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We are working on a European solo tour for late this year, plus a release or two. Please contact Felix to book shows: felix@paperandironbooking.com

US agents and promoters: Get in touch directly through the contact page, we’d love to tour the States!

In much more pressing news:
NFL “star” Michael Vick, of the Atlanta Falcons, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony dogfighting charges. Vick is charged with violating federal laws against competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting, and conducting the enterprise across state lines.

In a raid conducted on April 25 and 26, local and state law enforcement officials found 70 dogs—including at least 60 pit bulls and many dogs who reportedly were neglected, scarred, and malnourished—on quarterback Vick’s rural Surry County, Virginia, property.

Some of the animals evidently bear scars and injuries, and paraphernalia commonly associated with dogfighting—including a “rape stand”—are also said to have been found on the property.

According to Vick’s indictment, even if the losing dogs survived, they met a cruel fate, “sometimes put to death by drowning, strangulation, hanging, gun shot, electrocution, or some other method.”

Please tell the NFL that someone who encourages this kind of neglect and abuse shouldn’t belong in its organization. Write to the NFL to ask that Vick be immediately suspended. There is a quick and easy form to send your message HERE.

I broke my clavicle in a bicycle wreck. We hope to complete the “you” trilogy, which began with the “you’ve got your own” EP on Acuarela (part 1), followed by the “you are my home” album on Important (part 2). Part 3 title is TBA; it may be called “inscrutable you”… it could be an album or it may be an EP.

You can help by purchasing items on the order page. I am listening to “Le Fil” by Camille. We listened to “Le Fil” every day on our last tour. I am reading “Hardcore Zen” by Brad Warner and “the Simple Guide to Judaism” by David Starr-Glass; and watching “Freaks and Geeks“. Be good to your family; they’re all you have.

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on tour. It was lovely to see you, it was too brief, but we hope to see you again soon. If you wanted to buy something we sold out of, you can probably get it on the order page.

While we were out playing songs and meeting new friends, Moshe Solomonow and his team of fuckwits at University of Colorado Denver were cutting un-anesthetized cats open for “science”. Please ask them to stop.

Michael is keeping journals of the current tour here and here.

Check the shows page for new dates added to the May tour… Rivulets for this tour is Nathan Amundson with the guitar and singing, Nathan Vollmar on the drums, and beginning in Bordeaux, Francesco Candura on bass.

Three new comps if you want them:

• That Horse Yonder - tribute to Sparklehorse with our cover of the song “painbirds”. Listen and buy at sparkleyonder.info
• Every Song I Hear Is Freezing - with “Keep You From Harm” from the rivs / marc gartman CD plus a live version of “waited for you”. Free with orders from Tract Records.
• Eye of the Beholder, Volume Four - contains a previously unreleased song called “you’re always going away”. Order at tractrecords.com

Details for all at the discography page.

We will have these comps for sale on tour. New tour dates have been posted on the shows page …stay tuned for more.

NEW RIVULETS.NET
As you may have already seen, we’ve launched a new version of rivulets.net!

While the old site served us well for several years, we updated the design and added features to make it easier to use, keep up to date on rivs-related information, and participate in the rivulets community.

Some key features of the new site:

1. RSS Feeds – you can now subscribe to rivulets.net content via RSS using your favorite feed reader or aggregator (learn how).
2. Subscribe to the rivulets calendar from the shows page to automatically see rivs shows in your favorite iCal-compliant calendaring software (iCal, Google Calendar, Sunbird, etc: learn how).
3. Leave comments on posts or pictures
4. Updated photo gallery
5. Everything is fully searchable

Check it out and let us know how you like it!

TOUR & RELEASE NEWS
Europe tour dates for May have been posted on the shows page.

The “Silber on Silber” comp is out now. Go here to download rivulets’ cover of Remora’s “I Told Jesus Christ How Much I Love Her” FREE.

Nathan sings on “Broca”, the new record from Roy S.. Details on the discography page.

Brian John Mitchell writes:

“A new QRD (issue #32) is up at silbermedia.com/qrd. We have a lot going on this issue. As some of you may know, I was in a car crash a few months ago & I have been talking to a lot of people about it & so I have a ton of car crash stories from semi-famous folks like Alan Sparhawk, James Newman, Nathan Amundson, Will Dodson, & myself. Nathan Amundson contributes a few more times for a Rivulets interview & an appearance in I Heart FX & a piece he co-wrote with me on Gifts for Touring Musicians.”

…you can find all these and more on the interviews page.

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rivulets will tour Europe in May 2007. If you would like to set up a show in your town, please contact Paper & Iron Booking.

The new rivulets album “you are my home” was released in North America on November 28 on Important Records. We’re trying to get “you are my home” released in Europe, Asia and Australia too. Interested labels, please contact us to talk…

Meanwhile, wherever you are, you can order “you are my home” on CD, as a CD+T-shirt package, or just the T-shirt, right here on the order page.

Visit the shows page for some upcoming U.S. shows.

Tract Records has two compilations in the works that will feature new and live rivs songs. Read about them under ‘compilations’ on the discography page.

Expect a new, more community-oriented rivulets.net soon!

The new rivulets album, “you are my home”, is out today!

“you are my home” is rivulets’ long-delayed 3rd album. It was recorded and mixed by Bob Weston at Electrical Audio, Chicago, IL, and features guests Jessica Bailiff (Kranky), Chris Brokaw (Codeine, Come, the New Year), Christian Frederickson (Rachel’s), Fred Lonberg-Holm (Boxhead Ensemble), Brian John Mitchell (Remora, Vlor), and Bob Weston (Mission of Burma, Shellac). This is not a folk album. This is an album about hearts breaking, tearing it down, and moving on.

Get “you are my home” from your favorite music-seller, or order direct here.

View the album’s track listing and listen to clips on the discography page.

Read reviews of “you are my home” on the reviews page.

There is a new interview at the interviews page.

You can hear the first minute of every song on the new album, “you are my home” on the discography page.

New photos are posted on the photos page.

More at photographer Laurent Orseau’s site: lorseau.hinah.com

Laurent also took all the photos for “you are my home”, coming out stateside November 28 on Important Records, and which can be ordered on CD, as a CD+T-shirt package, or, weirdly, just the T-shirt, at the order page.

Let’s be friends: myspace.com/rivulets

OK, it’s pre-order time! Go to the order page to pre-order the new rivulets album “you are my home”. The album comes out officially on Important Records on November 28, but order now and we’ll send it to you on October 28, a month early!

The CD is available on its own for $12, or you can order the CD+T-shirt package deal for $22. The shirts are black American Apparel Ts with ‘rivulets “you are my home”‘ printed in white on the front. Available in XS, S, M, L & XL. All orders come with a “you are my home” pin. Pre-order now. Also see the discography page for cover, tracklisting and clips from the album.

The Collective Voice radio program recently did a special on Silber records featuring interviews with several Silber-related artists, including a short segment with Nathan at the end. You can listen to it here.