American Boner Invitational

saturday night was the first ever american boner invitational at krissy's house. mike o'brien played mike o'brien, fuck explorer played to a shockingly and possibly undeservedly good response, and magnificent beast played their best set yet-- i really am looking forward to their EP. slothbear was rowdy and ruff. cheers erupted throughout the agathos abode, and a certain mom was heard to say, "i love slothbear and the drummer looks like christian slater."

the day before that, the tunes-before-poon faction of slothbear spent the day with josh bonati of Aa fame in brooklyn, as he mastered qids. it's essentially finished and will probably come out via da web in a week or so, with physical copies to be available at upcoming shows. here's the tracklist:

1. no dialogue
2. white christmas
3. pa kids
4. killed by cars
5. don't taunt a tiger
6. olio
7. djam
8. the exceptional bastards
9. jose
10. fluoxetine
11. spacey
12. little qid
13. the words will come

clockin in at a little under 62 minutes. fuck da world

wide berth

~*`a special thanks to all the generous, earnest and upstanding promoters, organizers, artists and bloggers who have been nothing but supportive these past several weeks. soon enough, the fruits of your labor rise, and the blood will be on your hands`*~

MIKE WATT LIKES US

http://www.twfps.com/pages/show.php?sid=224

seminal indie rock bassist and close confidant of derek abdekalimi mike watt played "don't taunt a tiger" on his radio show in san pedro the other day. this makes brother mike the most famous person in the world who currently likes slothbear, edging out craig finn of the hold steady.

contemplating starting a petition for the rerecording of fluoxetine

all the song intros on the slothbear ep are just a tribute to "one more chance"

Pod Fodder 58 = Don't Taunt a Tiger

so lately whenever i've done a vanity search for slothbear this pod fodder 58 business comes up fairly often, and the youtube clip above makes it pretty obvious that don't taunt a tiger has been mislabeled as such by quite a few people. from what i gather, it originates from burning world, a pretty sick blog who have been very kind to slothbear over the year(s). we made it on to the 58th installment of their "pod fodder" playlist series, and as a result, people have been mistaking it for the title of the song, and further compounding this labeling problem in writing it "sloth bear" as two words. ultimately i think it's pretty awesome and lucky to see the song be enjoyed by lots of people, and don't care what people call it so long as they hear it.

however, i'd also love it if these people heard our other songs, and wonder if the chances of this are hurt by the mislabeling. for that reason alone, and with the admitted realization that this blog post will likely not reach many of the people jammin to "pod fodder 58" by sloth bear, i'd like to go on spotblog record in saying that the song is called "don't taunt a tiger," that it was released with an equally ear-worthy song called "killed by cars," and that both these tracks will be on our record called Qids, which will eventually come out one of these days...

c