First show of our tour w/ Counting Crows starts tonight @ Showbox Sodo in Seattle! Put on your flannel, this place is awesome, super pumped!
You can read about what we’ve been listening to lately in this weeks Seattle Weekly HERE
Or check out our conversation about the tour with the lovely Hilary Hughes in Paste Magazine HERE
See you at the shows!
Love, Mean Creek
Hello Friends,
For the past two months, we’ve been hiding out @ 1867 Recording Studio in Boston recording our newest full-length album (It’s getting mastered as we speak!). We can’t tell you how excited and proud we are to share this new music with you, we put all we had into it and we hope you love it as much as we do. The album is entitled “Youth Companion”, and expect a release in Fall 2012. Until then, we are PUMPED to announce that we’ll be hitting the road this Spring with the wonderful COUNTING CROWS!! We’ll be touring all over the U.S., so please be sure to check out the poster below for all the dates. Hope to see y’all at the shows!
Love, Mean Creek
Hello Friends,
We are currently @ 1867 Recording Studio mixing our new album. We’ve spent the past 3 weeks here tracking and we couldn’t be happier with how it is turning out!
One week from today on Thursday January 26 we will be in NYC playing @ Pianos with our good friends The Party Faithful (who will be celebrating the release of their new album), and The Wicked Tomorrow. Very excited, come party with us!
See you all soon
Love, Mean Creek
Hello Friends,
I can’t tell you all how happy I am to say that after 4 months of writing a whole batch of new songs in the practice space with my 3 best friends/3 favorite musicians in the world, our recording dates are booked! It all starts December 28 @ 1867 Recording Studio with the loveable Chris McLaughlin. As far as the new songs, we’ve learned a lot from one another these past 3 years of being a band, and it continually amazes me how we all work together, stay in tune with one another, and remain close friends. These new songs are by far the best we have ever made as a band. I’ve been playing guitar since i was a kid, and I feel very happy knowing that I am in the band I always wanted to be in, writing the album I always wanted to write.
As far as the release of the album, we’re planning a Spring 2012 release. We’ll have more info and details on this in the upcoming months, so stay tuned!
We’ll be rounding out 2011 playing the WFNX Miracle On Lansdowne St. this Friday December 9 @ House Of Blues in Boston w/ Matt & Kim, and Mutemath. Tickets are available here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01004747DC7BAB42?artistid=1231735&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1
We’ll then be celebrating the new year with all of YOU! Playing a New Year’s Eve show @ Brighton Music Hall in Allston w/ Kingsley Flood, and Freezepop! Tickets here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0100475AEAB4A439
See you all very soon. Have some happy holidays!
Love, Chris / Mean Creek
Thanks to everyone who helped vote Hemophiliac Album/EP of the year. We put all our heart, time, and money into it, and it means a lot to us. Very much looking forward to getting back in the studio next month and doing it all again. If you’d like, you can download Hemophiliac here: http://meancreek.bandcamp.com/album/hemophiliac
Love, Mean Creek
Mean Creek would never have existed if not for my friendship with Aurore. We grew up together, and have played music together in one form or another for the past 8 years. She is my closest friend. Over the years I have watched her transform into the most kick ass lead guitarist and the most unique and interesting harmony singer in the rock n roll business. As a band mate, she continually surprises me with her talent, knowledge, and ideas. As a friend, she’s always there for me no matter what. She knows and understands me better than I know and understand myself, and I would be completely lost without her friendship. So this is for you, Aurore, my best friend. Or as John put it, “The other half of the sky…”
Happy Birthday & Love Always,
Chris
Hello Friends,
Voting ends tomorrow night November 9 at midnight in the Boston Music Awards. We’re up for “Artist Of The Year”, “Album/EP Of The Year”, and “Song Of The Year”. If you’d like, you can vote for us and/or many other great bands HERE!
We’ll be going in to 1867 Recording Studio to record our brand new full length album in late December with good friend/engineer Chris McLaughlin. We couldn’t be more excited about it. Can’t wait hit the road and release this new music to all of you in 2012.
Before then we’ll be finishing up 2011 with 3 very special hometown shows. We’ll be taking part in the Buffalo Tom 25th Anniversary shows. They’ll be doing 3 nights @ Brighton Music Hall in Allston, Nov. 25-27, and we’ll be playing November 26. They have some very exciting guests planned, J. Mascis, Ted Leo, and many more. As lifelong fans of Buffalo Tom, we couldn’t be happier to be a part of this celebration of their music. You can get tickets HERE.
December 9 we’ll be playing the WFNX Miracle On Lansdowne St. @ House Of Blues in Boston w/ Matt & Kim, and Mutemath, and you can get tickets here: http://www.livenation.com/event/01004747DC7BAB42?fb_ref=FBKLikeEvent&fb_source=profile_multiline
December 31, we’ll be back @ Brighton Music Hall doing a New Year’s Eve show with Kingsley Flood, and Freezepop, and you can get tickets HERE
Here’s to finishing up 2011 with a bang, and looking forward to 2012. We’ll see you all soon!
Love, Mean Creek
Hey Friends,
We’ll be playing Brooklyn, NY this Wednesday November 2 @ Knitting Factory w/ Colour Revolt, and Empires. Then heading to Washington DC the following night Thursday November 3 to play @ Red Palace w/ The Features! Should be a great couple shows, can’t wait to see you all again. We’ve also updated our facebook tour dates page with all upcoming shows for the rest of 2011 before we go into record our new album at the end of December. You can view the dates HERE. See y’all at the shows!
Love, Mean Creek
