March 2010
2 posts
An update
A quick update of two new things —
Item 1 —- Our new album, Nine Ways, has effectively sold out of the physical copies (unless there’s a huge crazy demand for them sometime for some reason). But you can still obtain a digital copy, at our Bandcamp site, which is now a pay-what-you-want price.
Item 2 —- !!! For the first time, our limited edition tour poster is available...
January 2010
2 posts
New show
Hello everyone,
We’ve had a restful month off, after our two-week tour in December, but now we’re ready to get going again. We have a show in Madison next Friday, January 29th, at the Project Lodge, one of our favorite places to play. Hope to see you there.
alex/thechairs
Oh boy
Plumbiferous Media named Nine Ways as the #1 album of 2009! Such nice people.
http://plumbiferous.com/1474/top-ten-albums-of-2009
December 2009
8 posts
Tour Video 6 - from Princeton NJ and (show...
Tour video 5 - from Brooklyn, NY
From Athens, Georgia
Tour!
We start our tour tonight, with a show at Project Lodge in Madison. 8 pm, all ages, $5. Hope to see you there.
There will be video updates to this blog from time to time, if i can figure out how to do that, so check back here for that. Also if you are craving more up to the minute updates of life on the road, you can check our Twitter at twitter.com/thechairsband.
See you out there,...
November 2009
4 posts
Tour posters
The ever-amazing Ryan Brinkerhoff, the same artist who created our Forward Fest poster, has made a poster for our upcoming tour. Each poster is silk-screened, 18x24, and they will be available at our shows for purchase.
The poster was just featured on a pretty big design blog, FPO - go here to read about it.
Go here to check out more of Ryan’s stuff, who knows, maybe you too can have a...
Nine Ways
Hello everyone,
Almost one year to the day after releasing our first EP, today we release our second-full length album, Nine Ways. Months of hard work have led up to this, and we are proud to share it with you.
The album is available at two main places - our main website, where you can order the physical copy (it’s a book!), and our Bandcamp website, where you can both stream the whole...
Um
http://plumbiferous.com/1312/nine-ways-the-chairs
“Nine Ways is nothing short of an amazing album”
“Nine Ways is not only a great second album for The Chairs, but easily one of the best albums this year.”
“The amount of attention spent on matching everything perfectly is simply ridiculous.”
One week!
One week until the release of Nine Ways. We’ve gotten a little bit of press already, go here to read more:
http://andpluckyourstrings.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/you-have-to-hear-the-chairs/
http://bridgingtheatlantic.blogspot.com/2009/11/remix-monday-chairs-cover-ep.html
http://bridgingtheatlantic.blogspot.com/2009/11/friday-five-inbox-edition.html
October 2009
2 posts
New Album - 11/17/09
Dear friends and enemies, We are very excited to announce the upcoming release of a new album, Nine Ways. It will be released on November 17th, but if you pre-order the deluxe, limited edition physical album (it’s a book!), you can listen to it right now. The album was recorded over this past summer of 2009, and we took a long time on it, longer than we’ve taken on anything before,...
New EP
Dear friends and enemies, Two bits of news: We have a new EP, which is released today, right now. It is called Can We Be Friends? and it is a collection of our past covers with the addition of a few more. Track listing is: 1. My Guitar (originally by Jump, Little Children) 2. Reservations (Wilco) 3. Motion Picture Soundtrack (Radiohead) 4. Flume (Bon Iver) 5. In the Aeroplane Over...
September 2009
2 posts
Tour
Alright so we are going to be going out on tour this December. We want to come to you, and play in your living room. Or your favorite club down the street. If you live east of the Mississippi River, anywhere east (we’re going to NYC and back, and will take whatever path appears to us) and would like to help us out with a show, shoot an email to chairsband@gmail.com . Any suggestions for...
Madison tonight
Dear friends, enemies, and the indifferent:
We’re playing Madison today as part of the Forward Music Fest ‘09, which also features far superior bands like Andrew Bird, Low, Margot & the Nuclear So-and-so’s, Atlas Sound, Ra Ra Riot, and many more.
We play the Project Lodge at 5 pm. It will cost $7 at the door.
See you there,
The Chairs
August 2009
4 posts
(relatively) old video
From our show with Girl Talk in May:
Our Wilco cover
“Reservations”
http://www.thechairsband.com/files/Reservations.mp3
Boring video
July 2009
2 posts
News: Download album for free, Madison/Minneapolis...
Dear lovers, Hope your summers are going swimmingly. A few items to discuss: First off, we’ve got a real treat for you today. Oh boy, have we. For a very limited time, you can download our last album, “Laugh, It’s a Fright” for FREE. Go to this link to do so: http://thechairs.bandcamp.com/ This is for all you cheapskates. We figured since we are cheapskates ourselves,...
June 2009
1 post
New EP for download
Hello everyone,
So we know there are some people that think “Man, that Chairs album was pretty good, except for that “Horse with Hoof Guns” song, that was terrible. I mean, it’s factually incorrect, for one thing, horses don’t have hoof guns, and never will. Also, songs that end in B major are terrible. Let’s get real here.” To those people, we...
May 2009
4 posts
Download our first EP
These links were taken down before the release of Laugh, It’s a Fright, but I thought I would make this available again. Here is our November EP, which includes “Dark Clothes”— “Fire and Ice”—“In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”—“Polly”—-and “I Gotta Go”. We released it back in November of 2008.
Click to...
Another great review
Big thanks to Tom Williams from Radio Exile for this one, check it out, and check out Radio Exile! I follow it, it’s a great site. And I’m not just saying that because they liked our album. Although if they posted a bad review I’d probably tell you to sign them up for spam lists. But luckily this works out for everyone.
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Awesome show
We had a great time tonight - we opened for the Girl Talk + Reel Big Fish show here in Appleton. We got a little rushed and we only had time for 5 songs, but I thought they went pretty well. Big thanks to John from RBF playing trumpet with us on Crooked Concubines. Hopefully we can get a video/recording of that up here soon. Girl Talk was amazing. Life was good.
April 2009
8 posts
New review!
Great review by Plumberiferous of the new album. Check it out
http://www.plumbiferous.com/482/review-laugh-its-a-fright-the-chairs
We're on PBS!
Sort of. Watch the video
http://www.planetforward.org/videos/planet-forward-pbs-show-behind-the-scenes
Embracing technology
You can now obtain Laugh, It’s a Fright digitally for only $5. Rejoice! Go to the “Get the album” page to do so. You can still buy the actual CD, and enjoy the beautiful artwork by Megan Parry. Options! Options! Options!
Summer tour
We’re going to start planning a summer tour soon. We want to go to California and back. Does anyone have a nice place we can play at? It’d sure be fun! Golly. Send us a message or something if you know where we can play at along the way. If not, we’ll just go through the streets of Small Town USA, blasting our album through the car windows. Maybe that wouldn’t be so...
They picked the perfect song for this
Big news!
Check out our shows page to see a show we just added - it’s going to be a rolicking good time.
This is perfection
March 2009
22 posts
Album release day!
Dear friends,
The day has come! Our new album Laugh, It’s a Fright, is finally in our hands, waiting to be in yours. You can buy the album off of our website for only $10 (we’ll ship it you ourselves) or you can come to our show this Saturday in Appleton and get it for a show-only price of $5.
We put a lot of work into this and we’re very proud of it, so we hope you enjoy...
Live Video!
The Chairs @ the Elbo Room from Andrew Schaaf on Vimeo
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