monday morning myspace bulletin +

The cool dudes over at Future Perfect Radio are currently featuring The Thermals, Sonic Youth, Jeffrey Lewis, and.... Blasé Splee as their picks of the week! If you're the type who listens to internet radio to get you through a workshift or something, this site seems to have lots of great channels, such as these ones that are featuring our music:

Future Perfect Radio
Featured Artists
New Music
Great Lakes Soundtrack
Au Naturale

The 3rd annual Smelsea and Smarl Birthday Bash will no longer be featuring Blasé Splee... Tommy and Dave are going to the Blink 182/Fall Out Boy show that night so instead, me, Carl, Mike and Tony from Macrame Tiger are planning something different and calling it Verse Chorus Verse. We'll probably just play this one show. I'm totally, ridiculously excited. This'll be the set I've been wanting to play for sixteen years.

download: What I Want (demo)

how to make an é

On my Dell Inspiron 1525 (which does not have a number pad), I hold Fn & Alt and hit m k l l which does this - é. (Notice the numbers next to each of the letters? 0 2 3 3.)

I believe if you have a number pad, you'd hold Alt and hit 0233. It doesn't work on the numbers above the letters on my keyboard, though.

I think my girlfriend taught me how to do this, it's made things a bit easier.

today's myspace bulletin

Thanks to you who have come out to our last three shows in the last twelve days since our record was released. You guys have been really great and it's been wonderful to meet some new people. We promised to give out the first 100 CDs but we actually ended up giving away around the first 300 which has been a lot of fun. We really hope you guys like it... play it for your friends, put it on their ipods, pass the cd along, tell them about the places online where they can stream our records for free.

We've got one more show booked before we go on vacations and stuff in July and might not be playing any shows until some time in August:

Friday, June 26th
The Belmont - Hamtramck
with:
Old Empire | website / myspace
The Wednesdees | website / myspace

edit:

I'm listening to the record for the first time streaming from our jukebox, and it actually sounds pretty good. Very near CD quality. Waaaaaay better than anything on MySpace or Facebook or anyone else who's hosting our mp3s. Usually, the music is of much, much better quality when it's hosted directly on a band's (or label's) website... I've been spending a lot more time on bands actual websites lately, there's some amazing stuff out there.

Three ways to stream our record for free

Our record is fully streamable at the following websites:

Our Facebook page

Et Cetera at last.fm

or stream every song we've ever recorded in our pop-out jukebox at blasesplee.com. Just click on "jukebox" and navigate away!

Come see us for free tonight at PJ's Lager House with The Rosewood Thieves and Wild Years. We'd love to see you there.

Cheers,
Blasé Splee

Saturday night's show

deserves its own blog post. I've been planning on writing one for days now, but haven't managed to find the time between working and sending out press releases. Plus, we're waiting on some photos that we haven't even seen yet from two different people, so whatever.

Tonight's show. While I was at work on Tuesday afternoon, I sent a press release to the buyer of the Magic Stick and about an hour later, I had received a show offer from him. We confirmed it yesterday morning and played it tonight. We were told that we were playing at ten and ended up playing at twelve, after a band from California that left immediately after they played and apparently took the entire crowd with them. The stage setup was extremely awkward and so distant from the audience that people's faces were almost indiscernible. We were above bowling lanes while games were going on beneath us and pins were crashing a few feet behind our amps. We hear that we sounded pretty good, but from the monitors we sounded so terrible that we figured it was hardly worth it to even try to be entertaining. We played the songs faster just to get through the set quicker and about ten or twelve people stuck around until the end.

But we really appreciate the show offer, and being able to play in the coolest bar in town and hope to play there again soon. And it was nice to get a show like that out of the way so the next ones will be easier.

Lots of amazing things are happening tonight in Hamtramck!

Hey everybody,

Our album is DONE! We have several boxes of them here and can't wait to get them to you.

Tonight is our album release party at Small's with Sh! the Octopus and Macrame Tiger. Our friend Scott, aka DJ Bearclizzyawaw will be providing all of the music before, after and in between tonight. We have a lot of big plans and can't wait to see you there.

There is also another great show going on tonight down the street at the Belmont. Millions of Brazilians, Love Meets Lust, New Grenada and Noman are playing a show for MotorCityRocks.com and it's definitely the place I'd be if I didn't have to be at Small's in a couple of hours. If you're trying to figure out what to do tonight, we encourage you to check out all the cool bands that are playing... there's really no excuse not to be in Hamtramck tonight!

If you're already planning on heading to the Belmont later, we encourage you to stop in, say hi, grab a free Blasé Splee CD, check out our great, great friends Macrame Tiger who are playing their first show ever tonight and party with us for a while -- and we hope to see you at our free show in ten days with The Rosewood Thieves and Wild Years at PJ's Lager House. We can't wait for all of you to hear our new songs!

Cheers,
Blasé Splee

okay.

This is fun: All of it All (demo)

I think Mike and Carl made this back before anyone joined the band.