Welcome to fringeshift.com

Welcome to the new, permanent, and most up to date website for the Seattle area based rock band Fringe Shift. This website will be changing and mutating very rapidly over the next few weeks before settling on a very solid layout, so check back frequently and be prepared. We'll be blowing your mind with recordings, rants, tablatures, pictures, merchandise, and pretty much everything else you can imagine in the near future. Oh, and of course, show dates.

A Little Check-In

Hey everyone,

We've been lying a little low the last couple months so I thought I'd shoot an update to everybody who cares concerning what's up.

We've been busy writing a bunch of new material, which we're going to start revealing song by song at our next few gigs. We're also hoping to work together with the Jimi Hendrix Foundation and a talented friend to get some recordings of these new things out to all of you guys, as well as maybe a small set of acoustic renditions of songs that you already know.

That being said, we're excited to start playing some more shows, and we'll be in downtown Woodinville on July 31st for the ROCK OUT ALS CAR WASH. Us, JAR, and 3rd attempt will all be cycling through sets for most of the day, and it'd be awesome if you guys could come out and join us at some point, and support a good cause. And who knows, you might catch some of our new stuff ; ]

Stay tuned for more stuff on our Facebook page (now facebook.com/fringeshift) and here at our website; there's going to be a lot of cool stuff happening within the next couple months.

~Sawyer

Oh, and here's a treat for those of you who check our website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX0oR29jcTA

Gigs: Past and Future

Yesterday we played a show down in Graham, WA, which is the furthest away we've ever gone to play a show. We've realized two things from this show:

1. Graham is a pretty cool place

2. Shows with lots of new people are very fun

We all agreed that getting people who have never seen or heard of us before to jump to our music is a pretty awesome feeling, so hopefully we'll see more shows less in the immediate area in the future. That also means that we get to play shows without any area getting bored of us, which is a plus.

Since we put out a full length LP (of which we sold over 30 of in Graham), we've all been pretty laid back about writing new music, but we've decided it's time to start throwing out new things. We've all been busy writing, and soon you might see a little bit different instrument setup then we usually stick with.

Also, we want to congratulate JAR on their getting first place in the Classic Rockathon, and the Northshore Battle of the Bands; they kicked ass at both, and definitely deserved the placement they received.

And remember, we're always looking for fan input, so if you've got something to say, suggest, or offer help with, shoot us an email at fringeshift@gmail.com.

See you at the next show!

~Sawyer

 

"Shades Of" Fringe Shift's First Album

That's right, we're officially announcing our new, and very first full length album (12 songs, 52 minutes). We're happy to say it's almost completely self done, with help from the indispensable Ryan Cox at KTUB. The CD's are self burned and printed, with homemade sleeves and stickers, coated in artwork by Nino Mascorella, our go to art guy since the very beginning. We're extremely proud of the work and creativity that's gone in to Shades Of, and are happy to have something we can give to you. We will be "selling" them at shows for pay what you want, and may digitally the album in the future. We'll be offering the first 25 we've made to everyone at our show at Big Daddies on April 1st, so don't miss it!

Want a copy? Shoot us an email at fringeshift@gmail.com, and we'll figure out how to get you one.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us reach this point, and will keep helping us get to the ones that follow.

Updates!

Hey guys, thought I'd update you on some of the newest things that have changed lately for us. We set up a twitter, as can be seen at the right, that parallels our facebook, so if you're a twitter person, rejoice. I changed some stuff around on the music page, so take a look at that if you get the chance.

We've been hard at work on new material, and we should have some new stuff next time we're on a stage, which could be sooner then expected (our next show on the calendar right now is April 1st)...

We've been doing some heavy renovations to our practice area (the garage), and it's coming together nicely enough that we've thinking of trying to make use of it as a small time venue for bands we're connected with. Facebook/twitter/email us if you have any suggestions or recommendations.

Until next time, watch the news feeds, come to the shows, and be ready for some new stuff soon...

Some Videos...

My father is one of those people who has "an app for everything," so here's a link to his youtube account, which is almost completely made up of Fringe Shift videos from his iPhone:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Routney360#p/u

On Mixing, Touring, and You.

Although Facebook statistics say otherwise, I like to pretend we've got fans out there who regularly read our stuff, listen to our new recordings, and maybe even come to a show or two. Those people will be referred to as "you" in the future.

So, as you may have noticed, we've been releasing a decent allotment of newly mixed recordings lately, and there are still more coming, and more that are not coming. As in, we're finishing them completely, then saving them for a disc release. Mean, I know, but hell, they'll be free, so no complaining. As far as obtaining recordings go, you can download a few of them directly from our music page on this site from the little music player widget. You click the song, then you click download. Astonishing, isn't it?

We will be giving out demos at our next show with all of our newest recordings. They'll be as a pay-what-you-want release, because yes, it costs us to make these, but we'd rather people who don't care enough to pay or are just to broke to at the moment get our music then sit around being snobby and asking for cash. So if you feel it's worth a little sum, let us know, if not, that's cool too.

On the topic of our next show (December 11th, at the L.A.B., starts 6:30), it will be our first real show with JAR, and already assuredly not the last. If you peek at our calendar, we have several shows lined up over the next couple months, all of them with JAR, so think of December 11th as the start of our little tour with them. If you don't know JAR, check out their facebook, they're worth knowing.

So hope to see you at the show, and those in the future. Thank you again to everybody who's been supporting us, we do all this craziness for you guys.

~Sawyer

One More New Recording...

Fresh off the mixing board, straight to the music page. Check it out.

New Shows (with JAR!)

Check out the calendar, we just threw a couple more show dates on there that will be played with JAR. It should be most excellent.

 

 From left to right:
Austin Knight - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Sawyer Thompson - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Trey Tice - Drums/Percussion

Picture by Nino Mascorella.