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NEWS: Tour Update / Rolling Stone & Spin Reviews / Sasquatch
In this email: 1. Tour Updates 2. Rolling Stone & Spin Reviews 3. Sasquatch Music Festival 4. Links ------ (1) ------ Hello from the road! We have some updates regarding our current tour: a: The Bowery Ballroom show in New York City this Sunday, which was originally listed as an 18 and older show, is now 16+. You can get your tickets here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000402F9589759C b: A few shows have been added to our immediate itinerary. You will find these preceded by an asterisk in the below list: 02-29-08 @ Soundlab -- Buffalo, NY 03-01-08 @ Great Scott -- Boston, MA ($) 03-02-08 @ The Bowery Ballroom -- New York, NY (%) 03-03-08 @ Johnny Brenda's -- Philadelphia, PA 03-04-08 @ The Black Cat -- Washington, DC 03-05-08 @ The Boot -- Norfolk, VA ($) 03-06-08 @ Local 506 -- Chapel Hill, NC ($) 03-07-08 @ The Earl -- Atlanta, GA 03-08-08 @ The Bottletree Cafe -- Birmingham, AL ($) 03-10-08 @ The Opolis -- Norman, OK (#) *03-12-08 @ Corner of 6th and Lamar -- Austin, TX; 5pm *03-12-08 @ The Purevolume Ranch -- Austin, TX 03-14-08 @ Red Eyed Fly (SXSW Showcase) -- Austin, TX (@) 03-16-08 @ Lola's -- Fort Worth, TX (!) 03-18-08 @ The Hi-Dive -- Denver, CO (!) 03-19-08 @ Kilby Court -- Salt Lake City, UT (!) *03-21-08 @ Live on Indie 103.1 FM -- Los Angeles, CA; 3pm PST 03-21-08 @ Spaceland -- Los Angeles, CA (!) 03-22-08 @ Bottom Of The Hill -- San Francisco, CA (!) 04-02-08 @ Live on KEXP -- Seattle, WA; 12pm PST 04-03-08 @ Chop Suey -- Seattle, WA (&) *04-04-08 @ Someday Lounge -- Portland, OR % with Illinois $ with The Big Sleep # with Headlights and Evangelicals @ with Lucero, Cloud Cult, Land Of Talk and more ! with Kevin Devine & with Siberian and Battle Hymns ------ (2) ------ The new record, "The Wishes And The Glitch," was recently reviewed in Rolling Stone and Spin, among many other publications. Here is what they had to say: "Sophisticated psyche-tinged indie rock ... an eclectic collection of blissed out, bass and synth-heavy ruminations." -- Rolling Stone "The band's new name should bring with it some new respect for Eric Elbogen, whose melancholy indie rock has gotten stronger and more serious over five albums." -- Spin "A warm, modest set of songs that hide their melancholy beneath sturdy tunes and lots of fuzz." -- The New York Times ------ (3) ------ We've just been confirmed as part of The Sasquatch Music Festival in May, along with the following bands: R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers / Blue Scholars / The National / The Kooks / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Cold War Kids / Beirut / Rogue Wave / Okkervil River / Fleet Foxes / Kinski / Mates of State / Sera Cahoone / Crudo (featuring Mike Patton & Dan The Automator) / Battles / Destroyer / Dyme Def / The Blakes / Pela / Jamie Lidell / The Cops / Dengue Fever / Siberian / White Rabbits / David Bazan / The Little Ones / "Awesome" / Dead Confederate / The Heavenly States / 65daysofstatic / Grand Archives / Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio / Joshua Morrison / Throw Me The Statue / J. Tillman / The Shaky Hands / Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down / Matt Costa / The Cave Singers This is terribly exciting for us. Tickets: http://sasquatchfestival.com/2008/main.php?page=tickets ------ (4) ------ (site) http://www.ilikesayhi.com (shop) http://www.ilikesayhi.com/shop.htm (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom (itunes) http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=6546953 (amazon) http://www.amazon.com/Wishes-Glitch-Say-Hi/dp/B0011HF61Y/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201981667&sr=8-1 ... Sunday's New York Times Review
New York Times critic Kelefa Sanneh graciously reviewed the new record in Sunday's Edition. He writes: "... For the band?s new album, ?The Wishes and the Glitch? (Euphobia), [Elbogen] ditched his old vampire fixation as well as the last three words in his band name (to Your Mom); the result is a warm, modest set of songs that hide their melancholy beneath sturdy tunes and lots of fuzz. Expect his cult to grow ..." (here)
... New Record In Stores / Tour Dates
-------------------------------------------------------------- THE WISHES AND THE GLITCH -------------------------------------------------------------- Hello! We trust everyone is well? Good. We?re writing now to tell you the fifth Say Hi record, The Wishes And The Glitch, is in stores today! It?s available in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats and can be found at your favorite indie stores and chains, as well as various places online. As always, you can get it from us in all three formats too. ******************************************* Listen to an MP3: http://www.ilikesayhi.com/SayHi_NorthwesternGirls.mp3 ******************************************* Here?s some help finding the record, if you please: FROM US: http://www.ilikesayhi.com/shop.htm iTUNES: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=6546953 AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Wishes-Glitch-Say-Hi/dp/B0011HF61Y/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201981667&sr=8-1 INSOUND: http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?select=meta&query=say+hi&fromindex=1&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 BEST BUY: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=16372836&st=say+hi&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1799461 It?s also available at: Borders, Newbury Comics, Virgin, Amoeba, Waterloo, Easy Street, Bull Moose, Sonic Boom, Rasputin, Electric Fetus, Silver Platters, Fingerprints, Vintage Vinyl, Music Millennium, Atomic, Stinkweeds, Sound Garden, End Of An Ear, Ear X-Tacy and many, many others (Please note, while we make our records available in as many outlets as possible, we strongly urge you to buy from your local independent shop when possible) -------------------------------------------------------------- TOUR DATES -------------------------------------------------------------- Please come see us play!: 02-16-08 @ The Royal Unicorn Cabaret -- Vancouver, BC 02-18-08 @ Toomey's Pub And Pizza -- Spearfish, SD 02-20-08 @ Triple Rock Social Club -- Minneapolis, MN 02-21-08 @ Project Lodge -- Madison, WI 02-22-08 @ The Beat Kitchen -- Chicago, IL 02-23-08 @ Mac's Bar -- Lansing, MI 02-24-08 @ Waldron Arts Center -- Bloomington, IN 02-25-08 @ The Beachland Tavern -- Cleveland, OH 02-26-08 @ Skully's -- Columbus, OH 02-27-08 @ Live on WOXY -- Cincinnati, OH; 4pm EST 02-27-08 @ The Gypsy Hut -- Cincinnati, OH 02-29-08 @ Soundlab -- Buffalo, NY 03-01-08 @ Great Scott -- Boston, MA 03-02-08 @ The Bowery Ballroom -- New York, NY (***) 03-03-08 @ Johnny Brenda's -- Philadelphia, PA 03-04-08 @ The Black Cat -- Washington, DC 03-05-08 @ The Boot -- Norfolk, VA (%%%) 03-06-08 @ Local 506 -- Chapel Hill, NC 03-07-08 @ The Earl -- Atlanta, GA (###) 03-08-08 @ The Bottletree Cafe -- Birmingham, AL 03-10-08 @ The Opolis -- Norman, OK (@@@) 03-14-08 @ Red Eye Fly (SXSW Showcase) -- Austin, TX ($$$) 03-16-08 @ Lola's -- Forth Worth, TX (^^^)(!!!) 03-18-08 @ The Hi-Dive -- Denver, CO (^^^) 03-19-08 @ Kilby Court -- Salt Lake City, UT (^^^) 03-21-08 @ Spaceland -- Los Angeles, CA (^^^) 03-22-08 @ Bottom Of The Hill -- San Francisco, CA (^^^) 04-02-08 @ Live on KEXP -- Seattle, WA; 12pm PST 04-02-08 @ Venue TBA -- Portland, OR 04-03-08 @ Chop Suey -- Seattle, WA (&&&) *** with Illinois, Meowskers and The Postelles %%% with The Big Sleep ### with The Features @@@ with Evangelicals and Headlights $$$ with Lucero, Cloud Cult, Land Of Talk and more !!! with Gil Mantera's Party Dream ^^^ with Kevin Devine &&& with Siberian and Battle Hymns Please visit http://www.ilikesayhi.com/tour.htm for tickets and more information Please be our friend on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom -------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS -------------------------------------------------------------- #4 most played record in the country -- CMJ Top 200 A lush new collection of introspective songs -- NPR Critic?s Pick: A bedroom full of instruments and a knack for writing simple, hummable tunes and droll lyrics -- New York Times For a musician with five albums now under his belt, Eric Elbogen continues to crank out memorable indie pop -- The Tripwire Once you listen, you will wonder where music like this has been all your life -- Seventeen Say Hi To Your Mom recalls the futuristic feeling of Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie ... that intellectual battle with impending modernity and the feeling of alienation from real humanity explored by Grandaddy and Radiohead ... Eno-esque with eerie, fantastical motifs -- Spin Buzz bands: Cheeky, fuzzy electro-pop -- LA Times A dreamier variety of indie rock -- The Onion A delightfully fractured fairy tale of Williamsburgian proportions -- Time Out New York On a homemade PC, Say Hi assembles slow, statuesque indie rock with analog synthscapes, overlapping distorted guitars and lots of low-end -- Pitchfork -------------------------------------------------------------- OH, AND ... -------------------------------------------------------------- ... thank you for your support, we'd never be able to do it without you. -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- ... Vinyl, iTunes, The Shop & More  Hello! As the proper release date for "The Wishes And The Glitch," the fifth Say Hi record, approaches, we've got some items to tell you about. You can now order the Vinyl version from our shop. It is pressed on 180 Gram vinyl and includes a nifty download card that'll get you the whole album in DRM-Free 320kbps MP3 form for free. The record is also now available on iTunes and will be in your favorite physical record shop on Tuesday, February 5th. We are almost sold out of the limited edition t-shirts that are part of exclusive pre-order package, so, if you want one, get it now before it's too late. Finally, we just got around to updating our other t-shirt stock quantities on our shop page, so many of the designs you have all been asking for are for sale again. Some of them will not be re-pressed, so get those now too, if you want em. We'll remind you too that most of the shop items ship for free in the US and that buying directly from us is the best way to support the band, in case you were wondering. Cheers and thanks and all that stuff. ... Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot
Most of the tour dates for February, March and April have been posted. The rest should be here very soon. The dates are here.
... Hm ...   Looks like this week's Stranger took a bit of a cue from what we call the "Say Hi school of photographic poses" (thank you Westin, for pointing this out). ... 2008
Boy, are we glad all that holiday business is all done with. The new record comes out in a little bit more than a month. We're gonna go on tour to support it. You probably knew all that stuff already, but we thought we'd remind you. Many details regarding the record and the tour are coming soon.
... Blerg Blerg Borg 
... Say Hi Covers The Song Of Your Choice: An Auction
We're participating in an auction The Stranger has organized, to benefit a very good cause. The winner gets to pick any song which will be carefully and thoroughly covered by us in Say Hi land. Bid here.
... Say Hi on NPR
NPR's Second Stage just featured a track from the forthcoming record. Despite the incorrect pronunciation of my name (it's a hard g, folks), it is very flattering. Listen here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16850532
... Stuff, Stuff and Other Stuff
I'd like to express a warm thanks to everyone who came to see our shows this fall and let you know that we had a very good playing our songs for you. Our touring mates The Velvet Teen and The A-Sides were a treat to watch every night too, so we'd like to send a wholehearted thanks to them for coming on tour with us. Thanks are also in order for all of kind words everyone has been saying / writing in regards to the new record. I worked very hard on it, so it pleases me immensely to hear that many of you have been enjoying it. Finally, I'd like to wish everyone a great rest of the year, as we'll be hibernating (read: not doing any more shows) until early 2008. We're currently working on a tour for late Winter / early Spring, so we'll see you again then.
... The Wishes And The Glitch
Well hello. This may be the biggest announcement we've ever made and we're actually quite giddy about it. The new record has been mixed and mastered for a few weeks now but we've been all hush hush about it because, well, this lovely digital age of ours seems to spread mutated rumors faster than you can hiccup and we wanted to make sure all our hairs were combed and ties tied before we presented the news. So here goes: the fifth Say Hi record (and the first bearing our new tidy band moniker) is entitled "The Wishes And The Glitch." It will be in stores February 5th, 2008. However, AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE MOST EXCITED ABOUT, we've made it available to you right now. That's right. That whole thing where you find out a band has a new record coming out but you have to wait four months to buy it. Yeah, that doesn't apple here. As you will see, there are a number of options for you to purchase this new record from us, but every one of them includes the ability to download DRM-free MP3s encoded at the superb bitrate of 320kbps virtually immediately. If you prefer an actual CD, that's ok too, download the record now and your CD will arrive very very soon, and very very long before you can buy it in stores. We're personally most excited about the deluxe package though, which, well, you'll see. Enough with the blah blah blah already. Go forth, friends: Buy "The Wishes And The Glitch" here: http://www.ilikesayhi.com/shop.htm Listen to clips and download some free MP3s here: http://www.ilikesayhi.com/music.htm To celebrate the pre-release of the new record, we also have a ton of tour dates with The Velvet Teen and The A-Sides, beginning next week. We'll be playing these shows as a four-piece for the first time since 2005. Do come say hello when we make it to your city: http://www.ilikesayhi.com/tour.htm http://www.ilikesayhi.com http://www.myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom ... Hamburg ... Thing Have Been Overhauled Here A Little Bit |
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