our NIN cover

Hi! Here is a treat for everyone who likes covers! The original is from the Nine Inch Nails album 'the fragile''; it is titled 'the frail'.

And the reason I post this is because they are one of our favorites and they are playing portland tommorrow! We are also giving away sampler cds after the show.

enjoy!

AristeiA to open up for the Sea and Cake?!??

Yes, it's true. On Friday November 28th at Doug Fir we are going to open for a band that some of us have liked for a looooong time (The Sea and Cake, fools!). We are excited to play with then and perhaps even more excited to have AristeiA be one degree of seperation from Tortoise (depending on how you play that game). Sad Horse, another Portland band sharing the honor of opening for The Sea and Cake are also playing that night. Good times. The show is $15 and we go on first at 9 PM sharp.

playing up with the bombing

this is the best review i have read. it compares us to Mono and talk about our waves of guitars you know, "playing up with the bombing"...i'm speechless

"AristeiA album can be said to be very good, between the flu and played the melody was not saying that the first 2 "Feedback King" is full of Mono's Style, a strong sense of the destruction of the song, while violent and beautiful details are found everywhere In wave upon wave of guitar playing up with the bombing, a Fangruo the emergence of the end of the world."

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.

hawthorne is where the hippies live.

if you like me, which i know you do, you will be at this show tonight. we just got back from tour which means we now know how to play our songs which allow us to bring the rock to you just a little bit more.

also, in case you were wondering, there will be a fog machine tonight.

also, in case you were wondering. i will be there as well.

also, i'm addicted to these...

Willamete Week's Local Cut gives some Love

Michael Mannheimer (AristeiA fan)
photo courtesey of Local Cut's Flikr page


Hey, guess what. We are today's "cut of the day" on Willamette Week's Local Cut. I have always thought that Cut of the Day was a cool feature. You know a little info and a free mp3. See. Pretty cool. Anyway, I just want to give a shout out to Michael Mannheimer for writing the thing. What Up Mikey?!??

-Ben

Love from lazy town on the road

As every one knows lazy town lies on the road. Here are pics of our adventure so far. And we will explain each photo

Entrance to the Ghost Town Gallery, Oakland, California
We camped on this beach in  Santa Cruz, California
Our favorite little cafe in Santa Cruz. Cafe Brazil, home of Acai!
Adam is clearly a baby panther.  The Black Cat, Penngrove, CA

Recording some guitar tracks at Expression College Emeryville, CA

Adam and Jesse pretending like they know what they are doing
Broke the fuck down in the middle of the desert
$700 and 24 hours later

We are a folk/country band from Austin, TX. Right?