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The 'Nauts are now on Facebook. Visit us and become our friend.

Our super-groovy four-song EP "Weisstronauts In Memphis" is 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 last summer 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.

"Instro-tainment," our fourth full length instrumental album is still VERY MUCH available. And, really, it is our masterverk. Sessions at Verdant Studio went swimmingly. A broader-than-ever sonic palette was employed (fake strings? Moog synth? pseudo-operatic female vocals? Yes yes yes.) New song highlights include Kenny Lafler's bossa nova "Caixa Dos Moluscos," George Hall's Eastern European-ska-flavored gem "Seven X's," Jeff Norcross' party-themed "Get It Together," Kevin Quinn's epic farewell to the surf genre "Surf's Down," and Pete Weiss' own farm-rock study "Chicky." Part-time 'Nauts road bassist Doug Yule (ex-Velvet Underground) made it to the sessions and contributed bass and fiddle on a few of the new tunes, including a spontaneous stomp-a-billy version of the Velvets' classic "What Goes On." Album out now on Sool Recordings, purchasable with Paypal on our LISTEN/BUY page.

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

Upcoming shows:

Thursday September 16, 2010
TT The Bears
Cambridge MA
With our pals Mars, Brownboot, and another band t.b.d. Weisstronauts go on second, probably around 10 or 10:30pm.

Thursday October 14, 2010
Rosebud Diner
Somerville MA
Part of an Otpor! music night. It is very likely this will be our "Halloween Gig" so look out!

Stay tuned for info/dates on our November tour...

Recent Press/Quotes:

"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 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 the new album 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.