Nomination & Updates: The Dabbers

We have finished composing a brand new set of songs and are ready to begin recording in the studio for our sophomore album!  It’s going to be a little different, possibly more anthemic and raw, a lot more backup singing from me (even starting to sing actual words, hah), and definitely more volume. I’m so excited to get started. Definitely thinking of releasing this full-length album on vinyl as well!

We’re planning on working with Archival Studios again, since we were so pleased with the production of And I Was Like, And They Were All, and since the staff at Archival are the best you can get. Working with Mitch Wilson was incredibly entertaining and relaxed, not a bit of pretentiousness or pressure, ever.

And for the big news! And I Was Like, And They Were All has been nominated for Best Alternative Album for the 2010 San Diego Music Awards. Being selected as one of only eight nominees in all of San Diego feels pretty awesome, and we are excited to be in “competition” with some of our close friends, Lion Cut & Rafter. Here is the lineup of nominees for this category:

Fight Fair – California Kicks
Hotel St. George – Fun, Shine, Line
Lion Cut – s/t
New Archaic – Movers and Shakers
Pierce The Veil – Selfish Machines
Rafter – Animal Feelings
Republic of Letters – Painted Hour
The Dabbers – And I Was Like, And They Were All

Unlike last year, when we were nominated for the Best Rock Band category, we aren’t going to win or lose based on fan voting polls, which really just means spamming all of your friends for 3 weeks to vote for your band on the SDMA website (annoying). This time the voting will be done by a panel of judges that will be making the decision.

And last but not least, we’re playing on September 13th at the Casbah with Shonen Knife!!! They are an awesome, straight from Japan, all-girl Japanese punk rock band that has been together since 1981!

Oh man, this is going to amazing. Yes!! The poster I’m making is going to be the cutest, ever. Japanese text, cute colors, ridiculous creatures….oh boy.

Stay tuned my friends!!

EarthShake Sunday

After feeling the ground shake and seeing our bookshelves rattle (and getting quite unnerved while it was happening, thank you 6.9 in Mexicali) I headed over to our friends house (aka Mr. & Mrs. Lion Cut) for an Earthshake Sunday brunch.  Deviled eggs, cheese & crackers, matzo ball soup, and lemon cookies.  Not to mention a complicated game of croquet with yours truly as the winner.  Below is my friend Aimee enjoying a lawn chair and an iPhone (that you can’t see, to research the rules of croquet). Ahh, Spring.

CityBeat Music Feature

And now…..

The story of The Dabbers, as told in the San Diego CityBeat, published today.

Read it HERE

Please come out and support on Wednesday Decemeber 30th for our very loved and long awaited full-length self-released CD on Rax Records, And I Was Like, And They Were All.

We are playing with some great friends:

Lion Cut
Street of Little Girls
Samhears
DJ The Night Rocker

My friend Ryan, the man behind the DJ name, will spinning the classy tunes in between sets. Seriously, this guy has a great record collection.  He played at our show in September and it was so spot on to what I wanted to hear. Jazz/Ragtime/Motown…the works!  He puts up a good match to even some of the best of them…ahem…Mane One, I’m lookin’ in your direction…tee hee.

The butterflies in my stomach are already fluttering!
xoxo,
gubba

Nineteen Eighty Six, Just Twenty Three Years Ago

It’s my birthday on Friday, so I made a cute little flyer for our show. Yah!