fun night, although a little quiet, in Pendleton last night. we were competing with Mud Wars. an annual event held in conjuction with Homecoming in which high school girls have a big tug-o-war in the muddy rodeo grounds. pretty tough to compete with high school girls in mud…. but we’re thankful to the enthusiastic crew that did come out to the show! loved the opener, DAY MOANSTAR with his neon green suit and dancy tunes. and the Pendleton Center for the Arts was a cool place ran by cool people. thanks to Peter Walters for the show and the tour of the old jazz club!

headed to McCall tonight, then the big Boise release party tomorrow night… on Saturday, we celebrate in Portland at Berbati’s Pan with three of our most favorite artists in the US much less in Portland. if you haven’t already, check out JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN and WORLDS GREATEST GHOSTS and TYPHOON. this will be a killer show!!

and the icing on the cake is that our friend and past collaborator JOSEPH VON STENGEL is flying out from New York to do his digital mash-up projections during our set! very excited to see what he has in store for us all.

Saturday night. October 10th. Berbati’s Pan. Portland, OR. don’t miss it!

man, all kinds of exciting things. thanks to everyone that came out to the shows last weekend!! really fantastic time in Moscow + Clarkston + Spokane + Missoula. love you all. here’s a link to some photos and a little review from the Spokane show thanks to CheckitoutMusic.com

amazing time at the Record Exchange last night… follow that link for photos!! all kinds of exciting shows this week… check our full schedule at myspace.com/finnriggins

really nice articles in the Boise Weekly today and they posted the new video that fellow Boisean Jason Sievers did for us… stop-animation!! what a labor of love!!

off to Pendleton for a show at the Pendleton Center for the Arts!! all ages!! show tomorrow night @ Foresters in MCCALL with Jared Mees & The Grown Children (portland) and then huge awesome party and duel with LE FLEUR on Friday at the VAC. it’s going to be unreal!! also performances by BOY EATS DRUM MACHINE (portland) and JARED MEES & THE GROWN CHILDREN and VAGERLY (boise) and A SEASONAL DISGUISE (boise)!! the evening will be emceed by Alley Repertory Theater star Nick Garcia and he will be performing some of his skits + break dancers + door prizes + and of course the “knife fight”!!

check out this epic poster by JULIA GREEN and ERIN CUNNINGHAM

we’ll stop there… we don’t have a night off until the 26th in the LA area. so lots more to talk about. including Saturday’s huge album release party in Portland. more on that tomorrow. we have to hit the road.

love,
gilbert

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