Lose Your Illusion, Too is out now. Buy that shit! Us Guys, iTunes, Insound or Amazon.
• If you live in Chi-City, the record release show is this Friday, 7/10 at the Metro. There's totally a pizza party in the Metro balcony after the show. Free beer! Also, they're giving away tickets to the show and some other wondershwag. Just follow @MetroChicago on Twitter.
• The Menz are making mix tapes.
• SPIN thinks the album is really great.
• Vice likes it even more than them.
• WIRED put "WTF LOL" on a podcast. Nerds.
• Prefix interviewed Kev. We like to flail about.
• Pitchfork just doesn't get it.
• And finally, The Menz leave for tour 7/10. They're coming to meet ya. All the most up-to-date dates are always on MySpace.
ATTENTION PEOPLE WHO LIKE FREE STUFF!!!
We are currently looking for a few good street teamers. If you think you have what it takes. (eg a love of all things flameshovel, access to a digital camera, friends and if you live in or near a city) please send an email to streetteams@flameshovel.com stating where you are from, and we will respond with the Flameshovel Street Team Official Questionnaire which you can fill out and send right back at us. You will be rewarded with copies of all flameshovel releases before they come out and guest list to our band's shows when they come to your town.
Here are the IDEAL cities we'd like to have. If you don't see a city you're close to and would like to participate in a different way (ie: internet), or if you feel like we've missed an important city that you have access to, we encourage you to e-mail us.
Ideal cities:
Orlando, Gainesville, Flordia
Austin, Dallas, Houston, El Paso, Texas
St. Louis, Missouri
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, California
Lawrence, Kansas
Atlanta, Georgia
New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cleveland, Ohio
Boston, Massachusetts
New York, Brooklyn, NY
Chapel Hill, NC
Nashville/Knoxville/Memphis, Tennessee
Cincinnati, Ohio
Bloomington, Indiana
Omaha, Nebraska
Detroit, Michigan
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Phoenix, Arizona
Portland, Oregon
Denver, Colorado
Baltimore, Maryland
Cambridge, Massachusetts
DeKalb, Urbana, Illinois
Seattle, Washington
Denver, Colorado
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