NY: Check it out tomorrow night

My Teenage Stride record release party

with The Secret History (ex-My Favorite)

Friday, March 2nd

Doors 8pm

$7

Cake Shop - 152 Ludlow Street, NYC

http://www.myteenagestride.com (click on the music tab for mp3s)

http://www.myspace.com/myteenagestride

The new MTS album, Ears Like Golden Bats, is out! Come see my friends Jed, Brett and Jeff play. I've written about My Teenage Stride on here a few times over the past couple of years. The new album is fantastic. It's nice to see Jed finally getting some recognition for his talent (via blog action and print articles). There are four bands on the bill tomorrow night. I don't know anything about Skybox, but one of the members of Hands and Knees, Scott, produced and engineered the new MTS album with Jed. I was supposed to write about Hands and Knees about a year and a half ago on this blog. I'm no good, no good at all.

This will be The Secret History's first gig, and if you don't already know, the band is basically My Favorite minus the lovely and sweet Andrea Vaughn. Or rather, 5/6 of My Favorite plus two girls equals The Secret History. Please don't mistake the slapdash and last minute nature of this post for lack of enthusiasm. This is going to be a great gig, so please come out. Yeah, I know I need to start posting again on this blog. When I actually have the time to write, I find that someone has already blogged about the same things I had planned. Then, I sit at my computer, and wave my fists in the air and curse the blog gods. And that flailing around is usually accompanied by some sounds that are kind of like, "AAAAAAAAARRHHHHHHHHH!" So yeah, more posts coming if I can get my crap together and decide that I don't care if my posts are redundant.

IDOLATOR: Feb 12, 2007, My Teenage Stride Gives Us The Chills Jedediah Smith is the Brooklyn-based songwriter behind the band My Teenage Stride, and listening to the band's third full-length, Ears Like Golden Bats, you have to wonder just how much time he's spent obsessing over the Trouser Press; Ears wears its influences like one-inch pins bearing the logos of Orange Juice and the Go-Betweens. We've been especially charmed by the haunting "Reversal" (think of what would happen if the Chills' "Pink Frost" were turned upside down) and the manic, pogo-worthy "Chock's Rally"

THE DELI MAGAZINE: Striding Towards a New Record and Release Party With perfectly plucky bass lines, shimmering guitar work, a drum groove that moves along at a sprinter's pace, and luscious harmonies, My Teenage Stride's "To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge" is the perfect kind of song to convince you that you may not be as old as you think you are…which is good. Most folks have probably wasted a bit of time pining for lost days that have since passed them by. And I can't imagine Jedediah Smith, leader of the Brooklyn outfit, is an exception. But with his extremely recognizable guitar pop… no doubt the grand result of long evenings where The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, Joy Division, The Smiths, and Belle and Sebastian wore out the needle of his turntable… Smith and his band mates churn out the kind of classic kitsch that should have you feeling like there are plenty of glory days still to come. One such day, March 2nd, the band will be showing off new tunes from their forth-coming release Ears Like Golden Bats (Becalmed Records) at The Cakeshop. - David Pitz

BIG TAKEOVER: January 21, 2007, DAVE HEATON’S TOP TEN 1. My Teenage Stride – Ears Like Golden Bats (Becalmed)The best 2007 album I’ve heard yet – smart, funny, stylish, catchy indie-pop.