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

They all are vibrant amazing colors, totally unique, and these are just a few colors, there are dozens and dozens more and so many different hues & tones. Rax Records first release! Limited edition run of 500. We ship within 2-3 business days after receiving payment. Hooray for new vinyl!!

I scanned them in slightly crooked, but here they are! Zack did the cut outs for the paper construction, I used a scanned image of a painting I made (the fly), and I did the “spine” on the computer. The image on the back was taken in an industrial area of San Diego using magic and a very orange wall.

We spoke with the pressing company earlier today and it looks like the records should be here this week. Then we can turn our living room into a packaging center and get a ton ready for the two big shows with Autolux this weekend. First Soma on Saturday September 26th, and then Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa.

Rax Records is our own label composed of money, time, and devotion (but certainly not in that order). This is our very own self-released piece of music. Two songs, 45RPM, mixed vinyl and cute packaging. I’m so happy!

Mixed vinyl means that all the colors at the record press are combined to make a marbleized gray, with splotches of random color. Each record will be completely unique due to the pressing process. We went through United Record Pressing which has been around for ages, they put out some of the earliest Motown records and even served as housing for the touring groups (how cool!). The vinyl is getting pressed (hopefully we’ll get it in a few weeks) and the full-color cover art is done, so the first Dabbers vinyl is almost ready – hooray!

The Dabbers went on a day long photography adventure with Sade Williams and her assistant Alenna Sibounhom about a week ago. She shot several rolls of film, black and white, color and all in medium format. These are just a couple. We wore all of our own clothes (she let me borrow a dangly necklace and some hair ties…) and shot around San Diego in North Park, Golden hill, and a random parking lot.

The best part? We finished off the day with some hot ramen and ice cold water.

For more of Sade’s photography: www.sweditorial.com

For more of The Dabbers: www.myspace.com/wearethedabbers

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

The Dabbers have finally finished recording, and have replaced ALL of our songs with the fancy official EP versions of our album “And I Was Like, And They Were All”, which includes two never before posted songs.

All songs recorded/​​mixed/​​produced at Archival Sound, North Park, San Diego 2009.

Speaking of – many, many thanks and credit to our friends @ Archival Sound:
Mitch Wilson: Mixing/​​Recording/​​Burrito eating-totally awesome months of fun)
Kyle Thompson: (Ze Mastering Genius).

We are playing this THIS FRIDAY July 24th @ CASBAH with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone & Concern.

Click on our picture above to be taken to our Myspace page!!
xoxo,
gubba aka Mlle. Dabber

I am now selling my art on Etsy. I just barely opened up shop yesterday so I still haven’t worked out all the kinks and made it look perfect, but now it’s finally here. I am starting out small (literally) with a few packs of pins I made. I am planning on putting up some paintings and prints soon as well.

Once we start making Dabbers art and merchandise it will also be listed on my Etsy shop for sale. Hopefully that will be happening sooner rather than later – now if we could just get a record label to pick us up with our freshly mastered album…hmm.

Click below on the cute little dog button to be taken to my new shop I decided to affectionately name”Ice Cream Kitten”.

I’ve been reading a lot of science fiction circa 1940’s-50’s and I’ve been really really soaking it in on all sorts of levels (as you can see below it has seeped into my cartoon-ish aesthetic). I never really knew that I even liked sci-fi literature until I picked up these last three:

Rax, Michael Coney
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester

They are all incredible books and I’m surprised that they are really considered sci-fi because they run so deep on so many levels. They are truly great pieces of literature, and aren’t at all dated by the era that they were written. I used to assume that most science fiction consisted of silly outdated predictions of the future, or outlandish ideas of what humans and earth and aliens would be like, but instead I’ve discovered a whole world of books that are strange little head-trips about life itself and are truly moving and eerie. Definitely not consisting of the classic and cliche post-apocolyptic water-world trashed New York scenery that I thought most sci-fi books were about. What a great discovery!

And here is a poster of the next Dabbers show at the Soda Bar to go along with this new exciting theme…

Dropped by the art store today and bought a pack of colored construction paper, then turned our living room into paper shrapnel covered mess – by making this:

I used the outer space of his circle to make the top portion of mine. Same idea and two really different styles. Monday afternoons are well spent if you have scissors, a big package of construction paper and a purple glue stick (and someone to share these things with). I took photos of them, put them into Photoshop to remove the camera glare & cropped them so they are little bit more digital/pixelated than the originals (obviously).

Yesh!