we got a new split tape out NOW. with our good friends PUTTING OUT. 3 songs from us. 4 songs from them. cassette with download and 4ft x 6ft poster for your angry teenage bedroom. go buy it here!! sophomoreloungerecords.com check all this sweet stuff out!!   
  
we got a handfull of new songs for a split release that will be out shortly. they sound great. we are super excited. recorded with our good friend dusty v at his house in iowa. a few pictures here. new full length is in the works. in the hard at works.     we just got back from a nice little weekend of shows with animal city. boy was it fun. we took hot tubs in bath tubs. made some demos. skateboarded. puked. shot fire works. ate pizzas. got awkward. went swimming. had girl talk. lurked around. and played to one bartender at a sports bar in wisconsin that sal has been going to since he was a baby. they ran the vocals through every tv in the place. then we got attacked by bees. check it all out in the pictures. VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO and more video HERE
hey dudeys. we are on tour with our (G)(B)(B)FF's STATE CHAMPION.  check the dates (OC theme song) merry x-men. here's a christmas album we recorded. givingup.castlemorbius.com/christmas.html We are currently holed up in iowa. it just snowed. we just beat Mario 3. we turned the house into a tetris recovery clinic. have you ever heard music type 3 on tetris 1. it's so chill. There's a pretty rad review of Gthrowing Up over here. maybe go take a peek.  well, giving up is now more than just skin deep. a band to the blood! it's been a long time coming. GIVING UP's debut full length release "Gthrowing Up" is officially out on sophomore lounge records. and it is available for purchase HERE. we are super totally excited about it. there are mp3's from it up in our mp3 section. also check out the goodies that come with it. 
ppppppllllleeeeeaaaaaasssssseeeeee hey babes. you should grab a download of the e.p. we got. 6 songs. up for you for free at http://givingup.castlemorbius.com/media/jittersmp3.zip 
so its been a hot sec since we got back from tour. im pretty sure the consensus is that we all wish we were still at it. all and all it went well. cryin, fightin, cussin, getting dumped, and falling in love the whole way. in columbus some guy was like, "look at this band making their girlfriends carry in their equitment." to which jenny responded, "fuck you dude." to which said dude's girlfriend chimed in, "she's probably in the fucking band you pig." we met a ton of solid dudes. a bunch of sweet hearts helping us out, putting us up. Liz's house, Joel's DAD, Steffano + family, Levon, Kent, Debbie and Garry, Chuck and Jannis, Chris and Katy, Rob, Christopher and Robin, Isabelle, Korey and Maggy, Franky and family to name a few. Heavy thanks for sure. what now what now. we got a bunch of left over shirts from tour. we also got a new 6 song ep on CD. if you're interested in nabbing some of that stuff drop us a line at iamasnake (at) hotmail (at) com . we got back and played a home show in chicago. sal cassato played drums for us. sal cassatto played nothing but break downs the entire time. we'll put a video up or something soon i guess. oh and the vinyls almost done. oh yeah theres new tracks up in the mp3 section. two from that 6 songer i was talking about. and check the tour pictures. and. so we are a few shows in to the winter 09 STATE CHAMP / GIVING UP TOUR. no catastrophes yet. we've had some people feign enthusiasm. one kid kind of liked us i think at one of the shows. alright alright already. so we don't have a release date for the record yet. but that shit is FINISHED. well kind of. i mean. jamie thompson the wiz kid is mastering it right now. like right now. well maybe not right now. i mean i think he might be writing a book report or kissing a girl or trying to fight somebody like RIGHT now. but you know presently. and then after that the tracks are being shipped out to some dudes who know how to make a pancake of vinyl plastic have sounds come out of it and its good to go. the art work is totally done thanks to our friend and cohort MAXFIELD HEGEDUS. all the photos look totally sick. as far as internet stuff we got a myspace now thats not a complete mess myspace.com/givingupmyspace and we got some videos out there in cyberspace. one video of us playing police academy one live, and an ASBD cover we played at the 2008 BEEBSFEST. what a shit show that was. check them out HERE kate farstad and jamie thompson are the sickest drummers ever. i mean. you know. like joey jordison is pretty cool but he uses like 2 bass drums or something. thats lame. kate and jamie got our girly folk record sounding like Astro Creep 2000. fucking awsome. mikie ran off to europe because child support and student loans kicked in. he's sneaking back into the u.s. soon enough hopefully to throw a record release party (tour????) jenny's got stars in her eyes. seans probably running from cops or bill collectors. oh, and the site looks different now. duh. giving up has been recording this past month with the amazing jamie stepp of all save silence recordings. we have somewhere from 10 to 15 songs that are sounding great and almost at recording completion. we gutted the living room at 202 east sesame street in iowa, borrowed jenny's mom's guitars, bought some frozen pizzas, and bled our fingers/ lost our voices. we are currently outsourcing percussion to our best friends jamie thompson, and kate farstad. the sophomore lounge is drooling all over the place thinking about a release date. the sophomore lounge has it's webstore up and running. there's merch/ music from total geniuses all over the place over there. and new stuff coming in all the time. you should visit the store soon if not right now. (http://sophomoreloungerecords.com) giving up came to realization in the summer of 2006. the elements that led to this fruitition were a sweaty non air conditioned house, a brand new, of-age identification card, three boxes of inherited country western tapes/ records, three guitars, a small reed organ, one harmonica, a boombox/ tape recorder, a bad case of the chicken pox, and a pile of lyrics intended for the unrealized thrash-metal band "mischa barton" |
