coming soon to a city near you!!! (+waiting for a war video, sxsw!!!)

we are thrilled to announce that we will be doing a full US tour in may to celebrate the release of our first album - "talking through tin cans" !!! even a couple dates in canada too! and just when you thought it couldn't get any better, we'll be supporting THE KOOKS for all these dates!! wham bam thank you maam.

all the kooker dates, plus our own CD release shows:

May 6 2008 5:00P
Virgin Megastore SF In-store! FREE! San Francisco, California

May 8 2008 8:00P
LA CD Release Show @ The Echo!! Los Angeles, California

May 9 2008 8:00P
SF CD Release Show @ 330 Ritch!! San Francisco, California

May 18 2008 8:00P
House Of Blues (w/ The Kooks!) San Diego, California

May 19 2008 8:00P
The Wiltern (w/ The Kooks) Los Angeles, California

May 24 2008 8:00P
Commodore Ballroom (w/ The Kooks) Vancouver, British Columbia

May 26 2008 8:00P
Wonder Ballroom (w/ The Kooks) Portland, Oregon

May 28 2008 8:00P
Avalon Theatre (w/ The Kooks) Salt Lake City, Utah

May 29 2008 8:00P
Ogden Theatre (w/ The Kooks) Denver, Colorado

May 31 2008 8:00P
Fine Line Music Cafe (w/ The Kooks) Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jun 1 2008 8:00P
Turner Hall Ballroom (w/ The Kooks) Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Jun 2 2008 8:00P
Vic Theatre (w/ The Kooks) Chicago, Illinois

Jun 4 2008 8:00P
Kool Haus (w/ The Kooks) Toronto, Ontario

Jun 5 2008 8:00P
The Fillmore @ TLA (w/ The Kooks) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jun 9 2008 8:00P
Paradise Rock Club (w/ The Kooks) Boston, Massachusetts

Jun 10 2008 8:00P
Terminal 5 (w/ The Kooks) New York, New York

Jun 11 2008 8:00P
Terminal 5 SOLD OUT (w/ The Kooks) New York, New York



...and that's not all. today also celebrates the release of our first video! it's for "waiting for a war," which incidentally, is available for purchase on vinyl and itunes this tuesday, march 11! we'll have the vinyl available at shows, which looks and sounds beautiful. however, if you purchase the song and it's accompanying b-side on itunes you'll get a free downloadable version of the video, and another free b-side!! can you believe it?

here's the video. directed by the super homies: alexander safdie and ronald schnetke, and shot by doug mccann.





we're heading to austin right now for sxsw, going to be in las cruces, new mexico, tomorrow night. we'll be documenting the whole thing on our new FLIP CAMERA. check out our page on imeem for video blogs updating our trip - http://themorningbenders.imeem.com/
we reckon it's gonna be wild.

and if you're in the texan area, come holler:

Mar 13 2008 4:30P
SXSW - Highwire party @ Habana Calle - Austin, Texas

Mar 13 2008 8:30P
SXSW - Smokin’ Music - Austin, Texas

Mar 14 2008 3:00P
SXSW - +1 House Party @ Hank Sinatra’s - Austin, Texas

Mar 14 2008 9:30P
SXSW - Viper Room In Austin @ The Orchid - Austin, Texas

Mar 15 2008 2:00P
SXSW - Homeslice - Austin, Texas

more exciting news soon!

love love love,
the morning benders

SXSWTOURBLOG1

Tomorrow we are leaving for Texas. We're all really excited and we feel a lot like this dog and cat.




We're going to be leaving from Berkeley, CA in our van Daryl and MAPQUEST says that it will take twenty-five hours. That sucks so we're going to San Diego, CA first to play a show with Port O Brien and Delta Spirit and visit our old friend Kari Nye and MAYBE go to some wild mexican border town. Then we're going to unwind in the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico if we can find a place to stay but right now it's not looking good. Then we're going to go to Texas. In Texas we are going to play some shows at SOUTH BY SOUTH WEST and then we are going to come back home. But i'm at home right now in my kitchen.

Love and love

Joe

New pic/favorite website

you should check blingee.com my friend adrienne showed it to me. i'm pretty obsessed right now. i pronounce it BLIN-JEE but i think it's supposed to be blingy.. who knows??!! do you??? anyway, you can do sweet stuff like this:


Myspace Glitter Graphics



hope you enjoy. time to sleep...
-julian

RCRD LBL Interview, Daily Cal, Etc!

friends,

just wanted to post a few cool interviews we've done in the last week or so. we've been super busy these last couple weeks working towards getting the album out... we should have some surprises for you soon.

(update!!!)

check out the front page of spin.com for a rad review of our noise pop show:
spin.com

for now, here's a cool interview we did with RCRD LBL:
rcrdlbl.com

the daily cal:
dailycal.org

san francisco bay guardian:
www.sfbg.com

thanks to everyone for coming to noise pop last night, it was such a great time! we'll post more on that soon.

love,
the morning benders

hip hip la (updated)

hola amigos,

just got back from a fantastic trip to la. we played 2 shows with the kooks, and it was way fun. the first night was on thursday at the troubador, and the second on friday, at the echo. the kooks played awesome sets both nights, and to top it off, are some of the nicest guys ever. great crowds too, thanks to everyone for singing and dancing along. fun fun fun.

OH, we aren't going to be back in la for a bit, but we just found out we are doing a CD RELEASE show in la on may 8. that's right. we'll have copies of our first full length record, TALKING THROUGH TIN CANS. finally. how rad is that? the venue will be announced soon.

anyway. if you missed the last shows in la, here's a couple little write-ups and things to bring you up to speed:

http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?id=16303&c=11

http://thescenestar.typepad.com/ss/2008/02/live-the-kooks.html

http://amateurchemist.blogspot.com/2008/02/kooks-at-troubadour.html

http://blogs.laweekly.com/play/the-kooks-morning-benders-trou-1/#more

http://laist.com/2008/02/11/concert_review.php

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/buzzbands/2008/02/the-weekend-see.html

AND:

lots of pics over at shadowscene.com (thanks ellei!)








AND^2

an interview with the homie cameron:

http://www.littleradio.com/
http://thefmly.blogspot.com/

some of that good stuff

just wanted to post up some cool features/posts people have done in anticipation of our first full length album- talking through tin cans!! we are very excited to get it out there, but in the mean time, peep some of this good stuff:

check out this month's issue of performer for a feature on us. here's the web version, if that's more your steez:
performermag.com/

another feature on owlmag.com:
owlmag.com

"crosseyed" video feature on stereogum.com:
stereogum.com

#1 most requested on live 105's soundcheck (thanks to everyone for calling in!!):
live105.com - aaron's blog

...and a bunch more:
http://everybodycares.blogspot.com/2008/02/morning-benders-are-back-studio-style.html
http://www.gloriousnoise.com/mp3s/2008/morning_benders_crosseyed.php
http://finefinemusic.com/2008/02/02/the-morning-benders-crosseyed/
http://indieblogheaven.typepad.com/indieblogheaven/2008/02/hot-track-the-m.html
http://www.hypeful.com/2008/01/31/new-the-morning-benders-crosseyed/
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/02/daily_downloads_1454.html
http://www.muzzleofbees.com/2008/02/02/weekend-mp3s-volume-5/
http://macktronic.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-news-on-local-band-morning-benders.html
http://thefmly.blogspot.com/2008/01/morning-benders.html
http://www.sentimentalistmag.com/2008/01/31/the-morning-benders-to-release-debut-through-1/
http://strikegently.blogspot.com/2008/02/endtroducing-morning-benders.html
http://electricsoulradio.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/the-morning-benders/

THANK YOU so much to everyone for your support! all these sites/blogs have a ton of great music on them, so please check them out, browse around and tell your friends!

the response to "crosseyed" has been really great, and it's just getting us more pumped to get the rest of the music out to you all. soon. be sure to grab the mp3 of "crosseyed" on the post below, if you haven't already, and feel free to repost it wherever you like.

we leave for LA tomorrow morning, so we'll do another post on here when we get back.

be well, friends!

love,
the morning benders

crosseyed

here's an mp3 of "crosseyed." this is the first track we're giving out from the album. it's the 5th track on the album. hope you enjoy it.

download "crosseyed" here
(right click and save as)

here's the beautiful cover by kyle lee (click to enlarge):


love,
the morning benders