Jesse Michaels is hitting the road for a few days performing solo as a part of Mike Park's Plea For Peace Holiday Tour. Seven Second's frontman, Kevin Seconds will accompany Jesse and Mike on the California tour as well. They ask that everyone bring at least one unwrapped toy which will be given to homeless children ages 3-10, and if giving for givings sake isn't enough reason for you to bring a toy to the show, Asian Man Records will be trading cd's for toys at the toy drive booth, so bring a toy, get some music and help a homeless child have a happy holiday.

Head over to Spin.com to check out Ben Lashes' experience with the highly anticipated release of Guns & Roses latest record Chinese Democracy! Go HERE to check out this hilarious report!

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Over the weekend, we received a big fat Oranges update that we thought we'd share with you all!

Updated October 10, 2008
DOING THINGS!

So much to talk about. I guess I can do them in order... Back at the Maryland Film Festival in the spring I think, Dave Voyles, myself and a movie theater full of people caught the local premiere of an hilarious and totally true documentary about the race for class president at an elite school in New York called Stuyvesant High. The movie is called "Frontrunners" and it features two Oranges Band songs, "My Street" and "Ride the Nuclear Wave". If you noticed me shrinking in my seat while the songs were rather prominently projected it was because I think that is as load as I have ever heard our music. It was unusual. Anyways, the reason I bring it up is that the film premieres nationally at Film Forum in NYC on October 15th and goes and releases nationally on October 24th. The movie was really funny and a great time. Don't miss it!

The Oranges Band have finished the third proper full length album. After the usual amount of pain in my ass our new album, which is tentatively titled "The Oranges Band Are Invisible", will come down from heaven for a very brief visit this fall before returning to live in February. What?! Oh, I mean that we are having a "limited edition pre-release show" at the Ottobar next month on Nov 15 where we will sell the album in a limited edition package. The album then goes into hibernation for the winter before being released into the wild officially in February. We will also have the album for sale at our New York and Washington D.C. shows in November. The album features the incomparable talents of Doug GIllard (yes, from the loudest version of GBV) on the super lead guitar!

Limited Edition Pre-Release Show for "The Oranges Band Are Invisible"
Friday November 14
Baltimore, MD
The Ottobar
The Oranges Band, Gary B.and the Notions, Deleted Scenes, Dead Mechanical

Saturday November 15
Brooklyn, NY
The Bell House
A.C. Newman (New Pornographers), The Oranges Band

Saturday November 22
Washington, D.C.
The Red and the Black
The Oranges Band, Deleted Scenes

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Jesse Michaels, best known for his iconic vocals in both Operation Ivy and Common Rider will be performing a solo set as a part of the opening night of his new art show "Cataclysm" along with Portland's Doug Burns of the bands The Observers and The Red Dons. The art/music show will be on October 25th at The Onsix Gallery which is at 60 6th Street in San Francisco. Here's a description of the art that will be shown:

Doug Burns and Jesse Michaels will explore cataclysm, or a state of catastrophic change, through two very different but complimentary painting cycles. Michaels’ current work consists of oil paintings on the theme of war. In his nine new paintings, faceless combatants square off in a style reminiscent of early modernism and also recalling the painterly strength sought by the abstract expressionists. The paintings are rendered in oil with a penchant for bold lines and clashing fields of color. “With this work I tried to capture the feeling I had as a young boy drawing war pictures; that strange combination of innocence and naive fascination with violence.” Doug Burns’ paintings address the theme of cataclysm through the exploration of Ayyam Al Jahiliyah, a term which refers to the time before Islam in Arabia. Burns’ works combine great technical ability with a love for abstraction and the random patterns created by dripping paint applied in moody washes. The paintings depict the ancient Bedouin people in a state of mourning over their lost culture and spontaneity.

Here are the full details:

Saturday, October 25th 2008
@ Onsix Gallery
60 6th Street, San Francisco

"Cataclysm"
Featuring the Art and Music of
Jesse Michaels and Doug Burns

Gallery Opens at 7pm
$5 after 8pm
Music Starts at 9pm