LaSalle

We’re playing in Brooklyn on July 18

Mike — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:28:08 +0000

Hi everyone. It’s not often that we play shows outside of Michigan, so we’re excited to be heading out to Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, July 18 to play a show at Southpaw with our friends, Gigantic Hand. Browns and Evil Cowards are on the bill as well. See you there!

Pretty Digital World

Mike — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:10:47 +0000

The digital version of Pretty World is now available on iTunes, AmazonMP3, and Emusic.

Pretty World Ordering Info

Mike — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:54:48 +0000

Pretty World CDs showed up on our doorstep this week and we couldn’t be more excited. Want to know the quickest way to get your hands on a copy?

Gangplank Records is now taking orders over at their website. They also have a special CD/T-shirt combo if you’re looking for some new summer clothes to wear while listening to the record.

Head over to www.gangplankrecords.com/store.php for more details.

Pretty World – New Songs Posted, Tracklist and Cover Art

Mike — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:21:55 +0000

Good news! Our new record is called Pretty World and it’s coming out this month. To kick things off, we posted four songs from the record over here – www.myspace.com/lasalle. We’ll have more details on how to get your hands on a copy later this week. See you then!

Here’s the tracklist:
1. Pretty World
2. Fictions
3. A Little Bit
4. To Sea
5. 21st Century
6. Task Analysis
7. Take This Man
8. So Something
9. Four Years of Fear
10. The Falcon

All Mixed Up

Mike — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:06 +0000

Good news friends…we’re pretty much finished up with our new record. The mixing is done and we’re just putting the finishing touches on the artwork right now.

Here are a few things that we think make it our best record yet (yeah, it’s only our second one).

We tracked the drums, bass, and guitars in one day.
Dan played drums, saxophone, keyboards, and sequenced some beats.
Dan’s wife, Jenny, played trombone on one of the songs.
Thomas from American Mars sang on one of the songs.
We recorded some backing vocals with a crew of family and friends in a Chicago apartment.
Dave Feeny engineered, mixed, mastered, and played pedal steel on it in between a trip to Europe with his band, Blanche, and releasing a new record with his other band, American Mars. Bravo!
The record’s initials are P.W.

Keep your ears clear and your eyes peeled. More details soon…

Tracking Done, Mix Next

Mike — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:58:05 +0000

Alright, quick update. Most of the basic tracking is done for the next record. We spent last Sunday getting the rest of the vocals finished up and added some fun things in there as well. Mixing starts in a couple of weeks, so hopefully we’ll have this thing wrapped up sometime in November. Stay tuned…

Last Minute

Mike — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:05:51 +0000

We jumped on a show tonight (Sept 14) at Mac’s Bar in Lansing, MI with Oh My God!, Relapse, and The Hat Madder at 9:00pm.

On Sunday we’re heading down to Tempermill to start working on vocals for the new record.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Small Brown Bike shows last weekend. It was an amazing time. Sorry if Mike’s voice sounded a little shot…singing 37 songs in two nights will do that to you.

Recording Our Second Record

Mike — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:01:24 +0000

In June we went down to Broadside Studios in Kalamazoo to start work on the basic tracks for our second record. It’s been almost two years since Expedition Songs hit the streets, so we’re definitely ready.

We recorded drums, bass and guitars pretty much live. Things went great and we somehow managed to track everything in about nine hours. Dan was a champion and only took one or two takes to get his drums tracks down. The rest of the time was spent cleaning up a few guitar and bass spots and then doubling all of the guitars (plus a few shredding solos).

We’ve been rocking the rough, instrumental mixes and are pretty excited about how it’s all sounding. The songs sound a bit more dynamic than Expedition Songs. I guess what we’re trying to say is that the rock is more ROCK and the quiet is more…

The next step is to head over to Tempermill to record the vocals in September. We’ll let you know as things start to come together.

Small Brown Bike Reunite for a Benefit Show

Mike — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:09:02 +0000

Small Brown Bike is getting back together to play a couple of benefit shows for a good friend of ours who has been battling Leukemia. The shows are on September 7 , 8 and 9 in Michigan and Chicago.

Hope to see some of you there. It should be a rip roarin’ good time…

Go to smallbrownbike.com for more details >

Hello New Website

Mike — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:25:53 +0000

Hi Friends.

Welcome to the new website. The old one served us well for over two years. Thank you old website, we’ll miss you.

The new one is going to be a lot easier to keep updated. We’re working on adding more video, MP3’s, photos, and all of that fun stuff. It will be a mess of multimedia.