Hey all, we hope you've had a lovely summer and are having a beautiful fall.  Everyone here at TS and the Middlemen have been keeping themselves pretty busy.  Tim has been filling in on drums for the Fox Valley punk/pop band, Tenement (www.myspace.com/tenementwi) which features Middleman, Amos Pitsch on guitar and vocals.  They did a tour of the east coast in August and have been showing up sporradically in the fox valley so far this fall.

The Middlemen have also welcomed their friend Michael Zink (www.myspace.com/nuggetsfancy) of Mystery Girls fame (www.myspace.com/themysterygirls) to the band.  Over the summer lull, we've been working on lots of new stuff with him and hope that you like what we've come up with.  If you still need your Tyler Ditter fix then head on over to http://www.myspace.com/cartwalkers and say hi.

We've been in the process of demoing all the new tunes we have (in one way or another) for the last year and will hopefully be able to start sessioning proper by winters end.  Until then, you can anticipate a new release of either live recordings or new demos by the end of the year and hopefully some new merch too.  We've all got lots of projects going on so we will try to give you as much Middlemen as your heart desires.  As always, you can still buy "schwim tiger" at our shows, in your local neighborhood indie record store (in wisconsin: Exclusive Co., Atomic Records, B-side Records, Rushmore Records, etc.) or online at iTunes, Amazon.com, CDBaby.com and Digstation.com to name a few.

We appreciate all the support (especially with helping Tim find his guitars!) and we thank you for listening.  Take care and Happy Halloween!

ts and the mm.