Oh My Goodness! Summer Tour!

Thank you so much to all of you who made so many swell suggestions for a new Smittens moniker for our newest member, Emily! Some of them were hotly debated at Smittens HQ and some made us double up with laughter, we even got a number of good one`s from Emily`s mom! In the end it came down to Spunky or Sweet and we let Em make the final decision so now we are very happy to introduce you to Emily Hilliard; the Sweet Smitten!

As you know, we have been working extra hard on our next album and doing a few extra things on the side as well – we recently had our song It`s a Saturday! come out on a fantastic comp from Durham, NC`s 307 Knox label and will have a new song called C`mon! (when the grass grows tall and green) on a bees and honey, themed comp from Italy`s My Honey label in the late summer/early fall!

Look for us on the road starting on August 2nd! We`re excited to be playing so many new places this time around and we promise to do our best to come back and visit those of you we won`t be seeing this time out as soon as we can.

Here`s the tour schedule:

The Smittens: Summer Tour 2006

August 2 99 Custer Buffalo, NY
w/ The Grade Grubbers and La Cacahoutte
August 3 Toledo Popfest Vamps Toledo, OH
w/ Pony up!, The Maybellines, and more
August 4 TC`s Speakeasy Ypsilanti, MI
w/ The Icicles, Showdown at the Equator, & Umberto
August 5 Sazerac lounge Grand Rapids, MI
w/ The Icicles
August 6 The Red Line Tap Chicago, Il
w/ Bunnygrunt and The Fake Fictions
August 7 CBGB St. Louis, MO
w/ Bunnygrunt & Poison Control Center
August 8 The Pilot Light Knoxville, TN
w/ Bad Animal, Skeleton Coast and the Mito Band
August 10 Popfest! The 40 Watt Athens, GA
w/ Mountain Goats, Oh-Ok, and more
August 11 Joe and Jo`s Durham, NC
w/ The Midtown Dickens & Future Kings of Nowhere
August 12 The Galaxy Hut Arlington, VA
w/ The Antiques
August 18 The Metronome Burlington, VT
w/ The 78`s and Fire the Cannons
more info here.

Hope to see some of you soon and wowee are we ever looking forward to two awesome popfests this summer!

As always, don`t forget your dancing shoes!
Love and sweetness,
The Smittens
xoxo

Still cant get enough cassette action?

Colin has another song on a fun new comp!

The Sanitary Records cassette comp Homebreaker, a tribute to Skeeter Davis, is now available for preorder (shipping soon). The cassette comes in a really cool looking hand-silkscreened box/case (see below).

Side A:
Emily Jane Powers - "The End of the World"
Colin Clary - "Let Me Get Close to You"
The Faintest Ideas "My Last Date with You"

Side B:
Lys Guillorn - "I Can't Help You (I'm Falling Too)"
Regal Beagle Sessions "Optimistic"
Thee Moths "My Happiness"

Interview Action!

Colin recently took part in Erasing Clouds 100 musicians answer the same 10 questions series! If you wanna read his answers, check it out here: Erasing Clouds.

the Sweet Smitten!!

that's Emily looking down!!