we’ve been talking about doing this since our very first band practice. it’s time to grind our musical souls into the pavement.

thank you to back from outer space and chase from sargent house for making this happen!

EU/UK 2012
Apr 26 - Prague,  (CZ) @ 007
Apr 27 - Poznan,  (PL) @ Klub Pod Minoga
Apr 28 - Halle,  (DE) @ GIG -Ganz im Gegenteil
Apr 29 - Copenhagen V,  (DK) @ KB18
Apr 30 - Stockholm,  (SE) Firestorm Festival @Klub 43 *ACOUSTIC SET
May 01 - Stockholm,  (SE) @ Kulturhuset Lava
May 02 - Malmö,  (SE) @ Moriskan
May 03 - Oslo,  (NO) @ Parkteatret
May 04 - Stavanger,  (NO) @ Folken
May 06 - Leipzig,  (DE) @ Null bis Unendlich
May 07 - Bremen,  (DE) @ Stubnitz
May 08 - Oberhausen,  (DE) @ Druckluft
May 09 - Reims,  (FR) @ Le Killbery
May 10 - Milan,  (IT) @ Cox 18
May 11 - Arona,  (IT) @ Meltin Pop
May 12 - Postojna,  (SI) @ MCP
May 13 - Vienna,  (AT) @ Rhiz w/ This Town Needs Guns
May 14 - Graz,  (AT) @ Generalmusikdirektion
May 15 - Zagreb,  (CT) @ Tvornica Kulture
May 16 - Dornbirn,  (AT) Soundsnoise Festival @Spielboden
May 17 - Bolzano - Bozen,  (IT) @ Rock’n roll Club
May 18 - Yverdon les-Bains,  (CH) @ L’Amalgame
May 19 - Limoges,  (FR) @ La Fourmi
May 20 - Toulouse, M-P (FR) @ Connexion cafe
May 21 - Castellon , Vaa (ES) @ Veneno Stereo
May 22 - Madrid,  (ES) @ Wurlitzer Ballroom
May 23 - Porto,  (PT) @ Maus Hábitos
May 24 - Zaragoza, (ES) @ AVV Arrebato 
May 25 - Clermont-Ferrand, AUV (FR) @ Raymond Bar
May 26 - Paris,  (FR) Indie Air Festival @ Espace B
May 27 - Brighton,  (UK) @ The Green Door Store
May 28 - Leicester,  (UK) @ The Cookie Jar
May 29 - Liverpool,  (UK) @ The Shipping Forecast
May 30 - Dublin,  (IE) @ Button Factory
May 31 - Galway,  (IE) @ Roisin Dubh
Jun 01 - Limerick, LIM (IE) @ The Blind Pig
Jun 02 - Cardiff,  (UK) @ Buffalo
Jun 03 - Nottingham,  (UK) @ Chameleon Arts Cafe
Jun 04 - Edinburgh, SL (UK) @ Sneaky Pete’s
Jun 05 - Lancashire, (UK) @ The Grand
Jun 06 - London,  (UK) @ The Old Blue Last
Jun 07 - Bristol,  (UK) @ The Fleece
Jun 08 - Canterbury,  (UK) @ The Farmhouse
Jun 09 - Milton Keynes, (UK) @ The Craufurd Arms 
Jun 10 - Kroningen,  (NL) @ Vespro
Jun 11 - Nancy, LOR (FR) @ Caveau du Grand Sauvoy
Jun 12 - Brussels,  (BE) @ Magasin 4
Jun 13 - Liege,  (DE) @ Inside Out
Jun 14 - Berlin (DE) @ Marie-Antoinette
Jun 15 - Darmsdadt,  (DE) @ Oettinger Villa 
Jun 16 - Ceske Budejovice,  (CZ) @ Velbloud 
RUSSIA 
Jun 17 - Saint Petersburg, (RU) @ Arktika 
Jun 18 - Vologoda, (RU) @ TBA 
Jun 19 - Moscow, (RU) @ Gogol
Jun 20 - Nizhniy Novgorod, (RU) @ Freedom 
Jun 21 - Kazan, (RU) @ Zheltaya Kofta
Jun 22 - Samara, (RU) @ Krater
Jun 23 - Togliatti, (RU) @ Kultura 
Jun 24 - Ufa, (RU) @ Rock’s Cafe  

clovis, new mexico 2006. jeff worms (possibly doing “The Worm”). 

whoa, we’ve been doing this a long time. thanks for the photo Elisa!

so stoked on this. 

jason “chinbone” boggs played saxophone on patagonian rats. he’s been a staple of the sacramento music scene for many years. he sang/played sax in Filibuster.

so AIDS WOLF have (has?) broken up. that is a bummer for a number of reasons. we don’t really know much about aids wolf. i don’t think any of us have ever owned their records or really looked into their history as a band. i know they’re from canada, they play very out-there music and they seem intimidating. and i mostly know all that from playing a show with them once in 2009. before you get further into this wormhole of a post you should click that link and read what they had to say. even if you know less about their band than we do it’s still a really interesting piece. in the event that you find yourself saying aloud, “TL;DR,” it can be summed up like this- they were a band trying to do something interesting and no one really seemed to give a shit, and even then they kept grinding it out on tour and in the studio and finally after 9 years they said “fuck it.” actually it’s even deeper than that, so you really should just read it. it’s written by their singer, chloe, and it’s pretty sad. she just seems really bummed out. 

i’m pretty sure aids wolf was an extremely polarizing band. we played with them in san jose at an arcade on march 29th, 2009. there’s youtube vids of both of our sets. i remember them all looking pretty strange- weird haircuts, messed up clothes etc. their music was even stranger than the way they looked. even stranger than that was the way they acted towards us at the end of the show. we kindly introduced ourselves to them and the singer, chloe, did this weird thing where she VERY aggressively shook our hands for an extended period of time with a big, possibly antagonistic??, smile and and acted very odd in general. i recall thinking, “ok, ok, cut the shit, i’m trying to tell you that i liked your band.” what’s interesting about that is that in her post she mentions how they were often treated rudely by other bands that they had played with and that “attempts to chat with one of the opening bands got us eye rolls.” hm, sounds familiar. looking through this Exclaim! magazine post, particularly the comments, it is very obvious that people loved or hated this band. 

regardless of how you feel about their music or about them as people- they were a unique band that were honest about what they were doing and really went for it for 9 years. for the most part, tera melos no longer has to drive to the middle of nowhere and play bar shows to 10 drunken idiots not paying attention to us; making us feel embarrassed about the time and energy we have put into our band all to (not) entertain people that couldn’t care less. we have been there many, many times. although, to say that we were embarrassed is probably not entirely accurate- a lot of times those shows ended up being the most fun- guitars ended up in trash cans, noise sections got even longer and we’d all have a good chuckle about it in the van. it still sucked though.

chloe mentions being 34. none of us have quite hit 30 yet, but we’re all awfully close. had we been playing guitars-in-trash-cans shows for 9 years and all of the sudden i’d hit 34, i’d feel pretty weird. i mean, we feel pretty weird now and we’re in a position 100xs greater than trash can show-style. 

so there’s a couple things to take from the disbanding of aids wolf- outside-the-box art/music is constantly on life support. we depend on YOU. creating music has intense intrinsic value. it’s self-satisfying. but in order to be a band that continues existing it’s important to maintain support from fans, aka friends. otherwise we all get jobs and become “weekend warriors” who go to the practice spot every wednesday night and “tour” on some weekends to the next town over. the other thing that aids wolf’s unfortunate demise brings is perspective-

HOLY SHIT, WE ARE NOT PLAYING GUITARS-IN-TRASHCANS BAR SHOWS ANYMORE!!! one million thank yous to you and your friends for being kind to us and helping our band grow and continue to exist. i promise that it did not take a cool band breaking up for us to realize this- it’s something that is constantly on our minds. it still feels very unreal to have people coming to our shows, knowing the songs and fully supporting us. we do this with the help of a few very cool people at our record label, Sargent House, and you. that’s it. this kind of music doesn’t get put in a mcdonald’s commercial which in turn makes thousands of squares at home watching american idol run to itunes to download the song they just heard. it’s completely independent of that. although, if we ever did get a song in a mcdonald’s commercial we would be fucking stoked. CHA-CHING!

Aids Wolf had a solid run. sucks to see another cool band bite the dust.

howdy. sorry for the lack of updates via this blog page. seeing as how facebook looks to be going in the direction of dogshit we’ll probably be using this guy a lot more. went to download the tumblr app for my phone but then there were tons of awful reviews. what’s up with that?? anywho, we’ve been recording lots. don’t wanna give too much away, but our new record is definitely sounding like Patagonian Rats’ older brother. i don’t even know what that means actually. sounds awesome. it’s looking like it will not come out until next year. crazy right?? the problem is that we won’t realistically have it done til mid summer- we’re taking a break from recording to go hang out with the legendary fIREHOSE and then we hop on a plane and go cruise around europe for a couple months- and ideally you don’t want to release a record between october and january. what happens is the album ends up getting overlooked because the holidays are a mess in the music world. so we want, what they call in the biz, “maximum exposure” for our new record and that means making everyone wait to hear it. so we will not have a “summertime record.” 

“LIKE OMG, THIS RECORD IS TOTALLY SUMMERTIME FEEL GOOD HAHAHAHOOHOOHEE.”

tera melos is year round motherfucker. we don’t fuck with the seasons. what else is going on…? i guess that’s all i can think of. please be sure to bookmark this page. it will still get posted to the facebook feed, but something has been fucked up with our page. has anyone noticed? it’s rearranging our posts and making some pertinent junk disappear. whatever, that stupid zuckerberg has like a trillion dollars, he doesn’t give a shit about some noisy band. although perhaps he is a fan. can anyone confirm this?

below are our upcoming tour dates. hope to see you all soon. and for good measure here’s a picture of the second pedal i ever bought. i think i was 14 or something. got it at guitar center in hollywood. it’s a crappy phaser. it’s broken now. i modded it somehow and added a switch to the top. i think i played one show with it and blasted the switch off. alright that’s it for now, BE GOOD EVERYBODY!

fIREHOSE / TERA MELOS 

Apr 05- Sacramento, CA (US) @ Harlow’s w/ fIREHOSE & Victims Family
Apr 06 - Portland, OR (US) @ Doug Fir Lounge w/ fIREHOSE
Apr 07 - Seattle, WA (US) @ Neumos w/ fIREHOSE
Apr 09 - Bellingham, WA (US) @ Wild Buffalo House of Music w/ fIREHOSE
Apr 10 - Eugene, OR (US) @ WOW Hall w/ fIREHOSE
Apr 11 - San Francisco, CA (US) @ Slim’s w/ fIREHOSE

TERA MELOS EU/UK 2012
Apr 26 - Prague,  (CZ) @ 007
Apr 27 - Poznan,  (PL) @ Pod Minoga
Apr 28 - Magdeburg,  (DE) @ cafe central
Apr 29 - Copenhagen V,  (DK) @ KB18
Apr 30 - Uddevalla,  (SE) @ Apartment show
May 01 - Stockholm,  (SE) @ Kulturhuset Lava
May 02 - Malmö,  (SE) @ Moriskan
May 03 - Oslo,  (NO) @ Parkteatret
May 04 - Stavanger,  (NO) @ Folken
May 06 - Leipzig,  (DE) @ TBA
May 07 - Bremen,  (DE) @ Stubnitz
May 08 - Oberhausen,  (DE) @ Druckluft
May 09 - Reims,  (FR) @ Le Killbery
May 10 - Milan,  (IT) @ Cox 18
May 11 - Arona,  (IT) @ Meltiin Pop
May 12 - Postojna,  (SI) @ MCP
May 13 - Vienna,  (AT) @ Rhiz w/ This Town Needs Guns
May 14 - Graz,  (AT) @ Generalmusikdirektion
May 15 - Zagreb,  (CT) @ Tvornica Kulture
May 16 - Dornbirn,  (AT) @ Soundsnoise Festival 
May 17 - Bolzano - Bozen,  (IT) @ Rock’n roll Club
May 18 - Yverdon,  (CH) @ Amalgame
May 19 - Limoges,  (FR) @ La Fourmi
May 20 - Toulouse, M-P (FR) @ Connexion cafe
May 21 - Castellon , Vaa (ES) @ Veneno Stereo
May 22 - Madrid,  (ES) @ Wurlitzer Ballroom
May 23 - Porto,  (PT) @ Maus Hábitos
May 25 - Clermont-Ferrand, AUV (FR) @ Raymond Bar
May 26 - Paris,  (FR) @ Espace B
May 27 - Brighton,  (UK) @ The Green Door Store
May 28 - Leicester,  (UK) @ The Cookie Jar
May 29 - Liverpool,  (UK) @ The Shipping Forecast
May 30 - Dublin,  (IE) @ Button Factory
May 31 - Galway,  (IE) @ Roisin Dubh
Jun 01 - Limerick, LIM (IE) @ The Blind Pig
Jun 02 - Cardiff,  (UK) @ Undertone
Jun 03 - Nottingham,  (UK) @ Chameleon Arts Cafe
Jun 04 - Edinburgh, SL (UK) @ Sneaky Petes
Jun 05 - Lancashire,  (UK) @ The Grand
Jun 06 - London,  (UK) @ The Old Blue Last
Jun 07 - Bristol,  (UK) @ The Fleece
Jun 08 - Canterbury,  (UK) @ The Farmhouse
Jun 09 - Lille,  (FR) @ TBA
Jun 10 - Den Haag,  (NL) @ 330 Live
Jun 11 - Nancy, LOR (FR) @ Caveau du Grand Sauvoy
Jun 12 - Brussels,  (BE) @ Magasin 4
Jun 13 - Liege,  (DE) @ Inside Out
Jun 14 - Bernau bei Berlin, Bra (DE) @ Marie-Antoinette
Jun 15 - Darmsdadt,  (DE) @ Oettinger Villa Villa
Jun 16 - Ceske Budejovice,  (CZ) @ Velbloud 
TERA MELOS -  RUSSIA / UKRAINE 
Jun 17 - Saint Petersburg, (RU) @ Arktika 
Jun 18 - Vologda, (RU) @ TBA 
Jun 19 - Moscow, (RU) @ Gogol’
Jun 20 - Nizhniy Novgorod, (RU) @ Freedom 
Jun 21 - Kazan, (RU) @ Zheltaya Kofta
Jun 22 - Samara, (RU) @ Crater
Jun 23 - Saratov @ TBA 
Jun 24 - Voronzeh @ TBA 

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Tera Melos stopped by to record a session with BeatCast during their busy summer touring schedule, which has seen them play across Europe and the US, including shows with Sargent House labels mates Le Bucherettes and Adebisi Shank. They very kindly ventured into the wilds…

we’re going on tour with japanese legends Boris! check out their new record(s). we’ll be pulling some new/old things out of the bag as a three piece for these shows. 

BORIS / TERA MELOS US TOUR DATES 2011 

Oct 07 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brew * 
Oct 08 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom *^
Oct 10 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater *^
Oct 11 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret *^
Oct 12 - Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s *^
Oct 15 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater * !
Oct 16 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room * !
Oct 17 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater * !
Oct 18 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater * !
Oct 19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro * !
Oct 20 - Oberlin, OH @ Dionysus Disco /Oberlin College * !
Nov 10 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse * 
Nov 11 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah * 
Nov 12 - Los Angeles, CA @ EL Rey * 

* w/ Tera Melos
^ w/ Master Musicians of Bukkake 
!  w/ Coliseum 

we’re super happy to announce that we’re going on a co-headlining tour this summer with El Ten Eleven! we played with these dudes years ago at the silverlake lounge is los angeles. they’re awesome. more info/dates soon, although you can probably do some detective work and get a head start on show details (yes, it’s a mostly full US tour. yes, florida is in there!) sorry dudes! the party is over before it started :(

we’ll also be configuring our set a little differently this time around. the patagonian rats tour cycle started in september and since then we’ve built the set around songs from the album. this time we’ll be focusing on new ideas, old ideas, restructured ideas etc, etc, in addition to PR songs. we’ll also be retrofitting to a 3 piece Tera Melos (evan will be working on his Family Room record and will rejoin us for our fall tour schedule.) so it should be a real fun, experimental, raging time. 

before this adventure we’ll be playing two shows with Sargent House fresh blood, Le Butcherettes and Adebisi Shank. June 27th at the Troubadour in LA and June 29th at the Great American Music Hall in SF. we’re headlining the SF show. wait- WHAT!? WE’RE HEADLINING THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL IN SF!!! whoaaa! we’ve seen lots of awesome shows there (dillinger, botch, deerhoof…) and now we get to play our own awesome show there. le butcherettes will just be coming off the deftones/dillinger tour and it’ll be adebisi’s first time in the US. these shows will be bananas. do. not. miss. these. (we’ll be playing as the 4 piece, patagonian rats band)

and lastly, before that adventure, we’re going to Ireland and the UK (as we have previously freaked out over). we’ll be playing a bunch of shows with Tangled Hair and some other really cool bands. there’s also a mind bending show on June 18th that we can’t talk about… yet. 

well, that’s a lot to digest. too bad for you, cause here’s some more magical mind food to add to the glorious mound of shit building up in your brain’s intestine- 

trailer #2 for the upcoming tour documentary

(panda, we love you, and you can say the name of our band however you’d like, but for anyone else wondering, it’s pronounced “tare-uh mellows” for the 1,334,443,455,001,666th time.)

when we finished tracking for Patagonian Rats at the hangar in sacramento, we had some additional studio time. so we decided to record a live, improvised piece for fun. we ended up with a 51 minute freakout (similar to that of the now infamous, often called out for during live shows, melody 8). after hashing out the pat rats songs for so long in the practice spot/studio , this was a welcome change of pace for us. stream of conscious playing (read: weird, messed up noise) has always been a big part of this band and our musical personalities. 

the 51 minutes of music (?) has been sitting on a hard drive for a year now while we’ve contemplated a fun way to unleash it. being as that we are not big time rock and rollers, (and this track will further prove that), our first trip to the UK/Ireland has proven to be difficult and very expensive. so now seems like an appropriate time to release something new that’s fun and interesting to help and raise some of that green stuff to offset these costs. we’re asking for a minimum of $5, but of course you are welcome to pay what you’d like beyond that. every penny earned off of this, and really any way you support our band (shows, t shirts, records etc), is extremely appreciated. 

the track is called Echo On The Hills Of Knebworth. i just listened to the entire thing while typing this. intense!

after being a band for 7 years, hundreds of emails asking about it, two previously canceled euro tours and relentlessly trying to figure out how to make it happen- we’re finally flying across the pond.

for a long time it seemed like we were cursed never to get there, so we’re extremely excited to make this happen. it’s a short run. no additional dates will be added. who knows when we’ll be back. so pleaseee, let’s make these shows AWESOME. none of this “i have school that day,” or “i totally forgot about it.” we worked incredibly hard to make this happen and we just want everyone to have fun and help make rad memories that were worth the crappy wait.

we’ll have more info soon- show details, the “secret show” and a few fun things to help offset the astronomical costs we’re enduring to make this happen. GET EXCITED!

TERA MELOS UK/IRELAND SHOWS 2011 

Jun 05 - Dublin, IE @ Forbidden Fruit Festival 
Jun 06 - London, UK @ The Old Blue Last 
Jun 07 - Brighton, UK @ The Hope  (TBC)
Jun 08 - Bristol, UK @ The Cooler 
Jun 09 - Manchester, UK @ Night & Day Cafe
Jun 10 - Nottingham, UK @ Bodega Social Club 
Jun 12 - Leeds, UK @ The Well
Jun 13 - Birmingham, UK @ The Flapper 
Jun 14 - TBA
Jun 15 - Cork, IE @ The Crane Lane Theater 
Jun 17 - Ireland - TBA
Jun 18 - SECRET SHOW TO BE ANNOUNCED.  

our friend Erick Wilczynski brought along some buds and filmed our entire backbooth set in orlando (it was a rager). we’ll be releasing the whole set, one song at a time. so keep your peepers peeled! oh, and we played 40 Rods to the Hog’s Head that night. so between this and the upcoming TerrorEyes tour documentary, there should be whole lot of awesome vids to occupy you lil freakazoids for a long time.