Friday, February 15, 2008

94. eleven days till single

well this is a change of pace for me... i'm actually waking up at this time (7:30AM) as opposed to being on my way to bed. it feels odd having a full day ahead of me, as mine usually starts late in the afternoon... today is the first day of practice with our touring guitar player. he plays in Foreverinmotion, but he's gonna hang for three weeks while we make him do things he will surely regret. he will dance and sing and sign autographs on my behalf. people have mistaken us for brothers in the past. anyway, i'm psyched to start rockin out (softly).

i'm going to beat both of these points to death until this month is over... our NEW SINGLE, "These are the Nights" (new version) is available on iTunes on FEBRUARY 26th of this month. cast your loving vote for 99 cents. you won't regret it! and we've got constantly updating tour dates so make this site (makingapril.com/tour) or the front of our myspace a daily checkup!

das ittttt... for this minute
sean

Thursday, February 14, 2008

93. And it begins...sorta

hello all. steve here.......rare..... i know. hey at least you get a blog at a normal hour. so we did our first radio interview today for 100.7 WHUD which is broadcasted throughout westchester, new york city, and northern nj. i am happy to say that it went extremely well and we had a lot of fun doing it. we cant thank Kacey from the Mike & Kacey show enough. the interview will be airing on tuesday february 26th. once the interview is over, the new "these are the nights" single will be played for the very first time on radio. we are all super pumped. if any of you live in westchester county, new york..... be sure to tune in to the Mike and Kasey show on your way to work on the 26th.


now dont get too excited. "these are the nights" wont hit radio until early april in most parts of the country. our hometown stations get dibs on the song first......sorry : ( but no worries. you will all hear us soon enough......anyways im going to make some food. it was nice talking to everyone. we appreciate all of your support more than you will ever know. and remember kids......dont forget to get your fresh new making april single titled "these are the nights" from iTunes on february 26th. they say it will make you smarter and live longer....until the next time.....

steve

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

92. thirteen days till single

sorry to miss a day on you... my sleeping pattern has been... no pattern actually i just take random naps at random times of the day. anyway we have a sweet little radio interview in the morning that will air in a couple of weeks to accompany the release of the new single ("these are the nights" thirteen days away). it will be on some station around here called 100.7 whud. we took a horrid, snowy, traffic-filled drive into the city to pick up our new pictures and my repaired acoustic guitar. lotta fun pics we're gonna have edited... and now i think i can play my guitar on tour which i dont usually get to do cuz it's always broken.

there's a few new tour dates added... one in michigan, couple cali's... and an indiana might be on the way!! keep watch on the front of our page. find venues and tickets here... makingapril.com/tour

alright i gotta be up in a few hours so i'm gonna go take one of those naps.
sean

Monday, February 11, 2008

91. behind the scenes

last night we were scared.  it was 3am and we still didnt have a theme for our photoshoot.  then out of no where sean nailed it...

so we woke up extremely early to hunt down a cello, violin and a conductors batton.  luckily we found a place in the city that rented all three.  while steve scrambled to pick them up, sean and i hit urban outfitters for some last minute ideas.  we got to the studio around 1:30 to get all smoothed over by our cute little makeup artist.  soon after that we let tomaas (photographer) go to work.  4 hours later we were done.  next money we'll have the finished products.  in the mean time, check out the behind the scenes pics that our friend kurt took.

thank you to kurt, jeanna, rian, and ben for the help!

also, next sunday we are going to finally be back on our webcam!  we're thinking about playing wide awake acoustic... any thoughts?

Pictures Link

cheers
greg

Saturday, February 9, 2008

90. RELEASE DATE!!

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 26th

The new single, "These are the Nights" will be available on iTunes... (i'm not sure where else)

you must get it, or you're not cool. and you wanna stay cool...

we still have no drummer for tour. this is getting interesting.

BUSY DAY! laterr
sean

Friday, February 8, 2008

89. some business affairs

this sunday we have our first photoshoot since april of last year.  it's about time we got some updated pics.  we are headed into a studio in midtown manhattan with this guy...
http://www.tomaasphoto.com/fashion1.html

the only thing we havent thought of yet is a theme... we were huge fans of all time low's underwear pics because that was just amazing. let us know if you have any ideas/themes?

sean and i went to whole foods today.  i picked up a fabulous loaf of fresh baked challah bread as well as some organic edamame.  rumor has it.. our label is in the process of printing up a bunch of MA white zipup hoodies for tour and the universal online store.  ill let u know when theyre ready to go. 

lastlyyy, tonight we started locating the hotels we'll be staying at on the road.  hotels are fun, but staying at your house is free.  sooo if you would like us to stay at your house... drop us a message, because brian (our tour managers) paycheck is relying on that.

<3g

ps steve just got the rest of his amp today... it sure is pretty


Thursday, February 7, 2008

88. cinnamon

i spent the last two hours browsing the internet for intense movie trailer music. it was awesome. i love that shit... when this band gets either too rich or too poor, that's my next endeavor. i wanna sing over the craziest orchestral epic nonsense i can put together (or get somebody to put together). tomorrow is busy as hell. i have to get to sam ash and see if they can fix my guitar before this tour. i've been putting it off for way too long. we appreciate all of the feedback on the clips of "these are the nights". it's tough to tell what the song really is from that, but you can hear it in its entirety when it is released this month. keep watch for that ish.

i've been putting cinnamon on everything lately. apparently it's great for you.

night night,
sean

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

87. THESE ARE THE NIGHTS

we posted a teaser of the new version of "these are the nights" on our myspace page. it's different we know... it will take old fans some getting used to i'm sure, but we've come around... so you can too. it will be available on itunes some time this month. we'll have a big countdown on top of our myspace when we get a date. please spread the word to all associated MA fans about the new release.

tonight i cooked brown rice but it came out like oatmeal.

as always, we cherish your support
sean

Monday, February 4, 2008

86. TICKETS

i wont even mention the game last night... i'll just let it speak for its great self. we posted up some links that should help you in getting tickets and finding out about these upcoming shows we have. we will be constantly updating it as more information flows through.

http://www.makingapril.com/tour

i wanna play guitar for this but i'm a lefty and my guitar is broken right now. the electronics create horrible noises at random. i'm hoping to get it fixed before we leave... and last time i brought it somewhere to get fixed it worked the whole damn time. that made it a little difficult to diagnose.

i feel a good week ahead... feel that?

$3@~

Sunday, February 3, 2008

85. bradshaw for the win


they need to start this mofo.

gmen do it 36-33
sean

Saturday, February 2, 2008

84. 6 kids 1 van

this van is going to be a sardine box... we keep picking up strays. there's steve, greg, and I as the core 3. then there's buckley (tour management/merch-hustling whore)... then there's the drummer (whoever the hell that turns out to be)... and we just picked up a second guitar player/vocalist for the trip. he's brendon and he plays in a band called foreverinmotion... but soon he becomes our slave.

see u in tour land.
sean

Friday, February 1, 2008

83. desert cactus

today was paint day (my dad... not us). Desert Cactus meets Autumn... something... i forget. tomorrow we're city-bound, and for once it's business-oriented. we stop in at Universal and get to hear the FINAL version of 'these are the nights'. we discuss a game plan for the song from here on out. we usually come out of meetings like this with no more knowledge then when we entered, but we're making it our goal to get at least one piece of valuable information. then adam drives me home and we write. a few more dates were added to the tour schedule today... keep checking our myspace for updated cities as they keep rolling in.

there's an awesome facebook scrabble application called scrabulous that greg and i have been playing. i'm 2 and 0 against him... "linesman" for 77 points was my dagger in our last battle royal. ya we're losers... gnight > sean