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    Vignette, Berlin
    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 V...
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    European Tour: Brixton, Continued
    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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    European Tour: This Pot Has Been On The Stove For 400 Years
    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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    European Tour: Overeating Paris
    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 fes...
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    European Tour: “Cheese With Rice!”
    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 i...
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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, 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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    Electric Balloon Tour: I’m All Austin The Supermarket
    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 w...
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    Electric Balloon Tour: A Monument To Man’s Arrogance
    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 Ro...
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    Electric Balloon Tour: Things To Eat Besides The Lotus
    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 tha...
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    Electric Balloon Tour, the re-electrifying
    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 changed...
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    Electric Balloon Tour, Day whatever*
    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 dif...
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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 pique...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Mar 2, 2014
    • 5 min

    Vignette, Olympia

    With hours to kill before the show, we all part ways to wander. I stop into a thrift store. Thrift stores outside New York are always a p...
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    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 10
    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 28, 2014
    • 4 min

    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 10

    The drive from Fargo to Spokane is 17 hours in good weather, but it is not good weather. The first day is all right, freezing cold but no...
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    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 8
    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 26, 2014
    • 4 min

    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 8

    After Minneapolis, it’s on to Fargo. We drop off our stuff at The Aquarium, which is the upstairs of Dempsey’s Public House, a bustling I...
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    Scenes from a gas station; Tomah, WI
    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 26, 2014
    • 3 min

    Scenes from a gas station; Tomah, WI

    Gas stations are an important part of tour. Depending on your gas mileage and average bladder capacity, you’ll be stopping once every one...
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    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 7
    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 25, 2014
    • 4 min

    Electric Balloon Tour, Day 7

    Milwaukee gave us a warm reception. We played at the Riverwest Public House, a place I would absolutely hang out if I lived in the area. ...
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    I found the cheese I was born to eat
    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 23, 2014
    • 1 min

    I found the cheese I was born to eat

    We roll into Jonah’s parents’ house around 2, and immediately get to snacking. Mostly standard things: chips, salsa, nuts. But then Jonah...
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    Ethan Bassford
    • Feb 23, 2014
    • 4 min

    Vignette, Chicago

    In Chicago, the venue is up four flights of stairs. Four amps, a drum set, several boxes of records, and all our instruments must go up t...
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