Mixing with Bryce Goggin
February 08, 2010
We are finally wrapping The Baggage Wheel. After recording in CT, NY, and Beijing, the album is a bit scattered and in need of focus. Enter Bryce Goggin of Trout Recording. Hunkered down in his mad scientist's lab of vintage and modded equipment I feel a sense that he "gets" it: As long as it sounds good it does not matter how you get there. He is breathing new life into songs we've been toiling over for years and it is a pleasure watching him work.

Bryce Goggin
 
Converse China
December 01, 2009
Oddly enough, we just had 2 tracks from the EP end up on the website of Converse China.
Converse China
 
Strawberry Festival Report
May 05, 2009
The Strawberry Festival was a huge success. We kept expecting to get nervous, this being the biggest gig we'd ever played, but instead we all just felt more and more excited. Getting up in front of that crowd felt like the most natural thing in the world. When we took the stage people swarmed the hill and we jumped into the set invigorated by it. We put in 200% and had a great time. Every break between songs was filled with cries of "one more!" Each change in a song was followed by cheers. We could not have asked for a better audience.

Scott and Carm stole hearts with their version of "Let Go." It was their first time performing it together. Dave looked on proudly while Carm's face was projected five stories high on the screen behind us. After we played we were on cloud nine. We spent the rest of the weekend taking pictures with anyone who asked us, signing whatever people wanted, and feeling giddy. The people we met at the festival were so consistently nice and so genuinely excited about music.

The Band
 
Strawberry Festival - Beijing
April 28, 2009
Arms & Legs are going to Beijing! We are playing the main stage at the Modern Sky Strawberry Festival on Saturday May 2nd. The festival promises to be a great time with some amazing bands playing.

From the press release:

Modern Sky Entertainment of Beijing presents the Strawberry Festival, May 1-3, 2009. Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Panther, Joanna Wang, Rebuilding The Rights Of Statues, Arms & Legs, etc. to perform.

Modern Sky Entertainment, home to Modern Sky Records and other art-related companies, is producing the Strawberry Festival at Tongzhou Canal Park in Beijing May 1-3. The music and art festival will feature 60+ bands on three stages. The overall theme of the event is "music + sustainable and eco-friendly living in China." Various genres of music will be represented - including rock, pop, and folk - on two stages, with a third stage showcasing electronic and dance music. The Strawberry Festival will be held annually and in addition to the Modern Sky Festival, China's biggest music and art festival, in October.

The first-ever Strawberry Festival will feature a very special guest in legendary US-based record label Kill Rock Stars, home to recordings from Elliot Smith, The Decemberists, Bikini Kill, Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, and other indie-rock luminaries. Kill Rock Stars will have an exhibit tent set up on the festival grounds featuring classic posters, CDs, vinyl, and memorabilia from their 18-year-history. Kill Rock Stars bands Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, and Panther will perform a night each at the festival, with Deerhoof closing things out on May 3rd.

"The Strawberry Festival promises to be three days of music, clean air (hopefully), unexpected love...a great springtime event," says Modern Sky Founder Shen Lihui.

Tongzhou Canal Park is located east of Chang'an Street. Built in 1936, the total area of the park is 368 million square meters. The Strawberry Festival will occupy nearly one million square meters of space.
 
South By Southwest 2009
March 28, 2009
What a week. SXSW has been the highlight of my musical career. We opened the festival with a Wednesday night showcase at a bar called Pangea. It was beautifully appointed and the thick low end was fantastic.

Austin was a great time. I have rarely felt so at home in a city. I know much of it was colored by my love of SXSW. We literally went from gig to gig, bar to bar, party to party non stop until we passed out.

Favorite new (to me) bands:

The Thermals
The Strange Boys
Thomas Junction

DEVO stole the show at the mainstage on Friday night. They were far and away my favorite of the whole festival.

We found out after the festival that NPR reviewed all the submissions from all the bands for SXSW, some 1,000 bands, and put Arms & Legs "No Prescription" in the top 100 songs of that list. Check it out.
 
The New EP is OUT!
January 01, 2009

The Nothing Ever Was EP is now available on vinyl with MP3 downloads. We are really proud of how it all came out and hope you like it as much as we do.

 
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