September 27, 2008 : We are thrilled to announce that our 2002 album "The Language of Cities" has just been re-released by our friends at Hello Sir Records and Golden Antenna Records in
gatefold 2xLP format! Not only has the packaging been
re-designed, but the whole piece has been remastered by James Plotkin
(Earth, SunnO))), Isis)! Limited to 500, we expect these to go
fast! You can order through Hello Sir OR Golden Antenna, but you
can save a little loot on shipping if you live in the US or EUROPE.
Lots more news coming soon. We've got all kinds of stuff up our sleeves!
July 12, 2008 : The shows a few weeks ago ruled. Special
thanks to Summerbirds in the
Cellar for sharing the stage with us.
Our much discussed Inventions Remix LP is back from
the pressing plant and looks amazing. Thee Loving Hand remixed
"The World Outside" and Justin VanDerVolgen remixed
"Inventions." This is a limited-pressing, vinyl-only,
swirled/colored 12" with some pretty killer artwork. The
release date is September 9, but word has it you can pre-order it
early from Temporary
Residence at the beginning of August.
June 22,
2008 : Counting down the days
until we head down to Florida. Note that we just added an
in-store performance in Orlando at Park Ave CDs on June 27 at
6:30pm. We'll be playing a slightly different set than later
in the night. For all the shows, we'll be playing a few new
songs, so come check it out.
May 19, 2008 : Brains are mush from the last 4 days in the studio and
consuming gallons of queso dip. More on that
later.
April 26, 2008 :
Check out this live video of us playing "inventions" last summer in
Athens, GA. Thanks to Dan Slemons for all the hard work put
into this. We may release the whole performance on DVD and
sell it for super cheap on the road.
February 25 , 2008:
Marathon practices. Agua
Linda. New songs. Get ready.
February 14, 2008:
Lots of updates. We're making
good progress on some new songs and plan to go into the studio in
the next few months to put them to tape. We've got two
releases in the works this year that we're thrilled about - the
first of which is a remix LP of several songs from our recent album
"Inventions..." Among those remixing: Loving Hand (aka Tim Goldsworthy from DFA) and Justin VanDerVolgen (from !!!). Expect that
out Summer-ish. We're also working on a split LP with
prog-rock powerduo Zombi, hopefully out this fall.
Since we haven't played in the Sunshine State
in forever, we're looking to do a "mini-tour" down there and back to
Georgia when the weather gets warmer. Speaking of Florida, catch Jerry when he plays with !!!
at the Langerado
Festival in March. Jerry's other band The Juan
Maclean have finished their record - look for it this
year. Also, check out Matt's submission on TRL's top 10 list. Lastly, Coley got engaged
to his girlfriend (now fiance) Misty. They get hitched in
August! Shit man, we're old dudes!
November 24, 2007:
Check out the re-vamped "BUY" page, where you can now get
t-shirts and our out-of-print first EP on vinyl.
November 21, 2007:
An interview we recently did on WRAS 88.5 (in
Atlanta) will be aired on the Georgia
Music Show on Thursday, Nov. 29 from 6-8pm. Mark your
calendars and tune in!
November 9, 2007:
A few updates. Coley and Matt did an interview with
WRAS 88.5 in Atlanta for the "Georgia Music Show." Airing date
will be posted soon. We've written a bunch of new material
(sans rhythm section), but we're getting together in December to
flesh out some ideas. We're tentatively set to have some new
recordings and play some shows in the Spring of next year.
Also, November 7 marked the 202nd performance of the year for our
drummer Jerry, who spent this past year flip-flopping between !!!
and Maserati tours with little to no days off in-between. We
swear that dude is a robot built by cavemen.
September 24, 2007:
Many, many thanks to all of you who came out to see us,
helped organize our shows, let us sleep on your floor, bought us
breakfast (looking your way Adam and Seth), shared the stage with
us, bought us drinks, bought our shit and generally allowed us to
keep feeling loved. Special thanks to Smoke Dog (aka Fred
Weaver) for keeping us in line.
September 18, 2007:
Somewhere outside Denver, Colorado...
September 4 , 2007:
A couple of updates - we just added a show in El Paso this
Sunday for you western Texans! We're leaving for tour this
week, starting in Baton Rouge this Thursday. Early show on
September 22nd in Atlanta at Drunken Unicorn.
August 22 , 2007:
We are coming west! (note new venue for Seattle)
As many of you know, our bass player Steve got married and moved to
Corvalis, OR last year for school. Fortunately, he's going to
be back in the saddle for this tour.... so we are psyched to have
him. Also, although Josh (from Athens band A.Armada)
has been filling in for Matt (guitar) on tour, Matt will be meeting
up with us for the last few shows of tour... starting in
Chicago. We also have a great "homecoming" show scheduled for
Sept. 22nd at Atlanta's Drunken Unicorn - it's going to
happen early in the evening wth Girl Talk and Dan Deacon
spinning late-nite next door at the MJQ Concourse.
Matt's other band Cassavetes will also be playing that
show.
Plans are also in the works for a new release
in 2008. Stay tuned for more awesomeness.
July 28, 2007:
Check out the new Western US tour dates!
In other news - our former record label Kindercore
is resurrected after years of legal tanglings. The label has
been reborn as an independent media label – its new roster expanded
to include bands, comic book artists, analysts, premier t-shirt
designers, and humorists from Athens, GA and beyond. Check out
their new website.
Oh, and our bro/booking agent Seth caught a fucking
Cubs homer:
June 20, 2007:
Thanks to all those who came to see us perform on tour.
We had an absolute blast! We are now at home unwinding and
gearing up for the next round. We are planning a Western US
Tour for September. Although our new record "officially" hit
shelves yesterday, we already have a bunch of new songs in the
works. See you again in a few months.
June 9, 2007: Last
night we had a pow-pow over beers at Mojo's in Columbia and worked
out our schedules to do a West Coast tour in September. We're
looking at Sept. 7-21 so if you're interested in helping out with a
show, email Coley and
Seth. We'll probably
be starting in the south working clockwise around the country -
we''ll keep you posted as dates come in. Thanks for all the
interest west-coasters!!
June 4, 2007:
Thanks to the !!! entourage for having us on their shows. We
had a blast and are envious of their fancy tour bus. Special
thanks to Tyler in Louisville, Mike T. in Chapel Hill and Kevin and
Grechen in Boston for helping us out, playing host and generally
being awesome. As you read this, we are likely speeding down
some highway in the midwest....
May 24, 2007: Our US
tour starts tomorrow in Louisville, KY. The first 5 shows are
supporting !!!, so come watch Jerry play two sets in a row!
May 10, 2007: Good
news for folks here in the U.S. that want our new album "Inventions
for the New Season"! You have two options: 1)
pre-order it from Temporary Residence's online
store and it will be shipped to you at the beginning of June,
or 2) come to one of our May/June shows and buy it
straight from our grubby little hands. We have it in
both CD and 2xLP formats. The LPs look killer -- they have
much more extensive artwork than the CD and red-and-white splattered
vinyl! Booya!
May 9,
2007: For those of you in the Bay Area, there is going
to be a Video Awards Show on May 17th at the Artists Television
Access art gallery in San Francisco. The show includes a whole bunch of amazing music
videos from artists such as Bright Eyes, Mates of State, Cornelius
and, of course, us. The video for "This is a Sight We Had From
the High Mountain," which was conceptualized and directed by Adam Fuchs is
among the submissions. If you haven't yet seen the video,
check it out on our "MEDIA" page.
April
24, 2007: The cookbook "I Like Food, Food
Tastes Good" comes out today, which features our very own
Southern Cheese Grits recipe. I guess you can call it an
"indie rock cookbook"-of-sorts, since it gathers culinary
concoctions from a wide array of bands, including Belle &
Sebastian, Battles, Camera Obscura, Grizzly Bear, My Morning Jacket,
Violent Femmes and The Walkmen, to name a few. It is seriously
the best idea for a cookbook we've ever heard of. You can
order the book here for $15.
There was also a feature
on the book on New York Public Radio this afternoon where the host
tried to make the grits, but was perplexed by the thought of
"putting pepper on breakfast food" and commented that the recipe was
"okay." Regardless, they interviewed our friend Kara (the
author) and played part of one of our songs. Check it
out:
April 19,
2007: You can download and listen to a radio interview
we did in Munich a few weeks ago here. Probably
not the most articulate we've ever been, but whatever.
April 11,
2007: Thanks to everyone who came out to our shows - we
had an amazing european tour! Special thanks to Timo, Andreas,
Niels and Tina, without whom the tour would not have been
possible. Heartfelt thanks go out to our bros in
Ostinato. We miss you already.
Although we're still recovering from
the jet lag at the moment, we will be hitting the road for several
weeks in May and June for a bunch of stateside shows, some of which
will be opening for !!!. Keep checking back
for updates.
April 2 , 2007: We've
sold out of the first pressing of our new CD here in Europe.
We're told that the next batch should be here in about 10 days or
so. Fortunately, we're expecting a shipment of 2xLPs in a day
or two, which we'll have at our remaining shows. You can order
the CD here
for the time being and it will be shipped to you the 2nd week of
April. Thanks for the great response!
March 27 , 2007:
We're on tour in Europe right now . Last night in
Freiburg, Germany was the first time we've ever played a sold-out
show outside the United States. The fantastic crowd made us
feel humbled and loved. We also played a show a couple of days
ago in Lyon, France on a boat called "Sonic," which ruled.
Below is a photo of us playing in Luxembourg a few nights ago.
The crowd was awesome - they inspired us to try the infamous "super
roll" (courtesy of Mr. Gerhardt Fuchs).
Btw... sorry the website went down for
a few days. We had too many hits, but it's all fixed
now. More soon. Keep checking back...
March 6 , 2007: Wassup. We've rescheduled
our cancelled March Atlanta and Athens shows for June 14 and
15. These will also be our record release shows. Check
out our double LP that just arrived from the factory. That's
our bro Timo modeling the vinyl below. My man's got some rosy
cheeks!
February 27, 2007:
Thanks to Joel Hatstat for helping us finish recording a new
song to be used for a remix EP that’s currently in the works for
this fall. The yet-to-be-named tune was an outtake from the
“Inventions…” sessions that we didn’t finish last summer with Andy
Baker. We holed up in Joel’s studio this past weekend in
Athens with wine coolers and a bunch of synths to finish the
thing. Josh McKay from Macha even dropped by to lay some
vibraphone tracks down and to give us a preview of his sure-to-be
R&B hit “Pacify.”
Also….we’re currently scheduling
our summer US tour for late May/early June, which will include the 2
postponed Athens and Atlanta shows. The first week of shows
will be opening for !!!. Check back soon for more updates.
February 20, 2007: We are sorry to announce
that, due to unforeseen circumstances, our March Atlanta and Athens
shows are cancelled. We are going to do our best to reschedule
these shows for June. We're sorry for the confusion and will
post more updates soon.
January 31, 2007: Our cheese grits recipe will
be featured in the upcoming "indie rock cookbook" I Like Food, Food
Tastes Good, which was conceptualized, written and compiled by our
old friend Kara Zuaro. The book, which comes out in April 2007,
gathers recipes from a ton of bands, including Belle and Sebastian,
My Morning Jacket, Violent Femmes and The Walkmen. Word has it that
it has all kinds of crazy concoctions, from Lobster Mac and Cheese
to some sort of weird Red Soda Pop Cake. You can pre-order the book
here,
check out a Myspace page about it here.
January 3, 2007:
Thanks to all of you who came out to the totally un-secret
secret show on New Years at the Secret Squirrel. We rarely get
the chance to do things like that, but the stars were aligned for us
as Matt came from Atlanta, Jerry from New York and Steve all the way
from Oregon to make it happen. Even though we dredged through
the rain and shit (don’t ask), we had a total blast. Special
thanks to Mercer for accommodating us.
Thanks also
to Cinemechanica and A.Armada for letting us invade their practice
space over the holidays. We managed to write a new song
between pitchers of margaritas and gallons of Agua Linda queso
dip.
Also check out
some hype about us from the most recent TRL newsletter.
Be sure to look at our page in the “bands” section.
December 22, 2006: Thanks to all the
folks who came out to the shows we played with Zombi (well, all
except that drunk bastard in Brooklyn who crashed into Jerry’s
drums). Many of you will also be happy to know that
Jerry’s dental work was a success… and he won’t look at a chicken
wing the same way ever again. We’ve just scheduled two local
shows in Atlanta and Athens for March 16-17, 2007 (see shows column
to the right), we’re touring Europe in March and April and our new
CD/LP will be coming out in the US in May. We’re looking at
doing a US tour next summer. In the meantime, we’re gonna take
a break from egg nog and fruitcake in the coming weeks to get
together and write some new material. Oh yeah, you should also
check out a recent article about us in the Creative Loafing.
December 2006: Man, this global warming shit
sucks! It's December and temperatures are in the 60s down here in
Georgia. We're so bummed that we're going to load up our
gas-guzzling van with 800 pounds of amplifiers and speaker cabinets
to do some shows in the Northeast and Canada with our friends Zombi.
We kick the jaunt off with a show at Northsix in Brooklyn, New York
on Saturday, December 2nd (Damn... that's tomorrow!).
We're
also thrilled to announce that our new album "Inventions for the New
Season" will be released here in the US by Temporary Residence, Ltd.
this Spring. Yeah, yeah, we know ... we want it to come out
tomorrow, too! Patience, friends ... the good news is that we're
planning a limited edition colored-vinyl, double LP version in
addition to the more portable formats, so we need time to make it
look cool! That said, we couldn't be happier with the way things
have fallen into place with Jeremy & Co. over at TRL, especially
since we've been fans of the label since we bought our first
Tarentel record way back in 1999.
November 2006: We're really excited that a US
release for our new album is being planned for both CD and LP
formats. We're still figuring out the details and will announce them
soon. We're also busy gearing up for a bunch of tours this Fall,
Winter and Spring. More coming soon...
October 2006: Our new album, Inventions for
the New Season is finished. We've posted a couple of new songs
on our Myspace page, so check those out. Our bro Adam Fuchs from
Adult Swim recently finished a video for the song This Is a
Sight We Had One Day from the High Mountain, which can be
viewed our Media page. The record is getting released in Australia
via Sugar Rush Records and in Europe via Golden Antenna records.
Release dates on those coming soon. A stateside release is in the
works.
We're doing a short Northeast and Midwest tour with
Tangerine Dream-on-speed enigma Zombi in late
November/early December. They will crush you. We're planning a jaunt
to Australia in February, playing SXSW in March and touring Europe
in March and April.
Also check out a feature on us in the
October issue of SE Performer Magazine.
More coming
soon. Thanks for listening.
August 2006: Welcome to the new Maserati site!
As many of you may or may not know, we've just finished up our first
full length album in 4 years. Our previous label, Kindercore
Records, filed for bankruptcy in November 2003 leaving all of its
artists homeless. Fortunately for us, the good folks at Hello Sir
Records were gracious enough to put out our next release, a 7" with
2 unreleased songs from "The Confines of Heat" sessions. Shortly
thereafter, they re-released the out of print "The Language of
Cities" as well as the "Confines" split who we did with some good
friends of ours from Gainesville, FL called The Mercury
Program.
Leading up to our hiatus, guitarist Matt cherry and
drummer Phil Horan left the band. Matt moved to Ann Arbor, MI for a
year to pursue graduate studies in urban design. Phil moved to San
Francisco and joined a regge band called Still Flyin'. When
the touring and support of the "Confines" record were surfacing,
Phil was still in the band but we desperately needed someone to take
over duties on guitar. Luckily for us our old friend Tristan Wraight
of the now defunct Absinthe Blind (from Champaign, IL) was able to
step in and take over for that US tour with The Mercury Program and
Appleseed Cast, do a japan tour with our japanese labelmates MONO as
well as a european 3 week tour.
In Spring of 2005, the three
founding members Matt Cherry, Steve Scarborough and Coley Dennis
reconnected and began writing new material (without drums, mind
you). Enter Jerry, who was an old friend of the band when he went to
school in Athens years ago and was without a doubt the only person
in our minds who could be the replacement. After many pitchers of
margaritas one summer night at Agua Linda, Jerry agreed to step in.
Many may recognize him as the man behind the skins for Turing
Machine and The Juan MacLean, as well as occasionally filling in
with the likes of !!! and LCD Soundsystem.
We are currently
beginning the process of shipping our new album to labels across the
US for stateside release. Touring is also being planned for the end
of the year as well as overseas this Spring. Stay
tuned....
