New interviews, Hopscotch 2012, 666.

^ MAKE interview 7/27/12 ^

^MAKE interview 7/31/12^

^ MAKE interview 7/11/12 ^

In case you missed our latest interviews, here they are in all their raging glory. They pretty much speak for themselves, so that's all we'll say about that. In other news, we're taking August off in order to tighten everything up for the Hopscotch Festival 2012 and hopefully, subsequently, heading back to the studio in October. We'll keep you up to date with those plans as they unfold. Here's the specific schedule for our night at Hopscotch: http://hopscotchmusicfest.com/schedule/friday/

Oh yeah. One last thing...we're creeping up on everybody's favorite number of likes on our facebook page. To celebrate this, the 666th "liker" of our page https://www.facebook.com/thebandmake will receive a free copy of 'Trephine' on CD. You might even end up with a personalized cartoon drawing from Scott. Hide yo wife, hide yo kids!

Revised idea: "We've decided to do something different. Instead of rewarding the random person who happens to be the 666th "like" of our page, we're going to do a "drawing from a hat" sort of thing from our page likes for a free 'Trephine' CD and maybe some other custom schwag once we hit that magic number."

Thanks for tuning in, until next time!

Decibel, Tour vids & pics, and Upcoming shit.

If you didn't catch it the first time around, here it is again, our interview with Decibel Magazine:

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Pics and Vids from our tour with Dragged Into Sunlight
(which was completely fucking brilliant, by the way):

At St. Vitus Bar in NYC 6/14/12

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Pt. 2

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Pt. 4

At The Melody Inn, Indianapolis 6/12/12

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That link goes to the DIS tour photo gallery on our facebook page and will be updated with more pics as they fall into our hands and get uploaded.

Coming up next:

We headline the first night of the first annual "Buried Underground" festival at
Chapel Hill Underground at 12:15 midnight! Stay out late enough to catch our set and you'll get the first live local preview of the drone piece we're working on for an EP in the process of being written. Scott will also be working doors on Friday and Saturday so come out and say hello! Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/235019486610221/

Trephine LP is available for pre-order via Devouter Records!

Excited to announce that 'Trephine' will be the first bit of wax pressed and released on brand new label Devouter Records and it is available now for pre-order!  180g white vinyl with gray "speckles" as they're calling it. (U.S. orders can be placed there as well, so no worries about conversion rates and crazy shipping costs)

Click the Devouter logo to jump to the pre-order page:

Tour w/ Dragged Into Sunlight!

 We are beyond-words-excited to announce we've been added as tour support for a band whose last record has occupied some of the heaviest rotation on our stereos over the past couple years, Dragged Into Sunlight. HELL YES. Here are the dates we're joining them:

^ Sat 6/9 Chicago IL - Ultra Lounge
^ Sun 6/10 Indianapolis, IN - Melody Inn
^ Mon 6/11 Pittsburgh, PA - 31st Street Pub
^ Tue 6/12 Rochester, NY - The Bug Jar
^ Wed 6/13 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
^ Thur 6/14 Brooklyn, NY - Saint Vitus

And here's the facebook event page if you like: DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT US Tour w/ Cough, MAKE!

In other news, one of our very favorite 'zines in the universe, The Quietus has posted an interview with us recently. You can read that here: Meditation & Repetition: An Interview With MAKE

Trephine press round-up!

^ MAKE interview 7/27/12 ^

^ MAKE interview 7/11/12 ^

^ MAKE interview 6/8/12 ^

^ MAKE interview 5/23/12 ^

^  Live review ^

Trephine Review

"Horns Up Ya Shitters!" Toby Cook March Metal Review

 

Terrorizer Magazine

Rock Sound Magazine

Metal Hammer

Rockzone Magazine

Heavy Blog is Heavy

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You can also find an interview with Scott at Metal Underground where he talks a whole lot without ever really finishing a single thought (but you can find that link on your own if you really want to punish yourselves).

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Early 2012 Stuff and Things

Just a quick round-up of a few things of note:

• Somebody entered us into Encyclopaedia Metallum. Very cool, we appreciate it!
• We played the 9th Double Barrel Benefit Festival for WKNC. NC State's paper wrote about it here.
• We played the 2nd annual Bull City Metal Fest which the Independent Weekly wrote about (it's still pronounced "MAKE" folks!) and we also ended up with a couple vids of our latest song 'Sisyphus' courtesy of Michelle Temple and Adam Graetz. Thanks, you two!

•  We've got new shirts available at our bandcamp page and they look like this:

Pre-orders come with free digital download!

• Matt and Scott have begun working on a new noise, drone, electronic side-project. Stay tuned for more on that throughout the year (or next).
• And lastly Scott and his short attention span did an interview for metalunderground.com

It's Friday!

Which soul can I take?

Happy new year everybody! Happy belated blog post as well. 2011 turned out to be a very kind year to us and we're looking to pay it forward in 2012. I won't sit here and look back on all our favorite moments from 2011 because, well, that's the sort of thing you do in December and I already blew it and forgot. I will, however, take a second to highlight how excited, honored and humbled we were to make this list: The Triangles Top 10 Albums of 2011 We thank Grayson Currin and the rest of the folks at the Independent Weekly for their always excellent work and for choosing our work in the midst of many, many other great works by many, many other great bands. I don't envy those who must make those types of choices in this fantastic hub of creativity.

ANYWAY...

Moving on and looking forward. We'll be making our first appearance of 2012 on Friday, February 3rd at the 9th Annual Double Barrel Festival for WKNC in Raleigh and on Saturday, February 4th at the 2nd Annual Bull City Metalfest in Durham. Both events look to be incredibly fun ways to spend your weekend so please come out, say hello and check out the debut of our latest song!

Other bits of news include these things:

** We're very excited to announce that we are the latest addition to the Lechuza Booking family! This will be a great weapon added to our arsenal which will allow us a much better chance of making it to the towns we don't live in, so stay tuned throughout the coming months for tour plans and updates.

** Speaking of towns we do or do not live in, this year won't see us playing many shows in the Triangle. Instead we'll be focusing our energy and concentrating primarily on writing and preparing our second full-length (which we're hoping for a 2013 release date) and some other as-of-yet-undecided projects for later this year. An EP,  a split, a collaboration? Not sure yet but there will be blood something.

** If you haven't seen (heard) this yet, here is our cover of the Velvet Underground's Venus in Furs. I know its hard to believe after what transpired last year that Lou Reed ever did anything worth listening to...but he did. For quite a long time in fact. Here's our dedication to the inspiration he, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Mo Tucker have given us through the years. Oh fine, you too Doug Yule.

** Oh yeah...we tweet now. I guess.  So follow us. Or don't. We kind of don't care.

We shall now leave you with some Phillip Glass to help enhance your day: