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 over 30 years. its a volunteer run collective/community that in addition to hosting shows, is also a vegan cafe, and even hosts social and political events. it has served up some special memories for us throughout our years as a band.

unfortunately, they have been hit with some pretty high insurance premiums and other expenses that are causing it to come dangerously close to shutting down. we want to help keep this place open to create memorable nights for many more fans/bands in the future so we thought we would run a few specials to help donate to the cause.

beginning today, saturday january 7th – monday january 9th, the proceeds from all sales (except shipping) will be donated to che cafe. meaning if you buy any item, we will give the money directly to them. additionally, we’ve got a few download options at really low donation prices.

UPDATED TO REMOVE THE PROMO PRICING (1/11/12)

just want to donate directly to the cause? the che cafe has put up a donation page where you can donate any amount you would like!

help spread the word and save this great place!

your friends,
signal hill

(also, here are a few photos and videos of us playing at the che in the past)

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 we thank you all so much for attending our east coast shows, and for ordering our split with all india radio. we sincerely appreciate your support and couldn’t continue doing this without you! we were very fortunate to play with some amazing bands, and met loads of new friends along the way!  the trip was a great one, and we hope to do it again soon!

for those of you who couldn’t make it, we’ve put up a couple of live videos from the tour on our site. we will be uploading more in the coming weeks.  you can view those by going here.

on a side-but-related note, our new friends north end who we played our first show of the tour with in west chester pa, have a new album that came out this week called atlantica. do yourself a favor and go jam it, it’s great!

new music

there’s a lot going on in the new music department! let’s start with the immediate.

more hope for japan- compilation

we recently contributed an unreleased cover song for a benefit comp called: more hope for japan. the proceeds from all sales will be donated to the american red cross each week/month, to help rebuild japan in light of the horrific events which occurred in march.  we are honored to contribute along with 36 (yes 36!) other bands for the second installment of the series for a great cause! this will be available in an ultra-limited quantity of 100 cd’s ( all numbered, and on 4 discs!), as well as digital download.  the pre-order begins sunday nov 20th (tomorrow) and will be available on their site here:, they will definitely go fast! the “street date” as they say, will be dec 9th. this is the date which the cd’s will ship and digital downloads will be available. mark your calendars!

37 songs, by 37 bands, including message to bears, anoice, thisquietarmy, her name is calla…. and frankly too many great bands to mention! don’t believe us? see the full tracklist here.

our addition to the comp is a cover of a song called the radiator by one of our favorite bands, ida. we made this instrumental version for fun a few years back, and are glad that we finally got a chance to release it!

new album – yep, its coming!

we have been working on new material this whole year and think we are pretty darn close to finalizing the tracklist. it looks to be about 9-10 songs at this point. being apart on separate coasts has brought us a fresh perspective on song writing, and we are excited to share the progress.

the plan is to wrap up the demos by early 2012, get together as a full band in NYC for a few days to put the finishing touches, and record in early spring.  more details coming soon!

additionally, since we will all be together in NYC, we decided to plan on doing a show as well! so friends in and around NYC, stay tuned for more info!

old music – for free!! for limited time only!

seems like every thanksgiving we offer up some free music… and why should this year be any different! get a free download of any of our previous releases by simply going to our facebook page, liking it (if you don’t already), and download away by going to the “free download/stream” tab!

distance, more after we’re gone, & the self-titled ep, are all available for the taking. the free download widgets are live now, and will remain active until friday nov. 25th. enjoy

store update

we still have copies of our limited edition 7” with all india radio, and have new t-shirts leftover from tour and loads of other goodies. if you feel so inclined, take a gander!

that is all for now friends. thanks for your continued support!

with love and gratitude,

sh

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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

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

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

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 sh has gone international! sadly, we are playing as a three piece as dave is unable to attend … with his blessing, full support, and his pre-recorded guitar parts, we were able to continue with the journey!

we have to give special thanks to all who have helped us plan this adventure, mac nguyen, marcus whale, our pals in all india radio, sleepmakeswaves, because of ghosts and plenty more folks. this was a huge effort by all parties, and we cant thank you all enough.

so lets get down to business shall we? the shows, are as follows:

our first show, happens the day we arrive! this reunites us with our pals, marky, ben, and martin who make up the band, all india radio. they are a fantastic band who we were fortunate to play some shows across the southwest united states a couple years back. they are celebrating their album “a low high” release party.

Friday July 10th, 2009

All India Radio, The Coralinas (Cam Butler: Silver Ray & Mark Dawson: ex-Ed Kuepper), and Signal Hill

East Brunswick Club Hotel

280 Lygon St

East Brunswick, Melbourne 3057

Australia

Tel: 03 9388 2777

Web: www.eastbrunswickclub.com

Last.fm event

Saturday July 11, 2009

Signal Hill W/The Fuses, Radiant City, Autonomous, Art and Craft

Irene’s Warehouse

5 Pitt St, East Brunswick

Melbourne 3056

Australia

Friday July 17, 2009

Signal Hill W/ Sleepmakeswaves, Clairaudience, Collarbones

Cosmo’s Rock Lounge

4 Mitchell St

Marrickville, Australia

Facebook Page

thank you qantas a380 – AU we are on our way!

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 you, but let it be known it was a blast! very special thanks to our pals beware of safety, timonium, pehrspace, and to del for djing between sets! it was a great night and we appreciate you all who made (or wanted to make) it out!

this next bit of news is a little embarrassing, but frankly, we are’nt the type of guys to not get too worked up over stuff like this.  amidst all the chaos of trying to get the album back in time for the cd release show, a slight oversight on our part leaves us with, well lets just say:  a collectors edition special error package.

much like the famous inverted jenny stamp,

(pulled from yourstampstore.info)

OR the frank thomas missing name baseball card,

pulled from http://baseballcardblog.blogspot.com/

the first pressing of more after we’re gone has a slight mistake on the artwork the tracklisting on the back of the art is actually out of order! it will be corrected in later pressings, but for now, we laugh, and say, enjoy!

the errors are:

1. floruit should be track 5 and listed after men before them and before stunning clarity

2. eternal return is track 8 and should be directly after men before us

3. llangollen should be track 9 after eternal return

full track list should be:

1. the dead vineyard

2. intelligentsiya

3. luna park

4. men before them

5. floruit

6. stunning clarity

7. men before us

8. eternal return

9. llangollen

10. afternoon lull

11. a secret society

12. our sisters

“how could this happen?” one might ask, and its simple; so many things were going on at the last minute that it was just a true oversight! the good news is that the track listing on the digital version and the songs are embedded on the cd are correct! so if your lucky enough to get the first pressing, consider this a collectors item!

more news coming soon including some VERY exciting out of town shows, more music releases and other cool stuff!

all the best,

sh

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 celebrate the release of our new album, more after we’re gone with pals, beware of safety and timonium. the show is at pehrspace (http://www.pehrspace.org) and is all ages. $5 to get in, and another $5 bucks gets a copy of the new album!

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 gone” tab for all of the ordering details! the physical cd’s will ship on or before june 9,2009!

All “More After We’re Gone” orders from SignalHillMusic.com include an immediate digital
download of the 12 track album in Premium 320kbps MP3 or FLAC (highest audio quality
available) formats. (FLAC files are for advanced users and are not compatible w/ iTunes)

The first 250 deluxe package orders will receive an exclusive limited edition
Signal Hill button pack in addition to the “More After We’re Gone” CD and the “Self-Titled EP”.

prefer to stream it to check it out first? ok! go ahead! stream the entire record below!