Tuesday, May 31, 2011

True Life and B-sides

Lots going on, but most excitingly we are releasing an Album called "True Life and B-sides" which is a live audio recorded from our May 27th show at Winstons along with 4 Dub Versions recorded during my 30 songs in 30 days project (10 tracks 45 minutes). June 28th is the release date and for right now it will be digital only and will only set you back 5 clams. We are really pleased with the live recording quality (Cue kills it) and the playing is good as well although I mess up my fair share :). The release of this record is somewhat a prelude to our upcoming full length that will be released later this summer.

For anyone that wants to write a review for the album, hit us up and I will get you an advanced copy....no writing skills necessary. Ha! 

This Friday we will be playing on the Main Stage at the House of Blues and we got some free tickets left. there are a whole bunch of bands playing and this is going to be a great night of live music. Hit us up here or on Facebook for free tickets.


Thursday, May 12, 2011

Sleeping is Lame

I have always had millions of thoughts running through my head at once since I was younger, but I think I have finally got my actions to catch up with my mind. There is an expression, "don't talk about it... Be about it". That's what I am doing, except now I guess by stating that, I am talking about it inadvertently. Damn it!

Needless to say, lots going on... Lots of writing, lots of recording, lots of producing, lots of rehearsing and lots of shows. As things near completion on some projects I am excited about, I will fill you in on the details, but as you could expect I will be fighting my way through a shitload of music to release to Your ears.

Thank you to all the new fans that have been coming out and all the new people I am working with on various projects... Much Love

See you Friday at Winstons for Seismic Leveler with guest Mike Pinto .... If it's not sold out yet. Our set is 9:45-10:30 and then the walls will explode with dubstep... Should be fun.


-typed with my thumbs from bed Don't trip on Errors

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Momma, I ate too much pudding

Happy Mothers Day Everyone!

Had a busy weekend of recording and producing and I'm Spent. Friday night I worked with Piracy and she versed on 3 tracks. I spent a good portion of the weekend mixing and editing one and I am pretty happy with how it came out. Saturday I was Capricorn Studios with the Optimators helping with their new record and have to say it sounds pretty sick. We ended up tracking about 3 songs.

We have a lot of shows coming up including this Friday at Winstons for the first night of he 2 days Ocean Beats Festival. We are playing a dub set with Mike Pinto and CUE at the controls, we are opening the show for ANA SIA and Babylon System. May 27th we have another Winstons Show with Roots Covenant, June 3rd we are playing at the house of blues and have FREE TICKETS for Everyone, June 18th we are playing at the Del Mar Marriott for an all day/night party with live bands and DJ's and June 25th Ocean Beach Street Fair.

June 29th - June 3rd we will be coming through Arizona with Shows in Yuma with Synergy at Top of the Kress, Tucson at the Hut with John Wayne and the Pain, and Phoenix tbd with John Wayne and the Pain.

Really excited for everything that is coming up and we appreciate all of the love and new fans.

Check out this demo version of a song called "We Taking On", about our last trip through AZ and the border patrol messing with us.

Much Love


WE TAKING ON by Tommy DUBS

Monday, May 2, 2011

Finished 30 songs in 30 days :)

Well, I almost didn't make it, but I pulled it out in the final hour. To be honest, I have been not thinking about writing or attempting to write for the last few days....My mind needed a break. I am really excited about some of the songs that came out in these last 30 days and thanks to everyone that took an interest. From people around SD to people we met through AZ, it seemed like some people were really into the project. A lot of the songs that I wrote, I already had the chance to record and some are being rehearsed already with Seismic Leveler for our live set so we will be debuting them soon.

I learned a lot about my writing process through this and and also the importance of setting aside time to be creative everyday. I felt like I really got into a rhythm writing as much as I could, but I for sure started hearing similar themes in some of my songs, Its a total bum out to write a full song and then realize the chord progression is almost the same as something you previously wrote.

In these last 30 days I wrote hip hop, dub, downtempo, dubstep, ballads, rock and electro shit but looking back I am surprised I didn't write any latin songs. I hope you have enjoyed reading the blog posts about this and I look forward to releasing a lot of the demo versions of these songs and fully produced versions. I also have a bunch of these songs recorded acoustically on my phone and think it would be cool to release some of these in their raw form.

Our shows in Tucson and Yuma were great and want to say whats up to Synergy for having us in Yuma and Skitn for having us in Tucson. Turns out Synergy and us know a bunch of the same people throughout California and it was great to hear about some of our old friends. We are always happy to go back to Tucson, the crowds are always great and its feels good to be in a place I used to live and spend so much time. Tucson is a cool town... Whats up Jesse and the Hut?

We have a bunch of great shows coming up in Southern California with some great bands and will send out an update via our mailing list in the next week. Make sure to enter your email address in the box on the left to keep up to date on everything that is going on and receive exclusive downloads via our reverbnation page.

We also want to say whats up to Nug Magazine for our mention on their site.

This is going to sound weird, but there seems to be an animal living in my walls....kind of creeping me out right now.

Much Love,
Tommy Dubs