We have a couple of exciting shows coming up this week, the first one is on Tuesday at WAMC’s performing arts space the Linda Norris Auditorium. We are playing with the always excellent and soulful Bryan Thomas and Sevendys a project led by Jed Davis with members of Avi Buffalo, including Avi Zahner-Isenberg himself.  The Time Union did a great interview piece about the band, check it out and get excited for this show, we are.

Details are @ Facebook. 7pm. 10$.

On Friday we return to Brooklyn for a last minute invite to this year’s Northside Festival hosted by The L Magazine. The festival run Thursday to Sunday (the 16th – 19th) and they have Guided By Voices, Atlas Sound, Beirut, Sharon VanEtten and TON of other people playing, including us. Our set is at 10pm on Friday night at The Gutter Bar. Come check it out.

Lastly we have been toting around our new 7″ at shows lately, its got 4 songs on it and run about 13 minutes long and its called Amnesia Moon Vol 1 or “Are These Dreams? That Which We Forget Upon Awakening With Regret.” We are going to be releasing it online on Tuesday June 28th. Pre-Orders will be up soon over at our band camp page and in the mean time you can pick it up for us at any of our live shows.

Well friends, it was a long journey, but the band and Clifford made it home…safe and sound.

After our 9 day stay in Las Cruces we hit nary a snag for the rest of the trip. Thanks to everyone who we played with, the places we played at, the houses we stayed at, and the friends and strangers who came to see us.

We can only look forward to next time we get to voyage around the country with our pal Clifford.

Tonight is our official SXSW showcase at Mellow Johnny’s (400 Nueces Street Austin, TX 78701) at 8pm.  If you are in Austin, we’d love to see you tonight.

So far the festival has been a blast, its a blur as usual but the weather in Austin couldn’t be nicer and we made our annual busking appearance last night at 6th and San Jaucinto.

We’ve had a great run on the way down here, playing rad shows in Atlanta, Greenville, NC & Harrisonburg VA since last time we updated.  Super thanks to MacRock for putting us on in Harrisonburg, check out their festival that is happening at the beginning of April. Looks rad, we’ll definitely apply for next year.

Also super thanks to Jay from Greenville who runs a place called Live Bar, where we played. One of the most passionate club owners we’ve ever met who runs an awesome establishment and showed us great kindness. To any touring bands, I’d highly recommend checking out the Live bar in Greenville NC.

Smith’s Old Bar was fun too, super thanks to Mark Chitwood for coming out to see the show its awesome to see fans so far from home.

On the way down we stopped at the Appomattox Court House in VA which was awesome and camped in a bunch of rad state Parks.  More updates soon.

We just posted a few new shows that we’ve gotten settled out since we’ve been on the road.  New details for shows in Chico, Eugene & Denver and a change of Venue in Portland. If you are reading this and have friends in these places tell them to come check us out.

The last real hole we have on this tour is Seattle. If anybody can offer some help drop us a line at thehobobanned@b3nson.net

Ps – Our new album is available over on bandcamp, 11 songs for a measly 5$. Please go buy it!