friends,

the time has come. our new ep, distance and 7″ of ca is too long – alternate b/w down to bed, are available now!

head over to the distance store page to order both releases and get an immediate download of the ep!

the cd is limited to 300 physical copies, and comes packaged in a silk screen printed eco wallet. they are hand numbered, although, we didnt actually number them. we wanted to make them a bit more personalized, so we thought we would do something a little more fun. each cd has a unique hand written phrase that has an inside story about signal hill. as you get your copy, we encourage you to email us, so that we can share the story.  everyone gets something different!

the vinyl is also limited to 300 copies and is pressed on white wax. these are all hand numbered.  the 7″ was an idea conceived by a dear friend, nicolas the dictator, who helped get signal hill off the ground more than 5 years ago. when we released our self titled ep and he  listened to our song “california is too long” he said it was mandatory that it end up on a white 7″ somehow. four years later we have it and this newer recording, we call it the alternate version, sounds better than we dreamed of at the time. the b-side is a song called down to bed.

want to stream the ep for free? stream away! if you enjoy, we encourage you to share the below streaming widget with your friends, facebook, twitter,  favorite blogs, etc.

lastly, we have our first two shows of the year this coming week to celebrate these releases.

friday, july 23rd @ the gingerbread house w/ silian rail

saturday, july 24th (tim’s bday!) @ pehrspace w/ silian rail and cue the moon

only 9 days remain until our new ep is out, and we are excited to share it with you all! we have plenty more news to share in the coming days, but for now, heres the cover art for both the distance ep and the california is too long 7″.

(artwork by: paulifornia screen printed on a recycled cd wallet, limited to 300 copies. each copy hand numbered.)

(artwork by rishi. pressed on white vinyl, and limited to 300 copies. each copy hand numbered)

so, the ep is finished and off to the presses! its coming out on the 20th of july and limited to 300 copies. each copy will have a screen printed cardboard sleeve and hand numbered. in the meantime, we have been promising to share with you some tunes. finally, here is a song called paper airplanes. click “get it now” below and a link to download the song will be emailed to you. we hope you enjoy and encourage you to share!

more soon
sh

we are pleased to announce the release of our new ep and 7 inch release on july 20, 2010!

our good friend patrick murphy who recorded and mixed more after we’re gone, is finishing up the last tune. once finished, it will be off to mastering and then the press.  more details, pre-order info, and of course music will be posted in the coming weeks. we appreciate your continued support!

distance ep (cd – limited to 300)
1. freelance forest
2. paper airplanes
3. wintersea
4.spirited from the city
5. california is too long (alternate)

&

california is too long (7″ white vinyl, limited to 300)

california is too long (alternate)

b/w

down to bed

also! this is super exciting for us. rishi will be visiting from scotland during this time, and we will be playing 2 shows! one show at the gingerbread house in san jose w/silian rail and a show at pehrspace (our home away from home) in los angeles w/ silian rail and death house chaplain.  these will be our first shows in nearly a year and we will be celebrating with a new cd and 7 inch! hope to see some of you there

more info (and music!!!) soon -

bye for now,

sh

For those of you who don’t know, Dr. Healy posed his theory of telescopic evolution in Richard Linklater’s film, Waking Life. His monologue in the film inspired much of the most recent Signal Hill album, More After We’re Gone. A vocal sample from Dr. Healy’s scene is featured in track 4 of the album, entitled “Men Before Them“.

When we added the sample to the tune, Tim emailed Dr. Healy for his blessing and sent him a copy of the tune. He enjoyed the song and was very generous in letting us use the sample for the album.

Since Tim visits Austin frequently, he made it a mission to one time drop by St. Edward’s University (where Dr.Healy works)  and share with him a copy of the record.  Tim called his office on Tuesday morning asking if he could swing by and Dr. Healy cheerfully said yes!

Tim really enjoyed sharing time with Dr. Healy, who he characterized as super friendly, charismatic, and genuine. Dr. Healy, thanks again for your inspiration and generosity in letting us the sample.  Here’s the clip from the movie which includes the sample that we used: Dr. Eamonn Healy – Waking Life

Men Before Them by SignalHill

things have been super busy on the SH front lately, so please accept our sincerest apologies for the delay on getting the contest results posted (and lack of updates)! we reviewed the voting logs and noticed some interesting things occurring and determined it was only fair to allow unique votes by ip address to make sure all were calculated fairly and correctly.  that being said, the results of the contest are as follows!

we will be working with stacey an (the winning designer) to get the design in the appropriate print specs and get it out to the printers! also, since design 2 lost by a total of 9 votes (and since we all loved the design) we will be printing our next batch of stickers with this design and send it with every t-shirt order! we cant begin to thank you all enough for taking the time to submit designs, vote on your favorites, and for all of the continued support!

with 2010 well on its way, our goal is to bring you some of these new tunes we recorded. two of the tunes are VERY close to being finished one song called unrecognized which we played at a few shows in mid 2009 and a new version of california is too long.  we will continue to work through the process and get these out to you all.

we will post the new shirts up for order as soon as we receive them back. if you have any specific size requests email us (siggyhill(at)gmail.com) and we will try our hardest to accomodate!

more to come!

sh

happy new year everyone!

we hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!  2009 went by pretty fast and it was definitely a crazy year.  we cant thank you all enough for all of your support! of course we all have our individual highlights, but as a band here are some of the significant notables (which ill attempt at chronological order):

1. brian and his wife welcomed baby lauren to the world on feb 25
2. we finished recording and put out our debut album  more after we’re gone
3. had our cd release party at pehrspace with good friends beware of safety and timonium
4. did a mini tour of australia (sans physical dave, with his parts performed flawlessly by his digital counterpart: tim’s  roland sampler)
5. we played our final show of 2009 in august with friends the littlest viking and beware of safety at echo curio (SIDE NOTE: besides the australian shows, we played everyone of our shows in 2009 with beware of safety)
6. went back into the studio in late august to begin recording a new ep
7. a week or so after going to the studio, rishi moved to scotland to pursue his masters in design and digital media at the university of edinburgh
8. with rishi away, we continued writing music via the internet. the 3 of us who remained stateside would occasionally get together to take a stab at working out some of the tunes in the practice space.
9. in mid december rishi came home for a couple of weeks! we were thrilled to see him and got the chance to play together live for the first time since august. we had no time to waste though as we saw him for the first time on friday, worked together live for the first time on these tunes,  and went into the studio early the next morning to finish tracking the ep!
10. we spent two days back at the compound in signal hill along with our friend jeff lewis and patrick murphy (both who helped on the album) as well as dave’s wife pamela who took pics and help document it (review of the session and pics at the compound site here).

we did a couple end of the year interviews (which includes some of our favorite albums and films from 09).. you can check those out here & here .

with 2009 out of the way,  we have lots of exciting stuff coming for 2010!  lets start with the ep that we talked about. so far we have tracked 10 songs within the two seperate sessions, which likely 5 or 6 of them will make an ep. the tracknames and finalized tracklist arent done yet, but jeff from the compound had a funny take on the working titles (check it here)  he knows us too well! also not quite sure on the timing.. hopefully by spring we have it out. stay tuned here!

also, our last post on our site we talked about a tshirt contest. we are beyond stoked at the  turnout and thrilled that one of the below designs will be printed on our next t shirt (we may even do stickers with the second place one if it works out!) ! we want to thank everyone who took the time to put together a design and we will find a way to hook you all up with something in the near future for your efforts.   we did have the not so pleasant task of narrowing down the designs to a manageable voting number. in order to do  so we  all voted for our  favorite designs to  narrow it the list down to the top 3 (which almost ended up being a top 4 because of how the voting turned out). needless to say here are the top three and it is up to you to decide who the winner is! we will take votes until the 31st of January!

Design 1 Submitted By Stacey An for Allo Design

Design 2 Submitted by John E. Kim

Design 3 Submitted by Brian Baltin

happy voting folks! more news and announcements coming soon!

your pals,

signal hill

ps.. if your looking for a full 2009 entertainment re-cap check skillz 09 rap up – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KHJHmw4-CE

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

We wanted to start by giving thanks to all of you for supporting us this year. It means a lot to us, and we are forever grateful!

Things have been going well in the Signal Hill camp over the past few months. In August we hit The Compound Studio with our good friends Jeff Lewis and Patrick Murphy to begin tracking for what will likely be a new ep (although no set plans yet!).  This first session yielded 4 tunes and we are heading back in December to track a few more songs. More to come on that later and who knows, it is the holiday season, maybe we will give you a sneak preview of some of these songs!

In other and more immediate news, we are having our first ever contest!!!! Have you ever wanted to design a tshirt? Well now is your chance! We are going to be doing a new run of t-shirts, and would love for any and all of you to submit your design. We will pick our favorites and post them on our site for a vote.  Unfortunately we cant pay you for your design, but in addition to having your design printed on the next signal hill tshirt, you would definitely get free signal hill stuff, a couple of free shirts, major props and whatever else we could hook you up with. We will take submissions now through December 18. Please feel free to share this with anyone that you feel might be interested!  Also, be sure to read the guidelines and submission agreement below.

Again, we sincerely thank you all and send our best to the start of a great holiday season!

*Signal Hill*
http://signalhillmusic.com
http://twitter.com/signalhillmusic

Design Guidelines

• All designs should be submitted by email to siggyhill@gmail.com
• The design should be no more than 3 colors (plus the shirt color). T-Shirt colors can be selected from here. American Apparel
• For contest submission a web-ready .jpg is fine. If your design is selected as the winner, we will need a high resolution PSD, AI, or EPS file at 300 DPI to go to print
• Your design should have the band name somewhere within
• Your design should be wholly original and by submitting this design you agree that this your own design that does not contain any copyright material.
• Other than that, go bananas!

UPDATED 11/6/2009: thanks everyone for taking the time to download and or share the free download! the link to download the full album has been pulled (and replaced with a free download of “a secret society”. if you didnt get a chance to download it, we have a streaming player on our music page (aka tracks son) where you can at least listen to the entire record. we will keep the original post below in tact (sans the download of the album) just for archive purposes!

thanks again for playing everyone, we have lots of new stuff coming soon (including hitting the studio again in december to finish up an ep etc.) stay tuned!

your friends,
siggy hill

ever think about buying our album? how bout getting it for free – directly from us? using the widget below, simply enter your email address and you will get a link to download the new album for free. this will only be for Nov 3rd -5th! the only thing we ask in return is to share with any and all of your friends that might be interested ! add it to your twitter accounts, facebook, myspace, twacespace, or whatever!

for all of you that have already purchased this album from us, we have something coming a little later for you! stay tuned for that