We’ve been working off and on over the winter, getting our record together and writing some new songs.  And now that Bill is back in town, we’ve got some shows planned:

Thursday June 25th @ The Whistler, w/ Daniel Knox, 9 PM, 21+

Friday July 24th @ The Bottom Lounge, w/ Akron/Family & the Icy Demons, 8PM, 18+

Our record, Let’s Go to Baba’s, is coming out as both a 12″ LP and dowload in August, more details shortly.  The record is a culmination of over a year of recording and arranging, and is truly a labor of love. We still like it, and hope you will too.

You can preview some tracks here:

Middle Ages (mp3 download) - http://www.rcrdlbl.com/2009/01/29/exclusive_new_download_mittens_on_strings_la_middle_ages

Vacation (streaming video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWNYfWT4_4g

Flaming Pig (streaming video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjI4_hsgz3A

and other songs at www.myspace.com/mittensonstrings/

SEE YOU SOON!!

ii & mos

Free MP3 kingpins RCRDLBL posted a kindly review and exclusive download for our song “La Middle Ages”, from the new record Let’s Go to Baba’s.  Listen to it before the record drops this spring, right here:

http://www.rcrdlbl.com/2009/01/29/exclusive_new_download_mittens_on_strings_la_middle_ages

We’ve also got the video for “Vacation” from Let’s Go to Baba’s, courtesy of our own Davey Badger.  It’s the next in our series of videos for the record.  You can downolad the beast here, or ‘tube it yonder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWNYfWT4_4g

TANX!!

ii & mos

We are playing a show on Friday, January 30, at the Viaduct to test out our new lineup.  Please come welcome Bill Grubb into the MOS fold, and hear some new jams while you’re at it.

We’re working out some details for the release of our new record Let’s Go to Baba’s, which we hopefully have copies of by this spring.   In the meantime, selections from Baba’s are online at our myspace page:

www.myspace.com/mittensonstrings/

…and the Flaming Pig is here and here, with more to follow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjI4_hsgz3A

xoxo,

ii & mos

Twoeyes is back from doing sound/hype duties on the Girl Talk show.  Glad to be back.

Danah and Whitely are heading West.  We’ll miss Da White Albaum.

Thanks to all the kind words for our new record.  We’re looking for a home for Let’s Go to Baba’s, and need a minute to reorient with all the comings and goings.  Our friend Bill is going to be jamming with us soon, and hopefully we’ll have some new material for you shortly.

In the meantime, selections from Baba’s are online at our myspace page:

www.myspace.com/mittensonstrings/

… and we haven’t forgotten our video promise…  the Flaming Pig is here and here: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjI4_hsgz3A

xoxo,

ii & mos

Tuesday October 7, 2008 @ The Empty Bottle

Daniel Francis Doyle
Yellow Fever
Mittens on Strings
and Darren Keen (of The Show is the Rainbow)

If you came to any of our house shows on Washtenaw, you may remember DFD or Yellow Fever. Both are friends of ours from Austin - long story short, this show is a killer. Come and help us test out some new soungs!

http://www.myspace.com/danielfrancisdoyle
http://www.myspace.com/yellerfever
http://www.myspace.com/mittensonstrings
http://www.myspace.com/darrenkeenmusic

We hope to post more videos soon, as well as Let’s Go to Baba’s in some sort of Internet format. Stay tuned, chiefs.

In the meantime, you can preview songs from “Let’s Go to Baba’s” now on our myspace page:

www.myspace.com/mittensonstrings

and peep Mr. Preston’s video for “Flaming Pig” below from Youtube or download a high quality file on the Media page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjI4_hsgz3A

www.myspace.com/mittensonstrings

to accompany this, our own a.prestonia made a video for the song “Flaming Pig”. peep it below from Youtube or download a high quality file here. Downloads of videos from our last album can be found in the media section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjI4_hsgz3A

we are playing Friday, Septmerber 5th at the Hideout. also performing are Bellafea (from Chapel Hill, North Carolina) and Hotel Brotherhood (from Texas). it’s $8, baby!

stay tuned for more shows and more videos this september…..

This month, we’re putting the finishing touches on the record (we promise!), working on videos, and restocking the t-shirt supply… slim pickin’s these days.

Come out to our house (1512 N Washtenaw) on Saturday the 26th for a most excellent show:

Pyrite (http://www.myspace.com/pyrite312)
Yellow Fever (from Austin!) (http://www.myspace.com/yellerfever
)
U.S. Girls (http://www.myspace.com/usgirlsss)
Mittens on Strings

We have a show this week with our friends Eyesearsnose in celebration of the release of their record - not quite as epic a birthing period, but close. The record was recorded and mixed by our own Mr. Two Eyes. Come join in the festivities:

Thu June 5 - Chicago, IL @ The Beat Kitchen, with Eyesearsnose (record release) and Golden Birthday (9PM, 17+)

Fri June 27 - Hamtramck (Detroit), MI @ The Belmont, with Calvinball

Sat June 28 - Clevleand, OH @ Open Air in Market Square (2PM, All Ages)

Sat June 28 - Cleveland, OH @ Pat’s in the Flats, with the Dreadful Yawns, Uno Lady, and Central Plains (9PM)

Fri July 4 - Chicago, IL @ Newthingnow (All Day BBQ!), with Pillars and Tongues, Osmo Whitely, The I Ching Quartet, and more (2PM, All Ages)

Album-wise, we’re almost done mixing this monster. For reals!!

We’ve been hard at work on this new record - we begin mixing the first week of May! Come on out to some of these shows to hear some new songs:

Fri Apr 25 - Chicago, IL @ The Metro (FREE SHOW!), with Big Buildings & Adam FitzÂ

Thu May 1 - Chicago, IL @ Ronny’s, with Deastro & Nouns

Sat May 3 - Northfield, MN @ The Cave at Carleton College, with Will Garrison

Thu June 5 - Chicago, IL @ The Beat Kitchen, with Eyesearsnose (record release)

See you there!