Oct 09

So much news.

SECRET COG EP available now on VINYL
Out on Just For The Hell Of It Recs.  Big & beautiful.
12" limited to 500 copies.   Order via Paypal Direct to: justforthehellofitrecords@gmail.com $13 PPD. USA, $15 Canada, $17 rest of the world.
http://www.myspace.com/justforthehellofitrecords

SONIC YOUTH 11/24 @ Williamsburg Hall of Music, Brooklyn, NY
We play with Sonic Youth ... still pinching ourselves.
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/3700

DEBUT FULL-LENGTH SUGARLAND out OCT 27th
On Rare Book Room Recs.   We couldn't be more proud.
Album release show that night at Cakeshop.
http://therarebookroom.blogspot.com/
http://cake-shop.com/calendar/

VIDEO for "In a Strangeland" off debut full-length TBA!
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11453-in-a-strangeland/

FALL TOUR DATES :
Dates up, & being updated.  Check myspace page!


July 09

Full length out on Rare Book Room Records (http://therarebookroom.com/) in October '09!  Wrapping it up right now.  Very exciting.  Recorded & mixed with the iridescent Nicolas Vernhes.

Fall tour:  West Coast, + everywhere else.  YES.

Just played Whartscape.  Baltimore, rules.  Link to some nice person's very blue picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fordprefectajt/3719139680/

(i cannot deal with appropriate html right now - my apologies)
xx,TN

ps - 'secret cog' available @ OTHERMUSIC, http://digital.othermusic.com/search/?t=artist&s=Talk%20Normal&releases --- @ EMUSIC, http://www.emusic.com/album/Talk-Normal-Secret-Cog-MP3-Download/11493987.html -- @ THINKINDIE, http://digital.thinkindie.com/search/release.php?release_id=43417 -------- and many more.  whatever u fancy.


May 09

New Record...  !!!
- Recording commencing very soon for a full length.  Totally excited.  Details on that & who'll be releasing it, coming shortly.  Should be out in fall, ~October 1!

Secret Cog digital release!
- Menlo Park is the digital home for Secret Cog, we are very proud to say.  Over the next month technical shiz will be nailed down & then you'll be able to buy it from all the standard digital locales!  (http://www.menloparkrecordings.com/)

Rad SXSW wrapup from Aaron Levin, CJSR Music Director - tons of bands

"Talk Normal @ Ms Beas ---- I waited all week to see this band. I had a lot of random people tell me about them. Their set, full of rhythmic, tribal no-wave moves was truly amazing. A definite highlight. I walked away with a t-shirt, CD, LP, 2 cassettes, and a huge smile."

Future tour...
Starting to plan for Fall '09 west coast & beyond.  In the meantime we're playing tons of summer shows in NYC, and making our way up to Montreal in late June for the Suoni Per il Popolo Festival.  Still booking dates around that, get in touch re: Toronto, Ottawa, etc.!
Other east coast & mid-west excursions in the works.  Open to suggestion.
See you soon!

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Mar 09

SXSW shows & March tour now finalized!

EP on vinyl!
- "Secret Cog" on Portland-based Just For The Hell Of It Records, first 80 w/limited edition artwork available now! Art via the gracious help of Ted McGrath & Kim Bost  and big thanks to Hendrik Deherder

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Jan 09

Excited for SxSW this year.  Deets to come.... :)

Upcoming Releases!
- 7" on iDEAL
- LP vinyl compilation of all rad underground bands and artists on Not Not Fun- Spring '09

New Photos!
Courtesy of Richard Gin from NY's Eye & Ear Fest 12/13/08 @ Vanishing Pont: Fresh Kills, Necking, Cult of Youth, Infinity Window, Talk Normal, ExcepterCourtesy of Brandon Wu from Marnie Stern show 11/26/08 in DC @ DC9: Marnie Stern & TN Also just up, a few pics from the Marnie Stern fall tour (check our "Pictures" section on myspace)

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Oct 08

Excited to be joining Marnie Stern on tour later this month.... :)

MYSPACE TRACKS updated!
- new studio recording of 33, this time with Richard Hoffman (Sightings) playing BASS, off our new EP "Secret Cog"
- free-stylin' recording of RIVER'S EDGE that's on the Party Store Music "Coldest Beer In Town" cassette comp
- moptaco-style mix of OUTSIDE live from fall '08 tour & the (swedish label Moptaco Dics) "Prata Normalt" limited run bootleg!
- LEMONADE new studio recording also on "Secret Cog" EP
- WARRIOR from the "Demo EP V2", still raging

PARTY STORE COMP out now!
- "RIVER'S EDGE" is on "The Coldest Beer In Town", limited to 300 edition, released by Party Store Music
myspace.com/partystoremusic
other killer tracks on the comp by locals Tall Firs, Oneida, Knyfe Hyts, Awesome Color, The Bible, Tunnels, Bi:GK

"PRATA NORMALT" Bootleg from Fall '08 Tour, on MOPTACO DICS (sweeedish label)
- our soul brother FAGGE FAGERSTRöM & Moptaco Dics carefully handcrafted a limited edition of only 20 copies of this document of live shows cut up & pasted together from cassette recordings in Rochester, Boston, Washington D.C., & Brooklyn
from myspace.com/moptacodics ::

So while waiting for the phenomenal Knife And Ape LP, we released a live bootleg CD-R with Brooklyn's magicianduo TALK NORMAL! We're truly exited!!!!
The CD-R is a cut-up documentation from a series of live performances by the band from Brooklyn, Rochester, Boston and Washington DC. All recieved through basic non-dolby tape.
The TALK NORMAL sound is very unique. Their music being the wikipedia of New York's no wave-scene and at the same time delivering the very FUTURE of music. They are what Teenage Jesus And The Jerks should have been, and what DNA was but noone truly understood. Blasting drumbeats with a hard jazz-feel backed up by walls of noisy guitars and looped feedback-noises. Extreme in a way, but still basic pop. Vocally they sing about small men and smiling kids in a way that could only be desribed as the bastad child of Diamanda Galas' and D Boon. Still being the child of teenage Kim Gordon and Laurie Anderson.
What more can we say.
20 copies made. All with unique creepy collages by Daniel Fagge Fagerström.


and... New Photos!
Courtesey of LORI BAILY from the Indian Jewelry show @ knitting factory::
Indian Jewelry, Mira Billote, Lau Nau, Talk Normal

Also we just put up a bunch of pics from the SKULL DFX tour, will get more & videos soon... in our "Pictures" section