DR. DOG news
most of the news is old, some of it is brand new.
December 12 2005
Great news!! TOOTHBRUSH has returned. After a few months of being totally out of Toothbrush it is back in stock. You can go to Cdbaby.com to buy it if you are so inclined.
November 29 2005
Hey y'all. So we're in the studio, have been now for a few weeks and things are going swimmingly well. We just posted a bunch of dates for 2006 so please check em out. We're going to take a little break from recording on New Years Eve to play at Irving Plaza with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and The National.
In January we are playing our first headlining shows in the North East!! Come out and show some love.
Also in February we're real psyched to back overseas to play a bunch of dates with CYHSY! There are a few of those dates posted and tons more on the way.
October 20 2005
To all Dr. Dog payingattentioners, you are mighty!!! Thanks to everyone who came out to see the shows this tour. We had a full on goodtime. Special thanks to AIH, the specialist band in the world, holla!
We're about to head into the studio to make a new audio recording but before we do, we're playing a benefit concert at the TLA with CYHSY for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. If you're in town, please come out and support the cause. 100% of the proceeds from this show go to charity. See you at the TLA.
September 28 2005
!!!!Ticket Special for the Troc show!!!!
Hey, we have some good news for anyone who happens upon this little news blurb. The real nice folks at the Trocadero gave us 50, two-for-one tickets. That means that if you are on of the first 50 people to email: Brian@Foundationsmusic.com you can get 2 tickets to the Troc show for the price of one. There are a few ways to look at this. You could say that it's like getting a free ticket, or you could say that it's like getting two tickets cheaper than you could get one, you know, there are probably a few other variations, but the result is the same, you end up with an extra ticket to bring a friend or something. Just like on the TV though, this is a limited time offer, so act now!
Brian will tell you if you've made the cut..and how to pick up the tix.
September 15 2005
Help Dr Dog on BBC 6. Ok there's this radio show in London on BBC 6 that is pretty cool. If you click here you can vote for that station to play "The World May Never Know". There's like three bands to choose from at the bottom of that page. You just click on "vote" underneath Dr Dog's name and you're done. Thanks for the help!
September 15 2005
London was awesome, really, you should go if you've not yet been. We learned how to watch Cricket. It took everyone an hour to understand, except Toby who claimed to have it figured out in 10 minutes. Cricket rules. We also played some cool shows and met some cool people. There are a few pictures from the trip on our myspace page if you're curious. We also met the nice folks at Rough Trade who are putting our records out over there, and we of course thank them for that.
We just played two shows in Boston, and they were cool and then tomorrow we play CMJ and that should be cool too. Then, we spend like 5 days driving straight from Philly to Seattle, that will probably not be very cool. Then we will tour with AIH, and that will definitely be cool. More cool than not cool.cool.
September 1 2005
Happy Septemeber. We're off the London tomorrow, wish us luck!! Thanks to everyone that came out to the Rittenhouse Square show last night and extra thanks to those of you who showed up the 2nd show at the Northstar. Oh and if you're reading this in London, we just added another show. Tomorrow, Friday the 2nd of Sept, 11:30 PM and the Camden Barfly. See you there.....
August 26 2005
OK..we have some news. It could have been delivered in fits and starts, asking you to come here everyday and read about a new tour date or a cool review, but you're busy and with the two tone green thing happening, this news section is hard to read. So here it is in a nutshell.
FALL TOUR DATES are up. We're going to the UK for a few days in September, then we're coming back to play a few shows with CYHSY and then we're going on the road with some of the best folks we know: Architecture in Helsinki. The shows are gonna be delightful and we're real happy about having the chance to play with them again.
EASY BEAT will be released on Rough Trade in Europe next Monday and what can we say..that's really cool.
July 29 2005
Check it out, we're back on MySpace.com. A few months ago we noticed that there was a Dr. Dog page on My Space, and that was pretty cool. We tried to figure out who started it and we never could, then whoever started it just stopped doing it. We wanted to say some stuff, put some pictures up and write emails to whoever was on there and we were unable to until today! The good folks at Myspace agreed that whoever had started the site had taken a pretty inactive role in maintaining it so they gave us control over it. We're pretty psyched cause we can fit more stuff on that page than we can on this one. Stop over there and say hi.
JULY 21 2005
The news for today is that we will be reviewed on NPRs Fresh Air which will probably prove to be the largest body of listeners we've ever been exposed to.
In other news Toby and his lovely and beautiful wife-to-be Sarah will tie the knot August 6, and we'll not have any shows until they're all settled and properly honeymooned. August 31st we play with our pals The Teeth in Rittenhouse Square and then we fly to London, UK for the first week of Septemeber.
JUNE 21 2005
Hey everyone. This is the first news update in a long while, but don't think we've been taking it easy. We just returned from a tour opening for Architecture in Helsinki, who stole our hearts and blew our collective minds every single night. We would suggest you run to the nearest record store and buy their "In Case We Die" immediately. You'll find it stuffed somewhere between AC/DC and Men at Work, but in reality they're closer to the Beach Boys or Neutral Milk Hotel or David Bowie all strung together and played with reggae-like concision. Personally, their my favorite Australian band of all time, but let's not dwell on that. They are truly awesome, no matter which way your toilet spirals.
So we played with Architecture and then we took a little detour to play at Bonnaroo. Andrew and I got free burritos from Taco Bell on the way, which was pretty cool, since it took them fifteen minutes to get our order together. The four hours after that were driven in sheets of hurricane blown rain but we finally made it. And then we're there at Bonnaroo and it's about 11 at night; we check in, all that and catch a one mile shuttle to the stage areas where we trudged blindly and bleary through ankle-deep mud, throngs of tripping hippies, and weird old dudes blissed on Trey doing the Abbey Road medley. We're pretty tired and wet but we're just happy to be there. We go to bed late and hardly get any sleep, but we get up early and set our stuff up on the Other Stage for our 1pm show. Show goes really well, we have a great time and the sound is great. After that, we were pretty much on our own, wandering around from stage to stage and seeing different stuff. We saw our friend Dugan, who was plays guitar with Matasyahu; then we saw Herbie Hancock playing a keytar, which really impressed Juston. Then we saw My Morning Jacket, who were incredible as always. Beyond that, we just ate some tasty foods in the tent and then got really tired. We slept that night at Juston's dad's N.C. mountain home, stretched out on the raw pine boards above the sound of the rushing water in the stream below. The end.
MAY 25 2005
We are all neighbors. Linked together by electrons thrust through tiny wires laid long ago and splattered against liquid crystal screens.and we have been bad neighbors. We've let the grass grow knee high which almost hides a stack of newspapers on our front porch. There's a broken down Wagoneer in the back yard and a dude that we've let sleep there who clearly has a drinking problem. You wouldn't care but he yells late at night at the height of his intoxication just before passing out.
All the while Dr. Dog has continued to move through life, ignoring you, our neighbors by not keeping you up to date with what would be this very neighborly news section.
Well those days are over. Somewhere between our record coming out, playing 6 shows at SXSW and touring the country with Ambulance Ltd and Autolux, we saved up some money and bought a lawn mower. We're cleaning up! Washing the fence, cutting the grass and updating the news section. Now, this is a little like going on a diet, or quitting smoking. As of now we fully intend to update this site all the time, twice a day maybe, but the fat dude smoking a cigarette across the street probably fully intended to be running a marathon by now back on January 2nd, so we'll see how it goes.
We're about leave for tour with Architecture in Helsinki and Head of Femur in June and we're jazzed on that. Also, and how this did not seem news worthy until now I have no idea, we're playing Bonnaroo.
So details on the aforementioned dates are in the tour section. You can buy Toothbrush and Easy Beat on line. We're going on tour again, and maybe later on we'll put some new pictures up..just have to remember how to do that.
That's the news for now.
DECEMBER 20 2004
CD ORDERS:
Wow. The volunteers here at Dr. Dog HQ shipping and recieving has been working overtime these last few days to process the massive amounts of CDs people are requesting. Due to our antiquated packaging system, which requires us to find a box, cut the box to size, draw on the box, write out the address, tape the box after inserting an embossed and stickered, calligraph[er]ed (?) thank you notes in Queen's English, we're a bit overburdoned and, in the case of "toothbrush" a undersupplied. We're going to try to get all your orders out as soon as we possibly can, but the reality is that the human-produced CD takes time to produce. We're getting to it as fast as we can, so just hang in there.
DECEMBER 14 2004
Look at this article about us in today's New York Times!
NOVEMBER 4 2004
So it turns out the boring, managerial stuff that I spoke of last time turns out to be really exciting for everybody. Witness: Brian Winton is now our manager, and apart from being an excellent dude, he's already set up about four amazing shows his first day on the job. So this rules for pretty much everyone; and there's even better things to come!
OCTOBER 30 2004
Time for your tri-monthly or so update, so here goes: Andrew is now a lawer; congrats, Jonesy; Zach broke his collarbone and Juston stabbed himself in the hand with flathead screwdriver but they're fine now; Scott is going to get a raise at work; Toby got a new dog, Asta, after the tragic death of Hunter S. Dog earlier this summer. Rest in Peace, little buddy.
Other than that, our record Easy Beat is in the process of beingreleased by National Parking Records, which is an outgrowth of Devil in the Woods. Hopefully the record will be out some time later this/early next calendar year. There are some other exciting things cooking, but they're more like things that are exciting for us, and not necessarily exciting for you, the listener: Managerial, organizational stuff that gets us, as unorganized, uncoordinated people really stoked. We'll spare you.
AUGUST 23 2004
As far as news goes, there's nothing very urgent at the moment, although you can find an unreadably tiny version of a cool FADER mag writeup of us. Toby's got like four weddings to go to in September, so our next show won't happen until Sept. 25. Hang in there, folks.
JUNE 12th 2004
It's been a while since we've written about any happeningshere on the NEWS page, but we've actually been pretty busy. We just finished the MMJ/M.Ward tour, which was amazing once again; there was a nice writeup of us in the Philadelphia Weekly. There are alsosome great shows in the future, so check it out.
FEBRUARY 18th 2004
Action! taking place in the Dr. Dog basement spawned by the aquisition of studio monitors, good microphones, a function ing 8 track and the invaluable advice of Bill Moriarity, a straight up good dude. Get ready for an awesome sounding album in the nearest of near futures.
And speaking of solidity, Dr. Dog now features rhythm guitar styles of Andrew Jones, who's about a solid a dude as ever was.
All is good so let's just rock.
Also, check out a nice paragraph written about us from the Richmond Times Dispatch.
JANUARY 14th 2004
Finally! After a long period of dormancy, the site is back up and running. As it turns out, there is a lot of news to report.
Firstly, the big excitement is of course the upcoming tour with My Morning Jacket. You can find the dates for that here.
Other than that, we all have our own instruments and amplifiers now, which is incredible. We've been practicing and playing a bunch and I think it's sounding pretty good. While we are excited about the tour, it saddens us to know that Doug 'Truck' O'Donnell will be leaving the band after the D.C. show. He'll be moving on to other things but you can still catch him playing guitar in his other band Doublehorse and in the Conawingo Homeboys.
November 23 3002
Hello. I know you probably never thought it would happen, but Dr. Dog has a web page now. Although it's quite simple, I tried to make it colorful. So if this works out, you'll be able to check back here for updates about various Dr.Dog related activities. As for our current satus, we're seriously pursuing reparing the eight-track, which means we can remix all the material from the "toothbrush" CD and all the new stuff that never got transferred to disc. Other news includes possible touring in January. When we know more, you'll surely be the first to know.