UCLA Live w/ Margaret Atwood

some pretty cool happenings lately...

We'll be performing at Royce Hall on Oct. 9th as part of a special event with celebrated author Margaret Atwood! She'll be reading excerpts from her next novel "Year of the Flood" and we will be acting as a chorus of sorts, expanding upon the narration in song. An incredible musician named Orville Stoeber (www.orvillestoeber.com) has composed 14 hymns, which in the book serve as poems that break up each chapter. We'll be performing 7 of these hymns along w/ Orville and some other great musicians. We'll also be performing in the New York performance of the show in late October. This is a huge honor & amazing opportunity for us - all involved are very excited.

Ms. Atwood even "tweeted" about it :) Woo!

http://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood

Other exciting news includes a rapidly growing tour schedule!! Be sure to check in with www.myspace.com/sonosings to stay updated on our whereabouts!

ALSO! Just this morning we made the home page of thesixtyone in the new artists category. THANKS TO ALL THE LISTENERS - we are at 600something hearts. We heart you :) If you aren't familiar with thesixtyone, or "t61" as all the cool kids are apparently spelling it out, you should join...a fun, interactive way to discover, rate & share new music. There are so many crazy music sharing sites out there now...way to go first decade of the new millenium!

don't forget about our album release show @ hotel cafe on 9/15!

xox jess

game night with the boys

So....

Every now and then I have the priviledge of escaping to Orange County for game night with the old college boys. I just got back yesterday from one of these particular nights and felt compelled to right about my undying love for the boardgame Risk. THIS GAME IS SUCH GOOD TIMES!! You get like 3 dudes together and like....12 beers and then......you. try. to. take. over. the. world. What, I ask you, could be more fun? (nothing. is the correct answer to that retorical question)
On another note....we recently started work on a song I arranged by Yoav called "Club Thing." For the majority of this song all 6 of us are doing vocal percussion....If you like dirty club funk....you will like this song. Can't wait to perform it.

PS Risk is sick.

Benji

Risk....

So...what's up with the game Risk??? It's a game that promotes world domination...and why is it still on the market. Why can't we all just get along. Make love, not war. Man, more people need to get laid.

what we do what we do

Hello! Can't believe it is mid-August already...???! The six of us have been enjoying a productive start to this week with a 9-hour day in the studio yesterday, and a great rehearsal of some new material this morning! Ben recently finished a VERY cool and innovative arrangement of "Club Thing" by Yoav - an extremely fresh & talented musician and labelmate of ours :) I don't want to give away too much, but I will say that it involves all of us doing vocal percussion of sorts so that Ben can take a break and show of his incredible voice (a rarity these days since he's such an insane beatboxer we would be fools to let him do otherwise :) All in all it's super sexy, upbeat & different than anything else in our rep so far. It's going to be a great addition to our live show, hopefully with the addition of some more effects pedals...and I cannot WAIT to get in the studio with it so we can add all sorts of fun magic to it!

In other news, another recent addition to our rep was added to the album last minute - so get excited!! Unless you live with one of us or are attached to us at the hip, you have definitely not heard this yet. Don't want to give it away, but think dark, british, sexy, 80s dudes who wore sunglasses a lot...

Only about one month until the release! Thanks to all for following us on this journey :) See you at the Hotel Cafe on 9/15!

afterthought/rant

i'd like to take a quick sec to complain about how, in recent photo shoots, Paul looks way cooler than the rest of us.

not cool, Peglar. knock it off.

long days, curse words, and bright eyes

yesterday we recorded:
-"One Day Like This" (a song by Elbow that we perform with a badass young lady called Laura who normally fronts a Mariachi band with her voice and violin)
-an awesome reworking of an NPR theme by Kath.
-a short-but-sweet reworking of the same NPR theme by me.

t'was a busy day/night! lots of fun, quite a bit of silly video'ing, perhaps none of it suitable for posting.

been thinking a lot recently about asking fans to suggest songs they might like to hear us cover/rework/whathaveyou...?

or maybe in the interests of time/energy/slashmarks-in-blogs, posting a list of songs we'd like to cover and having y'all choose. =)

so... if we were to cover a song by "Bright Eyes", a song from the record "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" or "Cassadaga", what would a listener suggest?

speak up!
love,
-harrison