i spent most of the day recording new songs for my record which i think will be called "tell me something, honey." i was hoping for a really devastating sad song for the disc, but i keep coming up with bitter-sweet rockers. nevertheless, unless i get a killer flash of inspiration, i think i have the final track line-up, and now i just need to finish the final mixes of everything. i'm still working towards a late may / early june release, but a lot of that will depend on how quickly i can get it up on eMusic and iTunes once the mixes are done. i hope to get a new set of near-field monitors this weekend (and a new guitar!!!) so once that happens, i'll start on the final mixes and start finishing up the art work.

speaking of iTunes and eMusic and artwork, the new sputnik sweetheart EP will be up for digital distribution on may 8th (the same date as our next gig!). i'm figuring out how to post images to the blog right now. hopefully the awesome artwork by sarah sloboda will show up below. the wysiwyg editor for the blog is broken, so i'm editing everything in raw html...

in further excitingness, i have a solo gig tomorrow (or later today technically...) at jitter's in southington ct. i've actually practiced and prepared a set list for once, so everyone should come down. as i get closer to the release date i'm going to be stepping up the amount of solo shows i do. also, for those of you in the ct area, on saturday they'll be giving away a cd with an old track of mine "the taste of blood" (listen to it to the left.) as part of an anti-war thing, and they'll be showing the video on the uconn campus. if you're nearby, go down and check it out. in the meantime, i'm going to bed!