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Silversun Pickups will be in the studio at WRAS in Atlanta on Tuesday, August 15th at 4:30pm EST. They will peform an acoustic set and interview, which will be broadcast live on 88.5fm!

hello...

here we are.

together again.

wouldn't miss it.

our new album CARNAVAS comes out this tuesday, july 25th, in stores and itunes and all those other buy online deals. or you can get it here .

nice.
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tour?
shows?
what not?

July 28, Doug Fir / Portland, OR
July 29, Capitol Hill Block Party / Seattle, WA
July 30, Richards on Richards / Vancouver, BC
August 3, Mercury Lounge / New York, NY
August 4, First Unitarian Church / Philadelphia, PA
August 5, Great Scott / Boston, MA
August 6, Black Cat / Washington, DC
August 7, Union Hall / Brooklyn, NY
August 9, WOXY session / Cincinnati, OH
August 10, Midwest Music Summit @ The Vogue / Indianapolis, IN
August 11, Miramar Theatre / Milwaukee, WI
August 12, 7th Street Entry / Minneapolis, MN
August 13, New New at Schuba's / Chicago, IL
August 16, Drunken Unicorn / Atlanta, GA
August 17, Troubadour / Los Angeles, CA
September 1, Live 105 Session / San Francisco, CA
September 2, Art & Soul Music Festival - Live 105 Stage / Oakland, CA

and more coming soon.

nice.
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now.

this is for the locals.

mr. and mrs. los angelino.

listen to INDIE 103 at 4pm on tuesday, july 25th. we will be stopping by and saying hello.
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what else is happening on tuesday, july 25th?

we will be hanging out at sea level records in echo park. the beautiful folks at sea level are throwing a listening party for us from 8pm to 9pm. come down and have a drink with us. we hope you will. we miss you.

that's it for now.
bye.
love sspu.
brinikxisjoe... ...tan

hello.

listen to LITTLE RADIO weds night, july 19th, from 6pm to 8pm. we will be sitting in with DJ fancypants kevin bronson. give it a listen.

love
sspu.

hello.

we are silversun pickups.

welcome to our new website.

as you can see, we've cleaned some things up. made some stuff easier and some a little more difficult just for kicks. all the old stuff is still here as well as some new dealies. like lyrics, downloads and what not. it's not quite done just yet and we'll be adding this that and the other very shortly. some of you will be very happy that we no longer have our little spinny window on the top. no more nausea for the weak stomachs. if there is anything you want from us, just tell us. don't be shy. we're all past that passive aggresive phase, right?

right.

we are very excited to finally deliver to you CARNAVAS. our new album due july 25th on dangerbird records. we are very proud of it and we hope you like it.

right.

talk to you soon.

love sspu.

brinikxisjoe... ...and sometimes tan

this and that.

in the making of our second full length album, we've been lucky enough to work with a lot of the same talented people that helped us out in carnavas.  darren waterston is one of them, and he is the shit.  he was instrumental in giving carnavas a visual to our sound, and not to mention he has become a dear friend to us.  since we're on the topic of artwork, also returning is the very creative graphic designer sara cumings.  she's the one that gives our name some class.  because of her, fonts will never be the same to us again.  with their combined artistry, we're confident that swoon, like carnavas, will be a breath of fresh air in the dying art form of album artwork.

tony hoffer is back in the studio mixing swoon.  its great to have him back and we know the songs are in very good hands.  he and dave cooley are working very hard to meet our mastering deadline at the end of this month.  you couldn't even imagine how many knobs are turned and frequencies embellished to make us sound pretty.  its getting close to the finish line and we all await with baited breath...

new album means new band photos - that's the ugly truth.  we love meeting and hanging out with photographers, but the act of being photographed is not a natural or comfortable proposition for us.  but steve gullick loosened us up quickly.  not only is he an amazing and storied photographer, he's a good and funny man all around.  to get us at ease with him and the shoot, he started telling us jokes - some dirty, some grade school - but all hilarious.  the raspy british accent may have also helped a bit.  my personal favorite was -

TWO GOLDFISH IN A TANK. AND ONE SAYS TO THE OTHER, "HOW DO WE DRIVE THIS THING?"


so we're trying out this twitter thing.  basically, if you want quick updates about what tricks and schemes we're up to at a moments notice, you can follow us on www.twitter.com/sspu <http://www.twitter.com/sspu> .  right now the updates are far and few between, there's not a lot to talk about as of yet, but as we get back into the swing of things - tours, new locales, shenanigans -  we'll be updating a lot more and putting up photos and what nots.  it may get a little more interesting.  or not.

as for other things internet and web like, we are in the process of revamping our website and myspace/facebook pages so they don't look like they're from 2006...

as for us, we're hard at work wrapping our heads around the idea of playing these new songs live.  we're not quite sure yet how many smoke machines and fun house mirrors we need to make it possible, but maybe if we take our time and plug everything in correctly, we may be able to make it happen.  i guess we'll find out at the upcoming U.S. music festivals later this year.  you and me both.

there's no secrets this year.  except for secret warm up shows.  we'll keep you posted...

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the landscape of swoon from up here.

INTO THE DARK EPILOGUE

its been almost a year to the day when we entered our rehearsal space to start work on a new album.  and even though it easily feels like that was just yesterday, living with swoon every single day for a whole year is the duality.  we worked our asses off, tried to push the right buttons, tried not to blow up too many recording studios(that one time wasn't our fault).  we tried to do something new and uncomfortable, yet have it be recognizable and reassuring.  and throw in some strings and horns while we're at it.  whether we reached our goal to get to the highest peak of our own proverbial mount everest, or whether we're balancing precariously atop a heap of rubble which we've created - only one thing is certain to us - we're standing on top of a mountain that is of our own making, and we're intent on enjoying the view from up here. 

hopefully you'll enjoy it as well...


~xoxopher

its a controlled tumble.

the day has finally arrived.  we pushed our vacation time as far as we could.  we watched oscar nominated films, saw our favorite local bands, bought toys(guitars, playstations, groceries, polka dot socks), made dinner, stayed up all night - slept in all day.  we ate at our favorite restaurants and visited each others houses(apartments really) and watched a lot of lakers games.  we hung out at our local bars, visited loved ones and even found time to hit the slopes.  all our TIVO-ed shows have been watched and we somewhat reluctantly, eventually rather, moved all our gear to a new rehearsal space.  we made it pretty with christmas lights and a huge canvas of art provided by our friend ronald(via a defunct sealevel records).  guitars plugged in, power amps humming, drums kinda tuned - we're ready to write a new album.  {sigh}  let's get some tacos...

~xoxopher

ok.

 yes this is a very dusty place.

we have absolutely ignored this section of our site. it's funny, when you read through these things, like i do every single day to stroke that scrappy little ego, you can always sense that we have a weird internal struggle trying to keep these up. we lost.

well, one of the reasons is now online. we made a 17 minute video snippet thingy of our experiences in 2007. it started as something youtube wanted us to do, however we weren't to keen on the guidelines. so we kept building on the original idea and the next thing you know... well, you'll see.

 it takes us from here to there. from there back to here. and then back over there, until we wrap it up right here (sounds like a rejected HOBBIT title). snow back to snow. show back to show. look closely. you'll see all the faces we travelled with, lotsa bands, lotsa friends, lotsa fiends, lotsa kangaroos. so that's that. we hope you like it.

we are searching for a new practice space (of our very own) and once settled, we'll begin writing the new record which we are very excited about starting.

i can't tell you enough how much your kindness has meant to us over these last couple of bizarre years.

it helps.

more to come now. i promise.

lovebrian 

i think christopher summed it up quite nice below. ditto that.

 

we're in salt lake city, sitting in "too soon" (scroll way down if you don't know what i mean), awaiting the club people and our friends sea wolf. we're playing a few american dates, including lollapalooza, before heading to europe again. our new sound man fritz has been entertaining us with tons of previous tour stories and lovely little tidbits that make the milk come out of the nostrils. he went people fishing and i was the bait. totally.

 

we just played the seattle block party. it was great, but the city made the festival turn our sound way way way down. so, sorry. we tried, but they wouldn't let us turn it up. i think that was kind of stupid. the final bands of the night are not allowed to be loud. silly planning. i hope it sounds better for spoon. but the crowd was lovely all the same. late night real bowling followed (i trained hard with the wii in glasgow). i wasn't prepared for my shoe confusion. dumb me. dumb me. oh well, i have my own bowling shoes now and some lovely little alley in seattle has a nice pair of black and brown pumas.

 

watched quadrophenia and head last night. head... the monkees... jack nicholson... eh... hmmm....

never has dolenz been so emotive, nesmith so cool, tork so stoic, and jones so little and punchable.

i don't want to ruin it for you, but in the beginning, they are being chased by the ending. that's why they jump off the bridge into the river of mermaids. nice. i bet, when the one person who saw the film in the theaters, he or she probably screamed, "PLAY CLARKSVILLE DAMN IT!!! CLARKSVILLE!!". he or she then went home and cried him/herself to sleep, while a flickering light danced though the window emitting from a monkees luchbox on fire in the driveway.

 

lie back and think of england.

 

love brian