So I (Kazoo) am pretty much the laziest fuck ever, thus here’s some stuff that happened since the last post:

• During the summer of 2012 we played a handful of shows which were all pretty neat in their own special ways, from getting cussed out in note by a (now defunct) restaurant’s owner, experiencing unbearable sound reinforcement, and playing a few songs on a local variety show.
• Sean left the band briefly to pursue a semester-long term in the University of California DC program, which allows students from UC campuses to study in our nation’s capital city and pursue internships in DC-related businesses and organizations, including working for congressmen and what-have-you. While he was gone, our good friend Adam Trelatsky took up bass duties for the one show we played in December.
• When Sean returned he took back his role as bassist while Adam moved to keyboards for a brief while before switching to guitar. That’s right. Three guitars. Radiohead, motherfucker.
• The latest show which we just played (with Fresno space-rockers Light Thieves, who are amazing and Rademacher side-project College Kids, who are amazing) was the loudest yet.
• Unfortunately, I forgot to comp Adam back a Doritos Locos Taco, and he got so mad at me that he left the band and we’re a four-piece again.

Aaaaaaand now we’re up to speed. Please pay attention to the fact that we’re doing barely anything at all.

New songs and more shows in 2013. There, I said it.

Best,
Christopher

Tom Price of the Downtown Life Magazine took this neat video of us playing “Not Since the Accident” at our January 28 show at The Partisan. Hopefully you will see us play there again two days from now, yes?

Feeling Gravity’s Pull currently has two official dates planned for March and April.

Our first Fresno show (and by extension our first out-of-town show) will be on Friday March 23 at The Babylon Club. We will be opening for SixHands Mouth, who opened for us on our album release party in January, so we’re glad to be returning the favor. Show starts at 9pm and I’m gonna assume it’ll be 21+.

On Saturday April 21, we take The Partisan’s stage again in the middle slot between Deriva (Merced rock vets) and City Psychology (Modesto indie pop upstarts). It’ll be one continuous stock of rock and we’re excited to be playing. 9pm start, 21+ w/ ID, $5.00 cover.

We also have an “unofficial” show going on tomorrow but you’re just gonna have to ask Kazoo about that, since it’s secret.

All the best,
Kazoo on behalf of FGP 

A quartet from Merced, CA named after an REM song who sound only incidentally like the Athens, GA band. Choosing to be named for the opening song on REM’s difficult third album, an infamously contentious record amongst music hobbyists is a neat joke in itself. Most of the songs on their promising debut album Not Since The Accident fall somewhere between the anthemic stomping of Chapel Hill based band Superchunk and the sublime classic rock leanings of criminally forgotten Missoula, MT band Silkworm. Although it’s not particularly hard to guess their influences, it’s impressive the way that FGP never become derivative in an egregious manner. On the one hand, it’s certainly an album which showcases a band finding its feet in terms of recording but FGP also have a musical palette which is surprisingly mature considering their average age. It speaks volumes that the band have arrived with more than a handful of excellent songs and you can sense that they have an enormous amount of potential. You can count on a blind butcher’s hand the number of college bands who could genuinely evoke the sonic aesthetics of Crazy Horse at the peak of their seventies pomp but FGP manage the feat several times on one record. ‘Heavy Years’ and the title track are bristling with the tension and brilliantly shambolic minimalism of classic Neil Young. The songs are all there already, they just need a little bit of guidance in the studio. Once they have that, it’s hard to see how they won’t make a truly great album. As it is, they’ve already made a very good one.

Thank you, Tommy of Pocket Jury, for the nice words about our album!

If you haven’t heard it yet, you are slacking off and should rectify this situation immediately.

The stream for our debut recording, “Not Since the Accident” is now live. It’s a “pay what you feel” thing; though if you pay, we suggest a $5.00 donation, and if you download it for free, we suggest turning a friend on to our tunes if you like what you hear.

You can find the stream here, on our Bandcamp.

Also, our first show of the year and our album release party is next Saturday, at the venerable Partisan Tavern in Merced, CA. We’ll be playing with our totes buds SixHands Mouth.

We’ll see you next Saturday. You have a week to learn the lyrics. We will have hard copies for sale for the price of $10.00.

Love, kisses and all that,
Feeling Gravity’s Pull 

1. Basic tracks for our debut recording have been completed. Following vocals and other cares, we hope to put this sucker out come Q1 2012.
2. We will be booking shows for the beginning part of this year as well. No details on that yet but rest assured, rock will go off.
3. Is McDonald’s still selling McRib? Inquiring minds (read: Kazoo) would like to know.