We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be an incredible night of music – we’ll be playing Portland’s historic Crystal Ballroom for the first time this Saturday, August 7th!  Doors open at 8pm and the show starts at 9pm, and tickets are only $5 at the door.  We’re joined by our friends Sunbeam and Tango Alpha Tango in opening up the night for the always incredible Parson Red Heads.  Hope to see you there!

Hey friends -

We’re excited to say that “Save Me, Clara” is the NPR song of the day today (May 28th)!  (Click the NPR logo above to see the article).  Thanks so much to the kind folks at NPR and to the always amazing Barbara Mitchell for a great write up and post.  We love NPR  : )

This past weekend was the anniversary of the famous “Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” (and William Dawes), and we thought we’d take a break from our current recording project to give a quick update.  We’ll be releasing the bonus EP, William Dawes and Other Forgotten Gems, for purchase/download in the coming weeks (up to this point it’s only been available with the purchase of The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry).  The EP includes the song “Paul Revere“, and our good friend Doug Blair, who put together the artwork for The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry, has been working on an animated video for the track. Here’s a little teaser he sent me:

We’ll keep you posted on the progress of the video and on the release of the new EP.  If you don’t already have our latest album, The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry, and you’d like a copy, click the link below to jump to our online store and the bonus EP, along with the song “Paul Revere”, are included.  We’ve got the record in vinyl too  : )

CLICK HERE FOR THE ONLINE STORE

We’ll be on the road to southern Oregon this weekend with shows in Eugene on Friday night at Sam Bond’s and in Ashland at Alex’s on Saturday night.  If you live in the area, come out to the show and say hi – we’ll have a few burned copies of the new EP with us.

Have a great week and hope to see you soon,

Johnny

ps – Thanks again to the kind folks at “My Indie Life” who featured us in their latest episode -

I hope you’re all enjoying what has turned out to be a lovely month of March so far (at least here in the Northwest)…

We’ve been spending quite a bit of time in our home recording studios over the past few weeks and we’re looking forward to releasing more new music soon – we just released one of our latest demos, “Oh, Louise” as a free download on our website, and we’ll be playing another couple of new tunes for the first time on Friday at the Doug Fir here in Portland.  We freely admit it: we love playing new songs. It’s always fun when you’re trying something out for the first time in front of an audience, and we’re very much looking forward to this weekend of shows and trying out a couple of the newest songs.

I’m also happy to say that we just got a shipment of vinyl copies of our latest record, “The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry”, and for those in the area…we’ll have copies with us at the shows this weekend. For those not in the area, we’ll ship it to you…they’re available on our online store, just click the link below : )

http://www.thedimes.com/store.html

I hope your week goes well and maybe we’ll see some of you this weekend? We’re at Doug Fir in Portland this Friday night (March 26th), and then off to Bend, OR on Saturday night – until then,

Johnny