NEW SINGLE ” PLAY ALONG”
In Honor of our upcoming tour, we give you “PLAY ALONG”.
The First single from our Forthcoming album LOVEWEAPONS.
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YOUTUBE
BANDCAMP
http://themesmusic.bandcamp.com/
SOUNDCLOUD
http://soundcloud.com/themes-music/play-along
“PLAY ALONG”Was Written and Performed By THEMES : Kelsey Crawford ( Vocals & Pianos ), Jacy McIntosh ( Vocals & Baritone Guitars ) & Nick Dayka ( Drums & Percussion ) with Horn Arrangements by Cory Gray ( Trumpets ), and Noah Bernstein ( Saxophones ). Produced and Engineered By Brandon Eggleston at Cloud City Sound in PDX, OR. Mastered By Ephriam Nagler, using Magic.
Released 20 September 2012
7-27-12 Portland, OR. THEMES w/ Hustle and Drone & Black Hills
We’re Pleased to announce that we will be performing in Portland OR on July 27th 2012, with some great friends and their excellent new bands. The show will be at the Someday Lounge, with HUSTLE AND DRONE (feat. Ryan Neighbors, from Portugal.The Man) and BLACK HILLS, from Settle, ( feat. Erin Tate of Minus The Bear and Eric Sturgeon of The Lonely Forest. )
check em out!
Hustle And Drone
www.hustleanddrone.com/
Black Hills
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Hills-band/223873527730068
For Advance Tickets
http://www.somedaylounge.com/
5-27-12 THEMES W/ ELECTRIC GUEST. PORTLAND, OR
We are very Excited about this show. Electric Guest is a great band and it’s sure to be a great time. we’ll also be performing most of the material off our our upcoming album. come join us! -Mr. THEMES
2012 SHOWS
2012 SHOWS!
5-27-12 PORTLAND, OR @ MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS W/ ELECTRIC GUEST
6-17-12 SEATTLE, WA @ SUNSET TAVERN W/ YOU ARE PLURAL / EXRAYS
7-27-12 PORTLAND, OR @ SOMEDAY LOUNGE W/ BLACK HILLS / HUSTLE AND DRONE
10-05-12 MISSOULA, MT @ THE TOP HAT
10-06-12 BILLINGS, MT @ MANNY’S
10-09-12 KANSAS CITY, MO @ THE RIOT ROOM
10-10-12 LINCOLN, NE @ ZOO BAR ( LINCOLN CALLING FEST )
10-11-12 DAYTROTTER SESSIONS
10-12-12 MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ CAUSE
10-14-12 CHICAGO, IL @ REGGIES
10-15-12 MADISON, WI @ THE FREQUENCY
10-30-12 FULLERTON, CA @ SLIDE BAR
11-04-12 SAN FRANSISCO @ THEE PARKSIDE
12-01-12 PORTLAND, OR @ THE HAWTHORNE THEATER
6-17-12, A SHOW. SEATTLE, WA
we’re taking a break from, taking a break from recording to play some of our new album live at one of our favorite spots in seattle, with two amazing bands.
we’re really really excited about this upcoming show!!! come join us and be some of the first people to hear the new music hope to see you there.
xoxox- THEMES
YOU ARE PLURAL
www.youareplural.com
EXRAYS
http://www.howellstransmitter.com/exrays.html
THEMES
www.themesmusic.com
SUNSET TAVERN
http://sunsettavern.com/
JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT THINGY, IF YOU WANT TO.
http://www.facebook.com/events/209923212459307/
4-28-12 NEW WEBSITE UPDATES.
HELLO AGAIN INTERNET.
you know what’s super punk?
WE ARE.
if you don’t believe me, take a walk down memory lane with THEMES
i’ve been digging through our history and updating this new version of our website in an attempt to make our lives seem more interesting for people who don’t read anymore, which is most of you….in fact if you’ve gotten this far, you deserve a treat of some kind, like an iced cream.
i’ve added loads of photographs and the like.
feel free to take a gander. better still. view it on your smart phones too.
the site is still super rough, and there’s much to be done.
there are still a lot of links that are not running yet, but don’t worry you’ll get the hang of it.
i’m having fun, and i hope you do too.
it is our hope here at THEMES, that this site will be a nice place for you all to come and vacation from your own reality while you’re propping up your desks at work, or surfing the web on your iPhone while riding your bike or driving your car with expired tabs on the free way.
don’t for get your helmet and seat belt apps!
with LOVE from Portland.
-Jacy
ALBUM UPDATE 4-19-2012
as many know we’ve been in the studio, on and off, for the past couple months working on a bunch of songs for our new album, as well as a few other cool surprises. we’re having a blast with the new jams, and can’t wait to share it with y’all. stay tuned for some sneak peeks at the album art, and maybe a bit of something to hear as well. we’ll be back on the road in a town near you, in no time. much love. THEMES
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NEW ALBUM DAY 1.
hello again. it’s been a long month of songwriting and we’ve been working harder than ever towards today!
DAY ONE of tracking the new album!
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WE’RE RECORDING A NEW FULL LENGTH FEB. 2012!
We are excited to announce that we will be headed back into the studio in Portland, OR with long time Friend / Producer / Enginner and all around Rad Dude, Brandon Eggleston.
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KEEP GOING! ON INTO 2012
I remember looking up through the clouds at a patch of clear sky where the stars had shown through. There was a lull then. There was a short period of time where nothing at all happened anywhere in the world and everything was still. It was just then, at that moment, a blast of light flashes an entire year gone by with blinding intensity, leaving only a tail of smoke, wagging up towards the sky. A calm feeling in the beginning days of the year lend way to greater reflection.
With so many great things, and so much thanks to give for all that happened in the year 2011 it’s difficult to know where to begin. The addition our our Friend and Drummer Nick Dayka has been the most monumental for us, thus we push forward into new territories on many levels. There is much music being made and i suppose one could expect new releases from THEMES some time early this Spring, as well as some other surprises.
FOR ALL OUR DEEP HOMIES
PORTLAND SHOW ADDED! 12-20-2011
Themes | The We Shared Milk | Sioux Falls
THEMES FOR FREE / NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY.
In Honor of all people, places, and things that have contributed to the creation of this musical group called THEMES we are focusing our efforts in an act of appreciation for what we have and an act of solidarity in observation of NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY.
feel free to go to the bandcamp page and download all of our albums for free this weekend.
thank you
http://themesmusic.bandcamp.com/
10-09-11 INTO THE LARCHES OF AUTUMN
it’s autumn once again. this grey. this morning. pushing forward into a new musical ocean. swaying back and forth as a unmanned ship adrift.
we had a wonderful summer and i can still remember the feeling of sunburn. the smell of camp fire. the feeling of the waves lapping at our legs. the sound of the warm breeze through the lush dense green blanket that surrounds us.
out into the the center of nowhere, for the sake of the vast expanse that is our playground and our cathedral.
we focus our eyes now, on the things ahead, on wet streets lined with signs, the reflection of light off piano keys. we can see the rattle of brass. we can see the vibrations of strings. there’s a terrible ringing in my head always and there’s a bell ringing off in the distance. i’m not sure everything is going to be alright, because the world is a terrifying place and we hold fast to the craft that we exhale. it’s our armor protecting us against the barrage of terrible things we’re capable of. it is our weapon, cutting through the foggy indifference of human nature as blade so sharp it scars the air. we know there is good in the world. we know there is justice. we can help and we want to at least try, but it’s not easy to convince a storm of anything at all, much less the people underneath it. we can only work together to make sense of the dead languages that used to drive our kind to a common understanding. we’re all moving forever forward down our paths to meet our ends having been good to one another and having made one another truly believe it’s not hopeless to survive.
THEMES DAYTROTTER SESSION 8-28
On Wednesday April 27th 2011 THEMES drove through the flooded towns and fields of Iowa to Rock Island ,IL where we recorded a session at the Daytrotter Studios. I remember the devastation of the floods so vividly that it may be with me forever. Mother Nature’s ability to destroy the creations of man remains a warning. This Daytrotter Session is a reminder of that.
THEMES DAYTROTTER SESSION AVAILABLE HERE:
CHESTS AND HEADS FULL OF SMOKE
The good and the bad relationships, the ones that end in ugly fights and breakups and the ones that end in marriage (happy or otherwise) have their points of skepticism, those iffy gray lands where everything’s out on the table and you’ve got to make a move to one side or the other. Right there, in those moments there’s a period of consideration, a think for the Great Think. It’s a rattling around of options, the choices weighed and the decision to take a plunge or to just start swinging and kicking, turning tail and running as fast as you can to get to somewhere else immediately. It hardly matters how much it will hurt, who will get hurt, etc., for what’s best for you is what’s best for you and it always will be. It’s consistently the driving force. Themes’ new record, “The Phantom,” features a house on-fire on its cover, with a front yard dotted with grazing buffalo. The music that Jacy McIntosh and Kelsey Crawford put on it seems to be the work of poisoned air, of stale air that’s getting sucked deeply into the lungs by everyone living in it. It’s like waking up and finding oneself surrounded by a smoky, burning house and not panicking for there’s been a recognition that this moment was possible and has been possible for some time. As a matter of fact, now that they think about it, that smoke was there when they went to bed. It’s been in the room for the last week, the last month or the last year. They’ve said goodnight to it right after they brushed their teeth and right before they tucked the kids in for the final time every night for so long now that it feels so much like the normal that they’ve always known. But that poisoned air is bad, that smoke is bad. It will, eventually, take over and kill them. McIntosh and Crawford write into their music this feeling of finally getting to a point where something has to be done. All of the red-cheeked thrashing and pounding has been replaced with more of a glassy tone, where everyone knows that this can’t go on much longer. It’s walking down a solitary path, needing to finally make it right inside. There are dry mouths and flickering hearts, thumping and shorting out like a light fixture with a catch in its throat. We’re in the middle of our own opera, and no one’s speaking, just watching and trying to figure it all out, waiting for the move, whatever it’s going to be.
Words by Sean Moeller
Illustration by Johnnie Cluney
Recording engineered by Mike Gentry
06-18-2011 “THE PHANTOM” @ THE KNITTING FACTORY, SPOKANE, WA
THEMES “THE PHANTOM” LIVE @ THE KNITTING FACTORY, SPOKANE, WA
this show was part of a short run we did with deep homies, Minus The Bear, and Empty Space Orchestra. so much fun.
