The Rosebuds play an acoustic version of “Life Like” filmed Aug. 24, 2009 at Ivan’s home in Raleigh, NC. Directed by Jason Arthurs, audio recording by B.J. Burton.

The Rosebuds - "Life Like" (Acoustic)

Here's a new song about our dear friend Brad Cook (Megafaun).  Thanks to New Raleigh for the write up.  Read the wild story and listen to the track here:

New Rosebuds Song: Megafaun’s “Brad Cook is Not Your Man”

Spiritual journey.  Epic fail.
"This is the first day of my new life," I said standing there on the early morning beach, hung the fuck over.
"I'll wade out and when the right wave comes, I'll dive under and let the water wash over me," I thought. 
But knee deep I realized it was too cold for a cleansing.  So I decided to walk instead.  "Now" I declared to myself in real words, "Now I will find a special shell and will have a keepsake to commemorate the beginning of my new life." 
But I walked a long way and couldn't find anything complete.  I wanted a whole shell to represent, you know. 
After walking a half mile I found a quarter-sized shard that was once the crown of a tiny whelk, only smoothed down.  It looked a lot like a woman's breast.  "This is something" and I picked that up.
A little further down I found a fragment from what I decided was a turtle shell.  "Yeah, an egg shell is symbolic" and I picked that up. 
But then I got depressed thinking how I would display these little things.  I realized how pitiful they would seem to me laying on the dresser or in a wasabi dish or whatever. 
Almost a mile in I threw them down and called it quits.

Kelly's Journal

Here is a the clip from HEROES last night on NBC.  It featured the FIRE HAZZARD Remix of "I Better Run"  which is on our free remix record "Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep"  which you can download here!!!:

http://www.mergerecords.com/store/store_detail.php?catalog_id=536








Come on out to see us on tour starting tomorrow, APRIL 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!

04.02.2009 Knoxville, TN The Pilot Light
Megafaun
04.03.2009 St. Louis, MO Lemp Neighborhood Arts
Megafaun
04.04.2009 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen
w/ Megafaun
04.05.2009 Milwaukee, WI Club Garibaldi
w/ Megafaun
04.07.2009 Eau Claire, WI House of Rock
w/ Megafaun
04.09.2009 Duluth, MN Pizza Luce’
w/ Megafaun
04.10.2009 Minneapolis, MN Whole Music Club
w/ Megafaun
04.13.2009 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace
w/ Megafaun
04.16.2009 Brooklyn, NY The Bellhouse
w/ Megafaun
04.19.2009 New York, NY Kidrockers

XOXO,
IR

Hey gang!

Today marks the first day that the whole Rosebuds Catalogue is available digitally "World Wide" via the wonderful Internet. If you live outside of the US and Canada, you now can go to the Itunes, Emusic, etc.. stores in your countries and buy all The Rosebuds records that you can handle! Help us spread the word, and we are planning a trip to Europe soon, so keep your ears open and your eyes locked! Now we have to go practice for SXSW. Hey yo!

XO, IR

Dear Rosebuds Army,

It is now time to put on your battle gear and hit the streets at maximum velocity to spread some outrageous stories about our new video for LIFE LIKE and to announce to the world that we will be playing at both grand showcases and at intimate parties during this years SXSW Music Festival in Austin TX! The festivities will take place between March 19th and March 21st. So mark the dates in both your day planne and your mental cortex. We'll post in detail what shows we are playing and where you can listen to us live on your local NPR station really soon!

In the meantime, check out our brand new video for our song LIFE LIKE! We would like to thank our wonderful friend Steve Choo for making this beautiful video possible!

Today, for the first time, I went to Strand Bookstore in New York City.
"Over 18 miles of books!" It's a huge bookstore and they have
everything, but still, I think they're counting end-to-end.
For the
most part, the pilgrimage went about how I thought it would--I shuffled
around, peeking at the back covers, flipping through, sometimes
teary-eyed, handling everything. I have to touch all the books so it
takes a while. An hour in, there was a crazy goon in the back of the
store, hunched, lodged into the literary criticism aisle I needed, just
looking crazy and coughing on everything, mouth hanging open, arms
unnecessarily long. As I picked up the Gonzo he
hobbled over and picked up a Gonzo, breathing down my neck and right in
the middle of my pilgrimage! Jesus. Could you just... could you stop being a hobo for a minute!? I'm making a nerdy dream come true here and I'm pretty sure you're farting right now.
I
was going to call it quits then, but decided to check out the rare books
floor first. I cruised around pretty quickly, only handling a Cartier
jewelry book and a $900 fashion design book before I headed for the
exit. But next to the elevator, in a case, I saw it! This first
edition, inscribed copy of Infinite Jest.
And I really wanted it, even though it was $400. But I figure... it
isn't inscribed to me so it might feel weird to have it. Also, if he
hadn't killed himself, you could have just gone to the college where he
taught and talked to him. Now it's all celebrity suicide situation and
his stock is way up because now there's a finite number of these
artifacts out there.
People getting more famous after death...
I
thought about how Kafka, who had only published a little in his
lifetime, left his friend Max Brod strict instructions to burn all his
papers upon his death. But when Kafka died, the dude published
everything instead--including The Trial and The Castle
and all the parables. Or... John Kennedy Toole who never published
anything before he killed himself. And then, years later, his mom submitted his manuscript for Confederacy of Dunces, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Wallace
was different. He understood his success, even if it couldn't make him
happy or fulfilled. He knew he would be considered a great man.

Bashfully, like the youngest nun on the team, I snapped this pic and slipped out.

I've been taking several mini-breaks from Infinite Jest. Some because
of travel and some because of exhaustion. Reading other material, even
scholarly stuff, is a breeze compared to it. Let's see... Here's a
recent list of books:
The Good Earth (my favorite this time of year!)
Great Gatsby
Fathers and Sons
Lolita
Kafka on the Shore
a collection of Nabokov's papers/lectures
and this Georges Bataille work called Erotism: Death and Sensuality.

Erotism--about
the history of eroticism. It's a translation of the 1957 edition and
it's out on City Lights. I picked it up in San Francisco when we were
there for Noise Pop last year because I've been toying with the idea of
a scholarly paper on Erotic literature. And maybe teaching it as a
class, at some point.
I have lots of weird ideas.
Anyway, on the back cover, Foucault calls Bataille "one of the most important writers of the century." So, you know.
If you're gonna get into it, be warned. It's an all-star cast including old Sade.

Some brainstorming on Erotic Literature--the basic syllabus:
Anais Nin (diary + some fiction)
Henry Miller (slight eye roll)
Nabokov
Lawrence

What
else? hmmmm. Any suggestions? These are for sure. I'm flexible after
these I guess. But no romance novels or anything like that. Bleck.
No schmaltz.
I've cruised the collections on Amazon and what-not, which are mostly garbage.
We need real literature.

 Hey everyone!  A little while ago the one and only french film maker Mr. Vincent Moon filmed a video of us singing the song Bluebird while riding in passenger van through the streets of the Lower East Side in NYC.  Follow the link to watch the video!

http://download.blogotheque.net/CAEmp4/inavan/InAVan-ROSEBUDS-Bluebird.mp4

Here is the skinny!

The official worlwide release date for "Just Like Heaven" is today, Tuesday, January 27th! The record will be available everywhere, including: amazon.com, itunes and direct at alr-music.com. Press has been fantastic and the tribute debuted this week at 122 on CMJ! The Rosebuds version of the song THE WALK is on this disk! Go get it!

Tracklisting:

The Walk / THE ROSEBUDS
10:15 Saturday Night / THE POEMS
A Night Like This / JULIE PEEL
A Strange Day / GRAND DUCHY (Violet Clark & Black Francis)
Boys Don't Cry / THE SUBMARINES
Catch / DEVICS
Close To Me / ELK CITY
Friday I'm In Love / DEAN & BRITTA
High / THE WEDDING PRESENT
In Between Days / KITTY KARLYLE
Jumping Someone Else's Train / LUFF
Just Like Heaven / JOY ZIPPER
Lets Go To Bed / CASSETTES WON'T LISTEN
Lovesong / THE BRUNETTES
Pictures Of You / ELIZABETH HARPER & THE MATINEE
The Love Cats / TANYA DONELLY & DYLAN IN THE MOVIES

stream the record on SPIN.com below!:

http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-stream-16-song-cure-tribute-album