11/3/09
3:49pm Baltimore, MD time

I'm sorry to report that the next week of Get Up Kids shows, starting at the 9:30 Club in DC tonight, will be semi-acoustic due to our drummer Mike getting real sick and having to leave the tour to rest and heal up.  

We hope to have him back for the last week or so, and will keep you posted.

We wish Mike a speedy and full recovery and promise to do our best to get the songs across as impactfully as possible in his absence.

Thanks,
Kevin

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KD in the UK!

(http://www.artistticket.com/link/?s=kevin+devine)

10/22/09
2:12am Skokie, IL time

Just two quick announcements:

We're thrilled to join BRAND NEW, GLASSJAW, THRICE, MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, and BRIAN BONZ, I AM THE AVALANCHE, and ROBBERS November 28th at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island.  Huge, surreal, monstrous experience and we're grateful to be involved. 

The ticket link:

Brand New, Glassjaw, Thrice, Manchester Orchestra & Kevin Devine @ Nassau Coliseum 11/28/09

Also, from the totally weird but totally welcome and 100% true files: we've been asked to take part in an annual gathering thrown by and featuring MATISYAHU (yes, the Hasidic reggae star), titled the FESTIVAL OF LIGHT 2009. We'll be performing together at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn December 20th. 

From Matisyahu:

"There is a fan club pre-sale that starts tomorrow, 10/22 at 10am and goes until 11am on 10/23. The password is FOL2009. Please feel free to pass along to your fans for advance tickets."

The ticket link:

Matisyahu & Kevin Devine @ MHOW, 12/20/09

Thanks guys,
Kevin

From BSM:

'Autumn Collection', the new BSM sampler is up online now to pre-order.
 
The CD costs £5 to order on its own or £15 as part of the 09 Collection series, which is made up of four CDs and a collector's tin. Below are the two purchase links which will take you directly through to our online shop:
 
- Buy Autumn: http://ww4.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm?userid=6043521&product=Autumn&price=5&return=www.bsmrocks.com/shop.html&units=1
- Subscribe: http://ww4.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm?userid=6043521&product=09%20Collection&price=15&return=www.bsmrocks.com/shop.html&units=1
 
There's a picture of the tin here - http://www.bsmrocks.com/09tins.jpg
 
And here's the full tracklisting:
 
01. Colour - Dinosaurs (taken from 'Anthology')
02. Calories - Lets Pretend That We're Older (previously unreleased)
03. Blakfish - Charmer (Kings of Leon cover)
04. Shoes And Socks Off - Epic Sweet Proportions (taken from 'Hand-Reared Suburban Piglet')
05. Men - Re: Your Re-Branding (previously unreleased)
06. Shapes - Trampled By A Horse (Please Will remix - previously unreleased)
07. Kevin Devine - Just Stay (live at Old Blue Last - previously unreleased)
08. Grown Ups - Open Sesame (previously unreleased in the UK)
09. Greatest Hits - Cat Got Your Tongue? (previously unreleased)
10. This Town Needs Guns - Panda (acoustic - taken from the Tapes podcast)
11. Mutiny On The Bounty - Chico y Consuela (previously unreleased in the UK)
12. Hold Your Horse Is - Christopher Walken (taken from the self-released 'Everyone Runs Faster With A Knife' EP)
13. Adebisi Shank - Oyasumi (bonus track from UK version of the album)
14. Robert Fruit - Tit Wank Car Crash (just ridiculous)
15. Talons - Commiserations Buff Orpington (live video taken from beatcast.tv)
16. The Tupolev Ghost - Diagrams (promo video)

Thanks,
Kevin

HERE!

(http://academyfightsong.bigcartel.com/product/kevin-devine-br-brothers-blood-br-2xlp-180g-ltd-200)

For official release November 10th, 2009 on Academy Fight Song Records.

9/30/09
12:21PM Brooklyn Time

Check out KD and Strand performing "Another Bag Of Bones" live from a pink couch in Clinton Hill - If You Make It.  (http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/video/kevin-devine/another-bag-of-bones/)

Big burly "we're back at it" post forthcoming.  Laying low otherwise during this time home, side-gigging, farmer's-marketing, small-business-running, wedding-attending, 5K-running, busy living.

I will point out that "Brother's Blood" is getting released in Europe on November 6th through the wonderful German punk rock label Arctic Rodeo, and in that same time frame, we can also expect the international and domestic 2xLP vinyl release of the record via Brooklyn's Academy Fight Song.  We've got a lot in store, release and tour wise, between leaving for GET UP KIDS in a few weeks and, oh, mid-2010.  Keep the eyes open.

Take care and enjoy the coming fall,
Kevin

Recent reading: "You Don't Love Me Yet," Jonathan Lethem; Arun Gupta in "The Indypendent"
Recent listening: "Catacombs," Cass McCombs; "Daisy," Brand New; "After The Gold Rush," Neil Young; "LP2," Sunny Day Real Estate; "New Leaves," Owen; "Monsters Of Folk," Monsters of Folk
Recent mind-blowing concert experience, wherein I expected little more than revisited nostalgia and left inspired and reconnected to my inner 15-year-old: Sunny Day Real Estate at Terminal 5, NYC

9/5/09
1:28pm EST

At 4pm today, I'll be doing an interview/playing some live music/spinning some of my favorite songs on the "Blacktop Memories" Rutgers University college radio program in Piscataway, NJ - check this out (http://thecore.fm/public/shows/people/jprw.htm) and lock into 90.3FM if you're in the area.

Later on, between 8 and 10pm, I'll be performing live on DJ Star Child's last show at Seton Hall University down in South Orange, NJ.  Tune in to 89.5FM if you're in THAT area, or check it out here (http://starbeat.blogspot.com/2009/08/star-childs-final-shift-on-wsou-this.html).

Current viewing: US Open Tennis, Federer v. Hewitt; Mets/Cubs
Current listening: David Bazan, "Curse Your Branches"; AA Bondy, "When The Devil's Loose"
Recent attending: Bazan East Coast house shows, which totally ruled

8/30/09
11:04am Brooklyn Time

If applicable: Thank you for taking time out of your Friday afternoon to come watch the XPN/NPR performance at World Cafe Live.  For those of you who missed it, or just want to relive it endlessly, go here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112177667).

While you're rooting around the NPR site, check out some kind words from our friend John Richards at KEXP, along with another archived radio performance (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105818159&ps=rs).

Here's a nice writeup from one of the XPN volunteers about the goings-on Friday. (http://wxpn.blogspot.com/2009/08/todays-xpn-free-at-noon-with-kevin.html)

Enjoy your Sunday,
Kevin

Current listening: "Prefection," Cass McCombs
Current reading: "In Defense Of Food," Michael Pollan