Feb/100
new limited edition EP “Spoilers” at Marscon!
We will have a special limited-edition EP called "Spoilers" this year at Marscon. It contains works-in-progress tracks for our (as yet unnamed) second album, which will be released in June. It also contains the track "Santa Baby", which will be on our No Mercy Christmas album planned for this coming holiday season. Cost is whatever you're willing to donate!
Jan/100
t-shirts and more at the Feng Shui Ninjas Cafepress store
We've just opened a Cafepress store with Feng Shui Ninjas t-shirts and beer steins. Be the first on your block to have a t-shirt from an obscure band that almost nobody has ever heard of!
Dec/090
No Mercy Christmas makes the news!
There's an article today in The Examiner about our No Mercy Christmas Tour! Thanks to Monica for the great writeup, and as always, we're happy for media coverage that doesn't involve search warrants. Among other things, the article says:
The Feng Shui Ninjas' website tell us that they are "rearranging the furniture between your ears." They do this well. The Feng Shui Ninjas often take a standard and transform it into something unique that is difficult to discern an original from a cover.
The holiday season only brings more joy to the band as they embark on their 2nd annual No Mercy Christmas Tour. Favorite yuletide carols are not sacred, though the Feng Shui Ninjas say that they tend to stick with traditional melodies that have "a body count."
Dec/090
Santa Baby
A little too late for Black Friday, but we hope you'll appreciate it anyway... the Feng Shui Ninjas' take on Santa Baby (or is that the Feng Shui Ninjas take on Santa Baby?)
Merry Christmas!
Nov/090
Varsity Theater show!
The Feng Shui Ninjas will be playing at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis on thursday, Dec 17, in a show sponsored by Afton Twin Cities. Tickets can be purchased from Afton online. This is a new promoter for us, so good sales and a good turnout are hugely important. So please, buy a ticket (or two or three or a hundred) and come out!
We're treating this as an extension of our No Mercy Christmas Tour II, and will be doing at least a couple of holiday-themed songs. If you want to hear more, come to our show at the St Paul Eagles Club on Dec 5 as well!
Oct/090
Horror Movie makes the Dementia Top 20!
Our song "Horror Movie" debuted this week at #20 in the Mad Music Archive Dementia Top 20! You can go vote to get us up the charts. Sign up for a free account if you don't have one already, and vote! Thanks to DJ Particle for her long-running support of our music.
Also, congrats to Beth Kinderman for having two songs in the DT20 right now! "Mary Sue" rose to #3 this week, and "Stand" debuted at #13.
Aug/090
Laughed. Rocked. Repeated.
We had a great time at the Laugh Rock Repeat show, and played really well. I hope we can always sound that slick onstage!
We're working on the final details for some upcoming shows (including an appearance at Gaylaxicon and a No Mercy Christmas tour show at the Eagles Club). And better yet, we're starting work soon on our second album! We've written a ton of material since Garbage Pizza came out, and there's more in the pipeline. We're also planning to record some of our best-loved live show covers, like Video Killed the Radio Star. Release is very tentatively aimed at February 2010, although it might well be earlier if things go well.
Aug/090
Laugh Rock Repeat
The Feng Shui Ninjas are playing saturday, Aug 22 at the Eagles Club in St Paul, as part of the Laugh Rock Repeat comedy series. We're playing the "cocktail hour" segment at 8pm. Cover is $5. Also performing are Gus Lynch (standup) and One Man Dan (music), with other artists TBA. Come on out and enjoy live music and comedy! Thanks to St Paul Aerie for the Arts for their ongoing support.
Jul/090
This show goes to 11!
We're looking forward to our upcoming show at Convergence this friday, July 3 at 7pm, and hope to see anyone bothering to read this there! And our show is part of a special three-band sequence called This Show Goes to 11. It starts at 7pm with the Feng Shui Ninjas, followed by Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters at 8:30, and finally Possible Oscar at 10pm.
Anyone who stays for all three shows gets a special cd of previously unreleased (or quasi-unreleased) music by all three bands!
Jun/090
New song, and news!
Last night, we wrote and recorded a new song. Sorry (now renamed Eponymous #1). There will be a nicer recording for the next album, but this is good enough to get the idea. This rough recording is going to the FuMP, because well, it's good enough.
Dave Romm wrote this very nice review of Garbage Pizza. From the end of his review:
Garbage Pizza falls neatly into the category of "Uncategorizable". If you liked Songs In The Key of Z or Hawkwind or Renaldo and the Loaf , you're a very strange person and might like the Feng Shui Ninjas. It's easier to say what they're not than what they are, but I like the CD. Recommended for everyone who wants to try something a little different, that takes you to a slightly odd place, a place where you get to rewrite the ending.
And finally, we have another show on the docket. On thursday, July 30, we're returning to the Terminal Bar, with Beth Kinderman and the Player Characters (performing in support of their soon-to-be-new album Apocalypse Blues).
ps: We're also playing at Convergence on friday, July 3 at 7pm. It's an all-fannish music night with us, followed by Beth Kinderman and the Player Characters, and then Possible Oscar! Come see all three concerts!
