Friday, July 18 - ArtBeat, 7 Hills Park, Davis Square in Somerville. We're on around 8 p.m. More details TBA. Free and all-ages!
August 29-31 - we can finally confirm that once again we are going back to seattle to play at PAX!! last year was INSANITY, so get ready for more of that this year. with the minibosses, mc chris, mc frontalot, jonathan coulton, the oneups, the darkest of the hillside thickets, and anamanaguchi. as well as 5 million other things to see and do. oh man. oh yeah.
Thursday, Sept 4 - Knitting Factory, front stage, 7021 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles. More details TBA. Doors at 8, tickets are $12 in advance, $15 day of show. All-ages!
please note: contact the clubs with questions or for advance tickets, we really do not have any more info than what is posted here. set times are subject to change, so contact the club beforehand if you want to double-check!
6/25/08
just in time for summer, new t-shirts! and not just any old t-shirts, bloody
keytar t-shirts. also, we have finally restocked many sizes in the LTMR and
parlez-vous designs. go check out our store to have a look!
6/24/08
an announcement from the duke, as well as a clarification of some messageboard
rumors...
"Freezepop is very excited to announce
our involvement with the new Guitar Hero : On Tour videogame for
the Nintendo DS. Our song “I am not your GameBoy” which originally
appeared on our album Fancy Ultra*Fresh seemed a perfect fit for
the DS platform so we amp’d it up a bit to play well in the game! Freezepop
has now released songs in 8 different games, from a variety of Harmonix
titles
to other games like DDR, FFR, and Downhill Domination. We are of course
truly the most excited to be involved with Harmonix and the amazing music
games that they create (we’re sure you can understand the bias
;-) ) but we are also interested in reaching new fans from around the
world and want to be open to many different opportunities as they arise.
In
terms of “selling out” to GH or any other game, we were kindly
paid, but have made no more money on GH:OT than we did for Amplitude
which was published by Sony way back in 2003. FWIW, we didn’t
get paid at all for our tracks in GH1, GH2, and RB1. For us, we just
love
being involved with videogames. Involving all of you fans and gamers
with our music and letting you interact with our songs in the new and
innovative ways that these games provide is extremely gratifying for
us.
I wrote "I am not your GameBoy" a long time ago. Back in those days I was using the QY-70 solely for both writing music and at our live concerts. People often joked that it looked like i was just playing a GameBoy on stage and not really playing any music, which i found to be pretty hysterical really. But then it occurred to me that my QY-70 might be kind of sad about that and be jealous that it was indeed not a GameBoy. So I decided to write a song from the QY-70's point of view and what it would say to the people who thought it was a GameBoy and just a toy, and not in fact a super handy fun electronic musique device. So there you have it! It's the QY-70's ode to world! it just wants you to know the real truth. will you accept it?!"
6/9/08
i know we really haven't had much in the way of "news" lately,
but rest assured, we're not just sitting around on our butts! we're busy
getting ready for some
touring this fall, we shot a video last weekend, maybe even getting ready to
write some new songs! and yesterday was our ninth birthday. anyway: stuff.
it's happening. we'll have more real updates soon. to tide you over, i've updated
our press page with some new interviews you can go check out, should you need
to kill some time at your temp job or something. heh heh.
5/25/08
from the duke:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140235806710
i'm selling my nord lead 1 synth and donating the proceeds to the american
cancer society. i've had this synth now for 8 years and it's been through
some amazing times with me. i've used this synth on tons of recordings
from splashdown to freezepop to symbion
project. i'm leaving all my presets in it for you to use and you'll probably
recognize
many from splashdown recordings. it's not red like most nord synths since i covered
most of it (top and sides)
with silver sticker paper, and i spraypainted the knobs silver. you can see which
knobs got the most wear
from the silver wearing off. it has a memory expansion card in it as well so
there's plenty of room for presets. the synth is pretty worn on the
outside, but works just fine, all the knobs, keys, and leds work and
it'll treat you nicely. as a bonus, i'm including an unopened copy
of splashdown's 5 song ep "redshift" ,
an autographed copy of the most recent symbion project album, and a signed limited
edition copy of
the latest freezepop cd fx3p. bonus! so i hope this synth rokks your world as
much as it has mine over the years and it's for a good cause so bid
high : )
cheers, kasson
5/7/08
great news, we won all three categories we were nominated for
in the WFNX/Boston
Phoenix Best Music Poll! (Best Act, Best Album, Best
Live Act). great big thanks to all of you who voted for us!
5/6/08
i am finally caught up on tour diaries!
4/21/08
i posted the midwestern tour diary. the big midwest tour, not the short upper-midwest
tour. that'll be coming along soon...
4/19/08
some news, by way of the duke: "we're proud to announce that you can now download
our song "super-sprøde" to
play in Rock Band for the 360/ps3! it was only available on an OXM cover disc
for awhile, but now you can get our song individually or as part of the Harmonix
pack of songs for the game. disregard the name screwup as this is the same song
you got to play in the ps2 game Amplitude back in the day, but we've updated
the parts to give it a fresshhh sheen of goodness for Rock Band. so have fun
with it and good luck on that bass part on expert!"
4/3/08
Our
latest album, Future Future Future Perfect, is going to be released
in Europe next week! It's another Ryko/Cordless release, and distributed via
ADA Global. How it's different from the US release: we swapped out "do you
like my Wang" for "get drunk with milk" and added two tracks: "i
think best in wire" and "smoke machine (storslagen mix)". we'll
have it available on our website as soon as we get some copies in!
also: crazy weekend of shows in madison, minneapolis, and duluth. our second mosh pit ever! what is up with that...
3/18/08
i posted a huge amount of new photos,
as well as the florida tour diary!
(midwest and texas tour diaries coming "soon" i promise...)
3/18/08
we are back from texas, and wow, it was insanity. and also immensely pleasant
summertimey goodness. oh i needed that. anyway, now i have an exciting announcement
to share with you: we've received several nominations this year's boston phoenix/wfnx
best music poll! we're nominated in the boston category for
- best local act
- best live act
- and best album.
wanna vote for us? here's how you can:
1) go to: http://thephoenix.com/BMP/Boston/
2) click on the categories we're nominated in (and any others you may want to
vote in, of course)
3) THIS IS IMPORTANT: when you place your vote, make sure you click the "submit" button!!
don't just skip ahead to the next page.
4) when you are done, click on the red "cast your ballot" button at
the bottom of the page. (they'll ask for your name/email address for verification
purposes, but you don't need to subscribe to any spam lists or anything)
and thank you for voting!!
3/5/08
oh boy, we have a new brainpower video! the awesome mega
64 kids directed it when we were on our west coast tour last year, and
it is finally ready to unleash upon the world! go have
a look, and also check out
the hi-larious behind-the-scenes
feature too!
2/29/08
happy leap year day everyone! just to give you all a heads-up, we have a ton
of t-shirt and hoodie sizes back in stock! go have a look
in the store!
i also just posted a link in the store to get "freezepop" lipstick
from camp cosmetics. it is the hottest hot-pink (and i'm an authority on
all things
hot pink).
2/22/08
our song "swimming pool" is going to be featured on showtime's "the
L word",
episode 509, airing the week of march 2!
2/20/08
we had an unexpectedly awesome tour. thank you all so very much. especially those
of you who drove thru snowstorms to come see us. we loved it. except for the
snowstorms. a huge shout-out to boy
in static, who worked double-duty and are insanely genius and also lovely
boys to travel with, and to jason, our tour manager/driver/merch guy/just about
everything else. let's do it again sometime.
1/27/08
new shirt design alert!! oh, exciting times! it's "brainpower" and
it glows in the dark! we have shirts and hoodies in a very wide variety
of sizes/styles.
go have a look! (also, we have new cherry lip balm to save your lips from wintery
badness.)
1/24/08
this month's issue of OXM
magazine features a covermount disc with three exclusive
songs to play in Rock Band, including an updated version of "super-sprøde"!
1/22/08
florida: thank you thank you for such a wonderful welcome! all three shows were
amazing. we were really happy, hope you all had a good time too...
1/4/08
a very happy new year to you all! and something neat-o to start the year off,
we are gametap's featured artist
of the month! more content will be posted
over the next couple of weeks, so check back later too...
12/16/07
i just posted another really cool set of photos from PAX!
12/14/07
two cool bits of iTunes news:
1) they just released their charts for all of 2007, and "Less Talk More Rokk" was
the #4 dance/electronic song! big big thanks to all of you who helped make
it happen!!
2) we got to do an artist playlist feature! we picked a bunch of songs that we
love and think you probably would too. some of the choices are electropoppy...
some aren't. go check it out at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMix?id=269874735
12/9/07
i finally posted our west coast tour diary, as well as some photos from our new
york show. looky here...
12/7/07
just a heads-up, we are rapidly approaching the shipping deadline if
you want to get your orders before christmas! make sure your orders
are placed by noon EST on friday, 12/14, and that should get stuff
there in time.
also: florida!! see you soon :-)
11/21/07
rock band! it's
out now! you can play our song "brainpower"! yay!
also, we have an announcement regarding our live setup. i will hand it over to the duke:
"hello freezepop friends and neighbors!
i don't often get a chance to address you all personally, but i am often excited to meet you all at shows when we're on tour.
which is why this note that i am writing to you is somewhat difficult. as many of you know, i spend my life outside of making freezepop music working on videogames. i have spent the last 7 years working at this amazing company, Harmonix, making games like FreQuency, Amplitude, Anti:Grav, Guitar Hero 1&2, and now Phase and RockBand.
Harmonix has been incredibly
supportive of Freezepop over the years, and many of you found out about
us through the great games that they
make. I started there just a simple composer writing electronic songs
for FreQuency, but had the chance to take on more responsibility
as the Audio Director there for many years, and in the past year as
a producer
getting to run a small team making the iPod game Phase, which
just got released a few weeks back. However, all these amazing opportunities
at
Harmonix have made it quite difficult over the past year to get time
off to go out and play shows for you guys. you may have noticed i was
not able to attend PAX or the other shows that weekend as i was back
at hmx putting the finishing touches on a game. as the upcoming year
for me is going to be even more exciting and arduous at hmx, it's going
to keep me from heading out on the road with Liz and Sean, as they
are just as excited to get out and play shows and support our latest
album.
fret not though, i'll be playing shows here and there, and of course
this will give me more opportunities to stay holed up in my studio
making blippy beats for all of you! in the meantime we'd like you to
officially
meet Crème Brulée and Seth Damascus-Kennedy, who will be taking over
my duties at the various shows that i can't be at. liz and sean will
of
course be ready to put on the super fun shows that you all help make
them be, so do come out and get your dance on. and do look for freezepop
to be involved in many amazing videogames to come...
cheers!
-the duke"
so, to recap:
don't freak out if we play a show and the duke isn't there, he is still
very much in the band and very involved in the songwriting end of things.
but, as he starts on a humongous new project that will prevent him
from leaving town for extended periods of time, sean and i didn't want
to have that prevent us from playing shows for y'all. so we have recruited
some very capable members of the freezepop extended family to help
us out on the occasions when the duke can't join us (or to create
some extra chaos even when the duke can join us). and while seth damascus-kennedy
and crème brulée are our main go-to guys, i've added a new
section to our website so you can get to know all of the various recurring
live characters a bit better...
11/18/07
oh hey! i forgot to mention something pretty exciting that happened while we
were on tour: the release of phase,
a spiffy new ipod game that features "pop music is not a crime," as
well as songs by our awesome pals kodomo, inter:sect, bang camaro, dealership,
and
universal hall pass.
11/16/07
we are back from tour! we had some adventures, some misadventures,
and the qy-70 had a near-death experience! many thanks to everyone
who came to see us! tour
diary coming soon...
and also: the limited editions are finally in!! this is exciting news!
10/25/07
we have new pins! they are cute! go have
a look! and a heads-up: orders received after sunday, oct. 28, will
not be shipped until we return from our tour in mid-november.
10/10/07
we finally got with the program and made ourselves a facebook
group. if you're one of those crazy facebook kids, go join up!
10/9/07
big updates! i posted a bunch of new photos along
with the
seattle/portland tour diary! and i put up a bunch of new album
reviews, if you care about that kind
of thing too...