Thank You for a Great Year!

2014 Was Amazing! So much has gone right for us this year - and we have you to thank for all of it! In all honesty - to paraphrase a friend - We do this because we HAVE to. But you listen and support us because you want to - and it means the world to us. We have so much fun seeing you out, knowing that you're listening, watching and following us on this adventure! We look forward, as always, to more of all of it in the coming year!

But looking back, here's a quick review in case there's anything you missed!

RELEASES:

We kicked of 2014 with our newest release "Dream of Fire" - a five song EP featuring favorite tracks such as Radio, Drunk All the Time, Let it Go and more... Dream of Fire was named to several "Best of" lists for both 2013 and 2014.

Its available for free streaming at our website or at iTunes and Bandcamp.



The Fall saw us participate in the Boston Does Boston Benefit album. Our contribution was a cover of Mary Lou Lord's song "Some Jingle Jangle Morning". You'l also find the band Dave Crespo's Afterparty's cover of our song Radio on the compilation.

Proceeds from the album benefit the Animal Rescue League of Boston.


Finally we wrapped up the year with the release of our brand new single "All the While". It was released as part of the Keep Safe Boston benefit compilation album. It is the first new song written and recorded with the current lineup of the band and we couldn't be more excited about it. We hope you'll check it out. Any proceeds from its sale benefits Planned Parenthood.



  VIDEOS

    This year also saw releases of two videos from Dream of Fire - a simple Lyric video for "Drunk All the Time"
   

    And an original stop motion animation video made for "This Morning" for us by our friend, China based American artist Anthony Ragucci.

LIVE SHOWS:
There were so many great shows with so many great bands this year - starting with opening for The Sheila Divine at the Sinclair last Christmas as part of Oldjack's Holiday Homage.

We played a bunch of fun shows in Worcester, had a monthly residency of sorts at TT The Bears, Returned to our out of town favorite haunts in Northampton, New York and Salem. Played SxNE's CMJ show, Newport Folk Fest Afterparty: Newport Nights, and The Boston Clawing showcase. Played benefit shows including TT The Bear's for Boston does Boston and Brighton Music Hall for Keep Safe Boston.

Every show we played was special and memorable - but i'd be lying if i didn't say the highlight of it all was the 'dream come true' opportunity we had on June 14 - to play 2 sets at The Blue Hills Bank Pavillion on Boston's Waterfront. Formerly known as Harborlights it is a 5000 Seat ampitheater where we've seen acts ranging from Radiohead, to Wilco, to the Arcade Fire, to Robert Plant, Counting Crowes, etc.etc. It was a big show and we had a blast.

We sincerely appreciate each and every one of you who made it out to a show, told a friend about us, booked a show with us or listened to one of our tracks. You make this what it is - and what it is is awesome.

UPCOMING:
We couldn't be more excited about 2015 - we already have some great shows lined up and are working on our next release - be it a full length or EP - it should be out sooner rather than later! We have some great things planned all throughout the year! We hope you'll join us.

Our first project is a little 'tour' we're calling The Backyard Barnstorm Tour. We and our pals in Zerobot have booked a series of shows throughout the state and will be playing each of them together... along with some amazing other bands. More to be announced soon but for starters:

January 7 (Wed)
THE ROSEBUD DINER - Somerville MA,
THE RATIONALES - ZEROBOT - WHEN PARTICLES COLLIDE

January 17 (Sat)
LAST SAFE & DEPOSIT CO - Lowell, MA
THE RATIONALES - ZEROBOT - Tba

January 30 (Sat)
RALPH'S ROCK DINER - Worcester, MA
THE RATIONALES - ZEROBOT - SHOTGUN WALTZ

Cheers and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

love
Dave, Mike, Sean, Chad, & Dave