Clip Records is releasing the first record this month. It's been out-of-print for a little while.

This new version will include two demo tracks and one of the songs that didn't make it the first time around. It will be fun to hear. I've sent over the files. See how it turns out.

Also, I have a new single coming out.

Hi everyone.

I've drafted a chart that shows how incredibly lazy I am.

There is no Sin in Sin My Body: 2009
We Are Revealed: 2011

I had high hopes and an aspirational spirit. Everything seemed possible.

Quick answers that explain nothing:

1. Will this release come with a book? No.
2. Is it another concept record? Yes...sorry.
3. Who is playing on it? Mostly me.
4. Is there a tour planned? Not in the US. Likely Europe.

Thanks for being interested. I am lucky.

As we've been recording and playing new material, we've discussed titles. No decisions yet.

Tim has another band project. More on that soon.

We're giving away our first two records through March 30.

Whatever you do, don't buy them from iTunes. You'll feel ripped off, burrow it deep inside and, at our next show, approach us with a metaphorical ax to grind. Not a literal ax. That would be messed up.

Thanks for listening. Here you go.

Greetings from Barcelona. Here for a week.

In our downtime, we're chatting up the local skaters for Devil Street Decks and documenting graffiti (like we do).

Here is what we know:

1. We have been auditioning songs, recording and playing tiny shows.
2. The first new songs will precede the album by a month or two.
3. This will be our first digital only release. No discs.
4. This is not the upbeat record we promised.
5. Clip friends have picked "Some Book by Ondaatje" as the first single.
6. Tim and Al would be willing to wear tuxedos for the next show but not baby blue 70s suits.

More soon.
Troy

If you've never heard of Kino Proby, they're a cover band that I first caught in the early 2000s. They play raucously fun covers of Viktor Tsoi's 80s Russian punk band Kino. You must go.

Evan Kanarakis and I had a conversation last year that lead to yet another side project for us.

Gascan Magazine is an online music journal was highlights the music that we like and the people who will talk to us. Our goal was to create a non-critical, non-holier-than-thou publication that we could use to counteract the cynicism that pervades a lot of music blogs.

We don't know if we've succeeded yet. We're trying. Take a look, if you'd like.

My photos are up for a month at Port City Blue.

The theme? Animals that I've bumped into around the world. A horse taking a shower in Nice, France. A cow wandering along the highway in northern California. My first impulse was to use the street photographs that I'd taken but I kept noticing the creatures popping up. Taking a page on r/aww, I decided it made for a less fussy show.

The opening was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who came and drank wine with us.

[See image gallery at thereisnosininmybody.com]

Photographs (c) 2013 by Troy Keiper. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Reprint only with original attribution.

Yep. End of 2014. While we're away, you should listen to Perfume Genius playing Neil Young's "Helpless"