We finished the rest of the basic tracks for Matt Nathanson’s record (more on that to come) and now I’m back out with Brett Dennen for a couple of weeks.

Here are the dates:
Feb 24 2007 6:00P
Apple Store NMA (FREE SHOW) Chicago, Illinois

Mar 17 2007 8:00P
Eternal Austin, Texas

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Here are some vids from the garden thanks to a Matt fan named Kasey.

Car Crash

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Answering Machine

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Here is a clip from the Cutting Room on Jan. 27th in NY. Matt played a small sold out solo show a couple of days before the MSG show. Aaron, Lyle and myself left our killer dinner a little early to go sit in with Matt on a couple of songs since there was some backline (amps, drums) at the club. It was our first time playing out with Lyle Molzan on drums. I think he did a great job.
Ladies and Gentlemen…I present Car Crash.

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I’m home for a few days with some shows with Suzanna Choffel and some recording with Tenlons Fort before I head to L.A. to finish up Matt Nathanson’s record. I’m super psyched to get started this batch of songs since Jason McGerr from Death Cab for Cutie will be the drummer on the session. His beats are always so creative and I know he will bring a lot to Matt’s songs.

Here are the dates I’m playing with Brett Dennen.

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I played Madison Square Garden tonight with Matt Nathanson. We opened for O.A.R with Gomez. It was sold out and O.A.R. taped a live DVD. I thought we killed it. We also had a new drummer named Lyle Molzan. He’s a Canuck from Toronto and plays with Jann Arden. He is a total bad ass and the band has NEVER sounded so good. I’ll post some more pictures later. What a great experience!

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So much has been happening lately. I’ve been recording the new Tenlons Fort record with Jack Gibson. I’ve also been busy playing local shows with Suzanna Choffel, Erin Condo, Sarah Glynn, Craig Marshall, Jade Day and Dave Madden but I’m about to hit the road again. January 12th through the 23rd I’ll be playing bass with a fantastic singer/songwriter named Brett Dennen. He is a mix of Dylan, Paul Simon and Jack Johnson. He opened for the last leg of Matt Nathanson’s tour last year. I finish out this month in NY with Matt and we are playing a show at the world famous Madison Square Garden opening up for O.A.R. and Gomez.

We finish Matt’s record in L.A. in February and then I jump back on Brett’s tour in Lexington, KY on the 19th and I’m with him until March 18th in Dallas. We’ll be playing some shows during SXSW and I’ll get to be on tour and sleep in my own bed at the same time. That’s the way it should always be.

Go listen to Brett (iTunes) and check out his MySpace.

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I hit the ground running once when I finished the tour with Matt Nathanson. (Obviously not updating my website.) I played on KUT with Brett Dennen my first day home. He opened up for us the last week of the tour. I am crazy about his music and he was touring without a bass player. So there you go.

KUT Stream LINK

A few days later…..back on KUT with my friend Suzanna Choffel. We were promoting her CD release party at the Cactus Cafe that night. More come concerning Suzanna and that night.

KUT Stream LINK

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The tour dates for our co-headlining tour with Carbon Leaf are starting to come in, so here are a few. You can find out more info here.

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Things are gearing back up with Matt Nathanson. There have only been a few fly out shows this year with some recording in the spring. We have a gig opening for Train at The Greek Theater in Berkeley next week and then the tour starts up on September 15th with our show at the Austin City Limits Festival. Then there are a few days of rehearsing and the rock starts in L.A. at the Roxy as part of our co-headlining tour with Carbon Leaf. They have some great songs and I hear they are great live. It should be a blast and it will end sometime in November. More dates to come.

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We did a co-headlining show at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island with LifeHouse. I always forget that Matt is so big in the North East that a University would booked us us on a co-headlining show with a band that has several huge singles. I guess it goes to show how a grass roots following can have a similar impact as a shit load of radio airplay. The show went as well as can be expected considering it was in a gymnasium and we were using rented back line gear. I twisted up my knee after the third song, so I gimped around on stage the best that I could. We got to see some of our favorite fans, which is nice since we probably won’t do a full tour until the fall at the earliest. Matt wants (needs) to finish tweaking lyrics for the new album which is basically ready to go as far as the band is concerned, so that is a priority this summer. I know we have some fly-out gigs in June like the Ever-fine festival in Cleveland and a KFOG radio show in San Jose.

LifeHouse are a bunch of great guys and they write some incredible pop songs. I think they are cursed with being the guys that have songs that everyone has heard, but no one can name the band that does them. Or maybe that’s just me.

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