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New song in the works.

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Had a great show last night in New Orleans/the house from Pixar's UP. (at The Circle Bar)

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Geeking out that we're playing in one of the actual filming locations for The Wire tonight. #thewire #tour #carcettiformayor (at The Sidebar)

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Beach Moon/Peach Moon swirling out last night, right before my phone died. #dreampop #shoegaze #theemotions (at CAKE SHOP NYC)

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Into the Lincoln Tunnel. #tour (at Lincon Tunnel New York)

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Leaving Philly, on to NYC! #tour #byebyecheesesteaks (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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Rhythm section. #libraryhouse

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SURPRISE! Five song EP out today. We made it just in time for tour. If you buy it on bandcamp, we're putting the money toward replacing Brett Siler's studio and house stuff, which were lost in a fire during the making of this release. Click on the link in our profile to listen and/or buy. Yay! New songs! (at Bandcamp)

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We did it! Our first ultra-official music video is live on YouTube! Yay!

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Yay! Tomorrow the Katydid video will be released! Here's one more pic from it.

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A hot air balloon was drifting by when we were shooting for the Katydid video, so we put it in. Here's a screenshot with it.

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Here's another screenshot from our Katydid video. #snowmachine #peaceframeproductions

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Tour Diary Renewed # 5

There is music happening in your town. It is happening in basements and bedrooms and tiny bars. It is happening in art galleries and theaters and repurposed garages. It is happening in little towns and in big cities. It is happening because people are driven to create it and share it and learn from it. The Radon Lounge is a place where music happens. We had a ton of fun last night. Thank you Jeff for creating such a special space and letting us share. Thank you to Zoo and The Locals for creating and sharing. You are great bands. And thank you everybody in Springfield who came out to listen. Like most things, music is best when it's homemade with organic ingredients. The road is unspooling into a yellow Illinois sunrise and we are heading home. There are hundreds of bands out here with us right down burning up the miles and sweating and starving for a chance to share something. Music is happening. Chuck Parzych III plays drums, drives the van, makes art out of everything, and operates a finishing school out of his home. Andrew Dolan plays keyboards, crushes high scores, sees the future, hacks the planet, makes the Kessel Run in 11.5 parsecs, and can nap literally anywhere. Josh Reid plays bass, sleeps late, and writes the tour diary. Levi Dolan writes the songs, sings the songs, plays guitar, invented the band, and does everything else. We are Cantalouper. Thanks. ROAD MUSIC Joy Division

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Tour Diary Renewed #4

There are hard gigs and easy gigs and disappointing gigs and gigs that make you wonder why you bother to do this stuff at all. There are also shows that justify the whole experience beyond every expectation. Those shows make you aware of a whole world of people out there plugged into your wavelength. You learn that your people are all over, and you all share the same interior space. You come together and you tap into something that matters. We had one of those last night in Kankakee. Thank you Wallow, for being young and wild and great. Thank you Windmills, for being what you are and taking us along for the ride. Thank you Feed, for existing and filling up with the finest audience in Illinois. It was a hell of a good time. Thank you Nick and Mike for the pancakes and the hospitality and laughing at the "Cartman sings Smashing Pumpkins" thing. Love you guys. We are barreling down the road to Springfield. We are full of coffee and figs and vigor. We are closing this thing down at the Radon Lounge tonight. See you there. We are cantalouper. We are all in this together, you guys. Seriously. ROAD MUSIC Ride

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Tour Diary Renewed #3

We are in Chicago. There's nothing like navigating through the 2nd biggest city in America to make a fellow feel like a rube. It is, however, a kind and handsome city. We had a great time at the Elbo Room with all our new friends from Big League Boys, Pick your Poison, The Apprehended, and Light the Fire. We are all about as far apart musically as can be, but we stood united in our love for good times and guitars and hot showers. That night the rubes were winners. We slept in a hostel, we found parking, we hung out with Dave at Dave's Records, we ate mad cozy Korean food. If you find yourself in this beautiful city, visit these places. Purchase their wares. Tell them cantalouper loves them still. On to Kankakee where our brothers in Windmills await. It will be delightful. We are driving along the lake and watching the waves and just doing tour things. What a wonderful world. ROAD MUSIC Neiv. Neiv forever and ever.

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Tour Diary Renewed #2

That was quite a show, folks. We had an amazing time playing with the as yet unnamed band, Neiv, and Brief Candles. The Midwest Shoegaze gang turned out in force and we averted annihilation. The Bistro is great, Mama is great, life is great. Also thank you to Mr. Embrey, king among men, for hosting us and providing us with tasty breakfast makings and shower access. God bless his beautiful golden soul. We are driving to play in Chicago at the Elbo Room. Is this exciting? As our friends from Neiv would say: "But of course." Seriously, go check out Neiv right now before they blow up and you have to pay $50 to get into their shows. And go see Brief Candles before their awesomeness exceeds the boundries of this universe and they vanish into Earth 2 to delight our dopplegangers. And give Christopher Golwitzer a hug next time you see him. On a side note, I love Illinois but all this flat terrain makes me feel a bit like a cockroach scurrying across a vast kitchen floor. We are cantalouper. We love you. On to the big city! Road Music: Neiv. Neiv all day long

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Tour Diary Renewed #1

We are driving through Illinois to play a “Shoegaze Wednesday” show in Bloomington. The world is also supposed to end tonight.

I never knew that I wanted to play a post-apocalyptic show with Brief Candles and Neiv until this exact moment. They are so good and this is going to be such fun. But we must wonder: What does a shoegaze show on the edge of annihilation even sound like?

Tonight we will get an answer.

I like to think that this particular cataclysm will involve some kind of breakdown in the space-time continuum and all us Wednesday Shoegazers will be confronted by the mummifed remains of our ancestors. They will wag their bony fingers to convey their disappointment in our choices and we will destroy them with purple waves of guitar noise that taste like dehydrated ice cream. We will stand together in our final moments, with one foot on our pedal boards and one foot in the grave.

Anyway, that’s one scenario. We are barreling down the road to our ultimate destiny.

We are Cantalouper, and we aint afraid of no ghosts.

Driving music:

Stella - “Skin and Seeds” New Order - “Music Complete”