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The wonderful mp3 blog Music Induced Euphoria posted a little blurb about the pending release of Sandusky Sunset - read it here.

Today I'm busy folding and gluing cassette sleeves. This is what they look like:

They are cuter than me.

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The b-side to our new single has been featured on the Noise Pop New Music Podcast. Click here for that.

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We posted the b-side of our new single on the MySpace today - its a tune we've been playing live for a couple months called "Why Do You Lie To Me".

The single drops officially on June 23. We'll have them for sale before then, at the El Rio in San Francisco on June 11. The cassettes are rather pretty, with nicely screened sleeves, a button, and a free digital download of course.

Earlier this evening we had our first full rehearsal with our new drummer John. It was awesome! He's pretty great - a very different drummer than Ryan, with a lighter touch, and we had a good time digging into some new material. You've got plenty of chances to see John at any number of upcoming shows through September. MySpace also has those dates, which we posted as well. Post, post, post. That's all we live for? gah.

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So we're about to change things up a little in the world of Grand Lake.

A large factor in the formation of our band was our amazing drummer, Mr. Ryan Christopher Parks, AKA B. Hamiliton. Ryan is an excellent musician, and like many excellent musicians, has a lot of projects going on. Its been decided that for everybody's long-term happiness, Ryan will be leaving Grand Lake this month. In fact, Ryan's last show (stop crying you babies) will be this upcoming Tuesday evening at the Knockout.

Come see Ryan's last show with Grand Lake - its the last time you'll ever get to see him scream at me in the middle of Sandusky Sunset (at least from behind the kit).



Ryan Parks - RIP bro. Grand Lake will miss you.

Replacing Mr. Parks on the drums will be difficult, however, our good friend Mr. John William Pomeroy will most certainly be up to the task. Here is a picture of him:



Isn't he lovely in his Amoeba Music shirt? We think so. John is an amazing musician who also fronts his own band called the Cerfs. Jameson and I have been Cerfs fans for years. Check out their MySpace here.

John's first show with Grand Lake will be at the Starry Plough in Berkeley on June 5th, with our very good friends Sister Grizzy. Hope to see you at that one too.

Our cassette is officially dropping on June 23rd, although I should expect you'll see it at our shows a bit before then.

Onwards and upwards!

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Man its been a little hectic in our neck of the woods. We've been working on finishing our cassette single (all the little annoying details, the packaging, the internet stuffs, etc), working on new tunes, and booking shows and stuff. Sometimes all this stuff drives me a little crazy, and its so nice outside, and I just want to sit beneath a tree, with my feet in some kind of water, and read the new Roberto Bolano novel I just picked up at Moe's. Eh bien.

Today, Hippies Are Dead posted some videos of some new tunes, two of which will be on our cassette single (out in a few weeks I think). Read the post here. I posted my two faves from that show, Sandusky Sunset and Carapoforo, below.

See you at the ATA Friday, or at Pehrspace on Saturday (our first set in Los Angeles!).
'Sandusky Sunset'

'Carapoforo'

Wednesday night we're playing an early set at the Knockout in SF - our last Bay Area set until June. $5 gets you in - be there around 8pm to catch Grand Lake.

For the rest of April and May we'll be busy working on our next release, a cassette single that drops digitally in June, and will be available at shows and select record shops just before that. We're also working on new music videos, and short films, some of which we'll be showing at a screening on May 15 at the ATA in SF. See above poster for deets.

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We've been busy working on new songs to record and play live. Two new songs will definitely be released as a cassette single and digital download in June (perhaps the cassette may appear earlier). Those songs are called "Sandusky Sunset" and "Why Do You Lie To Me?". Alternate titles have been "Werewolf Workweek" and "Faggot Isolation Paranoia Blues".

We're hoping to release some form of single every couple of months until the end of the year. Of course we'll keep you posted. We've got some great shows coming up, our first round out of the Bay Area, in Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, and Los Angeles over the next month or so.

We also were just informed via gchat that 'Nevermint' was at No. 1 on KCPR, the college station in San Luis Obispo all last week! Here's to our first solid gold hit.

Yeeeeeeah.