Coming Soon

Just played Heartland in Seattle for the first time. Great venue! Great vibe. We don't have anything coming up until June 9 right now.

But until then we are mastering two 7" singles, mixing a new set of three songs we laid down a while a go and planning for some great new songs to be rotated into the set.

--HN

Thanks to the friend who hipped us to this. I guess Local Natives’ new album Hummingbird has an album cover very similar to our Amagosa release. Funny that their Jan. 2013 cover looks so similar to our record which we put out online in Oct. 2012, with images of the cover floating around since Aug. 2012 for press reasons for the first song, “Eye of the Storm”.

Of course, we can give benefit to the doubt… It may be a wild coincidence. But it did spark our interest.

Show Up

We have some upcoming shows in our area. We are stoked to be playing these!

Friday, Feb. 15; Le Voyeur. Olympia, WA W/Black Marble (Hardly Art Records), Broken Water (Hardly Art Records) http://www.voyeurolympia.com/

Friday, March 29: The Jewel Box (Rendezvous), Seattle, W/The Piniellas (ex Cute Leopards), The Cry! (ex Exploding Hearts) http://www.jewelboxtheater.com/



Saturday, April 13;  Heartland. Seattle, WA W/Babysitter(Victoria BC) http://hrtlnd.org/

First Shows of 2013

Thursday, Jan. 10 we played Slabtown in Portland, which I believe is our fourth time (maybe third). It was kind of an experiment as Slabtown just recently opened up their back room for All Ages shows; our previous shows at Slabtown have been 21+. What the show did do was open us up to an audience that would normally not get to see us, and that made it a lot of fun. The band Beach Party isn't so much beachy-unless they are taking the sun from Sunny Day Real Estate... Our First Brains featured a really great young drummer. The crowd seemed into it, and we sold some records and made some new connections with bands that are much younger than us, which is always awesome for a band like us where every member is almost ten years apart in age from each other!

Sometimes you gotta screw a dog. Strange but good advice I once got; and it is true. Our Jan. 11, Olympia (home town) show was on one of the coldest nights in recent memory, and the town was dead, I mean we went bar to bar looking for people out and there was no one, at least at 10pm. So, needless to say this wasn't our most enthusiastic audience this week, or any for that matter. But we slogged through the cold, and some technical problems to put on a show; Manhattan Murder Mystery and Shitty Weekend were enjoyable bands to play with for sure. Because the all ages show didn't pan out as well as possible we were able to get a bar to let them jump on a bill so they could at least get some free drinks while in town.

Some shows just turn out weird, you never know which show will end up like that but sometimes they just go to a strange place. The Jan. 12 show at the Comet Tavern was such a show. On our end we played an admittedly great set, and the room sounded amazing. We made a new friend/contact from a band on the road too who was very stoked and is going to be hooking us up with some good shows/contacts, which is always very fun and cool. But man the other bands were not what I expected. One band was VERY guitar center styled pro-gear band, too good to be playing early 90s style pop punk ala Sicko-but they had some very good moments. I think if they let themselves have more fun and think less about talking about their website and videos and whatever other promotion they have going they would have been way more fun. In my opinion leave promotion to promotion and play live and live in the moment. That said they were nice guys and played very well. The second band is what I couldn't wrap my head around. I mean my mind was BLOWN. First, all digital Roland drums, second very corporate America looking members, probably in their early 50s/late 40s and very out of place in kind of a renowned dive bar. I will admit I was thinking, oh god this is going to be very bad... First song in, my brain exploded, straight up New Order worship, I mean WHAAAAAAA?! Second song, similar, maybe some Gorillas style versing too. After that the band messed with some prog sounds with wasn't too fun for me, but by that time my brain hurt from the shock of it. So strange. The third band was a young pop punk band with snotty fake British accents, very predictable, very suburban-executed well enough. While it did nothing for me, the crowd very much enjoyed it, and they were very good at their thing.

If you use facebook, here is the event page.

Happy Noose is very proud to announce the launch of our new record on Bandcamp. Available here: http://happynoose.bandcamp.com/album/amagosa The album features a suit of songs that is sonically more complex and darker than our first album, while maintaining the streamlined pop simplicity that we have grown to love!

The album was recorded over the summer at Grass Valley, CA's Louder Studios by producer Tim Green (Melvins, Bikini Kill, Comets on Fire) in an amazingly wonderful string of summer days.

We hope you like it, share the announcement via whatever social media you kids are using today!