Happy Holidays

I made it so you could download 2 songs off our EP we released this year.

Please be safe and we'll hopefully see you all again soon in 2010!

ps: www.myspace.com/austincrane buy their new cd. Its amazing.

SCENE SC INTERVIEW!

http://www.scenesc.com/2009/12/22/seven-qs-with-junior-astronomers/

I love what scenesc is doing for South Carolina so please support!

Bored of Rock N Roll?

I know the title of this blog sounds a little negative but bare with me.

When I get bored I look around myspace to see if I can find any good new music come out. I've been doing this since I was sixteen and knew what purevolume was. I feel like every year that number of bands that catch my interest get smaller and smaller. I don't want this to sound like I'm saying we are the most exciting band but what happened to wanting to be individuals. Seems like most want to sound like someone else or just playing music for all the wrong reasons. Music is about community,chaos, and surprises. If your a predictable rock band then I'm not going to spend more then 5 minutes on you.

On a more positive note.

www.myspace.com/sweetvanssc

www.myspace.com/harvard

www.myspace.com/obrothermusic

www.myspace.com/theloandbeholds

www.myspace.com/dbetm

www.myspace.com/calculatormusic

www.myspace.com/thelightsfluorescent

www.myspace.com/austincrane

www.myspace.com/sleepyeyegiant

http://www.myspace.com/monfrerenc

Great bands of this region. They made our year amazing. Please check them out.

Lastly whats everyones favorite releases of this year?

love,

Terrence

Howdy!!!

We are streaming our whole EP "I Had Plans For Us"!

Please go check it!

End of 09!

This year has been our first full year as a band. I've learned so much from the members of my band and the people we've met this year. It's scary thinking now that some of my good friends I might have never met without this band. Another reason this project is so dear to me. I can't go a day without thinking of you all and all the places that I've seen. People that spent their hard earned money to see us do what we love. We have three more shows this year.

Dec 3rd Boone @ Legends

Dec 4th Charlotte @ Tremomt Music Hall

Both of those shows are with our good friends Harvard (www.myspace.com/harvard) for their CD release. They worked their asses off so please come and hang with us all.

Dec 18th Charlotte @ Tremont Music Hall

This will be the first show The Lo and Beholds have played in a while. If you've never seen them make sure you make it out.

I've lived in this city my entire life but since I was 16 I wanted to be apart of this music scene. For all the people that have opened their arms to us this year and helped out a young band thank you. Makes me feel young again. Lets make 2010 even bigger then this 2009!

I love you all,

Terrence/Junior Astronomers

Birthday show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrCKxjP5AeA

One of the wildest show's we ever played. We are playing our song "Settle Down" which will be on our new release coming out soon!

-Terrence

No Ceilings

Heading to New Brookland Tavern to see some of our good friends Bakari and Will of Sweet Vans perform. If you like having a good time check out these guys (www.myspace.com/sweetvanssc)

I've been listening this band Menomena a whole lot recently. I've been stuck in this rut with modern music recently except for stuff that I can dance to. Its hard getting behind alot of the stuff that comes out these days. I'm glad to be surrounded by some of my favorite musicians.

Favorite childrens book?

Thank you,
Floor Tom Terrence

Honestly

I can honestly
say I've loved
a thousand girls.
Those tiny moments
where if I didnt atleast
speak to them, I feel my
whole life would be different.
Just a hey will do, to cure
my lonely southern blues.

I can honestly say
I've seen less then you.
I've been trapped and
kept away from even simple things.
If it bruises, it loses my interest.
I just wish those ideals would
apply when my heart seemed alive,
but only to cure my lonely southern blues.

I can honestly say
I'm sorry.
I can't excell.
I'd promise to fight nightly,
in rooms with dim lighting, just
to be enough for you.
But enoughs just what it is
and while we are still kids
can I keep complaining about my
lonely southern blues.

We just a played a show with the great O'Brother (www.myspace.com/obrothermusic). If you haven't checked them out you are living under a rock. We have some really sweet shows planned for the rest of the year. I'll keep you posted.

Anyone got any crazy New Years plans yet?

"For the record"

Our first tour behind us. There's a-lot of mixed emotions being back. As cliche as it sounds, I learned a-lot about myself/being in a band/ and how much I want to tour the world. There's still so much I haven't seen. Here's the things worth mentioning on the trip.

Highlights:
Watching the Philly/Yankee game projector on the wall outside the venue in Philadelphia.
Watching Harvard for a week straight.
Seeing NYC for the first time in my life.
Playing in Chapel Hill for Halloween.

We have decided to take it easy for the rest of year. We are planning another trip north early December but it's still up in the air. We all have to get our money in order and we are trying to prep for recording and touring in 2010. We met some really great people on the road. All of which I hope to see again soon. I soon will learn how to post cool pics on here but until the you have only my words. Thanks everyone for a great tour and be on the look out. We got some big plans for 2010!

-Terrence

I was thinking about Isis

While listening to Bob Dylan I always seemed to find myself in the same place. Asking myself "How does a man get so great at something". Once I get to that place I turn him off and go listen to T-Pain and am brought back to reality. Some people are just great.

We have 10 days left before tour. I believe all of us is broke and not fully prepared for it. Mentally we this what we are all screaming for. Monetarily speaking not so much. We are headed on most the tour with our friends Harvard and I'm stoked about it. Every-time I watch them play I'm inspired to be a better musician.

PS: Rova Zetella just posted a new track. Go check it out. Great guys. I'll be posting updates more frequent when tour starts. Also I'll start posting shows in Charlotte everyone should check out every week (or at-least try).

Love,

Terrence

Where In the World Is Carmen San Diego.

Greetings.

Fall's approaching.

We are about to embark on our first ever tour (And by tour I mean 5 days in a row, then 10 days off, then 10 days in a row)

I've never really known what to say here. We finished a newer song named "Settle Down" and we are all pretty proud of it. Working on about 3 other new jams that will hopefully get finished soon. We can't figured out if we want to wait and just record a full length or release a vinyl. How does everyone feel about releasing songs on a vinyl then after a while recording them again for a full length?

-Terrence (call your friends and tell them you love them. They'll appreciate it) 

Titles Keep Changing.

We often wonder where the fires went. Why some passions fade. Feels like shit is all a trend. 

We've been doing pretty well at the Junior Astronomers camp . Eli has been in Europe for almost 3 weeks now. We played a show with Jeff on drums which was amazingly fun but in my opinion lackluster. We are always our hardest critics.

We've been writing separately parts and I'm working on words that should turn into some amazing new songs. I'm really excited about posting some new lyrics even before they get into songs and seeing what everyone thinks.

It's hard being honest. It's also hard not feeling like a pretentious dick. Life just one big game of Mario 64 I guess.

Malfunctions

Its Terrence. First ever show out of town last night went well. It's odd playing for totally different faces. It was great to have all our friends from Charlotte come. Like for the first time I really had to try and for the first time felt sort of like I was back in middle school again. Like your fighting for attention. Its a rush.
Charleston is a beautiful place. I could spend a-lot of time of down here. Enjoyed all the bands a whole lot. There was a band from Japan but I didnt quite catch there names. It took me back by how happy they were to play and be here. Makes me appreciate what we are trying to do a whole more. You don't see people smile that much while they are playing music.

www.myspace.com/sleepyeyegiant
Check these guys out. They put on the show. And we appreciate it.

Distance

Your in a cold place in a hot state.
Your dancing every night, but to a
beat you can't digest. Your a glass of
wine surrounded by a fleet of juice boxes.
But you won't worry about yourself.

I'm in a cold place in a mild state.
Some days warm,tolerable.
Others Frigid and barren.
I'm not dancing, because I forgot
the steps without you leading.
I'm not drinking, because after
I'm done we wont be naked together.
But I wont worry about myself.

Silly Bee

Keep your head on.
Silly little bee.
Why are you so obsessed
with fixing things.
Those neon lights do
seem exciting.
And all those portraits
by Andy, where did that
america go? I guess
we drank it all up.
Or it slipped through
the slits that split
our fingers and made them seperate.
Your obssessed with
this bursting culture.
Where's my fix?
Where's the girl I loved
before the southern gentlemen
and lore of the west sweep her away.

A Million Different Chairs

Please don't mention me to the
other boys you mess around with.
It's no longer flattering, nor fair.
There is no gain for me. It just shows me
how cunning you are. Either that or how
truly fucked we both are. You see if faith
makes people want to kill, talk to themselves
beside their beds, be a little less nervous, then
how fair is it that you just lead me to believe. The
worst part about all past relationships. Still believing
that one day, for some strange reason, you'll forget
why you hurt so much. Not I miss. I believe in one thing
and that doesnt envolve clothes or even talking. Atleast
then I'm not talking about you.

reason for soberity

today and tomorrow I wont drink.
On those days I'll play like I'm a
traveling clown, heading towards
Las Vegas. Faced painted all red and white.
Cigarette smoke spreading around me
like confetti or some kind of music notes
as I tried madly to translate they're meaning.
At night I'd believe I was a bird. Trapped
to sing the same song every night while
the dark blue just ate me alive. There is no sleep
for the bottom dog. It just gets easier to be
callous. But come on, who wants to sleep
living in age like this.

Yes Sir, No Mam

Your not afraid of losing me
because I'm only a picture a
way. Sure its not face to face,
but what really is anymore. In
both our abscenses we've
found different ways to shape
ourselves. I know one of mine,
loves to drink all the time, and
keep quiet about all that goes on
between his brain and his heart.
One of yours is bright and shines
like a summer dress on one of
those southern socialites and
as round as the pearls on their
necks. See I'm not ashamed of
any of my shapes. But I know you,
you hate them all. Thats why you
can't pick one. Your one of those people
that when asked to choose, you'll
just say your to tired to pick and move on
with much more important topics, like
the promiscuous cardboard cutouts
we all confuse for men. What hurts most
is that I hate the changing of days,
knowing that when we both settle
on a shape, we might never fit back
together.