gun shy video

hey

here's a video that our guitarist kevin made for the song "gun shy" (a track from the LP deserve)

it was premiered on noisey a couple days ago i guess!



also, just for funn... here's a brand new song that we played in portland on this last tour, it's going to be on a new album we're currently working on

cheers

that was the best trip ever.
thanks to everyone who came out to the shows and bought records and fed us this trip! will try to post some pictures soon...

UPCOMING
February/March 2014: EU dates
April 2014: East Coast and more USA dates
2014: LP2

more details comin soon you guys

VANCOUVER KICK OFF

we're finally playing in our homeland again: THE WEST COAST

haven't been to california since august 2012 with babysitter... whoa....

here's the poster for the first show, in vancouver, with two awesome bands!!!!

cindy lee _________ kiss painting 

more dates after the poster (and on the right hand side of da blog)

THURS NOV 7 - Vancouver BC: Em Carr Parking w/ Cindy Lee, Kiss Painting

FRI NOV 8 - Seattle WA: Heartland w/ Vats, Thee Samedi

SAT NOV 9 - Portland OR: Recess Gallery w/ Hausu

SUN NOV 10 - Eugene OR: Bonaroo Tattoo w/ Martian Manhunter

MON NOV 11 - San Francisco CA: Vacation w/ Permanent Collection

TUES NOV 12 - Los Angeles CA: Almost Holden Gallery w/ Gangrene Gang, Mutant City

WED NOV 13 - Temecula CA: The Dial w/ Crisis Arm, Underpass

THURS NOV 14 - Tuscon AZ: Topaz w/ Prom Body

FRI NOV 15 - Las Vegas NV: Hellpop!

SAT NOV 16 - Stockton CA: D Thrift Store w/ Surf Club, Monster Treasure, Satan Wriders

SUN NOV 17 - Olympia WA: Old School Pizzeria w/ Naomi Punk, Broken Water, Vexx

...... should rock

d'oh!

just realized we never posted this video properly on the blog

one of our best friends and ex-Vancouver badasses Melanie Coles made this for the song "Options"

Victoria was wild last night!!!!!!!!



Weed - Options from Couple Skate on Vimeo.

playing a show in victoria in a couple weeks! with one of my favourite bands in the province. always good to get over to the island...

RSVP on facebook

also, one of the first record stores (Other Music in NYC) that really blew my mind as a teenager is now stocking the LP (as many across the continent are, via Light in the Attic, our distro in N America)... i try not to nerd out about this stuff too much but i thought the little description they wrote was really flattering! here it is

a couple shows coming up

THIS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27th at the Alf House
we're playing with NUDES from seattle http://nudes.bandcamp.com/
at least i think it's at Alf... details are scant at best

on OCTOBER 4th at Red Gate
we're playing an all-locals show with Flyin' and the High Drops
we are playing first at 11 PM
sorry it's so late....
here's somewhere you can RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/172472449608924/

well that was awesome

here are some still life compositions captured by a kodak disposable camera on our summer 2013 tour

 this is neil from naomi punk...he mostly just has fun

 cam from cascadia, our summer tourmates...my summer soul mate

 neil having more fun

 hugo with nick from naomi...and kev

these 2 girls BOTH look like our mutual friend kari. i told them this then asked them to pose for a photo so that kari could see the resemblance. here they are posing. kari. here u go. look. see?

 travis from naomi @ betterfest...#festlife

kevin w ben and alex from hausu, in front of the hausu haus, where we always sleep when we're in pdx

 hausu haus

 patrick who lives with some of the hausucru. he knows too much about hiphop.

 alex

 ben

 regular hausu haus wall

 dan and sasha, cascadia

 outside our pdx show. nice guy.

cam

all about the release

hey

the record came out today!!!

you can buy it online here: http://coupleskaterecords.com/releases/deserve

or at one of our release shows this weekend

VANCOUVER      SEATTLE


and you can stream it all at our bandcamp


oh yeah!!!!! new tour dates along the right side of the page, finally making it back down the west coast !!!! :)

press clipping

this has to be one of the worst pieces of journalism i've ever seen! in any event, here's an 'article' about us in the canadian magazine beatroute - smh

oh yeah, we were on the same page as our homie white poppy! 2 of us weedies used to play with crystal in a band called MY FRIEND WALLIS, that was fun

 the only ages we play are all
???

press clipping

the local vancouver music magazine called discorder wrote a cover story about us

flattering! although i wish the grassy lettering wasn't necessary...

you can read it like a regular website page or whatever right here....

mail

... cool... .....

RELEASE SHOWS

VANCOUVER INFO PAGE

SEATTLE INFO PAGE

PRE ORDER THE LP

here we go now badge

some updates

we are playing with one of our favourite tour bands LAZY on wednesday on granville island. should rock. https://www.facebook.com/events/348919105240033/ 

this our ONLY show before our NEW ALBUM DROPS on september 10th!!!! http://www.coupleskaterecords.com

there will be a release show in VANCOUVER on september 13th (location TBA)

and one in SEATTLE at the CAIRO on the 14th

both shows with FF and SO PITTED from seattle

should rock

also doing a thing on the 15th with SECRET COLORS at EVERYDAY MUSIC in SEATTLE

trying to be less sporadic

oh yeah. you can listen to a new song of ours from the LP at KEXP (a radio station in seattle WA) here called "silent partner": http://blog.kexp.org/2013/08/07/song-of-the-day-weed-silent-partner/

oh yeah one more thing! we are going to visit our west coast friends this fall... tour dates announced shortly!

FRIDAY NIGHT

we're playing this show in vancouver with some good friends in town from portland :)

info point page / RSVP

all i see is signs