AristeiA: How To Kill A King

Our Album 'How To Kill A King' is number two editor's pick in the Post Rock/Experimental section on CD Baby! Also the album was reviewed over here at Sound as Language. Thanks to Will.

The Road to SXSW is long, and hard?

It has begun. At 6:44 am on Monday morning we pulled out of Portland on our trip to Austin for SXSW. We figured a 48 hour drive would be a good way to start our 2009 Spring Tour. Last time we toured we devised a method of driving where one (of four) band member drives 3 hours, then breaks for 9 hours. Very do-able. I mean you feel kinda funny after 24 hours of this method, but it works.

We are stocked with all kinds of snacks. from veggie to reeses pieces. We got a ton of water and a few flats of Red Bull and Red Bull Cola. We will not starve. But I guess we will not eat "healthy" food either. Whatevs.

We also have stocked our van with video games with those who like that sort of thing. We have one Playstation 2 and two Nintendo DS's for a little multi-player action.

Until we have actual things to report, we thought it would be fun to let you know what we are listening to during our 3 hour driving shifts!

Ben's Playlist:
Billie Holiday - Beautiful Ballads and Love Songs
Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
Blue Skies for Black Hearts - Serenades and Hand Grenades
Kyte - Kyte
The Old Believers - Eight Golden Greats
Q and not U - Different Damage
T.K.Y.K. - Single
Tripping Daisy - Tripping Daisy


Adam's Playlist:
Slobberbone - Barrel Chested
Mouth of the Architect - The Tie That Binds
Radiohead - The Bends
Fiona Apple - Tidal


Brandon's Playlist:
Kanye West - 808 and Heartbreaks
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Mars Volta - Amputechture


Jesse's Playlist:
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Paul SImon - Graceland
Murder By Death - Like The Exorcist but With More Breakdancing
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
Rocky Votalato - Makers
Hockey - Mind Chaos


Ben's Playlist 2:
Copy - Hair Guitar
Yann Tiersen - Good Bye Lennen Soundtrack Score
Talkdemonic - Eyes at Half Mast
Ratatat - LP3
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Adam's Playlist 2:
Magyar Posse - Random Avenger
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Hans Zimmer - The Dark Knight Score

Brandon's Playlist 2:
Ryan Adams- Cold Roses
Westfold- The Morning Commute
Desert City Soundtrack-Funeral car

Jesse's Playlist 2:
The Drift - Travels in Constants EP
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Jay Z - Black Album
Kanye West - College Drop Out
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Plus a bunch of random songs that Jesses has called his Stoner Shuffle

Ben's Playlist 3:
Bind Pilot - 3 Rounds
Birthmark - The Layer
Django Reinhart - Les'Essentials disc 1
DOOM - Born Like This
Dr. Dog - Easy Beat

Adam's Playlist 3:
Caspian - For the Conductor
Centro-Matic - Navigational
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
OP8 - Slush

Brandon's Playlist 3:
Wolves In The Throne Room - Malevolent Grain
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Boris - Akum No Uta
Wilderness - (k)no(w)here

Jesse playlist 3
deftones- around the fir
refused- shape of punk to come
ryan adams- heart breaker
the calm blue sea- we happy few


Also somewhere along the way Ben found out that Butterfingers have developed a caffine infused candy bar. Butterfinger Buzz!

Farewell Portland, Hello SXSW (and rest of tour)!

So in less than 24 hours we will start our tour. We have a new van, some limited edition merch, new shirts, a tour ep, a cool silkscreen tour poster, our old new cd How to Kill a King, and a batch of new songs to play for you guys. Plus most of the dates are with are friends from the bay Cloud Archive. We are stoked.

If you are in Austin for SXSW, you should come see us. We are playing some FREE shows on Wednesday and Friday. The schedule looks like this:

Wednesday we are playing the Static Management stage @ The Belmont (305 W 6th St) we play from 3:40-4:10 PM.

Friday we play the Meow Poww Media stage @ The Parlour (707 East Sixth St) sometime between 4 PM and 5 PM (a guess)

So check our myspace page for updates of where and when we are playing. We will update it as we go.

-AristeiA

p.s. How to Kill a King is now available on itunes. Feel free to purchase and rate the album (say 4 stars?)

How to Kill a King available on CD Baby!

So we level with you. We have been selfish with our last album. Up until recently, we have allowed only those who have seen us play purchase How To Kill a King at our shows. But now we have officially released it on CD Baby. You can order it here.

It will be on itunes very soon. When it does we will be sure to let you know.

-AristeiA


The new art work.

p.s. please come to The Coop for the show with Quixotic, AristeiA, and Elitist. This is a wildly diverse show. Quixotic is a hip hop group. AristeiA is the really sweet instrumental post-rock group that I play bass in. We have some new songs to share. Elitist is a grindcore? band. When it comes to heavier music, I am not too good with all the different "core's". The show will be ALL AGES and only $2. It starts at 8 PM.

AristeiA goes to College

We are about to go on a college tour of some of the SW states. Don't worry you don't to go to college to attend (not all us graduated from college , either). Most of the college shows will be in the afternoon, so we are trying to book night shows all of the cities we hit. We are getting pretty stoked. We are excited about seeing people we have met before and the ones we will meet. We have new songs to play for everyone. We will have new merch to sell. We will have a tour ep (which we recorded on our last tour, it's fitting). We will have our last release "How to Kill A King" to sell. We will have fancy silk screened tour posters. We will be playing several dates with our friends Cloud Archive. Plus the best part of all is that we will start the whole thing by doing a few SXSW dates. Check our myspace for our tour dates.

In the mean time, if you live in Portland you should come check us out on Saturday. Elitist and Quixotic a grindcore and hip hop group, respectively are playing a house show with us at The Coop. It is ALL AGES and starts at 8 PM.

- AristeiA


Cloud Archive sells out. JK I love Red Bull and would proudly play a Red Bull sponsored event

Another review. aka Fensepost knows music

The reviews continue to pour in. Just this morning I found that Fensepost has a review of How To Kill A King. You can read it here. But if you cannot be bothered with reading the entire review, I have edited it down for you. "its genius."

Thanks Andy.