Dinner Party Records

Fuzz.com Presents:
Hot Challenge
Foxtail Somersault
French Miami

"Peppered with cheesy jokes and bouncy, synth-infused pop rock, a Hot Challenge show is the ideal way to detox and re-energize from the latest round of New Year's debauchery. These young upstarts (including brothers Joe, JP, and David Rose) have a small but catchy repertoire with just enough creative edge to set them apart from other bubblegum scenesters."
--Flavorpill

Tickets: $13

LIVE or DIY
A unification of urban art vinyl toys that redefines the concept of the assembly line...

Reception begins at 8pm

Featuring work by:
COOLVADER
DLI$H
BOXGUTS
PHU!
TANKI

Music by:
CUBIK & ORIGAMI
DR. TOAST
DJEENO
DJ SQUELCHY
DJ DAPS

FREE Takara Sake bombs all night!
FREE raffles every hour!

Check out the review of French Miami's show with our friends Excuses for Skipping and Parker Street Cinema in WireTapMusic:

"While the opener could have just as easily headlined the night, French Miami was more than up to the task of following Excuses for Skipping onstage. The three-piece’s sometimes minimal, sometimes massive, but always intriguing take on indie rock is just damned good. They opened, for instance, with “All On Fire,” a song with a guitar intro that is one of the tightest and most effective riffs I’ve heard in a long time.

French Miami’s sound is full of big burping keyboard bass, adroit guitar riffs, and urgent drum beats. Watching them, you could plainly see that singer Jason Heiselmann was feeling his band’s music. At one point when he wasn’t playing his guitar or his keyboards he was doing a dance that looked like he was bent over double, maybe in pain, and the look on his face was totally hurts so good. It’s perhaps trite to say of a three-piece band, but French Miami make an awfully big noise for only three dudes. They put on a damned fine show of undeniably compelling and intense indie rock."

If that sounds good to you, be sure to check out their show on Saturday at the Geat American Music Hall or visit their myspace to see upcoming dates.

Chris Avitabile is the man behind The Collapsible Mammals, one of our beloved downtempo and chill grooves artists. He is also a great collage and sculpture artist and has set up an etsy shop to sell his works:

chrisavitabile.etsy.com

He also has a great new music blog: MAKE SWEAT

go on over there and give him some love.

So finally, without further ado, I present our "official" tour photos:

please click on any of the photos to see the whole set (on flickr).

Thanks again to anyone who came out or supported us, we had a blast!

George Cochrane & Shawn Allen will be DJing hot electro/glitch/techy/house tonight at The End Up.

www.myspace.com/maldroid
www.myspace.com/themayfire
www.myspace.com/mrfrenchmiami

$10

Check out this video of our performances at Brooklyn's art/video/restaurant/bar space MonkeyTown:

Live electronic sets by:
George Cochrane (using wiimote as controller)
Compulse (using the touch pad Lemur)
Cubik & Origami

Video mixing by:
Alex Feurer

Song being played:
"Keep on Stepping" by Cubik & Origami

Thanks to our friends at Snoppyquop Recording Studios, we now have new warehouse space for working on projects and hosting special events. Stay tuned...

Wow! We've just returned from an epic and amazing tour in New York City, and already our plates are full back home. I'm in the process of editing over a thousand photos and many videos, so keep an eye on our news page to see what went down.

More info soon, but for now here's a teaser of the next 2 months. Happy new years!

1/7 - DINNER PARTY RADIO BIRTHDAY AND NYC RECAP SPECIAL! westaddradio.com
1/12 - The Fingermonsters @ UG Location
1/19 - Shawn Allen + George Cochrane (DJ set) @ The Endup
1/19 - French Miami + The May Fire @ Fat City
1/25 - French Miami on KZSU LIVE 90.1 Stanford Radio
2/2 - French Miami @ Great American Music Hall
2/23 - French Miami, New Centuries, and Master Slash Slave at Thee Parkside