teasers, tapes, buttons and bracelets

hi everyone!
thanks again for your support!  we have only 4 days to raise $1000...yikes!  please help us spread the word.
we have more teaser action coming your way this evening, but thought we would show you all the goodies that you get for a simple $10 donation:

side a: 1. adult emotions (demo) 2. pay no mind (boozer) 3. hot air balloon 4. baby houses (demo) 5. north carolina (demo) 6. good bye
side b: 1. friendship bracelet 2. mountain home (demo) 3. the tall guy (demo) 4. national parks (demo) 5. your life is important (demo) 6. secret jammer
donate $25 and you'll get all this plus the new album!

Dale Earnhardt

9

Hi friends!


Thanks to all who have donated and helped spread the “Natty Parks” word! 
We are getting down to the wire with barely 9 days remaining and we have quite a mountain to climb.  We still need $1,293, which is more than half of our desired goal.  We really need to come together in order to make this video a reality!


If you have ever had a far out dream that seemed unattainable or enjoyed a majestic view, hike, etc in a National Park we urge you to become an active member of our project, donate and spread the word as far as the eyes can see.  If the video is completed, you’ll be able to take pride in knowing that you played just as much a part in bringing “National Parks” into existence as we did.  YOU have the PWR!



Over the remaining days of our project we will be posting teaser videos from some promos we filmed over the weekend.  Here is teaser #2 of 10.


Love you and thanks!


Sarah and Devin

national parks, 10 days left

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the love and support! Over the next 10 days we will be posting teaser videos from the promos we shot over the weekend. We can only make this video with your help. $1500 and ten days to go. Let's do it. Spread the word! Much love and gratitude!

Teaser #1:

EAR PWR - "National Parks" : Day 1 from Sal Caino on Vimeo.

National Parks

kickstarter fundraiser for National Parks

DEAR FRIENDS,

Over the last few months, we have been preparing a mystical music video to complement the single National Parks from our new self-titled album. This will not be your average music video. There will be neon bodies, smoke bombs, sparkly mushrooms, mountains, singing waterfalls, starry eyes, and things you can only imagine... for the time being, at least. We are taking it to the next level. We want this video to be phenomenal for you. The only things standing in our way are our bank accounts. So we're asking you, our lovely friends, to help support us in bringing a little happiness to the world.

It will cost us $2,500 to make this baby. $2,500 may seem like a lot. It seems like a lot to us. But when you take into consideration that we will have to rent camera/lighting equipment and a generator + get a cast and crew of nearly 30 ppl to the mountains + take care of them for a couple of days and purchase props it's really a miniscule budget. It doesn't even begin to cover the time and effort that our producer and director/editor are putting into this pro bono. We would gladly fund this project ourselves but our monies were depleted after paying for the recording of our new album, photography and plane tickets to the UK for ATP.


Why make the video?
Because we want to bring the beauty of the song to life and showcase the place where we grew up. We'd love to contribute a bit of joy to this world that’s so often full of doom and gloom and we think this video would be a great vehicle to do so.


If you're interested in helping us make this marvelous concept a reality and would like to get some sick ear pwr goodies in the process, please take the time to hop over to our kickstarter and learn more.

tease

we have some tshirts leftover from last season.  We have mostly the purpley color and mostly mediums (both pictured are medium).  $8 each, includes shipping.  contact us at earpwr@gmail.com if you think you may be interested.
we're now sold out of t-shirts.  thanks! we'll probably have more coming soon!

upcoming shows

March 17- Austin, TX @ 512 Upstairs (Carpark/Paw Tracks SXSW Showcase)

April 21- Greensboro, NC @ CFBG w/ Captain Ahab

May 12- Manchester, UK @ Night and Day

May 13-15- Minehead, UK @ Butlins Holiday Centre (ATP curated by Animal Collective) 

we found this tape at the goodwill. hopefully it will help us.

big beach house would be nice but our little baby's just right.

this is a photo i took as we were leaving a train station somewhere in germany very early in the morning.  we were in the end cart by ourselves and we were facing the opposite of the direction the train was going. i felt weird.

prague

having fun with foot village

CRK in wroclaw, poland

euro tour update

buongiorno!

we are in faenza, italia right now.
we just had yummy cappuccini and they are preparing food for us right now.

italia has the best food ever, no question, so we are excited.

tour so far has been very good.
our favorite shows were in poland.
people are super enthusiastic about music there.

last night we played in salzburg, austria and it is one of the most beautiful cities i have ever seen.

before the show we had Glühwein.
it is usually prepared from red wine, heated and spiced with cinnamon sticks, vanilla pods, cloves, citrus and sugar.
here's a crummy picture from my iphone of the Glühwein stand.

while we were here helicopters were flying around above us because tom cruise and cameron diaz are filming a movie in salzburg.

our hotel was right by this castle:
 


also, i am sick :(

mountains of austria

we drove through big mountains today.

ahoj from ostrava, cz

hallo from europe

hallo buddies.
just wanted to let you know that we made it to europe and we are OKAY! (sort of)

last night at our first show in Berlin, Devin plugged our stuff in and it exploded.
not really, but it didn't work and lots of smelly smoke filled the suitcase.
we borrowed some european 9V adapters and used those instead of our converter.
we couldn't use our mixer or delay pedal cause they blew up.
but we got new ones and our very own adapters so we are set.

that was scary...

i can't post any pictures because the places we have been so far don't have wifi.
right now i am typing on a computer that looks as though it was hit by a bomb when it was made in 1992.

we are in wroclaw, poland right now. it's pretty neat/scary and people don't speak much english.
we had some sort of traditional meal tonight prepared by the venue and it was... not like anything we had ever eaten before.

last night i rode a motorcycle (that wasn't real) and the dj played all american songs after our set (think: beach boys, born in the usa, kids in america... etc). are those 2 things worth going broke in europe?

probably.

skeleton in the saddam closet

if you follow us on twitter or look at our tumblr... you may have seen our post about finding saddam in an ironing board cupboard at an apartment we were looking at.
he looked something like this:

notice dumbass scrawled backwards across his forhead and the "support your local poet" bumper sticker above him.
ugh! it couldn't get more dreadful could it?
well, we ended up getting the apartment.
nooooo, we didn't get it because of the saddam....
ok.
we did.
anyway... we found another surprise in the cupboard upon further examination.

yeah, that's a skeleton bound with twine and fake rose petals, face down nonetheless.
check it out:

and it has a neat drawing on it's forehead!

not sure what this is all about, but i put him back where i found him.
i really don't know what else to say. scary.

dublin day-after

when we visited dublin on our uk tour, future islands had a really good time. such a good time that we missed our ferry the next morning. i drove us to a neighboring town so that we could catch another ferry. we had some time to kill so devin and i walked around while they slept in the car. when we got back to the car, we found this guy making a lot of noise RIGHT by them. bwahahahaha.