Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Couple Shows

We got a couple of Milwaukee shows this weekend.   First we're playing with the High Tension Wires, Tenement, and Uh-Oh at Cactus Club (2496 S Wentworth) on Friday.  Then on Sunday, we're playing with the Vibrators, Midnight Reruns, and Modern Day Rippers at the Down and Over Pub. (2535 S Kinnickinnic)

While you wait you can watch this video of us at Vince Lombardi High School in Pomona, CA from a couple weeks ago.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Awesome Fest

Hey guys.  We're making our return to San Diego's Awesome Fest this year.  There's a lot of great bands playing this year with us including Marked Men, TTK and Fleshies. Seriously, when was the last time you saw Fleshies?  Like 2002?  This will be sweet.

Tickets just went on sale today and they're probably going to go real fast, just like they do every year.  They're only $40 for 3 days.  You can buy them here.

You can visit the official website of Awesome Fest here if you want to learn more about all the fun goings on in Awesome Fest Land.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

May 5th in Chicago

We're going to be playing May 5th in Chicago opening for Dan Vapid and the Cheats record release show.  The show is at the Cobra Lounge, starts at 9pm and you can get tickets here.  Tim Schweiger and the Middleman and Textbook will also be playing.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Stevens Point and Minneapolis dates

We're going to be playing a couple shows in Minneapolis and Stevens Point in a few weeks. We'll be in Point on Friday Feb 17 an MPLS on Saturday Feb 18. More info can be found on our tour page.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Michigan and Ontario dates

We got a couple shows coming up next weekend in Michigan and Toronto.

Thursday, December 15th - Lansing, MI
@ Mac's Bar (2700 East Michigan Avenue)

Friday, December 16th - Toronto, ON
@ Magpie Taproom (831 Dundas St. West)
w/ Steve Adamyk Band and !Attention! 

Saturday, December 17th - Ottawa, ON
@ Dominion Tavern (33 York St)
w/ Steve Adamyk Band and Party Knives 

Sunday, December 18th - Grand Rapids, MI
@ The DAAC (115 S. Division Street)
w/ Max Levine Ensemble and Radiator Hospital

Monday, June 20, 2011

Chinese Telephones at Riot Fest

Chinese Telephones will be playing at this year's Riot Fest in Chicago.  The festival takes place October 5-9, and Chinese Telephones will be playing on Thursday October 6th.

For more info on Riot Fest, and to order tickets go to http://riotfest.org.

Additionally we are playing in Milwaukee this Tuesday at Linneman's and in Chicago on August 5th for Noise By Number's record release show.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

New Vinyl

Our debut full length has been repressed on yellow and blue vinyl, and Democracy is finally seeing a vinyl pressing.  (black vinyl and split black and pink versions exist)  Since we don't have a store set up on here yet, you can preorder the records from It's Alive.  All orders ship on May 31st.

From itsaliverecords.com:
The self-titled debut album from Chinese Telephones was first released in November 2007. It was pretty much instantly sold out and repressed the following month in December 2007. By early 2008 it was gone again. The band had called it a day not long after, so we left this album out of print. A couple years later Chinese Telephones were playing some shows here and there and eventually went out for a couple of tours. Fast forward to 2010, the band was officially back to active status and has been playing out since. It seems dumb not to have this album in print for as long as this incredible band is out stoking the old fans and winning over new ones. So here we are releasing the third pressing of one of the absolute best records we've ever been lucky enough to have released. All copies have been pressed on yellow/blue split color vinyl and come with a download code. If you missed it the first time, get it now! If you already have it and want a copy that's really cool to look, go for it! This album is goddamn modern classic!

Chinese Telephones... Democracy... get it? Well, if you don't get the Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy joke in there I won't hold it against you. That piece of crap took them something like a decade to get released. So, to keep the parody of a joke as true to form as we could, we took forever and a day to get this LP out! The CD version has been out for a good long while now. If you know what's good for you, you already own it. But even if you do, you might wanna pick up this LP version. Not only does it have both songs from the Art Of The Underground Single Series 7" on it, which the CD did not, but it's also been entirely  re-mastered by Justin Perkins. That dude knows what he's doing with all the switches and knobs! 150 copies of this first pressing are on pink/black split color vinyl. 50 copies will be available from the band on their tour later this month and the other 100 will only be sold here on the store page. Act fast if you want some of the pretty stuff. All copies of the LP come with a download code as well. Sorry this took forever to get out. I'm sure you'll find it was well worth the wait.