If there is one thing we hear most online, it’s people asking us to play in their city.  Well, we’re really psyched to announce that in March, we’ll be coming to a lot of cities in the United States and Canada.  The (great) band Say Hi has invited us to open for them on their upcoming tour.  Starting March 3rd we will be joining them and Blair on the road for a string of 22 dates, plus SXSW shows. 

Here are the dates:

03-03-11 @ Mohawk Place — Buffalo, NY
03-04-11 @ El Mocambo — Toronto, ON
03-05-11 @ Casa Del Popolo — Montreal, QC[TIX]
03-06-11 @ Middle East Downstairs — Cambridge, MA [TIX]
03-07-11 @ The Bowery Ballroom — New York, NY [TIX]
03-08-11 @ Johnny Brenda’s — Philadelphia, PA  [TIX]
03-09-11 @ The Black Cat — Washington, DC[TIX]
03-10-11 @ The Grey Eagle — Asheville, NC [TIX]
03-12-11 @ Backbooth — Orlando, FL [TIX]
03-13-11 @ Crowbar — Tampa, FL
03-14-11 @ Club Downunder — Tallahassee, FL
03-16-11 @ Fitzgerald’s (Downstairs) — Houston, TX
03-17-11 @ SXSW — Austin, TX
03-18-11 @ SXSW — Austin, TX
03-19-11 @ The Loft — Dallas, TX [TIX]
03-22-11 @ The Rhythm Room — Phoenix, AZ [TIX]
03-23-11 @ Plush — Tucson, AZ [TIX]
03-24-11 @ The Casbah — San Diego, CA [TIX]
03-25-11 @ The Echo — Los Angeles, CA  [TIX]
03-26-11 @ Bottom Of The Hill — San Francisco, CA [TIX]
03-28-11 @ Mississippi Studios — Portland, OR [TIX]
03-29-11 @ Lucky Bar — Victoria, BC [TIX]
03-30-11 @ The Media Club — Vancouver, BC; [TIX]
03-31-11 @ The Crocodile — Seattle, WA; [TIX] 

After the 3/31 Seattle show, we are going to tour back to New York rather quickly but we hope to have some shows on the way back.  We will announce those dates when we know what they are. 

If we’re not playing a show near you, don’t worry.  We will be on the road a lot more in the coming months.

We will have LPs for The Mistress, cassettes for Fade Cave, and hopefully t-shirts and posters for sale on this trip.

We’re really excited to meet all of you who have been tweeting at us, writing on our facebook wall, or e-mailing us over the course of these past months.  Make sure you come out and say hi (no pun intended) to us!

- tw

Some coolness is afoot in Yellow Ostrich land for February. 

Famous/awesome Lower East Side venue Pianos has invited us to play a residency.  We will be performing every Thursday night in February.  What’s more, for each of the first three nights of the residency, we invited a different blog who we admire and respect to curate the show.  The final night of the residency will be curated by Yellow Ostrich. 

In addition, we will play different material each night of the residency.  One night we will play The Mistress in its entirety.  Another we will play songs from Fade Cave and other “rarities.”  Another night we will premiere some brand new songs.  The final night we will play our “best of”.

Here is the current line up for the show:

2/3/2011 - I Guess I’m Floating curated - with Telenovas and La Big Vic - Yellow Ostrich will play The Mistress in its entirety.  Tickets!

2/10/2011 - A Heart is A Spade curated - with Holidayholiday, Mussels, and Mammal of Paradise - Yellow Ostrich will focus on Fade Cave-ish songs (not sure yet) and rarities.  Tickets!

2/17/2011 - Muzzle of Bees curated - with Strand of Oaks and Conrad Plymouth - Yellow Ostrich will focus on new material.  Tickets!

2/24/2011 - Yellow Ostrich curated - with Empress Hotel, Holy Spirits, and a secret headliner.  Tickets!

We’re also going to have vinyl copies of The Mistress and cassette tape copies of Fade Cave for sale at these shows. 

We have a lot of great stuff planned for these shows.  We hope to see you there!

Download a recording of our Mercury Lounge show.

Thanks to Jonas and everybody else at nyctaper for the recording!

We are super psyched to announce that Trey Many at Billions is now our booking agent.  Billions’ (and especially Trey’s) roster reads like the best ever playlist on our ipod.  We couldn’t be more excited.

We will now hopefully be playing for you in your city (and not just New York!) in the very near future.

Stay tuned for more announcements about shows and tours! 

Live semi-acoustic versions of WHALE, Daugher, and Mary, filmed by the kind and awesome people behind the Big Ugly Yellow Couch sessions. 

Just wanted to pass along a couple random things that slipped under the radar this incredibly hectic past couple of days.

First, KEXP was uber quick in uploading our live in-studio set.  You can find it here: Yellow Ostrich on KEXP .  Be sure to check out Daughter, which is a new song.

Also, the KEXP volunteer Beth Eisgrau-Heller was kind enough to photograph out set.  The photo set is here.  You can flip through those pictures while listening to the set and it’s basicallyly like watching a really slow, really choppy video of the live show….almost as good as the real thing!  ……or not.  We’ll get on the road and come to your town in 2011.  I promise.

Second, I don’t usually pass along press on this blog but I couldn’t pass this up.  Their Bated Breath named The Mistress as their #2 album of 2010!!  Pretty insane.  Check it out: Their Bated Breath’s Best Albums of 2010