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strictly game, by the Harlem Shakes. these guys aren’t together anymore but we had a chance to tour with them this year and they were really inspiring. you should listen to their record “technicolour health” and also their guitarist’s todd’s project Arms. If you live in new york then you can do so by coming to his record release show at Piano’s on thursday which i’m also going to play a few songs at. (!!!!!!)

peace out of here,

dave

high five

Hey friends, its your old pal Graham here with some good old fashioned shameless self promotion.

My friends at CBC Radio 3 are having their annual awards shindig, the Bucky Awards! This is always a very exciting time for me, because my friends are often nominated, which sometimes results in high fives. Who doesn’t love high fiving? But this year is even more exciting than usual, because I got nominated for an award! High five!

My song Medicine Hat from my Lakes of Alberta EP has been nominated for ‘Most Canadian Song’. Click here to vote for me! And feel free to vote in the other categories as well, although I was mysteriously overlooked for sexiest musician once again.

HIGH FIVE

-Graham

halloween candy

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featuring
dave monks as: Falling Man
tom as: Tom P.

Spoo000o0o0o000o00ky!
if you just got here, scroll right on down for another video where i play one of our new songs.
hope everyone had a good halloween,
dave

here’s a song

HANDS REVERSED

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Hi everyone,
We wanted to give you all something new to listen to so here’s a song I wrote last winter. My friend Simon and I filmed it in my apartment, which I am leaving soon. Otherwise I would have limes in my fridge too! Special thanks to Madonna for taking time out and flying the helicopter.
We’re still hard at work on our new record: Forthcoming LP. Check back soon because we just got a new camera so we should be vlogging again.
CYA
Dave

coming riiiite up

Elephant Shell

I used Wordle to make a word map thingy of all the lyrics from Elephant Shell… I think its pretty cool.

Are you there, blog? Its me, Margaret…

Hey friends,

Exciting news in the world of Tokyo Police Club!  We recently wrote our names at the bottom of a piece of paper and in so doing became the newest members of the mom+pop label family.  Somebody went to a lot of trouble to write up a nice press release, so I’ll let that do the explaining, but I do want to say that we’re all crazy excited to be hitching our wagons to this train.  The music industry is in a sort of messy situation these days, which has opened the door for a lot of exciting and unconventional label set ups like mom+pop.  Its really cool to get in on the ground floor of something that we all believe is going to turn out to be pretty special.  Together, we will rule the galaxy.

xo

Graham

Here is what the publicity people have to say on the matter:

TOKYO POLICE CLUB SIGN U.S. DEAL WITH MOM+POP SOPHOMORE ALBUM OUT EARLY 2010 Tokyo Police Club, the Newmarket Ontario quartet hailed by Rolling Stone as “poised to become the biggest Canadian export since Molson,” have signed an exclusive U.S. recording deal with mom+pop.  The band is currently recording its second full length album, with an expected release projected for early 2010. Tokyo Police Club is made up of Greg Alsop (drums), Josh Hook (guitar), David Monks (vocals, bass) and Graham Wright (keys/percussion). The band formed in 2005 and released its debut EP A Lesson In Crime the following year to instant and universal acclaim, with Entertainment Weekly raving “we can hardly wait for the full length.” One more EP, a digital-only single and a few laps around the world later, Tokyo Police Club’s debut album, Elephant Shell was released in April 2008. Elephant Shell’s release was preceded by multiple sold out shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto, and followed by appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and, oddly enough, Desperate Housewives. Critical response to the full length was even more enthusiastic and diverse, with the likes of GQ (“Strokes-caliber catchiness”), Elle (“a smart, furiously played sugar-rush debut”) and Men’s Health (“an aural adrenaline rush all the way”) all lavishing praise. The band toured relentlessly to support Elephant Shell, appearing in the U.S. as recently as the August 2009 All points West Festival. mom+pop was formed in 2008 by Cliff Burnstein,  Peter Mensch and Michael Goldstone. Burnstein and Mensch are the owners of Qprime, one of music’s most respected management firms, with a roster featuring the likes of Metallica,  Red Hot Chili Peppers,  Snow Patrol,  Muse,  Silversun Pickups,  and The Mars Volta,  among others. Goldstone is a veteran A&R exec whose most recent tenure at Sire saw him sign Regina Spektor and Tegan and Sara. In August 2008,  he inked Joshua Radin as the first artist on the mom+pop label. Radin’s album, Simple Times, released 21 days later on September 9, has since sold over 100,000 units and 400, 000 tracks. Other mom+pop artists include An Horse, signed to the label  by Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara. mom+pop is a fully staffed label distributed independently by RED.

An offer we dare not refuse…

I always knew that I had what it takes!  See you guys on the air…

Bloggle

Get it? Like Boggle.

So, our crack team of marketing specialists tells me that the subliminal messages we inserted into The Real Housewives of Atlanta failed to win us any followers  Turns out the soulless husks that watch that show don’t actually have a subliminal level.  (Zing! Burn!  Nothing but net!)  Anyway, in lieu of that, I’m told that we need to ‘increase our internet presence’, presumably as a stopgap until Doctor Impossible, our resident super-villain, finishes work on our next nefarious mind control project.  Stay tuned to the astral planes for that one.

We have, as always, been working reasonably hard on writing new songs for our second session of recording, which is to commence in Hoboken, New Jersey in a few weeks.  Our beloved producer Chris Zane came to visit us last week and we spent a very productive three days really lasering in on the new songs, trimming all the fat and making them all sound good and shiny.  I’m happy to report that the new jams are sounding at least as good as the ones we recorded in the summer, and we’re all pretty excited to get them in the studio and really let them loose.

I took some pictures while CZ was here to share with you, but then I forgot my camera there, and now we’re taking this week off, so no pictures today.

Talk to you soon,
Graham

Home Blog Office

Hey friends, long time no see…

We’ve been busy working on new songs (sounding good) and playing the odd show (fun and exciting), so we obviously haven’t been doing much blogging.  But, never fear, I’ve returned from the wilderness to shamelessly plug another one of my extracurricular activities.

This week, I’ll be doing something exciting: guest hosting on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio 3 network.  I’ll be playing some awesome Canadian music and yammering incessantly about all sorts of things.  You can listen in at cbcradio3.com or on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 86, on the following dates at the following times:

Tuesday August 4 – 10am – 2pm EST
Wednesday August 5- 10am – 2pm EST
Thursday August 6 – 10am – 2pm EST
Saturday August 8 – 8pm – midnight EST

Hooray!

xo

Graham