Holy shnikes, have we been busy folk.  Played several shows in the last couple months, wrote some songs, and last week I went in and put down 17 demos so that we could start working on an album.  Suffice it to say that they won’t all make it, but we have plans for most of them, spaced across a few releases.

I also spent an entire day hand-screening the covers of our KTRU EP, a collection of four songs that we played live on the air of Rice University’s most excellent 91.7 FM KTRU.  My fantastic brother David Brubaker mastered these tracks so’s that they’ll sound good next to all of those songs already in your iTunes playlist.  The covers are double-screened with brown and glow-in-the-dark blue ink, and the EP is hand-numbered to 98 copies.  You can pick up the EP from us personally for $5 or buy the tracks over at http://prairiecadets.bandcamp.com for $3.  Heck, you can even buy the physical copy of it there and I’ll mail it to you with a handwritten thank you note.

We don’t have any shows lined up at the moment because we’re trying out a new drummer this week.  Adam and I are pretty excited, to say the least.

You can have a listen to a few of the new songs/demos over at our Virb [www.virb.com/prairiecadets].  Marble Heart was recorded in my kitchen on a few quick and scrappy takes, with half a bottle of merlot on New Year’s Eve.  The others were done in two sessions with Taylor Lee of The Literary Greats / Finnegan.  Like I said, I went in last week and put down 17 demos, just guitar and vocals, to have foundations of all of our songs with which we could work.  Go listen, and let us know what you think.

See you soon.  Thanks for all the support.

- Marc