Saturday Night in Everett

Tomorrow is looking like your special day for northbound fun-- face it, you just don't make it up to Everett as much as you should. And if that's not convincing enough for you (why wouldn't it be?), ubik.ll be playing a show up in the Green Room at Jimmy Z's with The Keeper and The Ever Changing sky... which makes the show post look something like this:

ubik. @ Jimmy Z's
w/ The Ever Changing Sky
& The Keeper
1712 Hewitt Ave,
Everett, WA 98201
8:30 / Cost: $7

Remember: ubik.s in the Green Room, so enter the venue at the Green Room door, or you'll end up paying for the bands on the other stage.

moons, Z's, mutants, and mixing

thanks to everyone out at the Blue Moon last night-- fun show all around, and we're always pleased when we can include the visuals (thanks to Heidi for loaning us her projector... the shows are always better with the projector running).

We're driving up to Everett next saturday (the 31st) to play The Green Room at Jimmy Z's, and we're driving down to the Autonomous Mutant Festival (in the Cascadia region... better directions are forthcoming) next month, as well as another Monkey Pub gig on the books for July (though ubik. strongly recommends you head down there daily, as the Monkey's just added a kickass white ale to their drafts, more Melvins and Ween to the jukebox, and still has the some of the cheapest PBR and Oly in town.

It's fair to say the mixing is half done for the ubik. EP-- three songs down and moving forward. Music will soon be musicing with the music on CD.

Friday night fun (no money down!)

It's another ubik-tastic friday, with everything that goes along with ubiktastic fridayness. We're playing at the Blue Moon, so it's a free show (the Blue Moon never charges at the door), and we're up with Red Rapture and Forefathers, and you're all going out this weekend since spring finally sprang, so you may as well come see a show.

The show post looks like this:

ubik. @ the Blue Moon
712 NE 45th St
Seattle WA 98105
w/ Red Rapture
& Forefathers
Free! / Doors at 8:30

ubik. at CYQO.com

check this out-- ubik is currently the #2 band sitewide on CYQO.com, which has grown and streamlined itself impressively, even in the short time we've known them (the new music players look great). ubik has no idea how these rankings are derived (we don't receive crazy amounts of plays or page visits on our cyqo page), but it is very cool that they're listing us at the top of the heap.

CYQO's been really good to us since signing up-- they really like ubik, and the community is live and supportive... which is a really rare thing. They put us on their podcast a couple weeks ago, and one of the site owners has been on us to provide new material because he's really digging what we've got uploaded so far. We'll be able to accommodate them soon...

mailing list

a pretty keen utility being offered at ReverbNation, this mailing list tool is looking like a much better way of keeping track of the ever-growing ubik.mailing.list. We've got this little guy on our home page, as well...







the mailing list, of course, is the best way to keep up with ubik-- all of our shows and upcoming events are all more reliably communicated via the mailinglist than any other source (i.e, myspace), so there it is: do the thing with the stuff.

The Mix Has Begun

ubik.s studio time is at an end: the tracks are in the can, laid down and called done. We've just broken ground on the mix. Faders have been pushed, pan pots have been turned (though we still have yet to get treasured Motley Crue drum sound. More reverb!) so the mix is underway.

This has been a long ride, so far, and there's still work to be done, but this CD will be appearing on our merch table soon.

Stay tuned.

so monday, so metal

no one can really guarantee a good turnout on a Monday, so we have to send tons of thanks to everyone who came out to see us at The Central-- that was a big, supportive crowd, and we love you guys for it. We had a good lineup with Mokshya headlining and Year of the Serpent filling that TBA slot (on super-short notice, too), both of whom are much more Monday Metal Madness than ubik...

we had a good show, which marks the first time ubik. actually raised the dead-- we've never had a zombie at a show before, so this was kind of a first for us.

In other news: we are just about done taping, and the mixing starts soon... probably tomorrow. There will be an EP. And soon.

Monday Night

ubik.s up at The Central next week, playing with a touring band from Arizona... it's us and Mokshya, along with good ole' TBA (we've played with TBA before-- they're not always great, but their unpredictability is part of their charm). The show post looks like this--

Monday, April 28
ubik. @ The Central
w/ Mokshya & TBA
207 1st Ave S
Seattle WA 98104
$5:00 / 9:30 PM

Narwhal vs. Unicorn

I know it's short notice, but ubik. is playing the Narwhal vs. Unicorn party in South Seattle this Friday. The party shall rage, and the animals (or, people in animal costumes) will fight. Or wrestle. The details are still a little sketchy, but still... Narwhals vs. Unicorns. At the very least, it's going to be better than Alien vs. Predator. We're playing some time after 9:00.

(as a brief aside, I have no idea who Carisa Swenson is, but it couldn't believe I actually found a picture for this post)

click tracks suck

ubik is now about a week and a half, 20 tracks, and one "buy it and then return it to Guitar Center" microphone into recording our EP. It's been hard going under some incredibly DIY conditions... but we're working quickly and getting good results. I know, I know: we were supposed to be done by now, but our studio recordings ended up in the garbage and here we are again, starting over on our own. So that's that: we're half done with the recording, and we'll have a CD out pretty soon. We'll keep you posted...

Risen after 3 days and now eating brains

That was a hell of a weekend, eh? Much love to all for coming out to see us this weekend... it was a bit of an endurance run, sandwiching in a Zombie Walk to The Octagon between two shows. We know Monday shows are rough (and this one was especially rough), but it was great to see you all at the Re-Bar on monday night when you could just as easily have been in bed.

Okay-- back to working on the EP. We've got a line on a few places to play in April (we'll keep you posted on the shows page, of course), and we're looking forward to the next gig. See you guys soon.

Mailing list blues...

just sent out an email to the ubik.mailing.list, which we do before every show, and... well... I have to drop the disclaimer: if you've ever signed up for our mailing list, and you don't get email from ubik., we're really sorry. Most shows, people don't sign up for the mailing list until many drinks have been consumed-- sometimes, the email addresses aren't really legible (once, someone even spilled beer on the sheet, smearing a lot of the sign-ups), so every time we send out email, a number of addresses come back as Not Recognized. Anyway... if you're one of the people who signed up but never hears from ubik., we're really sorry about that. Tell us you want to be on the list, and we'll take care of it.

And... of course... show post:

Saturday, March 22
ubik. at Goofy's
w/ Only Human
& Holotype
8519 15th Ave. NW
Show at 9:00 / $Free!

...and...

Monday, March 24
ubik. at Re-bar
w/ Imperial Legions of Rome
& Greenriver Thrillers
1114 Howell St, Seattle
Show at 9:00 / $5

Oops on the Hunab Ku

So... late breaking news on the upcoming show on the 22nd-- we just saw Hunab Ku's final show with their current guitarist at El Corazon last night (which was a really cool show: Barefoot Barnacle played after them). Because Hunab Ku requires such an odd variety of sounds from their new guitarist (and such specific and uncommon gear to get those sounds) the band isn't going to be able to make the show at Goofy's next saturday. The new poster up at Only Human's page lists the lineup as them, us, and Holotype... and we hope to have a little more info on Holotype pretty soon.

ubik.bot

Check out our ubik.bot-- you can print and construct your own robot from the template provided here:

ubik.bot.template

... it prints bigger if you print it in Landscape (as opposed to Portrait), and you should be able to print it directly from your browser.

You should definitely bring one of these guys to one of our shows next week (remember the shows... you want to come to the shows...)

Recordings...

Well, our studio time was a partial bust, but: we have turned out a couple decent recordings and put them up on the site. ubik. has uploaded recordings of Seven Feet Under and External Retraction... so this ought to hold everyone over until we get a proper CD recorded. So-- hooray for having new material up

and don't forget, we have shows coming up on Saturday the 22nd and Monday the 24th.

the pros and cons of using Party as a verb

ubik's up at a Ballard house party this friday (March 7th), so this is another good one for anyone who can't make it to our shows in the bars and clubs we usually play. We've got a good lineup, and ubik. loves playing house parties-- the crowds are always excellent at the parties we've played, so we're excited about this one.

House Party!
w/ Year Of The Serpent,
& The Ever Changing Sky

The full listing is on our shows page.

So much for time off...

Well, taking February off did get a bit accomplished (the EP is well under way, and all sorts of happiness will come of this later. Not too much later, but not just now. Stay tuned), but ubik. is tackling March with a vengeance. We've got shows listed for the 22nd and 24th of the month, which is pretty keen, but here's some late-breaking news: we've just taken on a house party for Friday, March 7th. It's a little on the short notice side, so we're letting you know with quickness and urgency: house party in Ballard on the 7th.

Details will be forthcoming, for sure, but one of the important bits is this: playing parties is as close as ubik. comes to playing all-ages events at the moment (we'd like to do more all-ages, but they're hard to set up). So this is the first flare into the sky... contact us if you need location info, and...

as always...

... more to come

a little space

we've got a show booked a little further out, on March 22, which is a bigger break than ubik. usually takes... but we've got a pretty good reason. ubik. has recently emerged from the studio, and we're currently working out some mixing and overdubs-- we're not too far from scraping together some funds and shipping a disc off to the printers. It's not an easy job, but the work is getting done, and ubik will soon have a 6-song EP (which we hope to have in the Monkey Pub jukebox as soon as possible).

Late Sunday Night

We really have to send the love out to everyone who stayed for the show last night-- we went on pretty late, and last call actually went out while we were playing. Rough timing for the day when most people are recovering from their weekend and getting some sleep for Monday morning... so for the late partiers and late late supporters-- you guys rule!

Come hang with ubik. tomorrow

tons of fun to be had with this one tomorrow. The poster has all the relevant data, but here's the block of text again, just for kicks:


ubik. @ The Funhouse
206 5th Ave N
w/ Hunab Ku,
Spirit Of Radio,
& Thin the Herd
9:30PM / $5 at the door