The Austerity Program finished recording their next record back in December. Here’s the master tapes, ready to go to Ventura, CA.
Six songs long, clocks in at about 25 minutes. I know that’s not very long for a band that hasn’t put a record out in five years but it’s pretty intense so you’ll get your fill.
Currently working on pressing details, cover art, setting up shows. Expect this thing to come out in June.
Nonagon is playing the first ever West Cost PRF BBQ on Saturday, May 3 @ Leo’s in San Francisco. Should be a preeeeetty amazing event, with Kowloon Walled City, Eugene S Robinson, the Gary, the Tunnel and others.
And the new Austerity Program record, Beyond Calculation, will be out 6/17. More news on that in a bit, but if you live in/near Boston (4/26), Providence (4/27) or Brooklyn (5/7), you can go see them in the days ahead. The Shows page has all the details.
Look at what arrived at CBR’s shipping department this week. If you guessed Time Life Books’ 28 Volume Series: The Civil War you would only be partially correct. That’s coming next week. What we have here is The Austerity Program’s record entering the final stages before its upcoming release. Soon.
Thad and Justin have started putting songs on tape for their next record. It’ll be 8 songs long and about 40 minutes long. We’ll be putting it out next Spring.
You can read more about the latest by going to the Austerity Program’s site and following the progress. And the technically minded can always check out the pre-production journal that Justin’s been keeping. He runs tests on which microphone is the best or which pre-amp sounds the most appropriate and that kind of thing.
And did you see that Nonagon show poster? Damn, it looks nice.
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Okay, we lied. Or Robert did. Let’s just say that Robert lied and be done with it. Because we didn’t really launch the label until today. (If by launching the label you mean telling everyone about a website, because that’s what we are doing and that’s what we mean by that.)
While we’ve been pulling together this whole label adventure together, we’ve each been doing work on our next release.
Nonagon came out to my house (Justin) back in May and spent 4 days recording. That’s going to be an EP called … actually, I don’t know what it’s going to be called. Should be out by the end of the year know.
The Austerity Program has been practicing our next record which is all written except for a few drum machine changes that I spend all night working on instead of sleeping. Real rewarding – small little tweaks that no one other than me is ever going to notice. That should be recorded this year and put out by the beginning of next year. 8 songs and we have no idea what it’s going to be called yet as well.
Not many shows coming up. Give us a break, we’re busy putting together these records and this label and it’s all going to be just great.
