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White HIlls on tour w/ Pontiak

Brows hunched together lock-step they weave and wave to nothing while the sonic crescendo and combustive aural abilities maim those who have not heard, felt or understood the two bands together as they pummel and charm there way across Euro land. This must certainly be a mind smashing gut busting line-up and I have serious show envy issues that it might take years to therapize out of my damaged psyche. Not only all this; but they have been joined by special guests and space lovers at almost every show.
I'm going to shut up now and let these few snippets of youtubism speak for them and me.
If you are within even 100 miles of this tour date you should try and make the show - it will be worth the trip and you'll thank yourself that you let the right one in.


WHITE HILLS performance at La Maroquinerie, Paris (14/03/'10) With exclusive Parisian special guest SHAZZULA from AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR on Theremin/Machines.
Song: Radiate




White Hills live at the Luminaire in Kilburn, London. 9th March 2010
song: Oceans of Sound




White Hills live at club 007, Prague, 15.03.2010. Although it's hard to see it I think
SHAZZULA is also joining the band on this show as well.
Song: Under Skin or by Name

dirtbag challenge 2009

played a smokey killer show in SF at the Dirtbag Challenge 09 on Sunday. Totally amazing time had and much like being dropped into a different world, stripped down low-rent mind boggling and dangerous - just the way I like it. Basically anyone can enter, you can only spend $1k and build a bike to race and then trash in the burned out industrial complex at the end of Revere street, real close to the SF Bay where that super fund site is. I'm talking about the place thats got a DMZ like chain fence around it, so toxic that the dirt sometimes catches on fire and everyone from the neighborhood comes to watch the firetrucks try and hose down the ground so it will stop spontaneously com-busting. All kinds of bikers from all around the bay do their best to burn the rubber right off their tires while bands play hellacious rock to back em up. This whole thing is put on by Pinky and Paul who work their asses off to get stuff ready. East Bay Rats, SFMC, even Hells Angels show up to demo the rides and get throw some M-80's into the crowd. It makes burningman look like a pikers picnic. When we played we got 3rd spot which means everyone was doing burnouts and trying to broil 2 strokes into melted aluminum, so we ended up blowing an amp and some of the PA. It was a damn good time and there was also a bunch of people there filming so maybe it's gonna be on TV or in a movie, information was hard to get and even harder to hear when I did find a couple people who seemed like they knew what was going on. Hey what more do you need? Liquor, bikes, fireworks, bands, grilled food?!?!? It was like mad max died and went to apocalypse heaven. DUDE!

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last stop Philadelphia

Johnny Brenda's in the Fishtown district of Philly is one of those Venues where you always wanted to end a tour. All kinds of beer, a great selection of food and an expansive and beautiful sounding room. It was with some heavy-ness in our hearts that we set up and rocked the crowd into a little bit of blissful space - dedicating our set to the generosity and good will of the guys in Wovenhand. It was really great to get to know their music and themselves and to be challenged by the nightly process of throwing out the best set of music possible. They were able to bring some new element to their set almost every night, and we in turn were encouraged to do the same. There was a beautiful symmetry in the arc of the tour, with leaves changing and falling from trees and life turning from summers heat and throb to winters cold burning ache. Philly is a great town as far as I can tell there was even an interesting guitar shop up the street called DiPinto guitars, Ego Sensation almost bought a bass that had stars on the frets but at the last minute decided it would take another look.

DaveW, Ego Sensaton and myself all have given in to the art, thrill and chore of making the rock happen for quite a few sated audience members across the north and mid states this fall. If you ever get a chance you should certainly check out Wovenhand and White Hills. Thanks for reading.

Brooklyn Bell House - back in NYC

The radio show at MIT was simply a blast, quite literally. We drove directly into some weird University catacombs from the highway and loaded gear into a tiny radio studio through the cafeteria entrance, played a blistering 40 minute set that was recorded for radio broadcast and loaded the van back up; on our way back to NYC. It really seems much like a sonic induced daydream now.

Beautiful venue and stellar show in Brooklyn at the Bell House - Silver Summit opened, Wovenhand closing it down and White Hills as the straight bonding agent in what was going on this ear-delicious sandwich. Proper backstage where lots of backslapping and laughter was ringing out among the prairie fire shots and the bustub of rolling rock. At this point all the bands have their sets down to artful explosions, throwing down the brew in the first few minutes and slowly adding all the ingredients until a masterful mix of beats and bombs comes raining down on the audience by close of the set. My first time seeing Silver Summit left me with a feeling of dark happiness - the kind when anticipation comes by turns through tension and excitement. This band does not disappoint in it's delivery of soothing and beautiful vocals over eerie and psych cannons of swelling authentic songs. Many turns of drum and string later we all heaved our stuff out of the club for what would be the 2nd to last time, although we didnt know it yet.