll house and one of the tunes was captured for a Brass Tree Session. this is our ode to the great Box Elder bugs captured by team Brass Tree. fun times.

spring has been off to a great start thus far. boise’s been beautiful and the music happening here has been jazzin our jazz hands.

we’re opening for tUnE-yArDs on Monday at Visual Arts Collective in Garden City, ID!! also with the stellar Buke and Gass (NYC). more info <<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

and we’re warming up with an action packed weekend with TLE labelmates — the legendary JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN (Portland) — yowwww

FRIDAY April 29th at John’s Alley in Moscow, ID w/ Jared Mees & The Grown Children
SATURDAY April 20th at Forester’s Club in McCall, ID w/ Jared Mees & The Grown Children

xoxo
FR

hey lovers

tour rolls on. headed to Missoula today, then Spokane tomorrow, Clarkston on friday and Moscow on Saturday!! lots of exciting developments continue to roll down the pipe…. for one, you can now purchase our new album VS WILDERNESS digitally exclusively through iTunes as of yesterday. so go get it now!! or if you want the fancy glow-in-the-dark packaging, go pre-order from Tender Loving Empire or pick one up at one of our upcoming shows!!

also, the press is starting to weigh in on the new album, here’s some recent reviews that have come to our attention:

OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING (OPB)

SYNTHESIS BLOG

MISSOULA INDEPENDENT

WILLAMETTE WEEK (Music Fest NW preview)

see you soon!

love,
FR

whoa. tour is officially off the ground. shows last week were soooo fun. first at the Silver Moon Brewery in Bend, OR where we met up with our buddies and labelmates CHURCH and they kicked the evening off. such a cool band. Bend treated us all great. but each night would just get better.

on Friday night we held the first of several album release parties for VS WILDERNESS at the infamous Crawlspace in La Grande, OR. this would, at least for the time being (sequel?), be the final show at the Crawlspace and the end of an era as our friends and cohorts in La Grande Bill and Annie (from TEST AUDIENCES) are moving to Alaska to pursue some new adventures. but spirits were high this evening and we celebrated in fine Crawlspace fashion.

the party was enhanced by special guests JARED MEES and YEAH GREAT FINE who made the trek from Portland for the evening. more photos and video to come, but in the meantime, Shaun Daniel posted some pretty rad photos. thanks to the whole crew in La Grande that makes that place one of a kind!

on Saturday night, the weekend culminated in a fantastic show at our homebase, the VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE with CHURCH once again and TALKDEMONIC. we played first and at the end of our set debuted the new video that Jason Sievers did for our song Wake. more on this to come and it should hit the internet in the next week or two. it’s awesome. so thankful for all of Jason’s hard work! the rest of the show was stellar. both Church and Talkdemonic destroyed. it was a truly epic show. and we were stoked to be playing at VaC again as it had been awhile…

we finished the weekend off with a backyard party in Bellevue, ID in our old stomping grounds in the Wood River Valley. Sheryll Mae Grace kicked things off with a fun set of her tunes. then as dark settled in we unleashed some rock music amongst the trees to a nice crew of friends dancing in the yard. flood lights on the trees above. cool fall evening. some more photos from this soon as well.

tomorrow VS WILDERNESS becomes available digitally exclusively through iTunes. the time has come. very excited to finally be sharing this album with you all. and the tour continues…

WED 9/30 MISSOULA, MT @ The Palace (under The Badlander) w/ The Broken Valley Roadshow 21+
THUR 10/1 SPOKANE, WA @ The Empyrean w/ Sera Cahoone + Hey is for Horses + Dane Euland ALL AGES
FRI 10/2 CLARKSTON, WA @ Hogan’s Pub w/ The Murrs 21+
SAT 10/3 MOSCOW, ID — Radio Free Moscow Fundraiser @ 1912 Center w/ The Holiday Friends + Rhythmmemory ALL AGES

thanks again to CHURCH for a fun weekend of shows together!! they’re rad and on tour around the West right now… check them out if you missed them with us. you won’t be disappointed!

love,
FR