The Up Set » recording

Is This Jim Beam Up For Grabs?

K.B. — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:30 +0000

Most of the guitar tracks for the next album have been finished. We’ll be recording drums for it next. I spent most of the day in Mobtown Studios, today, working on recording drums, bass, vocals, and stomping and handclaps for A Cat Called Cricket. It was fun. We’ve been planning to make a 7″ single, but the songs may be a bit too long, so it might just become a short EP.

Speaking of Mobtown, last thursday, my pals Tiger Hill played a micro-show there and they played a cover of my song A Melody For Melanie. You can hear it along with the rest of the performance here. It’s interesting to hear Ganesh from Tiger Hill sing that song because I started writing it while the two of us were in a band called The Soft Pyramids, but the band broke up before I finished writing the song, so it became a song for The Up Set and found its way onto the EP.

-K.B.

Reverb Might Make Me Happy

K.B. — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:44:16 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came out to the show on Saturday, and thanks to Gunwife Gone for inviting us to play. We had a blast.

Recording of our album has officially started. Day one has been successful, we have guitar track for most of the songs now. I thought up a new title for a song too, so that’s one more in the bag as far as titles go. Tomorrow is guitar day two, and maybe vocals? We’ll see.

-K.B.

What Happened To Spring?

K.B. — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:34:10 +0000

It has been around 90 degrees and up here in Baltimore, and I’m not sure how I feel about the temperatures jumping up so quickly. It’s too humid.

We have a free show this Saturday evening at the Wind-Up space in Baltimore with Gunwife Gone and Ellen Cherry. It’s the Cd release show for Gunwife Gone. It will also be a big night because there will be a screening of the short film For Us, made by my friend Chris Smith (who plays bass in The Up Set) and members of Gunwife Gone are in the film.

In other news, recording starts next Tuesday!

-K.B.

Closer and closer…

K.B. — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:16:02 +0000

I’ve been trying to schedule some time to start recording this album. At this point, it looks like we’ll start the second week of May and then try to end as soon as we can before the end of May. We’ll be recording with my buddy Alex, who is in my other band A Cat Called Cricket. I’ve narrowed it down to 9 songs that I want to record, which means that there will be at least 8 songs on this album depending on how I feel about one particular instrumental after we give it a shot. This also means that I need to pick some actual titles for a few of these songs. That’s the hard part for me, haha. I think I over think my song titles a little bit. I’ve also started a list of possible album titles that I’ll pick from when the time gets closer, but there’s one title that I think I like a bit more than the others.

-K.B.

With great power comes great responsibility

K.B. — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:47:33 +0000

Now that The Up Set has a blog, not only will you get the usual (but more frequent) updates, you also get … other random things! Run on sentences! Ramblings about current events! Lots of music talk! For example, how awesome is that new Superchunk Leaves in the Gutter EP?! I really like it. Haha.

Plans are being made to record an album really, really, soon. In May, actually. We also have a show coming up around then too. More on that later.

-K.B.