newness abounds

Carl and Mike and I started working on our Verse Chorus Verse set last weekend and will most likely continue to work on it tonight. The Leo bash, aka Smelsea and Smarl pt 3 aka Carl's birthday party looks like it's not going to be happening at the Painted Lady after all, and instead will probably go down in the backyards that join Carl's and Mike's houses. Macrame Tiger had to bail on the show and Running With Panthers... well, not even sure what's up with them but it looks like it's going to be Drew doing NOFX covers which I'm honestly stoked to see. I'm sure it's still going to be a lot of fun and I've been wanting to play a house party for some time now.

We've got some new music "in the works"... still in the planning stages but we might have anywhere between one and four songs released by the end of the year, depending on how busy we force ourselves to be. Also our voices and some of our instruments are going to be in a movie that's coming out soon -- more on this and other stuff later. The library at my work is closing up now so I gotta gtfo.

Blaze Spluh updates n' stuff

Things have been awesome lately and we have lots of cool things coming up. We've played 5 shows already since our record was released last month and have met some awesome people! Super awesome thanks especially to the dudes from the Royal Oak Jimmy John's and their friends who have been coming out to like every show and bringing tons of people. I don't have most of your names down yet but if you guys stumble upon this blog, you should know how awesome you are!

Macrame Tiger has been doing some amazing things as well. For those of you who don't know, the dudes in MT and most of us go way back and have been playing in bands together for years and years, throughout high school and everything. It's been great to play shows together and get to party with those dudes so often lately.

Last night we played with a band called The Extraordinaires who were the coolest band I've seen in a while. We had a great turnout last night at the Berkley Front and had a great time with the Macrame Tiger, The Five Alives, and the dudes from Child Bite who threw this whole thing together. We partied til 4am -- on a Monday!

We're about ready to announce some big announcements -- local festival performances, Carl's birthday show, our submission of our music to be part of a film soundtrack, but in the meantime here are some videos and stuff from some recent shows:

When We Kiss @ The Lager House


Hold My Baby @ The Lager House


Thanks to Amanda Galeczka for these videos!

Macrame Tiger's Lucy Sue from their first show / our record release party at Small's


Also there's a really super rad article / video about Macrame Tiger's American Apparel show last Sunday here at motorcityblog.net. These guys are great and have invited us to play their big 5 year anniversary party downtown this December and we totally can't wait for it. :)

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