Hey there! We're in the studio right now finishing off our record. As it sits right now we have 11 finished songs, and were doing another 5. Whats the point of doing anything, unless your going to do it as best and thorough as possible? That's what we always say (well, that's what were saying from now on anyway...)
Speaking of doing things as best and thorough as possible...we are embarking on our most ambitious tour to date later this summer. It will see us make our first excursion through the USA hitting some of the great American cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia etc. We are insanely stoked!!!!!!! Basically our goal as a band has always been to just tour as much as humanly possible. The way I always saw it is, releasing records, doing photoshoots, etc etc the end result is always being able to play live, and this tour is a mother fuckin whopper!!
Anyways, back to recording...this record is sounding awesome. Now I know that anyone recording would say "our record is sounding so rad" or whatever...but honestly I'm constantly in kind of a weird state of "holy shit!". It's all over the place. No one involved with it, us in the band, our producer or anyone else has been able to really pin it down to one or two words. It's got a bit of the old ska and reggae sound to it, but it's got a lot of just old school blues and motown, with bits of punk, soul, pop, indie rock, hip hop etc etc! I'm rambling at this point...I can't wait for people to hear it so it can speak for itself. We have two songs up right now on our myspace not sure if they will make the final cut of the record but you can listen to em here.
The dates from our flyer above...
I hope this didn't bore you,
Jesse
Hey there, thanks for stoppin by... We set up this blog in order to keep those interested up to date with the lastest going on in all things Mean Tangerine. We're hoping this is easier than reading Facebook notes, or worse Myspace blogs. We're going to be touring heavily in the upcoming months and wanted a place to post our ramblings from the road and our insightful and hilarious upcoming video blogs. We haven't made any yet, but I'll assume when we do they will be both those things....
Anyways as for going ons...Other than the infamous Yellow Snow Tour...we took it relatively easy this passed winter, in order to smoothly transition bass players and finish writing our new record. Our final recording sessions are at the end of this month here and we'll combine those with the 9 songs we did in the fall, so we'll have 15 to choose from in total and choose the best maybe 12? (The other we'll maybe release for free online or something?)
And yes there are a lot of tour dates comin! We're going on our most ambitious and ballsy excursion yet. We're playing a handful of dates in our old stomping grounds (Ontario, Quebec) and then going to places that well, chances are if you're reading this blog, you're not from, cuz majority of places we're playing will be virgin territory for us! Wish us luck from home though? Anyways stay tuned!!!
Mean T
