The Adventures of You Me & Iowa
New album out now!
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Check out samples from the album on our music page.
Music Video Premiere
Music video for "Make Your Home (Smell Delicious)" premiering on Artistdirect.com.
Directed by Matthew Knudsen, the video is one six minute long shot with no camera tricks or special effects.
It took an immense crew of about 60 people to pull this one off. We're very proud of it.
CD Release Show Pictures!
It was an amazing night.
Check out the pictures from our CD release show as they come in!
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If you want to see an HD music video like no other, and you've got a fast enough computer, you can check out our new music video on Vimeo.com. It just got featured on the Staff Picks and the HD videos page!
You can now catch our music video for "Make Your Home (Smell Delicious)" on television in July if you have DirecTV.
Tune in to Havoc Television on DirecTV channel 101 at midnight west-coast time (3AM east coast time). The video will play if it gets enough votes-- you can vote for it with your cell phone. Just text V 4878 to the phone number 55101. Votes cost 49 cents, so don't go too crazy.
Just go to havoctv.com/101 for more information about the show.
-y m i
Our music video for "Make Your Home (Smell Delicious)" is having its world premiere RIGHT NOW at artistdirect.com.
Check it out:
Hey guys,
We're sorry to announce that we've had to cancel our show at All-Star Lanes in Echo Park on the 19th, because of a family emergency.
But...
The good news is we're playing another show at the same venue 10 days later! Who would have thought.
It's a free show at the All-Star Lanes bowling alley in Echo Park with a ton of other bands, and it's being put on by the Glassell Park Kickballers (which we've been known to join from time to time). Actually, ironically, my huge bruise from the last kickball game hasn't faded yet.
Other bands playing the night:
Le Switch, The Henry Clay People, I Make This Sound, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, Tandemoro, Les Blanks, The Hectors, The Voyeurs, Swim Party, Marvelous Toy, The Damselles & The TC4, and Nathan Wasilewski
-ryan
To celebrate our show this Friday, the 13th at The Phoenix in Petaluma (and an in store performance at The Last Music Store in Santa Rosa earlier that day), I've made up a list of my top 3 superstitions about Friday the 13th in Northern California.
3. Good luck: Knocking on the wood of a redwood tree. Bad luck: knocking down a redwood tree with incessant good luck knocking.
2. Good luck: walking in the rain. Bad luck: remembering how actual weather didn't use to bother you until Los Angeles spoiled you.
1. Superstitious repetition: If you say "Hella" thirteen times in a row, Schwarzenegger will punch you in your face.
Come hang out with us if you're up in Petaluma this Friday! It's bad luck if you don't...
To make sure you get into the CD release show on Saturday, May 24th, get tickets ahead of time on Ticketweb.
Here's the link:
Check out Vol. 96 of Seattle, Washington's KEXP Podcast to hear the new YM&I track, Tommy Hall.
KEXP PODCAST VOL. 96: "Don't Know Much About History"
Thanks so much to everybody who pre-ordered our album early! Our first 100 pre-orders have gotten their digital copies of the album, and the feedback has been amazing!
For those of you who didn't make it in the first 100, don't worry. All orders will get their CD in the mail around May 6th.
And remember guys, the CD release show is May 24th. We'll see you there.
We've started taking pre-orders for the new album, "The Adventures of You Me & Iowa", RIGHT NOW!
The album won't be released until May 6th, but if you're one of the first 100 people to pre-order the album, the album will be sent out before the release date, and you'll also receive an email within a couple of days with a digital copy of the album in high-quality mp3 files.
The link to pre-order the album right now is:
http://youmeandiowa.bigcartel.com/product/the-adventures-of-you-me-iowa
Save the date. May 24th at Spaceland in Los Angeles.
We're having our release show for our new album, The Adventures of You Me & Iowa.
So I have to tell you a bit about what happened to us last Saturday:
We were invited to play an acoustic set at a mansion party in the valley a couple days earlier. Of course, we're not normally an acoustic band by any means, so the next few days were a mad scramble to "jazz-ify" our songs. However, I was really pleased with how it turned out, as chilled-out versions of Dress The Stage, Tommy Hall, The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful, Goldfish, and Valhalla are actually quite awesome to hear.
SHOW THIS FRIDAY (The 28th)
at the University of Southern California
Fisher Gallery
823 Exposition Boulevard, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
Free all ages show, open to the public. With Scissors For Lefty.
Big show at Spaceland on Friday, March 14th!
If you'd like to be on the discount ticket guestlist, send us an email with your name! Our email is in the contact section.
Big news...
This is rad. If you get a chance to check out the Murakami exhibit at MOCA in Los Angeles, you should definitely go. Or come along to our free show there Saturday night. It's part of an event called Eye Candy, and it's a teen night where people can exhibit their art, make art, and generally get involved in the art world. The event is for teens 15-19, but I'm sure people of all ages can come and check out the show.
Check out MOCA's website for more details.
thank you to everybody who has joined us on our adventure. this is for you:
secret free show tonight. tuesday, january 15th. at Silverlake Lounge.
21+
click here
Man, last weekend's Spaceland show was awesome. There are certain times when you can just feel the energy in the air, built up by all the bands present and culminating in a rock-out that left my neck sore for days after. But it's a good hurt. A satisfying memory. A great show.
Thanks so much to Signal Hill, Thailand, and Calamity Magnet for amazing performances, and we were honored to be a part of Calamity Magnet's first show!
But without a skip or a breather, we're off to Orange County this Saturday (the 12th) to play The Galaxy Theatre. Here are the deets:
Saturday, Jan 12 2008
8:00 PM @ The Galaxy Theater
3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, California USA
With Porterville, The Randies, Blush, and Mermer
price: $10
Send us an email if you want to reserve tickets:
Hey Adventurers,
I wish I could show you a preview of the album art for The Adventures of You Me & Iowa, because it's turning out freaking fantastic, but I'm afraid it's still secret and under wraps.
SHOWS IN THE NEW YEAR
I'm pleased to announce our first show of the new year is going to be on Friday, January 4th at Spaceland, in Silverlake, with Thailand and Calamity Magnet (featuring Sara Radle of The Rentals).
Mark'a da calendars.
Have a wonderful holiday season!
-you me & iowa
We'd be honored if you'd join us on Sunday, Dec 2nd for our FREE show at Spaceland, in Silverlake. It happens to coincide with Tony's birthday, so it's an extra special night for us.
Doors at 8:30. 21+
With special guests:
Loverlee
Oso
Summer Darling
Wow.
So the past week has been crazy. Sorting through hundreds of song
titles that had been submitted was no easy task. But we finally
narrowed it down to our one winner, and our top 5 honorable mentions.
The Winner:
VALHALLA
Honorable Mentions:
India
I Land On Islands
4-2-4
Stegosaurus
Made From Panthers, Cause It's How We Do
Prizes will be sent out shortly, including stickers and CD singles
for our honorable mention submitters. Thanks to everybody who
submitted. It's so amazing to hear what the song means to different people!
The new song title is up on our myspace and purevolume pages.
Coming soon: The first single off "The Adventures of You Me & Iowa".
-you me & iowa
We're giving away free You Me & Iowa stickers for a limited time!
If you live in the US, and want a free sticker, head on over to our MERCH page to get one mailed to you!
Pretty freaking easy.
We're only giving out 200, so get yours fast!
-you me & iowa
So we've been diligently rehearsing our Halloween set, and I do have to say, it probably contains our most complex cover song yet. Well worth the effort, I say.
Come in costume!
The Joint - October 31st, 2007
8PM. We go on at 8:30. Party all night. 21+
Day after Halloween show!
The Echo - November 1st, 2007
9PM. For all you who missed it (or are embarrassed about your costumes. It's okay. We understand.)
The Adventures of You Me & Iowa is coming soon! Before it's released, WE NEED YOUR HELP.
This is your assignment, should you choose to accept it: One track from the forthcoming record is still unnamed. We've posted the untitled song on our myspace page. Listen to it. Read the lyrics if you'd like. NAME THE SONG. The winner will get his or her name in the album credits, a free CD, a free t-shirt, our eternal gratitude and best of all, YOUR IDEA will forever be in print on a You Me & Iowa album!
Send your ideas to us with the heading: "CONTEST". Please message us your ideas, don't leave them as comments. Enter as many song titles as you'd like. The contest will last until we find the winning song title.
"Good luck, and may The Force be with you."
We are temporarily out of Men's Large Slate shirts... Apparently there were a bunch of big dudes at our last show that snatched up the rest of them. So all big dudes, you're gonna have to settle for Blue or Creme for the time being until we get some more in.
Billboard Mobile Beat reviewer Lou de la Rosa wrote a great review of our show at Safari Sam's last week. Go check it out here:
http://billboard.blogs.com/mobile_beat/2007/08/you-me-iowa-saf.html
Check it. We've got some new shows coming your way (if your way happens to be where we're playing our upcoming shows!)
- Friday August 24th, 2007
Safari Sam's, Hollywood, CA
ALL AGES!
- Friday August 31st, 2007
Spaceland, Silverlake, CA 90026
21+
- Saturday September 8th, 2007
The Phoenix, Petaluma, CA 94952
ALL AGES!
- Friday September 28th, 2007
The Cat Club, West Hollywood, CA 90069
A gaggle of newly-recorded songs are now on their way to the east coast, where they will get their hair cut, faces shaved, and an overall spit-shine. Stay tuned.
We've got some polaroids of our last couple days in the studio, but instead of being computerized... they are, in fact, analog. I mean they're right here, sitting on a table. I wish I could show you all, but I tried to shove them into the computer but it didn't quite work. Maybe we'll invest in some sort of "Scanner", which I hear can help with situations like these.
