Second One/Thank Yous

Thank you to everyone for making it out to the second night of our residency last evening. It was a bit darker, a bit smokier and a tad bit more serious and we thank you all for your attendance. We have had a wonderful couple of weeks and to be honest, we are only getting started. Three more Mondays this month with plenty of surprises to come.

Many thanks to The Young, Twilight Sleep and our good friends Holy Water Buffalo who made the long trip out from Utah to play a great midnight set.

Here is our set list from last night-for binary posterity of course.

JANUARY 9, 2012

MAYBE

OH NO, THE BOTTOM

DARK SUNGLASSES

NICE GUYS

HONEY DON'T

THE SAFETY ZONE

WHO ARE WE TO KNOW

DO IT TO MY SELF

PORTLAND (A VERY NICE LIFE)

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THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR FUTURE

First One

It was an absolute pleasure to begin our residency last night at The Satellite. We frequent this venue for many reasons, often for debauchery but most often because we love to watch and support our friends play at one of the most welcoming venues in town. Standing on stage with my best friends playing these new songs was such a breath of fresh air. I can not wait to begin really pushing this record and touring. I know it is totally uncool to be this personal and revealing on a band blog, but this is a big deal for me and although my head was (and still is) full of snot and pumped full of fever-reducers and an unhealthy amount of antihistamines...last night was crystal clear.

Toy Bombs, you always make me move up and down and that energy you bring for 40 minutes every show is astonishing, as always, thank you for joining us. Brendan Hines-you were a treat. Finishing the evening with Cassorla was totally completely rad and seeing Ethan from The Belle Brigade was great too.

A week ago we did not even know who would be playing on this bill...turned into such a wonderful evening- I look forward to the next 4 weeks and if anyone is still reading this, bring a friend and we shall, as my wrist still reads..."PARTY!" Thank You!

And, as promised here is the track Nice Guys premiered by Buzzbands.LA who is helping us present the residency.

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-Matt

Residency-Night 1

Hope everyone is having a wonderful morning. We begin the first night of our free month long Monday night residency this evening at The Satellite. We have been working very hard on some new elements of our show and can't wait to share them with you. We are also very excited about the bands that will be joining us. Hope to see you there-we can start shaking off all these holiday meals together.

-Matt

1.2.11

9-TOY BOMBS

10-CASSORLA

11-CHASING KINGS

12-BRENDAN HINES

Top 10 Of 2011

This will be the final post of the year 2011. We have decided to make a list (last minute) of the top 10 contributing influences to our record making process. I hope this finds you well:

1. The love we all have for each other


2. Our parents & their fortunes


3. The Law


4. Special Bands


5. Good sound


6. Weird feelings


7. Cold weather 


8. Balcony's


9. Interior design


10. Stater Brothers


I hope you all have a very merry new year and that we all don't die.
With utmost respect, 
Mike & Chasing Kings

Kickstarter

Hey Blog,

I know I neglect you quite frequently, but I have reasonable excuses...really, I promise. I mean I have been making a record and pulling my hair out trying to make it sound as good as possible with microphones and recording space that most record producers would go insane over.  And now...it is done, and now, it is getting mixed...and now I can finally start doing the fun things that being in a band is all about-like writing blog posts, because this record sounds really fucking great and we are really proud of it. Unfortunately, working hard in this case does not just make a bunch of money show up and unfortunately, releasing a record takes a significant amount of money.

We have launched a Kickstarter, which is a platform where fans can help artists out financially and get really cool prizes in return.

If anyone is reading this here thing, we would really appreciate you checking out our page and letting some rich friends know too. At the very least you get to watch a bunch of pretentious puppets talk about record making-so that is cool.

We are incredibly excited about this record and we really want to reach our goal so we can have a proper self-release of this record. Thank you for reading. Hope to see you soon!

Chasing Kings Kickstarter

United States Open of Surf

Bring some shorts. Should be chill.

Empathy Music Video

Directed by our friend Matt Heder, here is our music video for Empathy. We shot it in about 7 hours in an abandoned concrete factory in the desert just east of Las Vegas. We are really excited to share this with all of you. Hope you enjoy.

KXLU Guest DJ/The Bootleg Theater Tonight

We will be hanging out on 88.9 KXLU Los Angeles at Noon today with host Jen. We will be playing some music that we have been listening to lately as well as playing a demo or two of songs that we are working on. You can tune in on your dial or STREAM KXLU HERE. Should be fun. 

Very excited for the show at The Bootleg Theater tonight as well. The show starts at 8...and we are so excited to be playing with all of these bands. We had a late one last night with Priory in San Diego and we can't wait for round two this evening.  In case you need some GPS assistance  the venue is located at 2220 Beverly Boulevard.  It is 21+ but fortunately only costs $5. Hope to see you there.

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Also...video release about to happen. Stay close.