Tunabunny

nevver: Occupy Everything

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:19:00 -0400

Occupy Everything

The album is now available

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:29:03 -0400

Tunabunny’s new album Minima Moralia is now available for pre-order at the HHBTM site. You can get the regular version for just $12 or you can get a bit fancy and pick up the Deluxe Version that comes with a silkscreen poster (10 x 24 1/2) and 4 1.25” buttons for just $3.00 more. Just click on the link if you’re interested.

9/23 - boone, nc @ espresso news
9/24 - roanoke, va @ the horseshoe
9/25 - philadelphia, pa @ house show
9/26 - boston, ma @ the precinct
9/27 - brooklyn, ny @ brooklyn fireproof east
9/30 - cleveland, oh @ the happy dog
10/2 - murfreesboro, tn @ 3 Brothers Deli & Brewhouse
10/12 - athens, ga @ 40 watt (athens popfest)

Playing our 7” release tonight. We will be at Go Bar with...

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:55:21 -0400

Playing our 7” release tonight. We will be at Go Bar with Desert Cult Ritual, Nutritional Peace and the decorations. It’s also a benefit and a birthday party! More details:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164284740304470

A Fog of Ideas Responds To Our 7"

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:53:20 -0400

A Fog of Ideas Responds To Our 7":

It’s fun reading reviews. You start goofing around with friends, you decide to try and start playing shows, come up with a name, record some songs, let someone release them for you and put your art out into the world… and it comes back to you in the form of a review.

Most bands just want to see a good review. They would be happiest with something like, ‘Not only are Tunabunny the most innovative musical performers in history, but they’re so commercial that it’s inevitable they will make millions of dollars and be sexually desired by people all over the world.’ But for us, a review is like the second half of a good conversation. We’re just curious what people have to say.

Besides, we’re already sexually desired all over the world.

One of the fun parts of being in a band is choosing how to present yourself. Beyond the music, there are pictures, videos, record covers, and press releases to be created. And each one, whether you want it to or not, communicates something about your band. But when you do those things a little differently from the commonly agreed upon method of pursing fame stardom and massive amounts of $$$, some people tend to think you’re just being jerks. Or that you don’t take what you do very seriously. Or that it’s some kind of negative statement about them.

They’re wrong, of course. But that’s okay.

Tunabunny has never gotten a bad review. Honestly, we’re not sure if people even write bad reviews anymore. But in our (small, tiny) review archive, some people have understood our intentions better than others.

This guy understands us completely. And as people who hate being misunderstood, but also hate being deliberate & obvious, it was very gratifying to read. I think the next time someone wants to interview us, we’ll just give them his e-mail address.

OH! This is from when we were on tour and Googolplexia wrote a...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:37:18 -0400

OH! This is from when we were on tour and Googolplexia wrote a song about the origin of our band name. We had no idea he was going to sing this to us! It was at a cool venue/vintage consignment store called Cranky Yellow in St. Louis. You can hear us all coughing and laughing in the back because we all had some sort of bronchitis. Except for Scott Creney. He never got sick. He just laughed at us as we passed around a cocktail of vitamins, b12 and St. John’s Wort.

Hi!

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:57:01 -0400

We are playing Athfest tonight in the lab at Cine. We will probably go on around 11:15. Come hang out if you want. In the very least, it will be air conditioned. And two new songs!!! I can’t wait!!!

In the words of Everett True:

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:49:21 -0400

In the words of Everett True::

“Blocks are blocks are blocks blocks blocks.”

We know how it sounds.

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:33:31 -0400

The following songs were the inspiration behind the playful title of our lead single ‘(Song for my) Solar Sister’. Don’t embarrass yourself by automatically assuming that this was not intentional. A few already have.

NEW VIDEO. Directed by our friend Ted Kuhn. It features a cat, a...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:01:56 -0400

NEW VIDEO. Directed by our friend Ted Kuhn. It features a cat, a dog, a chicken and some fine looking artwork. Oh yeah, and a few fine looking humans (If you are into that kind of thing). You can buy this song in single format which includes a very special song that will not be released on our upcoming album Minima Moralia. You can pick it up at Wuxtry records in downtown Athens, GA if you are interested.

Tunabunny’s new 7” is available. If you live in...

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:31:43 -0400

Tunabunny’s new 7” is available. If you live in Athens, you can walk over to Wuxtry records and pick it up. If you don’t live in Athens, you can ask your favorite record store to get one for you, or you can just go here http://hhbtm.com/item.php?item_id=269.

Our friend Ted Kuhn filmed a video to promote the single. We know that you’re smart enough to find it if you’re interested. We also know that you’re probably lazy so here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTXXeo3vdzw&feature=related (it makes me very happy that the youtube sidebar suggests videos by The Fall, Brian Eno, Televison, and Dead Moon—less happy that it suggests Smog).

Our next show will be Saturday June 25th at Cine as part of Athfest. We’ll play anything you ask us to.

One time, before there was a Tunabunny, I sang this song at...

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:14:00 -0400

One time, before there was a Tunabunny, I sang this song at Karaoke. This year we played in the Beachland tavern on tour, which is the room right next to the big Beachland Ballroom in this video. It was during this crazy snowstorm, and J Mascis and Kurt Vile were playing next door in the Ballroom. Life can get kind of strange sometimes.

"Aesthetics is morality."

Sat, 14 May 2011 16:06:00 -0400

The following is taken from a paper called “Affrontment” handed out at this art show we went to yesterday. The show was put on by some friends of ours that have an art studio over on Barrow street that, in their current incarnation, go by the name Cunny Island Bemusement Park. It was one of the most exciting art openings I have ever been to. I think they hit the nail on the head with this:

“…A far grosser impotence lies with those who believe they are somehow confronting the moral order by affecting an eccentric or “weird” pose. This type is the worst sort of moral agent, since they believe they are combating culture-at-large while they are, point in fact, fully in support of a “correct” culture: they will attempt at every turn to absorb into their order of “weird” anyone or anything they can find immediate use for, meanwhile rejecting what fails to suit their proscribed demands. Never is there an admission of useless elements, of glorious expenditures, committed sacrifice, or genuine terror—they play at politics, seemingly incapable of other means, and adopting a “weird” facade is merely done to disguise an apparent lack of authentic engagement with the world.”

A song that made me want to pick up a guitar. I fell in love...

Tue, 10 May 2011 11:57:12 -0400

A song that made me want to pick up a guitar. I fell in love with her eyebrows and I couldn’t get her voice out of my head. This is the song that really gave me confidence when nothing else could. It still does.

Today is national gold hotpants day!

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:17:59 -0400

Today is national gold hotpants day!

Today the world turns dayglo, and as long as it is easy and...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:00:00 -0400

Today the world turns dayglo, and as long as it is easy and effortless to play an x ray spex album, Poly Styrene will never leave us. Just listen to the shrill joy of her voice and try to convince yourself that it is not eternal. Just look at the way she moves, so effortlessly and yet with such purpose, and tell me that the greatest of our species have not been moving in this manner for some 200,000 years. But it is still hard to say goodbye in the physical plane. It really is enough to make your mind feel like a plastic bag.

I liked the first two Vivian Girls Albums, but I’ve fallen in...

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:42:00 -0400

I liked the first two Vivian Girls Albums, but I’ve fallen in love with their latest: Share the Joy. It’s been a long courtship, but you got me Vivian Girls, like the feel good ending of a Jane Austen novel. It helps that the album, like the weather here in Athens, GA, has an oppressive humidity, unrelenting, swirling and filled to the brim with greening life. Those harmonies get into my sinuses like a pollen burst; it makes me feel like a disconnected observer, but very alive. I hear a voice that I swear has the yearning of Daniel Johnston sing, “I’ve seen the passing of the present and the future and it’s all alright with me.” This album sounds so confident. It makes me feel O.K. about the things I can’t control in the world, and fills me with a certainty about my ability to make the right decisions when the time comes.

The words are so small on the insert of Share the Joy I had to go into the bathroom to read them. I had to squint and tilt and lean over the sink. I read the words to “Lake House.”

Oh my lord what a shallow home, I’m wide awake out on the lake, at 3 am I sleep again, watch the tides rise right between my eyes, It’s in my head, but I’ll be dead before the sun will rise again

I am floored. I don’t know if this is right, but I feel like this album was made for me. My age, my gender, my youth, and my band. And I don’t care if I sound selfish, or petulant. If you had spent your whole life filled with people telling you about what it felt like when they found their favorite artist, making music right then, in their particular moment, you would hold it in your arms and refuse to share it too. At least, you would in the beginning.

This album gets it right, the balance between optimism and cynicism, dark and light, control and acceptance. “Can’t you see I’m living in hell?” Yes! I know! Let’s hold hands and face the darkness together Vivian Girls.

O.K. Vivian’s. Now that you know how I feel…you wanna come over to my place and watch some Akira Kurosawa films or what? It’s all alright with me.

Tunabunny got to hear Jesse’s final mixes of our new album...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:11:37 -0400

Tunabunny got to hear Jesse’s final mixes of our new album last night. This video is a pretty good summation of what it felt like.

There’s a long tradition of Tuna bands, you know.

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:06:26 -0400

There’s a long tradition of Tuna bands, you know.

Today is moving day for (half of) Tunabunny. Like the Jesus and...

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:35:09 -0400

Today is moving day for (half of) Tunabunny. Like the Jesus and Mary Chain in this video, it feels like we are stuck at half-speed and it would be nice to chuck everything across the floor. This also applies to plenty of our live shows. Enjoy.

I don’t care about, about, movies or hockey games. Wish I...

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:20:55 -0400

I don’t care about, about, movies or hockey games.

Wish I could stay home today.