Tribella: 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Bienvenidos, 2010!

During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good--death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Everthing is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me. I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary version of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it. " ~from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Name that...

Classy Austin restroom.

The DUDE & Austin

Did you know: Austin's new lounge/karaoke/bowling alley, The High
Ball, incorporated the actual wooden bowling alley that was used in
the film "The Big Lebowski." DUDE!?!!

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Photos coming back from shoot...

We're getting some of the photos back from our recent shoot with Holly Bronko and they're smokin' cool. Now SHE is the woman with the magic eye and quick finger. More to come...

Avatar!

Just saw Avatar in 3D tonight and it's pretty amazing. Extremely creative, beautiful cinematography, overall amazing execution. The story hits too close to home to make you feel all warm & cozy, but there's enough redemption to keep you from running on the blade... James Cameron is the man.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Everything's in its right place

CD has been mastered and sounds completely amazing. [Mastering is the final step in the long process of making an album. The engineer uses fancy gear to make every track shine (EQ, compression, etc) and makes sure it will sound great start to finish on million dollar systems (we all wish we owned) and also through the crappy speakers on your alarm clock and through the weird MySpace algorithm and so on]
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The artwork has been completed by none other than Alison Willis. Cover below. Looks beautiful & cool.
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The manufacturer has everything they need so now we just wait a little bit and then, poof! All the work & time & effort & love comes together at last.... I'm pretty excited about this, if you can't tell... more updates in a bit.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Amazing Iceland Forecast!!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

PS#3

Rae - this isn't going to work if you're sleeping!!

PS#2

Part of the studio... oh, what to wear?!?

Bronko-nator Rawks!!

Yesterday's shoot was a massive success, thanks to the immense talent of Holly Bronko. We ended up with the coolest shots and let's just say my previous career as a JUMP roper ended up serving us well... can't wait to share them with you all! I would absolutely also like to give a huge thanks to Shirley at W3ll People for doing a beautiful job on our make-up and to NAHA-winning stylist Shawna Parvin for making sure our hair looked awesome for every shot! I'm posting a few more cell shots of the shoot...

Friday, December 4, 2009

Photoshoot

Hey, so we're going to do another photoshoot with Holly Bronko tomorrow. We're really excited because she's super talented and fun to work with +plus we are looking forward to having some new, updated images of the band! I will share with you blog readers that I am unfortunately still sick with a mean virus and Rae has apparently just injured her eye. So it should be interesting (as most things are with Tribella). In other news, the CD is set to be mastered this coming Wednesday, which is immensely exciting as well. We've settled on a design and it's all shaping up nicely. Stay tuned snow-goers... more news in a bit.

The Heating Pad

Monday, November 30, 2009

Pet Detective

Thanks to our very own pet detective, we steered clear of all foul
play & wanton activity while cruising the Texas thoroughfares.

Labor & feast

Probably tasted better than it looks here... Mmm, yummy!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Owl City, Fireflies & Turkey!

Listening to "Fireflies" by Owl City, a supa-fresh new CD. If you're even in the slightest funk of a mood this is sure to be your feel good machine! Oh and yes, I'm off to the races, er, grocery, to buy all necessary ingredients for the big T-Day. My fave, er, least fave, part of this entire holiday (grocery shopping that is)... stay tuned and check out Owl City :)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

CD Release Show Announced!

I'm super stoked to announce that the release show for our new CD, titled "Thirteen," will be on Saturday, February 27th at Lambert's in Austin, TX. Mark your calendars - more details to come...

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Super fun San Antonio - Thanks!

We really enjoyed all the other bands we played with last night.

The sound was a bit tricky during the first 3 songs, so thanks

for hanging in there with us.

We had a blast - thanks for inviting us to play The Limelight!!

Saturday, November 14, 2009

TONIGHT @ THE LIMELIGHT in San Antonio!

We are seriously excited about our show tonight for 2 really great reasons: (1) this will be our first time playing The Limelight & we've heard it's the schnizzle in San Antonio and (2) we are playing with really, really great bands, The Cartographers, Blowing Trees, & Marcus Rubio. C'mon out, would love to see you! And for fun, Currently listening to: Arctic Monkeys, Say Hi, Sea Wolf, & The Stills

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Hint #2

Smoke and Feathers rocked it.

Name that ATX bathroom!

C'mon, 1/2 of you have probably used this bathroom at some point in
Austin. Hint: it's a bar/venue south of the river.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

SA Current shows some love!

Send all your peeps out to see us on Saturday night at The Limelight in San Antonio. We're playing with really great bands as well...

Monday, November 9, 2009

Perils of changing guitar strings

OUCH!! I should pay more attention next time.

And THIS is why we love Austin!

The perfect week's forecast.

The Recording...

Is nearly complete. Wow, it's really amazing hearing all of these
songs come to life in digital form.

The Belles Heart Enoteca

The best best best gourmet yummy food in ATX. Did I finish all this
gelato?Well, no... But damn it was tasty fab.

Pedicure & The Beach

Santa Monica... My surfing is getting a little tiny weeny bit better.
Those boards hurt when they hit you in the noggin, though.

And then there was a flood

(I'm getting u all caught up). Hang with me, juz a few more and we'll
be up to the excitement of NOW!

Arthur Yoria

Bakes some cool tunage! GIG in San Antonio - oh yes, and we will be
playing this Sat @ The Limelight. Come, bring ur friends and ur dancin
shoes.

Cricket in New Orleans

With my best buds, Sarah & Jake and Shawna. Ah... good times and an
awesome Irish bartender.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Flight of the Concords!

Jerome from "Flight of the Concords"!! I think he was diggin the set. No one mustered up the courage to talk to him... go figure. And wish we had been able to get a better picture of him.

New Orleans - pic#2

Our friend took these pics with her iPhone using some new fancy Polaroid-esque app.

New Orleans Cutting Edge Music Fest 2009

We had a smokin good time playing Balcony Music Club on Saturday, Aug 29th, as part of the Cutting Edge Music Festival. Thanks to everybody who came out to make it a really terrific night!