9/14/08: The First Collection LP is now (and has for awhile) out on Asian Man Records. You can also still order the European version of it from Yo Yo Records. In a little under a month we will be leaving for a six week tour with Gordon Gano's Army from the UK. So check out the tour dates and see if we're coming anywhere near you. Also in the remotely near future we will be taking part in the Suburban Home "Under the Influence" split 7" series. We also will have a 7" coming out on Hex Records from Syracuse, NY. In Get Better related news, In Ya Face Records from Japan and Banquet Records from the UK are both pressing it in their respective countries.
4/5/08: We updated the dates for the Asian Man "Making Punk Fun Again" tour. Also the First Collection is now available on vinyl, but we are out of our copies of it. You can get it from the Yo Yo records website though. Also the second pressing of vinyl for Get Better will be out soon. We also have a handful of the demo repress left, so if you want one make sure you order it soon, because we won't be making more.
3/1/08: We just posted the tour dates for the spring Asian Man "Making Punk Fun Again" Tour. The tour will be Us, THe Queers, Bomb The Music Industry, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Kepi Ghoulie. Hopefully we'll be coming to a town near you. Also we decided to repress 250 copies of our 2004 demo. They are available on our Myspace page, but they won't last long. So order yours today.
1/14/08: Our new album, "Get Better", is now out. So keep your eyes out for it. We also have the CD version of "The First Collection", which compiles our songs from our 7" EP, Kind of Like Spitting Split, Frame Split, Art of The Underground Single Series 7", and The NY VS VJ Comp. It's out on Yo Yo Records from Germany.
9/6/07: I just realized we haven't updated this in forever, I guess we rely too much on our Myspace page. Everything should be up to date on here now though. We are happy to announce that our first full length, "Get Better", is going to be released on Asian Man Records. They are great guys, and we're glad to be working with them. We are also leaving for Europe on Tuesday for a five week tour with Ringers. Yo Yo Records from Germany has put out a collection cd for us over there. It has everything we've put out thus far (minus the demo and The Ergs! split). A US version of that compilation should be out in the near future. Once we get back from Europe, we'll be home for two days and then we're touring down to The Fest with Fake Problems and Nothington.
12/13/06: The Art of the Underground Single is now sold out, but you can still get the songs as part of the Year Two Box Set which will be out soon. We are going to be doing a split 7", as well as a full US tour with The Ergs. The tour is going to be in May/June. Until then we're going to be working on writing some new songs and hopefully have a full length ready to record when we get back from the tour.
9/26/06: We recently finshed recording four new songs. Two of which will appear as the 10th edition of the Art of the Underground Singles Series. We're holding onto the other two until something comes up. In a couple of weeks we leave for tour with Potboiler (ex Frame). The tour will take us down to Florida where we'll be playing Gainesville Fest with ten thousand awesome bands. In other news, our Myspace page was hacked, and we lost access to it for awhile. But as of a couple of days ago we have it back up running.
5/17/06: We cut the last couple weeks of our tour off due to a family emergency. Alex' father passed away a couple a days ago, so we returned home from tour to attend the services and to rest up. Thank you to everybody who helped out on the tour! We had a blast with Kind of Like Spitting, and our split album is now available with them on LP and CD. you can order one from Art of the Underground. We'll be doing a mini tour of the northeast in late June and a few shows with This is My Fist! in July. From there we're going to work on some new material and hopefully do some more touring this fall. See you soon!
1/25/06: We're home from our east coast winter tour. Thanks to everyone who supported it! Now we are going to work on new songs for the next couple of months for our split LP/CD with Kind of Like Spitting and we'll be in the studio in March. Look for west coast tour dates in late spring and early summer.
1/18/06: The first pressing of our new split 7" with Frame is sold out. The second pressing will be available soon!
1/13/06: We had a day off in Orlando, FL. Luckily, we stayed with a recording engineer major who recorded a new song for us that we had been working on. When we return we'll make this song available. We will also be working on our material for our upcoming split LP/CD with Kind of Like Spitting.
1/7/06: Our split 7" with Frame is now available! the first pressing is a tour pressing with special covers. They are limited to 100 copies! so if you'd like to get one you can paypal $5 to: artoftheunderground@hotmail.com you can also send cash, money order or check to: alex kerns / 3225 main st. upper / buffalo, ny 14214 USA ---but that won't guarantee that you'll get the first press tour edition because we are currently on tour and may sell out of the first pressing. so paypal to guarantee it!
Lemuria : 1. It's Not A Lie, It's a Secret 2. Bookworm
Frame : 1. Duly Noted 2. 28
1/4/05: We're on tour with Frame right now. We are having a blast! Just updated the shows page, keep checking back for more updates. We'll be going out west in late spring as well! Our split 7" with Frame is almost out, it will probably be available in about 3 days. If you come to one of our January east coast tour dates, you'll be able to get the 7" with a special tour edition cover, they look fancy thanks to Marco of Salinas Records!
12/9/05: We're leaving today for a weekend trip with our fellow Art of the Underground label mates: The Exit Strategy for a show in Jamestown, NY and a couple Ohio shows. We'll also be putting up a new review that we received in Slug & Lettuce this month when we return from the trip! or you can read it now if you go to our my space page:
www.myspace.com/lemuria
Also, check out our dates for our upcoming tour with Frame in January. Our split 7" with them will be out in time as well!
11/7/05: A recent review in Maximum Rock'n'Roll:
Lemuria "S/t" EP "Did someone turn the clocks back to 1990? A great 7" from a band that looks like your next door neighbors with a house full of roommates. A four-songer here with good gal / guy vocals from this trio, who dish out some punky pop with and indie feel. No CD filler here. Brings back the memories of the first Superchunk (Chunk) and Discount singles to name a few. A great new single from a great new band -- that is a must for you 90s indie types." (RL)
Our split 7" with our friends from New Paltz, FRAME, will be coming out within the next couple of months. We're finalizing some details with the artwork and preparing our upcoming january tour with them.
10/28/05: Check out the "shows" page for a list of a great deal out touring that we have ahead for us in 2006. I'm sure there will be much more in addition for the spring and summer that is currently left as a gap. We returned home from tour of the new england area, and we had a blast! We were all sad to come home! Thanks to everybody who helped out! Check out our my space page to hear a preview of our upcoming split 7" with Frame. You can listen to one of the two songs that will be on the record. The song titled "It's Not a Lie, It's a Secret"
10/4/05: We're leaving for tour this friday of the northeast. Check out the "shows" page! We also just finished up record our half of a split 7" EP w/ Frame from new paltz, ny. We'll also be touring with them down the southeast this january!
