Pete will be on Portland’s 94/7 (KNRK) this morning from about 10-11 this morning talking about the big Tsunami benefit show.

(Tickets are still available, but going fast! Better snap up yours today!)

The Mercy Corps Tsunami Relief Benefit is happening January 28th at Portland’s Roseland Theater. The line-up includes The Warhols, The Out Crowd, Durango Park, The Upsidedown, and Colin Meloy from The Decemberists. Tickets are $15 and can be obtained at all Portland locations of Ozone, Jackpot , and Music Millennium record stores or online at TicketsWest. All proceeds from this event are going to Mercy Corps. If you can’t make it to the show, we encourage you to donate to Mercy Corps to help with the relief efforts.

We are still working on the full line-up for the Jan. 28th benefit. We have had The Decemberist’s Colin Meloy agree to open. I should know the rest of the line-up soon.

Thanks,
Peter

Peter is currently organizing a benefit show for the tsunami relief, featuring The Warhols, Durango Park, and others, to take place January 28th at Portland’s Roseland Theater. Official band line-ups and ticket information forthcoming on dandywarhols.com.

Gregg Williams

Hey. Gregg Williams can finally shave, because our new record is completely finished, and we’re now looking for a mixer. Looks like Capitol wants the first single to be a song called “SMOKE IT”. That’s all for now.

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There is a ray of sunshine coming from a dark and dreary day here in Portland. This morning, Zia and Travis welcomed in Matilda Louise McCabe into the world. Says Kellie:

“Hey everyone, I wanted to pass on the news that Matilda come into the world at 5:12 this morning (Peter’s birthday).  Long labor but Zia was a total trouper.  Tildy Lou is 8lbs 9oz and everyone is doing well.”

We should have a photo of the lil gal and her lovely mum int he next couple days. In the meantime, enjoy this Halloween photo with Zia and Sean Gothman as Zia. Dumb, I know.

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DIG is out in NY and LA this week, and lots of other places in the coming weeks. To see if it’s playing near you, check out the DIG site.

Us? We’re almost done with our new record. Clark Stiles came up to work with Gregg Williams for a few weeks, and this week, our trumpet player, Achilleas, flew in to lay some horn on some tracks. Just a couple more things, and it’s time to mix. Yum, mix

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At Work

It’s coming along.

If you can believe, we came home from hot and sunny Europe to cold and rainy Portland. People are always complaining about it raining here, which we think is bullshit — rain is great. It allows you to spend more time stationary with good music and good friends. So there.

Anyway, the reason for this little blurb was not to chide those poor pluviophobic souls out there. Ondi Timoner wanted you all to see the new trailer for DIG! View it for yourselves HERE. Or THERE.