News

The fine folks over at Athens Music Junkie have posted a nice review of our show at the Melting Point last week. Check it out here: Athens Music Junkie Review. We’ve also posted a couple of videos from the show on our YouTube page.

In other news, we’re really looking forward to AthFest this weekend. The festivities kick off on Thursday night at the Flagpole Music Awards. We’ll be in attendance to find out if we’re the winners of this year’s ‘Upstart of the Year’ award. Wish us luck! Of course, the most important thing is that we’re playing AthFest this year. We’ll be playing the Outdoor Hull St. Stage (located at the corner of Hull and Washington) on Saturday at 2:40 pm, so we hope you to see you there. Oh, and be sure to wear your sunscreen.

Thanks to your votes, we’re actually finalists for Flagpole Magazine’s “Upstart of the Year” as part of their annual Flagpole Music Awards! We’re very thankful.

And while we likely won’t win (the other bands up for the award are really great), it’s a huge encouragement to us to make the top three in that category. We’ve been having lots of conversations on how we can continue to get better at what we do – the songs we write, the way we perform, and how we handle ourselves. We hope to make this thing something worth someone’s time.

Thanks for all the support… let’s celebrate tomorrow night at the Melting Point!

That’s “New Old Stock” for those in the know. Specifically, a couple of songs we’ve been playing live since our first show. More specifically, “Flux Capacitor” and “Rhythmic Ceremonial Ritual.” The fact that both songs are Back To the Future references is purely coincidental. During the Bubblegum EP recording sessions at Davey’s house (and elsewhere), we actually began tracking these tunes, but as our time (and budget) grew short, we (sadly) had to leave the songs unreleased.

Until now.

Way back in January, we spent a day at DARC here in Athens (that’s Downtown Athens Recording Company for those in the know) with engineer Eric Friar and managed to record basic tracks for both songs. One, “Flux,” was in good enough shape after that day to submit to this year’s Athfest compilation CD, and we were stoked to see it selected!

But instead of resting on our laurels, we knew that we could make these songs a little better with a little more time, and so next week we’ll be back at DARC to finish tracking what we hope will be our first 7″ release (that’s vinyl, for those in the know). Pressing vinyl isn’t free, though, so we’ll address a release format after the mixes are in the can.

Maybe if we could sell a few more of those bubblegum-scented discs… stay tuned!

We’ve just added a show at the very cool Melting Point here in Athens on Wednesday, June 17th with the very delicious Nashville trio Heypenny (who just won a slot to play Bonnaroo) as a warm-up to our show the following week during Athfest.

If you haven’t been able to make it out to the last few ‘Fuzzies shows because we tend to do our rockin’ after 11pm, this is your chance to catch an earlier set. Doors open at 6 for those who prefer not to rock on an empty stomach, and the music begins at 9pm. Tickets are available at the Melting Point website or by phone.

Hope to see you at the Melting Point!

Hey everyone, the we’re up for a Flagpole Music Award (Flagpole is our local alternative weekly) for “Upstart of the Year.” We’re pretty pumped to be considered for the award, and we certainly can’t win it without your help.Voting is open (and will certainly close soon, so now’s the time!): http://awards.flagpole.com/MusicAwardsBallots/add

And of course, if you like one of the other bands on there better than us, don’t feel bad about voting for them. 

But remember this (in your best Samuel L. Jackson quiet voice):  ain’t nobody else up for an award got a song about cheese!!!