2008.11.06 - Everyones: We're done with the new record, and it's mostly mixed! We're celebrating with a show at Stasiu's next weekend with Action vs. Action, Careers in Modeling and Clawthroat, which should be awesome. Bring all your friends and their hundred dollar bills.
2008.07.12 - The record is almost finished! Soon, we shall practice again and hatch plans for the final chapter of world domination and crushing the competition.
2008.01.03 - After a long and well deserved December vacation, The Icy Shores are back at it again. We've made some progres on the record, with drums, bass and guitars pretty much done. And, we're gearing up for our show next weekend at the Uptown, which should be great. Hope to see you all there. Happy New Year!
2007.10.06 - Asplode! We're playing next weekend at the Nomad, Saturday Oct 13th. Put on your drinking shoes, because we're playing last last last. We're pumped to be playing again, as we've been ferreting away in the basement, polishing the edges on our latest jams. In other news, we hit the studio in early November to get started on record #2. Wordup!
2007.06.25 - In line with our fast paced punk rock lifestyles, The Icy Shores have been holing up in a smelly basement and putting new material together this summer. We're happy to report that we've surely got a few international mega-hits ready to go, but sad that we're not seeing you all at shows. After a couple of long vacations in July/August, we hope to be back in action as the Rock Automatons you once knew/loved by the end of the summer.
2007.04.24 - The Icy Shores will play our first show as a three piece Thursday May 10th at the Varsity Theater as part of the Catlick Records Showcase. While we're sad to be playing without Hunter, and we've almost forgotten how to play La Bamba, the rock must go on. Helpfully, I've purchased two extra hands from China and grafted them just below my nipples, which makes playing two guitars at once significantly easier.
2007.03.23 - Tragedy on HMS Icy Shores - Sadly, Hunter will be leaving us to concentrate on his education. We've all loved every minute of playing in a band with Hunter, and hope that only the best possible things happen for him in the future. While the rest of us figure out what will become of The Icy Shores, we've cancelled our upcoming show at the Nomad.
2007.03.09 - Beef sandwich: Oh, how I love thee. The Icy Shores come out of hibernation to celebrate Saturday, April 7th at the Nomad. Sarah Pray will be holding her EP release, and Quarterstance will open up. We're playing last, so put on your drinking shoes!
2007.02.19 - (this news removed because it was both boring and dumb)
2006.12.28 - Dearest world wide web: My apologies for not having written sooner. As you may know, we've been tied up with new babies in the family, but we will be returning to melting your face off with gigantic rock explosions in the new year. Hope your holidays were swell. Love, The Icy Shores.
2006.07.31 - Music video can now be viewed here.
2006.07.30 - Ladies and gentlemen: we were totally overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and general niceness last night at our music video release party. Thanks to everyone who braved the heat and made it a special evening. As we rehydrate ourselves and work at getting the video online, you can keep yourselves busy by showering The Cans and Radio On with praise and adoration. Also, I have enrolled in remedial stage banter courses at the suggestion of the band. See you soon.
2006.07.12 - As the heavy cogs of rock turn in anticipation of our music video release party this Saturday, we pause to bring you this kindly worded message from this week's City Pages. Thanks, City Pages! clickage
2006.07.12 - Ahem. Music video release party at the 400 Bar, Saturday July 29th. Celebrate The Icy Shores looking like morons, forever immortalized on celluloid. No, really.
2006.05.29 - eFans: A few bits of news. Sadly enough, we've had to cancel out of Ranchapalooza, due to scheduling conflicts on our end. Which is a real bummer, since Shane had already bought his elk saddle. We wish them the best of luck. Secondly, we got a show together with Moon Maan and The Softrocks at the Triple Rock, 6/22. I'm doing Rocky punches at my computer just thinking about it. And, thirdly, here's an alternate version of "Backseat" that will feature proudly in our music video. click me! WORD!
2006.05.10 - We survived the making of our first music video. We managed to break just about everything, in typical rockstar fashion. High point: After smashing an LCD screen accidentally by dropping an iron on it from about 8 feet in the air, I managed to accidentally call/wake up my bosses' boss at 4:30am. Rock! More news as it slowly trickles in. Oh, and come to the Entry on Friday.
2006.04.15 - Dudes. Very briefly, our record is now available for purchase/download on iTunes. Take that, pirates. Yarrrr. Oh, and we're making a music video, we think. Fun!
2006.03.10 - Hello, the internet. The Icy Shores have been as busy as a pack of rather active beavers, ironing out the intricacies of a few of our next super-hits. In the meantime, come check us out at the Hexagon Friday 3/24. We've also agreed to perform at an event on the 4th of July weekend - Ranchapalooza, which seems to be some kind of earthy food eating extravaganza. Once we heard there would be elk there, we just totally agreed. After we whip out our version of "Hells Bells" 3 or 4 times, Shane will be showing off his elk-riding skills, and will top off the evening by throwing up into his pants! You wouldn't want to miss that, would you? More details as they arrive.
2006.01.15 - We made it! Last night's show at the 400 Bar was super fun - thanks to Moon Maan and the Spectaculars. Also, Pulse magazine just wrote a nice article about us here. After our bass player returns from an emergency trip down south, in a couple of weeks we'll be back to calculating the finer points of rocking your head off. Hovering over a map, running the numbers - we take this very seriously.
2006.01.13 - 2 down, 1 to go. Thanks to all for coming out to the Turf Club and the Triple Rock last night. The 'Fraid, Building Better Bombs and Twin Ion were all great. Hope some of you can make it down to the 400 Bar tomorrow night, where I'll show off the awesome scabs on my fingers from last night. Rock blitzkrieg!
2006.01.01 - Holy christ, have we got shows coming up! We've all replaced the batteries in each others' pace makers in anticipation of three evenings of passion, fury and explosions. All within the next two weeks. Hope to see some of you there.
2005.12.05 - Dudes and dudettes - please go immediately to yr telephone and call your local college radio station to beg for them to play our record. Magically, people are playing our record, which is really great. More people playing our record more times? Even greater. Don't be scared of the telephone. Remember that time the telephone listened to you when you were sad? The telephone loves you. Don't you love the telephone too?
2005.11.21 - Thanks to everyone that came down to the CD release party, and to Action Vs. Action + Careers in Modeling for bookending our coming out to society. Lots of people made it, and everyone was super nice. We had planned a much more elaborate event with stuffed bald eagles and U.S.A. headbands to celebrate veterans day, but alas. Next time.
2005.10.22 - Welcome to the new/improved theicyshores.com. Everything is shiny and clean, requiring less clicks. Now, with fewer scary pictures!
Our record is officially out 11/11/2005, and the CD Release extravaganza goes down that night at the Uptown Bar. More news at 11.
