Hello Racketeers!

We played a show last night at Rockin' Tomato which was surely one of our more epic and entertaining shows ever, at least since the last one we played!

Since we cut the album, What is Nerdwave?, we have been writing and practicing a whole spate of new songs to bring to you very soon.  They're not quite ready yet, so we are playing some of the album tracks for maybe the last time in a while.

We've been honing our live show, trying to bring the highest level of energy and performance to this nerdwave rock and roll that we can.  That makes it fun for us and, we hope, more fun for the audience as well!

I was pulling double duty that night because my other band, You Might Think We're Sharks, were opening up for WRS.  I try to perform a little differently in Sharks, because I am the bassist there and it's my job, along with our excellent drummer Mike D, to keep the groove and not to show up our front men.

In WRS I can really cut loose and I feel like Friday was one of the best examples of that yet.  They've got a great new stage setup at Rockin' Tomato which makes it easier to move around, and easier to hear everything (with monitors, no less! now that's class!), which made it that much easier to put on a monster show.

We're going back into the recording studio soon so some of the tunes we played Friday that aren't on the album may end up on one of our next releases sometime this Fall.

Here's the set list from Friday:

1. Electromagnetic Pulse
2. She Thinks She's Got It
3. You are the dream
4. Rock N Roll Love Letter
5. I'm Not Dead
6. Summer
7. Needful things
8. Talking to the Radio
9. Rock Me Amadeus

It was great to see so many friends at the show, including Westy from Big Western Flavor. If y'all are not familiar with this blog, Westy is one of the hardest-working music writers in town, always offering some great advice and intelligent criticism of both CDs and live shows.

Nick and Troy from The Night were also there--we're definitely hoping to put together another show with those guys.  They were on KXAN the other day, performing their excellent tune "Caught in the Radio", which is now available on iTunes.

Many thanks to Jeff and the whole crew from Rockin' Tomato, who always make it a fun and delicious time playing there.