Details on the Birds performance at the upcoming Art On The Edge festival in downtown Raleigh on August 21st have been posted on the shows page, with more details on the entire festival available here and here.

After four solid months of touring, we’ve taken the past few weeks to get a little rest and recuperation. However, now as August rolls around we are getting back in gear- working on new material and doing a couple of shows, the first of which will be an outdoor show in downtown Raleigh at the Art on the Edge on August 21st. Stay tuned for details.

The other show everyone should know about is a benefit for our friend Cy Rawls who has recently been diagnosed with brain cancer and is currently undergoing chemo. Cy has been an active member of the musical community here in NC for over a decade and, chances are, if you’ve been to a show here he was there. Obviously this treatment is costly and he is without insurance so folks throughout the community are organizing to help Cy and his family. The benefit we are doing is at the Cat’s Cradle on August 29th and will feature us, The Rosebuds and Superchunk.

For more info and updates about Cy, visit cyrawls.blogspot.com.

We have had a rad time on tour with Mudhoney. Things started in a whirlwind as our first show, at The Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill, was only two days after we got “home” (wait… what does that word even mean?) from our month long European tour, which in turn was only two days separated from our two month US tour. It was great to see some familiar faces, however briefly, and Mudhoney totally killed it.

The next night we were in Atlanta at The EARL, one of our favorite clubs in the southeast. This was another great show. The locals, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause were hot shit. And, again Mudhoney killed it. Their set, a good mix from their newer records and classic stuff from the recently re-released Super Fuzz Big Muff is melting faces nightly. […]