Welcome to the land of TAO.

Wait, I mean you listen to it. Here's us on WRGW's Undeclared Rock. This magical tidbit features some songs off our Magically Happening! LP, lots and lots of talk (good times), and relatively unrehearsed al fresco acoustic versions of some songs, featuring, as you might've guessed, acoustic guitars, and as you might not've guessed, cello instead of bass.

So yeah, the DC Independent Film Festival show has been moved from the Jack Morton Auditorium to TGI Friday's at 2100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. We're apparently going to be in some patio area....

We will be debuting a new tune, however—you can have some Tuscan spinach dip and pleasure your ears and tongue (not to mention your eyes) simultaneously.

"Constant State" is on MAGNET magazine's most recent CD sampler (Issue 78 with Against Me on the cover), which also features Rooney and a bunch of bands I've never heard of. We'll be giving them out at shows—check out MAGNET's website.

Hey all,

I've been keeping up a live journal—click here if you think the chronicles of my misadventures and random thoughts might make for pleasant time-wasting.

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This week the best radio station in the country, possibly the world, KEXP Seattle, is doing their pledge drive (because they are listener-supported). Part of this pledge drive is the City to City Challenge wherein the city that has the most supporters gets KEXP to come to their town and do a live broadcast highlighting the local scene.

If you are unfamiliar with KEXP, it is a music lover's paradise, a gift from on high that recalls the glory days of freeform radio in DC, back when deejays like Weasel and Cerphe and Damien were playing whatever they wanted to on WHFS, breaking new bands and supporting musical diversity and just generally keeping it crucially real.

Right now our fair city, Washington DC, is high up in the running to get KEXP to come pay us a visit, and we're asking you to please go to www.kexp.org and take a listen to the high quality broadcasting, and the colossal archive of recorded shows and interviews, and the two weeks of on demand broadcasting, and if it seems like the kind of thing that is worth supporting, please help them out and let them know that you're from the District (there's a box you can check on donation page). The minimum donation is $10, but there's no limit, and they've got some pretty sweet gifts and raffles going on right now, like t-shirts, Sasquatch Festival tickets, and gift packs of new and wonderful cds.

All donations are tax-deductible, and if you have ever thought to yourself "If I hear that damn Hoobastank song one more friggin time, I'm going to go on a spree" then this is your chance to strike a blow against the pay-for-play corporate radio consolidation that is responsible for the ubiquity of Nickelback and Three Doors Down, and help out your local music scene in the process.

Thanks for your time...

Gabriel Fry, huge KEXP fan and guitar player for the Alphabetical Order

Come support Jamnesty—Wednesday, Feb. 27, at the Marvin Center Continental Ballroom, 6 pm (TAO @ 6:50), $5, all ages.

Come fight violence against women at the GWU Marvin Center this Wednesday, Feb. 27.



TAO is on at 6:50—see you there.

Designed by Jesse Burgman.

Saturday night, NYC and DC go head to head in the rock and roll equivalent of Thunderdome.

Ben "Dover" brings his furious fists back to his hometown as beatmaster for The Art of Shooting.

It may get bloody, it may get dirty, but fo sho, it will be LOUD.

Uh huh,

gavin d'order

"The most willing interviewee of the weekend, the long and lanky, Gavin did not want to stop chatting about music. It is this passion that will take him far, if not in terms of success, at least in his own happiness and musical mind."

From GO! with Patriot News.

Thanks, Sarah, for talking to me and writing such kind words. I hope your ear has recovered from the way I talked it off. The Abbey at ABC in Downtown Harrisburg was a fantastic venue with tasty brews (I couldn't choose my favorite between the scrumptious red Scottish Ale and the tasty golden Dom Blonde), and soundman Cory did an excellent job (totally dug us too). We played with some great acts--The Red Frontier (Harrisburg), The Humbell (Tallahassee), Quick Step John (Philly), and Ben Hardt and his Symphony (Pittsburgh).

We were in Harrisburg for the Millennium Music Conference, where we impressed some industry people--professionals on the cd critique committee loved "Submarines." It was an inspiring and exhausting weekend, and we want to extend our thanks to those who invited us to play and attend the conference, as well as all the people who took their time to mentor and advise us. You're a beautiful bunch!

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