Be sure to catch Sunset streaming live KEXP today at noon, Seattle time.

UPDATE:  The show has been archived here.

Our friends over at the Aquarium Drunkard blog out of LA have posted a cool “Diversions” feature on Bill Baird & Sunset and, in particular, Baird’s outlook on the songwriting process.  The writing found within the piece is taken from a zine, How Songwriting Ruined My Life (Or Saved it, I’m Not Quite Sure), Bill originally created as an instructional tool for a class he was invited to teach at Austin High.  That same zine is now on tour with them, in addition to another book of humorous writings entitled I’ve Got This Problem.

Sunset is currently making their way up the West Coast.  Dates below:

• July 27  Monterey – East Village Coffee House *
• July 28  Santa Cruz – Crepe Place *
• July 29  Sacramento – Sol Collective w/ FUR *
• Aug 01  San Francisco – 4pm Milk Bar w/ Mark Ashworth *
• Aug 01  San Francisco – 9pm Hemlock Tavern *
• Aug 03  Portland – Rotture *
• Aug 04  Seattle – High Dive – w/ Pill Wonder
• Aug 07  Boise – Neurolux
• Aug 09  Missoula – The Badlander
• Aug 10  Salt Lake City — Urban Lounge
• Aug 11  Denver – Hi Dive – w/ Gauntlet Hair *

* = w/ Jesse Woods

Help Me Name Melody is out 9/14 on LP / CD / Digital.

Stream the entire album now on Bandcamp.

Weird Weeds‘ vocalist, drummer Nick Hennies has been extremely active recently.  In addition to having just wrapped Help Me Name Melody for the Weeds, this year he’s already released both a recording of Alvin Lucier’s Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (available now on Quiet Design) and an album of solo material entitled Lungs (available now from Full Spectrum).  A live version of his “Psalms” works has also been made available this year via Compost and Height.  Busy busy busy.

Nick Hennies will tour behind these releases starting next week:

•  29 July – St. Louis, MO @ Lemp Arts
•  30 July – Chicago, IL @ Heaven Gallery
•  31 July – Indianapolis, IN @ Indianapolis Museum of Art
•  01 August – Columbus, OH @ house show (email ginandplatonic@gmail.com for details)
•  03 August – Cleveland, OH @ Bela Dubby
•  04 August – Toledo, OH @ Robinwood Concert House
•  05 August – Ann Arbor, MI @ Canterbury House

The Weird Weeds then set out on tour with the Tim Barnes/John Dieterich/Thollem McDonas Trio to promote Help Me Name Melody, which comes out September 14th on LP and CD: