New spot

My old ISP host was inoperative more often than not, so I finally gave up and bought a domain name and a real web host. Welcome to AnchorStates.net, I suppose. Hopefully, Stars of the Lid will not be upset with me.

This might mean some expansion into a real website someday...

So, what IS black and white and read all over?

Tour

Remember this?

TIME TO DO IT AGAIN

With the Minor Times:
Jun 22 Water Street Lounge, Brooklyn, New York
Jun 23 242 Main, Burlington, Vermont
Jun 24 The Bike Barn, Falmouth, Maine
Jun 25 The Lit Lounge, Manhattan, New York

With Battlefields:
Jul 2 The night owl , Dayton, Ohio
Jul 3 The Davenport, Parma Heights, Ohio
Jul 4 (Chicago? Can you give us a place to stay?)
Jul 5 Skipps Ballroom, Stevens point, Wisconsin
Jul 6 Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jul 7 The first Cup Cafe, Des Moines, Iowa
Jul 8 The Aquarium , Fargo, North Dakota
Jul 9 Nutty's, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Jul 10 Jackpot lounge, Lawrence, Kansas
Jul 11 Monkey Mania, Denver, Colorado
Jul 13 The Broken Record, Salt Lake City, Utah
Jul 14 Relax Bar, Hollywood, California
Jul 15 (LA?)
Jul 16 The Space, Tempe, Arizona
Jul 17 Skrappy's, Tucson, Arizona
Jul 18 Space Maybe, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jul 19 The Conservatory, Oklahoma city, Oklahoma
Jul 20 The No Coast, Columbia, Missouri
Jul 21 Downtown Records, Lafayette, Indiana
Jul 22 Campus of Tenn Tech Univ, Cookeville, Tennessee
Jul 23 Repent, Athens, Georgia
Jul 24 The Treehouse, Lawrenceville, Georgia

(weekend with The Minor Times)

With Irepress:
Jul 30 Lit Lounge, Manhattan, New York
Jul 31 The Vintage Lounge, Levittown, New York
Aug 1 Siren Records, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Aug 2 Mill Creek Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(weekend with The Minor Times)

With Zoroaster:
Aug 6 The Knitting Factory, New York, New York
Aug 7 Europa Night Club, Brooklyn, New York
Aug 9 The Ravari Room, Columbus, Ohio
Aug 10 The Hideaway, Johnson City, Tennessee

Aug 12 First Unitarian Church (Home from tour show), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


This is obviously not a complete list, some dates are yet to be filled in. If you can provide some shelter for us on this trip, please call me or email. I'll give you my number if you don't have it.

My only complaint: entirely too much time spent in New York (ugh). Five times!

Rosetta junk

Here's the new Rosetta shirt design for this summer's tour. We're getting a lot of them so there won't be any more of the "sorry we don't have that size" crap going on.

I've kind of disappeared lately, which is due to the fact that I've been sleeping very little and spending most of my time mixing the new Rosetta full-length. It's on tight deadlines and will be mastered by Colin Marston of Dysrhythmia next week. I'm not posting sound samples because at this point we're paranoid about leaks, especially leaks of unmastered material (like what happened with Galilean Satellites). No one has heard this material outside the band except for Drew at Translation Loss, and he likes it. Supposedly there is a blurb in the new Decibel magazine that comes out this weekend about the record, and an apocryphal quote from me saying something about Pink Floyd, Mogwai, and Coalesce on a space station.

Here is the track listing for the new record, which is titled "Wake/Lift":

1. Red in Tooth and Claw
2. Lift (part 1)
3. Lift (part 2)
4. Lift (part 3)
5. Wake
6. (Temet Nosce)
7. Monument

It is only one disc this time. As to whether there will be "easter eggs" like last time, I won't say anything. The only thing I'm authorized to talk about is the supposed existence of an alleged "Interpol cover song" which is definitely not on the album.

The artwork is being done by Paul Romano, who is a brilliant painter and has done all of the Mastodon covers. We're really excited that he is doing this for us.

On a lighter note

Here is a picture of my fiancée, or rather two pictures. In real life she is actually very much like the fun cool one and not like the evil cosmo one. But I used to be really scared she would turn into the bad one (see previous post). If you don't know her, she is super fun to hang out with. I like her a lot.