Corndogs + SwitchBurn Videos

I'm pretty sure all of Atlanta knows the annual Corndogorama festival is this weekend at Lenny's. If for some reason you're local and have never been, you're missing out on quite a spectacle. We're scheduled to play around 9:45pm on Saturday and close out the outdoor stage. Hopefully the rain will hold off. Check out the full schedule HERE.

In other Snowden news, the wonderful folks at switchburn.com have posted some videos of us performing at Stubb's BBQ in Austin last month. If you've never checked out this website you really should. They film bands performing at various venues around Austin and archive them on their site. What's cool is that they post all the videos in a multi-camera angle format and the quality is great. They already have quite an extensive archive of great bands including Black Lips, Dark Meat, Dead Confederate, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Black Angels and many many more. Definitely worth checking out. I was sorta hoping they would feature a couple of our newer songs so people could get a taste of the new stuff, but they went with the better known cuts from Anti-Anti. No complaints here though. The vids are cool and we're happy they took the time to film us and post it. Click on the song names to watch the videos.

BLACK EYES | BETWEEN THE RENT AND ME | LIKE BULLETS | ANTI-ANTI

Snowden @ AthFest This Friday (40 Watt)

Images From The Tour

We've been back for a little over a week now. After bouncing all over the country for a few weeks everything just seems like a big blurry fading memory once you get back home and settle back into your daily routine. Here are a bunch of random photos I took throughout the tour. I have some video footage too. I'll get around to editing some of that stuff one day soon. I've mentioned it before but I'll say it again... Colour Revolt are an amazing band. Watching them play every night never got old. If you're in Atlanta they're playing a show here this Thursday (6/12) at Vinyl with Gringo Star. I highly recommend checking them out. Here's a mp3 of what became my favorite song to watch them play each night. There's a lyric towards the end that floors me every time I hear it...

"cause brother you are my weakness

i'll listen and learn from your kindness
your wisdom is very thoughtless
but your window is worth looking out from"

MP3: Colour Revolt - Moses of the South

Varsity Theater. Minneapolis, MN.

A reflection of our van.

My daily view from the van.

Jordan and I enjoy sushi in Toronto.

Chandler & Jordan wait for a storm after a show in Oklahoma City.

It's close, according to Advantage Doppler 3D.

Still waiting.

Chandler controls the Global Positioning System.

In Dallas we stop at the appropriately named Dallas Lake.

Surprisingly, it wasn't until Austin that Jordan suffered a real sunburn.

Corinne reads a book recommended by Jimmy from Colour Revolt.

Chandler learns Sammy Davis Jr. was a member of the Church of Satan.

Jordan is quite strange.

Sean Kirkpatrick. This kind man let me use his amplifier after mine decided to die.

Our favorite place to play in Austin. They make sure we eat well.

A late night (veggie) dog in Austin.

Shane MacGowan napping backstage.

Represent.

Loading out/in

Len & Patrick soundchecking in Houston.

Andrew (aka Petey). Merch guy (aka drinking buddy).

Elvis.

Backstage in New Orleans. Final show of the tour.

Wine Tasting + Water Falls in Finger Lakes

On our way to a show in Buffalo Jordan made a split second decision to pull off the interstate and drive towards an area in the upstate New York countryside known as Finger Lakes. It's an area with a bunch of lakes, hills, mountains, waterfalls and a surprisingly large number of wineries scattered throughout as well. We had some time to kill and decided to stop off at a winery to sample some of the goods and then stop by a nearby waterfall for a bit before we returned to our normal tour route.

This seemed like a reasonable price.

Cobblestone Farm Winery

Wine snobs... "hmm, that one's very earthy"

We talked this guy into taking us in the back room with all the barrels and concocting our own personalized bottle of wine in exchange for a bunch of Snowden merch.

We watch closely to make sure his measurements are correct.

Done. Decorated with a beautiful Snowden sticker. One of a kind.

We drive a few miles down to one of the falls.

The beauty. The grandeur.

Back to the van. Jordan leads us. Blindly.