The band is where they are today in part because of successful song placement, landing first in an ad for a cell phone company, then getting their hit Pachuca Sunrise played during the intro and outro of NPR's All Things Considered. Some success can also be attributed to the fact that they're a pretty good band.
They have a new record, Omni, due out May4th. It will be their first album with Dangerbird Records. They'll leave Suicide Squeeze Records, which has unbrella'd Pedro the Lion, Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse, behind.
A quick aside: I’m realizing slowly that, although some bands do a great job of putting live performances online, many do not. Often I’m picking between audio or video quality, and usually both are pretty poor. Then I give up and put a "real" music video up. Music videos showing the band playing video games are great and all, but there’s something much more interesting about a real live tape.
I’m not really going anywhere with this except point out that putting a couple of purposefully done recordings on youtube seems with it. It would cost maybe a free beer for someone with a camera and go a long way in getting your sound out there.
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