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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Ethan Bassford
- Sep 26, 2014
- 10 min
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, 2014
- 14 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Sep 18, 2014
- 8 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Sep 14, 2014
- 12 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Sep 8, 2014
- 4 min
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, 2014
- 12 min
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, 2014
- 6 min
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, 2014
- 1 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Apr 28, 2014
- 11 min
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, 2014
- 14 min
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 24, 2014
- 16 min
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, 2014
- 6 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Mar 24, 2014
- 10 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Mar 17, 2014
- 19 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Mar 10, 2014
- 10 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Mar 8, 2014
- 11 min
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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Ethan Bassford
- Mar 5, 2014
- 6 min
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, 2014
- 5 min
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, 2014
- 4 min
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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