It's been far too long since we last wrote something here. We're currently in Cincinatti at our friend John's place which is great. We'll be heading to Toledo soon for the fifth night of twenty straight nights of shows. Then a sunday off and six more shows and we're back in New Orleans to record some of the new songs we've been working on in this tour. The goal was to go out on this trip and play an entirely new set. We more or less done that sprinkling in a song or two from the past on occasional nights. We're pretty excited about things right now. The music has undergone a transformation that we've been shooting for for quite a long time. The next step is to put out an album (or actually an EP) of some of the new stuff and get it out there. We definitely get some confused hippies complaining on occasion about the vocals and how we used to sound much better (see jammier), but for the most part everything is going over well and the people who are interesting to us are getting it. Some people can't deal with change but frankly Drums and Tuba has always been about change and evolution and never being complacent or conventional. We definitely put a lot of thought to changing the name and symbolically wiping the slate clean but after hundreds and hundreds of name ideas and much deliberation we decided not to become just another band (as in the kings of the wolf stripes of montreal) with a conventional name and to just stick with who we are which has always been a little bit confusing for people to put their hands on. The hope is that we can change the perception of what we are (which is not a jam band I'm sorry to say) without changing what we are. I'm sure this makes little sense to someone else 'cause frankly I barely understand things myself. In a nut shell, make music which has meaning to you, book yourself some shows, make some records, work hard, and keep the bullshit to a minimum.