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gRacKle News 2007

this friday, on FOX .... buttercup

we have been asked to perform on the san antonio fox affiliate KABB's morning show on friday, september 21. morning implies early, but the exact time is not known. we're guessing they'll save our awesome performance for the show's end, around 9 or 10 am. needless to say, just set your dvr, or tivo the thing and then later, at the crack of noon, crawl out of your bed and see whether or not we blasted the camera's with sillystring and were never asked back, or we wore animal costumes that became too hot under the studio lights and we had to strip down to our glitter banana hammocks. either way, it should be fun.
we are steadily amassing tracks for the third EP and gearing up for our san antonio release show of "living again" which is saturday the 22nd of september at limelight. there, that's the news part.
and now for the weekly musing. which is just to make sure one of us writes something each week:
birds are cool. they can fly and poop wherever they please.
so until next week, keep dreaming of flying... and pooping.
love,
buttercup
# Comment(s), 16 Sep 07
hot sauce festival in austin this sunday

yes, it's true.
buttercup will be performing at 2 pm in waterloo park in lovely austin tx for this year's austin chronicle hot sauce festival. at 2 pm, it should be either scorching hot or drippingly wet. either way we will be there to provide inspiration for all those who have a chip in their hand and a burn in their heart. here's some info from the chronicle website. it sounds like bringing canned goods is the way to go. hope to see you there!
le coop.
17TH ANNUAL AUSTIN CHRONICLE HOT SAUCE FESTIVAL is here, pitting chileheads against one another in three categories (restaurant, commercial bottler, and individual) to find out which sauces the judges like best. You'll decide which you like best, too, plus you'll have the chance to eat some lunch, shop for chile-pepper memorabilia, listen to some music (from Hydmen & Anthropos, Buttercup, Two Hoots & a Holler, and the Mother Truckers), and buy a raffle ticket to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank. (Interested competitors can find the entry form online or at the Chronicle office, Mon.-Fri., 9am-6pm, 4000 N. I-35. Bring the form, one quart of your sauce, and $20 to the fest 10:30-11:30am.) 11am-5:30pm. Waterloo Park, 403 E. 15th, 454-5766. Free, with donation of cash or three nonperishable food items to CAFB
# Comment(s), 21 Aug 07
no news is sad news

dear cuppite,
it makes us just as sad as perhaps you feel when we see our website with no new news added. it's not as if things aren't going on. there is news. it's just the boring kind you find in those christmas letters that some families insist on writing.
erik got a root canal. odie's cat has ringworm. joe's car is working again. jamie is in florida. boring....
but we are working on EP #3, and planning some special shows for the upcoming release of EP #2. EP #3 will have some old chestnuts from the buttercup annals and some brand new songs that the band has just finished so it should be a treat for old and new listeners.
let's see. what else is there? this rain is awesome. it's like the whole town ran on two legs to el salvador and settled into the rain forest quite nicely next to some quetzals.
flight of the conchords, a new series on HBO, is fantastic. it really makes you want to work on your falsetto.
well, that's all i can think of for now. check out the new slideshow on our myspace page and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming shows. save up some dollarinos for your EP!
love,
joe and le cups
# Comment(s), 17 Aug 07
lyrics to captains continued

“sun in the sky” (sanden)
i know it’s mean
i know it’s me
i know it’s mean
i know it’s me
i know the upper edge of your mind
is the sun in the sky
i heard the broken hymn than you’re singing
floating on high
i felt so damn bad love drips and gathers in the sand
but now my eyes have seen just what my hand has done
i’m starting to feel a little bit uneasy
this wake is making me queesy
does anybody got a little pill?
just keep your eyes on the horizon
i know it’s mean
i know it’s mean
i know it’s me
i know it’s me
i felt your fever as my heart leapt
it swelled like the tide
i said “my eyes open”
you said “you’re joking you got a sleep walker’s stride”
i know the upper edge of your mind is the sun in the sky
i heard the broken hymn than you’re singing
floating on high
i saw the grackles gather at sundown
a wonderful tribe
just then your whispers brush me like kisses
making me smile
the sky and the ocean my music your music
fused open wide
i saw the upper edge of your mind
nepalese high
i felt so damn bad love drips and gathers in the sand
but now my eyes have seen just what my hand has done
the sky and the ocean
that little thought that you’re trying to hide
are combining
cut and dried
starry-eyed
i’m rowing closer
rarified
the crew are nepalese high
it’s true it’s bonafide
you wanna know why?
cuz when i’m sleepwalking with you
i’m only half awake
i’m only half me when i’m half of you
feel the song of the sea
jutting through
sing with me please sing
c’mon
c’mon c’mon c’mon c’mon
c’mon
“identity theft” (reyes)
i just can’t be shocked anymore
i’m insulated down to the core
all the loose wires
once stripped and frayed
are all soldered down now
not a single stray hair left out of place
they took good care to give me a new face
identity theft
all that they left was hardly a trace
memories stored a closet of props
wiped perfectly clean
like sparkling counter tops
just waiting for death
to offer his hand
a bullet of hairdoos
just another sure sign we’re not meant to stay
they took good aim
they know what it takes
identity theft
all that they left is so paper thin
i can see right through my own skin
don’t them take you away
i promised them everything
if you could stay
if you could stay
# Comment(s), 3 Aug 07
lyrics to captains

“the softest strike” (sanden)
mittens startin’ to pack snow in hand
compress the world in a ball of ice
from the night’s snowfall
the morning yawn just cracks
light feeds back to a target with her long brown hair
brushed coyly back
but scooped up with the snow was a rock
a secret payload
turn to face the sky
lust unknown to a heartbeat deep inside
her soft swelling breast
trajectory complete buckling knees
rock and ice blood and snow love and hate
through the air hurtle past children’s stares
a secret payload
when the softest strike it’s still violent
when the weakest put up a fight it’s labeled a nuisance
when the softest strike it’s still violent
when the weakest put up a fight it’s labeled dirty
it’s labeled dirty
“instant coffee pt. 2” (sanden)
karma karma c’mon
we want it
karma karma c’mon
we want it
karma karma c’mon
it comes instantly
it’ll come it’ll come now here it comes
karma karma c’mon
we want it
karma karma c’mon
we brought it on
karma karma karma c’mon
it’s perversity
it’ll come it’ll come now here it comes
it gets worse
dit dah dit dah dit
dah dit dah dit dit dah
dit dah dit dah dit dah dit dah dit dah
hello pushed up against the glass
with the wires against my face
like a train never arriving always departing
c’mon hello
five days five nights now without sleep
but the bright lights just mean nothing
compared to the violence of sex as sickness
karma karma c’mon
we shot it
karma karma c’mon
we brought it on
karma karma c’mon
it’s perversity
we come we come
like roman thugs
like jack booted thugs
we are jack booted thugs
“suffer (no more pain)” (sanden)
you suffer it’s in the way you smirk
you’re lonely
but that’s not the reason it hurts
you could kill with a smile
so feeble
we suffer aw the dealings of fools
we’re trapped in a troubled pool
we’re dead wrapped in a newspaper
you smile as leave me
ah no more pain
no more suffering
i’m under and I’m still going down
the yellow line is departing now
i stumble under the weight
please wait
ah no more pain
no more suffering
ah no more war
no more
we suffer alone
we’re never at home
they sealed the door when they changed the locks
i won’t pretend
i won’t lie
i won’t pretend that we won’t die
“flowers & elephants” (odie)
i have lived in the city
and i was born in a country where my mom was born
when it wasn't torn apart by a war
so what the hell's going on now?
i thought i've wanted this here all along
but when your skin is gone you bleed like anyone
or some other tentative camp zama resident
but it's all irrelevant to flowers & elephants
now we are millions of soldiers
in a city or country and geared for a fight
the ilk of ink is incredible in candle light
they cannot speak when it's you they're talking to
they cannot see when it's you they're looking for
while me and all of the hundred fifty thousand
men and women with our children and our cousins
we see through your president and all his sycophants but it's all irrelevant to flowers & elephants
some with a feel and some with a glow
some with a sumo grunt i know
tsunamis predicted by plants and animals
our time is quickly approaching
soon high tide will gently be kissing
la luna na na flowers & elephants,
unborn babies flowers & elephants
and pebbles that fall from the sky
down to the big oak tree
the one with the special branch you bow down to pay homage to
no thing is nothing and nothing is everything
“sun in the sky” (sanden)
i know it’s mean
i know it’s me
i know it’s mean
i know it’s me
i know the upper edge of your mind
is the sun in the sky
i heard the broken hymn than you’re singing
floating on high
i felt so damn bad love drips and gathers in the sand
but now my eyes have seen just what my hand has done
i’m starting to feel a little bit uneasy
this wake is making me queesy
does anybody got a little pill?
just keep your eyes on the horizon
i know it’s mean
i know it’s mean
i know
# Comment(s), 3 Aug 07
mattress factory + fun = TABC

wow,
we all really had a great time performing at the mattress factory on saturday. we hope you in attendance did also. thanks everyone for singing and clapping along with almost every song. we felt so... relieved. relieved to know we still have the best fans a band could want here in our beautiful, rainy hometown.
and then, i went to my car to look for a cd, and found the SAPD outside and things kind of took a turn from there. the mattress factory incurred some fines and a few P.I tickets were given out, but things could have been much worse.
thanks go out to all of you for being good, cooperative citizens & for not starting a riot (hills -- muttering under his breath) and to our host eva, who was very understanding about the whole matter.
suffice to say, we hope to make the mattress factory a regular place to perform and again, thanks to all of you who came out. we had a wonderful time, despite the presence of various law enforcement agencies at the evening's end.
see you all soon,
joe and the cup
1 Comment(s), 22 Jul 07
the grackle doeth not fly in july

dear fans and friends,
it is with heavy hearts that we announce the cancellation of what would have been an entire month of grackle mundys in celebration of contemporary art month. both erik and odie are out of town as we write for work and family reasons respectively, and although we received a very nice write-up in the SA current, we just aren't able to perform at this time.
again, we are truly sorry. we love you san antonio, and will never forget what you've done for us.
but hopefully we can surprise you with a "secret" grackle mundy before the end of the month,
so keep watching the skies, stay out of the heat, and look for us to be performing in town again soon.
love,
buttercup
# Comment(s), 2 Jul 07
New EP -- Living Again!

Buttercup will release a new 6 song EP in August 2007. What follows is some notes on the songs by Erik.
"Living Again" 6 song EP
Song by Song Commentary by Erik Sanden
"Living Again"
This song was written by Joe Reyes about 4 years ago. It's been a staple in our live set for quite some time. We'd had a few aborted missions in trying to capture it on tape, finally getting a version this March that would sit on this largely acoustic EP. I remember Joe showing me the song for the first time, sitting on the edge of my crummy couch in my old apartment. I remember that high feeling, and thinking this is a truly great song. He was really, really down at the time, and this happy song was his first love song to the band. The lyric is about how being in Buttercup was making him feel re-invigorated, like living again. So my hope is that he keeps on ticking with his beautiful songs, his Bacharach-like mind churning out chords and inversions until the sun finally sets on all of us.
"Innocence, in a Sense"
Odie recently penned this lilting ballad, with its lazy chords and gorgeous vocal. I hear him singing to an innocent soul, a child, his inner child, his own boy. Somehow I hear a tiny bit of Prince in Odie's vocal delivery. We took more than a few takes to finally hit this version that you hear, so stark and mellow. Can you hear the birds in the break? Joe's piano playing really cements the innocent progression of this, one of my very favorite Buttercup recordings, ever.
"Modulating from Montana"
This song was written in 1995 in Grand Marais Minnesota. I was sitting in my father's HAM radio room, listening to conversations from all over. I grabbed a pen and transcribed the lyric to this song, which largely came intact over the radio. Here I was really a scribe, taking dictation.
This is one of the first songs I ever wrote, certainly the first that I felt was effective. I remember playing this song to my friend, sitting on my couch, and seeing her eyes mist over. I knew then that the song had something in it, an inner sadness. So when I recorded this take this spring I did it when I was thoroughly upset, down in a dark place. You might hear it in the voice, or feel it in the guitars. The way we don't want to let go, at the very end.
"In Love"
Musically this song takes more than a lot from Elliott Smith and his favorite band, the Beatles. Buttercup has been covering quite a few of his songs for a sometime. Consequently, his melodies have been swirling around in all our heads, and you may hear his echo throughout this take.
Lyrically the song is darker than its melody. I try to sketch a pure love sickness, hoping that the incessant "in love" at the end underscores the way our minds work when were in the throws of love sickness. Odie and I sing in parallel throughout the body of the song, and I like to think of this as a duet. Both of us singing about our own obsessions, about how hard it is to control your thoughts when your thoughts are controlling you.
"Frost Heaves"
This is about my mother and father and the time they flipped their truck 5 miles south of their cabin in northern Minnesota. My dad said that they came to a rest hanging completely upside down, so he had to cut them out of their seat belts. He found himself standing in the flipped vehicle in a pool of quarters, they were spilled everywhere, on the roof, in the snow: he's always prepared for parking or carwashes. Luckily they were both ok, and walked away, "shaken but unbowed".
I love the little keyboard lines and the ebow filigree that edges the verses like white icing. Joe laid this on top of the song in about a half hour of frenzied composition and tracking. During the solo, you can hear two bass lines sort of noodling about. This is both Joe and odie, bass soloing underneath it all.
"All the Sundays"
Joe's song about the day that functions as the end of his week, usually the aftermath to his musician's weekly work.
Joe has said repeatedly since I've known him just how much he hates Sundays.
# Comment(s), 30 Jun 07
king william ode

we wrote a song at rehearsal today for the king william fair that we're playing on saturday at 4 pm. for those of you who wish to sing along, here are the lyrics. we stole the chords from the exploding sex kittens song about george harrison:
king wil-li-am
for you we come
and for the beer
it's number one
you're number two
no, that's not true
the funnel cake
that's number two
king --- william
king --- william
king --- william
king --- william
king wil-li-am...

to paraphrase the words of george martin, "lads, you've just written your first number one hit".
thanks, george!
see you there....
lub,
the cup
# Comment(s), 27 Apr 07
captains of industry

buttercup is proud to announce the upcoming release of a new 6 song EP, "captains of industry." these six songs lean more towards rock than previous buttercup releases. the ep features photos and art by ramin samandari. the record will be available may 12, 2007.
this from erik:
it's called "captains of industry" which is a cheeky title that is sort of a challenge to ourselves to see if we can uphold our promise to release 3 EPS and 1 full length in 2007. all of these will be self-produced, for the first time.
"captains of industry" has six songs that lean towards the more rocking mood of buttercup. as we recorded it seemed like these six songs hung together the best so that's the direction we took. in spite of the captain hat on the cover, nobody's really steering the boat. well i guess all of buttercup is, if you can steer in a buddhist way. if you can steer when practicing scream therapy.
blow by blow song comentary:
"softest strike" is about a woman who gets hit by a snowball that secretly had a rock in it. this track features mark rubinstein on piano and marcus rubio on violin. i like how this song goes from minimal verses to a big, chaotic ascending chorus. jamie's drum work on this track is some of his very best: from the simplest kick and snare pattern to crazed, wild, pounding drum fills and bashed cymbals.
"instant coffee part 2" is about torture. when working on the lyrics, I had this mental picture of a roman thug, his tunic obscenely loose getting pumped up to order up another round of abuse. there is a nod to John Lennon's "Instant Karma" here when odie, Joe and Jamie chant mantra-like "Karma, Karma, C'mon!"
this song is a sister to a song on our first record. where part one was hyper minimal (one chord, acoustic guitar and oud accompaniment), part two is complicated with strange chord changes, and dramatic shifts in tempo. i wanted them to work together in stark contrast.
"sun in the sky": scream therapy on a boat at sea. this is the song where we had our first epiphany, which came when we recorded the sounds of Joe trashing my bathroom: kicking the trashcan, slamming the toilet seat, dumping my hair care products into the bathtub. this is when we first began to realize, that sonicly we can do whatever we want to on this record.
"identity theft": this is joe's song about identity theft. it has joe's signature sonic lushness, something that can absorb the listener like a water bed of electric guitar. i love the walky bass and the wash of guitar, splattered all over the song.
"flowers and elephants": how when the us dropped the bomb on hiroshima, it burned everyone's skin regardless of color. i love the quality of odie's voice on this song, which we double tracked. jamie does an excellent elephant noise on the bridge. i'm the dog, joe is the monkey, odie the dove.
"suffer": this song was recorded live, and is presented here with all it's present roughness. we barely knew this song when we captured this take: i think it was our second run thru the song. you can hear us searching for the changes, but it seems to have the energy that a new song loses once it's very practiced.
the lyric is about war. our war, their wars.
this is not the happiest bunch of songs, but thats what Buttercup was feeling this past winter. we hope you enjoy it.
2 Comment(s), 17 Apr 07
today in the statesman

oh, there's a nice preview of tonight's show in the austin american statesman. just click on erik's mug or where it says "it's like butta."
# Comment(s), 30 Mar 07
new blog on the cup

check out this nice blog about butterucp at igosa.com
# Comment(s), 26 Mar 07
really big shoe...really big....

buttercup has been invited back to austin's cactus cafe for a performance this friday, march 30. thank you so much, griff, for asking us back to what we consider to be one of the state's premier listening rooms.
billed as "the three faces of buttercup" (two-faced having a completely different meaning), we will perform three sets of music: an acoustic set (toy accordion, watch out), an electric set (guitars set to stun) and a set of covers (a big surprise for some).
we hope to see you there.
meanwhile, we are developing mighty humps in our backs as we labor over our instruments and computers; putting the finishing touches on EP number 1 which is slated for release next month. stay tuned and we will keep you informed of our progress using our patented buttercup doppler radar.
see you all soon....
loves,
the cup
# Comment(s), 26 Mar 07
interview 3.15.07

a new video interview was done by the charming lindsay meeks of the houston chronicle/san antonio express. check it out on line, w/ a live performance of "cold to me."
# Comment(s), 20 Mar 07
day 2 of sxsw : hot mama's

3-15-2007
10:30 am joe has triple expresso.
10:45 am joe has another triple expresso.
11:35 joe orders ice tea.
5:30 pm graham weber performs at hot mama's
6:00 pm tommy womack performs
6:45 buttercup plays
we hung around got to watch the lennings, a wonderful band that we will hopefully join forces with soon enough. oh, and tommy womack is an amazing storyteller and a hell of a singer. we ended the night with a jam with the lennings and tommy, plowing thru kinks songs like waterloo sunset and all my friends were there. oh what a night.
thanks to vickie lucero for being a den mother to us all. to creston funk for guitar madness. to holly and the hot mamas for the hospitality. to oliver gomez for the welcome mat and the gut busting humor. to finnegan for the dance. to tommy for the jonathan richman impersonation and the good will. to justin and the lennings for their brilliance. to charlie roadman for his staunch support. to lori for keeping vickie in check. to brandi for boucing back. to everyone who came out for their support!
# Comment(s), 16 Mar 07
buttercup rehearsal video: spelling bee contest

buttercup at practice, monday 3/12/07. courtesy of the wonderful folks at igosa.com.
# Comment(s), 16 Mar 07
sx madness

joe says:
take this down:
3-14-07
3pm arrive in austin. 3:30pm still on I35. 3:40 reach 6th street exit. 3:45 receive first warning from police. that if we do what we intend to do (unload our gear) it will be a very long night for us. 4:05 arrive at backdoor of club after parking at base camp 0 (11th and san jacinto). 4:15 repair to oliver's apt for much needed carbohydrates. 4:16 odie opens book to read. 4:17 odie snoring. 6:30 erik makes tea. 7:45 odie still on same page, awakes. 8:05 rush out, totally late for an interview and live performance on a new york radio station. joe and jamie cavorting around watching tacks the boy disater and future clouds of radar perform. 8:15 erik and odie running thru crowd, practicing on way to interview. oliver circles in car. 8:27 second verbal warning from police. 8:35 jon sanches makes joe smile. 8:36 odie and erik perform sick yellow flower on banjo and classical guitar. 8:38 oliver buys toilet paper, totally out. 9pm odie, erik, oliver 1st stop at hoek's pizza. 9:02 odie demands beer to accompany pizza. 9:03 a club will not let us in w/ pizza. 9:03 enter jakalope w/ pizza. odie orders two lonestars. 9:05 jamie and joe arrive, second stop at hoek's. 9:10 brandi and nevie join table. brandi drops cell phone for the first time. 9:15 charlie, manager and lexa arrive, join table. 9:30 band fully assembles for first time at club. 11pm band begins "official" showcase. 11:20 band leaves stage for crowd. 11:25 oliver and brandi exhort "fuck our ear pussies." crowd aghast. 11:35 woman mounts stage, flashes crowd. crowd aghast. 11:40 show over. 11:50 3rd trip to hoek's pizza. 2:00 am stage manner pleads with police to let band vehicles beyond barrier. 2:05 stage manager returns, says "that is the biggest prick i've ever met in my life, and i've worked with buzz aldrin." 2:20 4th slice o'. 2:28 chased by police past barricade. police man says, "you make this happen. i want to see you on other side of barricade." 2:29 crazy u turn. 3:30 phoenix beats dallas in double overtime. 4:30 conclusion of rush's 30th anniversary concert. 4:35 nighty night.
# Comment(s), 15 Mar 07
four shows for sxsw

hey everyone,
just want to let everyone know that we are playing day and night in austin during sxsw. if you can make our official showcase at the coop on wednesday, then maybe join us thursday or saturday for some day time silliness.
3.15.07: One Show
Pedernales Lofts, Austin, TX
Hot Mama's SXSW Happy Hour
Thursday, March 15 * 5:30pm
2401 E. 6th St at the Pedernales Lofts * Austin, TX * 512-476-6262
www.hotmamasaustin.com
3.17.2007: Two Shows
SHOW #1)
Hole in the Wall Day Party
Saturday, March 17 * 3pm
2538 Guadalupe * Austin, TX * 512.477.4747
www.holeinthewallaustin.com
SHOW #2)
Café Mundi Day Party
Saturday, March 17 * 5 pm
1704 East 5th St * Austin, TX *
www.cafemundi.com
# Comment(s), 7 Mar 07
little mice

hey everyone who looks at our page and goes, "no new blog? what a bunch of lazy sods!",
we've been recording songs for a new album at erik's house while it's nice and chilly here in south texas. chilly is relative, however. if it hits 50 degrees F, then we all bust out our leather jackets. our apologies to our friends in england or chicago. we feel your pain as the sun brings us near 70 degrees every afternoon.
but it's been going well. it's precluded us from booking many shows, though. sorry about that.
we did get accepted to sxsw, which we quickly rejected. (kidding)
so we will be performing in austin in march, but until then, we are like little mice, nibbling on a giant block of cheese, whittling it down into some sort of beautiful, shapely sculpture.
so the next time you see us, bring some cheese, a grater or two, and a tiny venus di milo, and we'll swap for some new recordings.
thanks so much for your charm and support. we love you all. it sounds cliche, but it's true.
sincerely,
the 4 little mice of cupland
# Comment(s), 7 Mar 07
dial a song is dying

our answering machine is slowing down dramatically, the little gears that power dial a song are creaky, old, and starting to seize up. the song that is currently on dial a song, "instant coffee part 2" which normally clocks in at a mere two minutes and 20 seconds, takes up a full 3 minutes of your listening time.
buttercup just won an ebay auction for a replacement model.
hopefully that will mean more songs and more life for dial a song.
# Comment(s), 7 Mar 07
new songs

we're previewing three new songs on our myspace page.
you can hear the preliminary mixes of "in love," "instant coffee part 2," and "suffer (no more pain)."
we anticipate an ep release in april.
besos xoxo
1 Comment(s), 1 Mar 07
houston, hawks, happiness...

we'd like to thank everyone who came to our show on saturday jan. 27 at super happy fun land. it's a magical wonderland of a venue and we think we've found our new home in houston. thank you to bryan, all the cute kitties, and the rest of the staff there for making our evening more than super happy. we can't wait to return. also thanks to charles p and his much more than 10% of a band. they sounded great and brought lots of friends, old english 800, and space-age toothpicks along with some really good performing.
we counted over a dozen red tail hawks and osprey on the way to and from the show, which bodes well for the bird of prey population. we also counted over 4 breaded shrimp on the mixed fajita platter at 'alma latina' on sheppard rd. we count things for fun.
next up is our showcase at sxsw in austin in march. meanwhile, we continue to record, read, nap, do back exercises, and enjoy being cold for a change. thank you everyone for supporting us. check our myspace page for posts of new songs soon.
love,
le cup
1 Comment(s), 29 Jan 07
sxsw

buttercup has been invited to participate in the sxsw music conference. we're getting our cool rock and roll haircuts, tightening our pant legs, working on our coreography. we're dusting off our flower hats. oh, austin, here we come, sweetheart.
1 Comment(s), 25 Jan 07
new songs

buttercup has been in workshop mode recording new material. we're doing this all in our own studio. it's all so homemade, and all so new. we expect to have some of these songs for your perusal on this here website by feb 3!
consider it an early valentines present from buttercup.
# Comment(s), 25 Jan 07
a recommendation

It's been freezing cold down here in Texas. So I've had quite a bit of time locked inside the arctic apartment to listen to some great music. I'd like to make a recommendation: check out John Aselin's new record he made with the Dirty Rugs. "Banished from the Night" and "Awake" have been freaking me out, making me warm inside. Try it for yourself.
Listen to John Aselin.
Love and Warmth,
Erik
# Comment(s), 20 Jan 07
Erik on ME Television

Erik Sanden performed on ME Television last month (Dec 2006). This time he was all alone, with the rest of the Cup busy back in San Antonio. So here's a link to Erik playing Hello, Goodbye solo.
Thank you to Deidre Gott for putting this clip up on YouTube.
2 Comment(s), 9 Jan 07
Christmas Recap

Our Christmas shows at the Red Room turned out to be a success. We sold out both nights and were surrounded by good friends and family. The two shows were quite different. Monday was loose and chaotic with no formal set list. We collectively sang lots of Christmas Carols and some Buttercup standards. Adrian Foxbaker, former member of Buttercup, joined us for "Nosin' Around." The second night was quiter and edgier to start, and complete chaos at the end. We saw the Gomez clan writhe and fall into a interpretive dance frenzy. We witnessed Marcus Rubio shaking like he was speaking in tongues. We held serve in the war in the court, with all of your help.
We send our warmest thanks to Jazz, Delphine and Cary at the Red Room for all of their help and support. Also thank you Leslie for the photos. XO.
1 Comment(s), 6 Jan 07

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