RELEASE DATE: Feb 11 @ Auntie Maes

Non-sequential track listing:

Fake Natives

Settler

Chief Among Them

Antelope

Age of the Jaguwar

Navajo Rug

West is Best

Geronimo

Not Mad, Nomad

Indiana

Not India

Arrah & the Ferns // The Low End @ DBH on Nov 12th

Arrah & the Ferns were one of the first bands to play at the Dead Birdhouse. High-school legends to Dan in Muncie, we were stoked to get them in our house and to share their music. Though the sound pumping from our 70s P.A. wasn't ideal, Arrah and her band of bearded gentlemen took it as an opportunity to turn up and deliver a fun, solo-filled set. It felt good to have a band that good in Manhattan.

15 shows and 6 noise complaints, the Dead Birdhouse, the DIY show-space, may be coming to an end, but we are really happy to finish it off with one of the nicest, coolest bands we have met in the last couple of years. If you didn't see them last time, make sure to check out the video below. They bring some nice vibes.

Music will start sometime from 8-9 pm, so get there early. The Low End will be playing a short opening set of 6-7 songs. All of them will be new ones from our upcoming album, "Fake Natives."

#32 Arrah and the Ferns: All the Bad In One Place from Love Drunk on Vimeo.

Disintegration Day (free download)

We did a live recording of a song that never found its way onto one of our releases. It's called "Disintegration Day." I think it turned out pretty well considering we did the majority of tracking all at once in a tiny basement room. It has Dan's first legit TLE guitar solo too. Hope you like it. You can download it for free from the side of the soundclould player. (That little down pointing arrow.)

Disintegration Day by thelowendmusic

'Fake Natives'

Hello friends,

Lately we've been busy practicing and recording. Last night we began tracking drums for the Fake Natives album, and this coming Saturday we have our first show since our summer tour. Our new set has seven new songs, and we're excited to perform them live.

Below is a link to a band I've been listening to often lately, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. Enjoy.

Peace,

Dan/ the low end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy3kQZTwwr0

The Heat Index @ Aggiefest

Our friends, The Heat Index, will be playing two shows Friday for Manhattan's annual music festival, "Aggiefest."

They are playing at 6 pm in Triangle Park, and at 10 pm in the Dusty Bookshelf.

Check out their music here: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Heat+Index

(Also, Dan wrote a review for their latest EP here: http://blog.thehypeweekly.com/2011/09/01/the-vasty-deep-new-songs-by-the-heat-index/)

Song Obession: LCD Soundsystem -- All My Friends

Never gave this song much of a chance when I first started listening to Sound of Silver but it's definitely a gem. Love it. -- Plus, I found this sweet shot-for-shot lego video.

Indian Uprising -- Navajo Rug

Shit's been getting real in the DBH basement.

We've got two more songs to add to the Fake Natives songlist -- "Indian Uprising" and "Navajo Rug"

Getting really excited about the project. Recording starts pretty soon.

Here's a random old demo for you --

Hills Like White Elephants (Sketch/Demo) by thelowendmusic

"Fake Natives" -- working on it

We've been working on arranging and layering the 10 songs that'll be on our upcoming release, "Fake Natives." It's been a tough couple of weeks as far as getting these songs to live-show-quality, but the last few practices have been going well. We've outlined the skeletons (guitar, bass, drums) of 5 out of the 10 songs. The sounds are fairly different from the "¡Rerevolution!" EP, but I think we're going to have a more cohesive feel to this one. You can expect more of a layered, psychedelic sound combined with catchy, poppy hooks. The songs are predominately about Native American culture and history, but they also discuss some more general topics, too. Here's the track listing (not in order):

Geronimo!

Fake Natives

Coyote Jane

Settlers

Antelope

Not India

Chief Among Them

Not Mad, Nomad

White Wipe Out

Age of the Jaguwar

We'll be playing some of these songs at our shows this fall, and we are going to get in the studio once we are happy with their arrangements. We're playing to have this project finished by the end of October. Here is one of our early sketches from this group of songs:

(Things will definitely change in this song ... more parts, more verses, different beats, but you can get a feel for what we are going for.)

Settler (Sketch/Demo) by thelowendmusic

P.S. -- We're playing The Little Apple Oktoberfest this year. It's scheduled for October 15th outside of Manhattan on Highway 24. There's going to be a ton of Tallgrass brew for you to drink. Get "early bird" tickets here:

http://www.littleappleoktoberfest.com/

(more shows to come)