We were practicing at Matt’s house for our Engine Room show when there came suddenly a steady rapping at the front door. Two girls entered.

But only one left.

Okay, that’s not true. But what is true is that we met Matt’s neighbors that night and they invited us to play at their party the following night. We immediately agreed and spent the rest of our practice thinking about cover songs. We met for a quick practice on Saturday with the following list of songs in mind for the party:

Buddy Holly (Weezer)
Undone (The Sweater Song) (Weezer)
I Wanna Be Sedated (The Ramones)
Louie Louie (The Kingsmen)
Whatever You Like (T.I.)
Paper Planes (M.I.A.)
Hey Ya (Outkast)
El Scorcho (Weezer)

Let me tell you what: everything sounded great. There were about 30-40 people at the house party, and Matt, Andrew, and Justin pounded out the jams on a concrete backyard porch. (Tim had a family matter to attend to that night.) They even demanded an encore from us.

Our originals and our cover songs all got a great response, so I suppose we’re now Tallahassee’s #1 party band. Drop us a line if you have a celebration that requires our services. We don’t ask for much in return: eats, drinks, a diamond studded microphone, and two gold-plated guitar picks.

After the one-two punch of Floyd’s and The Engine Room this week, we’re taking a few weeks off to record a few proper tracks. We’ve got four shows under our belts now, and with a little hiatus on the horizon, we plan to do some DIY recording at our practice space.

This will be a time to reflect on what we want our band to sound like (and to replace the terribly low-fi demos on our myspace page with somewhat less low-fi recordings). Our current online demos were recorded using a Snowball USB mic, set up across the room from a standard Monday night band practice. Then, Andrew recorded vocals in the kitchen of his apartment over all the noise. These demos have served their purpose, but we’re on to bigger and better things…

We’ll keep you posted. And we’ll be back onstage Wednesday, September 2nd at The Engine Room with Social Ghost and The Popheads.

Reich’s primary research tool is MySpace, and he posts reviews on his personal page here.  Here’s an excerpt from his review for your reading pleasure:

For a newly formed band, it was quite evident that they have worked hard to get recognized within the local music scene.  I was impressed.

Unfortunately, they didn’t get to play before a larger crowd.  This too shall come.

These guys will catch other groups off guard.

You can read the full review here. Reich also assured us that he has something like eighty photos of our set. We’ll post a link to those as soon as they’re live.

Dateline, Saturday night: We blew the roof off of Floyd’s Music Store in our most hard-hitting performance to date. Thanks a lot to everyone who came out, to the other bands, and to Floyd’s for having us. We went first in the lineup, and got the crowd moving. Here’s what we played:

1. Cracks in the Pavement
2. The Uncut Hair of Graves
3. So It Goes
4. Don’t Start Me Down This Road
5. This is the End
6. Wrong With Me

We had to cut one song from our set. We chose to skip “Stay With You,” an epic mid-tempo barn-burner on which Justin de la Cruz takes the helm. If you missed this song as much as we did, come see us at the Engine Room on Wednesday, August 12th, when we’ll hopefully get to tear through our whole set.

One attendee asked us to all sign a drumstick (is it possible he had us mixed up with someone else?), and another long-haired guy told us he wrote reviews of local shows on his Web site. We’ll post a link here if we ever track him down.