Never for $ Always for <3

Bow Your Head and Join With Me

Photos by Michael Cooper
cooperphotog.com

I Could Stand Here Strong and Thin

The Marquee
Tulsa, OK - October 2009













All photos by Jeremy "Magic Man" Charles

If only I was sure that my Head on the Door was a Dream

Thanks to Chip at Atomic Ned for asking Raechel to write a one-time-only column for the blog!

Raechel talks all about her favorite Cure record and songs. You can read it here!

The Colbert Bump

Derek will be on The Colbert Report with The Flaming Lips tonight (Wednesday).

As Ben Franklin has been famously quoted throughout the years..."That's neat!"

When The Night Expires, I'm Still On Fire

D-Fest @ IDL Ballroom
Tulsa, OK - July 2009











All photos by Jeremy Charles, who is officially the coolest guy on Planet Earth.

D-Fest

Barrelhouse Beat posted a short video of our D-Fest set from the other night.

File Under "Cool Stuff"

Last weekend, Derek played with The Flaming Lips at Pitchfork Fest in Chicago.

Here's new Lips song "Convinced Of The Hex". Cool!

The Magician's Birthday

Yesterday was D.W.'s birthday!

Juxtaposition

More mixing for "Head Over Heels", 7/3/09

Walking In My Shoes

Final mixing for "Head Over Heels", 6/30/09

Gone Too Soon

Like a Sunset dying with the rising of the moon. Gone too soon.

We lost one of my favorites & I am one sad lady.

This Happened Yesterday

I Want The Truth

Viva-Radio's weekly show "Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth" makes me want to continue opening my Firefox web browser.

viva-radio.com

...then click on Friday's programming. Lots of archived shows to choose from, too.

For those of you who like your Prefab Sprout with a side of '70s folk-prog, I salute you.

It's Not A Tumor

Before we played with Asobi Seksu on Thursday, I somehow ended up with double vision, an eye like Mad-eye Moody on Harry Potter, and could not walk straight. After contemplating just going straight to the ER, we played our set... I tried to conjure up the powers of Ray Charles and just close my eyes.



13 hours in the ER of MRI's, CT's, 2 Dr's, a few radiologists and a lot of med students told me basically that "it's not a tumor". Off to a neuro-opthomologist and it's basically the same thing, lots of poking and no answers.

Today I am almost back 100%. Weird. Thanks to everyone who showed their concern.

Norman Music Festival

All photos by Jeremy Charles

Can You Help Me Occupy My Brain?

Let Freedom Ring

Nick of Colourmusic and Derek enjoying America.

Memory Cassette

I love discovering new music and I hope that never stops.

Spending a sickly Monday at home and hearing another wave of strange weather brewing outside, I've been listening to the sweet, detached sounds of something called Memory Cassette. There's no band photo and their MySpace only lists them as being from New Jersey (which makes me think of two things: goth-girls who worship Robert Smith....and well, The Boss).

For the record, nothing about Grizzly Bear interests me. Same goes for Vivian Girls. And hey, while we're at it, I hate The Decemberists.

Music like Memory Cassette is what makes me want to keep making music. It seems to come from a world where music is only recorded between the hours of midnight and 6am. Where the absence of morals and jobs make more way for tongue kisses, stiff drinks, clove cigarettes, and messy bedrooms.

myspace.com/memorycassette

Thank You, Austin