Hi folks: It’s been a while at the old .com, and for that we are truly apologetic. Fact is the last few months have been a bit topsy-turvy. For one, in September we parted ways with Robin over a disagreement over a particularly fraudulent drum fill. Now, 5 months later, we then cut loose Julien for his needlessly promiscuous soloing.

As keen observers of this space will note: we are joking. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong, but the sad fact of the matter is that the four of us, blessed as 3 of us are with some pretty spectacular talents, were unable to finish songs. We tried, and came tantalizingly close.

But alas. It’s damn hard work writing songs. It’s especially hard to try to impress yourself in the process. It stinks but given the mild stakes, it should not be surprising that we truly do all remain friends. And I count Robin and Julien as being some of my favourite musicians in the world. Incidentally, you can hear Robin’s latest work on Ben Gunning’s newest juggernaut of songwriting.

I went through a little mini crisis of feeling like I was done with the whole thing. But oddly enough, as Tusks is further away from playing and recording, things have started to make a bit more sense again. Myself and Shaw-han are jamming around with very special people (more on this soon!) and hope to have a Tusks (v3) ready for showing in the near future.

So do keep in touch.

You can now follow our goings on here: Tusks_4ever. Hilarity will ensue.

Hello: As you are well aware, we recently recorded a song with Dave MacKinnon of Fembots fame for the second Friends In Bellwoods compilation. This special affair is lead by cuddle-stars Ohbijou and Out of this Spark Records and is designed to raise funds for Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank. The first incarnation of this compilation/ project (which we contributed an old version of Mothers vs. Sons for) raised almost $12,000.

Once again we’ve contributed a track (which you can hear here) and we’ll be playing an all-day BBQ at the Tranzac along with too many bands to mention here. View the Facenuts page for the event here. We’ve been hard at work at new stuff and may be showing it off then.

Till then, hold yourselves! It is undignified that you shake like that.

Our EP is getting some notice from the blogsphere and music press. Have fun running these through your German or Dutch to English translator.

More news soon, including late summer shows, future recording plans, and the what not.

Hello, hello:

You damned little spring chickens. As part of our planned European release this September, 5 Roses Press and Publicity has created a page for your trulies. To any of our European friends, please feel free to contact them if you are interested in having us around. More on this soon.

More immediately, however, we have some shows coming up for the White Whale Records 5 year anniversary. Poster and details below:

Well hello.  Thanks to all for coming out to our recent shows in Toronto in Montreal. It was quite a thing to play in front of such good crowds. It had seemed a good time was had by most, but apparently this is not the case. Zing!

The lesson here is that you cannot win all the time. We are grown men, and have thought much in terms our own feelings about the subject known as “ourselves.”

We have done some dabbling with some recording with Dave MacKinnon of Fembots . If all goes, we will be appearing on the Friends in Bellwoods compilation.

We are also looking forward to a European release of our EP sometime in the fall of next year. More details to come about touring plans. Please contact if you have any ideas.

Wherein mysteries are resolved, and man-children reclaim a sense of wonder.

Humans:

Happy new year to you all.  Some news: We have some shows coming up next week in Toronto and Montreal with the fine folks in Fembots, the Harbourcoats, and Great Bloomers.

We are also going to start recording again sometime soon. We have no plans as to what’s going to happen, but we’ll just wait and see, OK?

Show details for Toronto are below:

Our debut EP was named #2 on Herohill.com’s top 10 Canadian EPs list. Thanks folks!

Don’t forget: We have a show this Friday with our pals Major Grange at the Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge). The show starts at 10 PM!

Dear friends:

Some news.  We are playing this weekend with the fine Jim Bryson Band at the Black Sheep Inn.

Sorry we told you so late, but it’s sold out.  Hope you could have made it.

Also!  Dec. 12 marks our Holiday show in the cozy confines if of the Tranzac Southern Cross Lounge, with the most excellent Major Grange.

In addition, our EP has been steadily climbing on the CBC Radio 3 Podcast. We’re not sure what that means, but we thought you should know.

Congratulations to all the babies in the world! Way to be born!