Hi folks!

How was your Summer? We had a great time, celebrating our Fifth anniversary with so many of you!

Now we've got some fun shows coming up in October, and we're preparing for our new album release AND helping our friends get their record out.

Here are the details--

Flamingo Cantina, Thursday Oct 4

We'll be playing at Flamingo Cantina on Thursday, October 4.

It's our first time at Flamingo Cantina, and we'll be playing with Yuma, Tone Monkeys, and Doc Holiday and the Frankenstein Monster.

Rockin' Tomato, Friday Oct 12

If pizza is more your speed, we'll be back at our favorite venue The Rockin' Tomato on Friday, October 12.

We're joined on the bill by Isaac's old band, You Might Think We're Sharks!

Sparrowmakers brand new album

Our good friends Thais and Wilson are a band called The Sparrowmakers, and we're excited to support their Kickstarter to fund their new album. It's their first album in years and they're a lovely family band. The album also features backing vocals by one Reed Oliver!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/216134023/the-sparrowmakers-eponymous-album-0

New WRS album Escape Velocity

The new World Racketeering Squad album, Escape Velocity, will be out very soon!

Check out the cover above, and have a listen to a preview of the songs:

http://weracketeer.bandcamp.com/album/escape-velocity

We're making a 12" vinyl record for this album, so we'll let you know when you can preorder it and when it will be released!

Meanwhile we're practicing hard to make our songs as good as they can be, so we hope you'll come out to see us at one of our shows in October!

Love,

Isaac, Reed, Aaron, Hunter

Here is the second track we're streaming from "Escape Velocity", called "Seventeen Again":

Each week we'll be streaming a new track from our upcoming third album "Escape Velocity" throughout the Summer.

Here's the first one, "Mr Benjamin".

Hope you like it!

Reed, Aaron, Hunter and I are all really excited to be talking about the new World Racketeering Squad album, "Escape Velocity", that will be coming out this fall.

We've been working on this album for about 8 months now, and we've put a lot of our hearts and souls into it!

Here's the track listing:

Side One

1. Mr Benjamin
2. Seventeen Again
3. Hey Medusa
4. Love Song 4 U
5. Comet Tom

Side Two

1. Let it come
2. Jane's Gone (Goose Farm)
3. The Longest Road To The End Is The One That Never Begins
4. House of 1000 Tears
5. Look at Yourself

We'll be announcing pre-orders soon!

Almost forgot about this! Belle and Sebastian performing one of the greatest jangle-pop songs of the 80s, "Crash" by The Primitives.

Here are a couple of cool videos from groups I like:

"Oblivion", by Grimes

La Sera:

Brand new video from Jack White and Ruby Amanfu for "Love Interruption":

I love the simplicity of the keyboard part, and the way it all drops out briefly at the end of the chorus.

Here are three brand new songs by riot prog act The Bell Riots. I believe these are their first recordings with The Cocker Spaniels' Sean Padilla on bass!

There's a new trailer for the Spider-Man reboot. Once again, everybody close to him seems to know who he is and he takes his mask off all the time, kinda making the whole 'secret identity' thing take a back seat to showing off the actor's face.

I dig this new Madonna video. M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj look fantastic, and Madonna looks pretty great herself. I like the song too.