expensivegenes

2009-02-18T14:51:00.000-08:00

so here's whats up..

we have a facebook 'fan page' here

a myspace page here

and a blog of which you are currently on.

we have signed off on Modern Grave + If the Coughing Fits, both of which can be streamed on those respective 'social networking' sites.

we're currently working on a couple of other song's which we haven't properlly demo'd before. So unless you've heard REALLY rough copies we have, or have been to one of our few shows or sat in on us fucking around/jamming, you have yet to hear them....

what we're working on is...

a thousand smiles. a michael crumpton sung/written song. its super lush and has a 'soaring chorus'. buzzing lead guitars cut in and out, drone-y rhythm guitars and organs, and a finishing drum peice that greg lyons recorded that explodes with tribal like drumming. we're excited about this one.

absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. Michael newton primarily sings this one. very three chord punk rock with a surf-rock inspired lead, including a mid song guitar/organ freakout and an ending reminiscent of the bay city rollers 'Saturday night' no shit.

i am (working title?) is another one we have played at shows that very recently has been given a major reworking. carefully selected chordings backed by shoegazey reverb and tremolo heavy lead pieces. Michael c sings this one too in what i (Michael newton) feel may be some of his strongest lyrical work to date (imo!).

brushing yr hair and soft suicide are both old songs michael newton wrote and recorded that are being given a full genes rework. both have electronic elements.

fell in love (working title) is a stomp-y dirty rock piece. the newest of our songs.

augusta wall's was played at Eric's Halloween party. its got another big chorus and revolves are fast chord changes. defiantly one of our most up-tempo songs.

ugly playgrounds is a dark distortion soaked song, with a undoubtedly johhny marr on strangeways here we come inspired exiting guitar line.

and then there are at least 8 or 10 others that are in pieces right now, waiting to get put together.

so as you can tell, we're really fucking busy working on all of that.
if you're in toronto this saturday, check out our buddies in believe berlin and corduroy at the elmocombo and say hi. dance electric are playing too and they've been awesome for years.

anyway,
keep in touch.

exploding jeans.

2009-02-10T21:29:00.000-08:00

just finished wrapping up recording for the seven inch a few minutes ago. we're looking into what's best for hosting the songs online for streaming.. myspace sure seems to cut out the quality of them. as of now we're waiting for authorization for a facebook 'fan' page.. yadda yadda.

of course when we get the records back, we'll let you know where you can pick them up.

as for what's next, as you can see (if you squint) in this image, we have a tonne of other shit to move on to. honestly, like another 16 or so tracks on the go. we're not going to slow down, and i dont think we can count how many packs of cigarettes or bottles of wine we have consumed finishing this record.

for kicks, check out this video from 5 years ago of the two mike's in one of their old groups.
the smear campaign - white noise

2009-02-03T22:09:00.001-08:00

new track,
from our upcoming seven inch record.
at our myspace ( a temporary streaming home for our tracks, dont bother with friend requests(losers))

EXPENSIVE GENES ON MYSPACE

2009-02-02T21:42:00.001-08:00

music space

2009-01-20T13:13:00.000-08:00

hello all,
still working on the tracks. nearly completed the two for the seven inch, half done the 'b-side' from that session and full on working on two 'heavier' ones.

we spent some of today fixing up the music space/recording room in the apartment.

guitar pedal/extra microphone shelf.

recording control 'room'

guitar/keyboard shelf loft

keyboard central.

'live room'

we found this dog behind an amp.

2009

2009-01-12T10:38:00.001-08:00

some photos up here from our halloween show. also, some photos and videos from the recording process of our upcoming double a-side 7 inch.
about that...
its coming soon. we'll let you know how to get your hands on it, as soon as we have more information.
etc.etc.
ketel one vodka tastes good.

exlaxative greens.

ERICS BIRTHDAY/HALLOWEEN PARTY/SHOW

2008-10-30T16:25:00.001-07:00

tomorrow night. erics house. much fun to come.

hello october

2008-10-26T20:07:00.001-07:00

some new shit going on.

new photos of the jam spot.

steiss's new organ. radddddd.

mikes pedals. sweet vintage flanger that totally doesent sound like a stupid airplane taking off, but something else we cant put our collective fingers on. note to effects pedal companies, make pedals like this again! plus our faithful drummer, Igor Podella.

four hundred dollar one trick pony. used for noise. i (michael newton) can almost control this shit with my left toes. not yet tho.

my (michael newton's) new pedal board. note several cheapo behringer pedals, velcro-ed ashtray, guitar pick holder AND strobe light. noise party.

mike and i's dual fender red knob years amplifiers.
champ and powerchorus respectively. everyone knocks em, fuck it. loud as shit, beautiful clean tone, under dog amps for an under dog band.

aswell,
we are playing a houseparty this friday for halloween, if you know us, get ahold of us, you're probably already going. debuting some new shit to our set. headaches and next-day rum shakes assured.

ALSO.

we're pretty confident in saying our new place is haunted. countless noises, electronics turning off and on and weird corner of the eye sightings lead us to believe this.

we are OPENLY inviting the producers of paranormal state to come hang out and film with us. we'll put you up on some comfy futons, feed you cheap wine and show you a great time. plus, you producer types love us young 'indie rock' types, dont you?

anywhom,
see ya.

ex-genes.
ex-lax.
lets go to the ex!

2008-09-17T23:18:00.001-07:00

one week

2008-09-13T20:38:00.000-07:00

some shots around the new jam space/home.
expensive genes houseswarming 2009. coming up in a week. if you read the blog you probably already know, if not, you have one week to get to know us.

2008-08-27T15:19:00.000-07:00

HALLO

we have not died. we are just all in the process of finalizing our new address above a popular fish and chip shop. Once the physical paperwork of lugging shit over and setting shit up (and knocking it down) is done, we will be setting up a proper home studio to record some of our musical ramblings and sharing them with you.

gunning for a seven inch release still,
gunning for some shows surrounding it
gunning for a gun to shoot these fucking pigeons (just kidding)

but really
seee you soon.
xoxo
expensive gene hackmans

demo

2008-08-01T20:28:00.000-07:00

whats up.
we are quite drunk, and we just recorded this at the house at on markham street (i apologize if your our neighbor). live off the floor demo version...

these words dont forge, you and me
im tired, expired, i've deleted sleep
windows bleed with rain
and i watch them streak
warm hands wont thaw the spring in me.

i am cocaine, and bottles filled to the brim
poison contained, but watch me wash over him
its right, dont fuss, just let us do what me must
young man, fly high across the universe

(download here)

PULSE

2008-07-24T14:25:00.000-07:00

This saturday at the gladstone hotel, our very own Bryan Steiss 's work will be featured for the pulse exhibit at the gladstone hotel. Come check out his newest collection of paintings titled "all my friends are birds". Opening reception/party is this saturday and the event run's thru august 2nd. details below.

Starts Saturday July 26th at 7pm, runs thru August 2nd at the Gladstone Hotel. 1214 Queen Street West. 2nd Floor.
Artists's showcasing work include..

Brittney Townson
Bryan Steiss
Ann-Marie Regeuiro
Rachel Conduit
William Tyler
Jason Yarwood
Steven Earle

Come check it out.

2008-07-19T16:10:00.000-07:00

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2008-07-14T20:25:00.001-07:00

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2008-07-13T12:48:00.000-07:00

dear ignorant young woman, roaming the grocery store playing awful hip hop out of your cellphone at full volume, they're called headphones.

as you were...

2008-07-05T20:12:00.000-07:00

Expensive Genes - Modern Grave

Halfish Demo (v.3.0.05.777)
(its the best we can do in a sweaty room with garage band)

eat our collective dick(s)
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

2008-06-30T22:32:00.000-07:00

Expensive Genes - Modern Graves (Greyves is a shade i know too well Remix)

weird enough, here is the remix of a song you have yet to hear by us. The original is planned for a summertime self-funded (unless you've got the cash) release. We're going to keep it from you until then, but you can get a different gist (jist? JIZT? GIZZZZST?) of it from this. Please enjoy.

2008-06-24T15:59:00.000-07:00

Here is a short video of us covering our favorite band. Check out the cute picture of the German Shepard on the wall.

2008-06-22T10:11:00.000-07:00

PET PEEVES - QUEEN STREET EDITION.

"STREET PUNKS" on CELL PHONES
+
THIS SHIT

OR JUST THIS SHIT IN GENERAL

- babygiraffe7

2008-06-13T12:52:00.001-07:00

2008-06-13T09:16:00.000-07:00

ADD US ON MYSPACE....

AHH JUST KIDDING. WE DONT HAVE A MYSPACE. :P

EAT IT>

four/for/fore

2008-06-01T18:48:00.000-07:00

aside from boatloads of heroin, hunting and voting conservative, we have other hobbies...
today our pal bill brought us to a driving range and mini-putt.

tonight we recorded most of a new song. should be up this week once drums are finished.
here are some photos of the first activity.

p.s.
mike c. won 8 bucks for winning mini putt.
it came down to double extra rounds between him and bill.
it was entertaining.

2008-05-17T16:37:00.000-07:00

so we're not dead.
just busy.

been working on some new songs in the home studio we are slowly putting together. hopefully finish recording them soon.

today is mr.steiss's birthday.

here are some paintings he has done of us.

pretty cool huh?

2008-04-13T13:15:00.000-07:00

2008-04-13T13:08:00.001-07:00

live video

2008-04-12T12:38:00.000-07:00

if the coughing fits download

2008-04-11T15:45:00.001-07:00

hello. it has come to my attention that it may be tiresome to stream that boring video every time you would like to listen to the song. so, click the link below to download the mp3.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/10400797977bb268/

thanks

if the coughing fits

2008-04-09T17:54:00.000-07:00

we went into a rehearsal room today and wrote and recorded a new song. here is the accompanying video (blogger doesent have a feature to upload just mp3s, for good reason i assume) so dont pay much visual attention, rather just listen.
some pics of the process follow it.
let us know what you think.

"cant you wait for sundown before you go and you start a fire"

2008-03-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

waiting for your prayer to come in / start a fire rough verse and chorus demo.

things

2008-03-15T20:01:00.001-07:00

updatato potato

2008-03-11T19:23:00.000-07:00

we got together on Sunday and started to demo some stuff we have been working on. once we find a suitable spot to record some vocals (these apartment walls are paper thin and we need to be able to wail) we'll upload the finished track. im mixing it minus vocals as i type this. certainly has a bit of a JAMC feel to it right now. the telecaster / 335 / organ combo is working out really well. have a vodka/o.j. on me.

- michael newton

meet expensive genes

2008-02-26T17:22:00.001-08:00

the cast...

the michael's - guitars / vocals

and steiss - organ / vocals

soft suicide sneak peak

2008-02-26T16:15:00.000-08:00

sneak peak (as in to peak, not peek) of soft suicide (vocal-less) with eye candy steiss.

more to cum.

muchmoremusicvideos

2008-02-26T16:11:00.000-08:00

musicvideo

2008-02-26T16:08:00.000-08:00

this guy plays organ

almost band photos

2008-02-26T16:04:00.001-08:00

taken last summer on too much good/bad shit.

use this one in spin.

newsies

2008-02-26T16:03:00.000-08:00

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music / photos / debauchery to follow.