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04.28.09
DUDE, THE INNERNET IS GIVING ME SWINE FLU
All the Magik Markers have butterflies in their stomachs, and deadly viral microbes under their fingernails about the new record being released in 8 short days. You can find the second track on the album, "Don't Talk in Your Sleep" on the Stereogum playlist this week, and I posted "7/23" to the Magik Markers myspace. Balf Quarry has polarized the blogosphere in a way not seen since Frito Lay released Blazin' Buffalo and Ranch flavored Doritos. Some people like it, some people, they hate it! I posted a 'quiz', so if you're feeling like staying indoors on a beautiful spring day, by all means, complete it and we'll send one of youse a free copy of Balf Quarry on vinyl. The questions might seem impossible, but effort counts, not accuracy. The best answers win, but don't get cute. Aw, you can't help that, nevermind. NOW, for a list of alternate record titles considered before chosing this one:

Worf Quandry
Dolf Lundgren
Barf Story
Carp Jewelery

You understand why we chose Balf Quarry.

04.15.09
NEW BABY WEARS FUNNY T-SHIRTS, EVEN THOUGH TECHNICALLY NOT AWARE OF LAUGHING YET

Check her out! I am stuck indoors lately, and these thing have made me happy. Eddie Gale. Gyorgy Ligeti. What else? I don't wish to touch hearts, I don't even like to effect minds very much.The new Magik Markers record Balf Quarry is coming out on May 5th, until then, there is this.

03.27.09
EVERYBODY, ARE YOU DOING OK? RIDE THE BUMMER HORSE OF EARLY SPRING INTO THE SWEET CORRAL OF MID-SPRING

Our friend Guilluame Delcourt made a Markers drawing; thank you Guilluame! So, babies are born, art is made, plants are poking from the soil, bulbs are bursting, and the Magik Markers have a music myspace space. What a beautiful world. Come, join us, become a part of our 'friend list'. There is nothing more beautiful and true than a 'friend list'. Despite the superfluity of beauty in the world, of late my mind has turned to prison. Perhaps because in highschool this is the time of year when I would suddenly realize there was no way I was going to pass algebra or gym or something and I would start to feel like a trapped rat. Maybe its the weather. Anyhow, I found a couple of great and horrible things. I had no idea this was online and you should read this. Now lets change the subject. Recently I have read a couple of pretty grumpy interviews with musicians; check out Six Organs of Admittance's feeling on the coming of the singularity and robot butlers, and here read Psychedelic Horseshit swear up a storm and get so MAD . Hahaha! If those two don't cheer you up, what will? This. Now that woman knows how to take a brusin and keep on crusin. Take a look at that you negative nelsons! Maybe times are tough, but remember, just bless your lucky stars you are not in prison, or the heliocopter that taught itself to fly, or having to play with Wavves, or being left by Eddie Fisher for Elizabeth Taylor in front of everyone.

03.26.09

MARKERS DRUMMER PETE NOLAN AND JULIE 'J.T. SODAS' TOMLINSON MAKE INCREDIBLE BABY; CDR RECORDING AVAILABLE THROUGH ARBITRARY SIGNS. J/K!

This past Monday, Pete and his wife Julie gave birth to a brand new baby girl! Everyone is healthy and safe and napping when they can. I will post a picture soon, or a drawing of a picture. Or possibly a description of the drawing. For good tidings, or if you have any sage parenting advice you feel should be passed on to the new family, send it along to magikikikik AT gmail DOT com.


03.20.09

NIGHT TIME UPDATE FOR THE NAIL BITING CEILING STARE

This will either get you through insomnia, or give it to you. I don't know how I missed BxC's video for 'Beauty Hunter' from the killer Challenger, but I did. Here is the remedy for what is ailing thee.

03. 19.09

OH THINGS! THINGS! WONDERFUL THINGS! IS IT JUST ME OR DID A LOT OF PEOPLE RIP OFF THE "EXCITABLE BOY" ALBUM?

I can list you at least 7 ways in which I feel at least lyrically it 'inspired' or was directly ripped off, you know, sometime if you ever want to talk about it. And what else? I will tell you what else: we are touring with the inexorable GHOST. The tour dates are here, here, and even here. Sources tell me our friend Brent Green may be working on a video for '7/23' from our forthcoming long play format album in the cooker. Other sources suggest Heidi Diehl, aka H Reality, the surly auteur behind the 'Taste' video, is working on a video for "The Lighter Side...of Hippies." True? Well, who knows if anything you read on the internet is true. More artifically manufactured news related content as it comes. Looking for something to pet and sooth the spiny cockles of your mi i ind? I don't know if this will work for you, but it worked for me. Oh Marlene! If you ever have any questions relating to THE MAGIK MARKERS write us at magikikikik AT gmail DOT com.

03.13.09

AW CRUD, WHAT GHOST, FRIDAY THE 13TH AND THE HARTFORD FREAKS

We recorded in Seattle in the winter, and had a really good time; the record is called Balf Quarry, which some people think is a gross name. Edward Balf began one of the first quarries in Hartford, CT in the late 1800's, and originally mined traprock for the unpaved streets of the downtown. I grew up down the street from Balf Quarry and the explosions made the hanging lamp above my grandparents dining room table spin. Teenagers would always be getting in trouble for spray-painting the rock ledge above the quarry and drinking beer and sometimes killing themselves there. Quarries were also a place where you could go swimming illegally, and kids would have a great time, or they would drown. I think everyone grows up with a weird spot like that, and Balf Quarry was mine. The Magik Markers began in a house that was built to accomodate the growing suburb of Hartford, which existed due in part to the train tracks that were built to ferry traprock from the border of Hartford and Newington into downtown Hartford. On a note that takes us far from the halcyon heyday of ol' Hartford: I should mention we'll be playing the Primavera Festival in Barcelona. I got to play with Six Organs last year, and am glad to be coming back with Magik Markers, because the whole thing was bitchin, and I hope this year I get to see more bands. If you live in Europe and want us to play in your town, let your man John Fitzgerald know.

03.08.09
MAGIK MARKERS ARE HAVING A PRETTY GOOD SUNDAY, HOW ABOUT YOU?

We recently got back from Reims, France, where we played the Vortex Festival and ate at the Reims version of a Outback Steakhouse. We missed these guys, but met Dogbowl. A couple of months ago, we got to travel to Estonia to be a part of Veiko Õunpuu's next film. Just like a normal Markers show, we played for 5 dozen formally dressed eastern Europeans in front of a neon sign that said 'The Golden Age' in Estonian while women on pedestals stripped for an omnimpotent man in a throne. Things around here are calm. While I updated this website I watched Ghostbusters with the commentary on. Sigourney Weaver's character was originally a model, but she suggested they change her profession to classical musician. Huh! Since you asked, I have been listening to a lot of Al Simones lately. For me Corridor of Dreams has been the record to make the cold start of March bearable. Although he is from Ohio, his jams are blazing warmth conductors, beter than even turning on the space heater. It is all space heater jams for me out here: Gal Costa, Alice Coltrane, Al Simones and Casey Bill Weldon. If those don't warm you up then maybe you are a jerk.

03.03.09

MAGIK MARKERS EARN HIGH 'MARKS' FOR IGNORING INTERNET