New song/pre-order up now!

hey boyz and girlz!
Chris here, writing to let you know that a song from our upcoming album "Remainder" is out now on Community Records' website for free download!
It's called 'Let the Water Hit the Floor' and it's the opening track to the album.
You might recognize it if you've seen us live recently.

Grab that shit HERE.

In other yet similar news, hit up that Community Records website one more time to pre-order the 12" vinyl that will ship out on May 11.

Click HERE to start shopping for the vinyl.
Click HERE to start shopping for the vinyl AND cd. (SUPER COMBO MEAL!)

This album will be given away digitally for free on May 11th.
Click HERE to sign up to be emailed the record to you on the release day.
We love (and need) the support, so please buy physical if you got the dough.
It will help us pay back Community Records for pressing this, as well as help us tremendously while on the road this summer.



Major hugz and kisses,
Caddy woo-woo

B/C R party

This Saturday, we're gonna be back in one of our favorite cities in the south: Baton Rouge. We'll be kicking it hard over there at the Spanish Moon with local crazies Monsters Will and Reset the Sun. It's been a while since we've been in the red sticky, and this one's got us way jacked.
There's been a little talk about us maybe releasing an album at this show, but we in fact are not. That bad boy's coming out on April 23rd in NOLA and then May 11th nationwide. This show however, we will be performing a few brand new songs that we have yet to play live.

Lezz dew it.



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In other news, the Community Records Block Party schedule has been announced!
We'll be holding it down all day with lots of great punk/ska/reggae/experimental bands at the Big Top on April 17th. We'll be playing at 9pm.

Here's the full line up:

– DOORS OPEN AT NOON –

1:00 – these first bands will trade off every couple songs

* The Rooks – inside

* Killin’ Werewolves – outside

* Swear Jar – in

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2:30 – Reagabomb – in

3:00 – Chilled Monkey Brains – out

3:30 – Pericles – in

4:00 – Informant – out

4:30 – Matt Wixson – in

5:00 – The Lollies – out

5:30 – Big, Fat & Delicious – in

6:00 – Brunt of It – out

6:30 – Shoot the Daily Edit – in

7:00 – Maddie Ruthless – out

7:30 – A Billion Ernies – in

8:00 – Fatter Than Albert – out

8:30 – Stereohype – inside

9:00 – Caddywhompus – out

9:30 – Stuck Lucky – in

10:00 – 11:00 – The Flaming Tsunamis!!! – out


FACEBOOK EVENT

Remainder

Howdy ya'll.
We've got a new album coming out on May 11th (April 23rd in Nola).
It's called Remainder and here's the front cover:


Here are the songs on the album:

1 - Let the Water Hit the Floor
2 - Big Fun
3 - Guilt
4 - Balloon Knot
5 - At Bay
6 - Golden
7 - Congo Half-Mask
8 - Same Difference


Remainder will be released on Community Records. We love everything about these guys and can't be happier that we're working with them.
We're getting 12" vinyls pressed as well as hand-making some cds.
It will also be released digitally on Community Records' website for FREE. We love you all too.
We recorded and mixed this album ourselves and it was mastered by Raz Khandpur.
We'll be hitting the road this summer for over two months in support of this album.
Thanks so much to every one of you who has supported us through this past year and a half or so. We've loved every minute of it (except the times when our car broke down. That really sucked actually).
Stick with us to hear some previews of the album.

NEW ORLEANS! Get the album early at our record release PARTY on April 23rd at the Mother-in-Law Lounge (with: Brother / Ghost, Fatter Than Albert, and Sun Hotel)!



kisses,
chris

SXSW we're from the souff

Hey guys. This Wednesday evening we will be making the trek over to Austin for South by Southwest. We're really excited about the shows we have this year and we want to see you all out there soaking up the hundreds of free, all-ages events at your disposal this year. Come party with us. Here is a list of the shows we have booked.


The Best Damn Day of Duos Ever...Dammit @ Pie Guys' Pizza. (Presented by Zorch and Tape Bombs). Thursday from noon to 8pm. We play at 3pm.



Rancho Relaxo house party Thursday from 1-9pm. We play at 5:30pm inside the garage.



21st St. Co-Op Day & Night Party Mayhem presented by Caddywhompus. Thursday from 8pm-late!



Dirty Coast presents The Static Shakedown. Friday from 2pm-7pm. We play at 3:30.


Electric Kittyland house party. Saturday from 4pm-later. We play at 5pm. With A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Wild Moccasins, Quiet Hooves, Wine and Revolution, and more. No flier for this show yet (or maybe ever?), so here's a sweet pic.

News n' tee (100th post!)

Hey gang. how's everybody been holding up?
we're kicking it. i (chris) just exported my final mix of our new full length today.
it's gonna get mastered soon.
it's gonna get pressed to 12" vinyl.
it's gonna be released by Community Records on April 23rd.
it's going to be spiced up by Learning Secrets.
it's going to be supported by a full US tour this summer.


also, we got a new tee shirt design that we'll be printing soon.



remember the alamo.

Caddy/SWAK Working For The Weekend

As you may or may not know, friends and fellow math-rockers Smiley With A Knife will be busting out jams with us in the next few coming weekends. Because we're all chained down by school and/or jobs, we're taking over the world two days a week at a time. Catch us all over the dirty third coast!

Jan 22 - BATON ROUGE - Spanish Moon - w/Baby Boy
Jan 23 - NEW ORLEANS - One Eyed Jacks - w/BLACKbELT
Jan 29 - LAFAYETTE - Artmosphere - w/Honey Pillow
Feb 5 - MOBILE - Alabama Music Box - w/Secret Cities
Feb 6 - BIRMINGHAM - Magic City Wholesale - w/ Shapes Like Dinosaurs

News

Hey everyone,
I know it's been a good long while since we've used this here blogger thing and I know there's a lot of stuff we've done and didn't write about. Well here's some things we're working on right now.

- We have a split 7" with sIngs coming out in March. It will be one of the first releases on our very own Chinquapin Records.
- We're currently finishing up the recording process for our next full length album, scheduled to be released on April 30th with help from our good friends at Community Records.
- We're preparing for a few January/February weekend tours with New Orleans' own Smiley With A Knife.
- We're currently booking our two summer tours (West and East coast). Got a hand that you or someone you know could lend? We'd adore your help.
- We're practicing lots of Big Moe songs.

Thanks for all of your support over this past year and a half. We're having a great time.


luvvv,
caddywhompus

Cursive and Caddy!

Are you as juiced as we are??

9pm

Lineup (in order of appearance):
Caddywhompus
Capgun Coup
Cursive


Buy tickets HERE.

FB EVENT.

This weekend, baby...

OH YEAH! We're both super excited to come back home to Houston this weekend for Free Press Houston's Westheimer Block Party and meet up with friends and musicians all taking part in this amazing bi-annual festival that takes over the streets of Westheimer. This is the first time the festival is TWO DAYS LONG in quite some time now, and Houston's music is extraordinarily well represented here, with over 250 local acts playing as well as national bands, Dead Prez and Japanther. It's free all day and we'll be all over catching as many shows as we can possibly take in. We suggest you do the same.













Here's what last spring looked like (film by Osker Koronado):

FPH presents Westheimer Block Party Spring 09 from Osker Koronado on Vimeo.

This year, we're playing Outside Numbers (Main Stage) at 12:45pm on Saturday (FULL SCHEDULE HERE). So many bands deserve your ears.

We're also playing a West Fest kickoff party at Mangos on Friday night (put on by Flavored Woof) with local wonder: LIMB as well as Philly's own Grandchildren.


This is also why we love Houston and can't sleep at all.

SPOOKY NOIZE SHOW

Ringo Deathstarr (ATX) - Loud, noisy,shoOoOgaze
UME (ATX) - Experimental rock (NYC noise??)
Caddywho?

10pm
21+

We'd love to see you there.
Be spooky!

FACEBOOK EVENT

Cirque Du Freak: The Afterparty

This coming Monday, October 19, (FALL BREAK, BRUH!) we're playing at Tipitina's for Universal Studio's after-party for the premier of the new spooky movie, "Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant". Also playing is The Happy Talk Band and who knows? You might just see John C. Reilly getting his ass whomped off.

9pm-12pm
$10
501 Napoleon

FACEBOOK EVENT

WAVVES, Ganglians, Caddywhompus show

Oh baby. This THURSDAY, it's goin down at the Howlin' Wolf. We're playing with a duo we dig on, WAVVES, and their noise pop tour budz from Sacramento, Ganglians.
Also, for those of you who haven't heard, Zach Hill (of Hella, The Ladies, Marnie Stern, etc.) is now drumming for WAVVES. Here's a sample of what that sounds like. Sweet ass.
Pizza, weed, beer, and skateboards for all & for life!
And WAVVES, we're sorry about our twitter post. We didn't mean for it to be offensive. It's been removed.
Support local radio!

Here's the Facebook event.
In case you're afraid of it selling out, you can buy tickets here now.

Live Recording of Fun Times At Whiskey Bay and Absinthesizer

Remember that Rudyard's show we played in Houston a while back? We already released one song from that show and now we got another one out for you (well, actually two). We just uploaded Fun Times At Whiskey Bay/Absinthesizer to our Bandcamp page for your listening and downloading pleasure. You choose the price, and don't feel bad for downloading it for free. We want you to have it no matter what.

Check it out here:

Blue Nile

Hello friends,
This coming Saturday, we will be hitting up that Blue Nile with friends (and practice space-mates) Giant Cloud and Bionica featuring Sasha Masakowski. The show starts at 10pm and we just can't contain ourselves. We're uncontainable. Also, we have a few new songs and enticing surprises for you, so come get throwed with us. Last year, it was brought to our attention that no one here in NOLA knew what "throwed" means, so I have linked the word to it's definition. Enjoy the enlightenment. BOOM!

Free if you're 21+
$5 if you ain't.

HERE'S THE FACEBOOK EVENT. RSVP and invite your friends!

Chris Rehm solo show

Howdy there!
Just writing to let you know about a show that one half of Caddywhompus here has coming up. I don't play here in NOLA very often, so I don't feel so bad about blogging here about this. Next Tuesday, I will be playing at the Dragon's Den (upstairs) with local friends Gamma Ringo (who have some new recordings on their Myspace and Bandcamp) as well as Houston homies, Female Demand (who just got back from recording some tunes in Cali). I will be playing music that should sound like some sort of love child of my new folk stuff and my ambient work (such as the music in this video). But enough about me. Female Demand is a band I think you should meet. They are a bass and drum noise rock duo that has been sharing their ever-evolving sound with Houston and the surrounding areas for a few years now. They will win over your heart as easily as they will demolish your ears and/or steal your lover. They haven't visited New Orleans very frequently in the past, so catch this show, because they might not come back for a while. Here's a video of them playing a guerilla performance at this past Westheimer Block Party on a street corner (feelin' their style yet?). Expect this and much much more.



As of right now, we're thinking the order will be something like this (GR and I might switch):

Chris Rehm
Female Demand
Gamma Ringo


Doors at 9, show at 9:30 or so.
$5

We all hope to see you there.

Meet Paper Moons and Giant Cloud

Papermoons-Lazy Bones from Jordan Welker on Vimeo.

This coming tuesday (September 1st), Giant Cloud and we will be playing a show at Circle Bar with Austinian friends, Paper Moons. The experimental folk duo has been on tour since early August and will be stopping through NOLA on their way back home and we want to share their music with you and your friends. Above is a video for their song "Lazy Bones" off of their full length, 'New Tales', put out on Team Science Records. Here's where they've been.



Giant Cloud is a new band on Park The Van Records that recently moved here to New Orleans and here's what they have to say for themselves:
"Giant Cloud condensed somewhere over Lincoln Parish, North Louisiana in the summer of love, 2008. That same summer, a sweaty, overcrowded Ford Windstar named Windy caravaned most of them through the triumphs and trials of the great American West as they busked their way from and back again to Ruston. Slightly dazed and confused, each brought back their own story, abstract sunburn and new love for the freedom of an open highway. They came home to a new house never lacking people willing and ready to play music, a new music room with an absurd amount of outlets and a whole maze of house in which to experiment with new things. Impressed with their own perception, they decided to live the life of traveling cantantes, touring the universe inciting dance riots and spreading the gospel of soft/loud/soft/loud rock 'n' roll."

Here's video of them live:



Sound like fun? Come thru this coming tuesday, September 1st at Circle Bar at 9 or 10 pm or something.

New song live at Rudyard's

Check it. We played a new, never recorded song at Rudyards on July 31st and now we've uploaded it to bandcamp and our myspace. Expect some more live recordings soon.

Mo Shoze

In addition to the back to school show this Saturday at Carrolton Station, we will also be playing the following day (5pm) at Urban Outfitters in Baton Rouge with We Landed On The Moon! In extra-addition to BOTH of these shows, we will be heading back to NOLA to play at the Circle Bar on Tuesday, September 1st with Paper Moons (H-Town) and the freshhh newww Giant Cloud.

We hope you can join us at one or two or all of these show. we heart <3 love you so.

bAk TwO Sckoowl

Word. It's been a long long while since we posted something on here. I also left you hanging about the last 3 days of the tour. Well they went great. The rest of our summer was pretty grand too. We worked hard on tour and then chilled hard in Houston for the remainder. We are now headed back to NOLA where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. We're super excited about this school year and what we have planned. Hopefully we can pull a few of them off. One of the plans we have is this show right here.




Join us, Smiley With A Knife, and Big Rock Candy Mountain for this back to school show. Also, our friend Zack Smith will be there photographing those who attend in a unique portrait light-box he constructed for a project he's working on: to capture this new post-Katrina music community in it's early stages. Remember, this Saturday is the 4 year anniversary of Katrina. Come out and show your support for the bands and the community.

kisses,
chris

we command you to follow this link

http://freepresssummerfest.com

Day nineteen - Nashville, TN (BOOTY BAY!)

We woke up at The Swamp and after leaving a note and tee shirt on the table, hit the road in search of food. We finally came across a local pizza place that seemed to be the only place in the city that was hoppin' off the chain. We had some deep dish pizza that ruld and then we got in the car to head to Nashville. After another mind-numbing car ride, we arrived super early in Nashville, so we chilled at a Borders and sean drank some coffee and read some magazines while I was busy trying to steal a huge poster advertising for the blu-ray release of Gran Torino. That movie sukd. Eventually we got the word from Tyler from Gnarwhal that we could head over to the house venue known to the world as Booty Bay. I grabbed some Schlotzsky's on the way. We showed up and were pleased to see a large group of kids hanging around outside waiting for the show to start. We met up with the infamous Gnarwhal and met a lot of the kids at the show. I couldn't finish a half of my sandwich, so i gave the other half away. First to hit the stage was a new band in the area called Put 'Er There and they played a super awesome heavy et that lasted about 10 mins. They were sweet. The next band to play was a group called Diesel Seas and they blew me and sean (and others, i'm sure) away. Their noisy, technical proggy-hardcore sound was perfect for the tiny, sweaty basement we were all crammed into. After them came Gnarwhal and (as expected) this band was fantastic. Their both familiar and unfamiliar sound and emotion was a wonderful thing to see and hear. They have this great sound composed of major-chord metal with intense technical sections and heavy breakdowns that collectively, is something I miss in modern heavy music. They finished and Jesse (guitar) let everyone know that we were up next (last) and that they should stay and donate/buy our stuff. Well put and well received. We played to a decent sized crowd that were all super enthused to hear us for the first time live. We played one of the hottest (temperature) sets of the tour as well as one of my favorites. A lot of kids picked up tees and cds and that made the already awesome trip even more worth our while. We were offered a place to stay at our new friend Dree's house (sorry if i spelled that totally wrong) and jesse joined us for the after party, because as R.Kelly so wisely stated, "after the show, it's the after party". We played darts, sat in a halfpipe in their backyard, skated on their porch, talked about rats in unusual places, and partied our patooties off until about 3 am and then we all simultaneously crashed.

Day eighteen - Carbondale, IN (Lost Cross)

We left the windy city and took a drive to carbondale whilst being blown around on the freeway. We arrived at the house venue, Lost Cross, a few hours early and they were more than happy to have us come over and chill. We watched some Predator and checked out the historic house (it's been a punk house-venue since the 80s and is still miraculously in working condition). When we went to the basement to check out where we would be playing, we noticed a corner with standing water. Funny. It hasn't rained there in about 2 weeks. Well, the time came to load in and we did so through a window-sized entry way right near the mysterious puddle and brought our stuff to the stage area. We were to play first and after a sufficient amount of people showed up, we started making noise and began our set. It was a fun, dirty, and energetic set that people seemed to be down with. Afterwards we met Matt (from the Swamp who helped us book this show) and some other locals, and we spent some time sharing experiences and opinions before the second band, Liar Birds (super nice guys) started. We then raced inside once they began. They played an amazingly tight and powerful pop-punk set that impressed both sean and me (while not normally being particular fans of the genre). After everything was over, Matt invited us over to the Swamp, where we would be sleeping, to have a little feast with him and his homies. We did and it was delicious.

Day sixteen & seventeen CHICAGO!

Chilled with new friends Benny and Moses.
Chilled with old friend Dani.
Ate some ok to poor pizza.
Had some bomb-ass mexican food.
Played at Ronny's and it went something like this.


This puts it all too well.

Quote of the visit: "Friends before hoes"

Day fIfteen - 6/26 Village Green Records (Muncie, IN)

We woke up to the sound of knocking on our bloody motel door and were threatened to be charged for another day if we didn't check out soon. we packed up our bags and left. we then stopped by Village Green Records (where we would be playing later that night) and checked in with Travis, the head honcho of the wonderful little independent record store. We checked out the store and chatted about what was going to go down later on that night (once again, another band bailed), and then he suggested we check out the little forest and some greenhouses (one had the world's largest collection of orchids!), so we did and it ruled. Then we ran over to Ball State University's library and stole some internet. I jumped around on some things that were fun to jump around on and then we grabbed some coffee. Soon it was time to get back to VGR an get ready for the show. We were greeted by John and Meagan of Sky Thing, Travis, and some other locals helping out with setting up the outside stage and making sure everything runs smoothly. We started setting up slowly (as was Travis' suggestion, so we could give kids some time to show up), he started dj'ing and his friends started setting up cameras to film the show (Travis' hope is to make a little documentary-type thing about starting and running your own independent record store to inspire others who might be interested). At about 9pm, we took to the stage (grass in the front of the store) and Travis called all the kids who were sitting nearby but were not near the stage area, to the front and we began. We had a great time and played a decent show considering it was an outside show and we haven't done that very often. People were down, we got donations and sold a good amount of merch. It was awesome seeing people come out to check out two out of town bands they probably never heard before. Sky Thing began setting up and played an awesome and intriguing set that attracted a few more fans off the street. Their music was trance-inducing and their films projected behind them were a great addition to the show. After the show was over, we helped Travis clean up and went to a bar nearby and drank and talked for a good two hours with Travis and Sky Thing. We then attempted to pick up some more alcohol and get a change of scenery. After a while, we succeeded and made our way back to VGR, where we would be staying that night. We stayed up till the sun came up watching Pump up the Volume and the funniest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that I had ever seen. I took a bite of a Steak and Shake burger just to see what it was like. YUMZ!

Day Fourteen - Bflo to Muncie, Indiana

We woke up late and made some eggs over at Nancy and Tom's and waited for the rain to stop before we packed up our bags into the car. The rain never stopped nor let up for quite some time, so we just got soaked and loaded all of our stuff in the truck and left. We planned on driving halfway or so and stop at a rest stop to sleep, but our GPS thing took us through a whole bunch of back roads where no rest stop was present. We ended up making it to Muncie around midnight and after I called about ten motels in the area and after all of them turned me down because of their lack of vacancy, Sean made his first call. He called the Muncie Inn and after Sean asked if they had any open room for tonight, the clerk's retort went something like "what time is it?". Sean stated that it was in fact midnight and yes, a room for tonight would be what we were looking for. We were offered a room for $30 and couldn't pass it up (although at a price like that, I feared for the worst). We got pretty much what i was expecting: gross room, stale cigarette smell, a bathroom that had spiderwebs all over it, the TV left of a PPV porn channel, and blood (yes, blood) smeared near the door handle and lock on the inside of the door (a pic of this will be uploaded asap). We slept ok that night.