Paul Taught himself some rudimentary After Effects to put together this lyric video for “Flightless Birds.” Watch it and then support us by grabbing the full album. 

Or stream it via your preferred service. 

It’s been a while, but our new album, Dead and Gone, comes out on Sept. 28, 2018. Digital distributed by Zunior, it will be available on all the usual streaming/download services.

We’ve got a release party in Toronto on Saturday, Sept. 29 in our neighbourhood at Dora Keogh’s on Danforth. Afterwards we’re playing sporadic shows in Oct/Nov including Prince Edward County and a few house shows in the Halifax area. Stay tuned for more updates. 

Here’s the tracklist:

• 01. Flightless Birds
• 02. Little Dragon Slayer
• 03. It’s OK
• 04. Skeleton
• 05. Poor Old Ben
• 06. Button Song
• 07. Kalamazoo
• 08. Feel Good Hit
• 09. Young Pup
• 10. I Got Nothing
• 11. Dead and Gone

David Bowie has always been a favourite of ours and at the time of his death it occurred to us that we had never covered any of his songs. Here’s our take on an absolute classic, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” from 1972’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Listen and download for free below!

Click here for more details on the cover illustration.

Check out our first original holiday song, as part of the latest Zunior Christmas album in support of The Daily Bread Food Bank.

Handmade fuzz pedals built by Paul!

Based on a tried and true classic circuit (the Bazz Fuss), each pedal is tweaked to sonically destructive perfection then custom painted with splattery chaos.

Featuring a simple 1-knob configuration and built for use with standard 9v guitar pedal adapters, the custom Dog Is Blue Fuzz is the perfect tool for quick and dirty mayhem. Great for leads, feak-outs and general musical terror.

Feel free to contact Paul directly for any questions.

SOLD OUT: we’re out of fuzz pedals for now, but hang tight and there may be more on the way (email Paul for more info if you’re still interested in getting in line).

If you’re curious about more than just guitar, check out the 1:10 mark of Dog Is Blue’s cover of J.J. Cale’s “Call The Doctor” and you’ll heard the fuzz pedal scorch on the lead keyboard line:

Set to the album cut of “People,” this video was put together by Matt from Flat Head Dog Productions, who happened across our set at Raw Sugar last fall.

Dog is Blue from Damp Digital on Vimeo.

Last fall we played at our favourite Ottawa hangout, Raw Sugar. As we were setting up a dude came up and asked if he could video our set. Sure, why not? Nice of him to ask–next thing you know he’s got some pretty hefty A/V gear and we’re suddenly being captured in HD glory!

That dude was Matt from Flat Head Dog Productions. He shot and edited this montage of our set that night, played to the album cut of “People.” It’s a pretty fun glimpse of the gear/demeanour of a Dog Is Blue show and we’re hoping to work with Matt on more videos in the future.

Read these links if you want to know how to do this yourself (and probably more properly than I’ve done here): 

https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=101235.0

http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9967&hilit=freeze&start=20

There aren’t many pedals out there that an astute DIY enthusiast can’t build. However, if there’s one company that keeps pushing the envelope away from the same tired, easy to build overdrives and fuzzes it’s Electro Harmonix. Case in point, their Freeze pedal—a sound retainer effect—is next to impossible to piece together on my own. Thankfully Laura was kind enough to buy me one for my birthday and even kinder enough to give it to me a month and a half early!

After a quick test so she could see how happy I was, it was off to the drill press to add some holes into my new gift. In the end, as the above video describes (with a first attempt at annotations too!), I changed the stock stomp switch, went with an expression pedal jack to optionally control the effect level my foot, and added an effects loop. The latter allows me to run just the ‘frozen’ signal through things like a tremolo or phaser and not affect my guitar signal at all.

I couldn’t really find any guidelines on how to do any of this online (the usual suggestion of disconnecting the wiper of the level pot and inserting the effects loop there didn’t work), so I ended up tracing the circuit with an audio probe. All told, I took the ‘send’ signal from R3 and returned it to the wiper of the level pot (there could be an easier way, but I’m no guru—just a lunatic with a soldering iron).

That said, if you’re looking to do this to your own Freeze just be aware that it’s all SMD components and I almost lost R3 a few times (it’s about the size a hangnail). But you know what they say, “He who dares…” blah blah blah.

We used this newly modified bad boy at a show on the weekend and it worked really well. A friend later remarked that he what sounded like an organ playing under my guitar, which is exactly what I was hoping for!