“7.6 – a pleasant surprise” -David Bevan

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40watt Athens - photograph by Mike White

On May 17th, 2011 we stopped by the Swan 7 recording studio in Brooklyn, NY to record a few songs for a radio broadcast. We have never recorded a live sesh before so it was challenging/scary/fun. The radio producer asked how it was different than a live show. We said “It’s 3pm. We haven’t had a beer yet. There’s only one take to get it right and unlike a show, the recording will last forever“. Have a listen & Enjoy!

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[via Newtown Radio Archive]

Songlist:
Record Store
All Those Years
So Natural
Train Song
East Station Attendant
Tally
Xmas Song
In This City I’m Invincible

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Conversation two days before our record release tour:

E: “What if we took the photobooth? It would be soo much fun/pain in the butt!”
J: “I’m down.”
S: “The more I think about it… it’s gonna be too much trouble”
J: “yeah right!”
E: “let’s do it!”

…and that’s how we decided to take our DIY photobooth on tour. Totally worth the trouble. All by itself, the booth snapped pictures of old friends, new friends & some of our music idols. Yeah. Right!

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* There are lots of pictures of us Gold-Bears because we were testing to make sure the booth was still working (It had a gnarly bug for the first 3 cities).

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We are heading back to sweaty Georgia. 9 shows, 7 with the photobooth & 5 east coast states. Fun times, fun times indeed – it was a lovely tour. Thanks to everyone who helped & came out to party.

Photobooth pictures will be up in the next two days. Hang tight!

Popfest was a ton of fun this year. We especially enjoyed Go Sailor, Caucus (from Japan on Cloudberry!), Dream Diary, and Sea Lions. We played at the Cakeshop on the opening night of the fest.

NYC Popfest 2011: Gold-Bears perform their finale at Cakeshop, NYC from BlearyEyedBrooklyn.com on Vimeo.

The “secret” headlining band of the night ended up being the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. We kind of had a hunch in April after opening for the Pains in Athens and Atlanta when their tour manager slipped and told us “see you at popfest”. It was great to see them play a tiny venue, they ruled it. We’d like to think that Kip played the solo version of Contender live per our request earlier in the year.

“This isn’t a phrase I throw around, certainly not at Popfest, but @GOLDdashBEARS just KILLED IT at @cakeshopnyc. ’93 Superchunk energy. Wow.” -soundbitesnyc

Thx!

We visited the Swan 7 recording studio in Brooklyn to play a live set that was played on the air. Here’s a video of “Record Store”.

We are happy to announce that today our first full-length album was released on Slumberland Records. The CD & digital versions are available now from Slumberlandrecords.com. The vinyl versions are unfortunately delayed. We will let you know when they are ready. There will be a limited run of pink & white vinyl – it’ll be worth the wait!

Hey that’s us on p4k today, right between Toro y Moi & Titus Andronicus. Kinda kinda cool!

Gold-Bears “Record Store” Forcasted on Pitchfork.com