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Hey all, just wanted to post a quick blog entry to update people on what's going on with the band.

So far this year has been pretty quiet for us, but we're gearing up for more shows in the summer and fall.

Thanks to everyone who came out over Memorial Day weekend to our SD and Vegas shows. We had a great time and got to hang out with some cool people. Special thanks to One Pin Short fore show swap!

Coming up in June we have two shows in support of Rancid! We'll be making a rare mid-week road trip to Tucson, AZ and El Paso, TX for the shows on June 10 & 11, so if you live within a few hours of either city, it would be well worth the trip!

We're still discussing how to spend our summer vacation (vacation, yeah right) and plans include more shows and possibly an exciting new recording project. More to come later when we sort out the details.

That's all for now!

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After our first string of CD release parties, we returned to San Diego the following week for a sold-out show at the world famous Casbah. Opening the show was a newer local ska band called The Lifters, who have recently relocated to ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />San Diego from somewhere north of here. Judging by their performance, I'd say they are a promising band and we should see good things from them.

After The Lifters, one of the best San Diego bands ever, fluf, took the stage and rocked the house solid! A few days after the show, we were speaking with O and he said that one or more of the tables at the Casbah got ripped out of the ground, and he had never seen anything like that happen at the club before. That is kinda trippy, considering some of the bands I've seen there before, like SLF, The Muffs, etc.

A couple of weeks later and it was back on the road for a few days as we joined up with the Warped Tour for its final four shows of 2007. Things started off rough in Fresno, with tremendous heat and a late set time that had us on stage at the same time as Flogging Molly and Coheed and Cambria. Still, the people who showed up to the Ernie Ball stage to watch us had a good time, and we enjoyed playing for them.

After Fresno, we head to Marysville and had a fun show before hitting the road for a 10 hour trip back to San Diego. The following day was absolutely the best Warped show for us, as the San Diego fans came out in force to listen, dance and sing along. We were extra energized for this show, and we really fed off the energy of the crowd. It turns out we were camped out in the parking lot right next to Adrian from No Doubt, who had taken a detour from a camping trip to spend the day at Coors Amphitheater watching his brother's band play.

Finally, we headed up the 405 to Carson (familiar territory for us after just recently playing X-Games there) for the final show. Once again, Los Angeles came out and showed their support for us, and we had a great time. Highlights of the day included seeing Fishbone tear it up, watching old-school punk bands like Adolescents and Circle Jerks, and getting to talk with Norwood from Fishbone backstage. He's a cool guy, and his personality off stage is just as vibrant as it is onstage.

'Til next time.....

-crAig

We're currently driving south on I-5, heading home from Stockton, CA. We'd like to thank everyone who came out to party it up at the CD release shows! Friday night at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco was a very memorable show for us, and we feel it was probably our most fun playing in S.F. ever. Also, we had a blast playing with Bomb the Music Industry, Chotto Ghetto, Flip the Switch, Monkey, Dead End Darlings, Telecommandos, and all the other bands who performed with us over the last three nights.

Highlights of the trip include...

*Realizing in Hollywood that every single page of the Sustain CD booklet is black, and that we'd have to get special sharpie pens that write in silver ink to write on them (sign autographs). Yes, this was perhaps our most "Spinal Tap" moment of recent memory.

*Bringing our own beer into one of the clubs to drink so it wouldn't go to waste!

*Jaeger shots before, during and after the San Francisco show. That's right, we had our own bottle on stage.

*Listening Mike Park talk about the prison basketball league he plays in. Mike had an early game at San Quentin prison on Saturday!

*Grabbing burritos to go at Balazo on Haight Street - can't go wrong with the Super Burrito! We drove around Haight-Ashbury and then the wharf for what seemed like hours trying to find a parking space. Thanks to the huge SF Dragons lacrosse game going on at Kezar stadium, we couldn't find parking anywhere!

*Crossing the Bay Bridge no less than three different times while trying to meet up with Tony yesterday on route to Stockton. We were hoping an earthquake would strike at least once and make the day more interesting.

*Late-night drinking session after the Stockton gig in the motel parking lot...we actually made it to bed before sunrise this time!

It's the night before the official release date for "Sustain" and we're stoked!

Yesterday we played at X-Games 13 in Los Angeles, and we had a blast. Everyone on the X-Games staff was super-cool, and the people who watched us play really made it worth the early morning trip up the 405 to Carson.

We got to see some killer skateboarding, and thrilling "Dukes of Hazzard" style rally-car racing over in the stadium before heading home last night. We also got to hang out with Union 13's manager and talk about the ska scene in Mexico and South America. Then Efram from Death By Stereo stopped by for a chat. Overall, a great day. We should be adding some video blogs from the event soon.

No time to catch our breath, however, because Thursday we hit the road for more shows as we celebrate the release of "Sustain" with several CD release events in Hollywood, San Francisco, San Jose, and of course San Diego. The San Diego show will be special because legendary band fluf will be playing with us. I don't think they have played together in quite some time.

We look forward to seeing people at the CD release shows. Remember, at the Hollywood, San Francisco and San Diego shows, everyone who buys a ticket also gets a free copy of "Sustain." So even if you've already grabbed it via BitTorrent, you should still get a real copy, if for nothing more than the fact that our guitar player Jonas did all the artwork!

Come out and buy us Jaeger shots! Latez for now...

We just got back from playing three shows on the Warped Tour, and it was a blast! We got to see some amazing bands - both old-school and new-school.

We've got some time off during July, and then we hope to see lots of people come out in August for our three CD release shows - San Diego, L.A. and San Francisco. Check our myspace page for all confirmed show dates.

Within a day or so we will be adding some video-blog postings that we filmed out here at Warped. Andy, our bass player is editing everything down into byte-sized chunks of fun.

Thanks to those of you who came out to the recent shows, introducing yourselves, and keeping in touch through your awesome myspace comments, emails and even photos!

Latez!
Craig - $1.09

Hey, just wanted to say thanks to everyone who made it to the shows last weekend. We had a really great time and got to spend time with really cool people. It was awesome to connect and re-connect with some people who had seen us "way back in the '90's", some of them when they were just kids, and now were still coming out to have a good time.

Things got warmed up Wednesday in Fullerton, and by the time we got to Phoenix the next night, it was on! Satori and Mustard Plug kicked ass, and Los Kung Fu Monkeys joined us Friday night in Hollywood and did a really good job.

Saturday in Vegas we had a surprise visit from our original drummer, Steve. Needless to say that was an endless evening of partying, carousing, and getting kicked out of a casino.

We managed to limp home Sunday, and we already can't wait for the next round of shows in June.

Once again, thanks to everyone who made the trip really fun! Have a happy and safe Memorial Day Weekend.