Friends & faithful supporters,
We haven’t checked in in a while because we’ve been working on new songs for the next record and enjoying the comfort of our own beds here in Champaign-Urbana. But, things are rustling a bit in Camp Elsinore and we thought we’d tell you all about it!

We have a couple of shows planned for the holiday season this year and we can’t wait to be near you, if possible, when you’re at the height of your holiday warmth.

Holiday Shows

/// Tuesday, Dec. 27th • Firebird Holiday Show (St. Louis)
w/ Dots Not Feathers & Palace

/// Saturday, Dec. 31st • NEW YEAR’S EVE @ Highdive (Champaign)
w/ Temple of Low Men & The Dirty Feathers 

That’s right! Two wintry nights of music to make sure your holiday week is WAY better than THIS!

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Holiday Merch Sale

Also, we’re having a giant holiday sale in our web-store starting right now! You can get our Elephant, Hindenstache, or Monsterhaus shirt + a copy of the new EP for just $15! And, we have a limited supply of our older shirts left, so snag one or all of them for just $7 each. We like to think they make good gifts, so order now and know you’ll be supporting a band you love AND giving someone a good looking shirt all at the same time. Yeah, we love you.

Browse the Sale >>

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New Remixes

Finally, our dear friend Sven has made not one…not two…but three remixes of “Gasoline” from Yes Yes Yes. We’ve posted them on our BandCamp page for you to check out and pay what you want for.  All proceeds will go to one of Sven’s favorite charities, The Imerman Angels. So, hop on over, give a listen, and donate to a wonderful cause. We feel so fortunate to have such talented, generous, & thoughtful friends. Thank you, Sven.

Listen to the Remixes >>

Well, that’s all we’ve got for now. We hope to see you in St. Louis, Champaign-Urbana, or just around…if you happen to be here in the central Midwest this winter. If we’re far away from you right now, don’t worry. The new record is coming along nicely and we’ll hit the road again once it’s ready to meet the public. Also, we’ll have more exciting news in the near future. So, keep an eye on our Facebook & Twitter pages and also your Inbox. We love you and never forget about you. You win!

ELSINORE

Loving supporters & friends,
We hope autumn has been good to you so far. The weather here in Champaign-Urbana has been pretty unbelievable. Winter’s going to sting a bit when it finally hits I think. We have a few things in the near future we want to tell you about besides our current dive into songwriting, which is in full effect!

Here’s what we have coming up: 

Sunday, Oct. 23rd • Ryan SOLO @ Indi Go Artist Co-op 
SWANN Special Care Benefit – 1pm

Wednesday, Oct. 26th • Canopy Club (Urbana)
w/ Kreayshawn & Neon Indian

Friday, Nov. 4th • Firebird in St. Louis (GET TICKETS!)
w/ Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin & Dots Not Feathers

Friday, Nov. 18th • Ryan SOLO @ Indi Go Artist Co-op (Champaign)
w/ An Evening With Your Mother & Megan Johns

We’ll have a few things to announce for the end of the year, but for now keep in touch and keep telling everyone you know!

ELSINORE

Friends,
We’re home from the EP release tour and couldn’t be happier with how it all went. For some of you this is a Welcome to Elsinore! blog post, and for others it’s simply a friendly squeeze from us to you. Thank you Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Boston/Cambridge, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, and Bowling Green!
We played to a lot of new people, got some great feedback, and feel better than ever about the songs for the next record. Touring is a wonderful thing. So, now we’ll play just a few more shows over the next few weeks and then dive head-first back into songwriting.
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Thursday, Oct. 6th • Ryan SOLO @ Cream & Flutter (Champaign)
w/ Daniel and The Lion(Madison)

Saturday, Oct. 15th • Broad Ripple Music Fest @ Connor’s Pub Mega-Tent (Indianapolis)

Sunday, Oct. 23rd • Ryan SOLO @ Indi Go Artist Co-op | SWANN Special Care Benefit – 1pm

Friday, Nov. 18th • Ryan SOLO @ Indi Go Artist Co-op (Champaign)
w/ An Evening With Your Mother

Thank you for your undying support & love. We have a lot of new music to write, and then a record to make. Keep in touch, keep happy, and keep telling everyone you know about us.

xo,

ELSINORE

Friends of Elsinore! We come to you chock full of excitement to release a brand new music video produced, written and directed by our very own Chris Eitel! Also, still plenty of tour dates coming up, make sure to get tickets and your very own copy of the Life Inside an Elephant EP. Just think of that new song smell!

Life Inside an Elephant EP Tour

Thur, Aug. 25th • Indianapolis, IN
@ Rock Lobster (BRMF Pre Party)

Sat, Aug. 27th • Pittsburgh, PA
@ Club Cafe (GET TICKETS!)

Sun, Aug. 28th • Baltimore, MD
@ Ottobar (BIMA Fest!)

Mon, Aug. 29th • Cambridge, MA
@ Middle East Club (Upstairs)

Tues, Aug. 30th • Brooklyn, NY
@ The Rock Shop w/ Parachute Musical

Wed, Aug. 31st • Philadelphia, PA
@ Bookspace w/Arrah & the Ferns

Thur, Sept. 1st • Washington, DC
@ Comet Ping Pong w/ Parachute Musical

Fri, Sept. 2nd • Newport, KY
@ Southgate House

Sat, Sept. 3rd • Bowling Green, KY
@ Tidball’s w/ Parachute Musical

Grab the new EP here, friend!

Dearest Friends of Elsinore… good news abound!

Not only do we have a “beautiful” and “intriguing” new EP to share with you, but we’re going to deliver it in person! If that wasn’t enough, odds are you may have heard our song Yes Yes Yes in the new Kohl’s commercial! That’s it…we’re going on tour.. right..now!

Life Inside an Elephant EP Tour

Fri, Aug. 12th • Chicago, IL
@ Subterranean (GET TICKETS!)

Fri, Aug. 19th • St. Louis, MO
@ Firebird (GET TICKETS!)

Sat, Aug. 20th • Champaign, IL
@ Highdive (GET TICKETS!)

Thur, Aug. 25th • Indianapolis, IN
@ Rock Lobster (BRMF Pre Party)

Sat, Aug. 27th • Pittsburgh, PA
@ Club Cafe (GET TICKETS!)

Sun, Aug. 28th • Baltimore, MD
@ Ottobar (BIMA Fest!)

Mon, Aug. 29th • Cambridge, MA
@ Middle East Club (Upstairs)

Tues, Aug. 30th • Brooklyn, NY
@ The Rock Shop

Wed, Aug. 31st • Philadelphia, PA
@ Bookspace w/Arrah & the Ferns

Thur, Sept. 1st • Washington, DC
@ DC9 w/ Parachute Musical

Fri, Sept. 2nd • Newport, KY
@ Southgate House

Get excited! You know we are.

Friends & loved ones…

We’ve been ultra-busy working on new songs, charging our batteries, and planning a LOT of new things for the second half of 2011, including a brand new EP release! Here are some updates:

Life Inside an Elephant EP Release Shows

Friday, Aug. 12th • Chicago, IL
@ Subterranean (GET TICKETS!)

Friday, Aug. 19th • St. Louis, MO
@ Firebird (GET TICKETS!)

Saturday, Aug. 20th • Champaign, IL
@ Highdive (GET TICKETS!)
w/ The Palace Flophouse & Ezra Furman(solo)
RSVP here and invite your friends!

*Tour details coming soon!*
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AND, if you haven’t seen our Laundromatinee Sessions from last August yet…

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THEM NOW!

{New England, Fatal Flaw, & Ultraviolence (Version 1)}

We’ll have so much more to tell you about in the next two weeks, so stay tuned and keep telling everyone you know about the music we’re making.

xo,

ELSINORE

Elsinore // ultraviolence from Chris & Oliver Cinema on Vimeo.

CATCH IT!!!

January 29th, 2011
Ryan at home in Champaign
5:42pm

A small update, friends.

Our trusty van, The Millenium Falcon, came home yesterday. It’s been at Joe Machens’ Collision Center in Columbia, MO since the accident. It’s fixed, it was painless, and we even got an additional payoff because they couldn’t find a plastic trim piece for the door.

And, to pile on the good news, and in addition to the progress we’ve made on “Residential Weather”, I spent the last 24 hours finishing another new song and recording an almost-album-worthy version here in my home studio. It’s called “The Thermostat, The Telephone” and it’s beautiful. Keep your eyes and mouse clicks right here for more progress and goodness.

January 26th, 2011
/ From Ryan at home in Champaign /

For the first time ever we’ve built a new song from the ground up completely together. Dave & Chris were just messing around with a drum & bass part two weeks ago as they were warming up to start rehearsal. Mark & I quickly hopped on and everyone started hearing new ideas. We ended the 2 ½ hour rehearsal by recording our progress with GarageBand. We spent the week listening individually to that recording. Then, last week we polished and structured and reworked all of the parts from the first rehearsal. Things moved a little slower, but we still ended the night with a better version of the song and once again recorded our progress.

Over the last week I’ve been brainstorming for lyrical ideas and trying to finally find my songwriting process. I’ve always just had small ideas that I pushed and pushed until something good came out without really structuring my moves or giving myself a routine. I realized that what has held me up in the past and caused each song to take MONTHS to write is that I don’t write down all of the ideas I have for each song-seed. I just let it roll around and around in my head for weeks and weeks hoping that the next spark comes quickly. Sometimes it does and sometimes it just rolls around on an endless loop. With Residential Weather I knew from the first rehearsal that the music made me feel like talking about what my neighborhood is like in the winter and at night, when everyone’s keeping warm inside relaxing in front of the television or on the couch. So, I’ve spent the last two weeks writing down how this idea makes me feel and what specifically I notice when Jody and I are out walking our dog, Rufus, or when I’m driving home after sunset. I realized that I have a lot of thoughts in my head that are interesting and definitely songworthy. The writing classes I took in college helped me understand what it is to think poetically and creatively about everyday situations. Now, I have to recognize when something I’m thinking about is good material for a song and then actually PUT IT INTO A SONG, the second being the hardest part.

The summary of all of this? We built a brand new song together and this song has helped me find, or has at least pushed me in the right direction to find, my songwriting process. All of the songs of ours that I’ve liked in the past 6 ½ years are the ones that said exactly what I meant them to say. And not so coincidentally they’re also the ones that everyone else has liked. So, THIS IS THE ANSWER. It’s simple, it’s logical. We push on.

More to come…