Live session on Bandwidth

A few months back, we recorded live versions of two songs from our new album, Long Dream, for WAMU's Bandwidth website. We performed "I Don't Need to Know" and "Low Cool" and you can view them below. Many thanks to the fine folks at Bandwidth for bringing us in!

New Album ("Long Dream") Out November 18!

Finally, we can announce that the new Title Tracks album, "Long Dream," will be released on LP and mp3 on November 18 by the Ernest Jenning Record Co. You can read more info about the album and listen to one of the new songs, "Low Cool," by going here: http://www.stereogum.com/1905275/title-tracks-low-cool/premiere/.

Friday, October 7 show with Aloha in D.C.

Hi everyone. We haven't played many shows in 2016 so far, as we've been getting ready for the imminent release of the third Title Tracks album. More info to come on that record shortly but, for now, I can announce that we'll be playing this Friday, October 7th at Rock n Roll Hotel in Washington, D.C. with our very old friends Aloha and slightly less old friends More Humans. Doors are at 8pm and the show is $12. More info to be found at www.rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Fall 2015 - Shows and Recording

Hi everyone. After taking almost a year off from shows, we're back and playing a few shows this fall. Even better, we're about to record a new album. We should be recording in September and October and we hope to have the new record out in the early part of next year. More info to come, of course. As of now, it should be nine or ten songs, some of which we debuted at our show the other night with the great Beach Slang. We can't wait to get in and make this record.

We also have two D.C. shows happening this fall, so far. We play Comet on Saturday September 26 with Mike Krol. We're back on Thursday October 1 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library for the latest in the series of basement shows that the D.C. Punk Archive has put on there. That show will be with BRNDA and Art Sorority, so it should be a good one. See you out there.

Favorite songs of 2014

I'm a few weeks late on this, but here are some of my favorite songs from 2014:

Alvvays – Adult Diversion
Angel Olsen – Lights Out
The Ar-Kaics – No No No
Art Sorority For Girls – Man With a Van
Beach Slang – Filthy Luck
Big Hush – Wholes
Bob Mould – Tomorrow Morning
The Both – Milwaukee
Cloud Nothings – I'm Not Part of Me
Deleted Scenes – Let's Not Try to Fix Everything At Once
Ex Hex – Don’t Wanna Lose
Kelley Stoltz – The Anarchist In Me
Loud Boyz – Hard Feelings
The New Pornographers – Marching Orders
Paperhaus – Cairo
Paul Collins – I Need My Rock n'Roll
Priests – Modern Love / No Weapon
Real Estate – Talking Backwards
Sunwolf – Push It
The Tender Thrill – Serena
Terry Malts – Let You In
Todd Terje – Strandbar
Tweedy – Low Key
Typefighter – Much

Here's a link to listen to the songs on Spotify, if that's an option for you: 2014 Music

DJ Set at DCPL Punk Archive fundraiser

I probably should have mentioned this on here before it actually happened, but I was a guest DJ  the other night (along with Brendan Canty and Brian Baker) at an event to raise funds and bring in material donations to the D.C. Public Library's new D.C. Punk Archive. It seemed appropriate to play some D.C. music, old and new, so here's a list of what I played:

Tommy Keene - "Landscape"

The Points - "No Girl"

Artificial Peace - "Outside Looking In"

El Guapo - "Just Don't Know"

Cupid Car Club - "Edge Of The Envelope"

The Cheniers - "Here Comes Trouble"

Government Issue - "Understand"

Link Wray - "Deuces Wild"

Ex Hex - "Don't Wanna Lose"

Slant 6 - "What Kind Of Monster Are You"

Black Eyes - "A Pack Of Wolves"

Monorchid- "Distortion"

Antelope- "Wandering Ghost"

The Shirks - "Action Men"

Gray Matter - "Flash In Time"

Shudder To Think - "Chocolate"

Chain & The Gang - "Surprise Party"

Velocity Girl - "My Forgotten Favorite"

Three- "Swann Street"

Holy Rollers - "What You Said"

I ran out of time, but was going to play some Priests, Urban Verbs, Puff Pieces, Unrest, Joy Buttons, Deleted Scenes, Tsunami, Beauty Pill, Typefighter, and MUCH MORE but, oh well, time was tight. I'm really happy to see the work that the DCPL is doing with establishing this D.C. punk archive. They're really focused on eventual online accessibility of these materials, so it'll be great to see digitized versions of all of these fliers, posters, set lists, etc online in the future. I'll write more about this soon but, in my day job as an archivist at the University of Maryland, I've been putting together a collection of D.C. punk fanzines and we've been collaborating with the DCPL folks whenever we can. Anyway, more info on all of that soon.

October 18 and more songs

Our next show is on October 18 and is in D.C. We're playing with The Sea Life (whose song, "Transitions," is one of my favorites from last year) and Stronger Sex at The Lot. Show info can be found here.

I'm still working on new songs for the next Title Tracks record. A little over halfway there and I'm really happy with what's done so far. I'm hoping to record early next year and get the album out sometime shortly thereafter. Will keep you all posted, of course. Thanks for reading.