Blood Sea Dream

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls ~

Grand Lake is more than pleased to announce the pending birth of our first full length record, BLOOD SEA DREAM.

The record, which we've been working on since summer 2009, is being released on CD, LP, and MP3 by the kindly and good folks at Hippies Are Dead. You may be acquainted with HAD already as a fine music blog, which is great, but now, you should know, they have become a music blog AND a record label. This is awesome because

a: they are very nice
b: they are putting out our record.

So - here are things you should know:

1. Blood Sea Dream is streaming in its entirety at our new site which is located at

grandlaketheband.com

To stream the album, click 'Play' on the top of the page.

2. Hippies Are Dead Records are giving away a FREE download of 'Louise (I Live In A Fantasy) via their site. Click here for that.

3. We have been hard at work for the last little while making videos and such. Below is our newest video, for the above mentioned track. Watch it! For more, visit our BRAND NEW YouTube channel.


4. You might also consider watching this video, where in which Caleb interviews Caleb about the new record:


5. Our MySpace page has also gotten a bit of a makeover. You should scope it, because it looks pretty.

Ok - that seems like enough, right? Blood Sea Dream is due out at the end of May - we'll of course post an update as soon as we have more details. Until then, we hope you'll catch our next set, which is at the RICKSHAW STOP in SAN FRANCISCO on APRIL 29. We'll be opening the show - so don't be late - supporting two very awesome bands - Casper & The Cookies (members of OF MONTREAL, we hear) and Aquaserge (members of STEREOLAB, we are told). Tickets are available here.

We love you, and thank you for continuing to support Grand Lake -
kissies!

Shows

BACK TO BACK WAREHOUSE MADNESS

To clarify:

April 1 : Victory Warehouse, 7470 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, w/ Turbo Fruits and more

April 2: Ghost Town Gallery, 2519 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, w/ Greg Ashley, Blank Tapes, Giant Cloud, Rad Cloud, White Cloud, and others

Lull

We've been keeping our heads down as of late, taking a teeny break from shows to finish up album-related things, like art, and videos. We've completed shooting a couple of little spots, as well as an actual music video - there are some pics below!

More details on the album release to come later this month.
Best,
Caleb

Shows, Pics, Fixies

Grand Lake - Why Do You Lie To Me? from Army of Middle on Vimeo.

Many thanks to all of you (and there were so many!) who came out to our last couple of shows in San Luis Obispo and San Francisco! Opening for Thao and the Thermals was amazing (doubly amazing to get to play with Thao a bit during her set) and opening for Alec was a treat - made even better by how many of our friends were there with us - awesome.

Hippies Are Dead posted some photos of the SF show - check that out here.
Update: Video above from San Luis Obispo w/ Thao and the Thermals.

Meanwhile, a song from our first EP, Nevermint, landed in a documentary about riding fixed-gear bikes in Japan. Thanks to 500 Records for that, and check out the clip below.

JUNKUN Part 1 of 2 from GOOD.is on Vimeo.

We just added a show in Santa Cruz, at the UC on Friday, February 26. MySpace has the details. Hope to see you there!

Shows this week!

Hey friends!

We've got a couple of great shows coming up this week:

Feb 10, Downtown Brew, San Luis Obispo w/ Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, and The Thermals
(tickets available at Boo Boo Records in SLO - buy some vinyl while you're at it, ok?)

Feb 12, Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco w/ Alec Ounsworth (of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah)
(tickets and such are here)

Grand Lake - Riderless Horse (KZSC) from Army of Middle on Vimeo.