Aquarium Drunkard diversion

check out our diversion on Aquarium Drunkard. A.D. is an incredible blog out of Los Angeles that is extremely supportive of the Athens music scene and good music in general. the "diversions" feature is a recurring interview they run with their favorite bands about subjects other than playing live music and recording. the Gift Horse diversion is about the state of the Athens music scene from our perspective and how we are glad to be a part of it. check it out!

thanks/award

thanks to everybody who was so good to us on tour. thanks for coming to see us play and letting us sleep at your house. thanks for the books, fly fishing movies and dim sum. thanks to Father Bill of the St. Francis Mission in Philly for the delicious coffee cake. thanks to Michael for the live camel at University of Maryland. thanks to Twin Tigers for everything. thanks to Blaze for killing it on the drums for both Gift Horse and Twin Tigers back to back most nights. thanks to Bambara for letting us borrow him. our friends in Athens and everyone we meet on the road collectively make it possible for us to do what we do. so thank you thank you.

we're proud to be nominated for a Flagpole Music Award again this year. we are up for best rock band and are humbled to be in a category beside The Whigs, Twin Tigers, Bambara, and Pride Parade. pretty rad. please go vote!

thanks

latest...

sorry for the hiatus! we've been really busy, but here's some news:

-Mountain of Youth is officially out in most formats now and a trip to our myspace page will reveal a whole host of ways to purchase it. all of the appropriate links are at the very top of the page.

-check out our feature article in this week's Flagpole. although the cd release show has already come and gone, it's still a good read...

-speaking of that release show, thanks so much to everyone who came out to the Caledonia on Friday night. hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did!

-notice the new dates over there-->. we're pumped to be doing some of these with our good buddies Twin Tigers. they're hot shit. heads up east coast.

-it's slightly old news, but SxSW was tons o' fun. multiple peeps say that the 40 Watt's day party at Sidebar was one of the best shows of the entire festival despite the strangely cold weather. Austin has got to be one of the greatest cities on the planet. Athens was very well represented.

alright that's enough for now, i'll think of some more stuff to tell you about later.

new album "Mountain of Youth" now available...off to SxSW

hi folks, pleased to announce that our new album Mountain of Youth is now available for your listening pleasure. that's the album's cover up there at the top of the blog.

download it through our site at bandcamp.com for only $8.

also please check the schedule on the right for upcoming shows. we're leaving for SxSW today so if we come near you, come see us. thanks!

who should play NPR's SXSW party in 2010?

we should right? don't you think? us too. well, seeing as how we both agree you should follow this link and tell NPR that Gift Horse should play their SXSW party. just comment. i mean, we'll be there anyway playing other shows, doesn't it just make sense? i know, it does. man, thanks for agreeing. and thanks a lot for clicking the link and commenting. that's very cool of you. you always were cool.