UPCOMING SHOWS AND NEWS

The New Yorker gives Blender a nod: JOE’S PUB 425 Lafayette St. (212-539-8777)—Jan. 17: Life in a Blender is a long-running Brooklyn institution specializing in quirkily heartfelt pop that is both surreal and thought-provoking. Lately, the endearingly absurdist musings of the lead singer, Don Rauf, have come augmented with lush arrangements. Rife with oddness, the band’s work hides moments of poignancy and introspection amid the laughs.

Check out the video of Blender performing Go To Man at Joe's Pub:

"Life in a Blender captured a city-wide wave of post-gentrification angst in its song 'What Happened to Smith,' rendering hummable the self-conscious anxieties of many of their listeners." —Ariella Cohen, The Brooklyn Paper

The Heart is a Small Balloon is a Best Album of 2007 on the lists of George Graham at WVIA and David Wechsler, music writer.
David also selected Rope to the Water as one of the best songs.

The editor of The Brooklyn Paper declared LIAB's December 1st show at Barbes: "The best concert of the year." It's in the latest edition. Silver and gold, silver and gold, please send us all your silver and gold. In the spirit of holiday retailing, Life in a Blender is selling its CDs at prices that have been slashed, chopped, chiseled, hacked, and smooshed! This one time only. Get the 3 most recent Life in A Blender albums for $25 (shipping included). Imagine the look on your family's collective face when you put a ribbon around the 3 most recent Life in a Blender albums and tuck that magical bundle beneath the piney boughs!

You get: Two Legs Bad featuring Chicken Dance, Tiny Ankles, and other classics, Tell Me I'm Pretty with Mobile Wash Unit, Dead Get Down, and gobs more, and The Heart is a Small Balloon with Blood is Worthless, Whole Thing Down, What Happened to Smith, and Into the Bleak. Also, we have high-quality Life in a Blender T-shirts in sizes Large and Extra Large on sale this holiday season for one time only for $11, shipping included. Don't you have some one large or extra-large in your life who you would like to express love to in the form of a t-shirt? Take a look at the design by Mark Lerner at www.myspace.com/lifeinablender and while you're on the myspace page listen to Cool Mom again because it's a neat old song. And thanks to all who came out to Barbes last weekend for holiday catharsis. and thanks to everyone else who dared touch the hem of our garments during the year.

In return for all the love we've given you, why don't you buy some stuff? Just send a check made out to
Stingy Brim Music 2253 12th Ave. West, Seattle, WA 98119 and we'll send you THINGS!!

Also: for those who need Life in A Blender's It Likes Me, we have a handful left that we sell for $25 each.....it's a collector's item and features Foul Pies, King of the Garage, Friend from Quebec, Cool Mom, and the fancy guitar work of Chris Rael. and If you want our original vinyl first album, you're in luck. We've got that too. Get Welcome to the Jelly Days, with the single Mounds of Flesh, for just $8. See you all in '08.

The New York Times finally notices Life In A Blender! And the Brooklyn Paper recognizes having LIAB in your bag is more important than bottled water.

Scranton puts Life in a Blender in the Top 40! Scranton, PA, is the setting for The Office, and George Graham at WVIA has been kind enough to put us in his Top 40 this week. Scranton here we come!! http://georgegraham.com/playlist.html

We're also getting nice airplay on WUSB out of Stony Brook, WRRW Virginia Beach/Norfolk, the phenomenal Don Campau at KKUP in Cupertino, and Lord Litter with Radio Marabu in Europe.


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LIAB is still hawking its new album, The Heart Is A Small Balloon. The album looks beautiful with Mark's design and sounds great with Al's terrific producing. And there are nice new T-shirts too.

By the way, an oversight on the album: Mr. Cutlets (aka Josh Ozersky) should have been thanked for the title "She Handed Me the Mitten." You should visit Mr. Cutlets online though and hear his anthem written by Don Ralph and recorded with some fine Seattle musicians.

So now that you've wound up here--I can update you a little. We're a fraction of a fraction of an inch away from finishing the rarities album as well.....all the unreleased studio material and many great live cuts from CBGBs.

We have joined MySpace. Go to our page--I'm experimenting with it so you'll find obscure tracks and miscellaneous nonsense.

is on the new compilation called "Upstate Manhattan" on 207 Records. LIAB counts as an Uptown Manhattan artist because Al Houghton, lead guitarist and producer, lives on 204th Street. You can get this outstanding album on CDBaby.

We're very excited that Mobile Wash Unit will be featured in the documentary by Sara Lamm about the late, great but very clean Dr. Bronner.

I recently recorded an episode of Mike Danner's Accordion Crimes show in Portland. Check out a full hour of me blabbing with Mike and us playing songs together. We also got to play a few songs at the infamous Laurelthirst bar.

We filmed the last show at the Living Room and hope to have a tape all mixed and ready to air on Manhattan Cable TV soon.

It's been sunny a lot in Seattle. The oyster special is over. Bwahhh....So I eat the cheap Sushi at Umi.

Don't forget these bands: Chris Rael and Church of Betty and Pinataland The 24 Hour Plays were great fun. I got to play a curmudgeonly coot who is neurotic and threatening to kill everyone in the boarding house. Sound familiar?