Apparently Nothing

We’ve been in Ryan’s basement recording demos for what will be our next full-length album. We’ve got 8 new ones of drums and 2 songs fully recorded with guitars. Vocals are up next. I’ve got to gettin’ writin’ lyrics.

We’ll post them all right here at the end of the week! You’re excited? Feel these nipples!

Next on the agenda is a slightly updated website along with a brand spanking new recording of our song “The Radio.” I’m not sure about the time-frame, but it’ll happen. I’ve been bogged down with booking lately, but it’ll happen!

I’m sitting in Smart studios today enjoying the sweet sounds of a Gibson 335 into a vintage Marshall half stack. Jim’s laying down his parts for our latest song that has me very excited, “Turn Out the Light.” It sounds similar to “Hollywood Hills” but still sounds very much like Apparently Nothing. It’ll sit nicely in our newest 5-song EP.

It will be released this fall.

Until then, we’re playing plenty of shows both in Madison and Minneapolis so check those out. I do believe they’re all either 18 and up or all ages so no complainin’. We’ll be coming up with album artwork and promotional items as well as getting this project mastered in the next few weeks. The new Box Social record will hold you over in the meantime.

Well we never put this show on the site ’cause we kept this one underground to the super fans only. We played an acoustic set with an encore that turned out being really great. Playing acoustic is so much different, stripping the bravado and letting the songs speak for themselves. The Minnesota Daily was there shooting the show so look for an interview in Monday’s paper.

One of my favorite songs we played was a new one we wrote the previous night. It’s called “Turn Out the Light” and you can download a demo we recorded this weekend. Enjoy!

I’ve been trying to make this weekly but I’ve been having quite a bit of trouble. Between school, work, and entertaining the ladies, who has the time? Pimps. That’s who.

Being the pimp that I am, I’ve uploaded two very rough demos of songs that I’d like to expand on in another Tuesday Night recording session.

Anyway. Story time, folks. So I come home from class with a hankering for some Graham Crackers only to find our friendly pet mouse* in a compromising position of inside the graham box. Sucker. Needless to say, we no longer have a pet mouse.

So I hop on Ryan’s bike with the graham cracker box in hand. I couldn’t just kill the mouse; I had to let him go somewhere random. I took off. I took a left, another left, and final settled between blocks behind a giant trash can. I nervously opened up the box and watched the mouse take the fuck off. It’s easily the fastest mouse I’ve ever seen. I had really ought to race that little guy.

What do my eyes behold to my right? Why, a sign that says “Free, Take.” Underneath the sign it is a nice 2003 Apple eMac. These things still have a resale of around $500, and I just got the sucker for free. Now I’ve got a dedicated recording machine that can stay put and fully facilitate the ROCK.

*Note: It was not a pet, but rather, a son of bitch mouse that eats our food.