Do Right And Kill Everything

So we are back from our midwest trip with For Want Of. Although we couldn't make two of the shows happen, we had a blast with our new Texas friends. Many thank yous are in order...

-Our Cloudy boiz, Matt, John and Zach for setting us up one of the best Chicago shows we've played, letting us crash two days in a row and tearing it up as always.
-Jack Senff and the Analecta boys for setting us up a show in South Bend even though the weather prevented it from happening.
-Greg from The Dan Akroyd House for the show, place to crash and letting us get back into his house cause we are a bunch of forgetful assholes.
-Eric and Will in Louisville for setting us up at Skull Alley. We weren't able to make the show because of van troubles but they tried their best to make happen for us.
-Jay at Gas America in Crawfordsville, IN and his brother Tom Ross for being the nicest strangers I've ever met. When our van broke down Jay got a hold of his brother and he fixed our van on the real real cheap in the parking lot of Advanced Auto. Can not thank them enough, they saved us around 800 dollars. Without them we wouldn't have been able to finish the tour.
-Andy at The Monster House for the food, show and awesome place to crash.
-The dudes in Annabel for letting us play their record release show and Corey, Scotty and their room mates for letting us crash at the Kling Thing house and step on people's shoes.
-Victoria and The DAAC for consistently booking us excellent shows in Grand Rapids.
-All the new and old friends we got to see and play with all the nights of tour: The New Yorker, Goose, Sweet Talk, Graphite, Oh! Goliath, Last Legs, Leonard Hatred, Maryn, bst.cr, Drug Money, Into It. Over It., Two Handed Fools, Nigel Thornberry, Boy With Mace, Good Teeth/Gold Teeth and Cain Marko.
-Last but not least the dudes in For Want Of. Without those dudes, we would probably still be stranded in Indiana. They consistently stayed positive and made the tour 100 times more awesome. I'm so glad they could make it to the midwest and become some of our best friends.

Now that is all out of the way. We are excited to announce that this March we will be doing a 2 to 3 week tour with Empire! Empire! to make it down to Texas to play SXSW. So pumped for this and there will be more details about that soon!

Before that happens we are gonna do a little 7 days run out west a little farther then we usually do. If anyone can help us out, get at us. Here are the dates for that:

Feb. 18th: Indianapolis,IN
Feb. 19th: Champaign, IL
Feb. 20th: St. Louis, MO
Feb. 21st: Columbia, MO
Feb. 22nd: Kansas City, MO
Feb. 23rd: Cedar Falls, IA
Feb. 24th: Rockford, IL

After the holidays we have some excellent shows coming up in January. Check them out in the upcoming shows section of our blog. Happy Holidays!!!!!!!

Shine Blockas

Our December Tour with For Want Of is completely booked. We are sooo excited for this shit, so many friends to hang with. Thanks to everyone who has booked a show for us. We have some new songs and new merch. Here are all the dates and the facebook links for our winter excursion!

December Tour with For Want Of:

12/11/10

Strangelight w/ Cloud Mouth, Sweet Talk, The New Yorker
Chicago, IL
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12/12/10

Generic w/ Analecta
South Bend, IN
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12/13/10

The Dan Akroyd House w/ Leonard Hatred
Champaign,IL
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12/14/10

Skull Alley w/ Evil Grimmace
Louisville, KY
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12/15/10

Monster House w/ Drug Money, Maryn Jones, bst.cr
Columbus, OH

12/16/10

Musica w/ Annabel(7"Inch Release Show!!) w/ Into It. Over It and Two Handed Fools
Kent,OH
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12/17/10

The DAAC w/ Good Teeth/Gold Teeth, Nigel Thornberry and Boy With Mace
Grand Rapids, MI
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12/18/10
The No Fun House w/ Cain Marko
Kalamazoo, MI
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After the new year we have some awesome shows coming up. On January 3rd we will be at the No Fun House with TWIABPAIANLATD(members from My Heart To Joy, click the link for the name, its really longggggg) and Black Churches. TWIABPAIANLATD just released a 7" on Topshelf Records. Check out the preorders here.

On January 7th, Snowing and 1994! are coming back to Michigan and we have the pleasure of playing with them at the DAAC. Snowing just put up their brand new album for download on their website. And on January 16th we will be playing with Maps & Atlases and Charles The Osprey at the Strutt. We are very excited for the new year!

Count Your Lucky Stars are having sales on their releases for the first 13 days of December. Swoop up some Christmas gifts at their website here.

Also we will no longer be using myspace. It is becoming very frustrating so all of our updates will be on here and Facebook. We will be putting all of our music on our Bandcamp as well. Here is the link for our Dec. tour on Facebook. We are stookkkkeeeeddd!