The Spinto Band has just participated in a (willing) takeover of San Antonio's finest music program, Music For Listeners. The wonderful hosts, Michael and Orlando, are putting their three hours in the hands of bands across the world and we were lucky enough to be one of them!
The show airs TONIGHT from 1:00 AM to 4:00 AM EST on KRTU (91.7 in San Antonio). If you're not in the area you can also listen directly on the internet here.
What can you expect to hear on the show? You can listen to Jon wax nostalgic on Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia", take in Nick's Lomax-ian field recordings of local Philadelphia area musicians, indulge an essay and playlist by Thomas inspired by the drums of the Ronnettes' "Be My Baby" and hey, maybe even Joe will dispense some video game tips for "Yo! Noid". On the 180, anything can happen!
Once premiered our show will be archived here. Take a listen or something!
If we were to give you a "virtual tour", we'd make your virtual-self turn 180 degrees to this sight: This is an attempt to recreate what the world looks like to Jeff Hobson. It it also a general view of the tracking room. You may have noticed by this point (or our last studio update) that this building has horizontal lines running amongst its walls. These are what folks in the industry call "slatwall". It has many uses...Mainly: Hanging up things on the walls like musical instruments! If you know the Spinto Band, then you know one of our biggest pet peeves is decisiveness. With new-fangled these "slatwalls", there is no commitment or consequence if you want to put something up on the wall! You can take things down or move them around as you see fit. Also, As you can probably see, we've adopted two pianosauruses from the local animal shelter. These two, Cassidy and Meadow, provide much needed 1) Security and 2) Unconditional Love within the Garden Center. Anyway, moving on...Let's visit the "Control Room".This is the room where we take control! Can anyone spot the burlap? Good. Now if you virtually turn around you'll find yourself looking at this:Yes, everybody. It's the "Chillaxin Zone". You can tell by the delicately placed acoustic guitar. It's either 1) Was just being played by someone who was chillaxin or 2) Chillaxin all by itself. Okay, enough of that...Let's go back into the tracking room!To play some video games! That's right! That white paper hanging above the television is entitled "Games beaten in the Garden Center". There are already five games on there and if that's not a sign of our [Lack of? - Ed.] productivity I don't know what is! Not sure if you can tell, but that is the Yo! Noid Nintendo game being played. I'll leave you with some wise words...taken directly from the Yo! Noid Game FAQ, written by someone who goes by the handle of simply "Psycho Penguin".
Yo! Noid has never really received the mainstream recognition it deserved in my opinion, because it is one of my all time favorite games. Featuring lots of innovative gameplay, the game is a fantastic side scrolling action/adventure game that is great fun for the entire family! Overall, Yo! Noid for the NES is one of my all time favorite games. I was also quite surprised to see that no one wrote a guide for this great game yet, so I decided to!
our RGBs (real good buds) National Eye just posted a song on their myspace page that is totally RTOE (radical to our ears). They are certainly SSR (super studio rats) and it is always EE (extremely exciting) to hear what they come up with. Uh Oh! this time the JOU (jokes on us) National Eye came up with a cover version of our song "late!" If you ask me you should GGALU (get going anf listen up) to this fresh new jawn (thing). They showed it to me AFMA (a few months ago) and it was really cool, and i can assure you it holds up and it is SCEWLTIASTNPM"U" (still cool even when listening to it after seeing the new pixar movie "up")
listen on my friends, and hopfully OEWMASDS (our ears will meet again some day soon)
Probably the anticipated moment of the Summer happens on the [long] weekend starting July 16th, when we and our fellow battle beasts, The Sw!ms & And the Moneynotes tour and conquer the east coast. What cities will fall prey to our unstoppable musical cavalcade? Here's a HEADS UP:
Since we're about to hunker down and actually start recording the next album (which should be any day now hopefully), we believe these may be our last shows on this side of the coast for quite sometime. Come out and say goodbye before we enter hibernation!
Those of you may know we play with these dudes alot, but there's a clear reason why: Because they're two of our favorite bands in the world. If you haven't familiarized yourselves with them yet, please do so now.
THE SW!MS The Sw!ms released their phenomenal Itemlord LP a few months ago and are currently in the running for Wawa's Hoagiefest Contest. Their submission is clearly the best, but it wouldn't hurt to vote for it a couple more times! Go HERE to do so! Also, the Sw!ms singer/warrior Brian Langan designed the show poster above.
AND THE MONEYNOTES And The Moneynotes just released their crazy-good "On The Town / On The Vine" EP on frickin RED VINYL so be sure to grab it [and pay for it] while supplies last!
* No official ATMoneynotes on these dates, but some members of the band may be playing!
The Spinto Band has just participated in a (willing) takeover of San Antonio's finest music program, Music For Listeners. The wonderful hosts, Michael and Orlando, are putting their three hours in the hands of bands across the world and we were lucky enough to be one of them!
