News
11.04.07
The new MAGNET Magazine includes an article about the Mendoza Line and their last album. Pick it up at your local newsstand or record store, or order it from the MAGNET website.
07.07.07
The Mendoza Line's final release, 30 Year Low, is in stores August 21, 2007 on Glurp. It is packaged with a bonus disc of outtakes and extras for the true ML enthusiast, or you can just ignore it.
MAGNET magazine will be running a piece with interviews from Shannon and Timothy around the time of the release.
Full of Light and Full of Fire is now available in the UK on Loose Music.
11.10.06
The Mendoza Line will play a few songs at Bar/None's 20th Anniversary Bash on Saturday, November 11th at Supreme Trading in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They Might Be Giants, Mosquitos, Freedy Johnston, Brian Dewan, and many more will also play. Come on down.
10.08.06
If you're in NYC and a fan of Václav Havel and/or an avid theater-goer, this is something worth seeing: The ML's good friend Yolanda Hawkins is directing Havel's play Increased Difficulty of Concentration and her husband, William S. Niederkorn, is the composer for the official festival music. CDs of all of the songs—with 12 songs performed by the ML—will be available at all shows. Shows run from late October to early December. More info at the Untitled Theater website.
08.05.06
The summer tour is over. This was the second trip for the newest official lineup of the Mendoza Line, featuring Clint Newman on guitar and Adam Gold on drums. This is the most exciting-sounding ML band yet, hands down. The group is currently in the studio working on an EP for fall or winter release.
The Mendoza Line's Athens, Georgia show from the latest tour is available for download for a short time at southernshelter.com, a new Athens mp3 blog.
06.11.06
The Mendoza Line's summer tour begins later this month. See the Tour Dates page for details. There will also be a couple of New York shows before they leave—one as the ML, one as Slow Dazzle.
UK folks, watch for the release of Full of Light and Full of Fire some time in September on Loose Music.
04.02.06
Dear Friends,
Just a line to let you know that we are back from our little tour here in the US. Oh, it's heavenly to be back home with the cats! We cannot thank you enough for coming to our shows, buying cds, and chatting with us. And thank you to all those who came to our show here in NYC with the Minus 5 and Silos. What a time that was! Timothy and I and the rest of the guys will be in NY recording for the next couple months except for a few shows here and there on the east coast. Still hoping to be in Australia in June or July and the UK in August or September, but no concrete dates as of yet. Please be sure to consult the Tour Dates page from time to time to see if we are playing near you.
Happy Spring!
Shannon and the rest of the ML
02.23.06
Check the Tour Dates page for more confirmed dates on the ML's March tour, as well as an earlier date on Thursday, March 2, with Will Sheff (Okkervil River) at Southpaw in Brooklyn.
01.31.06
The ML's tour schedule for March is starting to come together—see the Tour Dates page for the first set of confirmed dates on the way to SXSW with Great Lake Swimmers. Also, the ML will share the stage with their friend Scott McCaughey and his band the Minus 5 at the end of March in NYC.
A stream of the ML's appearance on Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight is now available in the WFUV archives, if you have a few hours to spare.
01.19.06
See the Tour Dates page for a few appearances scheduled in January and March, including two this weekend: one a release party for Andy Greenwald's Miss Misery: A Novel on Friday at Sin-é, the other an appearance on Vin Scelsa's Idiot's Delight on WFUV on Saturday from 8 PM to midnight. March will include a tour with Great Lake Swimmers en route to SXSW—dates forthcoming.
01.10.06
Official release dates for Australian and UK releases of Full of Light and Full of Fire: February 6 in Australia on Low Transit, and April 10 in the UK on Loose. Expect a UK tour shortly after the release and an Australian tour in June.
On the home front, New Yorkers can catch the ML at the Bowery Ballroom with the Honey Brothers on January 28.
01.02.06
Happy new year! MAGNET reviews the last year in music in the new Jan./Feb. 2006 issue, and it includes “On the Double: Keeping Up with the Mendoza Line and Slow Dazzle.” And on page four of the same issue you'll even notice that you can get a free copy of Full of Light and Full of Fire if you subscribe to a year of the magazine.
Blender has a four-star review of the new ML record, calling its songs “sly epics that strip Americana music of its recent purist veneer and put the mess back into it,” and “political without preaching, sexy in a bookish way.” No Depression has a very nice review noting the new album's similarities to some classic Mekons records, and Spin recently called the ML “the best bummer-country band of this sucky century.”
