We are looking for a drummer and a bassist to help us out with our live shows and maybe, if we all get along, join the band. Know someone who might be interested? Send them to our craigslist posting for more details. Thanks!

Hey everyone, we’re playing an open mic at American University again tomorrow night. That’s Friday, Sept. 17, at 8 pm. It’s in the Battelle Atrium. See you there!

I fixed a couple of things on the site today. First, I made it so the logout link above the comments form actually works now. Second, I’ve added some features to deal with spam commenting, so hopefully that will mean I don’t have to moderate comments so much. If you are not a registered fan, you will have to solve a CAPTCHA every time you post a comment. If you are registered, you don’t have to.

There will probably be a lot less recordings posted here in the coming months. We’ve realized that we’ve become too focused on having recordings and not focused enough on actually writing music, so we are shifting gears and putting all our attention on songwriting and getting gigs for now.

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And now, our first real recording of our formerly untitled song, “where we belong!” The lead guitar part needs a lot of help in terms of mixing (during the bridge). There was also another guitar part for the chorus, but it sounded bad, so it’s being cut until I rerecord it. There will probably be some drums in there at some point and we’ve also been experimenting with keyboards, so we’ll see what happens. I’m also not totally sold on the harmony vocals yet. Otherwise, I think it’s coming along nicely.

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Well, I had some free time today, so I thought I’d get some mixing done today instead of waiting for the weekend. Surprise! Anyway, this is the newer version of “older.” We changed it so there is one guitar part and one bass part (which needs fixing) rather than mucking everything up with more guitars, although we are going to add back in the soloing. We also added some vocal harmonizing, mostly to experiment with, and a new transition before the chorus (which we are working on lyrics for). There is a drum part, but it hasn’t been recorded yet.

Navid and I got together today for some much needed recording time and a little bit of jamming. I’m going to try to get some rough mixes of what we did up on the site this weekend, but I should definitely have stuff up by the end of next week. We re-recorded the vocals for “tell her,” even though I said it was finished (the lead guitar needs to be re-recorded, too, I was just being lazy), we recorded “where we belong,” which is the new title for our formerly untitled song, and we reworked and re-recorded “older” so that it doesn’t sound awful anymore (in fact, it sounds quite good now). We’re taking it in a bit of a new direction, so I might leave some parts of it out of the posted version until we figure that out. Anyway, stay tuned!

We recently uploaded some more videos to our Facebook page, which you should be able to find by clicking the link at the bottom of this page, and we also added our videos to our MySpace page, which is also linked below. Our most recent upload is our performance of “shells” at the Korean Embassy a while back.

It’s been a while since we had any real news, and for that I apologize. We’ve been kinda busy, but rest assured that we are still making music. In fact, we have several new songs in the works! You’ll have more details on those when they are closer to completion, but there are about 3 new ones on the way and some old tunes we are thinking of resurrecting into songs that don’t suck. Stay tuned…

We will be playing Now That We’re Home and our new untitled song tonight at American University.
The Open Mic will take place in the Battelle building at 8pm.
Hope to see you there!

In our constant quest to make ourselves as omnipresent as possible, we have launched a page at purevolume: http://www.purevolume.com/technicians. That means that you can now find our stuff here, there, and at MySpace and facebook. Now no one can say that we’re hard to find online.

Now that we’ve got three songs done, we’re pretty close to where we want to be in terms of getting a demo out. We’d like to get at least two more done, then we will send everything off to be mastered. At that point, we will open up a new section of our web site where you can pay a small fee to download the higher quality versions of the mp3s. I may even offer the downloads as uncompressed audio files, but I have to work out the details and figure out what most people would actually want. I’m guessing most people would just prefer higher quality mp3s instead of wav files they have to compress themselves. If you’ve got an opinion one way or another, please leave a comment so I know.

In other news, we recently acquired a new piece of gear that should help us make our shows a little more awesome. We also entered ourselves into DC101’s Last Band Standing competition. I’m not real clear on the details, but it sounds like they pick 14 bands to compete for a spot as the opening band at Chili Cook-Off this year. If we make it, we’ll be sure to let you know so you can come out and support us!