or, photographs i wish i hadn’t taken.
yes, we actually did this
On our last tour we were introduced to the wonderful Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. One brisk morning in late October we woke up in our customary Super 8 and headed across the border into Rock Island, a town with a name awesome enough to host Daytrotter. Here’s a pic Ben took, a little Rock Island flavor for y’all:
Daytrotter records 2 or 3 bands every day, writes up the band, and posts the songs for free. It’s pretty amazing.
Check out our session and download the 4 free mp3s.
But it wasn’t all smooth sailing that fateful day. (more…)
We performed Friends Like These and Hallie on WNYC’s Soundcheck. You can listen to the performance and interview here.
Here’s a video our new BFFs and tour mates Middle Distance Runner posted of Noam fiddling with one of his frankenstein style modified electric gadgets.
It’s a drum machine that he modified with a patch bay. I guess the nails, when connected together via the metal band, short out the sounds in cool ways. Maybe I can get him to expain it better.
Due to unforeseen circumstances – at the fault of the venue, we are having to cancel the Baltimore show. We’re playing that night, the 13th, at Mojo 13, in Wilmington, DE. Also there’s the DC show at Rock n Roll Hotel on the 14th.
First stop in Florida today, we walked into a quickie mart slash gift shop. All the usual trinkets were present, postcards, porcelain piggies, glass swans staring down from the knick-knack shelf, some delicious looking marmelade (noam loves marmelade). Then in front of the window we noticed this. Why, you ask, are there 500 (perhaps fetal?) sharks, preserved in mysterious blue fluid, floating in individual jars, on display next to the oranges and alligator teeth? Further investigation probably would have revealed that the jars all sat on some sort of circuit whereby the life force of these fish-killers-nipped-in-the-bud is used to power some sort of satanic rube goldberg machine in the basement that converts the sad dreams of these captive creatures into a little known, but powerful, huffable upper, like jenkem. We may never know.
Virb.com has us on the front of their music page. Must be a cool site to feature us.
Last night in Atlanta was a blast. JJ, our new best friend, responded to Ben’s request for spicy Hot V8 by bringing what looked like a gallon jug of the stuff. We played for a great group of very spirited folks. Off to Athens today to hang with friends on a day off before heading down to Florida.
And what better time to drop a little shout out to Cinemechanica. (more…)
I’ve been toying with the idea of having a blog for quite some time. The main trouble was that I wanted to nail it down to a particular theme, but I always soured on the various theme ideas. . .
Well this blog makes it easy on me - its only connecting thread is going to be the interests, opinions, and ramblings of the members of Mobius Band, Earth’s highest quality rock band.
I will probably write about being on tour, music I like, the Wire, the music industry’s implosion, gossip news from places like tyler, who i think is hilarious, and i will occasionally get nerdy and academic and respond to a New Yorker article. The works!
Ben and Noam, my fellow band members, will also be contributing. I am really boring compared to them, they are constantly discovering interesting shit of all different kinds. Noam will probably cover a lot of circuit bending and outsider music, as well as tips and tricks for the modern trap set maestro. Ben is into photography and probably other stuff, I barely know the guy.
Most importantly this will of course be your one stop shop for all Mobius Band news — you can click Mobius Band News over there in the sidebar if you want to just see posts relevant to our band directly.