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hey everyone! on this first full day of fall, we are super happy to share our new record alturas with you. it should now be available on all the usual locations (itunes/apple music, spotify, etc) [...]

hi! we hope you’re having a great summer! we’ve been working hard to get the last bit of details for the release of “alturas” and are thrilled that the time has come. a [...]

hi everyone! we are super thrilled to announce that we have partnered up with our friends in no grave like the sea, and katmai, to start a new collective called “am 800 sound”. we [...]

wow. 2015 went by way fast! lots happened and once again we were completely silent on our website. sorry about that. rest assured with a new record coming the first half of 2016, we will be doing [...]

welp, another year in the books! where does the time go?! it was a productive year for us. we put in some solid work writing our new album, and we are super proud of how its coming along! we [...]

wow, time flies, the last update here was dec 30th!!! what slackers we are. while we have been somewhat quiet here, things have definitely been moving on our end! speaking of time flying by,  as [...]

happy holidays everyone! we are sincerely grateful for your continued support, 2013 was a good year for us, with the launch of chase the ghost and playing a handful of shows out on the east [...]

<EDIT: this post has literally been sitting in our drafts queue for months. uploading photos to fill out the post kept failing so we kept putting it off…. finally broke down and just [...]

hi everyone, we are pleased to announce that the “chase the ghost” preorder and full album stream has begun! Chase The Ghost by Signal Hill you can preorder the cd or limited 2xLP vinyl (100 [...]

hi everyone, we are excited to announce that  the preorder for our new album,  “chase the ghost” will begin on tuesday march 12th via Sun Sea Sky Productions. during the preorder, you will be [...]

12/22/12  <insert mayan calendar debunked joke here>. hope this year has been a great one for you! its been a productive one for us, and even though 2012 had us tying with 2010 for playing [...]

howdy everyone, hope this note finds you doing well! lots of things have been happening here in the signal hill camp and  we had a few exciting updates that we wanted to quickly share! [...]

yo! how goes it? things are going pretty well here, and hope the same in your world. wanted to pass along a couple of quick updates which we have neglected to pass along to our site, and instead, [...]

we have once again failed our quest in keeping the site updated as quickly as we’d like to 🙁  we start with great intentions though! let me try to recap by day! (day one can be found here) [...]

we are on our way! yesterday was day one at the compound studio in signal hill tracking our new album “chase the ghost”. its great with all of us hanging together again, feels good. [...]

howdy folks! here’s another edition of tuesday tunage, a dose of tunes by bands that we are enjoying and think you should definitely check out! tim: The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation [...]

Rishi: Owen – Playing Possum for a Peek Brian: Youth Lagoon – Ghost to me Tim: Bersarin Quartett – Oktober Dave: Beach House – Lazuli

hi everyone! hope this finds you all doing well 🙂 things have been moving along quite nicely in the signal hill camp(s). since our last update, we all got to hang together again in NYC (second [...]

the che cafe in san diego, is one of our absolute favorite places to play.  one of the most band friendly diy venues one could come across, and has been a staple in the san diego music scene for [...]

wow, cannot believe 2011 is coming to a close! that might be the same opening we use at the end of every one of these year-end posts, but it’s true! it was a great year, and we cannot thank you [...]

howdy everyone! we hope this finds you all doing well! thought we would take a moment & give a couple of quick updates. firstly, this is super belated, but we wanted to start by saying that [...]

hi everyone, hope this message finds you all well and enjoying the last bit of summer!  between gearing up for the upcoming east coast shows, and the release of our new split 7” with pals all [...]

greetings friends!   we hope your summer is off to a great start and this finds you well.  things have been heating up (no relation to summer) in camp signal hill  and we wanted to share a [...]

even if your not able to make it to one of our upcoming shows, which tunes would you want to see? pick your top 3! oh and here are the dates: 9/21 – philly/westchester, pa @ venue tba 9/22 [...]

hi everyone, we are definitely supporting record store day tomorrow (april 16 2011) and think you should too!  if reviewing the list of  all of the righteous special releases by bands/labels isnt [...]

hi everyone, spring has arrived! the flowers are blooming, the trees are filling in, as is brian’s moustache 🙂 so what’s new? well, we have been writing new songs, and are super excited [...]

hi everyone! we hope you are all having a great and joyous holiday season. in all sincerity, we cant thank you enough for your continued support and for your help in making  2010 a great year! [...]

UPDATED 11/29/2010 thanks so much everyone for your support! we are gonna tally up all the sales and make a donation to Mike and Emily in the next day or so. since the special is over, we have [...]

first of all, a very big thank you to you all for purchasing, listening to, and or sharing our latest ep distance. we are proud of it and think it has a few of the best songs we have written to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

hi everyone, its been awhile since we updated the site and we thought we would let you all know that things are alive and well in the signal hill camp. we began recording our first tunes for the [...]

hi everyone, we got word that itunes, amazon, napster and other digital outlets had an incorrect version of “a secret society” which was providing only a partial download of the tune! [...]

howdy everyone, sorry we have been so silent on the website lately. we have a few posts in the works including an australia re-cap and a post on some of our favorite albums, but they are taking [...]

hi everyone, beginning tomorrow night, we are heading to australia to play a handful of shows! we are excited to play not only in a new country with some great bands, but it marks the first time [...]

first of all, thank you to all who have purchased, listened, and or shared our new album! we sincerely appreciate it. for those who couldnt make it to the cd release party last weekend, we missed [...]

howdy everyone, the first review of our record has been posted by los angeles based, radio free silverlake. take a look here: Review From Radio Free Silverlake.come join us this saturday night to [...]

so today marks the first day our new album is up for pre-order and immediate digital download. we are excited to finally share this with you all. take a look at the “more after we’re [...]

more after we’re gone (our first full length album) is being shipped off to mastering today! all things going according to plan, it should be off to the presses at the early part of next [...]

hey everyone, hope this finds you well! we wanted to share with you more news about the album, and other merch that will be available shortly! first of all… we will be releasing our debut [...]

hey everyone, we got two shows this week! if your free you should definitely come! making a total of 4 shows booked right now: 3/31/09 – Bootleg Theatre,  Los Angeles, CA 9PM  (testing [...]

yo! wanted to throw a quick update to yall a quick update in the happening of sh and beyond! first of all, cd baby is doing a special instrumental post rock mix  and podcast on cd baby which [...]

hi everyone, our good friends the littlest viking are playing tomorrow night (3-7-09) at the smell in honor of their new full length album! if your  in town, you should definitely go! besides [...]

hi everyone, there is a bit of great news that we wanted to share! brian and his lovely lady stacey, have brought a new signal hill member into the world,  baby lauren! both mama and baby lauren [...]

howdy everyone, we have been a bit silent lately, so we thought we would pass on a couple of quick updates,  the first being progress on the new album. i know i know, all we do is talk about this [...]

hi everyone, happy new year to you all! just wanted to post a quick bulletin on behalf of our pals from melbourne, all india radio! please go vote for their video persist (and simply by voting [...]

hi everyone, our friends over at radio free silverlake have posted a new (and FREE!) 2009 mix on their site which includes our new tune,  llangollen.  its a great mix which includes lots of la [...]

hi everyone, happy holidays to you all! 2008 has been a great year for signal hill and we sincerely appreciate all of your continued support! as many of you know, we have been hard at work with [...]

as 2008 nears it end, people all across the internet will be posting there favorites in 2008. not to be outdone, we have put together some of our favorite tunes  for this year (one caveat, is not [...]

get your keysters out and jam some tunes!!

howdy everyone! hope you all had a delicious and relaxing thanksgiving weekend! as the end of 2008 is rapidly approaching, we wanted to start by giving a huge thank you to you all for what has [...]

hi everyone, just wanted to wish you all a happy thanksgiving and share a few videos posted by our new friends at KSDT radio at the UCSD campus in san diego. most of the songs from our set are [...]

REMINDER!!!! Tonight! our first proper la show in quite some time (happens to also fall on brian’s birthday!) will be at mr.t’s bowl and is free! its with a couple of great la bands, [...]

hi everyone, a couple of us are going to be on post-rock paper scissors, our friend armand’s show! tune in at http://uclaradio.com to stream a live interview at 12 noon on wed nov 12! also, [...]

hi everyone! a couple of us are heading over to ucla radio to do an interview this wednesday at noon for our friend armand’s show post-rock, paper, scissors (every wed 12-2). the interview [...]

friday november 7th 4-6 pm – ksdt radio with pals the littlest viking! come hang for free or stream online for those who cannot attend! view additional show details here: also, friday [...]

hi everyone, just wanted to give you a quick update! first of all, tracking is 99% complete for our debut full length album, “more after we’re gone” . final editing an mixing to [...]

howdy folks! just wanted to post a quick note on a few things to update ya on the album! after taking a break last weekend to get a chance and listen back to everything we have done thus far, we [...]

so this weekend marked another significant step to completing the album! the results are coming out better than expected, and things are progressing quite nicely! tracking is ALMOST complete. the [...]

hi everyone, our good friend rob has started an art project honoring Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. (pulled from r.mutt sticker project site): The R. Mutt Sticker from Thwart Design pays [...]

progress has been made! this past weekend we spent some solid time putting in work on the album! extra special thanks to our pal patrick murphy for helping us out with this. his hard work and [...]

hi everyone, hope this finds you all doing fantastic! things have been a little quiet on the signal hill front lately. the great news is we are back to the record! this upcoming weekend we will [...]

come hang @  pehrspace we get to play with 3 other incredible acts: neuform projekt (robert from the lights from here solo) bexar bexar (austin tx) balmorhea (austin tx) doors at 8pm also in la [...]

Hi Everyone, Our good friends Beware of Safety are doing a CA tour with another post rock powerhouse, Giants! They just got word that their show in Fresno was double booked causing these dudes to [...]

howdy all, just wanted to let ya in on a few quick things! first, thank you all who were able to attend the show this past weekend! it was awesome to get to see some of you. the pehrspace folks [...]

hi everyone, 7/17/08 @ pehrspace w/ unrecognizable now , and timonium.  this happens to be dave’s birthday and he couldnt ask for a better present than coming to fill up the pehrspace for a [...]

Our good friends All India Radio have recently released their gourgeous new album! Go check em out on myspace and pick the album up at itunes! Latest reviews: “a beautiful [...]

what up yall, so we have been taking some time off from playing shows so that we could focus on our new album! since the album is getting closer to being finished, we have a couple of shows that [...]

yo! so it looks like the remaining work for the new album will begin happening around the first week of july! our good friend patrick murphy who plays in the la band “heliphino” (who [...]

yo, so this weekends studio adventure was a success! we accomplished our goal of tracking drums and bass for 8 songs! major thanks to our friends at the compound studio in signal hill. jeff and [...]

howdy everyone! so team signal hill hits the studio may 16th to begin tracking for a full length album! our tracking will begin (as it did with the ep) at the compound studio coincidentally in [...]

howdy all, weve been a bit quiet as of late due to both non-signal hill stuff as well as agressive prepping to hit the studio for our first ever full length album! we will begin tracking on May [...]

courtesy of our friends radio free silverlake:  Mouse from Classical Geek Theatre wrote the other day about how Amnion’s ATonn is one of his favorite songs to hear live in LA right now and [...]

Hi Everyone, Thank you all who were able to come hang at West Without a Word Night One last night 🙂 We appreciate it. The show was to say the least, incredible! We are honored to be a part of the [...]

THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!! Instrumental Extravaganza – Featuring 10 bands (including yours truly)…. come hang both nights for $5 bones a night (wha wha what!!!!)  special thanks to the [...]

yo! our good friends you.may.die.in.the.desert  from seattle wa have a new split ep coming out in a couple weeks with a band called gifts from enola. you can order it online now, and you will not [...]

howdy all! we have a couple of upcoming shows in la so be sure to mark em on yo calendaz. They include shows with This Will Destroy You, The Drift, El Ten Eleven, Our LA Brothers Beware of [...]

we are very excited show announcement for you! our friends over at the silent ballet are presenting what is going to be not one, but two fantastic nights of tunes! the dates are friday march 14th [...]

hi everyone, hope this finds you doing well! couple quick things from the signal hill front that we wanted to share with you.  1. (non signal hill related) ida, who’s one of my favorite all [...]

we promised we would share this recording process with you!  we have one of our last live demos for the new album posted at our myspace page.  the songs are almost all complete, which means [...]

alright everyone, so tomorrows show is finalized. our friends the littlest viking have been added to the bill!  the full line up looks like this (in order of appearance) keith waggoner of [...]

the fine folks over at the silent ballet are doing a 2008 battle of the bands! we are currently in the grinder stage, and need to win this section to be included in the battle of the bands.you [...]

so next week we are playing a show at the silverlake lounge. we just got word that our friends beware of safety are playing also! now you have even more of a reason to come hang!!!! additional [...]

howdy! we wanted to let you know that signal hill has a show coming up on jan 22nd at the silverlake lounge. the other bands are being finalized, but signal hill will be going on at 10 pm sharp. [...]

Howdy Everyone!  Signal Hill can now be heard on Pandora.com.  Pandora is a great streaming music site that will help you discover new jams (bands) based on an artist that you type in. Go there [...]

Thanks so much to all of you that made it last night! The show was a blast. Extra special thanks to You Me And Iowa for asking us to share the stage with them once again. For all of you that have [...]

YOU ME AND IOWA Fri. January 4 @ Spaceland Featuring a good mix of indie, pop, and dance rock, You, Me, & Iowa stand out from much of the LA indie scene. They make simple, fun, and meaningful [...]

Hi Everyone, Hope your new year has started off well! We wanted to let you know of a last minute show we got added to. Its this coming friday (January 4th) at Spaceland in Silverlake, CA. If your [...]

Hi Everyone, In the spirit of the year’s end, us here are the Signal Hill camp wanted to wish you all a fantastic holiday season and best wishes for a great 08! We put together a list of [...]

yo, yo, yo! hope everyone is doing well! we just wanted to first say, thank you so much to the squaregirls and radiofree silverlake for putting together an awesome show this past wed. we got to [...]

what up ya’ll? hope everyone is doing good. us signal hillians are hard at work polishing up some of the new songs to begin recording a new album. Since our last post (we know, it was a [...]

Howdy everyone, Hope your weekend is going great! Wanted to let you know two quick things! First, Signal Hill will be playing tonight in Long Beach. Come Hang!!!!! Also, Awake and Alert (friends [...]

hey everyone, just wanted to pass on the good word that our pals from az Awake and Alert have their debut album coming out on 9-11. they are a fantastic group of folks who have pieced together a [...]

howdy everyone, so its been a while (no reference to the staind song) since weve updated yall on the happenings/progress of signal hill and we’re not exactly sure were to begin. we’ll [...]

hi there! thank you for visiting our newly formed blog! this will be a place for us to post all the new/recent happenings with us. 🙂 you can check out music by visiting our myspace page.  we are [...]