The Minor Arcana Spring Schedule
So our spring schedule (April thru June) is now available for you to peruse and plan your lives around. We hit New Haven, CT in April, play our first show in Philly since January in May, then we hit Brooklyn, Philly again, and Trenton in June. More details regarding our summer schedule will be following shortly, so keep an eye out, will you? If yr not paying attention, who will? More details about all the gigs will be forthcoming, but for now here’s the deets for the New Haven gig since it’s next week!
We’re at The Elm Bar which is located at 372 Elm St. in New Haven. Cover is cheap (like $2 or $3) and we’re playing with The Caveman Go and The West Rockers. Doors are like 9ish and first band is on at around 1oish.
more infoLong time no talk!
Long time no talk. Where the hell have you guys been? I call and call and you just never pick up.
Seriously, though—I’m finally back after tearing through Europe with the World/Infernos and I’m already gearing up to head back out with those whackjobs for a West Coast swing, Hallowmas festivities, and FunFunFun Fest in Austin, TX. And I know, I’ve told you this before but this time—I promise; I’ve changed (if this is starting to cause flashbacks of the last conversation you had with an ex—I apologize for any undue trauma). December and January, we will play shows. I don’t care if I have to drag a piano onto a street corner and play till I get arrested, this is happening. And YOU (yes, you) should be excited about that. Because we are—all of us—excited about seeing you, excited about entertaining you, excited about making you laugh, making you weep, making you dance, making you sing along, making you stand-in-the-back-of-some-dark-bar-with-a-too-tight-cardigan-and-black-thick-rimmed-glasses-with-yr-arms-folded-across-yr-chest-as-you-ironically-and-detachedly-judge-us-because-yr-too-cool-to-have-fun-and-too-lame-to-have-yr-own-band-(-or-have-a-good-band-at-least-)—. I (Matthew) am planning on having the band ready to throw some new material at you during these shows as well and we’re hoping to play throughout the Philly area and MAYBE, just maybe Gomorrah, I mean, New York City and Baltimore (because I read Role Models by John Waters on tour and outside of the vaguely creepy chapter on the Manson Family, it made me want to hang out in Baltimore).
In business news, beyond the Euro zone’s mounting debt crisis and American capitalism’s scorpion-in-the-desert-driven-made-by-the-heat-&-stinging-itself-to-death thing, you can now purchase our record, Emotional Alchemy on CD Baby & at Turtle Studio’s Bandcamp and will soon be able to access it on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, last.fm and other places with an ontologically digital constitution. Stay tuned for that, I will probably append a brief (I swear) note to the news section in order to alert you, my favorite feckless consumers, to the big (that is, wholly predictable) news. [EDIT: it is now available on aforementioned websites! Post reviews if you love me!] About damned time, eh?
Stay tuned for this and details about shows. I swear—everything will be different this time.
—MWL
P. S. — The next record is almost completely written. Isn’t that crazy?
Official website hereby launched!
Welcome to the digital home of The Minor Arcana. Feel free to prowl about our new digs and see what’s what. Not all the pages are up yet as this is damned hard work & there may not be any info which we deemed proper to include under the headings you see off to yr left there in that navigation bar. However, all of the links do have important and interesting content behind them. Some of which you will expect and some of which will provide an amusing (& family–friendly) surprise. If you want to get to the meat of this blog post avert yr eyes to the side a bit till you see the information about the Minor Arcana’s upcoming CD release show…seriously, it’s like…the paragraph immediately following…
…this one. Speaking of navigation bars, if you look down you’ll see links to various & sundry websites (Reverbnation, Facebook, Twitter). We are (personally) of the opinion that you should make full use of those little linkedy–links which you can click to “Like” The Minor Arcana on Facebook and follow us (er, Matthew, really…) on Twitter! We encourage you to visit all the websites so that you can like, friend, &or follow us. Believe it or not, some promoters and club owners care about web presences so yr engaging in the aforementioned Internet–y activities will make it easier for us to get gigs & tour (so that we can come to yr town…maybe yr house! and steal yr bed… and the chips in yr cupboard….and the booze in yr liquor cabinets…and wrestle about yr living yr room with yr cat, or dog, or each other, or YOU…). …not that we wouldn’t gig or tour without yr help (because we are & we will, both presently & in the future), but still…be a pal, would you?
So about that…gigs…thing—The Minor Arcana’s CD release show (yessir, it’s a bonafide Big Deal), our celebration of our debut full–length record Emotional Alchemy will be JUNE 18th at Philadelphia’s venerable & esteemed venue KUNG FU NECKTIE.
gig flyer
- Below you will find all necessary details AND (this part is really important, friends) a ticket link: CLICK IT. Buy yrself and yr friend, girlfriend, boyfriend, or most recent crush a ticket. Then, on June 18th come to Kung Fu Necktie and drink and dance and celebrate with yr new friends! Johnny Miles & the Waywards will be there to entertain you all as well! Oh yeah, there’s liable to be another act/special guest(s) added to the bill later so STAY TUNED here and on Facebook/Twitter/Reverbnation (yet ANOTHER reason to digitally commune with us!)… …but we digress—here’s the dirt:
the MINOR ARCANA’s
CD Release Extravaganza for EMOTIONAL ALCHEMY
with Johnny Miles & the Waywards and Psalmships
Kung Fu Necktie
1250 North Front Street; Philadelphia, PA.
—Doors open @ 7 pm
—21+ (sorry kids but be adventurous…)
—tix are $10 a pop, but we done–went broke making the record in question,
so at that price it’s a bargain. so buy yrself some tickets!
Just remember, friends…please do utilize the above link, buy tickets, plan on having a good time, plan on doing it up, and plan on seeing us there! I mean, you can buy tickets at the door, suuure…but! sometimes in art (as in life) it helps to just commit to something….something reckless, something unexpected, something which can (& will) trump the boredom of everyday life; so you might as well commit to showing up to Kung Fu Necktie on June 18th and dancing & singing your precious little heart out!
—Matthew Landis, circa…the wee small hours of the morning, on 5 may 2011.
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