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SST TOUR 2...LADY ABORTION video arrives & sHOOt tHe fREAk is here!

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

three months pass since the last news update (to the day) and here we are, about 5 hours away from leaving to hook up with Greg Ginn & The Royal We in Tx for tour no. 2 of 2011, SST style...

sHOOt tHe fREAk [ep] is now available in all formats...as well as sHOOt tHe fREAk merch, avail at all shows...

& there has been shows on top of shows on top of shows... with don z in VA, a few during CMJ, a few with some new friends in NJ, a few blood baths in brooklyn... more to come all across the boards.

the "LADY ABORTION" video is now live, see it on our homepage...

DIY ..till we die.

SST TOUR...et al.

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

we leave for Tex-ass in about 12 hours. Fly into Austin and hook up with Greg Ginn and head back to SST to sort gear - and then it's shows for a week... all dates are on our TOUR page

cinema cinema/greg ginn & the royal we - tx tour 2011

that's as current as the news gets.

aside from that, the SHOOT THE FREAK [ep] will officially be released (digital/cd/vinyl) on Oct 11, 2011. it's being released by us.

we have been streaming a preview of it here at our site and are going to be making the 1st song -

"LADY ABORTION" - avail as a free download - here & at our facebook page www.facebook.com/cinematwice -after the video hits, this summer..

also, still to come in AUG... we are playing at BIMA FEST2011 in Baltimore, MD at the end of the month - coupled with a date at Galaxy Hut in Arlington, VA w/ Don Zientara...which will add up to be the 2nd time we get a chance to share a bill with Don this summer, - as we were lucky to get to play at Crooked Beat Records (Washington, D.C.) with him in June...oh, AND we also are doing an awesome brooklyn show on saturday, AUG 20th at the lovely Don Pedro's.... we will have the pleasure of sharing the bill with Rumanian Buck.

& read what the DELI MAGAZINE had to say about SHOOT THE FREAK..

the following preview is approved for all audiences:

http://nyc.thedelimagazine.com/6254/punky-outfit-cinema-cinema-releases-shoot-freak-ep-play-string-dates-nyc-area

d.i.y. till we die.

SHOOT THE FREAK..preview avail

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

hello. nice to see you. lots of news, lets go =

we will be previewing new music in the month of May. the first new stuff we drop since Nov 09 will be in the form of the 3 song disc, "SHOOT THE FREAK". it consists of three of the 13 songs we recorded with Don Zientara at inner ear studios last spring.

1. Lady Abortion
2. Pleased to Meet You, Anesthesia
3. Day-Leash

the promo disc's are being pressed now,....

the DIGITAL/HARDcopy release will be 10.11.2011
(in mulitple formats)

-- the mp3's are being uploaded this month. we aren't sure yet if we are going to upload all three at once, or do one a week during the month of May... oh, the drama.

to accompany this month's new music, we are playing locally in 3 different areas...the LES on 5/7, greenpoint on 5/20 & bushwick on 5/27..

you see, during mastering we really shaped the whole record (which we plan to have out by end of summer 2011) into a fully formed piece. its just under 80 minutes, which basically fills an entire disc, or a LOT of vinyl or even a lot of cassette tape. we felt that since we hadn't put out new music since 2009, we didn't want to just drop a piano from the sky on everyone with a fukkin rock opera to swallow down or spit out, ....at leats not at 1st. so releasing a trailer from it would make the most sense. enter "SHOOT THE FREAK"

we've also had a really great time getting back to playing live & are thankful to all those that have been coming out and helping making the nights cool... the 1st three shows have allowed us to play with a lot of good bands that are part of the cinema network and we are going to continue to play with those bands that we dig as much as possible. more gigs with you bred raptors?, pioneers of seduction, & bot on the board in may alone...and the road treated us very well, the grape room in philly are new friends, which has spurred on further tour plans developing for the summer of the FREAK to come.

awake! yr crystal mornings over

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

after a much needed breather from the road (after the last post on here, cinema went on to do a few more dates into the summer of 2010, including nights at mercury lounge in nyc & in brooklyn, as well as all the way up the road to the NXNE festival in Toronto, Canada in June...t'was the subsequent trip to canada that exhausted us to the point of needing a break from it all)... alright,.. so -

we are back.

and if yesterday afternoon's practice is any indication of the direction we are going in... then, we are back and we are better, i guess.. really no other way to put it.

sometimes rest makes all the difference...and processing the madness of the previous year and a half of non-stop touring & work done...that madness that left us drained is somehow that same madness that calls us back so loudly. there's just so much to do with a new record fast on the way, like another child to raise out in public for the next year and a half... another piece of art we have to let go of for good. in stone. it's odd, it's like recording can sometimes symbolize the final resting place for the initial idea, but performance is like the idea's ocean of life. weird.

so, anyway... in celebration of the life of the band and what we are all about, we are getting back to playing some shows...

we are on 2 really cool bills coming up in MAR (in bklyn) & APR (in NYC)....

we get to play with our buddy epileptic peat's new band - You Bred Raptors...we had Epileptic on a few shows with us during the exile baby run & he is awesome, a bass specialist...also on the bill are BOT & Old Monk.. its a night of all 2 piece bands...we play second, prolly around 10pm - but come for 9pm to catch all 4 bands...its in williamsburg at the charleston... on fri 3/25
&
we are playing during the pioneers of seduction April residency @ Fontana's in the LES (at one of our fav places in that little bermuda triangle, fontana's is cool & has been the place a few fun cinema nights in the past)...we actually played with Max (leader of POS) during cmj2008, we shared the bill at the trash bar and he was fronting his previous outfit, the sad little stars)... we bonded that night, mostly over the nothingness of cmj-dom, i think..and swore to do some shows together..and then last july, right after our trip to canada, we were due to play bruar falls with the pioneers of seduction and we had to cancel, as it was time to shut the mother down at that point,.....so - this night acts as a do-over - if yr in the city that night, we are on early - around 8pm... not bad for a wednesday..have yr face melted by 10pm

we are also MASTERING the record we recorded with Don Zientara last year at Inner Ear. it will be done at the end of March....we are still discussing plans on when to release it, but summer time seems like the most sense....

more details on the NEW record to follow... and news updates to be frequent

april showers..

Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

as a musician, you work and work,..sometimes so hard - it's almost seems yr doing it blindly, like trying to see thru a wind of sand across yr face... but still, you believe and you know you have to make the music that is inside of you, so you persevere..push fwd and hope when you stop to catch yr breath that yr at least headed in the right direction..

well, in the month of April, we were able to make sense of the distance in front of us for the 1st time and interpret the signs thru the sand storm... and when we recognized what we were achieving and where we were - we realized that our hard-work has finally started to catch up with us and afford us another meaningful lease on some more intense hard-work....

its getting supernatural.

we spent an amazing stretch of days at the begining of the month of April, living at Inner Ear Studio...breathing all this bands available life force into our new record...with the amazing wizard of genius, Don Zientara, producing it. needless to say, we worked until we couldn't work anymore and gave everything we had and what we created, with Don, is something that we know truly defines Cinema, Cinema and what is a record that we consider a full success....

most bands would have hung their heads on that, deservedly...

but just to show you who's holding the cards...

we also picked up a week's worth of touring at the month's end, opening for Greg Ginn & The Taylor Texas Corrugators... an amazing amazing time and learning expierience...and hit it off SO swimmingly that we now have plans of more touring with them thru-out the course of the year,..seeing us, next at least, down round Louisiana way and Texas with them... and further later on.... ------we (cinema) had planned to expand on touring this year, heading west (after 100 shows in 2009 -ALL on the east coast) and now, we have a specific point and place and aim for the 1st foray. Everything happens for a reason..... besides GG&TTTC;& us happen to be a PERFECT fit,.... both brimmimg with jazz like qualities and free form expression thru-out the sets...this last week made for some of the finest playing we have done yet and it feels like we are only getting stronger..

the sets were a mix of new material and stuff that we played on tour last year... we did debut both, "Day-Leash" & "Lady Abortion", from the forthcoming record... along with "Altamont","UFO", "PhoneCall" & "Adult Themes" (all of which we have been playing live for the last year) and "KGB" showed it's face as well... so the new material is starting to seep into the sets.. and a bit of Daniel Johnston showed up the last night ("Funeral Home")

and, we have a brand new, dense as a fog, deep as The Shining, new record...that we go to mastering on over memorial day weekend...

let's go.

digging in the dirt...deep for the new record

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

so, over the course of the last year of intense touring....one of the pieces of advice we received from the people that we trust (which are few) in the biz...was to consider doing the next record with a producer (which, if you know Paul & I, you know is a big choice as we are both VERY much in tune with what we know that Cinema, Cinema should sound like).... but surrender is sweet when done with proper purpose and correct cause...

EXILE BABY was self-produced,...don't get me wrong - our engineer for the recording (Vin Cin over @ Electric Plant Studios in BKLYN) was DEF a big part of the process of making that record...but, it was more or less, a performance based string of sessions (2 recording & a 3rd day to mix - BLEACH-stylee).

Vin afforded us comfort in his digs and worked the board (yeah, we didn't just run everything into ProTools and fix it later, we did not use ANY computers while making E.B.) - he set the perimeters and Paul & I just broke free like a wild horse and caught a magical marathon session the 1st day, capturing ALL the basic tracks for the entire record in about 10 hours, with enough time left over for me to take on the lion's share of the guitar overdubs as well...since the "scratch/rhythm" guitar tracks i laid down live in the room with Paul during the drum tracking wound up ALL being use-able. That was coupled with a 2nd day in the studio where i knocked out ALL the vocals and Paul did a full percussion treatment and whatever other overdubs that were needed were tackled and put to rest (i laid in some keys/synths as well that day..for padding and texture)....during the process, Vin's ear/expertise in his home setting - DEF was of major aid....but it was Paul & I laying in the "producing" moves & final decision making, more or less.

we capped the work off with a final 3rd day, HARDCORE mix-down...that ran to ALL hours of the night...but after those 3 days, we walked with a record ready to go to mastering. that was summer 2008 and EXILE BABY came to see the light of day by that November, with the help of Digitone Records, assisting us (The Lumiere Label) in getting it out into the atmosphere.

so,

in January, during our initial writing sessions for the new record, Paul and I made a wish list of producers/studios to work with/in for the new project.

and the great news is - we didn't have to go further into the list than the TOP choice. that top choice was to work at Inner Ear Studios (which, by the way - is in Arlington, VA - not D.C. - although it is synonymous with ALL the amazing music that has come out of D.C. over the last 25 years) with Don Zientara (indie guru/known to most in our circles as a "god" -which is a direct quote from the former bass player of an essential NYC band that came and passed, who's name i will leave out at the current time) producing.

we are slated to head down to VA at the very end of this month (march 30th to be specific) to spend the 1st half of April tracking/creating our follow-up to E.B., our yet to be titled sophomore full length.

....then, we will be spending the second half of April on tour supporting another "god"...but that news is so cool, it will come in the shape of its own post later in the week/next week, once more of the dates are confirmed.

a sequel to start the year

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

so,..we set aside January of this year of our lord, 2010...after wrapping the 100th show @ mercury lounge on 12/27/09 - to put the period on the end of the sentence, - we did indeed decide to take January to NOT-GIG (insert gasp here) and write and jam in the studio together for the first time in a long while (it's hard to get in the studio and work on new songs when you are on the road every week) - more on that later....

amidst the locked doors of the studio in mid January, an email slipped thru a crack and the chance to partake in a "Sequel" of sorts to a show that was one of our best memories of last year, - The Court Tavern on Friday July 17th, w/ the giraffes -/////well///////the mighty giraffes were making their return to the scene of the crime and the opp for us to come on the bill, and this time - go on 3rd - right before them (jumping fwd from the lead-off hole back in July) - we unlocked that studio door quick and shouted YES! and the sequel was born..

we had our 1st show of the year last weekend. it was on friday, february 5th... i know, i know - 1st show of the year in February?? a month off?? yeah. a month spent ON actually, writing and developing the next cinema record... anyway, - the sequel was set and of course we needed an immed twist of fate for the plot to be original... voila` intro the Blizzard! pure cinema theatrics.... intro the 1st 2 bands being of the type that would incline you to move further away from the source of the music and closer to the source of the booze.. and now the drama is building...
is this night cursed???

intro DryDive.

and the rest of the night went the way of the wind.... quick flashes: there was blood, there was sweat, the dark elements were in just the proper place,..there was even some vomit and yellow snow... plenty of it

(thnx to the giraffes, for coming down when our set started and having everyone follow them)

set 2/5/10 @ the court tavern

1-DryDive
2-Adult Themes
3-Boyfriend
4-PhoneCall
5-UFO
6-The Natural
7-Rx

now,.... the new news here in cinema land is of such joy inducing quality that it really needs its whole own post,... but let me say,... we broke our ass and paid a lot of the dues that are asked along the way last year.... we know we have much more hard work... but the fruit of that hard work is a respect that you can't gain without doing it. there are no shortcuts in this maze. --and if you burn all the routes, everyone starts to see yr tracks.

big bang baby its a crash crash crash.

we are gonna get to make our new record, our way.with the producer we dreamed for at the front of the project. that's what hard work will get you

the 57 EP

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

so , after just trotting past our 89th show of the year and with a great party that we put together over at BMS for this coming Friday, 10/23 - curated by The Lumiere Label as an unofficial CMj thing....

we have decided to define our year in 2009 of playing live - with a live EP - its called - "57" - and can referred to as "the 57 EP". it is being released via THE LUMIERE LABEL on tues 11/24/2009 and we will be having a release party in its honor on that evening at PUBLIC ASSEMBLY.

the EP clocks in at just over a half hour and features 5 tracks culled from our Thursday, JULY 17th 2009 show at SouthPaw in Brooklyn - which happened to be the 57th show of the year for us. 2 of the songs, ("Cycles" & "PhoneCall") are brand new and not available in any other recorded form. -----

57 ep (the Lumiere Label - ttl3 - 11/09)

1-DryDive - 7.25
2-I Don't Wanna Be Yr Boyfriend - 6.53
3-Cycles - 7.02
4-PhoneCall - 3.46
5-The Natural Rx - 8.28

it will be avail at all major and minor digital sites (itunes, emusic, etc) as well as some of the mom and pop shops in the ares we tour (that also carry EXILE BABY) and at our shows.

as you can see by the track time's - there isn't a single - but we will be making one of the songs available in early November as a free download through this website and we will be offering a deal for a free download of EXILE BABY with every new purchase of the 57 EP.

stay tuned.......

doing 100 shows in a year wasn't enough for a DIY band on their own to do - we had to release a record also, so we could feel productive.

NEW GOAL...100 Gigs. 100 Gigs. 100 Gigs.

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

so in this life... we all set different marks we would like to achieve. different things we would like to accomplish with out time...

last October, we played Maxwell's for the 1st time.... we got to open for the Dirtbombs.... in honesty....we were last second fill-ins for Amazing Baby...a band that is making large strides right now...

so, when we pulled their spot at the last second... we did all our best and went for it as usual...

post-show, Paul and I (Ev)realized that in 2009, we need to double the amount of gigs we did in 2008 = 30 shows.

so 60 became the goal.

we knocked that down with workman like approach on july 21st..opening for LIONS...2 days after opening for The Giraffes..... so, instead of waiting out a new phase...

we set a new goal..

Cinema, Cinema is going to aim to play 100 gigs this year..

... without label support or any help whatsoever this year...

we will have 75 done by the end of AUG...

so 25 more for the year..

we are challenging ourselves...

and need to leave this year.. letting the industry know that we don't need anyone of them.... to shout out our soapbox of hell from Brooklyn.

come along to see if a band that can.... could.

do the evolution..

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

there has been some amazing stuff going on in CINEMA.land as of late... so much touring and going for it that i haven't had a real chance to keep everyone (who isn't already out at the shows or in parts we haven't hit yet or who just like to stay on the up and up with some simple web info----you guys are missing some killer times & great shows)... up to date, so-------- a quick overview...

Exile Baby is all over college radio at the moment... we broke in the 1st week into CMJ's top 20 ad's chart and have been picked up all around the country, -this fall starts our college full-court press. we will be doing in studio perfomances at college radio and gigs in and around all the college towns, we already have Albany booked for Oct, and NJ and PA on tap...

we got picked up by Hype Machine,...again - this time it was DryDive a lot of new press from blogs has trickled in and continues.... some say ---- "These brick layers of disturbia", "SST-style psych-rock ", "a band of talented weirdos that appear only every now and again", "For ambient/indie pop fans, this could just about cover enough ground to be a modern favorite. Classic, maybe?", "nothing of the likes of Cinema, Cinema has really ever been heard", "“RX” gives us an introduction to the pedal-board excursion that this record thrives on, showing bits and pieces of different guitar sounds from dirty wahs to fuzzy riffs. This is where Cinema, Cinema does the best with impressing listeners- by combining the guitar artistry with rocking drums", "“I Don’t Wanna Be Yr Boyfriend” picks things back up with some of the dirtiest use of wah/flange/whatever effects ever heard", "Somewhere between the Flaming Lips and U2 (we're talking the 80s versions, of course", "the band’s first full length album, contains a wide variety of sounds, certainly more diverse then most of the indie bands coming out of Brooklyn", "If you wonder what goes on in the basement studios and rehearsal rooms in a place like Brooklyn, this is a good example", "Hüsker Dü meets the Flaming Lips by way of Das Damen with some Doors and Sabbath on the side", "Experimental vibes from Brooklyn that’ll keep you fascinated for hours", "The addition of drummer Paul Claro, who sounds like he is doing drum rolls with eight arms, has shown to be the perfect time keeper for Gold to attack his guitar riffs and effects pedals the way that Jackson Pollock would attack his canvas" ok, you get the point, all the new press is on ourpress page...

we are opening for The Giraffes on friday, July 17th @ the court tavern in NJ...we are very happy about that. The Giraffes are AMAZING. that show is actually part of a cool mini-tour that sees us go to Philly (the m room) and back at Southpaw (brooklyn).... {see tour page for dates} next tuesday we will be playing TT the Bears in Beantown and it will be our 15th gig of June. we already have 10 on the boards for July. If you want us to come and play yr party -email: info@cinemacinemaband.com - we will do it for a case of beer and a couch to crash on and it will be wild. believe the hype.

We are now represented by The Press House - for all press needs please contact dawn@thepresshouse.com - check us out there http://www.thepresshouse.com/clients_m_cinemacinema.html

and - this is some bigger news -
EXILE BABY is now available at BEST BUY, as well as Academy Records in Williamsburg, Brooklyn - Music Matters in Park Slope, Brooklyn - Platterpus Records in Northampton, MA - Burlington Records in Burlington, VT - Downtown Discs in Burlington, VT and it's also in Newbury Comics in MA and - it has been added to the stock at the way way cool INSOUND (its being added this week) so, we have sold out our entire 1st pressing of Exile Baby on the road and at stores, thanks to Digitone Records for helping get the record off the ground.

as the record is a release on our label - THE LUMIERE LABEL - the entire 2nd run of it is being ironed out now... what we are offering is this - exclusively here (and maybe at someshows, depending - haha) we are doing a limited edition pressing of EXILE BABY with each copy having original artwork done as a picture disc....hand drawn by emerging NYC artists they are $8 (w/ $1 shipping fee and NO tax) - he purchase button is below... please support a band that just wants yr money to buy gas to come and tour in yr town. (ps. - look for new blogs and updates from THE NATURAL RX blog, coming more regulary from here fwd... (note: no more special edition EXILE BABY's are avail, so the paypal button has been remonved - 2011)