Recording Drums Complete!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls:

For those of you who have been waiting for new cuts from the Hibernauts, your waiting days are numbered.  This past weekend, we entered the second part of our recording process.  Our first (and now complete) task was setting up the rest of our studio (dubbed "4050 Studios").  This tedious job, championed by our friends/engineers/producers/cohorts Dan Ruder and Dustin Schaeffer involved setting up and testing equipment. In the meantime, we had the opportunity to finish up some of the creative details of the record.

This past weekend we began phase two: actually tracking instruments.  One of the greatest side effects of recording in a studio set up in our buddy's house is that we were able to make ourselves very comfortable.  This past weekend was fun, and we all got to pretend like we were in day camp again, enjoying basketball, bar-b-que, jokes, and beverages.  We recorded drums this weekend, and thanks to Dan and Dustin's legwork, they sound great.   Now the primary drum parts are finished, which means that this blogger has the bulk of his work complete!

Continuing on with our phase two, we will begin to record bass and guitar parts.  Watch for pictures of the band watching basketball as a guitar player becomes increasingly frustrated that he is getting ZERO support.

One further note about this new record:  For those of you who come out to shows often (probably the only people who are reading this anyway), we hope that you'll be happy to hear that most of the material on this record is brand new -- more specifically, 75% of the content of this record has never been played live or been heard outside of a rehearsal or recording session.  Hopefully you are as excited about that as we are.

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Show This Saturday Feb 21

This Saturday, Feb 21, join us at The Gargoyle at Washington University, as we play with The Mae Shi.  Here's the poster, but it leaves off that Target Market will be playing as well.  For those of you on Facebook, here is the event on that wonderful network. 

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Show This Friday, Feb 6th

Come out to the newly renovated Firebird and see how The Hibernauts' beards look in the middle of winter. --Brett R

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Laura Bush sure is Tall

Hibernaut multi-instrumentalist Bill Vehige was recently paid a visit by former First Lady Laura Bush.  Check the picture out after the jump.

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Sleeping in Space, on 90.3FM KWUR.COM Mondays from 2pm-3pm

Greetings Hibernauters!

Newest addition Chad Rogers here, tumbling through the blogosphere. So far the experience playing with the band has been really warm and fun. Jack, Tom, Brett, and Bill all give excellent hand massages, and the fans at the shows have been really fun to jam with.

So before I go ending any more sentences with prepositions, I wanted to let you know about a new project the Hibes are involved in. We are launching a radio show on KWUR 90.3FM, which is Washington University's college radio station. We are very excited to be breaking the ranks of the college charts, not by CMJ or any of that tom-foolery, but by actually hooliganizing the process by creating our own radio show!

The show runs from 2pm-3pm on Mondays on 90.3FM in Clayton. If you don't live/work/exist in the area around Forest Park Parkway from 2-3 on Mondays, I recommend you tune in by downloading the stream at kwur.com.

The show, entitled "Sleeping in Space," is a chronicling of the writing and recording process we're are currently undertaking. Tentatively, the title of the record is "The effects of priming and training on illusory audition in the elderly," which is striking because the PhD dissertation I'm working on has the same title. There will be jokes, new tunes, interviews with the band, general mischief, tales of Dr. Robotnix's Mean Bean machine, nerf guns, and ham sandwich Sunday. There will also be a podcast available for download, but I'll leave Mr. Brett Ramsey to divulge the details on that one.

So tune in, Mondays from 2-3pm on kwur.com, today we'll be spinning some old Periodic Fable classics, and some of the rough cuts we've been working on for "The effects of priming..."

Signing off,
C.Rogers

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4050 Studios

Hello again, true believers. I hope this finds everyone enjoying their 2009 and new president.

Just wanted to give everyone an update on what kind of trouble we're getting into these days as a fivesome.  With our new talent Chad Rogers and a bag of new songs, we decided some time ago to record our next album.  In order to have full control over how the final product turns out, we've decided to take advantage of our collective skills and do the recording ourselves (which conveniently fits into our limited budget).  After the jump take a look at some of the construction of the studio that is being erected just for this recording project...   

Let's call this set of Pictures "Phase 1."  Some of you may have been to the basement of 4050 Taft before (this Hibernaut actually lived there for about a year), so you may recognize the layout/paint job.

You can see here that the first thing we did was clean the basement studio.  We had to move all of our gear to the side in order to scrub the floor with acid and other industrial chemicals.  Please notice the painted walls, which was our last band project.

Stay tuned for "Phase 2." In the meantime, if you have extra money and would like to donate to this record, email me.  We're currently waiting in an ever-lengthening line for Obama Bailout Cash.

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New Development

Even in these dark economic times where people speak of recession and apocolypse, The Hibernauts are expanding.

As previously announced on our myspace blog, we are pleased to inform everyone that Chad Rogers, previously of Victoria noteriety, has now turned our quartet into a quintet -- Honoring us by becoming a Hibernaut.

This addition is ushering in some exciting change, especially with new Hibernauts tunes that are in the works.  Chad will also be sprinkling a little bit of awesome onto prior Hibernauts music.  Although precise roles aren't yet specified, we expect that Chad will be sharing duties on bass, guitar, keyboard, vocals and trombone.

Additionally the band's dance index has already risen an impressive 247%

We should expect to debut our new line-up by the end of the year.  Check out our MySpace Page for our upcoming show schedule.

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