The Dodos On NPR Bryant Park Project and Featured On NPR Second Stage

Debut CMJ Radio in Top 25 / US Spring Tour Now
Coachella As Part of Akron / Family Band
April 6th 10:00pm at Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston St.)

NPR Bryant Park Project (Airs Tomorrow at 8:20 AM, Streams All Day) : www.npr.org/bryantpark

NPR Second Stage :
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89159938

Pitchfork Media Today! [8.5/ Best New Music] : " Visiter ends up being one of the most welcoming (and welcome) records of 2008 so far."
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49198-visiter

Spin [4 Stars] : "...balancing craftmanship and raw emotion."

Rolling Stone : " heads up, animal collective fans: this san francisco act whips up tribal-style grooves that are surprisingly cheery and layered for a band that consists of only two dudes playing acoustic instruments."

NY Times at SXSW (Jon Pareles) : "But some of my favorite bands at the festival were those that made their impact on the spot. ; The Dodos, from SF, worked up to manic propulsion with hard strummed acoustic guitar and plinking piano."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/arts/music/17sxsw.html_r=1&scp=2&sq=sxsw&st=nyt&oref=slogin

Pitchfork Media (Make Top 5 List of Best SXSW Show Of Four Pitchfork Editors : http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49331-guide-to-pitchforks-sxsw-2008-coverage

NPR at SXSW (Bob Boilen) : ... "a fierce sound"

Vanity Fair Online VF.com : http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/blogs/daily/2008/03/notes-from-sx-8.html

NME in SXSW : http://www.nme.com/news/sxsw/35205

Click here to listen to Debut Single "Fools" http://www.frenchkissrecords.com/audio/the_dodos/Fools.mp3

Click Here To View Video Of "Fools" http://www.wearethemasses.com/musicvideos/dodos_fools.html

Visiter, by San Francisco band The Dodos, is their second full length and first for Frenchkiss. Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around SF playing folky guitar with a combination of loops and ambient keyboards. Having already studied West African Ewe drumming, Meric got turned onto country blues fingerpicking and sought to create a band where the drumming could be a center role and help bring out the syncopated rhythms coming out of the acoustic guitar. Through a chance introduction by a roommate, Meric met Santa Cruz transplant Logan Kroeber, who had also been experimenting with drumming, but in the area of progressive metal. Eventually the band changed their name to the Dodos, through constant harrowing from first tourmates Peter and the Wolf, and got a rehearsal studio where they'd spend long hours improvising the music that would become their first record& nbsp; Beware of the Maniacs. The band quit their day jobs as a line cook and a printer and hit the road in Oct. 2006.

The Dodos' principal concept behind Visiter was to reconnect with the energy and intensity of their live show. They decided to return to Type Foundry Studio where Beware of the Maniacs had been recorded. With producer/engineer John Askew back at the helm, they began expounding upon what they had learned since the previous record. The basic drum and guitar takes were recorded live simultaneously with very minimal post production. Type Foundry's warehouse-sized live room led to experimentation with mic placement, capturing a variety of ambient & natural sounds. At one point during tracking, the audible din of a thunderstorm inspired an impromptu horn session between Meric and guest trumpeter, Cory Gray. A small section of this can be heard between the songs "Fools" and "Joe's Waltz" on the record.

Visiter was completely written while on the road from the fall of 2006 to the summer of 2007.

The name of the record came from a drawing a kid did for them when they played for his special education class at Dorsey High in South Central on a road trip down to LA. With all of their time being spent on the road, Meric's lyrics drew heavily from his experiences while touring. They would come home for days at a time, and then leave for a month, always coming and going, which pretty much shaped every relationship the band had during that year.

The Dodos toured in 2007 with Les Savy Fav, Akron/Family, Jennifer Gentle, Wovenhand and Peter and the Wolf. 2008 will bring even more touring for them with stops at the Noise Pop, SXSW and Culture Shock festivals.

US TOUR

Apr 3 2008 8:00P Terrace Room @ Princeton/Princeton, NJ w/Silje Nes Princeton
Apr 4 2008 8:00P Black Cat/Washington DC w/Les Savy Fav and The Big Sleep Washington DC
Apr 5 2008 8:00P Theater of Living Arts/Philadelphia w/Les Savy Fav and The Big Sleep Philadelphia
Apr 6 2008 8:00P Mercury Lounge/New York w/Silje Nes and TBA/TBA New York
Apr 8 2008 8:00P Divan Orange/Montreal, QC Montreal
Apr 9 2008 8:00P El Mocambo/Toronto Toronto
Apr 10 2008 8:00P Bard College/Annandale on the Hudson, NY Annandale on the Hudson
Apr 11 2008 8:00P Mohawk/Buffalo, NY Buffalo
Apr 12 2008 8:00P Garfield Artworks/Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh
Apr 13 2008 8:00P Cleveland TBA Cleveland
Apr 15 2008 8:00P Cafe Bourbon St./Columbus, Ohio Columbus
Apr 16 2008 8:00P The Pike Room/Detroit Detroit
Apr 17 2008 8:00P The Note/Chicago Chicago
Apr 18 2008 8:00P Shoreland Ballroom/University of Chicago Chicago
Apr 19 2008 5:00P Culture Shock Festival at Indiana University/Bloomington Bloomington
Apr 20 2008 8:00P Replay Lounge/Lawrence, KS Lawrence
Apr 21 2008 8:00P Hi Dive/Denver, Co Denver
Apr 26 2008 5:00P Coachella as part of Akron/Family's band Coachella
Apr 27 2008 8:00P Great American Music Hall/San Francisco w/Les Savy Fav San Francisco
May 14 2008 8:00 Rickshaw Stop/San Francisco (All Ages) San Francisco
Jun 28 2008 8:00P Sled Island Festival/Calgary Calgary
Jul 2 2008 8:00P Downtown Boise Summer Series Festival Boise