Subs Are Sneaky.

Amsterdam - part two

2008-10-27T10:27:00.000-07:00

Rock for Obama - And hope from abroad

2008-10-27T06:13:00.000-07:00

amsterdam - tour begins !

2008-10-25T15:51:00.000-07:00

The Submarines +

2008-08-22T19:52:00.000-07:00

hey! an instrumental version our song, "you, me and the bourgeoisie" is being used in the latest iphone ads. (drawing courtesy of the bbc!)

J.Stare: ••(((((-Extraordinaire-)))))••

2008-08-22T19:31:00.000-07:00

if you've had the chance to catch the submarines live show within the past 6 months or so, then you've had the good fortune of seeing and hearing the wonderful jason stare playing drums with us. big smile. big fro. huge heart and a tasty beat. xo

honeysuckle tour movie

2008-06-12T11:11:00.000-07:00

thorny thicket says it best....
xo, j & b

we fought the law

2008-05-21T21:40:00.000-07:00

the drive from los angeles to chicago was beautiful! especially the san rafael reef in utah. the next day, however, blake and i each got a speeding ticket. our first in yeeeears. blake's in colorado and mine in nebraska - as if in tribute to bruce springsteen's state trooper on his album, nebraska. "mister state trooper, please don't stop me." so many construction zones. it's really, really hard to drive 55 - or even 65. jason flew out. so who knows, maybe we saved ourselves another citation. in any case, we're glad to be here in chicago and are VERY excited for tomorrow's show at schubas with headlights and common loon. hooray. -jd

subs record release party.

2008-05-14T14:48:00.000-07:00

SURFWiSE

2008-05-11T10:37:00.000-07:00

last tuesday we played the premier party for doug pray's latest film, "surfwise ", at the egyptian theater in hollywood. wow. what a treat to see the film on a huge screen - and the sound system and mix was tops! most all of the paskowitz family were there as well as surf legend, kelly slater. hugh masekela's son, sal, was there too. is he a surfer? the film will be in theaters this month. http://www.surfwisefilm.com/
-jd

the submarines: epic tour movie

2008-05-04T19:16:00.000-07:00

before we went on the road in april we bought one of those little flip video cameras. here's some footage that we pasted together against "xavia". the shows were the first we played with our new drummer, jason stare, and it was such a blast. we'll do our best to keep on top of these postings during the upcoming tours this spring and summer.

lots of love. peace over and out.
john & blake

cairo 1973

2008-05-04T18:27:00.000-07:00

in the early 70's my dad was the principal of the american school in cairo, egypt. he recently gave me a ton of amazing slides. here's one of them. the guy in the suit and tie is a teacher from cairo american college and the other totally bad ass dudes are students.

i'll post some of these photographs now and again. there are some really cool snaps from growing up in dubai and our summer in iran. the one thing that strikes me in almost all of them is how totally freaking hip everyone looks - and this isn't the lower east side! it's north africa and the persian gulf. ah, the 70's. -jd

brimful of asha

2008-05-03T12:18:00.000-07:00

i took blake on a mystery date the other night to see legendary indian singer, asha bhosle. wow. what an amazing and beautiful voice! she's best known for being a bollywood playback singer but some of the classical pieces she performed were the highlights of the evening. she claims to have sung over 30,000 songs. one of our favorite bands, cornershop, paid tribute to her in their 1997 hit, "brimful of asha". here's an early clip. -jd

section quartet and off to master....

2007-12-04T20:05:00.001-08:00

hello! yesterday was rather exciting. we ventured over to another easterly part of the city to conspire with the completely great (!!!) section quartet on a few songs on the new record, thus managing to complete and conclude the recording of this our new record. can hardly believe it's finished...and surely some little bits and ends will rear their heads and need attention. but, for now, at least, it's done! sending it off to our friend jeff tonight so he can get down to mastering the thing. can't wait for you to hear it. ! ! !
xoxo
b

studiostatictastic

2007-11-07T14:26:00.000-08:00

Our working title for the new record was "Handclaps and Bitch-slaps," (har har) in honor of our beloved and oft-used slap-tastic beats. But now that's changed. The new title is to remain a mystery as we secure permissions.

We've been working steadily on the songs since the summer and we're hoping to have them mixed by Thanksgiving, mastered in early December and released in the early spring, with a digital release in the late winter. The amazing Section Quartet will also be featured on a song or two. Very excited about that!

Some of these are working titles but it's looking a bit like this so far:

You, Me and the Bourgeoise
The Thorny Thicket
The Wake Up Song
Swimming Pool
Maybe
Xavia
1940