up and coming

ubik.s got a show on the horizon-- we're at the Monkey Pub on Saturday, November 29th with Barefoot Barnacle. That's nothing but big happy goodness: we love Barnacle, and we love the Monkey (it's as close to a house party as a venue can get-- playing the Monkey is like being home with friends). The show post looks like this:

November 29th
Monkey Pub
w/ Barefoot Barnacle
9:00 - 21+ - $5

beyond that, we've been taking our downtime and working hard. There'll be a new song in the setlists soon (maybe for the Monkey Pub, maybe not-- this is one of our fast, complicated ones), and we're settling into our new practice space. Also on the horizon, we're looking into some vinyl: November might be a recording month for us.

Saturday Show, updates and directions

So, about the show on Saturday: The Greenhouse said we should advertise the show, so we've got a map. It's a DIY house party show, so chances are, not everyone knows how to get there...

and, we've got the updated show post:

October 25th
ubik. @ The Greenhouse Halloween Party
w/ Sod Hauler,
& Anon Remora,
& Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
8:00 - ALL AGES - Suggested $3 donation

Greenhouse lineup change

Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, Lesbian had to cancel their headlining spot at the Greenhouse Halloween show as well as some of their upcoming tour. So Sod Hauler will be taking over. Don't worry, this is still going to be a great show. Don't be late because we're playing first!

busy week ahead

we're pretty excited about our show next saturday-- we're playing at the Greenhouse (an awesome house known for great house party shows) with amazing bands: the amazing, dirgy Lesbian, and Tad Doyle's new epic outing, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth. This has been a big star on our calander for a while, and the we've got posted like this:

October 25th
ubik. @ The Greenhouse Halloween Party
w/ Lesbian,
Anon Remora,
& Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
8:00 - ALL AGES - $3 suggested donation

and then we got a call-- a band dropped out of an opening position on the Creature Feature show down at Studio 7. That makes this one kind of a wierd bill for us to be playing, and kind of a short notice listing, too... but that's one of the cool things about this show: it's very different from what we usually do.

October 23rd
ubik. @ Studio Seven
w/ Creature Feature,
Black Houses,
& Girl On Fire
7:00 - ALL AGES/BAR W/ID - $10 Adv./$12 DOS

#20 in the Monkey Pub jukebox!

We're happy to announce that we are now in the best jukebox in Seattle! So next time you're having a drink at the Monkey, put on some Melvins, Killing Joke, Skinny Puppy, Toadies, Pixies, Ween, and oh yeah, us!

Thanks Anthony!

5303 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105

Oh, by the way, keep in mind that the last song ends with over 3 minutes of cymbal squealing. The choice is up to you. ;)

ubik. needs a place to live

after a successful voyage to Everett and back again, ubik.s back to work fleshing out new material and, with any luck, we'll be back in the studio doing some work on getting a split 10" done (it'd be cool to have vinyl)

Besides that, we were supposed to be out of our old practice space September 1st... but we just don't have a new place to play yet. If anyone's got a line on a practice space, let us know. We're in need. Seriously.

Last, we've got a show coming up on the 25th, which is going to be awesome.

back to everett

Everett tends to see us as a pretty strange band... but so be it: the crowd is always pretty responsive, and we make an impression. Friday's show went remarkably well, even if we were the only one of three bands to play a real set. It was actually sort of gratifying; we filled about an hour because of the other two bands' complications (departing members, singers too sick to sing), and could have filled more if we had to. Being the "Girls Rock" showcase, it was undoubtedly the place to play Let's Hunt and Kill Gwen Stefani.

Anyway, it looks like we're going to play fewer shows-- three weekends in a row to empty floors and/or blank faces can get a touch depressing, and, honestly, it does us very little good. On one hand: a friend mentioned her band stripped their schedule down to playing one show every three months, and at the shows they did play, attendance skyrocketed. This point is made more clear by several people who like us saying "You're playing in 2 weeks right? I'll just catch you next time."

On the other hand, if the show is packed full of people who already dig us, then we have missed out on every opportunity to play a little show where we impress one or two people who had never heard us before.

The happy medium, which is what we're probably going to be doing, is to cherry pick: only take the really good shows, play a little more sparsely (twice a month, maximum). The real trick would be to begin opening for bands more popular than ours, and exposing this music to people who didn't know about us-- by no means is it a bad thing for us to play shows for our fans and friends, but "headlining" when you're as underground as we are... well, it has its limits.

ubik. in Everett on Friday

so it's to be another northward trek for us on friday-- which is cool, because we've only played Everett once before. The tagline on this show is "Girls Rock!" (which, though true, only applies to 1/4th of ubik.), so we're opening for two other female-fronted bands out at Flights Pub. It's a free show, but we are opening, so broke is cool, but late isn't going to work out.

Here's the show post:

October 3rd
ubik. @ Flights Pub
w/ Truth Failed
& Holophrase
9:00 - FREE! - 21+

hmmm... online music sales

no one in ubik. really uses iTunes, so we're a little out of this loop... but The World Is A Glorious Biomechanical Nightmare is actually available for sale at the iTunes store. Lots of people use iTunes, so if any of you lovely, wonderful people are logged in, plugged in, and iTuning, you can shoot us some reviews in the iTunes world, and we'd love you for it.

ALL AGES show this Friday

We don't play nearly enough all ages show, so it's excellent to have this one in the mix.

September 26th

ubik. @ The L.A.B.
w/ Point Blank Range
& Enemy Camp
7:00 - $5 - ALL AGES!

Come to the High Dive: Sunday, Sep 21

Okay, so a little late on the show post... but we've sent out the mailing list and done the MySpace event invites, so everyone's probably already in the know.

But show posts are a tradition, so:

September 21st

ubik. @ High Dive
w/ 200 lb. Spider
& The Ever Changing Sky
7:00 - $5 - 21+

Shows coming up

Remember-- there isn't a show at the LAB on September 13th. (well, there is, but it doesn't have anything to do with us, and is therefore meaningless. Ha!) I know this stuff is on our shows page, but we don't want anyone's night to go south because they didn't know.

We are, however, at the LAB on September 26th... it's still a weekend (a Friday), it's still, all ages, and it's still free.

Even before that, though we're at the High Dive on Sunday, the 21st (which will serve you booze and charge you money, so it'll be sort of a different vibe), where we will be debuting a new song... if all goes according to plan.

...and then we go to Everett


Also-- ubik. is in the market for a practice space again, so if anyone knows of a place we can play on Wednesdays and Sundays (usually after 7:00PM), let us know.

new toys! ubik. on Twitter

Not to be left out of the thundering progress of the internet machine, ubik. can now provide all of you wonderful people with Twitter status updates. What's cool about this, you ask? Well twitter is a micro-blogging tool that does short bursts of info (I think it tops out at 150 characters), but is integrated into pretty much everything, and is a big deal in the Web 2.0 landscape. It's already the default Status ticker at ReverbNation, for example, and we've got it at the top of our News page as well.

Since Twitter can be updated by cell phone, it's pretty keen for at-the-show updates (as in: when we are going on) and keeping people posted while we're on the road and away from computers.

Abort! Abort!

Okay... a couple boffs, mix-ups, and random hits have taken a few shows off the boards.

First-- There is no show on September 6th in Queen Anne. We're not going to play that show, but will probably play Floyd's in Queen Anne at a later date.

Second-- No all-ages show at the L.A.B. on September 13th. There's a really crappy story behind that, but we're not there on the 13th. We are penciled in for September 26th, and we will probably be playing then.

It's better to play shows than not, but these things happen.

CD for sale online!

CD IN STORES NOW!

ubik.s album The World Is A Glorious Biomechanical Nightmare is available now both online and at record stores around seattle. Buy it online here:

... or you can find the CD at these stores in Seattle:

Cellophane Square - University District
4538 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 634-2280

Silver Platters - Queen Anne
In Lower Queen Anne (at the old Tower location)
701 5th Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 283-3472

Silver Platters - Northgate
9560 1st Ave NE,
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 524-3472

on sale now: our new album!

the first ubik. album, The World Is A Glorious Biomechanical Nightmare, has just been released, and is currently available at Silver Platters record stores in Queen Anne and Northgate. We'll have these available at our shows, of course, and we're going to have them for sale online very soon (for anyone outside Seattle). For now, we're just happy to have the discs in-hand, and thrilled to have them in stores.

This is where you can get them:

Silver Platters - Queen Anne
In Lower Queen Anne (at the old Tower location)
701 5th Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 283-3472

and

Silver Platters - Northgate
9560 1st Ave NE,
Seattle, WA 98115
(206) 524-3472

Come play with us on Thursday

We're setting up at the Funhouse again this Thursday (August 14th), going on with the King's Cabaret and Burlesque show. Kind of an unusual gig for us... but that's a good thing. Points for variety and the rest of the fun stuff.

The show post looks like this

August 14th

ubik. @ The Funhouse
The King's Cabaret Burlesque
w/ Dino Haak
9:30 / $5

...but that's not even the half of it. There are tons of performers and acts for this one, so this should be a fun night out.

keeping it going...

Many thanks to everyone who came out to see us at the Rendezvous-- It was a Wednesday show (never anyone's favorite going-out-night), it was too hot to move (and even hotter in the Jewelbox Theater, where we played), and we didn't start until after 1:00AM... so, for everyone who saw us, you are the die-hards, wonderful people all.

Sorry we only played for about 20 minutes, though; it was just the way the night went, and we had to shut down before we could play all the songs on our setlist simply because the Rendezvous was closing down.

If you want to see a bit more, though, we're playing again really soon: an all ages show this sunday at the Squid & Ink, down in Georgetown. It'll be a longer set (promise), and it's always good to play all-ages shows.

last wednesday, this wednesday

ubik. had a great show at the final party at the Happy Lucky houseparty-- we love playing house parties, and were really lucky to have Jinza there to keep people off the pedalboards and to keep the mosh pit off the band. We'll be reuniting with the King's Cabaret later this month, even though the Happy Lucky Place is shut down, we're getting together at the Funhouse on the 14th.

...but that's still to come. This Wednesday we're playing a Ladies Choice Presents show, returning pretty quickly to the Rendezvous. That mean's we're running the visuals with the show... though it's important that the class not get so rowdy the teacher has to flip the lights on during the filmstrip (that was a real buzzkill last time).

oh, wow...

jesus... now that was a fucking Monkey Pub show!

the show completely kicked ass, several of us drank way too much afterward-- the whole night was a big ball of good. We have to thank everyone that came out, not only skipping the Capitol Hill Block Party (which, as far as we can tell, is largely haircut based), but also The Melvins. For as much as I love me some Melvins, saturday was one of the amazingly fun ubik. shows. Yay!

we've got a lot on our plate right now-- we have a house party to play on wednesday, to a Ladies Choice show at the Rendezvous on sunday, and more... check out our shows page for more details.

Also, the CD is at the pressing plant, and we're pretty excited to get those discs pressed in everyone's hands.