I wish they would stop pigeonholing Ola Podrida as reggaeton (it's just one of many influences!), but besides that it's very flattering...

Ola Podrida
Belly of the Lion

[Western Vinyl; 2009]

7.8

David and Nathan Zellner (helmers of Goliath, auteurs of Fiddlestix) have made a video for This Old World, it just premiered on Magnet online, check it out!

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/11/10/film-at-11-ola-podrida/

Hey everyone, we finally opened up a Facebook page, come "fan" us!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ola-Podrida/162883804414

Hey people, we got 4 weeks until the new album is out but there is now another song from it available to your listening ears and downloading fingers....Mr. Aquarium Drunkard posted it today, go check that baby out:

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2009/10/12/ola-podrida-roomful-of-sparrows/

Pitchfork posted a real nice review of Your Father's Basement yestserday. It manages to have references to 400 Blows, Ice Storm, AND Eric B. and Rakim's Paid in Full in it...I feel safe in saying that's probably the first time that combination has been all referenced together:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11465-your-fathers-basement/

Hey folks...Ola Podrida has emerged from its year in a cave, bewildered yet optimistic, and clutching the fruits of its labor, which will be available to the general public on November 10, 2009! It is called BELLY OF THE LION and will be released by the kind souls at Western Vinyl. We are all celebrating wildly. Here's the press release if you care to continue reading:

My friends at the bball blog www.freedarko.com have an amazing book coming out on 11/22 called The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Pro Basketball Almanac that is essential for anyone who is both a hoops junkie and a neurotic nerd with esoteric taste in everything. They just launched the promotional website for the book and asked me to come up with the Free Darko Macrophenomenal Anthem to post on the site...being somewhat of a basketball nerd myself and an avid reader of those guys' site, I of course jumped at the chance. So I lifted a segment from their opening manifesto in the book and accompanied it with a whole bunch of noise. You can listen/download here...and if you are at all a bball fan, check out excerpts from the book while you're at it, you will not be disappointed...

http://www.freedarkobook.com/media_music.html

cheers,
david

I know that we've been back for over a month now, but hey...better late than never. We just wanted to thank everybody who came and saw us in Germany and at ATP last month...we had a truly amazing time and met so many great people, so thank you so much to each and every one of you. We can't wait to come back...and we've got a few photos posted from ATP that were taken by our friend, the amazing photographer Aubrey Edwards (who also did our pitbull eating out of the pizza box photo) and some from Berlin taken by Stephan Laackman, another awesome photographer who was gracious enough to include us in an ongoing exhibit/book project he's working on alongside many of our favorite bands.

And as for the summer vacation part of the heading, this is indeed correct...we're laying low for a little while around here. We're super bummed to report that Mr. Andrew Kenny has moved back to Austin; while we're selfishly sad for ourselves, we're happy for him that he's happily moving back home after several years away and we can't wait to hear his next record. That said, Robert Patton is also gonna be moving back to his old stomping grounds in Portland sometime in autumn and I'm just starting work on scoring a film that I won't be finished with until around that time, so we're gonna lay low for the summer and then come fall start working on recording a whole bunch of new stuff and regrouping a little bit, whether it be here in Brooklyn or in Austin or a little of both...we'll just see when the time comes.  So until then have a great summer and we'll be seeing y'all again some time towards the end of the year...

Cheers,
David

Dear friends in Europe,

I am pleased to tell you that we will be visiting you a couple of times in 2008. From February 11-16, Matthew and I will be playing some dates in Spain and Portugal just the two of us, and from May 16-18 the full band will be in England playing the Explosions in the Sky curated All Tomorrow's Parties. We are in the midst of planning a tour through Germany, Austria, and the U.K. around those dates and will update the site once those are concrete.

Looking forward to seeing you,
David

Hey folks, we done got nominated for an award! Specifically, the "Best Americana Album of the Year" award. And wouldn't you know it, the winner is determined by online voting from fans...and since you're HERE reading THIS, I feel like the odds are strong that maybe you are a "fan" of "Ola Podrida". So go express "yourself" here...

http://www.plugawards.com/general_vote.php

yes!
_ola