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 follow up to More After We’re Gone.  we spent a glorious friday and saturday night at the compound studio in signal hill with our friend jeff lewis and patrick murphy.  we have fully tracked 4 songs so far and hope to go back and record more tunes in december. very excited with what we have so far! we arent sure exactly how itll be released yet (an ep, a couple of splits etc.) so while we await for those details to finalize, we are working on writing more jams! we will surely post sneak peaks of some of the new songs. stay tuned for more details on that front (there is a video at the bottom of this post which plays a little snippit!)

in a few non signal hill news items, our good bros are heading to the east coast for their first east coast tour next month! go view their tour dates and see them if they are in your town. such a great band, and the best dudes! they are playing some great shows with caspian (whos on an epic european tour right now), the american dollar, gifts from enola and a handful of other awesome bands.

in other buddies touring news, our friend rajiv patel (who actually played our ep release party a couple years ago) is heading on a month long tour opening for dear and the headlights and kinch. we cant say enough about how amazing this dude is live. his tour dates are posted on his myspace .

our friend rob price (who did the artwork for both the ep and our full length) and his wife kathy launched a new website called quotecookie.com. this site is a quote generate loaded with quotes that inspire creativity. grab a cookie each day or submit your own quote for others to enjoy!

thats about it for now, oh and our australia recap is coming at some point in the near future!!!

hit us up with some new music suggestions (tristeza and mercury program both drop new albums in december and november respectively WOOOO HOOO!).

best,

sh

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 week. the goal is also to have the album available for pre-order and immediate digital download by the end of next week (may 8th).  stay tuned via twitter as well as our site here!

the album clocks in at 61 minutes and has 12 songs.

1.  the dead vineyard

2.  интеллигенция

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

thank you all for your continued support! we appreciate it and cannot wait to share the album with you!

as a reminder, friends in phoenix and san diego, we hope to see you at our shows this coming weekend (be sure to check the “come hang” page for details!).  also cinco de mayo brings us at silverlake lounge (all shows are with our dear friends beware of safety)

sh

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 full length album (more after we’re gone) as a high quality digital download as well as cd version. the digital release and pre-order for the cd will occur early may (finalizing the dates now). the physical version will be shipped to pre-order customers early june, and available else were on the 9th of june. we are very excited to have this thing completed and share it with you all! heres a sample of the artwork:

more after we're gone cover art (designed by rob price)

for folks in the LA area, we will be having a cd release party on june 6th at pehrspace with our friends beware of safety and timonium.

also, we are doing a new t shirt order – which we will have in stock (available through our site and shows only). special thanks to meg kalinowski for coming up with the graphic and our pal blake kimball for printing them! they are printed on the organic american apparel fine jersey short sleeve shirts!

design by meg kalinowski

new stickers are being printed, and buttons are also available (and will be included with physical cd/shirt orders or available at shows)

last and certainly not least… are you interested in hearing an early mix from one of the songs on the new album? enter your email address below and we will email you a link to download it!

more coming soon!

sh

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 their new PA)

4/2/09 – Mr. T’s Bowl – Highland Park, CA  W/ Beware of Safety, Charts and Maps, & Empty Rooms

5/1/09 – Che Cafe – San Diego CA, W/ Beware of Safety and others TBA

5/2/09 – Sweetcakes – Mesa AZ W/Beware of Safety and others TBA

as for the album, all tracks have gone through the first round of mixing, and needless to say, we are VERY pleased with how its turning out. artwork and tracklist should be finalized within the next week or so, as well as some other exciting stuff that we cant wait to share with you all! we greatly appreciate your patience while we finish this thing up

that’s all for now,

sh

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 been a great year for signal hill!  we appreciate your constant support and hope to share some “presents” during this holiday season! so thank you!!!

we do have one last show this year that we are really excited about:

12/12/2008 – Che Cafe- La Jolla, CA W/ El Ten Eleven, Beware of Safety and Japanese Sunday

$7 bones, 8 pm all ages!

lastly, for a quick album update, we are continuing to make progress and are plugging away with editing/mixing now!at this point we are shooting for a march release (more as we get closer and previews to come way earlier!!!)

hope to see yall next week!

your pals,

sh

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 silent ballet and beware of safety for setting this up and including us to play!

The Silent Ballet Presents West Without a Word  

Night One (3/14) at Pehrspace:
08.30pm – The Littlest Viking
09.30pm – Signal Hill
10.30pm – El Ten Eleven
11.30pm – The Drift

Night Two (3/15) at The Cocaine:
08.30pm – Arc of the Aurora
09.30pm – Form and Fate
10.30pm – Beware of Safety
11.30pm – North
12.30pm – Hellas Mounds/Empires (split set)

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 regret it as these bands are great!!!!

you can order it by going to  www.differentialrecords.com or pick it up at any of their upcoming westcoast shows!

for more info visit… http://www.myspace.com/youmaydieinthedesert  or http://www.myspace.com/giftsfromenola

congrats to both bands for what is sure to be a great release!!!!

for la peeps, you.may.die will be playing with beware of safety and signal hill at pehrspace on april 5th.

in signal hill related news, we have wrapped up the writing for our first full length album and will now work on some pre-production tasks before heading to the studio! we are excited to share the songs with you all!

also, many thanks to everyone who came out to our show with this will destroy you, tulsa, and what made milwaukee famous the other night. we had a great time, and met a lot of great folks!

we have a couple other upcoming shows and then we will be taking some time off playing shows for a bit to focus on the album.

so if your able to make it out, we hope to see you at one of the upcoming shows!

•  friday march 14th (west without a word presented by the silent ballet, day one) @ pehrspace with- the drift, el ten eleven, and the littlest viking.  even though we are not playing day two of this festival (saturday march 15th @the cocaine in downtown LA), you absolutely should go witness beware of safety, north, form and fate, hellas mounds, empire, and arc of the aurora bring it!!!!!
• april 5th @ pehrspace w/ you.may.die.in.the.desert, springtime is wartime, beware of safety

 all the best,

sh

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 and saturday march 15th  (we play the first night). full details below!

night one: friday march 14 @ pehrspace: the drift, el ten eleven, signal hill, the littlest viking

night two: saturday march 15@ the cocaine: beware of safety, form and fate, arc of the aurora, north, hellas mounds/empires

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 time bands (this is dave here) did an interview on NPR yesterday. hear them talk about their new record, playing children’s songs, and playing two songs (one off their new album, the other off their children’s record with guest vocals by their 6 year old daughter—- ADORABLE).  i love it, and decided to throw it out there on the table for peeps who might be interested! :check it here:

2. tomorrow (1-30) we are playing a show at cal state fullerton. its free, its all ages, and it should be fun! check our myspace page for directions addresses and all that sort of stuff!

3. we have made it past round one (grinders) to officially now be in the silent ballet battle of the bands. ironically, we are up against the six parts seven (who happens to be a band that is part of our bio, and we owe some of our existence to them) so its tough for even us to vote against them.  you can read details and vote for your favorites by :going here:

4. lastly, our friends beware of safety are in the studio recording…. be prepared for an onslaught of righteousness once this is completed!

 more coming soon!

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