Review from Aquarius (pretty good, except our drummer is called "Chest". I like it)

A Bay Area super group of sorts featuring Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof, Badgerlore), Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), Kelly Goodefisk (ex-Deerhoof), Chest Smith (superstar drummer, he's played with Tom Waits, John Zorn, Mr. Bungle, Nels Cline, Fred Frith, etc.) and George Chen (k.i.t., man about town). Ok now that we've got that out of the way on to the music. This is lovely and dark folk rock. You can for sure hear the remnants of the Deerhoof past that some of the members share, and a collective art-punk past that recalls moments of Saccharine Trust / the weirder side of SST, all delivered in a much more dusky, dusty woods kind of way. With one foot planted in improv free rock and another in darkwoods folk, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle hold tight to their punk roots with one hand while their other runs it fingers through dirt, leaves and soil.

http://aquariusrecords.org

And we are in the new issue of Dream...(I guess, I haven't seen it yet.)

http://www.dreamgeo.com/

there is an interview with us in hte new zine o sirhan, o sirhan. lots of other nice stuff in ther too with mary halvorson, deerhoof, animal collective, jorge boehringer, and a bunch of others! comes with a nice cd of jorge's music.

Che is even putting together an OSOS festival, details below:

7:30pm April 6th at the Cakeshop 152 Ludlow st.

The Willing
Vachina
People
Core of the Coalman
Daniel Carter

7:00pm  April 7th at Union Pool 484 Union Ave., at Meeker (walk west down N.
8th & you'll find it under the BQE)

True Primes
Core of the Coalman
Ches Smith/Mary Halvorson/Devon Hoff trio
more bands TBA
 

hope you had a safe and happy new year's. please celebrate the start of it with us.

monday january 2nd 

modern reveries (miya, chris and layla. they are practicing right now and it sounds really good!)

tank attack (sarah and dug) acoustic

modern problems (mrr house band)

at mama buzz
6-9 pm
http://mamabuzzcafe.com
$3
all ages early show

tuesday jan 3
bottom of the hill
all ages show

xbxrx
soft pink truth
7 year rabbit cycle
16 bitch pile up
$8
9pm

we are very pleased we were asked to be included on David Tibet's (Current 93) compilation CD that is putting profits towards HIV/AIDS work in Africa.

More info on the comp is here:

Mark Logan and David Tibet are assembling a triple CD album benefit compilation with all profits going to the work done by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) for people with HIV+ status and AIDS in Africa. The project is planned for a late autumn to December release on the Durtro/Jnana label. Artists confirmed for the compilation are:

David Toop, BMX Bandits, Paul Burch (Lambchop), Cyclobe, William Basinski, Brett Smiley, Bill Fay, JS Durtro Wagner, Stephanie Volkmar, Richard Buckner, Simon Finn, Six Organs of Admittancce, Michael Gira, Antony, Baby Dee, Thighpaulsandra, Jarboe, Devendra Banhart, Pantaleimon, Faun Fables, Nurse With Wound, Sundial, Current 93, Little Annie Anxiety, Jim O'Rourke, Backworld, Matmos, Peter Stormare, Michael Yonkers, Michael Masley, Christoph Heeman, Andrew Chalk, Mirror, The Pastels, Jad Fair, Linda Perhacs, Rose McDowall/Sorrow, Edward Ka-Spel/Legendary Pink Dots, Einar Orn/Ghostdigital, irr.app.(ext.), Taurpis Tula

http://durtro.com

this is sort of old news but free porcupine society's website hasn't been updated in a while, so it seems faster to use this forum.

the vinyl version of wind machines has been out for a few months. fps is being carried exclusively by revolver now, so it should be available at your better record stores, but the mailorder link is below, and there are short mp3 clips if you haven't heard it.   

http://www.midheaven.com/artists/7.year.rabbit.cycle.html

so miya and ches are living in la. they are doing well, ches is playing in night porter and good for cows as usual, and has started playing with marc ribot in new york. miya is in grad school and still playing in modern reveries when time permits.

rob just put out a new badgerlore record! it is super epic and amazing. the cd is on fps and the vinyl is on the ever-lovin' yik yak. badgerlore is rob with ben chasny, tom carter, pete swanson and now (for more flavor) glenn donaldson. all good dudes.

jamie just got back from an epic us tour with xiu xiu and yellow swans. new jams are great.

george is now playing drums in vholtz, and doing whatever other band-for-a-day presents itself. kit just put out a new split 7" with rose for bohdan on hug life/hello asshole.

we finished tracking and most of the overdubs for the new album we recorded at new improved. plans soon to mix the thing with john dietrich and release sometime in early 2006. hopefully there will be some record release shows to look forward to.