Half Acre Day

HAD Vies for Top Geek Band at Showbox SODO on 11/1/11

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:42:00 +0000

Remember that time Mozilla used our song "Multiply" as part of their presentation at the Google I/O Conference? *snort of derision* Kid's stuff, for babies!

At 8pm on the evening of November 1, the Seattle Interactive Conference – a mecca for socially awkward extroverts far and wide, will be pitting the biggest music nerds in Seatown against one another in the first ever Battle of the Geek Bands at the venerable Showbox SODO. Through an arcane selection process known only to this shadowy organization of geeks, Half Acre Day, along with four other local bands whose members all have toilet paper trailing from the soles of their shoes, have been selected as the aforementioned battle-nerds.

Chosen by such local luminaries as big-butt-liker/non-liar Sir Mix-a-Lot and Chris Ballew and Jason Finn of the Presidents of the United States of America, the winner of this competition will receive a trophy (we envision something in lucite), bragging rights and an as-yet-unspecified Cash Prize (we envision something in the three-figure range… yeah, that's right... that's THREE).

Then, at the stroke of 11 on 11/1/11, the Presidents themselves take the stage for their special brand of rollicking, good-time rock 'n' roll! It's all enough to make you wanna cancel your Wizards Club meeting.

Wanna come check this out? For free? We can help you with that – we know people. Just let us know via your preferred communication medium. But you better hurry, space is limited… and there are a LOT of geeks in this town.

Weekends are 4 ROK.

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:54:00 +0000

What a weekend!

Saturday we had the rare privilege of playing a private party in Allyn, WA, in a beautiful community unknown as Treasure Island, right on Puget Sound, at a surprise celebration for the birthday of the wife of Matt K.'s dentist and friend Don Mayer. By the way, if you're in the PS area and in the market for a good teeth-and-gums man, look him up - he's the best there is and a top-notch bloke to boot. No, we don't typically use this blog as a forum plugging healthcare providers, but in this case, we'll make a well-deserved exception.

The party was a blast and the partygoers knew what they were doing, taking the band to task and getting us to play songs on-the-fly we'd never tackled before in a two-straight-hour set. They danced. They sang along. They twisted and shouted and sat in with us. They freaking limboed. Beautiful people, all. Can't wait to do it again.

Not ones to sit on our collective hands, we headed out the next morning for an all-day video shoot with the makers of upcoming sci fi classic Project London. The song, "The Pythagoras Switch," was written by Half Acre Day exclusively for the movie, which is set in a dystopian, alternate-present-day Seattle.

We hit some great locations and got what promises to be some killer footage under the direction of filmmakers Mike McCoy and Javier Cáceres - who recently made a name for himself with this viral lip dub video, which garnered 1.7 million YouTube views, national headlines, a stint on the network talk-show circuit and a score of imitators, including the cast of The Office. Not bad!

These guys were super-pro and yet full the kind of piss-n-vinegar that only hungry young moviemakers possess. It was a joy to work with them and we can't wait to get a look at the outcome, which will eventually show up here.

Now onto the next thing: a little travelin'. We're leaving this evening for a trio of shows down in the beautiful state Oregon. We're gonna be blogging all about it, or at least as much as the state of wi-fi will allow, just so's you can keep an eye on us. Stay tuned! This oughtta be good.

Half Acre Day @ The Triple Door Musicquarium

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Last Thursday we played at the Triple Door in Seattle at the Musicquarium for the first time. Next Saturday, July 16th, we're gonna do it again.

See, Matt Cory - HAD's bassist/conscience/spirit guide, has been spending the last several years immersed in the creation of a stunning body of visual artwork, and in the past several months has been displaying the results around town, kicking off every opening with an intimate acoustic performance by Half Acre Day. Sneaky/clever, no?

This month, his collection is hanging at the Triple Door, a classier-than-normal bar and music/art venue smack in the middle of downtown. It's a shockingly fun place to play (and see) a show, and our joy in doing so must have been evident, as we were invited back to play this weekend, an opportunity we were happy to seize.

You really ought to join us. Come have a few drinks and stand agape at the beauty of Mr. Cory's work while the strains on a newly reenergized (and acoustically reformatted) HAD massage your ear-holes.

We got the run of the place for three full hours, so expect the unexpected.

Half Acre Day @ The Triple Door Musicquarium
Saturday, July 16th
9:00pm - 12:00am
21+, No cover

New Song - Maribelle - Available Now

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:44:00 +0000

We are happy to announce that Maribelle, the 12th and final Lunar Single, is now available on iTunes. Listen to it here. If you love it (or heck, even if you don't), let us know what you think on our Facebook page. Then, after that, download Maribelle on iTunes. Your music dollar will be recycled into more music, which is good for the environment, probably.

02.12.11 - HAD @ Blue Moon Tavern

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:05:00 +0000

Don't miss the Blue Moon pre-Valentine's show Feb. 12! The venue is awesome, HAD is debuting a bunch of new songs, and the other acts are both phenomenal.

The Resets, Half Acre Day, Caleb & Walter
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Sat Feb 12.
Live, 21+

Chicago Independent Radio Project - Best of 2010

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:48:00 +0000

CHIRP Radio in Chicago gives HAD a nod for best singles series of 2010. CHIRP says:

"This indie pop band boasts five songwriters who each bring a distinctive style to the table, while contributing to one another's work in a way that allows Half Acre Day's overall sound to gel. Their challenge for the year was to write, record and release a new song each month (on an unsigned band's budget, with day jobs), and the result is an album's worth of confident, nuanced, catchy rock. Get one, or get them all."

"Itch" by Half Acre Day

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:09:00 +0000

"Duke On The Juke" by Half Acre Day

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:08:00 +0000

Lunar Single #11 - Wrists and Other Things

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:53:00 +0000

Happy Holidays, friends! What a year it's been...

First off, we're finally nearing the end of our year-long cycle of songs. Song 11 of the 12, "Wrists," has just been released today. Give it a listen on our website and get ready to have your booty shook.

You can download "Wrists" on iTunes or at Amazon MP3.

Stay tuned for the final song in the cycle, "Maribelle," due out in January. Yessir, just as soon as we finish it.

Also! In the midst of our artistic fervor, we very recently wrote and (mostly) recorded a brand new song called "The Pythagoras Switch" for the soundtrack to the upcoming sci-fi movie Project London, coming soon to a flickhouse near you. We're all aflutter about this development and hope you will join us in fluttership. More on that as details unfold.

We wish you and yours and ours the most joyous of season's greetings. Here, have a cookie.

XO

Half Acre Day

New Single Available Today - "Itch"

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:49:00 +0000

Listen to this. The song is called "Itch," made up by us in HAD under the direction of songwriter/drummer Dusty Hayes.

Incidentally, this marks Dusty's songwriting debut as a member of the band. All we can say is forget what they say about letting drummers write songs (i.e., don't). This is a damn fine and catchy tune that we're proud to call our own.

Wanna download this one on iTunes? Of course you do.

New Song for October - Duke on the Juke

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:52:00 +0000

The brand-new-new song is up on iTunes! Download it now. You can listen to the song in it's entirety - along with all the other Lunar Singles on our web site. Enjoy!

Two new songs

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:15:00 +0000

New HAD singles "Fell From an Airplane" and "The Belly of a Whale," both released just yesterday, are waiting for you to adopt them. Yeah, I know we said that yesterday, but this time we actually put them up.

Listen to them here, or just download them right now on iTunes at the links below:

Fell From an Airplane

The Belly of a Whale

Double the Singles - It's Twofer-Tember!

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:10:00 +0000

"Where are those songs you promised?!" I hear you screaming shrilly. Please, lower your voice! We haven't forgotten. In fact, today we are releasing two (2) brand-new Lunar Singles for your listening pleasure. They can be found here.

First up is "Fell From an Airplane," a characteristically jubilant HAD tune about impending death. Death by falling. You know, from an airplane.

From the atmosphere down to the hydrosphere, song number two, "In the Belly of a Whale," examines the joy of utter isolation.

But enough talk. Let's listen.

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:35:00 +0000

A little live acoustic, Mt. Rainier, July 2010.

New Single Available Today - "Only Man on Earth"

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:03:00 +0000

That new song we were talking about? Only Man on Earth? Well, it's available at iTunes. Give it a listen and if you love it, do consider downloading it for your collection.

Your dollar goes to support further work from Half Acre Day, who would love nothing more than to continue bringing you music like this. And eating... eating's good. We might also buy some beer with it, if that's cool with you. But mostly more music.

New single, and newly married.

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:37:00 +0000

This past weekend, emerging from an underground studio in Pioneer Square, shielding my eyes from the strange daylight with one hand while clutching the ripened digital fruit of the band's latest effort – a tune called "Only Man on Earth" – in the other, it occurred to me that we were now halfway through with this little experiment of ours, this new-single-every-month-for-a-year business.

Already? yep, already.

This is a busy month for us. One of our own - Sir Martin Ballew - and his lovely bride Sommer are getting hitched this coming weekend, and the band, as the male half of the wedding party, has its collective hands full trying to remember the two tiny responsibilities we've been given: To show up and to show up wearing pants.

Meanwhile we're releasing the aforementioned 6th single, practicing for upcoming shows like International Pop Overthrow and Choochokam Arts Festival (Whoops, canceled! Sorry Whidbey Island and the fine residents of Langley, WA, we will miss you), plus writing more songs because we still have six more to deliver.

Well, seven, actually... cause we're... Nah, never mind that right now. Another time, another blog.

The more astute among you may have noticed that yesterday was the new moon, and that instead of giving you something new to listen to, we're giving you a whole lot of talk, including vaguely excuse-y sounding phrases like, "this is a busy month for us."

But calm yourselves, astute ones. The song, as I previously mentioned, is completed. In fact, it is currently on it's way via this fabled Series of Tubes to the iTunes, the Amazon, and a dozen other online outlets for your downloading and listening pleasure. If it weren't for the fact that every file submitted to Apple must be manually checked for viruses by a magic talking dog (who, although super-intelligent, is hampered by a lack of thumbs) the damn song would be available the same day it's uploaded.

But yes, in a matter of days the song will show up unannounced on iTunes, we will pull the trigger and you'll all be shot full of our love. In the meantime, the band will be standing at the foot of an active volcano, wearing pants and celebrating Marty and Sommer's love. Until then, peace be with you all.

New Single and Video - "Baby Blue"

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:00:00 +0000

"Baby Blue," the fifth release in HAD's Lunar Singles series, is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure.

Listen to it.

Watch it:

Watch it on YouTube here.

Cheers!

Only two days left...

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:23:00 +0000

to vote for HAD in the Indie Rock V/v the World contest. One vote per email per day is allowed. Vote early, vote often, and help us get into the top 20 (only 3 spots away!) and into the Movies.

Taking "One for the Team," HAD snuggles up with They Might Be Giants

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:08:00 +0000

An upcoming benefit compilation CD will feature HAD's "Skeletons" alongside tracks by They Might Be Giants, Snowglobe and others.

Nashville based nonprofit group Love in Stereo does kind things through music. All kinds of kind things, including benefits for Haiti relief and She Dances, a non-profit organization to help victims of human trafficking.

This one is a little different, though... Love in Stereo has teamed up with Nashville radio station WFHU to produce the compilation CD, "One For the Team." Proceeds from sales benefit a special needs youth baseball league in Nashville, founded by a gentleman who rightly believes that everyone should be able to play baseball. With the league growing every day with kids whose needs range from autism to brittle bone disease, they find themselves in need of a new field with special accommodations.

It's pretty amazing and inspiring that these folks - living in a region that just experienced catastrophic flooding - are so busy helping others. This is a terrific cause and we are thrilled to be a part of it.

More details as they become available.

Revenge of the Nerds 2 - HAD Pops Up at Google I/O Conference

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:54:00 +0000

Do you use Firefox? If so, you are a classy dude and/or chick.

Now - at least in some small way - Half Acre Day is part the history of the internet superhighway.

How? Well, Mozilla - the people responsible for the Firefox browser and big time players in the future of the internet - included as part of their keynote presentation the Project London "Multiply Teaser," so named because it features the song "Multiply," a Half Acre Day tune available only on the Project London film soundtrack.

I don't know what Mozilla's presentation was about, but but it must have had something to do with fighting robots, which I find simultaneously frightening and exhilarating. I guess there was something about opening up web video content and revolutionizing the way we watch lolcatz on the internet, blah blah, but who cares about that? Fuckin' ROBOTS, man.

It's about time, Mozilla. Now where's our flying car?

Whatever the message, you can bet HAD's Raw Rok Power set some fanny packs to shakin' at Moscone Center that day. Perhaps the pulsing rhythms precipitated some amorous convention dalliances, resulting in brilliant but socially awkward love babies. We like to think so. And that maybe - just maybe - they have our eyes.

Clockwise - The Video

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:59:00 +0000

Clockwise - New Single Actually Available!

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:49:00 +0000

Well, it seems the people at Apple got the message, and have posted the new single to iTunes in a timely manner. Download "Clockwise" for your very own today.

Way to dodge a bullet, Steve. My Litigation Finger was getting itchy.

Clockwise is also available at Amazon MP3. And some other places.

Just wanna listen for now? You can do that.

If you enjoy Clockwise, let us know. Half Acre Day hearts those who heart us. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

Oo, and remember that Scott Pilgrim V/s the World contest? Well, thanks to your votes, we've jumped up mightily through the ranks. So keep on voting, and feel free to post a comment - obnoxious or otherwise.

Shhh... Listen!

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:42:00 +0000

The newest Lunar Single, "Clockwise," is officially out on May 14, but you can go and listen to it right freaking now. And you really should.

Once again, Amazon.com has it locked and loaded. Itunes? Not just yet... but technically they still have 13 hours or so. Before we law 'em.

Just kidding, Apple. We know better than to go lawing the likes of you. You just put the song up, you know, whenever you get the chance! And thanks for being you. :)

Oh and hey, we're in a contest. It has something to do with a movie starring that lovable scamp Michael Cera. If you really loved us, you'd help us win by voting early and often at their web site. The cool thing is, for every vote you cast, you’ll get a free download (up to 100 free downloads). Super Bonus!

Clockwise v/s Scott Pilgrim v/s the World

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:09:00 +0000

As the solar system and galaxies spin toward the assigned date, our friend Mix Master Brin has put the sweet finishing touches on "Clockwise," Lunar Single #4. On the new moon of May 14 it shall be released to the masses. Pass this good news on to anyone and everyone you know who digs good tunage.

Half Acre Day has also been added to a contest for placement the upcoming motion picture, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Go to our page on Indie Rock v/s the World to vote, and maybe you'll get to see HAD be a part of another film this year. Plus, we'll get you Michael Cera's autograph (or a reasonable facsimile thereof).

Thanks for your continued support.

Now You Can Get Told

noreply@blogger.com (HalfAcreDay) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:36:00 +0000

This past Saturday saw the full-scale invasion of Ballard's ever-popular Sunset Tavern by Half Acre Day and a horde of revelers with checkered and crossed pasts, said pasts mostly including Issaquah High and Central Washington University.

The super-secret event - dubbed Sunset Blackout 2 - Electric Boogaloo - was by all accounts the rare sequel that surpasses the original. There are pictures.

We were there. We played some sets. We drank some liquor. We shook some booty. We enjoyed ourselves immensely. A big thanks to Trent and the rest of the Sunset Blackout gang for having us, and we hope to see y'all next year. It'll be sweet 2 3peat.