We’re about to head out on the road again, even braving the wild and woolly Canadian border. Hopefully, this time our papers will be, as they say, in order. As we all try to get our fill of homemade meals and real beds before we leave, we’re also getting excited to see our friends in [...]

We had a great time weaving around through dancing girls and a guy who had some early hip-hop moves while looking like a cross between jed clampett and ziggy stardust

The Mercury Lounge show last night in NYC was ‘a good ole time,’ as our fearless organist likes to say. Chris Stamey (along with Anton Fier, Mr. Matt Brandau, and a short cameo from me (Django)) opened up and melted faces with his Ornette-Coleman-meets-Richard-Thompson guitar leads. Then TOC played and it was great having people [...]

On Friday, we played the gorgeous new Brooklyn venue, Bell House. Skippy, who runs it (and also runs union hall), always makes us feel at home, and Friday was no exception. We did an early show, together with my old friend chris moore (moore n sons - check em out!), and then there was a [...]

For the first five or six songs of our set, these two girls were reenacting the kama sutra on the edge of the stage right in front of me. It was, er, a bit distracting, but not the kind of thing I wanted to discourage per se.

Married people often say that, after all the planning and preparations, their actual wedding was a blur. There is so much going on around them that their processing abilities temporarily slow down. That’s how I felt at our cd release show last night at the Cat’s Cradle.

We did a taping for NBC 17 Raleigh’s Sessions in Studio B today. You can see the video on the media page.

Thanks to everyone who entered the TOC/Cats Cradle Poster contest. There were some amazing entries and we will post them here soon. Here is the winning entry which we chose because, basically, every time we looked at it, it made us laugh and simultaneously feel a little uncomfortable. Congrats Kirsten, and thanks everyone, it was amazing seeing your artwork.

Wanna help to promote The Old Ceremony CD Release Party at Cat’s Cradle on Feb 14th? Would you like see your own creative poster art design all over town? If so, enter our The Old Ceremony Poster Art contest. If your design is chosen, we will not only post your original The Old Ceremony Poster [...]