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News:

New 11-song CD, "Nineteen Something Nine," is done, as is a new 4-song EP "In Memphis 2." Both records are up on our Bandcamp page, available for streaming or download/purchase in ultra-high quality audio formats (plus bonus material!) Physical CDs are currently available at our shows, and will be order-able soon as well. See below for info on CD-release shows happening in both Boston and Vermont.

If that weren't enough, we're compiling our best 24 songs from the past 12 years for a super-deluxe double LP vinyl-only retrospective release sometime in 2012. Stay tuned for more details...

Our super-groovy four-song EP "Weisstronauts In Memphis" is still available almost-exclusively as a download from iTunes, with a strictly limited (300 hand-numbered copies, rapidly dissappearing) CD edition available at Weisstronauts live shows as well as on our LISTEN/BUY page and CDBaby, while supplies last. This little gem was recorded entirely live in historic Ardent Studios (okay, there were a few subsequent overdubs...) during a Memphis stop on our 2008 tour. Knob-wizard and pal Jeff Powell handled the recording (and told us some astonishing and hilarious stories about working with the Allman Brothers and Big Star), while mixing was done back at Pete's Verdant Studio in Vermont. For those of you who have purchased this new EP on iTunes and would like some sort of documentation/liner notes (iTunes still doesn't easily implement this), you can download an informational sheet here.

Videos! We've created and posted a few Weisstronauts videos on Youtube. At last count, we're up to ten. This particular one was "featured" on the Youtube homepage and has racked up 80,000 viewings! More coming soon... Enjoy!

Upcoming shows:

Saturday February 11, 2012
Pleasant Valley Brewing
Saxtons River VT
Alternating sets with Sool! Music starts at 8pm.

Wednesday February 15, 2012
Semi-private show/recording
Cambridge MA
We will be recording a few songs, as well as developing some experimental sonic pieces in a "live performance" setting. This will take place onstage at a performance/recording space near Kendall Square, starting around 7pm. There is limited seating available, and a discreet BYOB policy. Note that this is not  a "show" so much as an opportunity to see the band working on some live recordings... ie, there may be several takes of the same song, and/or breakdowns etc. Interested? Email us for an invitation.

Saturday February 18, 2012
Wolf's 19th Annual Mardi Gras Ball
TT the Bears
Cambridge MA
We're VERY excited to be invited to play this perrenial fave event! A strange combo of the Nauts and Sool, often referred to as "The Soolstronauts") will open up the festivities with a brief, bracing set, followed by: Boston Babydolls, Jesse Dee, Jordan Valentine, Tim Gearan, Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents, and host Shaun Wolf Wortis' All Stars. Proceeds go to Musicians Health Care.

Thursday Feburary 23, 2012
The Rosebud
Davis Square, Somerville MA
We swap sets with our heroes, fellow instrumental alchemists, The Invisible Rays.

Saturday March 17, 2012
Pleasant Valley Brewing
Saxtons River VT
When we think "St. Paddy's Day," we automatically think "The Weisstronauts." Music starts at 8pm

Recent Press/Quotes:

"Then there’s the Weisstronauts, who toss major surf rock influences into a blender with everything else they’ve ever even sort of liked and pull out songs built on combinations that look insane on paper but absolutely kill once you hear them."
            - Richard Bouchard, Boston Band Crush 9/15/2010

"Wish I could play with you guys more often than once in a lifetime. Definitely the most fun I've ever had in a band."
- Doug Yule (ex-Velvet Underground) following the 2006 tour

"You guys were the best thing EVER!"
- Mitch Easter, artist (Let’s Active, Sneakers) & producer (REM, Velvet Crush, Game Theory, Pavement) following a 2008 show at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl in New Orleans

"You guys are better than Maiden"
- Paul Logus, producer/engineer (P. Diddy, Pantera, Mary J. Blige, Notorious BIG, the Barnies) stopping by the Rodeo Bar in NYC after an Iron Maiden concert

"You guys were totally way better than Maiden"
- Paul’s friend Sean (no, not Combs) in agreement

"If there’s such a thing as a forward-thinking surf band, Boston’s The Weisstronauts are it. Avoiding the purism that makes so many instrumental retro-fetishists seem redundant, The Weisstronauts combine vintage surf and Nashville chicken-pickin’ with cartoon zaniness and spaghetti Western intrigue. They often recall NRBQ’s offbeat musical humor as much as Link Wray’s reverb-drenched Tarantino fodder."
- Jack Silverman, Nashville Scene

"Please do not disregard my mind-blowing experience caused by your music...The fact that the Weisstronauts didn't exist 25 years ago should be considered an embarrassment to all musicians."
- Brendan Curtis, co-owner/chef, Plough & Stars

The wonderfully-monikered Mojo Flucke recently interviewed Pete for Popdose. They chatted about the new album, the creative process, garage rock, monkeys with fezes, etc. Check it out HERE.

There's a sweet review of Instrotainment! on Epinions HERE.

New England Music Scrapbook News interviewed Pete Weiss about the Weisstronauts and Verdant Studio. Interview is HERE, about a third down the page.

Pete Weiss was interviewed by C.C. DiGuardia in Northeast Performer magazine and by John Clarkson in the U.K. webzine Pennyblackmusic.