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We finally did it......

Two Sheds are now on Facebook

Giddy up.

Buy the Bay Bridged Vol. II 10" Picture Disc HERE

It features a NEW TWO SHEDS song.
More info below:

FOR RELEASE on November 11, 2008

Rogue Wave, Emily Jane White, Birds & Batteries, Two Sheds, and Okay Record Exclusive New Songs for Bay Area Indie Rock 10" Picture Disc Compilation

Five of the best indie rock, experimental pop and folk rock bands from the San Francisco Bay Area have
come together for a unique 10" picture disc release to benefit local indie music nonprofit The Bay
Bridged.
Headlined by stunning new material from Oakland heroes Rogue Wave, the compilation, titled
The Bay Bridged, Volume 2, features new songs recorded exclusively for the album by Rogue Wave,
Emily Jane White, Birds & Batteries, Two Sheds and Okay. It's a diverse batch of songwriters united by
a high quality and eclecticism that's unmistakably influenced by the unique place they all call home.
As
a picture disc, the 10" features artistic contributions from two of the Bay's best underground visual
artists, making the record stimulating visually and aurally.
As an added bonus, while a vinyl-only release, every record comes with a digital download coupon for
high quality mp3s of all five songs.

Track listing:
Side "Tree"
1. Rogue Wave - "Empress" (2:41)
2. Emily Jane White - "Liza" (4:11)
3. Birds & Batteries - "Lightning" (5:36)
Artwork: "The One" by Lawrence Yang
Side "Bear"
1. Two Sheds - "Good Intentions" (5:42)
2. Okay - "Goal" (6:49)

Artwork: "Ursidae Foliaceous" by Nathalie Roland
All songs are FCC clean for radio airplay.
Principal recording for all songs completed at Tiny Telephone
Studio on September 6, 2008 and Faultline Studio on September
7, 2008. Additional recording and mixing completed individually
by the bands. Mastering by John Greenham.

About the bands:
Rogue Wave have established themselves as one of the Bay's most popular musical exports, with
acclaimed records on Sub Pop and Brushfire Records, and songs featured in a variety of television
shows and commercials. With the band plotting their next album after spending 2008 on the festival
circuit, they dropped into the studio to record "Empress," an exclusive song for this compilation that's
got a Velvet Underground stripped-down quality to it while retaining the knack for atmospherics and
vulnerable melodies that make the band such a crowd-pleaser. It's a unique song to kickoff a very
unique album.

Emily Jane White's gothic folk-rock debut Dark Undercoat (Double Negative/Talitres Records) has won
critics' and fans' ears in the US and abroad. "Liza" combines moody strings and White's commanding
voice into a haunting mini-epic. "[C]omes alive with enough gothic imagery for an Edgar Allan Poe
novel." (Rolling Stone's 'Hot Issue') "White gives her wounds names and turns them into living
characters, able to break hearts or carry axes. She personifies and abstracts them." (The Fader)

Birds & Batteries have built a national following the old fashioned way, through numerous cross-country
tours and an electronic country-rock genre-bleeder in I'll Never Sleep Again. "Lightning" represents the
first hints of what their next album might sound like, and it defies classification, weaving a tapestry of
heavy, uplifting and awe-inspiring moments into one amazing work. "[A]ching electro-country anti-
lullabyes" (Spin.com) "A pleasure to behold, on album and in a live setting...You won't be
disappointed." (Crawdaddy) "This is an album so gorgeous I find myself playing it over and over...[O]ne
of the best things I've heard this year." (Future Sounds)

Sacramento-San Francisco quartet Two Sheds' self-titled EP (Filter US Recordings) and appearance
alongside Rilo Kiley and Blonde Redhead on Give, Listen, Help IV have built intense buzz for the band's
atmospheric country-tinged rock, and "Good Intentions" is an ambitious, dynamic addition to the band's
arsenal of songs. "[T]he music here is too good not to share with others." (Delusions of Adequacy)
"The critics lay comparisons to Mazzy Star, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, VU and Nico - good road
signs on the way to Two Sheds. Cool stuff." (Tape Op Magazine)

Chamber pop mad scientist Okay created some introspective gems on Huggable Dust (Absolutely
Kosher), and "Goal" is the rare masterpiece that manages to be as engaging as it is sprawling. "What
makes Okay's genre-hopping pop so compelling is that push and pull between the literally visceral and
the transcendent." (PrefixMag.com) "Huggable Dust is a shamelessly personal affair that succeeds as
much because of Anderson's gift for pop atmospherics as his wide-swinging emotional
outpourings." (Pitchfork Media)

About The Bay Bridged:
Proceeds from sales of the record at TheBayBridged.com go to support San Francisco's The Bay
Bridged, a fiscally sponsored nonprofit project that promotes the best music from the San Francisco Bay
Area's blossoming indie scene to an ever-growing audience of cutting-edge local music fans and
international tastemakers. For three years, The Bay Bridged has spread the word about the region's
music underground through a critically-acclaimed podcast now syndicated through KQED.org, the Bay
Bridged Presents series of concerts, 2007's The Bay Bridged, Volume 1 (which featured The Dodos,
Tartufi, Or, the Whale, and eight other Bay Area buzz bands) and live music events like The Bay Area
Takeover party at South by Southwest and the Rock Make Street Festival in San Francisco. Copies of
the record can also be purchased from the participating bands.

We Finally have T-shirts!

The design was done by our lovely friend Caroline from the great band, Chairlift.

Check em out:



You can pick one up HERE!

Check it out HERE and HERE.

Rad.

Hello Shedsters -

Below I have posted lyrics to the new songs on our new self-titled EP, for those interested in sing-alongs. For lyrics to the alternate takes of our old tunes (Perfect and Undertow), visit our website here: http://www.ilovetwosheds.com. Enjoy.

-Caitlin


YOU

I'm 15 centimeters tall! A single step's a sturdy wall, a dark and distant port of call from you
I move through a different sort of space; a day takes years for me to trace while age redecorates my face, it's true

I set my soul to sleep beneath your shoes
Lord knows I'm tired of thinking 'bout you

It don't take a champion to talk of how to line yourself in chalk, run like hell instead of walk, thank you
In a cold and mercenary field, plowed bare by reinvented wheels, the broken bones you can't conceal poke through

I set my soul to sleep beneath your shoes
Lord knows I'm tired of thinking about you
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WTF

I woke to a room riddled with holes
and a wind that beat me like a rubber hose
I can guess but no one really knows
why for some it shines and others always snows

I lost the map that marks my untold wealth
My golden apple rotted on the shelf
How can I buy what no one has to sell?
The wisest men have deemed I've done it to myself

All I know to say is WTF?

Who wrote the book that bound us too the view
that some are born to pain no matter what they do?
Who can catch a ball that no one ever threw?
Some always have plenty, others always few

All I know to say is WTF?
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TO BE ALIVE

Pile of leaves color the ground, hollow wind chimes breathe beautiful sounds
Roads bleed with cars stuck in drive
And it breaks my heart to be alive

Having a mind that is always the same, beating through days in a solid refrain
It knows how all it loves will survive
But it breaks my heart to be alive

I know my soul is an infinite chain, weather will go while flowers remain
I hold the one who mirrors me best, and the happiest birds make the sturdiest nests
The sound of these things tell me Honey, it's alright.
But it breaks my heart to be alive
Sometimes
It breaks my heart to be alive

So here’s what it’s gonna look like:


here’s the track listing:

01. You (new)
02. Perfect (alternate version)
03. Undertow (acoustic demo)
04. WTF? (new)
05. To Be Alive (new)

This will be an itunes only release but, there will be a limited run of 10" records for the vinyl lovers.


Props to Brendan of the psychedelicious Dame Satan for the sweet artwork.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:



Two Sheds' charm lies in the direct, personal effect of singer Caitlin Gutenberger's lyrical inventions. Trading equally in the Summer of Love folk rock of Blackburn & Snow (not to mention their magnetic boy-girl carisma) and the coquettish fuzz of latter-day melodist Heather Nova.

- Nathan Baker - S.F. Guardian 3/14/07


Caitlin Gutenberger takes a folky, smartass approach to the sleepy murmur that Mazzy Star made famous. Think Mazzy Star on the back of a flat bed Chevy truck. Fantastic debut.

- Troy Johnson - San Diego CityBeat 7/12/06



Rickie Lee Jones-meets-Beck vocals put this indie-folk band in league with the best mellow homegrown groups; the effect is dreamy and captivating.

- Hiya Swanhuyser - S.F Weekly 5/24/06



The critics lay comparisons to Mazzy Star, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, VU and Nico - good road signs on the way to Two Sheds, though I'd throw in that it feels like M. Ward a little in a way too. Cool stuff.

- Larry Crane- Tape Op Magazine issue 55



There are such a surprising number of excellent tracks on Two Sheds album Strange Ammunition. Gutenberger's throaty hum clocks in somewhere between PJ Harvey and Cat Power's Chan Marshall... It goes on and on, each song its own distinct little animal.

- Joe Fielder - Raidio Free Silverlake 8/10/06



Live, Two Sheds comes across like a modern, more abstract wrinkle on
Lucinda Williams-style Americana, but the band's debut,
Strange Ammunition, adds plenty of color and variation to that
thumbnail sketch, with the coolly endearing vocals of singer Caitlin
Gutenberger still the focal point.

- Jackson Griffith - Sacramento News & Review 2/02/06



Two Sheds opened the night and almost stole it. The young three-piece from Sacramento played slow, anguished, honest Americana, with a surprisingly fresh approach that landed somewhere between the Cowboy Junkies and Nirvana's Unplugged in New York.

-Nate Seltenrich- Performer Magazine (show review) June 2006

Once upon a time, way out west, living close and even closer to the edge of land itself, two music-making outfits forged the most decent of human friendships. These bands, they're called Two Sheds and Dame Satan. They've put out albums and toured aplenty. Some months ago, after a night of shared performance, most members of which they're largely made up retired gleefully to the sweet Sacramento domicile of Johnny and Caitlin Shed to enjoy the kind company of Flash the Basset Hound and indulge in late-night snacks (if you must know (and you must), the snacks were crisp scoop-shaped corn tortilla chips festooned in canned bean dip, salsa, queso, and crowning "bloody" dollops of fiery Tapatio), hillocks of 7 oz. "little dude" domestic brews, and a double-feature of The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension and Larry Bird: A Basketball Legend. They never made it to Bird's highlight reel but, somehow, before slipping off into easy foam-addled sleep, swathed in blankets, curled up in beds or above/between comfortable couch cushions, gentle Flash passed-out pawing lazily in the corner to the tune of joyous doggy dreams, the sun aching to press through a witching hour haze outside, the gang sat in the kitchen with clear heads and hatched plans for a collaborative sonic labor.

Now, down the road a few sun-kissed paces, these here are the luscious Fruits -- a most excellent Good Times Jam Experience -- two songs written, arranged, and performed by Two Sheds and Dame Satan, captured by Wizard Robert Cheek at The Hangar in Sacramento on June 24th (and a sliver of the 25th) in 2007, mixed shortly thereafter by the same wonderous mage at his new home in Seattle, Washington, and, finally, mastered by George Horn in Berkeley, California. We hope you enjoy hearing them half as much as we enjoyed making them.

Get it HERE