• February 8, 2007: David Lynch and Au Revoir Simone
  
  Our podcast from our live performance with David Lynch is available for a listen.
• January 28, 2007: The Bird of Music
  
  We're pretty excited about the upcoming release of our next record, The Bird of Music. We've been getting a lot of questions about when and how to buy it. Since we have such a lovely international crowd, we made up a little list of its many release dates. Just look up your location on our handy-dandy chart and set your mind at ease.
• Mainland Europe - February 19th, 2007
• United Kingdom - March 5th, 2007
• Japan - April, 2007
• United States -May 15th, 2007

Plus, you can buy the entire album digitally, with special bonus tracks, online worldwide starting February 19th. That will be great.

• January 17, 2007: Sad Because You're Not Seeing Enough Au Revoir Simone Live?
  
  Check out this live video from the Festival Musiques Volantes in Metz, from our last tour. We're playing "Dark Halls," a song from our album, The Bird of Music.
  
  
• To celebrate the release of our next album, The Bird of Music, in Europe on Moshi Moshi Records on March 5th, we are coming to tour much of Europe once again. Here are our complete tour dates:
  
  • February 13 2007 : The Fly, London, England Buy Tickets!
  • February 16 2007 : Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden
  • February 17 2007 : Storan, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • February 18 2007 : Blå, Oslo, Norway
  • February 19 2007 : Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • February 20 2007 : Haus, Hamburg, Germany. Buy Tickets!
  • February 21 2007 : Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Buy Tickets from Ticket Service, aub.nl, or at these fine record stores: Free Record shops, Fame, Concerto, Get Records,Boudisque, Pico, and Rush Hour.
  • February 22 2007 : Botanique, Brussels, Belgium. Buy tickets!
  • February 24 2007 : La Maroquinerie, Paris, France
  • February 26 2007 : Hoxton Bar and Grill, London, England. Buy tickets!
  • February 27 2007 : Nice and Sleazy, Glasgow, Scotland
  • February 28 2007 : Whelans, Dublin, Ireland
  • March 2 2007 : Studio 672, Cologne, Germany. Buy Tickets!
  • March 3 2007 : Bastard, Berlin, Germany. Buy Tickets!
  • March 4 2007 : Nato, Leipzig, Germany. Buy Tickets!
  • March 6 2007 : Atomic Cafe, Munich, Germany. Buy Tickets!
  • March 7 2007 : Transylvania (new venue!), Milan, Italy. Buy tickets!
  • March 9 2007 : Bad, Düdingen, Switzerland. Buy tickets!
    
• December 28th, 2006: Performance with David Lynch on January 11th
  
  We'll be playing an in-store performance before David Lynch speaks on his new book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, followed by a question and answer session with the lot of us. We are pretty excited about this whole affair. It's at Barnes and Noble at Union Square on January 11th. Time is 7pm.
  
• Novemeber 28th, 2006: Current Concert Dates and The Bird of Music street date announced.
  
  Our next record, The Bird of Music, is finally finished and will be released in Europe on Moshi Moshi/Cooperative in the first week of Marchch. The first two singles we plan to release, "Sad Song" and "Fallen Snow" are up on our myspace page so you can give them listen if you like.
  
  Here's a listing of all the shows we currently have booked. Many thanks to Rallye Records for bringing us to beautiful Japan again. We are so excited to return. For all you Europeans out there, we're coming back to your lovely continent in February and Marchch and will let you know when and where as soon as we know.
  
  
  • Friday, December 8 - Club 24, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Sunday, December 10 - Miyounichi-kan, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Monday, December 11 - K.D. Japon, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Tuesday, December 12 - Noon, Osaka, Japan.
  • Thursday, December 14 - Triton Cafe, Kobe, Japan.
  • Friday, December 15 - Marchs, Okayama, Japan.
  • Saturday, December 16 - Urbanguild, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Sunday, December 17 - Social, Kanazawa, Japan.
    
    
• November 25th, 2006: Another fun tour with We Are Scientists is over far too soon for our liking. I've put a smattering of photos from the first part of our tour up on flickr, though there are certainly many more to come as soon as I can get access to a computer with both internet access and a CD burner. That would be nice.
  
  
• November 24th, 2006: We finally have time to share these neat "take away concerts" we made for Le Blogotheque. They feature the three of us playing "Stay Golden" and "Night Majestic" in our neighborhood in Brooklyn. Check it out here
  
  
• October 15th, 2006: We've just added some more shows to our world tour - a few days in Germany with our friends We Are Scientists, two NYC appearances, and a whole tour in Japan.
  
  • Friday, October 6th - First Friday Festival, Lehigh University. Open to the public.
  • Sunday, October 8th - Mercury Lounge, NYC. With Michael Leviton, Snowblink, and The Elephants. Show starts at 7, we go on at 10. $10 21+.
  • Sunday, October 15th - In-store at Soundfix Records, Williamsburg. 4pm, free, and all ages.
  • Friday, October 20 - UEA, Norwich. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Saturday, October 21 - Octagon, Sheffield. With We Aare Scientists. (sold out)
  • Sunday, October 22 - Apollo, Manchester. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Monday, October 23 - Leeds University, Leeds. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Tuesday, October 24 - Academy, Newcastle. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Wednesday, October 25 - Music Hall, Aberdeen. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Thursday, October 26 - Academy, Glasgow. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Saturday, October 28 - Mandela Hall, Belfast. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Sunday, October 29 - Roisin Dub, Galway. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Monday, October 30 - Ambassador, Dublin. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Wednesday, November 1 - Cardiff University, Cardiff. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Thursday, November 2 - Hexagon, Reading. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Friday, November 3 - Academy, Birmingham. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Saturday, November 4 - Rock City, Nottingham. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Sunday, November 5 - Academy, Bristol. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Monday, November 6 - Exeter University, Exeter. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Tuesday, November 7 - Guildhall, Southampton. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Thursday, November 9 - Le Boule Noir, Les Inrocks Festival, Paris. With Tender Forever and Joan As Police Woman.
  • Friday, November 10 - Brixton Academy, London. With We Are Scientists. (sold out)
  • Saturday, November 11 - Salle Ochs, Festival Musiques Volantes, Metz.
  • Monday, November 13 - The Monto/WaterRats Theatre, London. With Hello Saferide.
  • Wednesday, November 15 - Uppåt framåt, Göteborg, Sweden. Buy tickets.
  • Thursday, November 16 - Spy Bar, Stockholm, Sweden. Buy tickets.
  • Friday, November 17 - Blekingska Nationen, Lund, Sweden. Buy tickets.
    
  • Tuesday, November 21 - Magnet, Berlin, Germany. with Mono.
  • Wednesday, November 22 - Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany. with We Are Scientists.
  • Thursday, November 23 - Backstage, Munich. Germany. with We Are Scientists.
  
  
• October 3, 2006: We're packing our bags and heading out on tour with those crazy cats We Are Scientists again. Those shows are largely sold out already, but we'll also be headlining some shows and playing some festivals after those dates, so you can still come see us play.
  
  
• September 1, 2006: Wow! Check out this neat video from our friend Pete at The Anchor Center made. It's a pretty clever piece of work, if you ask me.
  
  
• July 11, 2006:The show at Exit Art Gallery with The Redcoats Are Coming, First Nation, and Nutria on Thursday, July 27th, 2006 was great.
• July 9, 2006: MTV news did a bit on us and our neighboring band, Dirty on Purpose, check it out online if you haven't seen it already. It's very cute.
  
  
• July 3, 2006: The tour with We Are Scientists and The Double was downright incredible! Here's the tour dates we played:
• Mon June 19 2006 Lansing, MI - Temple Bar
• Tue June 20 2006 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop -buy tickets
• Wed June 21 2006 Chicago, IL - Metro - buy tickets
• Thu June 22 2006 Milwaukee, WI - MiraMarch Theater
• Sat June 24 2006 Cincinnati, OH - Desdemona Festival
• Mon June 26 2006 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's - buy tickets
• Tue June 27 2006 Washington, DC - Black Cat - buy tickets
• Wed June 28 2006 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts - buy tickets
• Thu June 29 2006 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
• Fri June 30 2006 New York, NY - Irving Plaza - buy tickets
• Sat July 1 2006 Northampton, MA - Pearl St. - buy tickets
• Sun July 2 2006 Boston, MA - Paradise - buy tickets
• June 10, 2006: "Through the Backyards" single with a neat remix by Leander on the b-side is out now on moshi moshi records in the uk.
• for those of you who are of the tv-watching persuasion, "through the backyards" will be broadcast on the program "grey's anatomy" on monday, may 15 at 9pm on ABC.
• big thanks to wras in atlanta for putting on a great show for us. we love them.
• see the music page for a list of stores where you can buy our cd in person if you don't want to online.
• the guestbook is back down due to crazy spammers who ruined everything. We have our myspace page if you'd like to leave comments there, instead.
• check us out on wnyc 93.9 on spinning on air with david garland. our in-studio performance will be archived at wnyc.org. Also check out our live performance on wfmu. thanks to both stations for having us.
• the european version of our album, verses of comfort, assurance and salvation is officially available in stores in europe on moshi moshi records. the japanse version of our album is still available from rallye record label if you can read japanse or are visiting japan soon.