6.20.08

- NEW ALBUM!!! July 15th, 2008 will see the release of a brand new full length on Siltbreeze entitled "U.S. EZ". See the listen page for more details.

- in other news.....the rescheduled US July tour is shaping up nicely. Still confirming a few things last minute. As always stay tuned to the live page for the latest.
For those missing out on this upcoming swing, we are stoked to announce a plan for more US dates coming in September with our good friends Thee Oh Sees. We're making our way East to play GonerFest in Memphis, do a Chris Johanson art opening in NYC, possibly even get up to Montreal for a little somethin' somethin', and then off to the UK and Europe for a good long chat. Stay Tuned......,

6.01.08

RECOVERY! Matthew had his cast removed this past Tuesday and all signs point to a full recovery.
Dr. Randy Lee Sutherland (Sword & Sandals, Vholtz, Wiggwaum) has been expertly advising as to proper come-back therapy. Furthermore the tour re-schedule continues full steam ahead. Please check in on our live page for full details as they develop.

4.24.08

BICYCLE ACCIDENT SIDELINES SIC ALPS U.S. TOUR (FOR THE MOMENT):
Hey everyone. We are massively bummed to announce that we are having to postpone our tour which was to commence tomorrow night at the Hemlock in San Francisco. On the morning of 4/23 Matt was involved in a bicycle accident resulting in a broken wrist. After much deliberation as to possible scenarios, it was agreed that the best thing was to postpone to allow for a speedy and full recovery. As we speak we are in contact with all parties involved to try and reschedule the shows for July and early August. Massive apologies to all who put their efforts into getting this tour booked, and to all the bands we were to play with - we were looking forward to playing with you all. We are bummed but are keeping our heads up and looking forward to the summer. See you then. As always, shout at us at sicalps@gmail.com. Peace.

3.16.08

-Just want to clarify one thing for the record as per an erroneous interview/article from late last year. Sic Alps love the Magik Markers. Okay. As you were.

3.07.08

-New spring US tour dates are posted on our live page. Playing with some great bands, check it out! Also, we will have copies with us of "A Long Way Around to a Shortcut"- our upcoming limited edition CD on Animal Disguise that compiles all out of print stuff from '06 and '07. Also a new 4-song cassette on Folding and a new 7" single on Important. Can you say hells yes?!

-Also would like to say thanks here to ALL friends overseas who made our first European tour last fall a real nice time. Especially the very fine folks at Kraak who made the whole trip possible and to our brothers in Portugal at Filho Unico who taught us our first sentence in Portuguese: "A melhor banda de rock do mundo" Yep, they were talking bout us! Cheers!

11.26.07

-First of all, much muchos thank yous to all of you who put us on, put us up, and came out to see us on our recent US tour. We had a fantastic journey and hope you did too. We look forward to doing it again in spring 2008. Details as they develop. In the meantime please enjoy this video re-cap as realized by our own Herr Donovan!

- Our mini tour of Europe & the UK is nearly upon us. Please see our live page for a list of dates and a link to a more detailed list. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

- TWO NEW RELEASES!
First, "Description of the Harbor" has finally been delivered to Revolver for distribution. We apologize in advance because the pickins are gonna be slim on this one. We unloaded about 75 copies on the US tour, leaving approximately 225 more copies to share among the world. You will have to keep your eyes peeled at your local record store, or contact dave@midheaven.com and plead for the opportunity to get a copy. Also, 20 signed and alternate artwork copies will be for sale at the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco as well as a New York gallery (which shall be named shortly as soon as Chris reminds us which one it is. haha.) Do not fret, however, if you miss out on the vinyl. "Description" will be included in it's entirety in an upcoming CD compilation of ALL of our limited edition vinyl and cassette releases over the past two years. It will be titled "A Long Way Around to a Shortcut" and will be released on Animal Disguise Recordings, tentatively in early Spring 2008.
Second, the "Strawberry Guillotine" 3 song 7-inch is also officially out on (and available directly from) Woodsist records. This was a whirlwind session of HC dominated scree made to order for Woodsist in the midst of recording sessions for our 2008 record (or records - wink, natch, more on that soon)..

- Finally, if you haven't done so already, please check out our most recent live taping for WFMU. Recorded on October 24th, 2007.

***(OLDER NEWS)***

08.28.07

- Sic Alps is pleased to announce that we've been asked to backup Neil Hagerty in Howling Hex at his next San Francisco appearance. Mike and Matt will be joining Neil with a guitarist and percussionist for a two hour special set at the Hemlock Tavern on September 22nd. There will be NO opener, but this five piece will be throwing in a couple of Sic Alps numbers! Fuck yeah!

- Sic Alps is touring soon. yup. in addition to a month long US tour mid October to mid November we'll be visiting the European Continent for the first very very time. The last two weeks of November will see a Euro-tour leading up to our appearance at the (K-RAA-K)3 festival on Dec 1st. Check in with the live page for more details as they develop.

06.15.07

- HAPPY 36TH BIRTHDAY TO MATTHEW HARTMAN.

- "The Description of the Harbor" 10-song 12" EP on Chris Johanson's Awesome Vistas is now due to be released in September of this year. Again, it will be limited to 300 vinyl only copies, each with unique hand crafted artwork by Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson. We can't wait. But wait we must.

- We are slowly but surely working on a follow up LP for Animal Disguise Recordings. It may even be a double. Yowza. Tentatively looking at an Oct./Nov. release.

- We are going to be touring the US from mid-Oct. to mid-Nov. As dates get confirmed they will be added to the live page.

- Not much else new at the moment. A small handful of live shows coming up.

03.23.07

-WHOA. Thurston Moore and Byron Coley of "BULL TONGUE" fame (see Arthur Magazine - R.I.P.) have just named "Pleasures & Treasures" the number 3 album of 2006!! merci beaucoup. see it here.

-On February 22nd Matt Hartman broke his hand. a bummer of the most major order. he is out of the cast and trying to rapidly relearn how to use his hand and very crooked ring finger. crooked fingers crossed that we will be full steam for our upcoming show.

-Meanwhile work has already begun on yet another Sic Alps release which will hopefully see the light of day in late summer/fall - shortly after release of "Description of the Harbor" on Awesome Vistas. Speaking of which, rumor has it that "Description" will be limited to 300 vinyl copies, EACH of which will have UNIQUE hand-crafted cover art by Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson. shit yes.

02.10.07

-NEW VIDEO of Sic Alps on YouTube. Live versions from our recent Fools Foundation show in Sacramento of "Trip Train" and "Stories". Thanks to "bcfaulkner" for filming and putting those up!

01.06.07
-HAPPY NEW YEAR!

-"Description of the Harbor" is mastered and the wheels begin to turn. more details on a release timeframe as soon as possible.

- Our video for "Arthur Machen" is up in a couple of places. it is conspicuously absent here at sicalps.com because i am lazy. meanwhile however, check it here or here.

- We will have an interview/feature in an upcoming (Feb.?/Mar.?) issue of Performer

- the "Semi-Streets" 7-inch is out now on Skulltones.

- "Pleasures and Treasures" is out and in stores, of both brick and internet variety. see your local retailer, or Animal Disguise or MidHeaven mailorder or hey, google it.

- "The Soft Tour in Rough Form" 4-track vinyl EP on Mt St Mtn is still available. Mailorder it online here. Limited to 500 copies. Giddyup.

- are we dominating yet?

12.08.06

-We've just finished mixing our latest release, tentatively titled "The Harbor". We'll be mastering once again with Weasel Walter mid-month and we'll get the production ball rolling ASAP. This will be released on artist Chris Johanson's label and will feature hand screened sleeves of Chris Johanson's cover art. Pressing will be limited, but the exact copy run is unknown at this time. It will feature and 8 minute A-side cover of the Strapping Fieldhands "Description of the Harbor" and a 9-song, 16 minute B-side of Sic Alps originals - all grade A pop gems (natch!). we'll hopefully have some previews up on our listen page sooner than later.

Japanese label 777 was 666 has released the compilation "Hip Hop Shop Sweepers Vol.1", for which we contributed an exclusive track called "Latin". More info here.

Matt's side project THE HOW has a new 7" out on Slumberland Records.

Sic Alps are no longer on MySpace. Too many crappy ads, Madonna videos, and the fine print about them owning your tunes, etc. So we did what any self-respecting band with a website would do and got off of there. Go ahead and throw yourself upon the gears of the corporate machine too why don't you, man?