Hello all!

Just a quick update on what we're up to.

Recording our next full length "Cursed!" has been paused for the past few months while Marisa was away and Mat recorded Knight School and the German Measles, but will soon resume.
(We've got too many songs, btw)

We've got a couple of shows coming up including a UK/Sweden tour in July on which we're most excited to be playing at the INDIETRACKS Festival in Derbyshire, England on Saturday, July 25th with Camera Obscura.
Stay tuned to our MySpace for more dates on that tour.

Meanwhile in the states, on Saturday, June 13th, we're playing an All-Day music festival called Exit 44 Fest in Queens with a lot of different folks and old friends My Teenage Stride. It's a day-into-evening affair and we go on around 4:45 / 5 pm.
It's at a new art-space venue called Wonderland.

June 13th 3:00pm-2:00am Exit 44 Festival w/ Tigercity and Project Jenny, Project Jan @ Wonderland, 38-01 23rd Ave, Astoria, Queens $10/$13; Exit 44 is an all-day independent music festival featuring some of the best emerging acts in the city. Headlined by Tigercity and Project Jenny, Project Jan, the lineup also includes Action Painters, The Shondes, My Teenage Stride, Schwervon!, and many more. Full lineup of all 14 bands and details at http://www.myspace.com/exit44festival.

Advance tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/65889.

Wonderland
38-01 23rd Avenue
Astoria, Queens


SHOW POSTER HERE

Then on Sunday June 21st we're playing at Public Assembly. The show is being put on by Tom Tom Magazine, a magazine about female drummers.
PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 384-4586

Meanwhile, our latest release, the Back Through Thyme 7" ep is available though mail order (paypal us at this email address), at academy records in Brooklyn and will be available on iTunes, Amazon.com mp3 & other online venues within the next couple of weeks.
The final Lil' Hospital 7" Universe Sucks is also available at Academy Records in Williamsburg and through The Specific Heats mail order.

Also, our frist record, The Specific Heats Aboard a Spaceship of the Imagination is also now finally available on iTunes, etc...
{better late than never, right? ; )}

Also, if you;re on facebook and haven't already, you can join The Specific Heats fan club on Facebook.

that's all for now, stay posi!
Have a great memorial day weekend everybody!
--
<3 The Specific Heats








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You can now download our records on iTunes, Amazon.com Mp3, Rhapsody, Napster and others!
Back through thyme coming soon to these digital vendors.

Hey All, Back Through Thyme as well as The Lil' Hospital "Universe Sucks" 7" are now both available for purchase at Academy Records on N.6th st. williamsburg between berry & wythe.
- Mp

Here's all the reviews that were once displayed on the main page.

Below is some stuff that people have said about us, although we've actually never listened to any of those 90s or C86 bands they mention us reminding them of. oh well, whatever.

The Specific Heats: " Carl Sagan", Skatterbrain, 9.28.06:

You may remember a post I did on The Specific Heats quite a while ago before the new record came out. Well, the new record Aboard A Spaceship Of The Imagination has been out for over a month now and I guess I feel like talking about it again. Originally from Boston, but now relocated to Brooklyn, The Specific Heats make fun pop music influenced both by psych and surf rock. The album's closer(aside from the instrumental "Epilogue"), "Carl Sagan," is one of the best pop songs I've heard in a while, check it out below.

[MP3]: The Specific Heats :: Carl Sagan (Highly Recommended!)
I really have a soft spot for "Carl Sagan" because as I've made very clear before, I love the organ, particularly in pop songs. I'm not really sure why, but that sound paired with the jangle of indie pop-style guitar is just complete bliss to me. This album features many friends of the band on many of the tracks including this one, with Marisa of Skatterbrain favs The Besties sharing vocal duties with Mat. At around the 3:20 mark however, the song drops of leaving Mat's guitar all alone until one by one the drums and organ rejoin building up into a wash of sound and then ending again leaving just guitar to ride out the end of the song

"The Specific Heats Aboard A Spaceship of the Imagination" Album Review from Halo 17 Blog:

"Thanks to the trippy title and the intergalactic landscape that adorns its cover, this record will no doubt find itself surrounded by ambient psych rock albums on the shelves of unsuspecting stoners everywhere. Let this be a warning then to those who are enticed by the idea of being launched from their smoky bedrooms on a spaceship of the imagination because this ship is headed straight to the surf, sun and sand of the 60's American coast.

The Specific Heats are a Boston five piece* with a soft spot for sweet 60's pop (The Shadows and The Kinks often come to mind) and, judging by their name, an apparent love of college chemistry. There is an unmistakeable 21st century indie twist to their sound as well...

The tracks themselves are short and sweet but each has their own sound and an important part in the album as a whole. Opener, Take the Wheel, is sung from the point of view of a boy delighted to be rid of his lying girlfriend. The song has an irresistible bounce and is complete with "do-do-do's" and a cheery melody to match. From here the album moves to Other Boys, a somewhat less cheery tune, again about an untrustworthy girlfriend. The lyrics tell of heartbreak and the minor key makes for a slight air of gloom but this is still pop music with bounce and as always, there's room in there for a "bop-bop-bop" and a "do-do-do" amongst all the betrayal.

Of all the tracks, All Summer best sums up the atmosphere of the record with a lazy beat and a guitar that bends like distant figures on a hot summer beach but themes of innocence and young love on the summer shore can be found in almost any track you care to choose. The most notable deviation from this is the exceptionally fuzzy Brain Song which is, quite simply, a song about looking after your brain. The backing vocals stop in the middle of the track for Mat to deliver a tongue in cheek spoken word lesson on brain maintenance in which he warns of the potential dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. "When I want to journey to the centre of my mind, I read a book" he remarks before the track dissolves into the tune of Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. After a welcome reprise of All Summer, the album winds up with Carl Sagan bringing the listener back to reality with a touching farewell to the summer and the inevitable end to a summer fling." - Peter Matthews

NOTE: * we were a 3 piece, not sure where he came up with those extra members...

The Specific Heats, Aboard a Spaceship of the Imagination (Total Gaylord) Album Review from Erasing Clouds:

The Specific Heats may have set up their album to look like a child's adventure through space, but musically the childlike side is more evident than anything intergalactic. Think soft, simple, catchy pop tunes. At the same time there's way more broken hearts here than you'd find in most children's stories. "I won't be the boy of a girl who thinks she can toy with my heart til it breaks," Mat sings in the first track, singing it like it's a '50s vocal pop hit. But instead of a girl group singing it with confidence, there's a shy boy singing it with sadness and a certain amount of fear. That's the basic approach here: a classic pop sound, but filtered through a minor-key filter of sad wistfulness.

The album's less a quest for some far-off star than for love and comfort and belonging. That search is channeled well into memorable melancholy moments throughout, and into some brilliant, still in their own way reserved (by hesitant longing), singalong, clapalong numbers like "Are You for Real, Mehgan O'Neill", or the group "ba ba ba" chorus at the end of "Ice Cream Shop." It's the wistful, less fun, sadder "Carl Sagan" that ultimately reveals the true nature of the space décor: that true love and memories of good times often seem as distant as the furthest galaxies. – dave heaton

the Specific Heats
Aboard a Spaceship of the Imagination Album Review from DOA:

"...this Boston trio's debut careens wildly through some well-assimilated influences into a clever, chaotic and very catchy place of its own. 60's pop, new wave, indie pop and psychedelia are all put to good use on Aboard a Spaceship of the Imagination, a barrage of unpredictable, odd hooks delivered in inspired-amateur form.

The Specific Heats are a little unwieldy, but their touch-and-go hold on rhythm and key enhance the nervous surprise of these songs. They must have a fuzz-guitar fueled time machine on that titular spaceship, too, because some forgotten, favorite bands are revisited here, bands like 90s D.C. 'gazers the Ropers or New Zealand's chiming and spooky 80s ladies Look Blue Go Purple. 60s casualties like the 13th Floor Elevators or the Seeds also pop up from song to song, all decked out in the Heats' bookish freak-out style.

There's a string of wobbly charmers that open up Aboard a Spaceship of the Imagination, unsteady, recklessly produced, soaked in reverb and full of near-spontaneous invention. The spacey and sour "My Secret Agent Days Are Numbered" and the surging "Other Boys" are the perfect Flying Nun singles that never were (these on - har! - Total Gaylord) - with punky jangle, cavernous echo and a rush of microphone-shy melody.

Equally awesome is "Dependable Ninety-Two" which opens and closes with a fuzzed-out acid riff that's an instant classic. In between is a rambling, minor-chord verse and chorus whose dry, garage-rock simplicity sets off the exotic guitar motif (and I guarantee no one in the band ever referred to it as a 'motif') that reappears at song's end. A smash.

The 50% skill, 50% serendipity approach to production works well for the band, even the 1:05 minutes of hastily strummed "All Summer Reprise" sounds great; in fact, the Specific Heats are the rare band for whom I would advise no improvement in technical skills whatsoever, just write more songs.

I can't think of another band whose shambalic fervor works in their favor more than the Specific Heats, but then again I don't get out enough. The Heats evoke the rawer sound of a less co-opted era, the guitar-pop of hard working labels like Sarah or the aforementioned Flying Nun, completely untethered from corporate interest. "
-Chuck Zak
04/02/07

album Review from Indie-MP3: Keeping c86 alive!:

"...Aboard A Spaceship Of The Imagination by The Specific Heats is the best of the three. It kicks off with Take The Wheel, which is a short, sharp tuneful number from the days of C86. Further in we see the darker heart of the band on Dependable Ninety-Two, Are You For Real Mehgan O'Neill that is reminiscent of the more tuneful side of the Jesus and Mary Chain and almost wrapping things up is Carl Sagan, some unassuming shuffle pop that sparks a grand shimmering wall of guitars ending."

Two new tracks up!
A rough mix of "back Thru Tyme" from the upcoming "Back Through Thyme" 7" EP and a newer demo of a song called "Sit & Cry".

ALSO, in the process, RU 4 Real & Take the Wheel were momentarily deleted, and therefore lost their play counts! Bummer!!!

<3 mat & the 'heats

We're beginning to book our Summer tour for 2008, July 11th through 20th!
booking can be done through: TheSpecificHeats@gmail.com

thanks!
 - <3 them specifik heatzzz.

We're beginning to book our Summer tour for 2008, July 11th through 20th!
booking can be done through: TheSpecificHeats@gmail.com

thanks!
 - <3 them specifik heatzzz.

Things are shaping up for our set at the Daniel Johnston tribute show @ P.A.s and we couldn't be more psyched to play!
It looks like our line-up will be:
Keira on Drums, Myself (Mat) on Guitar & barritone (show debut! - I modified my old brown danelectro 56-u2 and turned it into a barritone this past spring for the specific heats 7" see below...), Kevin will be making his debut on guitar and the latest development (about which we are thrilled!) is that Leah, the other half of Mat's new band the Doane-Givvaschittz, will be joining us on Farfisa organ.
    It will also be nice to spen a few days back in Boston, eat some cool dogs and enjoy the company of our boston pals, the beautiful scenery, great food, and old haunts.
See you there?

In other news, we recorded four songs for a 7" back in feb/march that was supposed to come out this summer, but as of yet it has languished untouched since then and only a couple of overdubs away from being finished and we haven't had access to the master tracks.
We'll keep you up to date on any progress with that.

Until then, if you're not vegan, I highly recommend that you get yourself some cool dogs* and enjoy these fleeting days of summer.
 - Mat

(you Massachusetts folks can find them individually in store 24s, in 4 packs at shaw's/starmarket or in sundae form at a cinema near the cape ann marina in gloucester. OR at Sweet Things on the corner of Graham ave and Metropolitan in Brooklyn, NY.)

http://www.adequacy.net/review.php?reviewID=7784

if the writer only knew how much intentional effort we put into those weird sounds in she went home...
;)

these are a couple of reviews I found recently that I think are pretty rad and more spot-on than most. thank you very much to both of the writers!
 - mat

from CriticalMetrics.com, CantonRep.com, & www.tahoe-world.com  :

The Specific Heats "My Secret Agent Days Are Numbered" (Total Gaylord Records)

"My Secret Agent Days Are Numbered" may have a silly title and a snappy indie-pop dance beat, but its tone is nevertheless overwhelmingly melancholy and nostalgic. The entire song is washed out with severe reverb, from its ghostly lead vocals and icy synthesizer hook on down to the brittle lead guitar notes that articulate the deep loneliness of the track more effectively than its mumbled, mostly incoherent lyrics. The track serves as the centerpiece of the Specific Heats' debut album, and though it is certainly the most downbeat cut on the record, some small bit of its sadness bleeds into even its perkiest neighbors.
- Mathew Perpetua (Associated Press, Fluxblog)

from ErasingClouds.com :

The Specific Heats, Aboard a Spaceship of the Imagination (Total Gaylord)

The Specific Heats may have set up their album to look like a child's adventure through space, but musically the childlike side is more evident than anything intergalactic. Think soft, simple, catchy pop tunes. At the same time there's way more broken hearts here than you'd find in most children's stories. "I won't be the boy of a girl who thinks she can toy with my heart til it breaks," Mat sings in the first track, singing it like it's a '50s vocal pop hit. But instead of a girl group singing it with confidence, there's a shy boy singing it with sadness and a certain amount of fear. That's the basic approach here: a classic pop sound, but filtered through a minor-key filter of sad wistfulness. It tempers the melodies, so they don't immediately come off as bright and snappy, though often they are. The album's less a quest for some far-off star than for love and comfort and belonging. That search is channeled well into memorable melancholy moments throughout, and into some brilliant, still in their own way reserved (by hesitant longing), singalong, clapalong numbers like "Are You for Real, Mehgan O'Neill", or the group "ba ba ba" chorus at the end of "Ice Cream Shop." It's the wistful, less fun, sadder "Carl Sagan" that ultimately reveals the true nature of the space décor: that true love and memories of good times often seem as distant as the furthest galaxies. – dave heaton

and again!
I'm pleased to report that The Specific Heats' "Aboard a Spaceship of
the Imagination" was one of the top ten most played albums (#5) last
week on KDVS 90.3 fm in Davis!

-Clara

KDVS Top 30 for 3/12/07:
1. Secret Mommy - "Plays" (Ache)
2. V/A - "Friends and Relatives Records Presents: Volume Two" (Friends
& Relatives)
3. Minivan - "Broke Down" (Self-Released)
4. O.Lamm - "Monolith" (Audio Dregs)
5. Specific Heats, The - "Aboard A Spaceship of the Imagination" (Total Gaylord)
6. Funkstorung - "Appendix" (!K7)
7. !!! - "Myth Takes" (Warp)
8. Dalek - "Abandoned Language" (Ipecac)
9. V/A - "BIPPP: French Synth-Wave 1979/85" (Born Bad)
10. Swimmers - "Scubacide" (No Label)
11. Sikhara - "Bardos States" (URCKarm/Radon/Soopa)
12. Little Claw - "forthcoming LP" (No Label)
13. V/A - "MESSTHETICS #101" (Hyped 2 Death)
14. Splinters - "The Watchmaker" (Woodson Lateral)
15. Donny Hue & the Colors - "Neighbor" (Sauce)
16. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars / 5RC)
17. Nein,The - "Luxury" (Sonic Unyon)
18. Dr. Dog - "We All Belong" (Park the Van)
19. Black Lips - "Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo" (Vice)
20. V/A - "Art of Field Recording" (Dust to Digital)
21. Art Lessing - "Hook Echo" (Electric Eggplant)
22. Mustafio - "Family Bastard" (Self-Released)
23. Yoshihide, Otomo - "Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet: Live in
Lisbon" (Clean Feed)
24. Tarantism - "Stuck to the Bottom" (Resipiscent)
25. Bonobo - "Days To Come" (Ninja Tune)
26. Finches, The - "Human Like A House" (Dulc-I-Tone)
27. Eddie The Rat - "Once Around the Butterfly Bush" (Edgetone Records)
28. Megamoog - "Young & Naive: 2004-2006" (Digital Cloud)
29. Bipolar Bear/The Pope - "split 10-inch" (Rococo)
30. Ski Instructors - "Kids on the Street / Horoscope" (Dulc-I-Tone)
Best,
Sean

Looks like the Heats Album is charting on KDVS, last week it was #15:

1. Pangea - "Magic Magic" (Griznar Music Collective Recordings)
2. Harvest Moon Society - "s/t" (Griznar Music Collective Recordings)
3. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
4. Reatard, Jay - "Blood Visions" (In The Red)
5. Funkstorung - "Appendix" (!K7)
6. MV & EE with the Bummer Road - "Green Blues" (Ecstatic Peace)
7. Good News Bears - "Live on the Raw Mess Around" (Self Release )
8. Dodo Bird - "Beware of the Maniacs" (Self-Released)
9. The Low Frequency in Stereo - "The Last Temptation of... The Low
Frequency in Stereo" (Self Released)
10. Judith and Holofernes - "Abraca a Tristeza" (Vanguard Squad)
11. Piss Shit Fuck - "Use Your Delusion" (Tent City)
12. Sikhara - "Bardos States" (URCKarm/Radon/Soopa)
13. Car Bomb - "Centralia" (Relapse)
14. Le Flange du Mal - "Advance Tracks from Carrion, My Wayward Son"
(Kimosciotic)
15. The Specific Heats - "Aboard A Spaceship of the Imagination"
(Total Gaylord)
16. Citay - "s/t" (Frenetic)
17. Of Montreal - "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destoyer?" (Polyvinyl)
18. Destruction - "Thrash Anthems" (Candlelight usa)
19. V/A - "8-bit operators" (Astralwerks)
20. V/A: Absolution and Burial - "Sampler 001" (Absolution and Burial)
21. Meego, Walter - "Romantic" (Bril)
22. Les 5 Gentlemen - "Plus Grande Succes" (Belle Anime)
23. Abigail Williams - "Legend" (Candlelight Records)
24. The Strate Coats - "Bummer Bitch" (Hook or Crook)
25. The Pharmacy - "Overcast Summer" (Don't Stop Believin')
26. Frenemies - "Birds In High School" (Peacegang )
27. Ashley, Greg - "Tainted Garden" (Birdman)
28. V/A - "Let's Lazertag Sometime" (Tigerbeat6)
29. Group Doueh - "Guitar Music from the Western Sahara" (Sublime
Frequencies)
30. Strobelight, Sally - "Starships in Silhouette" (Weird Forest)

Stores:

Kim's - aka Mondo Kim's Video & Music
6 St. marks Place, Manhattan, NY.

Honeyspot
Center St. Jamaica Plain, MA.

Soon... The Cake Shop 152 Ludlow st. Manhattan, NY

Mail Order

For International AND domestic orders:
$10 postage paid within the lower 48, $1 extra for international
Total Gaylord Records

Also for domestic orders:
The Specific Heats.com
More coming soon!!!

This is a just compiled Master List of Just About every show The Specific Heats have ever played in reverse chronological order, beginiing with our next scheduled appearences and then de-evolving down to x just geek x (which came after plain old "just geek"- mat's first solo project that began as Recyclable Friend ended in 1998)

If you know of any others not listed, please contact us!

'Heats v 3.0:

1/1/07 Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge MA w/ The Smittens.

10/08/2006
The Elevens - Popfest New England!
Northampton, MA 01060
with: The Snow Fairies (last show and final ablum release!), Bunnygrunt, Math & Physics Club, Hands and Knees and more!

10/01/2006
Cake Shop - Mat Solo w/ The Besties! Manhattan, NY

08/19/2006
P.A's Lounge
Somerville, MA 02143
Going away party! with: Mark Robinson and Indian Style!

08/12/2006
SK Netcafe, Chapel Hill, NC 28201
With the Besties.

08/11/2006 - Moon Colony Razorblade
Jacksonville, FL 32099
with The Besties & mount awesome.

08/09/2006 Little Kings -
POPFEST 2006!
Athens, GA 30601

08/08/2006
The Sorceress Fortress
Tallahassee, FL 32301
w/ The Besties, and SPIKE MOTT AND THE BLACKEST KNIGHTS OF THE DARKEST APOCALYPSE

08/06/2006 - The Fire
Philadelphia, PA 19019
An All-Ages Matinee Show With: The Maybellines, The Lil' Hospital & of course, The Besties!

08/05/2006 University of Maryland - WMUC FM
College Park, MD 20742
With the Besties, the Lil' Hospital, the Maybellines, and the Up Set

08/04/2006 - Valentines
Albany, NY 12201
Day One of our Summer tour with The Besties!!! With Brent Gorton and the Tender Breasts, and Carter Tanton

8/02/2006 - Middle East Upstairs
Record Release Show. w/ The Sneak Thieves (Spoilsport), The Juliet Kilo
Monday July 10th @ T.T. The Bear's Cambridge Ma. w/: Acid House Kings, The Legends, The Bird and the Vine.
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June 9th 2006, Samantha's Graduation Party, Town Historical Society, Holliston, MA. ('heats 2.0)

April 11th 2006 @ P.A.'s Lounge with Bunnygrunt, Shumai & B For Brontosaurus (mat, Jen, Laptop & electric steve)

The Specific Heats (full band v.2.0)
March 17th @ LaSalle University, Philidelphia, PA.
w/ The Besties, Allison Polans, Hopalong Queen Ainsley & Little Light
(Mat & Laptop)

03/10/2006 @ P.A.'s Lounge,Somerville, MA

Jonathan Richman Tribute Show

Special "Modern Lovers" Specific heats. Featuring the specific heats past and present and presenting Abe Scott. (i.e. 'Heats 2.0 Plus Tim & Abe)

w/The Shrinking Islands, B for Brontosaurus, Tony from PA's,
Michael Worthy, many more...



2/23/2006 @ - The Cake Shop, NYC, NY

Besties CD release!
w/ The Besties, & 1 more?


01/01/2006 @ The Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge, MA

w/ B for Brontosaurus, The Smittens (VT), math the band



10/22/2005 @ the specific heats', MA

Tracy's Birthday show w/:
Alec K. redfearn & the eyesores, Protokoll




10/03/2005 @ P.A.'s Lounge, Somerville, MA

w/ Cars Can Be Blue, Hats & Glasses



09/29/2005 @ The Elevens, Northhampton, MA

POPFEST! New England - 2005!

w/ Beauty Sleep, Cars Can Be Blue, Mittens, The Cavemen Go, AV Club.




08/21/2005 @ As220 providence, RI

W/: Surefire Broadcast, Kristen Forbes, & The Rhythm Room



08/20/2005 @ The Specific Heats

w/: The Smittens (VT), Surefire Broadcast (NJ)

& B For Brontosaurus




Thursday, August 4th The Big Horse Lounge, Chicago,IL

w/ The Metroids, Shumai and others...



Wednesday, August 3rd @ DAAC, Grand Rapids,

w/ The Icicles & Shumai



Monday, August 1st, 2005 @ the Velvet Lounge,

N. W. Washington, DC

w: Spudnik and Shumai



Sunday, July 31st, 2005 Cake Shop, NYC

with Shumai, My Teenage Stride, and Beauty Sleep



07/29/2005 @ Tritone Philadelphia, PA

with The Snow Fairies and Shumai.

The first show of our summer tour with Shumai



Sunday July 24th 2005 @ the Specific Heats'

w/: The Besties, Snoozer, & Pants Yell!



06/24/2005 @ THE SPECIFIC HEATS'

an acoustic set (Jen & Mat Only)

w/: Colin Clary, Kevin Huelbig & B For Brontosaurus.



06/14/2005 200 million transit st. providence, RI

(mat and steve only with a few songs by the sheats)

w/ The Cullottes, Bill & Fancie, Sean Wood, Jeff London




05/17/2005 @ the Safari Lounge, Providence, RI

With: Shumai & Col. Knowledge and the Lickity Splits



04/20/2005 @ The Specific Heats'

w/ The Darndest Thing, Drew Danburry , & 1 other...



04/15/2005 @ P.A.'s Lounge Somerville, MA

with: The Icicles, the Smittens and Shumai



April 12th @ Kennedy's Midtown Pub

Envirocitizen Benefit, 3 sets, 1 mat & steve surf,

(fisrt show w/ Jen)



02/18/2005 @ The New Campfire

58 Macy St., amesbury, MA 01913

with: The Divorced, Tigersaw, Sam Rosen & South America,

1986. 'Special' Acoustic Set by Mat & Steve.
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The Specific Heats (Full Band v.1.0)



02/14/2005 @ The Lizard Lounge

1667 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA

w/ Certainly,Sir & Spouse.

Poetry by: Michael Brodeur (of certainly, sir), Dorothea Lasky,
Travis Nichols



January 14th @ the specific heats'

w/ Jason Anderson, Balloon Fight, Casey Dienel



December 15th @ ZuZu, Cambridge

w/ Cars Can Be Blue



December 9th, 2004 @ P.A.'s Lounge, Somerville

Total Gaylord's "Cwistmas Twee" cd release

w/ The Smittens, Shumai, Snoozer, Spoilsport



November 12th, 2004 @ the specific heats

w/ Dear Nora, The Blow, Yacht, Balloon Fight



october, 29th, 2004 @ the specific heats'

w/ The Diskettes, Bad Flirt,



Monday, October 4, 2004 @the All Asia Cafe, Cambridge, MA

with Casey Dienel



september 14th Live on Pipeline

WMBR Cambridge



Saturday, August 7th @ the zeitgeist gallery

inman square somerville

w/ New Grenada, The Juliet Kilo



Monday August 2nd @ the specific heats'

w/ The Maybellines, Majesty, Balloon Fight, Andy Lantz



Sunday, July 25th @ the zeitgeist gallery, somerville

w/ Walker Kong, Snoozer, Shumai.



Sunday May 16th 6:00 pm

5 dollars @ massArt courtyard, 621 huntington ave. Boston

with: Mittens, Mahi Mahi, Pants Yell!, Shumai, U.V. Protection



Tuesday, May 18th @ Herrell's, Allston

with: The Sanguine Orchestration System The New Shoes




Monday, april 19th @ all asia "Science Fair"

with: UV Protection, Sanguine Orchestration System & the new shoes



Saturday April 10th @ space 44 in JP:


w/ UV Protection, The Juliet KIlo, Compass



Thursday, March 25th @ the HOSS,
with:Jason Anderson/Wolf Colonel, Mittens, Balloon Fight,Bret the one man band,Nick Jones



March 9th @ the All Asia, cambridge
w/: Cars Can be Blue, Adam Brodsky, Balloon Fight



February 26th @ the HOSS
with: the Diskettes, Pants Yell, balloon Fight, Bret the one man band



February 17th @ 2004 @ the All Asia Cafe, cambridge, MA.

(mat & steve only) with: taste of silver,

the electric bastards (ex-burning paris), car crash



Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

@ Herrell's Renaissance Cafe (first full band appearance)

w/ baloon fight, the sanguine orchestration system, bret the one man band




The Specific Heats:



Sunday, january 18thm 2004 @ all about records, taunton ma

Guest starring Steve on Viola on "1962 girl"
w/: mark santoro, oftenairborne



Saturday, January 3rd, 2004

@Me & Ollie's Exeter New Hampshire

with The Sanguine Orchestration System


Monday, december 8th @ Mass Art
with Will Brierly, Shane of Sanguine Orch. System. and Star.



Sunday, November 23rd @ the all asia cafe, Cambridge, MA.

with Dan Blakeslee, Sanguine Orchestration System and Star.



Friday November 14th, 2003 @ the HOSS , Brighton, MA.

w/ Mirah, the Blow, Anna Oxygen, Miwah & balloon Fight




x Mat Pat x as The Specific Heats:



special guest appearance at the request of Dear Nora

Saturday, September 6th, 2003

@the H.O.S.S. BRIGHTON MA.

w/ Dear Nora, balloon fight, Bill Conroy & the others featuring nicole kidman.



Sunday, August 24th - Adam Carter Benefit Show

AS220 Providence, RI door: $12

with: Missing Joe, Mike Diplomat, Delphine, Bi Janus, Kendra Flowers, Fourhorse,

The Acoustic Deejay, Doug Frazier, Meerschaum, a special IF NOT FOR ME reunion set




x Mat Pat x:



may 10th @ the UU church in Dedham

GSA benefit w/ Pretty Faces, Now denial, motionless, bete noir, matches&heroin



April @ the Castle 15, Allston, MA

with: Say Anything, Balloon Fight,



March 14th, 2003

with The Love Letter band, The Lucky Dragons, Balloon Fight,
the Odd Udo Experiments, Bill Conroy (and the others starring Nicole Kidman)

@ The Castle 15, Allston, MA


February 15th, 2003 @ Cole's Chapel Basement, Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

with, The Ames Curve, The Kid Eternal, Take Action & Before The Crash



January 17th 2003 @ saint andrew's church, Marblehead, MA.

with: the Ames Curve, Montcalm, Ampere and others.



January 4th, 2003 "Bread in a Can Fest"

@ the Unitarian Christian Church, Canton, MA.

with: One Candle Power, the lead hour, motionless, Greenwell,

Pretty Faces/parkinglotexperiment.



January 3rd 2003 @ the ICC, Allston, MA

with: One Candle Power, Enkphalin,



November 2nd @the sugar shack in Lowell, MA

with: Will Brierly and the Roller Holsters, The Now Denial
and others...



October 24th, 2002 @ The Loft, Wheaton College

with: The Ames Curve



October 19th 2002@the Harvard Radio Station, Cambridge, MA

with: Mirah, Dear Nora, Shemo, the Panda Squad, Family Outing



Saturday, September 28th @ 8 Wadsworth, Allston MA.

with: Monty Love, Kevin Devine (of the Mircale of 86). Ames Curve Cancelled.




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September, 2002 @ NewburyComics Alewife

Cambridge, MA.



September 13th 2002 @ x44x, Norton, MA

with: The Ames Curve, The Losing Kind, The Defeat.



May 5th @ the X-Haus, Boston, MA

with Montcalm



February 6th, 2002 @ the x-haus, Boston, MA

with: Mirah, Wolf Colonel, The Panda Squad



December 14th 2001 @ the X-haus, boston, MA.

with: The Panda Squad, Wolf colonel, a boy named thor



November 24th 2001 @ the X-Haus, boston, MA

with: Purity's Failure, the Kid eternal, a Special Kind Of Fall



2000 @ The Blanding Library, Rehoboth MA.

w/ Will Brierly, Kerry Powers, Livingston Taylor's Protege and others.