We webcast our show at Stubbs in Austin a few weeks ago, if you missed it you can check out the video here: http://on.fb.me/fMsDr4
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New video for "Finally Begin" is below. Directed by our very own Matt Aveiro.
Thanks to everybody who came out to the shows. Touring this record through the US the past five weeks has been incredible. It feels like we have the greatest fans in the world to let us grow and experiment with our art.
A friend of mine showed me this Bukowski poem about a year ago and, looking back, I see how much this poem and the Cassavettes quote on the album sleeve were a catalyst to the lyrical themes on Mine Is Yours.
enjoy,
NW
air and light and time and space
"–you know, I’ve either had a family, a job,
something has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have
a place and the time to
create."
no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquake, bombardment,
flood and fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.
© Charles Bukowski
Click here to watch a live stream of our show tonight at Stubbs in Austin, TX! 5pm PST/8pm EST
NYC fans and friends: March 24th venue switched up the road to Terminal 5. We're gonna give you $10 at the door for the trouble. See you soon!
Here's our new video for Louder Than Ever:
CWK played the Jimmy Kimmel show on Jan 26. Here are the performances:
Our new record "Mine is Yours" available now! Get it on itunes.
Pre-Order your copy of our new record “Mine is Yours” now!
Such a good documentary. Look for The REM songs…
Visit the MISTER/MAUSTERS blog now and come back often. There’s some free good cold war kids (and cwk related) things waiting for you here….
Pick this up when you get a chance!
“Music is an indirect force for change, because it provides an anchor against human tragedy. In this sense, it works towards a reconciled world. It can also be the direct experience of change. At certain points, during some shows, the reconciled world is already here, at least in that second, at that place. Operation Ivy was very lucky to have experienced this. Those seconds reveal that the momentum that drives a subculture is more important than any particular band. The momentum is made of all the people who stay interested, and keep their sense of urgency and hope.” -Jesse Michaels (op ivy)
Maybe you’ve heard about 826LA. It’s an incredible educational nonprofit that helps Los Angeles-area students ages 6-18 with everything from reading skills to college prep. They also help students of all ages publish books, make movies, and, once a year, write songs to be recorded and performed by an L.A. band.
This year, we’re recording one of the student-written songs. It’s called Mamacita and it was written by 12 year old, Edgar and 11 year old, Jennifer . We love it.
To help keep 826LA alive for another year, so they can help students in Los Angeles with their homework and writing projects and create awesome songs like Mamacita, please go online to http://www.826la.org/chickensinlove/pledge-now/ and vote for our song with a tax-deductible donation. A bunch of other students wrote songs that are pretty good, and you might like them too, so you can vote for them, but vote for ours the most.
This is the biggest fundraiser of the season for 826LA and it starts right now. They’re an incredible organization, we’re doing this for free to help them, so if you like us, like the song, and want to help the kids of Los Angeles, please go tohttp://www.826la.org/chickensinlove/pledge-now/ all the time and vote as much as you can. Thank you.
Also there’s a show March 6th at the Echoplex at 1pm where some of the bands will be playing.
Head over to Spinner.com to watch the the premiere of our new video for “Audience.”