We’re starting to get our summer schedule together with a new show at Shippen Manor, up in Oxford, NJ (Warren County) on Sunday, June 24th from 6-8pm.  This place is a real treat.  It’s an outdoor, festival-style-with-a-picnic kind of gig.  Bring your own lawn chairs and food.  Best of all, it’s free!

 Together [4:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’re feeling the sun beating on our caves and have been gradually emerging from hibernation. This website has become something of a diary of our progress and a place we can post some things we’re working on. This is a rough track of Matt’s song Together, which we recorded last month and have been trying to add some backing vocals and bass to. While I’m working out some of the technical difficulties with my digital recording setup at home, here’s a preview… It’s one of my favorite of Matt’s tunes, and I think it came out quite well. I could go on for hours about how equally great and awful Garageband is, but I’ll spare you my rant. Anyway, let us know what you think!

We just added a great show at the end of April to our calendar. We’re playing with Smokehouse Bluegrass Band at The Moose in Doylestown. This is a free show!

Thanks to everyone who came out to Lambertville/New Hope for the anti-war demonstration this past Sunday. It was like deja vous from two years previous, although the politics are getting better, and the people are getting angrier (which is good).

In case some of you don’t know, I’m a “staff reporter” for Juxtaviews.com.  My buddy, Kevin Fricovsky started Juxtaviews as a blog in August 2006, and I have been helping him with it since around October 2006.  Every Wednesday we publish an interview with someone who is doing something interesting on the internets.  We also put out a round-up of the coolest links we find each week.  This week, I got to interview Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music Group.  He’s got some very progressive views on the future of the music industry. Check it out!

After moving to Lambertville, NJ from South Orange, I wanted to find local musicians to play with. I was advised by friend and former Smoove member, Gregg Weiss to record the songs I had written and put them out there to see if I could find other musicians with similar tastes. Well, I ended up producing a whole 13-song album, with lots of help from my friends. Upon finishing in the summer of 2004, I dropped off a copy to the Fireside Tea House. Next thing I knew, I was in the audience at a Fireside performance, as Matt Pillischer sang Frame of Mind Rag. Shortly after, High Hearts were formed. (Thanks, Gregg!)

Friend and Family (and the FBI),

Seriously, do you ever want to get your records from the Freedom of Info Act to see what kind of crap those bastards have on you?

 No Moon Tonight [4:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s the second installment of the Lost Capa Tapes. We had some difficulty recording this song recently. My son was asleep upstairs and I didn’t want to wake him up, but the result was that I held back a little too much, and the vocals lacked feeling. I’ve also considered singing this one lower, in more of a Johnny Cash range, so maybe I’ll experiment with that next.

 I Wanna Sing That Rock and Roll [3:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is the first installment in a segment of many podcasts.  Usually we do this song differently, but you never know what the spur of the moment will spawn.  I was happy to get not one, but two solo opportunities here.  Woohoo!  This track is from “The Lost Capa Tapes,” recorded by Jerry Adair one night on a whim.  Jerry plays upright bass in a great Bluegrass band called Ramapo Ridge.  Thanks, Jerry!  Keep on pickin’.

We’re playing Indie Music Night on March 10! Indie Music Night is monthly evening (a Saturday 6.15pm-9.30pm) of PREMIUM quality singer/songwriters and bands which takes place in the intimate Griggstown Pavilion in Princeton. Admission is free, and tasty home-baked treats and coffee are $1.