So amazingly somehow the video that was just finished about our big album release event made it to the number one spot in the music section of Current.com This is amazing news and we're super excited about all the exposure we're receiving from it. If you haven't checked the video out yet follow the link below to do so. If ya dig it please vote it up so we have a chance at getting it shown on Current TV! A huge thanks goes out to everyone involved in making this video possible. 

The Albums finally out and we're so excited. Its only up on itunes and other online stores right now but a physical copy will be available june 23rd. Which by the way is the day of our Cd Release event at Icon in downtown Orlando. Our good friends at Broken Box Films are hosting the event and working with us to bring you an experience unlike anything you've ever experienced before. The event will be fully interactive. We will be utilizing mobile phones and audience interaction to provide an amazing visual experience. Everyone is going to flip out when they see this stuff it blew my mind 20x over. If you were at the final battle of the bands show you got a small, small taste of what's in store. So clear your schedule for the evening of June 23rd and while you're at the next morning because this is going to be one epic party. Special Guest DJ Medison from Buffalo New York will be flying down to keep the night going after we play. Another special guest TBA will be starting things off amongst the sick visuals. We'll be having several special guest's during our set including Alain Bradette on Sax who is going to tear the place up. Keep your eyes open for short video teasers we're putting together to get everyone siked for the event. Spread the word and we'll see you there! Enjoy the Record :)

Kevin

Click here to view the first Teaser for the Event!

The album has been sent out and is just a couple of weeks away from its online debut! It will be available on just about every popular online music distributing site. Shortly after it will be released on CD. There will be a huge event unlike anything you've ever been to held in June to celebrate its release. We will randomly start putting up new tracks so keep an ear close! We are about to burst at the seams in anticipation of dropping this album! We're also already back in the studio working on some new stuff already in our spare time. So get ready for an explosion of new stuff from Mirror Pal very very soon. :):):):):):):):):):):):)

Life's awesome, love,

MP

Hey if you've got alittle money to roll with this halloween this party is going to be incredible. Instead of Ostrich playing we shall be taking the stage. There wil be a magic show, out of this world decorations, hookas set up throughout, acrobats and a ton of other things to blow your mind and ensure a great time. Hope to see some of you there if not then most definetely at the nov. 4th show with Reign of Kindo. If you havent checked those guys out please do they are incredible.

See ya!

Yep.....we're almost done with the album. We are really excited and can't wait to share it with everyone. Its really been an adventure recording this album. We've recorded bits and pieces of it at several different locations and had quite a bit of help from our friends. Alot of love has gone into this record and we hope you can all feel it when it comes out. Thanks to everyone who has supported us, bought a shirt/E.P./sticker/come to a show/showed us to a friend youve all helped make this record possible. Believe us, we want this thing out just as bad as some of you might. It has taken us quite a bit but the time is near and we'll get it in all of your ears as soon as humanly possible. Keep checkin in for more updates and we hope to see you all soon! Hopefully at one of our shows coming up so we can play music for you!

PS.....the album is going to be called  "We Are"

 

"Mirror Pal considers their music a candidate for the forgotten genre of "Other" first and foremost, followed by alternative and ambient. This collection of subtle misnomers could be more easily identified in the category of "Avant Garde," or quite simpler - "Art unlike anything you've ever heard of before." Now that's music that sounds attractive. During their brief existence, Mirror Pal has enlightened Central Florida of the appeal of abnormality by dousing the Orlando music scene with a dash of originality and creativeness. Needless to say, their song "Effection" could be mistook for a Radiohead tune, which is a sign of their mass appeal to the artistic underground. Their style is so individually ambiguous that I have heard a fan describe them as "Incubus meets Circa Survive." Judge for yourself."

See it here: http://blog.rockforhunger.org/

Thank You Chris!

"Ambient/psychedelic group Mirror Pal has been forcing listeners to perk up their ears and pay attention to a new sound coming out of Orlando. Those listeners should have a little bit more material to pay attention to in the near future; the band spent the end of the summer recording its first full length album and plans to release it sometime this month."

Read It here...
http://www.performermag.com/sep.orl.0809.php

By Justin Strout

"Let's meet up at Big Tree Park!"

Stephen Lighthouse, a lanky, ardent bassist just old enough to drink in the bars he plays at a few times a week, stirs me from my midday doldrums with a breathless phone call. I'd mentioned that I wanted to meet with him and his band, Mirror Pal, at some point. Their downtempo indie rock impressed me with its patient ambience, their paranoid fretboards begging to hitch a ride on the gelled light beam from a stadium stage rather than bouncing back at them from a dozen ass-soaked barstools. The Jeff Buckley countertenor of singer Drew Yardis, also only 21 and a proud father, somehow makes come-on lines like, "The universe begins and ends in this room/Slow your spinning eyes and place your head back in the sky," seem as though they're delivered by a trusted guru rather than a steely assailant, and there's a dangerous thrill in knowing that the song could take him in either direction.

In their short existence, the quintet hailing from various suburbs of Seminole County has found itself in the fortunate position of being lauded and misunderstood all at once. For starters, they're not from DeLand, as some early web reports (and this writer) first assumed thanks to their buzz-heavy shows at Caffe da Vinci, their performance at the DeLand Original Music Festival and some recording they did at Stetson University. For another, they're not nearly as dark as they sound.

This is more like it. Big Tree Park off Thornton, the smallest park I've ever seen: just a lonely bench underneath a lumbering cypress tree. The sunlight has trouble penetrating the thicket and that's how I want it today. Mirror Pal is late.

"I guess there are two Big Tree Parks in the area," Lighthouse phones in. They're waiting for me in Longwood, 45 minutes away at this time of day.

I finally arrive and this Big Tree is warm, inviting. Sunny. It's nothing like their music, or my mood, since I've been listening to their atmospheric tunes for a couple of days straight. A doughy father swings his little princess in the backdrop as Lighthouse, Yardis, guitarist Kevin Cash, 21, and drummer Ranson Vorpahl and keyboardist Aaron Randall, both 20, stretch out on wooden tables. They look like my sophomore-year summer, and that depresses the hell out of me.

Cash, Lighthouse and Vorpahl are clean-cut and wear the perpetual half-grins of full-time surfers who only glimpse ambition when it serves to stick it to imagined authoritarians. (Vorpahl's permamused expression, in particular, is Apatovian in scope and just as disarming.) Yardis, however, is more reserved, and despite enduring his first press sitting, employs a practiced, hiccupped pause before speaking – a veteran's control move.

"I think one of the major things we hope to accomplish in the band is positivity, through the beats and the lyrics," says Yardis. "Kids [say they're] not listening to the lyrics, just listening to the beat. Well, you are, and you really have to question how you're living your life. There's a whole spectrum of life that our generation's totally missing out on."

"Because the light isn't being shone on it," adds Lighthouse.

"Everybody is so beautiful in their own way and it's being shut down by lyrics that are senseless."

"We have this amazing technology – the Internet, MySpace, TV – messages can be put out there and the whole world can hear it," says Cash. "And what are they putting out there?"

"'Drink as much as you can,'" concludes Yardis.

I ask Yardis if he considers himself a Luddite and he denies it. "He still doesn't have a MySpace," Lighthouse laughs.

What have I walked into, and how did I get their music so wrong? Here I am, wallowing in sonic despair – something I enjoy very much, by the way – through Mirror Pal's rabbit-hole tracks: the foreboding trip-hop of the aforementioned "When These Walls Are Down," the sarcastically midtempo "Shoes and Socks" ("This sidewalk ends on this first floor/Just write it off like you don't care/'cause you don't"), which devolves into a minor-chord nightmare of clutter and primal cries, or the Kid A anxiety of "Hands Behind Your Back" ("I give out/I give in/What you took from them isn't that which you intend"). Yet Mirror Pal unanimously contends that their music is about peace and happiness. A glance at their online blog confirms their nirvana. A sample entry from February 10, in full: "we love life."

"We're getting spread thin," relates Cash. "I personally feel every day I'm pulled all these ways to rush, rush, rush. Have this job to make this money and do this. Go to school. It's not really a reason, it's just 'cause we're being told [to do it]. I want to make music that [tells people] you are in charge of your life. It's up to you to feel how you want to feel and do what you want to do."

Perhaps it's not unusual that college-age musicians profess a different philosophy than their music suggests. Emotional turmoil doesn't manifest itself in what we say. It's found within the creases of an existence, between the strums of blinding visibility and dire reverie. Mirror Pal's true musical selves are still under that cypress tree at the other Big Tree Park, just out of sunlight's reach.

"I think the ideology should only be explained in interviews, not onstage," says Yardis. "Onstage you're an entertainer and you should be entertaining. But what you're saying is important because it's out there. It's pleasing to the ear and that's what you surround yourself with. I hate to sound like a parent, but I am, and I can't stand to hear the stuff being put out there that might influence you."

Cash agrees. "What's that song out there now? 'I wanna fuck in this club'? I've heard that song on the radio like 10 times a day. Why do people want to hear about fucking in a club?"

Damn, I love that song.


By Justin Strout

Mirror Pal- Music comes with side effects
Author: Denise Burnsed, Thursday, March 20th, 2008 (www.myfavebands.com)

Take a listen to Mirror Pal (www.myspace.com/mirrorpal), an amazing indie band based near Orlando, Florida. Describing their music as "soul/rock/ambient" on their website, these guys really do put out a sound that fits that description.

Last year, I walked into a club in the Daytona Beach area…and found myself stopping dead in my tracks alongside the stage…because of the music. Mirror Pal was performing, and what was emanating from the stage was intricate, mesmerizing, and very impressive. I was enjoying the moment, and became an instant fan. "Enjoy life" happens to be a Mirror Pal motto.
So, let's see: instant fanship….enjoying life…sounds like doses of Mirror Pal comes with some pretty good side effects.

Thank you very much Denise!!

Venues/Festivals/Events we've Performed.


Venues: Backbooth/Orlando
The Social/Orlando
The Peacock Room/Orlando
The Haven/Winter Park
The Central Station/Orlando
Caffe Davinci/Deland
The Bank and Blues/Daytona Beach
Underground Bluz/Orlando
Screamers/Orlando
Will's Pub/Orlando(RIP)
Taste/ Winter Park
The Liquid Cellar/Orlando
Tatame'/ Winter Park
Stardust Cafe/Winter Park
The Plaza Theater/ Orlando
Suite B /Orlando
Holly and Dolly/Altamonte
Tir Na Nog/ Daytona
Fusian Ultra Lounge/Orlando
Medici's Cigar and Wine Bar/ Oviedo
Austins Coffee/ Winter Park

Festivals/Locations: Deland music festival 2006/ In Front of City hall
2007/ Off of Main St.
Anti*Pop Music Festival 2007/ Central Station

Florida Music Festival 2007/ Suite B

Other Locations: Enzian Theater/Winter Park
The Orlando Science Center
The UCF Student Union
The Erie Surf Factory Party (2006,2007)/Edgewater
Cinco De Mayo @ Tiajuana Flats (2006,2007)/UCF
The House On Rouse/UCF
City View Apartments/Orlando
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity (UF)

Radio Stations We've been aired on: 91.5 FM Rollins Radio
95.7 FM Whog
104.7 FM Embry-Riddle Radio

Plus Many Parties and other random places.. If there are any shows you might recall that we don't have listed,please shoot us a message!