Friday! Yankees!

We just sealed it-- The Yankee in a Chip Shop video will be rotating onto the front page of myspace for 7 whole days beginning Friday! That’s a huge deal considering that we shot this video totally run and gun while on tour in London. Our tiny budget was inversely proportional to the brassiness of the balls of all brave enough to be involved. When Emilee Seymour and I pitched the concept, there wasn’t a soul who thought all four of us band members would walk off the shoot without the aid of paramedics. London’s reputation is mean, and that is precisely what we were banking on. The video will be linked here! 10:30 am pst. Don’t be late!
S

Yankee = This Week!

Better than Salty Eyes? Worse than Salty Eyes? You'll find out this week-- the Yankee in a Chip Shop video will be debuting online THIS WEEK. Check back here on the daily for a link to the Matches and Oxen's follow-up collaboration to Salty Eyes.

Look at me tryin to sound all official...what I really mean to say is "Me and my friends made something neat! Be excited with us!!"

(and yes, of course Micheal Coleman, the man behind the camera, was using "worse" as in "my head hurts more now than before". I just can't refrain from fanning flames under any cauldron of shit.)

'til not soon enough,
Shawn

A Band In Hope Payment

Dave Smallen from Street to Nowhere makes good on his burned copy of ABIH:

Post us video responses on youtube or send to the sharpied email on the cardboard box.
wink. nudge.
Shawn

NYC Spin book club charity event

If ya live in NYC, you're luckier than I. There'll be a limited pressing of a screenprinted poster I'm currently designing at the event.

http://livefromhome.org/events/ for tickets, and scroll on down.
S

A Justin SanSouci Retrospective

DJ Juicestache crackin us up on a long van haul.


Pushing in vain to free us from a snowdrift at 2am in the Canadian Rockies.

White Sands, NM sand sledding


Bloody Knuckles. Fender wins.


Courtney Love and child




Justin servin up nachos just like the old days on the clock back at the Warfield and Fillmore. Except this time, we’re onstage. First show at the Warfield, opening for Less than Jake. Fall Out Boy was support.


Naptime








pre-touring days-- some house party near UC Berkeley, CA


first Warped Tour




youngans


Yankees


We had some damn fun times. Best of luck. We love ya.
Shawn

Say Graceburger

Wayne, UK Matches fan extraordinaire, at our acoustic show in SF last night with his pant leg hiked up for all to see the great Musburger in ink, sheepishly asked "What does it mean?" I had to laugh. Musburger is on our guitar picks, and keeps us safe from his perch on the rear view mirror in the van, and legend has it that he even pilots our bus after we all pass out. But like the holiday moral of the cliche Christmas stories, Musburger is about so much more.
So if we could all join hands and perhaps bow our tongues into our cheeks, I would like to go around the table and have everyone say what Musburger means to you...