Post Paradise

Hello friends, Spring is springing, etc, etc. It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, I know but there are many exciting things going on and they are very time consuming things indeed.

Thanks for sticking with us during our months in recording mode, we go a little nuts if we don’t play a rocking show ever so often. But now, the record is about ready for duplication and release so we’re gearing up for a handful of great shows so we can get back into the swing of live performance. It’s been a long time coming so please check out our shows page and see if there’s anything up there you’d like to come and see. As always, we’d love to see you.

We’ve got a benefit show for Respite care, a show with a member of the Mars Volta, the ever-amazing FoCoMx festival, and a will-almost certainly sell out fashion show. I know, right!? We play no games.

Add to this, our new photos for our album art which we should be leaking soon, the many hours a day of tour booking for our summer outing, planning some sort of a cd release celebration (what better reason to celebrate), and getting clothing designed specifically for us for the aforementioned fashion show (seriously), you can see we’ve been a little busy.

I’m not even sure if this post will make sense. I’m so scattered. Really it’s probably more fun to just write a bunch of stuff and not actually proofread. (yup) The moral of the story is that the fact that we’re so busy is hopefully a sign that we’re doing something right.

You’ll be hearing from us…

Merry Christmas everyone!

It really snuck up this year, most likely because we’re in the studio right now working hard on our first full length record. Why, thank you for asking, recording is going swimmingly and we are very pleased with the results even though we’re only about halfway through right now. We’ll be taking a week off to relax in festive holiday spirit, then coming back in to finish it up.

If you’d like to check our progress please take a look at the “photos” and “videos” sections of the website, we’re adding new stuff all the time. You can also follow our exploits on facebook. Not a “fan” yet? Just click the link to the right of this page, it’ll take you right there.

Also, we are going to be performing a little gig for the Fort Collins First Friday Art Walk on January 7th. Just stop by the Art Lab on Linden Street downtown between 6-10PM and come say hello. There will be a wine tasting as well, I know, I know, we just can’t stop being classy. Please stop by if you get a chance, I know when I have wine I get real chatty and I’m pretty anxious to talk to everyone about the record!

Ok, time to get back to work, sorry I haven’t written a new blog in a bit, but, you know, new record on the way and I’m a liiiiiiiiiittttttle excited. Just a little.

Hello all, as the title of this post says things are indeed beginning to get chilly and colorful here in wonderful Fort Collins, CO, and it’s the perfect time for us to finish up our recording. We are demoing right now and narrowing down the songs into the 12 or 13 that will be on the album. Exciting times!

Perhaps if you’ve been to any of our shows recently you’ve grabbed one of our new download cards… These cards give access to a special page on the site containing 2 songs (maybe not the final versions) that will be on the record. Now, here’s the fun part… Being the crazy control freaks that we are, we can change out which songs are available for download at any time. So if you do have one of those cards make sure to check back often! You never know what craziness we’ll be throwing up there to keep you rabid fans appeased!

What’s that? You don’t have a free download card?!!? Well fear not, just send an email to webadmin@postparadiserock.com and we’ll make sure that you get added to our mailing list and thus, get access to our super secret download page.

Now as far as shows, yes, we were kind of trying to play less to focus on recording and yes, we’ve given up on that and added two new shows. We will be playing a Halloween shindig on Oct 30th at a super sweet gallery downtown called On Display and then we’re hitting up Road 34 on Nov 6th. If you’re out and about please stop by, say hello, and know that we’ll be trying out a bunch of possible new album tracks that we may have never played before…

In the meantime, please check out an amazing interview / acoustic performance video taken by Erika Iverson for InsiderIowa.com

Thanks, kids see you soon!!

Hello all, I am all settled down with the best cup of coffee that I’ve had in hours and I’ve started thinking about the last week or so… The highlight, of course, being this year’s annual New Belgium bike parade. It was so wonderful to see everyone out at Tour de Fat this year. If you were there I hope you grabbed a water bottle or a sticker that we were handing out. We had such a blast and got to meet even more awesome people than last year. Thanks again.

But what was that flier attached to said water bottle, you ask? That was a flier for our show at Hodi’s Halfnote on Saturday, September 25th. We will be headlining the show, but with a couple special treats. Our very own Erik Babineau will be performing with his side project of the same name. We will be his backing band so don’t get confused when you see us all up there twice. Just click his name above and check out his song sampler that he has recently posted if you’d like to get a feel for his music. Also just added to the show will be our friends, Paean. We haven’t played with them in ages so it should be awesome.

Now we will be having one more band hopefully… (this is where you come in). If you listen to KCSU 90.5FM (which you should), you have no doubt heard the ad they’ve been running about our contest. Basically, local bands need to send their info and an mp3 to KCSUcontest@gmail.com to get radio play and voted on so you can win the opening spot in our show. We really just want to meet some other cool bands out there and play some good shows so please, if you know a band or are in a band, don’t hesitate to send an email. We were really lucky to have some amazing bands help us out when we were just starting and we can’t wait to pass on the love.

Thanks guys, join me next time as I discuss our video biographies and what I like to call “Custom Live Performances.” What are those, you ask? Oh, you’ll see…