The Plastic Constellations Say Goodbye
posted by Mojo Marshall
It truly has been too long since we’ve talked. What have we been up to? Glad you asked. A “shit ton,” would be the short answer but we can give a little more detail than that. In fact, here’s a lot more detail:
In a bittersweet twist, we here at TPC Enterprises® are both excited and admittedly a little sad to announce that our upcoming release show for “We Appreciate You” on April 19th at First Avenue is going to be our last show before we embark on what we’re calling—for lack of a better term—an indefinite hiatus.
We’ve had an amazing 12.5 year ride since we started in suburban basements in 1995. We’ve seen some truly incredible things (Niagra Falls, Golden Gate Bridge, East St. Louis, Joel Anderson’s bedroom), fought some metaphorical and actual real-life dragons, driven across the country three times over, suckered the Canadian border patrol and, most importantly, we’ve met some beautiful and hilarious (and usually somewhat intoxicated) people—many of whom we’re still lucky enough to describe as “family” with total sincerity.
So what are we doing to celebrate this forthcoming explosion of inactivity? Releasing an album and throwing a huge party of course!
Our new album, “We Appreciate You” is gonna be dropped on April 15th by our buddies in NYC, Frenchkiss Records. It’s 11 hot tracks of penultimate TPC jams and we’re absolutely stoked with how it turned out. Big-ups to Joe Mabbott for once again making us sound somewhat professional. The record will be available at fine independent retailers as well as in the usual iTunes scene. The artwork turned out awesomely thanks to everyone’s photo contributions, some of which you can see incorporated into our new website by our web guru, Alison. The CD itself features an extensive pullout section with even MORE people drawn together.
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Expect a lot of special stuff to go down, folks. We’ll be doing a little more than the standard “here’s a few songs from our new album” approach.
Afterparty at your mom’s house.
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We’ll be in touch again soon, before the shows, to check in.
Love and History,
TPC
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