Thank you so much for supporting Music for Interior Castles!  The CDs have arrived and they look beautiful. We can't wait to get them to you! We will begin shipping out the CDs and your incentives on Monday but if you come to our show tonight at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia we can hand your stuff to you there! Details for the show are:

TONIGHT! Saturday, November 19th

North Star Bar

2639 Poplar Street in Philadelphia, PA

8:30pm (our set time is later in the evening, as we are headlining the show)

$10   21+

with The Day Life, Queen Electric, and Run To Sandy

http://northstarbar.com/index.php/shows

Thanks again for your support of Music for Interior Castles! If we don't see you tonight (which I hope we do) then you should receive your goodies early next week.

Daniel, Darren, Ted & Brendan

We are happy (well, Ted is ecstatic) to let you know that Music for Interior Castles is now available for download! If you pledged $10 or more to our campaign, you have been emailed your exclusive download code and instructions on how to get your copy, which comes with hi-res files of the CD art and insert, plus a bonus image of the Teresa poster.

Now that the album has been mastered and sent off to the plant we will have this long-awaited and hard-earned sonic gem available in mere days! As soon as the physical copies are here, those of you who pledged $15 or more will be getting those as well, along with any other incentives you are due. Woo hoo!

If you didn't catch TivaTiva when they opened as a duo for Rasputina at Johnny Brenda's on November 30th, you missed one amazing show. Daniel was totally in his element and Darren's incredible drumming was the talk of the evening. It was exciting and powerful, and the audience was screaming for more! Check out amazing some photos from the show taken by Dante Torrieri at blowthescene.com.

If you did miss the duo performance, you can catch another at The North Star Bar next Saturday, the 19th of November. Click here to go to the Facebook event for this show.  TivaTiva music and merch will be available for purchase, and Daniel, Darren, Ted and Brendan will be hanging out the whole night so come out have some fun with the band.

AND… Mark your calendars now for TivaTiva's debut full-band performance and CD release party on Saturday, December 17th at Milkboy Philly. Full details to come, but rest assured this is going to be one big party.

On a side note, our website has been redesigned and streamlined with new content being added all the time. If you haven't visited it in a while why not check it out?

Thank you for your continued support. It really means the world to us! Without it none of this would have been possible.

With Love and Thanks,

Daniel, Darren, Ted and Brendan

Here is the skinny on where we are with everything at this moment.

The first round of mixes for Music for Interior Castles are done. We are listening to them with a critical ear and will be making a few tweaks, then the album will go off to mastering.

We have pushed the official release date to the 15th of November for the physical disk, but our Kickstarter friends will be getting it before then. The moment we have the album in hand we will hand it (or mail it) to you. And even sooner than that you will have the opportunity to download the album; once again, the moment we have the mastered songs you will have them too.

The hand letter-pressed packaging is currently en route from Portland, Oregon to Philadelphia. We had the packaging made by the amazing folks at Stumptown Printers and we can't wait to see the beautiful end result.

All the incentives are here and ready to ship. The moment we have the CDs they will go out in the mail with them. Daniel's gorgeous hand painted totes are all completely unique works of art. The mini prints are 2-color linoleum block prints, individually signed and numbered. The illustrated and hand-bound TivaTiva Music Book is beautiful and special, and the art folios are a treasure trove of Daniel's lovely work.

We changed (and we believe improved) the design of a couple of the incentives. The new poster art is more dynamic and striking. Our friends at Sire Press here in Philadelphia did the silk screening, and I must say they did a FANTASTIC job. Also, the t-shirts are completely redesigned with a black-on-grey TivaTiva logo surrounded by roses. We felt these were more universally appealing and more closely fit the personality of the band and the music. We hope you are pleased with the changes we made!

Take a look at the photos below to get a peek at all of the incentives.

We have worked countess hours on this project and are very excited for everyone to see the results of our hard work. This has been an amazing experience and we are proud of what we were able to create with your help. We can't wait to share it with you.

Happy Halloween!

First things first: I know this is very very very last minute, but Daniel has been added to the bill for tonight's Second Saturday show at Cedar Street Studios. If you are a Philly person and are looking for something to do tonight (Saturday, Sept. 10th) come on out to the show!  Click here for more info.

As we approach the second week in September, we understand this process is taking waaaaaay longer than anticipated. We want to thank all of you for your patience and your continued support as this album grows and blooms into something more special and grand than any of us could have predicted.  The production and recording continue, and we have been working on your incentives as well. Daniel is nearly finished with the art folios and books, and we have the prototype for the tote bag in hand! For those of you set to receive the tote bag: good choice. This puppy is custom made, the perfect size, and has interior pockets!  Once Daniel puts his custom painted art on it, Wha-BAM! you've got the best lookin', most unique tote in town. If you are a t-shirt supporter, you will be receiving an email this week so you can let us know what size you would like. As for the posters and prints, Daniel is working on those as this update is being written. 

The following is a message from Ted Richardson:

For the first time as producer, writer, arranger, and guitarist for TivaTiva, it has been quite difficult for me to switch between the many hats I wear. You see, we started this album as a stepping stone from the last one. Hymns For A New Age, which was all cello and voice, is a beautiful sounding album. We thought we’d simply try to improve and expound upon the production of that album with this current project. However, things have not gone as we had planned and Music For Interior Castles is now turning into a sonic magnum opus of sorts for the band, like it or not. The stepping stone has turned into a rocket ship.  

Now back to my hats and problems.  As a producer, I feel that a great song needs to grow naturally, not be forced or boxed in.  After all, a song on the radio, or iPod, or online, is a culmination of many creative processes.  As an artist, you want people to ‘get it’ the first time they listen to one of your gems.  I must say taking off my producer hat and putting on my guitarist hat proved to be puzzling to me;  I was stumped as to what to play.  The songs, just with drums, cello, and voice, were at a level and feeling I didn’t expect.  They were yelling at me to not worry about time and the other projects I have in the studio, and to get it to feel right.  Remember, I didn’t play any guitar on the last album, and I have not played as guitarist with TivaTiva for almost a year.  Suffice it to say, it took me three arduous days to finally feel that I was part of these songs, and the better part of a week to make real headway with them.  I am happy to say most of the guitar parts are done, and in my opinion, are a perfect complement to the existing drum, cello, and vocal parts... and I am quite thrilled.

Pretty soon you will be able to hear a couple of songs from the album, maybe in a week or two.  Producer hat back on my head, I believe that you will be pleasantly amazed and will agree with me that it has definitely been worth the wait to get it right.

-Ted