For those of you Rock Band people out there, head over to the Rock Band Network store and download our song, "Howling At Summer".  Let us know how fun it is to play!  This is our first song up on the Rock Band store, which is exciting for an entirely self-recorded, self-produced track.  

The very last interview with You Me and Iowa is going live on television in the next few days.  The show is called Visual Crunch, airing on the MYX network, and Episode 7 of the show features YM&I and the music video for Make Your Home (Smell Delicious).


Here are the showtimes:

March 4, Thursday at 8PM PT/ 11PM ET
March 5, Friday at 5:30PM PT/ 8:30PM ET and 9PM PT/ midnight ET
March 6, Saturday at 8PM PT/ 11PM ET
March 8, Monday at noon PT/ 3PM ET

MYX is available on:

Comcast (in San Francisco Bay Area) – Channel 368
DirecTV (in United States) – Channel 2067
Cox (in Orange County, California) – Channel 479
Cox (in Northern part of Virginia) – Channel 464
RCN (in NYC, Wash. D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston) – Channel 474
MCV (in Guam) – Channel 16


A sneak preview video is viewable here:
http://myx.tv/video/919/preview---visual-crunch-episode-seven

The show's website:
http://visualcrunch.myx.tv

Hope you like it!

-ryan

The title track of our new album, "Aquarium", is the number 81 top song of 2009, as chosen by veteran Los Angeles music journalist Kevin Bronson on his site Buzzbands.LA.  Check out the rest of the playlist here.

We've released our new album, Aquarium, online today!  You can download it for free right here:

http://www.youmeandiowa.com/aquarium

We're trying an experiment.  Let's see how much we can spread this around!  Here's the title track off of our new album, Aquarium. 

http://bit.ly/185AIx

Dear Friends,

The time has come for us to say goodbye. You Me & Iowa will officially dissolve after our final performance at Spaceland on October 3, 2009.

We have enjoyed six wonderful years of shared experience with you, our faithful listeners, and we feel we’ve reached a point where we need to explore new musical territory that cannot be achieved as the ensemble, You Me & Iowa.

All we can say is, thank you all so much for your love, support and enthusiasm over the years. We’ve had the time of our lives writing, traveling and performing our songs together, fueled by the energy of our friends and fans. The band is parting ways on very good terms. We are all close friends and still look forward to playing music together in some form or another.

Aquarium, You Me & Iowa’s final release, will be released at our final show, and will also be digitally available for free on our website, www.youmeandiowa.com, through our label, Scrimshaw Jazz, (www.scrimshawjazz.com), and eventually through other online distributors like iTunes. The album is a collection of ten songs we wrote and performed over the past two years that display a much wider musical range than anything we’ve released to date. In the true independent spirit, Aquarium was completely self-recorded, mixed and produced.

We will keep in touch with you all to let you know about our future musical endeavors. If you are in the Los Angeles area, please join us for our swan song party at Spaceland, on October 3. It will be your last chance to see You Me & Iowa live. Ever. It promises to be a night to remember.

Thank you all, again.

Sincerely,

You Me & Iowa
Tony Benedetti
Andrew Carroll
Tizoc Estrada
Ryan Julio
Ryan Ross

Hey guys,

We've had to cancel the Santa Barbara and Hermosa beach shows on the 12th and the 13th.  We apologize profusely, and please stay tuned for new show info.

We decided to record a cover of "Wild Things", made famous by The Troggs, in a spare day right after getting back from our West Coast tour.  Sign up for free on our website to download it -- it's on our Freebies page.

Go wish our bassist Ryan Julio a birthday wish or two!  He does enjoy fine alcohols and cheeses, as evidenced on his blog:  http://www.youmeandiowa.com/fermentationmastication.

... we are emerging briefly from our hardcore writing and recording mode for a breath of fresh air.  We have been hard at work finishing writing the last batch of songs for the new album, and are tweaking and fine tuning sounds for our demo versions of them.  We recently moved into a new studio with some better recording capabilities, and are now hard at work recording our newest stuff.

But as a breath of fresh air from all that studio stuff, we're emerging out of our cave to play a July 9th show at The Hotel Cafe with our good friends The Damselles (and the TC4).  So come on out around 9PM, and enjoy some live music and drinks.  It's also my birthday that night, so plan on a rowdy show.  

-RR