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we've started a kyte.tv channel for late night rehearsals, songwriting sessions, and randomness.

cruising around on the net, we found this top ten of 2008 list that our EP made...do you know any others we've been included in? please share, if you do. we thank those who remembered our EP and hope you look out for the full length this coming september!
cheers.

sputnik:
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=17938&memberid=216702

we have just spent the last two nights in big sur on highway one. it is so beautiful here. the vibrations call to us. the trees embrace us. we didn't even know we had booked the same weekend as the festival in the forest. of course by the time we realized this, tickets were sold out. the night we arrived we sat on the porch eating our findings from the ferry building farmer's market in san francisco with wine from a winery we stopped in on our way to big sur. we could hear the murmurs of music coming from the forest. now if we could just find a little cabin to rent for an extended amount of time. i can actually sleep here! (insomnia-rachel)

austinsound.net asks all in the golden afternoon to...sound off

this year i performed during sxsw for the 7th time with my band experimental aircraft. sxsw is always fun, but as the festival grows older it also has become more corporate and the initial idea behind the fest seems to get lost. i have been ill and wasn’t feeling up to my usual sxsw consumption of bands, so i limited myself to one band (or venue) per night. here’s the round-up...

wednesday
12 march 2008
THE DUKE SPIRIT





thursday
13 march 2008
THE RAVEONETTES



friday
14 march 2008
WHITE RAINBOW & ATLAS SOUND

videos forthcoming...

saturday
15 march 2008
FILM SCHOOL



and here we are and the end of it all...still in tact and smiling...
love, rachel

after a disappointing friday in austin (we missed the movies’ set by 15 minutes!) rachel and I decided a road trip was in order - a hurried four hour drive allowed us to see the majority of their set in denton - these guys are one of our favorite american bands right now - evoking the spirit of nico in their trademark hauntingly beautiful sound, their music is innovative and original while being firmly rooted in the ’66-’69 golden age of psychedelic recording - (in fact popular demand requested gena start performing their cover of knights in white satin in english, as opposed to the french version we got to see at last year’s SXSW showcase) - of course it never hurts to hear the introduction "I wrote this song in 1966." catch these guys while you can; their tour with rogue wave is brief.



enjoying dutch goat cheese, drycreek valley (sonoma) zinfandel, and generic hummus in our hotel - tomorrow we dine at spiral......carlos