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cd release show - april 26 at the sunset!

Hello, friends!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that we’ll be celebrating the long-awaited release of our debut studio album, Hello, Old Cloud, on Saturday, April 26 at the Sunset Tavern. We’ll be joined on stage by our good friends Burning Rivers and North Twin, and we’re very happy to have them along on this joyous occasion.

Cover is $8, and your paid admission includes a copy of the CD! Now that’s value. See? We love you. This show will very likely sell out, so keep an eye on the Shows page and the Sunset Tavern site for details on advance tickets!

In the meantime, we’re hard at work preparing for the album release. The CD (and digital download, for you 21st Century types) will be available online (CD Baby, iTunes, etc.) and at local stores (Easy Street, Sonic Boom, etc.) in April. We’ll post details on how/where/when to buy as they materialize.

We’ve also undertaken some major site updates of late. Check out the fancy new Bio page, featuring promotional photographs taken by our good pal Seth Wonner (more photos here). The Music page has also been updated with details on Hello, Old Cloud, including a link to the album lyrics, for those curious listeners among you who’d like to know what I’m on about. Other updates, too numerous or too trifling to mention, abound…so please take a look around!

Finally, I’d be remiss not to mention our upcoming show at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, March 15. We’re very excited to be playing again with our good friends Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights, and we’re very much looking forward to meeting the folks in Jonah, who will close the show. This show will double as our Portland CD release party, so if you live in Portland (or you live in Seattle and just can’t wait), please come out to the very cool Doug Fir and take home a copy of Hello, Old Cloud.

That’s all for now. We look forward to seeing each and every one of you at the Sunset on April 26. We’ve worked on this album a long time, and to say that we cannot wait for you all to hear it would be an understatement. As always, thank you so much for listening. Stay tuned for much, much more!

xo

RJM

February 27th, 2008

set your controls for the heart of the sun(set)

Greetings,

It’s been just over a month since we’ve spoken, and my, how you’ve grown. Things have been all a-flutter here at RJM HQ, with last-minute preparations/weeping/gnashing-of-teeth leading up to the release of our debut long-player, Hello, Old Cloud in April. Keep your eyes peeled for an exact release date (coming very soon), along with all of the accompanying ‘promotional materials’ (branded buttons, tell-all biopics, Tiger Beat centerfolds, canned hams, custom-embossed Books of Mormon) you’ve come to expect.

In the meantime, we’ve got some shows coming your way. First, we’re playing at the Sunset Tavern in beautiful Ballard this Saturday, February 9. The festivities begin at 10pm with our very good friends from Portland, Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights. Chris is an outstanding vocalist and pop songsmith par excellence, and fresh off a West Coast tour, he and his Rose City Sound Machine are sure to impress. RJM will play the middle slot (get ready for some new tunes, guaranteed to stimulate), and Ballard revelers the Maldives will take you down easy with their gorgeous, bourbon-soaked ballads. We defy one stage to contain them!

In fact, it’s rare that RJM feels like a small ensemble, especially when you take into account our space station’s worth of guitar gear and extensive wardrobes…but this Saturday, our little-old four-piece will do its best to hold its own among these six- and seven-piece behemoths! We may have to rope in some fly-girls…

At any rate, we encourage you all to come out and enjoy the wonderful night of music in store. More news on the way, including out-of-town shows (Doug Fir in Portland on March 15, plus a rescheduled date with the Yakima Sports Center) and those ever-imminent Exciting Announcements about RJM album #2, which we’re set to begin recording in late May. Keep an eye on this site and the RJM MySpace page for updates.

We’ll see you pretty ponies on Saturday!

xo

RJM

February 5th, 2008