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We have finished our second album, “How Wicked We’ve Become,” and it is beautiful beyond my hopes for it. I am so grateful to Brian, Mark, Bob, Pat, Morgan, Brian C., and Sean for contributing so wonderfully to it. We’re going to tweak the mixes a bit sometime this week I think, but it’s pretty much done.

We’re all psyched about it, and I expect some really cool stuff to happen for us in 2007.

Stay tuned! Go to our myspace page for new studio pics!

We begin work a week from today on our new album—“How Wicked We’ve Become.” The production will be helmed by Brian McTear, who has produced terrific records by Matt Pond PA, Mazarin, The Bigger Lovers, Bitter Bitter Weeks, and The Knobs. Brian’s just now finishing up work on the undoubtedly brilliant second album from B.C. Camplight. After several weeks of pretty intense rehearsal (for us at least), Bob, Mark, and I are excited to begin the actual recording.

The time has come to announce that, after four years with MDP, guitarist Pat Manley has decided to focus more on his own songwriting and his work with his other band, Effusion 35, and therefore no longer will be a full-time member of the band. We’re happy, though, that Pat is going to contribute some guitar parts to this new record. Pat has been a great bandmate over the years and always will be a part of the music that we make. I particularly value our songwriting collaboration on great songs such as “Been Here All Along” and “Muse Of Mundanity.”

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Halloween Cabaret
Ortlieb’s Brewery Cabaret
829-51 North American St
Philadelphia (Northern Liberties), Pennsylvania
US
Cost: $10

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Buckner show Tuesday night! It was a lot of fun for us. And it was a real pleasure to meet Richard Buckner and Doug Gillard—who played a mesmerizing set after ours.

For those of you who may have missed it, Pat played acoustic, Mark played electric, and I tried not to embarrass my vocal coach. We missed Bob on drums (but we wanted to play in the same configuration as Richard and Doug), and I missed showing off my new Thunderbird bass.

For this show we had the opportunity to debut two new songs—“I Thought You Were Dead” and “I’ve Had Your Wife”—and to play the rarely performed “Freshmen Reading Poetry.” We only played three songs from WIATSWW, favoring the songs we’re working on for the new album. For the first time in public, I announced that the title of the record is “How Wicked We’ve Become,” which is a line from our song “Coward Of The Conscience,” and that it is “a bunch of songs sung by creepy guys,” meaning the perspectives of the characters I’ve created in the songs but realizing that the remark is also a fairly apt description of the guys on stage.

Milton and the Devils Party
Saturday, September 30
The Lighthouse, Stage B (inside)
Ruddertowne Complex
113 Dickinson St.
Dewey Beach, DE
10:20 pm
***NO COVER CHARGE***
Please note that two of our best music buds are playing the same place, same night:
Cheryl B. Engelhardt at 7:40 p.m.
the incomparable Wayne Hsu at 9:40 p.m.

Bob Falgie, drummer
Mark Graybill, guitarist
Pat Manley, guitarist and backing vocalist
Daniel Robinson, bassist and lead singer

Hey, and we were already working on bringing sexy back!

Note: the Parkside Lounge show is being rescheduled for October or November.

Our next big show will be at the Dewey Beach Music Festival on Saturday 9/30!

We’re thrilled and honored to have the opportunity to open for Merge Records’ Richard Buckner, who will be accompanied by Guided By Voices guitarist Doug Gillard. Buy tickets here

We’re contributing our cover of The Kinks’ “Victoria” to FDR’s forthcoming compilation About a Girl, which will feature covers of songs with girls’ names in the title as an homage to this last vestige of Petrarchism preseved in the the rock tradition. We get to do one about Queen Victoria. Har har—get it?

It’s a good thing we’re playing at the firehouse ‘cause we’ll be burning it up Saturday evening!

har har

Anyway, we’d love to see you for our sizzling set at the Media Firehouse on the corner of Jasper and Jackson streets—one block north of State Street. It’s Second Saturday in Media, presented by the Media Arts Council; so there will be lots going on before, after, and, sadly, during our show. But fun for the whole family. I’ll murmur the bad words.

We hear that the amazing Lili Anel might stop by! And note: she’s got a big show at the Media Theater at 9 p.m. later that night. We’ll slide down the pole at 7 p.m.