Hiya guys,

Some KIIIND of crappy news:  we announced the Scarlet Starlet EP release date as May 1st, and true to our track record, are not going to make that.  We had our Icicle Bicycle CD release without CDs; our Conical Monocle release was, what, at least a week late?  This one's gonna be late too.

On the BRIGHT side, we decided that to apologize, on May 1st we're going to put the entire EP on MySpace.

It'll come down (except for four preview tracks) as soon as the actual CD becomes available on CDbaby--probably a week later, at this point.

We're sorry!!!

Love,
-Judith Jewcakes-

P.S.  On an extremely related note, my senior fine arts thesis show is going up this weekend; there'll be an opening on Wednesday 29 April at Montserrat College in Beverly, if any Bostonians wanna come by and see teh peripherins visuals.

Hiiiii!

So the Scarlet Starlet EP/LP (it's one of those awkward in-between lengths) comes out around May 1st -- we are pushing for that deadline -- and we're gonna be on the road starting mid-May which is so fast approacheth, it's driving me nuts.

We'd like to hit any of the following:
BOSTON
BURLINGTON, VT
MANCHESTER, NH
PORTLAND, ME
PROVIDENCE, RI
NEW YORK
PHILADELPHIA
BALTIMORE
WASHINGTON, DC
CINCINNATI
COLUMBUS
CLEVELAND
PITTSBURGH
UPSTATE NY SOMEWHERE...
TORONTO

...and anywhere around or in-between.

We have no manager.  I'm kind of the manager, but I'm also finishing my senior year of college.  I'm also not a very good manager, so please give me a hand.  This is what I'm looking for:

suggestions for small venues
HOUSE SHOWS (got a basement?  We'll totally play in it)
local bands you're in or friends with

We are ridiculously adaptable and have played in a strange variety of places in the past, with a strange variety of acts and at opposite ends of the volume spectrum (see:  PB/The Alphabet acoustic version; PB/The Alphabet loud-as-shit version; etc).

So shoot us a Myspace message, or an email to info @ prettybalanced . com , and we'll chat about stuff fo sho.

Hope ta see ya soon.
Love,
-jewcakes-

April 11th, 2009 at 9:00 p.m.

Montserrat College of Art
23 Essex St.

Beverly,
Massachusetts 01915

US

Cost:$1

A
rare performance with a long set.

Directions from Boston, public transit:
From North Station catch either Newburyport or Rockport commuter rail
to Beverly Depot. At the depot, walk east (straight) on Broadway (goes
by the little park) two blocks to Cabot. Left on Cabot, two blocks, and
right on Essex (directly past the big white church), Montserrat is the
second big brick building on the right. It’s got a big checkerboard in
front.

Yes, we sent four of our precious few remaining copies of IB to CD Baby a couple of weeks ago.

There are those FOUR copies for sale at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/prettybalanced2 for $12, and unlimited $10 downloads. In the next few weeks it should appear on iTunes and the like.

Happy summer!

Love,
-jew-

P.S. FOUR COPIES

Pretty Balanced has 2K friends! Of course it'll now fluctuate between 1995 and 2005 for awhile as people delete their accounts and unfriend us, as per usual, but we have hit the mark for real.

I guess this would be a good time to announce that we're working on an EP.

Hallo,

Conical Monocle (the second album, released mid-January, if you've been out of the loop) is now for sale at CD Baby--the actual CD for $12, as usual, and an mp3 download for $10. The biggest advantage is shipping. Whereas the official store is Judith's apartment and therefore orders go out once a week, CD Baby is an official unofficial store and therefore orders go out daily. So if you're in a hurry, they're your man.

There are other cool things too, like we can now take credit cards at concerts, and in a couple of weeks we'll be up on iTunes and various other large important digital distributors.

Champagne all around.

Love,
-Pretty Balanced-

Blue duck t-shirts, which we were only selling at shows, are now on the merch page:

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

They come in medium and large (sorry, the smalls sold out at said shows). The next t-shirt design, which comes out this month, will be available in the full range of sizes.

Just a reminder, think about donating a couple of bucks to our Edinburgh trip fund. The button is on our front page, in the right column:

http://www.prettybalanced.com

So far we have approximately enough to eat for two days.

Love,
-judith jewcakes-

[x-posted from PB website]

dear you and your friend:

we have an announcement. this summer, pretty balanced is going to the edinburgh fringe festival because we're young and determined. we will be playing free shows there, to be announced in april, and busking our asses off on the royal mile. if this excites you, think about donating to the trip fund--whatever you'd like, even a dollar. dude, if we could get every pb listener on, say, Last.fm to donate a dollar, we'd.........we'd like go to china. and the fringe festival. what i'm trying to say is, every little bit counts.

http://www.prettybalanced.com
of course that isn't the only traveling we'll be doing over the summer; we're already starting to plan for midwest and east coast shows. check back soon. look, see, last time i updated was a mere 11 days ago.

love,
-judith jewcakes-

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

New t-shirts now available online. $10, five different colors, hot model. Get 'em while they're hot!

Love,
-Jew-

P.S. I screen printed them by hand, bitches. That's some rockstar shit.