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Sockhops music video

Zach — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:45:29 +0000

Official music video for the song “Sockhops” by Nonreturner from the 2008 album, The Nonreturner

Concept – Michael Hopkins and Carrie Wade
Art Direction – Carrie Wade
Editing – Michael Hopkins
Cinematography – Zach Biri
Music Consultant - Zach Biri

Puppeteering:
Zach Biri by Carrie Wade
Michael Hopkins by Karen Marshall
Logan Epps by Carrie Wade
Clint McMillen by Karen Marshall and Lauren Grandestaff
Erik Moore by Aaron Lewis
Aaron Lewis by Lauren Grandestaff
Carrie Wade by Michael Hopkins
Ted Sharp by Lauren Grandestaff
Stephen Howard by Aaron Lewis
Lauren Grandestaff by Michael Hopkins

Special Thanks to Wise Guys Pizza.

Food For The Wild Dogs (EP or LP?)

Zach — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:27:29 +0000

We are now almost completely re-assembled and have been finishing up songs for our upcoming release which we’ve noticed is crammed full of songs that are prettier, and maybe sort of a bummer. I’m expecting us to release it later in the year where we can bomb out your seasonal affective disorder with even more melancholy, but I promise there’ll still be the rockness, and the weirdness, and likely the beat-ness.

I’m still in the process of finishing up the Conceal & Carry “Better Science EP” with my friend C.Wade. Yet another bandmate moves to Illinois as we’re trying to complete an album… I’m noticing a trend here.

Congrats to our bassist Clint and his wife Anna: they’re having twins. I hope they name them both after me, even if they aren’t boys.

INTERNET

Zach — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:35:26 +0000

Though I will find some reason not to drag myself away from working on it, I think we’ve finally turned nonreturner.com and yardsandgods.com into something both lovely and functional. Each release (or rather the ones we’ve posted, which is the majority of them) has a page where every song can be streamed, and for the price of your email address, you can download entire albums guilt-free. Keep an eye out at Y&G for Burger Kingdom’s new album Shugazi to drop. We’ve got it, and we’re waiting for further details before we make it available. Tonight (or rather, last night) was the first night of their tour. I encourage anyone who can to go out and see them, and score a physical copy of it.

2010 looks like it could be a pretty great year for us as we finally re-assemble in the same town after a miserable lull. We’ve got a bunch of material waiting to be punched up and recorded, and an “every 2 years” precedent to meet on releases.

I want to sincerely thank everyone – bands, show-goers, listeners, friends and family – for their friendship and support over the years. It’s been weird, and great, and hopefully will continue to get better and maybe a little weirder. -Zach

Y&G makeover

Zach — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:37:38 +0000

Yardsandgods.com is also undergoing a bit of a makeover as hosting is changing hands, and we’ve got our label’s resident web kungfu master Ted Carstensen (drummer from Ptarmigan) working on getting things squared away. I came home last night to find that he’d been busy – a skeleton demo of the new design is up, and we’re having a “very important meeting” on Google Wave collecting all the stuff we need for a successful launch.

New website, hosting

Zach — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:22:53 +0000

Here we are at the communal Yards & Gods webhost. I’m working on getting everything up and running again, this time with less of an eye-fucking, browser breaking format.

Stay tuned!