LA TOMORROW at the Avalon w/ Supergrass. We play 2nd. 8PM. ALL AGES.

AVALON - ALL AGES
1735 N VINE/HOLLYWOOD
SAT JUL 12 2008 7PM DRS

....and next week... our first bay area show in a couple months, and the last one until treasure island. BE THERE PEOPLE!!


next BAY AREA show!!:


love,
the morning benders

hey kiddies,

quite excited to let you all know that we are doing another full US tour come october. this time with the homies in ra ra riot. we have a few more surprise dates for you as well, so if you don't see your city on there, don't get too upset. send us a message and let us know you want us to stop by though, those things really do count...

RA RA dates below and the rest of the dates this month:

Jul 1 2008 8:00P
EL REY THEATRE (w/ we are scientists!) LA, California
Jul 2 2008 8:00P
[rock] the CASBAH (w/ we are scientists) San Diego, California
Jul 3 2008 8:00P
glass house (w/ we are scientists)!!!! Pomona, California
Jul 5 2008 7:00P
Blue Lamp (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands) Sacramento, California
Jul 8 2008 7:00P
Berbati’s Pan (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands) Portland, Oregon
Jul 9 2008 7:00P
Neumo’s (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands) Seattle, Washington
Jul 12 2008 8:00P
Avalon (w/ SUPERGRASS!) Los Angeles, California
Jul 20 2008 1:00P
GOOD Magazine BLOCK PAR-TAY @ 111 Minna SAN FRANCISCO, California
Sep 13 2008 1:45P
MONOLITH @ RED ROCKS!! Morrison, Colorado
Sep 21 2008 12:00P
TREASURE ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL (hell yeahhhhhh) SAN FRANCISCO BAY, California
Sep 29 2008 7:00P
Modified (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Phoenix, Arizona
Sep 30 2008 7:00P
Plush (w/ Ra Ra Riot!@! yea!@) Tucson, Arizona
Oct 2 2008 7:00P
The Loft (w/ Ra Ra RIOT!) Dallas, Texas
Oct 3 2008 7:00P
Stubb’s (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Austin, Texas
Oct 4 2008 7:00P
Rudyards (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Houston, Texas
Oct 7 2008 7:00P
The Social (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Orlando, Florida
Oct 8 2008 7:00P
Club Downunder (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Tallahassee, Florida
Oct 10 2008 7:00P
Drunken UNICORN (w/ Ra Ra Riot!@$) AtlantA, Georgia
Oct 11 2008 7:00P
Local 506 (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Raleigh, North Carolina
Oct 12 2008 7:00P
Black Cat (w/ Ra Ra Riot) washington DC yo, Washington DC
Oct 14 2008 7:00P
Ottobar (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Baltimore, Maryland
Oct 15 2008 7:00P
Johnny Brenda’s (w/ Ra Ra Riot) PHILLY, Pennsylvania
Oct 18 2008 7:00P
Middle East Downstairs (w/ Ra Ra Riot) Boston, Massachusetts
Oct 28 2008 1:00P
UCSB Santa Barbara, California

Numero uno: we will be playing a FREE acoustic show at the Puma store on Market Street, on Friday, June 27th (Tomorrow!@!@@!). You heard right… enjoy all your favorite morning benders tunes without it costing you a penny. Click on the flyer below for more info.



Numero Dos: we're playing the GOOD Magazine block party on July 20th. Deets:
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS!!@

Y Tres: We are pleased to announce that we will be a part of the 2008 Treasure Island Festival on Sunday, September 21st. tons of amazing bands are playing this, we really are VERY EXCITEd. YAYYYYYY!!!

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also, a big hearty thank you to everyone who bought our album from itunes this past week. and big ups to itunes for the editor's choice love. we can't believe it but we just got this info from them:

‘talking through tin cans’ was just selected last week as iTunes ‘Editors Choice’, which led to the album breaking the iTunes Top 20 album charts (#18) and Top 10 alternative album charts (#8) and put the band on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart (#8) and Indie Album Chart (#30). Pretty crazy stuff…

yowzas!

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here's all the dates mentioned above. and if we aren't coming to your city in the next couple weeks... don't fret. big update on MONDAY.


Jun 27 2008 7:00P
Puma FREE In-Store SAN FRANCISCO, California

Jul 5 2008 7:00P
Blue Lamp (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands) Sacramento, California

Jul 8 2008 7:00P
Berbati’s Pan (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands) Portland, Oregon

Jul 9 2008 7:00P
Neumo’s (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands) Seattle, Washington

Jul 12 2008 8:00P
Avalon (w/ SUPERGRASS!) Los Angeles, California

Jul 20 2008 1:00P
GOOD Magazine BLOCK PAR-TAY @ 111 Minna SAN FRANCISCO, California

Sep 13 2008 1:45P
MONOLITH @ RED ROCKS!! Morrison, Colorado

Sep 21 2008 12:00P
TREASURE ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL (hell yeahhhhhh) SAN FRANCISCO BAY, California

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love,
the morning benders

talking through tin cans was selected as editor's choice this week on itunes! it's quite flattering, but what does this mean for all you kids out there? well, you see the album listed on the homepage of the itunes store? ...and guess what, it's $5.99!! yes, we know it's crazy. your eyes aren't playing tricks on you, you can buy the ENTIRE album for $5.99. so go do it!

click below to go to the itunes store:


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on another note, the tour is over, which is a bit of a bummer. we're all a bit tired, but it was so much fun playing for you all, we can't wait to get out again. that should be very soon (note: that's really very soon for you west coasters, check out the july we are scientists dates below). and, we're keeping pretty busy.

we're swinging by the Daytrotter Studios in Iowa and HearYa HQ’s in Chicago this week on our drive back home to record some sweet sessions. then we'll be back for a performance and interview with Aaron Axelsen on Live105 ‘Soundcheck’ on the evening of Sunday, June 22nd. then we're shooting a video for ‘damnit anna’ in SF on June 24th with the homies at nylon tv and will be doing a FREE acoustic show at the puma store in SF (free and all-ages) on friday, june 27th.

here's all those dates:
Sunday, June 22nd LIVE 105 Soundcheck Tune in at 6pm PST

Friday, June 27th San Francisco, CA Puma Store In-Store

July 5th Sacramento, CA Blue Lamp (with We Are Scientists)

July 8th Portland, OR Berbati's Pan (with We Are Scientists)

July 9th Seattle, WA Neumo's (with We Are Scientists)

July 12th Los Angeles, CA Avalon (with Supergrass)

July 20th San Francisco, CA GOOD Magazine Block Party @ 111 Minna

September 13th Morrison, CO Monolith @ Red Rocks

HOMIES,

blogging from brooklyn right now, we're all really happy to be in new york. thanks to everyone who came to terminal 5 last night to see us. that was our first show in new york, and it was quite a blast. see you all again tonight. remember, if you weren't able to get tickets to either of the terminal 5 shows, we are doing a show in brooklyn at UNION POOL, on thursday! it will be a cool intimate show, and our homie arch from illinois will be playing, so come on down and rock it! check out flavorpill for the write up:

flavorpill.com

in other news, we just got word of some exciting shows next month. a handful of dates w/ we are scientists and cut off your hands, which should be a lot of fun. seattle and portland, you guys better represent! we also were asked to play support for SUPERGRASS at their show in LA. pretty damn rad. get tickets now before they sell out please! (all dates below)

brooklyn vegan took some cool pics from the show last night:
brooklynvegan.com

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DATES, yo!~
Jun 12 2008 8:00P
UNION POOL
BROOKLYN, New York

Jul 5 2008 7:00P
Blue Lamp (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands)
Sacramento, California

Jul 8 2008 7:00P
Berbati’s Pan (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands)
Portland, Oregon

Jul 9 2008 7:00P
Neumo’s (w/ We Are Scientists and Cut Off Your Hands)
Seattle, Washington

Jul 12 2008 8:00P
Avalon (w/ SUPERGRASS!)
Los Angeles, California

Jul 20 2008 1:00P
GOOD Magazine BLOCK PAR-TAY @ 111 Minna
SAN FRANCISCO, California

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we're also doing a free in-store at your local PUMA in a couple weeks. we'll be doing a stripped down acoustic type dealy and it should be a lot of fun. i heard there might be free drinks and stuff too. here's the info:

San Francisco
Friday, June 27th
7pm

The PUMA Store
856 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
415.788.9880

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we're also going on live 105's soundcheck to do a live session with aaron. that goes down in a couple sundays, on june 22. show starts at 6pm. tune your dial to live 105.3 in the bay, or stream it from their site if you live anywhere else: live105.com

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oh, thanks to indie 103.1 for playing us! give them a call and request your favorite band: THE MORNING BENDERS!!!! yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...


LOVE,
the morning benders

super homie #1 matt jacoby shot and made this little ditty for gumby (vimby). it's pretty cool!! right?!?!1 yeah!!!

hope you like it:



love,
the morning benders

hello friends!!!

i am writing you from portland, OREGON. this is my first time here, and it's alternating between being overcast and raining. bummer. i hear that happens a lot around these parts. it's nice though! there are lots of cool little organic cafes/eateries and markets to help us stay healthy in this crazy lifestyle. we've had about 10 minutes of free time in the last 4 days, but it's been grrrrreat.

yesterday we played the SASQUATCH mUSICAL FESTIVAL in George, Washington. that was one of the most beautiful places i've ever seen. and they treated us super nice. lot's of good food and free ice cream. wooopeeedooo. got to see our buddies in white rabbits play, and they of course blew everyone away. we had to play pretty early, but to our surprise, a lot of kids came out! thanks to everyone for singing and dancing in the rain!

the day before we played a show in vancouver. i'm not gonna go too much more into it because tim will be posting a sweet photo blog really soon, and that should be a lot more interesting than this babble. word up!!

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here's some sweet stuff that's happened while we've been away:

a bunch of awesome pictures from the cd release show at 330 ritch the other night. thanks clay and misha!

Pics from SF Record Release Show:
Misha: http://www.7x7sf.com/arts_entertainment/nightlife_blog/19146409.html
Clay (blood and all): http://www.severegentlemen.com/roboto_050908/

Great AllMusic.com Album Review: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:anfqxzqjldje

Baeble Featured Artist: http://www.baeblemusic.com/baebleBlog.aspx?bid=898
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Great Westword Preview (Denver): http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2008/05/beyond_playlist_the_morning_be_2.php

Live Review of 330 ritch Record Release Show: http://www.thebaybridged.com/2008/05/16/morning-benders-330-ritch/

Slant Magazine Album Review: http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1378

OH. The super homies at PUMA let us design our own shoes and they actually made them for us. Hah. How awesome is that? We'll take some photos soon, here's mine though:

MY SHOE from SHOE BBQ

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wheewwwww. sorry if that's too much to take in, but we really are so grateful.... thanks so much for everyone who has supported "talking through tin cans." it's been a long time coming for us, and we are just so thrilled that people are enjoying the record.

time to play a show now. THANK YOU PORTLANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

love,
the morning benders

we just got news that talking through tin cans entered the CMJ charts at #61!! not too shabby, eh? why don't you show us a little love and call your local college radio station and request us? yeah! most major college radio stations already have the cd, but if they dont have it, tell them to get it QUICK.

we've also got some great specialty plays. if you listen to the following shows/stations, call in and request your favorite band: THE MORNING BENDERS!!! YEah!!@

Specialty Spins so far:

KTCL "Adventure University" Denver, CO "Waiting For A War" (303) 631-2933

KUSF "Just Another Menace Sunday" San Francisco, CA "Dammit Anna" 415/751.KUSF

WBTZ "Early Warning" Burlington, VT "Waiting For A War" (877) 893-BUZZ (2899)

WHHZ "The Independent" Gainsville, FL "Waiting For A War"

WKZQ "The Flight Test" Myrtle Beach, SC "Waiting For A War" 843-626-7300

WQXA "The News With Nixon" Camphill, PA "Waiting For A War" 800-332-1057

KEGE "Off The Record" Pocatello, IN "Waiting For A War" (208) 232-GOAT(4628)

KITS "Soundcheck" San Francisco, CA "Waiting For A War" 800.696.1053

RIFF2 "Myspace Music Show" Detroit, MI "Waiting For A War" 313-298-WRIF (For WRIF)

WBTZ "Early Warning" Burlington, VT "Waiting For A War"

WEND "The New Music & Indie Label Show" Charlotte, NC "Waiting For A War" 800-934-1065

WQXA "The News With Nixon" Camphill, PA "Waiting For A War"

WSFM "The Final Hour" Wilmington, NC "Waiting For A War" 910-332-0983

WTKS "Final Hours" Orlando, FL "I Was Wrong" & "Patient Patient" (888) 978-1041

KACV "Under The Radar" Amarillo, TX "Waiting For A War" KACVFM90@actx.edu

KDLD "Dead Air" Hollywood, CA "Loose Change" 877.900.1031

KUSF "Just Another Menace Sunday" San Francisco, CA "Waiting For A War"

WBTZ "Early Warning" Burlington, VT "Waiting For A War"

WHHZ "The Independent" Gainsville, FL "Waiting For A War"

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Thanks to Aaron at Live105, Dennis The Menace at KUSF, Cheryl at KEXP, and Billy Zero from XMU for their support!

Dennis The Menace's KUSF session ran this past Sunday:
It is a FULL hour with us - including the infamous "Musical Sandwich" - two of our songs as the bread and songs requested by other artists in between.

Folks in San Francisco can simply listen at 90.3... the rest of you can listen by either going to ITUNES, Radio, Public, KUSF or just hit up: http://www.live365.com/stations/kusf

There were a couple cool posts on Littleradio.com as well. We did a live session over there, and an interview.

Here's one of the live songs, "i was wrong."
http://www.littleradio.com/feeds/downloads/view/3542
...and the interview:
http://littleradio.com/feeds/features/view/3524

oh, and thanks to WOXY. they featured us yesterday (Tues) on their "New Tunes Tuesday" feature. rock on homies.

leaving for vancouver tomorrow. see you all soon.

love,
the morning benders

hey kids,

we just got back from playing our first 2 shows on tour with the kooks. it was awesome seeing the four of them again, and we are so so so excited to be doing all these shows together! trying not to get too giddy now...

on sunday we played house of blues, and on monday the wiltern. both shows were awesome. thanks to everyone who came early and rocked out with us. on thursday we leave for vancouver for the rest of the tour. needless to say - we can't wait. here are a couple of pics from the last 2 shows:

SD:


LA:


here are a couple of things that happened while we were on tour.

we did an interview with John Norris for MTV in SXSW, and it just went up today. peep it:
http://newsroom.mtv.com/

we were SPIN's band of the day:
http://www.spin.com/articles/morning-benders

we were featured on E! news the other night, in between spots on JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and MADONNA. HAHA. i don't think it's online yet, but my mom TIVO'd it, and that shit was awesome. check it out if you can.

LA times wrote us up the other day, and now it's up online. check that one here:
http://theguide.latimes.com/blogs/soundboard/

Boston Globe feature:
http://www.boston.com/

big ups to itunes for giving our new album talking through tin cans the indie spotlight last week, to youtube for putting our video of crosseyed up on the front page, and if i haven't made it clear yet, THE KOOKS. those dudes rule.

more tomorrow!

rock on,
the morning benders

ok kids. the time has come!!! tomorrow is our cd release show in los angeles! that's thursday, may 8th at the echo. the sweetest part is you can get a FREE ticket to the show, if you order our album for $10 right now. you'll get a copy of the album, a FREE amazingly beautiful kyle lee poster (pictured below), a bunch of b-sides, and a FREE ticket to the show. just click below! if you don't want to order online, we'll give you a ticket and a CD for $15 at the door. sounds sort of silly though, when you could do it for 10 right now and get a bunch of free crap along with it...

CLICK HERE TO ORDER:
www.themorningbenders.com
www.plusonemusic.net/records

(the offer stands until 4pm on the 8th)

ALSO playing are our super homies DAWES and RUMSPRINGA. Both amazing bands, so come at 8pm and see the whole show!



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Check out this great feature in AMPLIFIER magazine

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We just added a show with Death Cab For Cutie, Rogue Wave, and The Kooks! Amazing!

Info:
May 30 2008
6:00P
The City Market (w/ DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, ROGUE WAVE, THE KOOKS!@)
Kansas, Missouri

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Noisepop and QED added us to a great podcast this month, featuring songs by Us, Man Man, Crystal Castles, and a bunch more...

http://www.kqed.org/arts/noisepop/

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more soon!

love,
the morning benders