In case you didn’t get the memo, mp3.com is erasing everything on their servers come December 2nd, which means you have 15 days to download these old demos before they’re lost and gone forever.

Welcome to fall, everybody. So long sunshine, hello rain!

Or fog, or locusts, or whatever. We hear it varies from region to region. In any event, we’re ringing in the season with more than just a fresh new color scheme: we have news for you, and it’s good, and there’s a lot of it.

First and foremost, the tour page has been updated. Not staggeringly so, but enough so that a handful of you are actually going to get to see us before Thanksgiving. Which we assume you’re at least kind of interested in, being here at our website and all. New dates promise to keep trickling in, so check back every couple of weeks if you want to stay as in the loop as you can possibly be.

Secondly, secondmost, we have begun booking the Spring Tour in earnest, this time with intrepid multi-instrumentalist Brian Whelan standing in for the temporarily bookbound Misha, and it looks like it’s going to be a massively good time, so get in touch with our management team if you’d like us to come to your city or school, and they’ll probably make it happen. These guys are crazy good at what they do.

Finally, thirdly, the next “official” LLC album is still a ways off, but I’ve got a little something I’ve been doing on the side that’s finally gotten big enough to merit its own website, so swing over to davelowensohn.com for news and mp3s from the album we’re going to be begging you to buy come February.

And that’s pretty much all we’ve got, insofar as news is concerned. We’re going back inside now.

Cheers,

Dave

There’s a lot of pressure to write something compelling when it’s the first thing that’s ever going to grace your own legal name dot com, so forgive me if I suddenly burst into tears and start mashing at the keyboard in frustration. I’ve been sitting here for upwards of fifteen minutes, staring at my laptop like it was some sort of chastity belt for the mind, and nothing seems to be happening. If inspiration has struck, it has done so elsewhere.

So I guess I’ll start off by explaining why I gathered you all here today. For those of you just joining the program, my name is Dave. I am lucky enough to count myself among the founding members of Speechwriters LLC, arguably the greatest band of all time. Among its many other pursuits, the LLC is presently waist-deep in preproduction for what should be, as one would expect, the greatest album of all time.

This is clearly good news for everyone.

However: there is a downside. An album of such earth-shattering magnitude takes a while to finish, especially when one of the core band members is enrolled as a full time college student and another works at a desk job 1,200 miles away.

Naturally, something needs to be done in the interim, or our existing fanbase will get mad and swear us off forever. We’re not exactly MBAs, Misha and I, but we do understand that this is a less-than-ideal situation and have taken great pains to keep it from happening.

It is therefore with much fanfare and intensity that I give you this, your first veiled peek at the highly-anticipated new full-length release from Speechwriters LLC:

It is, as the title would seem to indicate, a solo album, and this is, as such, a solo site. The LLC proper is still doing fantastically well, with no plans for ever slowing down or splintering off into twin factions of resentment, bile, and screened phone calls, a la Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy. This is simply “an album I had in me,” and we as a band have decided that I should have it excised as soon as possible so you’ll all have something to play with during the long months ahead.

So that’s pretty much that. It looks like it’s going to be a nine-track LP, in stores everywhere in time for Valentine’s Day 2004 and the subsequent shitstorm of anguish and desperation we’ve all tentatively pencilled in for the weeks that follow. I’m going to go ahead and make the ridiculous promise that there will be new samples and demos posted every three weeks until said LP is finished, starting with this week’s batch of early demos and getting exponentially better as the H-hour of D-day approaches.

So thanks for stopping by, and don’t worry about trying to steal or break anything, as it’s all been nailed or glued down in anticipation of your arrival.

Cheers,

Dave