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Live @ Black Cat 4.14.2011 by Lenorable

Lenorable Live @ Black Cat DC. Photo by Nestor Diaz

More photos and other good stuff coming soon! Check out our set from the Black Cat here:


Live @ Black Cat 4.14.2011 by Lenorable

We've been noticeably absent from the blog for a while, but with good reason!

We had some pretty amazing gigs over the past few weeks, including our first show at DC's famous Black Cat and a dance party with Japanese evacuees the Nobis (who, by the way, are incredible live!). We have more coming up; keep yourself posted by watching our calendar (over there on the right, it'll be updated today/tonight).

Our new EP is well underway -- we recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Virginia (click, read, learn) with Justin Moyer (you may know him from this band, or this one, or this one), and we couldn't be more excited.  Of course, we'll keep you loyal readers updated as we move things along with that.

Ok, I guess that's all I have for now.  I have a treat for you later tonight!  
(It's not as dirty as I just made it sound.)

Hello friends and fans!

A short while ago we filmed a video to go along with our song "The Numbers Game."  It's now on our YouTube channel and embedded on the right-hand side of our blog, for your viewing pleasure.

You can also watch it here! Make sure you switch the quality and watch it in HD, because it's better that way.

Drop us a comment, we'd love to hear what you think. Thanks!

(p.s. we'll be announcing some exciting new shows soon, if you aren't clever enough to see them in our upcoming shows list over that-a-way ----> )

We mentioned it previously, but here's a recap:

We appeared on You, Me, Them, Everybody LIVE, a podcast recorded at a number of locations (including one of our favorite bars, the Looking Glass Lounge in DC). Everybody got drunk (some more than others), the speakers or the mixing board or something distorted a lot, and by the end of the night we played a few songs.

Note to self -- Jim Beam is not the best stage manager, and headphones aren't a bad idea when the stage isn't actually a stage and there aren't any monitors.

This isn't from the Looking Glass, but it gives you an idea how the night went...

Check out our episode of the podcast by clicking here; Lisa's interview and our performance are toward the end, but don't skip ahead like a chud. It's hilarious and you'll be missing out on the other great interviews.

If you like it, or you're at least curious enough to come see a free show, come to garmentDISTRICT* March 12 at 7 p.m.  We're playing a free show with our good friends Dance for the Dying, I personally guarantee it'll be super radical.

*The corner of 7th and New York Ave. NW, Washington DC.

Better believe you'll see this one at our show this Sunday!  We finished recording synth-cellos and organs and whatnot for a cover of "Under the Milky Way" by the Church, and needed to test the mix and make sure Ian didn't screw up the structure (what a jerk). So while we practiced, we turned on the camera and played with GarageBand a bit.





Love it? Hate it? Indifferent? Want to hear us cover something else? Leave us a comment and let us know, we might just perform a song for you.

See you Sunday night at the Velvet Lounge!  Music starts at 9 p.m., don't be late, or you'll miss good stuff.

Seriously, it's 2011?  I remember 2001 pretty clearly still: I thought girls would never like me, my high school punk band hadn't broken up yet and I had only been skateboarding for a few months.

CJ played bass in my band in 2001. In 2010 we restored sanity together.

But, I digress.  Now that it's 2011, it's time to look back on 2010, right?  For me it was a tumultuous, but ultimately very rewarding year. I began the year in two bands; by year's end I had started another (the one whose blog you're reading) and quit those two.
It turns out when three groups all want the same thing -- fame, riches, and everything else you'll find in a hip-hop video -- it can be a stressor on one's personal life.

I also had two iPhones stolen, some jerk sideswiped my car, and I lived in a crap apartment with crack dealers down the hall (allegedly).  Ugh, just thinking about it stresses me out.

But at the end of the year I moved into a sweet house in D.C. with a rad girl -- we're a band now! I also got some fun new toys, went on some epic road trips, and wrote some interesting new songs.  So things came out all right, I think.

After all, at least I wasn't Nicolas Cage, right? I mean, that dude's whole life bombed. Click that link, you won't be disappointed.

And I didn't get banned, blocked or kicked out of anywhere, like FourLoko did. Guess I'll just have to go back to my previous energy cocktail: tons of Jameson and Red Bull.

Just like the AP Stylebook, I went through some changes. Not all for the better initially (see my previous comment about Jameson + Red Bull), but it was a net positive.

So here's to 2011! Let's all be nice to each other, so next year we can all have a beer and say, "Hey, that wasn't so bad, was it?" Or we'll have drank the last of the world's FourLoko surplus and we can say, "My head hurts... are you serious, it's 2012? Urrghghghhh."

FourLoko did NOT have a good 2010.

(tip o' the hat to the Boston Phoenix for the linked articles)

Oh, hello there.

Now that you've landed here, the first thing you're probably thinking is "OHHHHH THIS IS SO SWEET."  But the next thing is probably something along the lines of "What in the world is a Lenorable, and what's a gothwave?"

Here's the long and short of it:  Lenorable is a band from Washington, DC, made up of Lisa Reed and Ian Graham.  Lenorable plays an electronically enhanced brand of post-punk* dubbed "gothwave" by a good friend.

This blog will serve as a window into Lenorable's collective mind.  In addition to the band's own music, videos, photos and shows, Ian and Lisa will post daily news articles, random rants, YouTube links and all of those other things for which blogs are generally known.  Hopefully, as time goes on, you'll feel like part of the Lenorable family, and when we're all together at a show, there won't be an impersonal handshake and a request for your e-mail address, it'll be a meeting of friends.

With sincere thanks, Lenorable hopes you continue to follow along on this journey into music and minutiae.

In the meantime, feel free to check out some of the things we have on the blog.  Lenorable's music can be streamed over on the righthand side (just under the show calendar), and across the top of the page are links to Lenorable's various social networking sites. Click away, join, be friends, follow -- do what people do on the internet.

*For those who don't know what we mean when we say "post-punk," here you go.