Our home studio is a disaster but our bags are packed. We are very much looking forward to joining our good friends Zammuto (Nick Zammuto from The Books’ new project) for a US / Canada tour starting this Thursday. They are one of our favorite bands and we are excited to share the stage with them for a couple of weeks. I especially have my eye on you, Toronto – let’s give Zammuto a proper howdy – even if it is Monday April Fool’s at the Garrison.

We are delighted that Dan Gaucher (Sandro Perri) and Felicity Williams (Bahamas) will be with us for this tour, and we will get to debut some new songs that we wrote this winter.

Until we see you in person, you can listen here to a remix of our song Safety Stories by Nick from Zammuto. His version finds new windows and new feelings within my personal teacher’s-pet-song on Inner Classics. 

So, send your friends, send yourself – we are ready for you!

SNOWBLINK SPRING TOUR
buy tickets here

After Brooklyn-based Carla Susanto’s short was featured in TIFF this year, she noticed it fit perfectly with Goodbye Eyes. Stills of medical text etchings stitched together : brains branchioles kidney nerves bladder spine heart eye leg skulls feet head.
I’ve got my goodbye eyes on. Everything here’s good as gone.

To our profound delight, Feist called on us and AroarA – guitarmy and all – to be her wingmen and ladies for her performance at the 2012 Polaris Prize Gala. And many congratulations to Feist on her win. Listen more to AroarA here – we love deeply and truly.

Photo courtesy of Much Music

Still aglow from that evening in Beachwood Canyon in August, and thrilled that there are ripples still rippling from Simone Rubi and Janella Fox’s Rubifox.

Here is Opening Ceremony’s review of the event.

And here is a video of highlights of the event. Portraits by Alia Shawkat. Video by Maria Biber-Ferro.

Rubifox No. 3 – Gatherings from Rubifox on Vimeo.

We teamed up with Max Goldblatt and Catherine Goldschmidt to film this video in Los Angeles at the end of the summer. The volcano footage of Mt Kilauea erupting appears courtesy of Geoff Mackley. The video premiers on The Guardian UK.

INNER CLASSICS will be streaming on CBC Radio 3 this week, so until you can get your hands on some clear vinyl (!) we hope this will suffice, possibly event whet.

Photo by Simone Rubi

Oh LA. It was beyond. Special thanks to Chris Douridas of KCRW for hosting us at his school night, Michael Andrews for having us on board for his album launch for Spilling a Rainbow, and extra special thanks to our friends at Rubifox for hosting such an extraordinary event! You can see photos, and soon , a video for that here.

@tothemaxxx snowblink is rad!

— David Longstreth (@DavidLongstreth) August 23, 2012

The second single off our forthcoming record Inner Classics is out today. Download Unsurfed Waves for free here, or here (Filter Magazine Premier). This one features our friends Barbara Gruska (The Belle Brigade) and Caley Monahon-Ward (Extra Life). Don’t be shy about sharing – it’s a summer wind-down jam.

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We are thrilled to be back in LA for all of August to partcipate in the following events in preparation for the release of our new record Inner Classics, out on Arts & Crafts on September eleventh. We will be previewing the new material, and will even have advanced copies available.

We would love to see you at any or all of these happenings!

saturday the 18th : : : : : : : Rubifox (private event in beachwood canyon) : : : : : : :
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wednesday the 22nd : : : : : : : bootleg theater with michael p andrews (donnie darko, me and you and everyone we know) : : : : : : : silverlake
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monday the 27th : : : : : : : school night at bardot with chris douridas of kcrw : : : : : : : FREE (with reservation) : : : : : : : hollywood