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- Just dropped off a single copy of "running jumping falling shouting" at Amoeba. Come Tuesday, if you've got $9.98 in your pocket, it's yours!
- Thanks to Kevin Bronson for playing "trust" on Moheak Radio today.
- 2.14.12
- I was recently alerted to this IndieGoGo campaign to help rebuild a great local record store in NJ after a terrible fire. Watch the video and donate if you can spare it. The impact of places like this on a local music community should not be underestimated and there are fewer and fewer around. http://www.indiegogo.com/helpsoundstation
- After a long hiatus, we're finally got another acoustic video up on YouTube. This one is for the 9th song on the album and it goes a little something like this...
- A great, insightful review of the new record by Lara at We ♥ Music. If you read it you'll know more about our music than I do. --Jake
- The only thing I know how to say en Italiano is "I don't speak Italian/Non parlo Italiano." My dad speaks it fluently though and he claims this is a glowing review. Who am I to question my own father? --Jake
- Popbang Radio! makes the first track from our record the "Single of the Week," and says this should "be a breakout year" for us. Hopefully they mean success and not skin.
- New review from Powerpopaholic!!!
- running jumping falling shouting gets a 9 out of 10 from Powerpopaholic.com!!! Read the review here: http://www.powerpopaholic.com/2012/01/breakups-running-jumping-falling-shouting.html
- In case you missed it, there is a review of our new record and an interview with 3/5 of the band here...
- "better off alone" made it onto Those Who Dig's weekly roundup.
- Much thanks to Nic Harcourt for including "run from rock'n'roll" on the last two installments of his show Connections, on KCSN.
- Big thanks to Kevin Bronson from BuzzBands.LA for spinning the first track from our record on his Moheak show Friday morning.
- Hey... we're on the cover of a magazine!
- The first review of our upcoming album is up! There's also an interview with 3/5 of the band. Thanks to Kayt, from Indie Music Reviewer for listening and liking. The album comes out on February 14th. I would use the word "drops," but then I would have to shoot myself in the face. --Jake
- Just discovered that you can buy a used copy of our old EP on Amazon for one cent or $33.19. We suggest you buy it new on Bandcamp... for what it's worth. *wink*
- Sara Radle is a gem. She and I recorded this Big Star cover together. It is no longer relevant to the time of year or anybody's birthday, but we think you'll still enjoy it. Plus it's a FREE DOWNLOAD so what have you got to lose? --Jake
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- New acoustic video is up. Dig it! http://t.co/uGhXt5D2Feb 20, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @marcmaron My girlfriend just saw you at Whole Foods. I can only assume it was to steal some sort of root. --JakeFeb 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Pitch in and help my pal Jonathan's band @themidcities make an album you will surely listen to obsessively. http://t.co/Vj9UpWuqFeb 18, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Here is an acoustic version of the first single from our album. See it again for the first time... http://t.co/nySYdMgHFeb 15, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Thanks to Chad Huffman for including us in the @modamweekly "Weekly Listen." Fourth paragraph in... http://t.co/QZr5d9LFFeb 15, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- To show our gratitude for all of the support today here is an impromptu acoustic rendition of Sam Cooke's "Cupid." http://t.co/Q47XcdquFeb 14, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @nicharcourt Thanks for the continued support on KCSN! The album finally comes out today!!!Feb 14, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @Laura_Studarus When Nina Persson wants to curate something... you let her. Same goes for you. --Jake
- The new album comes out TODAY!!! In your face, Hallmark. Get it on bandcamp, iTunes, or Amazon and spread the word! http://t.co/7YGg0raaFeb 14, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @Fred_Stoller Listened to your WTF over the weekend. Loved it! Looking forward to seeing your film. --JakeFeb 13, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Just dropped off a copy of the new album at @amoebamusic. Come Tuesday, if you've got $9.98 in your pocket, it's yours!!!Feb 10, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @JohnRoycomic Great job on @TeamCoco the other day!Feb 10, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @lauralaura_band Nice! Cool song. Guess what?! I got a fever, and the only prescription is more Omnichord!
- @ToddGlass Been a fan for a long time. Just listened to your WTF. So great! Mazel tov!Feb 10, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- 2.14.12 http://t.co/bM1XptXQFeb 09, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @launderground Wicked poster for the show on Friday! I'm gonna try to make it out. --JakeFeb 08, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Take a look at our beautiful album cover by @basicsatan and then go check out some more of his work while you're at it. http://t.co/W2iURrBLFeb 08, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- running jumping falling shouting spreads its wings in a week. Can you handle it? http://t.co/7YGg0raaFeb 08, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @WesMoore1 Fantastic job on @billmaher!Feb 05, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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- the breakups - the album will come out TOMORROW... bet your bottom dollar
here’s the skinny:
when: 2/14/12
coin: $10.00(ish)
where: http://thebreakups.bandcamp.com/album/running-jumping-falling-shouting (and other assorted places)
what you can do: Point people toward our album on Facebook and Twitter during the day on Tuesday. You can be our street team from the comfort of your computer or smart phone chair.
Tomorrow means different things to different people. To some it’s about any number of Christian martyrs named Valentine, my personal favorite being Saint Valentine of Terni ‘cause he had the most indie cred. To elitists it’s about Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules. And to those people I say… HAVE FUN AT THE LIBRARY, NERDS!!! To romantics it is simply about love, making dinner reservations weeks ahead of time, and having an abundance of birth control handy. To Hallmark, chocolate companies, and stuffed animal manufacturers who exploit Chinese laborers, it’s about $$$. And to single people it’s about blowing your brains out and/or ranting about how much you hate Love Actually.
To the breakups though, it’s all about RUNNING JUMPING FALLING SHOUTING. That’s right, folks, our new album comes out on Valentine’s Day. Leave subtlety to Terrence Malick. We’re called the breakups and we release albums on Saint Valentine’s Day. Deal with it.
Getting RJFS to this point has been a group effort and many of you were part of that group. You know who you are and we love you on V-Day and every other day of the year.
We urge you to alert people of this album’s existence. Spread the word. Write your local congressman, hire skywriters, deface public restrooms. We need all the help we can get. And speaking of which, if you’ve got the time to post a quick link to the Bandcamp page on either Facebook or Twitter sometime during the day tomorrow it would warm our little hearts. I mean just think if you were all able to make our album trend on Twitter. If that happened I might even understand what the means! #thebreakups? Anybody? I have no clue what hashtags do, but I love a good number sign as much as the next man/woman.
HAPPY RUNNING JUMPING FALLING SHOUTING DAY!!!
the breakups
a breakdown of our massive web presence…
thebreakupsdotcom
the facebook
bandcamp
twitter
youtube channel It’s been a while since the last acoustic video. We’ve been a little busy preparing for the album release. But we’re back with an acoustic version of “amelia (you won’t believe).” It’s the 9th song on the album and it is about cults who prey on people who have nowhere else to turn. Stupid cults! There’s a little bit of a Felix show before the song gets going.
- year end/begin edition (or NEW RECORD OUT FEBRUARY 14TH)
here’s the skinny:
when: february 14th, 2012
where: THE WORLD
what: our new record, running jumping falling shouting
When last we spoke Nic Harcourt was playing a song from our EP over and over again on KCSN. Those were such innocent times, when radio was all the rage. But the river, she keeps on a-flowin’ and it’s about time we put out a new record, don’t you think?
Well it just so happens that’s exactly what we’re about to do. And thanks to our IndieGoGo supporters (you know who you are you beautiful beautiful lovelies) we were able to do it without ending up on the dole just yet. We’re readying the media blitz as we speak. But before all of that happens, we (or others) have started posting tracks here and there to give people a taste of things to come. So get ready for a big list of links. ‘Cause it’s coming. Seriously… you might want to sit down. And not only to prepare yourself, but also because who the hell stands up while reading an email? Are you really THAT busy?
Check out the first single: better off alone
Richard Parsons posted “run from rock’n’roll” on his best of 2011 list (shhhh, don’t tell anybody that it didn’t come out in ‘011.
And the Capitol Records Christmas tree’s days might be numbered, but that shouldn’t keep you from listening to our collaboration with the sweet hurt. It’ll keep you warm during those lonely winter nights. This is a FREE download until January 2nd: winter without you
And lastly, fresh off the presses is a cover of Big Star’s “September Gurls” that Jake recorded with Sara Radle to celebrate what would have been Alex Chilton’s 61st birthday on Wednesday. Listen to it HERE or download it for FREE from our Facebook music page.
Hopefully we’ll be in touch soon with news of a record release show.
Let’s make 2012 the best last year of humanity ever (start making your December 20th dinner reservations now)!all the platonic love we can muster,
the breakups
a breakdown of our massive web presence…
thebreakupsdotcom
the facebook
bandcamp
youtube channel
twitter Sara Radle and I recorded this cover of Big Star’s “September Gurls.” We thought we’d post it as a belated birthday homage to Alex Chilton, who would have turned 61 on December 28th. We didn’t get it done in September and we almost didn’t get it done in December (boys got it bad), but we got it in just under the wire.
“I never travel far without a little Big Star”
—Jake
- happy holidays from the breakups and the sweet hurt
As a gift from us to you in this holiday season the breakups and the sweet hurt are pleased to offer you a FREE download of our hit holiday singles, “breaking up for christmas,” and “winter without you.” Enjoy and spread the word!
http://thebreakups.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-up-for-christmas-single
- radio radio
here’s the skinny:
when: 8am, 12pm, 5pm
where: KCSN 88.5 (http://www.kcsn.org/)
what: Nic Harcourt’s Daily Connection
Here in the breakups we’ve made it a tradition for our achievements to be random in both occurrence and timing. Remember when our EP reached number 1 at KEUL in Girdwood, AK and WUIC in Chicago? And remember when we reached number 66 on the CMJ Top 200? And remember when we placed a demo of “i don’t want to know” on Psych before there was any way for people to know who the song was by or to buy it? The list goes on and on.
Well it’s happened again. Forty-five months after the release of our smash EP, eat your heart out ep, we’ve finally squeezed through the cracks in the walls of the Los Angeles radio fortress. Nic Harcourt has played “after the fact” three weekends in a row on his Saturday show, Connections, on KCSN 88.5, here in L.A. And, as if that isn’t crazy enough, he has made the song his Daily Connection this week, which means the song will play three times a day all week, at 8am, 12pm, and 5pm, with little bumpers by Nic.
We do realize that it is Wednesday, which is just another example of our impeccable timing. So the song has already been played seven times, but that leaves eight more remaining, so there’s plenty of time to turn on, tune in, and drop out as Beverly Cleary said… or was it Denis/Timothy Leary? Or maybe it was Siri. I’m sure she would say it if you asked her nicely.
We’ve gotta say, even in this day and age, where radio seems like the most archaic thing in the world, if feels pretty darn good to be sandwiched between Fountains of Wayne and Dire Straits on a Tuesday afternoon.
Radio is a sound salvation,
the breakups - this is it (last day for IndieGoGo)
here’s the skinny:
when: NOW!!!
coin: that depends on whether you think you can take Tim in a game of one-on-one
where: http://www.indiegogo.com/shove-the-breakups-over-the-finish-line
As Michael Jackson once so prophetically (and creepily) said, “this is it.” The long, weird journey that is a crowd-funding campaign comes to an end tonight at 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time. If you’ve been on the fence about whether or not to donate now would be the time to remove yourself from said fence and pick a side. You’re either with us or with us on the other side of a metaphorical fence. But we are going to proceed under the assumption that you’re with us either way.
So here’s the deal… once this thing is over we’re going to get in touch with those of you who donated enough to get some swag from us to find out things like t-shirt sizes and cover song preferences and so on. We might ask that a little patience be involved in the process because we have to wait until the $$ actually comes through to begin production on these types of things, including the CD itself. But as soon as we’ve got everything in our hands, mass mailings will commence and smiles will be distributed accordingly.
This has been a truly lovely experience and we thank each and every one of you except that one guy who deletes these messages immediately without reading a single word. What a jerk! breakups lesson #473: only insult people who have no idea you’re insulting them. That way you don’t get in fights you have no chance of winning because you are a wimpy weakling.
don’t look down,
the breakups - listen up, rich procrastinators...
here’s the skinny:
when: NOW until Sunday at 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time
coin: that depends on if you’re the 99% or the 1%
where: http://www.indiegogo.com/shove-the-breakups-over-the-finish-line
Well, it’s been quite a ride, this kooky IndieGoGo machine. To say it’s been humbling wouldn’t do justice to the feelings we have toward you guys for all the support and encouragement you’ve shown us over the past 45 days. What more can we really ask of fans of a little powerless pop band from Hollywoodland? Answer: maybe a few more hugs.
Come Sunday at midnight this campaign will have sung its swan song. That means that your work will be done and ours will just be getting started. And when the dust clears there will be CDs, t-shirts, stickers, greeting cards, cover songs, theme songs, time machines, think tanks, regular tanks, and a little thing we like to call rock’n’roll.
Sadly, we’ve only made it through half of the acoustic videos so far. With the rate at which my computer converts those files I might as well do them as claymation. But we will continue to post them leading up to the official release of the album so that the 70 people (average) who have been cherishing every acoustic minute of them can continue to do so.
You can find all of them, as well as our new car wash album promo video, on our YouTube Channel, which lands on the dial right between the adorable kitten channel and the awkward guy who wishes he was Conan O’Brien doing movie reviews channel.
don’t go breaking our hearts,
the breakups “trust” is the 6th song on the record. This one gets a little weird, but when you’re wearing a black and white cowboy shirt crazy things tend to happen.
We’re back to “guerrilla” style for “shelf life,” which is the 5th song on the album. Jake co-wrote this one with Mark Strong (Key and the Crook). And just to be absolutely clear, it’s not about butterflies.
- IndieGoGo for broke
here’s the skinny:
when: NOW until October 23rd
coin: only you and your financial advisor can make that call
where: http://www.indiegogo.com/shove-the-breakups-over-the-finish-line
We’re going to try something new and experimental with this message and keep it short. A move that will probably disappoint the few of you who actually read these messages all the way through and completely not effect those of you who stopped reading this message after the word “here’s.”
As you can see, we’re trying a super fancy new layout for this message. Hopefully there are words and colors on your screen and not a bunch of HTML code that only nerds can decipher. Nerds are so smart and useful… let’s beat them up.
The main purpose of this message is to remind you guys that our IndieGoGo campaign is still going on. Still, you ask? Why would you ask that when we just told you? The other reason is to point you toward the videos we’ve been posting of acoustic versions of songs from the upcoming record. They are kind of fun and we wanted to make sure you knew they existed.
We’ve done four so far:
i’m thinking of a number between 1 and 99: http://youtu.be/-8zmlNspgUE
run from rock’n’roll: http://youtu.be/SxTmCKH1Vj4
better off alone: http://youtu.be/Q9M6g-2722s
i don’t want to know: http://youtu.be/FEKGpR1hnhk
We hope you like them and we’re going to do our best to make it through all twelve songs. Don’t hate us if we fail. Because as a fortune cookie once told me, “Failure is feedback and feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
Your devoted band,
the breakups Alright b-uppers, the acoustic video for “i don’t want to know” is up. Are you ready to make it the most viewed breakups video ever? If you can’t take the heat, remove yourself from the kitchen at your earliest convenience.
