Sing My Song vinyl available! Demos for 4th album up!

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Kelley reminded me that I haven't updated here in awhile, so here goes.
We got our records in! We ordered 250 copies of our 3rd album 'Sing My Song,' which was recorded and mixed by Larry Crane and mastered by Garrett Haines. 
They're available for $15 + shipping through our Bandcamp page, or from us in person. Copies can also be found at Fingerprints Records in Long Beach, CA, Third Eye Records also in Long Beach, Moldy Toes Records in San Clemente, McGreat Records in San Clemente, Sound Spectrum in Laguna Beach, Origami Vinyl in Echo Park, and Vacation Vinyl in Silver Lake! We still have a few CDs available too.

We were guests on the Doug and Judy Radio Show out of Long Beach Community College, and that was a lot of fun! 

We have been working on new songs for another upcoming album, still untitled. It will be our 4th full length album. It will be our first album with Brandon Werts joining us on drums. We currently have five demos of that album up on bandcamp here: https://spacewaves.bandcamp.com/album/album-4-demos

We got a couple of reviews in OC Weekly and L.A. Record, which was exciting for us.

Lastly but not leastly, we played a couple of shows in Long Beach, at the Prospector and at Alex's Bar. We also played at the Virgil and probably a few other spots in L.A. since I last updated. Here we are at the Prospector:

 I think that's about it for now. We don't have any shows booked right now since we are focusing on our new songs and getting demos recorded. We would like to go up to San Francisco next year and maybe some other spots, like Joshua Tree perhaps! 

Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spacewaves

Twitter: https://twitter.com/space_waves or here: https://twitter.com/sarahspacewaves

Bandcamp: http://spacewaves.bandcamp.com

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/spacewavess

Thanks for reading/listening!

We're getting vinyl!

We are so happy to finally get some of our music pressed onto vinyl! After much researching, hemming and hawing it looks like we're getting 250 copies of our upcoming album Sing My Song on vinyl. We've been wanting to get vinyl ever since we started the group nearly six years ago but it never happened until now, so for us this is very special. Because of time constraints we decided to cut one song ("Broken") as well as two of the three short instrumental pieces. So the vinyl tracklisting will be a little different from the CD version but we think it still has a nice flow to it.

 

Vinyl tracklisting

CD tracklisting

We already ordered the CDs, of which we're getting 100, and we'll order the vinyl soon. Then hopefully we'll be able to play some shows locally and go on some tours.

Story behind album art (in progress)

I'm getting ready to finish working on our album art and thought I'd write a little bit about it.
One day a year or two ago, back when we lived in the Oregon countryside, there was a big frog sitting on our walkway. I took several pictures of it and later on I drew a picture from one of the photos. Sometimes I like to incorporate words into my drawings and the phrase "sing my song" came to me while making the picture, so I wrote that next to the frog. Later on I thought it would be a good album title--or maybe Kelley did, I can't quite remember. I liked the idea of animals having a song, of it being something unique to them, their own way of communicating. It's something that can never be taken away. That is what is empowering to me about playing music and writing songs. No one is going to write your songs for you, or sing them for you. If you have them in you it's up to you to get them out somehow! I also love frog sounds, and I wasn't surprised when I saw online that a frog sound was voted the most beautiful sound in the world. At first I thought a frog was kind of a funny thing to put on an album, but more and more things like that happened that made it make more and more sense to me. We also went through a Led Zeppelin phase and they have the lyric 'sing my song' in....let me look it up....Ramble On. Well ok.

Another thing about the drawing is that it looks like the frog has three legs. Two on its right side and one in the back. That was just what it looked like in the photo I drew from because of the perspective. That back leg kind of bothers me because it looks like it has one big mondo leg in the back. But when you look at the original photograph it makes sense, because that's actually what it looks like in the picture. I guess a little wonkiness is all right because I am not the type of person to claim perfection or even seek it. I like the energy of the colors and what it brings up for me. That was the only time I saw a frog on that property though I could hear them once in awhile in the creek behind the house.

I'm hoping I can do the artwork myself but I'm also stressing out about it. I kind of want to take the frog drawing somewhere and take a picture of it with a background, like maybe the beach. I'm not too sure though and I'm totally procrastinating. We have everything else done so the art is the last step. I might need to get some help or else I might not ever finish it!
Another thing foretelling about the drawing is the two drops in the upper right corner, another random thing I added in. We have a song called Bleeding Tears (the song was written after I made the drawing) and hey that red drop could be a bleeding tear. 


 
I know the drawing is not perfect and maybe it's not even good at all. It is what it is and that's all I can say. Thank you froggy.

I also made this for our song Jupiter In A Bottle.

We had a song we were working on that had no title. The phrase "Jupiter in a bottle" came to me and I thought it would be a good song title and that it would work for that song. In astrology Jupiter can represent expansive energy, being a giant gas planet, and well if you listen to the song I think it fits. I wrote a report on Jupiter in the second grade. I always thought it was so beautiful!

Upcoming Space Waves shows, album

Here are our upcoming shows!
3/13 at The Prospector in Long Beach. We're on first around 9:00. $5, 21+
3/23 at TRiP Santa Monica. we're on 2nd at 9:30.
4/20 Ham and Eggs Tavern downtown LA. we're on first at 8:30

and we just got our mastered album back. Anyone want to press it on vinyl for us?

End of year update

Dear Internet, a lot has been happening in our little corner of the world so here's an update, which I guess will be the end of year update for us.

2013 has mostly been very busy for us recording-wise. We released a second full-length album (You can ride a beam of light like a musical strum) and we finished recording our third full-length, titled Sing My Song. We will finish mixing Sing My Song in January at Jackpot! Studios in Portland, Oregon with Larry Crane. He also engineered the recording of the album, making it the first album that we did not record ourselves (by 'we' I mean Kelley). So I guess that makes it our first official studio album? Well that's kind of exciting.

We also moved back to southern California after being back in Oregon for two years. We are very happy to be back in SoCal and have recently started playing out around here. We have two upcoming shows: Friday, December 27th at Silverlake Lounge at 10pm and Thursday, January 2nd at Que Sera in Long Beach as part of Press Play's "New Year's Hangover" night.

We are working on a new song that reminds me of some Spacemen 3 tunes. We also have a cover song project in the works.

We hope that next year we will be able to get some of our stuff on vinyl for the first time. We have "You can ride" mastered for vinyl already. We are very eager for that to happen! It will truly be a dream come true.

2014 will mark our 6th year as a band. We started recording original songs in December of 2008, so it has been pretty much exactly five years since we started. In general we try to do as much as we can with what we have. We hope to tour more, especially to the east coast and we'd love to go back to the midwest. But we have to live in the confines of reality so we'll see what actually comes about, and when. We feel very lucky to have pulled off what we have so far, and to have found the right people to work with. We are very thankful for what support we have gotten. Here's to the new year!

Links: Our second album can be found on Soundcloud here: http://www.soundcloud.com/spacewavesss

Our first EP and album are on bandcamp: http://spacewaves.bandcamp.com

We have a few music video up on Youtube too.

Album release shows, album!

we are venturing out into the world again this summer with some album release shows. so far we have:
 June 14th at the Doug Fir in Portland, Oregon with Spirit Lake and Thomas Mudrick + (((Boing))).
June 16th at Chop Suey in Seattle with Golden Gardens and Jetman Jet Team.
August 10th at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco with Tomihira + tba.
Working on something for LA too. Ok! We ordered CDs and will be getting them in a few days. They will be super limited and available at our shows. If you really want one and can't make it to our shows maybe we can figure something out! 

End and SunMoon demos up on Bandcamp

We put up demos of two songs, "End" and "SunMoon," that will be up for a short while on our Bandcamp page. We just wanted to share what we have been working on lately! These will be on our third album. http://spacewaves.bandcamp.com/album/space-waves-lp3-demos

These were recorded by Kelley in our home studio with Mark Loftin on drums, Kelley on guitar and vocals, and Sarah on bass guitar and vocals. Drums and guitars were played live all together. 


In other news, we are waiting on artwork for our second album, You Can Ride A Beam Of Light Like A Musical Strum. We are also planning a European tour for late summer and will announce our Portland album release show soon, and hopefully get this album out soon!

Thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. 

http://spacewaves.bandcamp.com/album/space-waves-lp3-demos