Well this is incredibly exciting news for us, and we are very happy to announce our first official endorsement—from Audix Microphones, an awesome company who work with some of our favourite artists, including many who have helped shape our music—including Blink 182, Alanis Morissette, the Doobie Brothers, and many more. You will be seeing some yummy new OM3s at our shows. We love the way they sound and are excited to be working with such an awesome company!

Happy Easter Monday! Especially for those of you lucky enough to have it (Canada). We have just finished an incredibly busy but also amazingly fun weekend of Easter awesomeness with music and candy and family…and candy. Just a lot of candy. We don’t remember Easter being this much candy, but this year, it was. And now we’re just trying to catch up on all the things we put off so we could actually celebrate Easter!

Anyway. We have several exciting things in the works which we will crowd up your newsfeeds with later but we did want to announce some fun shows coming up in San Francisco that we are really looking forward to…

We had SO MUCH FUN at the Hard Rock Cafe show last Friday! Thank you again to everyone who came out to support and rock out with us.

If you missed it, we missed you, but here are some pics of the show from Trevor Newkirk Photography for you to check out. (ps: Go LIKE Trevor’s page on Facebook!)

Hard Rock Cafe, San Francisco • © Trevor Newkirk Photography

This is something really cool that happened today — we got our first foreign-language EP review from a music blog in the Netherlands, The Music Radar! Two good friends of Deer Park Avenue, Eline and Hans Smit from Holland, did a translation of the review for our English-speaking fans (thank you Eline and Hans!!), in case your Dutch is a little rusty…

The radar skims my surroundings and stops at…Deer Park Avenue. Well, almost true. I actually picked them up on my TWITTER account. But it is worth a post in this blog…

Deer Park Avenue is a band that consists of the two sisters, Sarah and Stephanie Snyder. In my view one can describe their music as energy-pop with punk and rock influences. The type of music that really makes me happy when I listen to it! And exactly what I need on this rainy and grumpy Monday morning.

First, an enormous thank you to EACH and every one of you who voted for us in the Hard Rock Rising Competition last week. Thanks entirely to your votes, we’ll be playing in the live battle of the bands on Friday, March 9, in San Francisco on Pier 39 at 8:30 p.m. If you live in San Francisco or just will be there for whatever reason, come hang with us! It’s going to be fun, and it’s also entirely free!! We’re playing with two other awesome bands, fellow Sac band Iconoclast Robot and the bay area’s Cadent. Also, if you text UROCK to 99000, you’ll also get a 20% discount on merchandise and meals (alcohol excluded). We’re very excited about this show.

We have a couple other really cool shows coming up that we’d love to see you at!