Nice Little Saturday

28 North hits up the Cincinnati Zoo for a nice little Saturday between shows in Cincy and Athens. So without further adieu.... Jon Colman

album titles being thrown around for our upcoming release:
Night of 1000 Eagles
Lets get tender
Covered in Blood
Panic!
Lonely Midnight Sentinel
Unbelievably Sweaty
Waint Warriors
Whisked Away
Everybody Talks...
Shaven & Beaten Senseless
John Candy's Monkey
We Like It Rough
OohOoh, we know how you need it
secretly asian
Dance on Table
Frog Prince Blues
Hot Dumb Nudity
Tough Questions, Dumb Answers
Everybody Cries... (alone & listening to Jeff Buckley)
Tultimate
Death to Floyd
Fun Kid Stuff
Boom-Bat, Ba-Boom Bat
Hello Sir
Paperboat Party
Frog Prince Fiasco
The Fix
Huge Dancing
Recreational Condescension
Deep breath
Somebody Sauce
Turkmenistan
Catch the Haps
JMFB
You Should See the Associates
Whispy Swayze
Away Boys! Place Left to See
Hamburger David
Sweet, Sweet Mediocrity
Finger Me Dennis
Humanitarian Defense
Pressure Head
Shepard Radio
More Greed Evil
Pirates
There it is
Selfish Vagabond Poet
Chalk Frog
School Band Rock Van
The Sad Good Americans
Album Title
Scunt
A dip. The Bread.
The Regulars
Live from Earth
Rounds
Ain't No Ghost
Some of it
the Seems
Drastic Leisures
the Farce
The Four Quarters
Manic Profession
Crazed Horticulturalist
Cost in Cats
Horse
YAY
Sun Tea
Night of Soaring Eagles IV
Night of Passion
Cajun Satalite
Remembir the Deer in Canada
Blankets that don't exist
etc...

Making The Video

Here are some Pics from the set (our house) of our upcoming video for the song 'New York'. We've been having a great time filming and the video is going to be a great blend of awesomeness and more awesomeness, with a taste of humor and a bit more awesomeness. The video and our 3rd album will be released simultaneously sometime this spring, and its shaping up to be one of those magic monumental epic cultural events like 'Lord of the Rings' or The Pittsburgh Pirates in '09.
more to come...

This is how Colman actually sleeps

Floyd is clearly the best actor amongst us

28 North speaks Highly of West LA Music
Featuring Rick

Music recommendations. For the greater aural good!

Hey Music Fan,
Jon from 28 North at your service! I love turning people on to new music. Being the avid music consumer that I am, I feel compelled to share what has been filling my ear drums over the past year or so. Here we go!

*not in any particular order*

of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Danceable, Fragmented, Sexually Robust, Emotionally penetrating; Kevin Barnes has created an endlessly fascinating electro - booty pop adventure! Not for the faint of heart nor the homophobic.

Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Produced by Q-tip himself, the renaissance is a breath of fresh air into a industry filled with "Ring - Tone Rappers". Q- tip's ever conscious lyricism is complemented by several special guests; including D'Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, & Norah Jones. Guranteed to make your head bob.

Marco Benevento - Invisible Baby
For his solo debut, Benevento enlists the help of bassist Reed Mathis and drummers Andrew Barr & Matt Chamberlain. This record would be the perfect accompaniment to a film; ambient & atmospheric, contemplative & reflective, upbeat & engrossing. Make Invisible Baby the soundtrack to your next road trip.

Thievery Corporation - Radio Retalliation
Hypnotically danceable, globe - spanning instrumentation; Add this to your playlist to ensure a sensous evening.

Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Glorious use of synthesizers combined with memorable melodies/songwriting makes for high replay value. PLUS, they pull it off live! (God Bless em') Check out "Ready for the floor"

: Throw - Back :

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
You already know the hits, but obscure tracks like "Working Day & Night" are worth giving Off the Wall and second listen. Take note of the inventive percussion parts, as well as the awesome 80's slap bass sounds. Get on the floor and dance!

Check out this music! and if so inclined, let me know what I need to wrap MY ears around.

JDC

Preaching on or around the Golden Shore

At long last we are days away from our first ever West Coast Performance, and we're jazzed to say the least. Since our Tour Manager/Bus Driver/Employer/Photographer/Business Partner/Lindner's Dad/Designated Line Crosser When It Comes To Sick Jokes departed in a MIL Transit School Van packed with all things 28 North last Sunday, we've been without our equipment.
Practice, however, does indeed make perfect so we've improvised by using some of the spare stuff we have in the storage wing of Chateau 28 North. Which has both sucked (solid state amps) and been a pretty good time (Always look for an excuse to bust out the Sitar Pedal). Either way the show must go on and we're fired up and ready to get out there.
The aforementioned show is at the Whiskey A-Go-Go, which is the world famous stomping ground of The Doors and countless others, and maybe someday will be given historic landmark status for its role in our conquest for world domination. We also have a show in Denver on the way home (same thing applies).
So we will go and we will play, and hopefully bring home some bacon, or other pork related metaphorical food item. We're packed with gigs for early 2009, and we've finished tracking on our new album, which we will mix and serve promptly.
Fewer band updates and more random shit to come.
-Alex

NEW 28 North EP

So we've at last begun our next recording project, which as of now is an untitled 5 song EP. We have our first date with sweet lady studio late next week, but right now the buzzword is 'hone'. We've chosen songs based on several things; Songs that have been a big part of our shows since 'Mystery' being the most important (was that a good use of a semi-colon?). We want to really capture the mix of Hard rock, pop, funk, and heart warming americana that is our band, and get a good balance of our different singers, songwriters, and soloists. We feel we've come up with a strong list, which consists of mostly songs written in the last few months or over the summer, and a few even older.

So 'hone' being the buzzword, we are going to spend this week and most of next doing trial recordings, instrumentally, and vocally. The goal is to get the parts down to their essence so that we can record all of us at the same time, as opposed to laying it all down piece by piece with a cacophony of overdubs. We'll experiment with how best to do this so as to sound warm, true, and razor sharp, while keeping some aspect of spontaneity and well... fun. If we can do it without coming out with a basement style record flimsy as un-corrugated cardboard I think we'll have succedeed.

More on the 'honing' later
-alex