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Sep 29, 201412 min read

Fall Tour: An Obscene Amount of Garlic

The crowd at the Big Red Barn at Cornell is better than the usual college crowd. The room is nice and full, and people are dancing and...

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Fall Tour: Carlos hears Son of Salami in Burlington and Bursts Into Tears

Ethan Bassford

Sep 26, 201410 min read

Fall Tour: Carlos hears Son of Salami in Burlington and Bursts Into Tears

Our show in Boston is at a house. House shows in Boston must be handled carefully because the cops put considerable and occasionally...

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Ethan Bassford

Sep 23, 201414 min read

Fall Tour: Lodging with the Elks

Our show in Pittsburgh is at the Smiling Moose. The streets are wide enough for roughly one and a half cars, so loading is a dodgy...

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Fall Tour: In which I discover a previously-unknown talent for shadow puppets

Ethan Bassford

Sep 18, 20148 min read

Fall Tour: In which I discover a previously-unknown talent for shadow puppets

Our Kalamazoo show is at Satellite Records, a thoroughly awesome record store on what appears to be the main drag. I take the opportunity...

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Fall Tour: Bill and Ted are kind of chumps if you really think about it

Ethan Bassford

Sep 14, 201412 min read

Fall Tour: Bill and Ted are kind of chumps if you really think about it

In Atlanta, we stay in a large house consisting of many apartments connected by a tarpaper roof. Our hosts have a large collection of...

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Tour Diary: Hootie & The Blowfish Boulevard is a place that exists and I went there

Ethan Bassford

Sep 8, 20144 min read

Tour Diary: Hootie & The Blowfish Boulevard is a place that exists and I went there

Our trip from Raleigh to Columbia is mercifully rainy, bringing the temperature down to a very nearly tolerable level. Our show is at a...

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Ethan Bassford

Sep 7, 201412 min read

Fall Tour: Meat Edition

Leaving for tour requires a series of carefully-choreographed preparations. Preparing to leave home for nearly a month is already pretty...

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Ethan Bassford

May 5, 20146 min read

Vignette, Berlin

Our show in Berlin is the best yet, and even though we’re tired we agree that the night must go on. We have a hot tip from local opener...

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Ethan Bassford

May 4, 20141 min read

European Tour: Brixton, Continued

Our morning coffee stop in Brixton Market introduces me to the “flat white”, which to me is the ideal ratio of coffee to milk. It is sort...

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European Tour: This Pot Has Been On The Stove For 400 Years

Ethan Bassford

Apr 28, 201411 min read

European Tour: This Pot Has Been On The Stove For 400 Years

The show is not actually in Lille. It is in Wicres, a tiny town of 380 or so on the outskirts of Lille. The promoter has a concert series...

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Ethan Bassford

Apr 26, 201414 min read

European Tour: Overeating Paris

I can’t really tell you what Bourges is like because we’re at a festival, and festivals are an altered state of reality. As with most...

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Ethan Bassford

Apr 23, 201416 min read

European Tour: “Cheese With Rice!”

Shortly after boarding Turkish Airlines Flight 1821, departing from JFK at 12:50 PM, I am offered a drink. How classy, I think to myself;...

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Ethan Bassford

Mar 28, 20146 min read

Electric Balloon Tour: The problem of a spaceman

I’m so far behind on contemporaneous coverage of tour, I’m just going to say fuck it. The immediacy is gone, and anything I’d write now...

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Electric Balloon Tour: The Big Easy and Hotlanta and whatever nicknames they have for Sarasota and T

Ethan Bassford

Mar 24, 201410 min read

Electric Balloon Tour: The Big Easy and Hotlanta and whatever nicknames they have for Sarasota and T

Considering I only got two hours of sleep, I wake up surprisingly refreshed. Our first stop for the day is Tulane University, where we’ll...

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Electric Balloon Tour: I’m All Austin The Supermarket

Ethan Bassford

Mar 17, 201419 min read

Electric Balloon Tour: I’m All Austin The Supermarket

We roll into Austin pretty late, and go to our friends’ house to crash. Our friends are Zorch, an amazing psychedelic mathy/proggy band...

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Electric Balloon Tour: A Monument To Man’s Arrogance

Ethan Bassford

Mar 10, 201410 min read

Electric Balloon Tour: A Monument To Man’s Arrogance

The first thing you should know about our show in Phoenix is that it takes place at the Hard Rock Café. Last time I set foot in a Hard...

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Electric Balloon Tour: Things To Eat Besides The Lotus

Ethan Bassford

Mar 8, 201411 min read

Electric Balloon Tour: Things To Eat Besides The Lotus

We roll into San Francisco around midnight, and pull up to Different Fur Studios. Different Fur put the show together, and the powers...

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Electric Balloon Tour, the re-electrifying

Ethan Bassford

Mar 5, 20146 min read

Electric Balloon Tour, the re-electrifying

The best thing that happens in Olympia besides making a friend at the thrift store is eating this banh mi. We have to get the oil...

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Ethan Bassford

Mar 4, 20145 min read

Electric Balloon Tour, Day whatever*

*a few days behind here, I should catch up to the present this week We arrive in Seattle with time to spare, and everyone goes off in...

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Ethan Bassford

Mar 3, 20144 min read

Vignette, Portland

Before the show in Portland, two of us and a local friend head out to a strip club. We had heard about one particular place, and it...

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