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.
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.
New Recordings: First Batch
Thanks to everybody who came out to our show yesterday afternoon!
Most of you who did now have our little self recorded/produced pre-single demo thing (Toast/Masquerade). Those of you who don't can go to our music tab above and listen to or download both tracks (the recording of Decepticon though is only for the people who got the CD's, sorry =P).
So go listen to them, let us know what you think, and enjoy.
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3...
As you might have read/heard/discovered through psychic instinct, we've started recording what we hope to be considered our official demo, which will go out on CDs and whatnot. Below you'll find a link to a little test recording we did of My Iron Lung by Radiohead, and yes, we mess up a couple of times. That's why it's a test. As in, we're too lazy to make the playing perfect, because we're only paying attention to recording quality at the moment. So check out the link below, hosted on a website I'm also testing out: Last.fm. We'll see how that goes. Drop us an email at fringeshift@gmail.com or just drop us a comment at our facebook page here to let us know what you think.
Rock Out ALS: A Benefit Concert
Hello anybody reading this! Check our calendar (tab on the top of the page) for info about our latest and greatest gig, and check out our facebook to say that you're coming. It's gonna be a lot of bands making a lot of noise, so, I assume it'll be a good time. Oh, and all of the profits go directly to benefitting ALS, or Lou Gehrigs disease, so, come on out and show some support.
On KTUB...
Hi!
Yeah...
So, thanks to everybody who came out to KTUB on Friday night, we had a great time and hope you did too, and we're glad our new merchandise was moderately appealing to some of you. Maybe we'll setup a way to buy that online sometime. Eventually. I'll get on that. But yes, thank you, and we hope we put on a good show, but either way, we had fun doing it. We've built up a ton of new material while we've been in hiding, so you can expect a new song just about every time you see us in the near future. As in, they're all worth going to. After all, we wouldn't want to be consistent.
There were some pictures of us taken that we've uploaded and also a youtube video of us doing our new song, so check them out:
Pics: http://www.routney.com/FringeShift-20090731/
New Song
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left to right:Austin Knight - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Sawyer Thompson - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Trey Tice - Drums/Percussion
Picture by Nino Mascorella.