“Graham, the band’s new studio bassist, also is the Epcot connection. Based in Baltimore, he was vacationing at the theme park when he met Fargnoli. In a long-distance musical relationship, the Orlando keyboardist added tracks to a new release by Graham’s band, The Dirty Marmaduke Flute Squad, and enlisted the bassist to play on the new Hadley’s Hope material.

Eventually, Graham was enlisted to mix and master those songs at a studio in Baltimore. “

Check out the rest of the article about their collaboration here and find out more about Hadley’s Hope on their Facebook page.

In related news, Father Ryan is officially accepting new clients at 37.5: The Studio, where he recorded, mixed, and mastered “Die Humpin!”, “Super Galatic Space Banana”, “Boneslinky!” and the new Hadley’s Hope EP. So if you liked the sound of any of those albums and are a band or singer/songwriter looking for a place to lay down some tracks, drop him a line via Facebook, through this site, or at ryan at 37point5.com!!!

“When in conjuncture with a change of musical stylistic return to the US’ ’30s and ’40s for the great tune “You’re Special”, a reminiscence to Spike Jones pushed itself upon me!”

Click here for the rest of this (unintentionally?) hilarious review!

And here’s a great write-up from Al Shipley, one of Baltimore’s finest music critics:

“…the album stands as a document, for better or worse, of all the strange things the band were capable of that nobody else has the balls, or the utter shamelessness, to even think of trying.”

Read the rest at Al’s blog! 

Click Here to Read the Review!

“…it’s almost like a really bad trip whilst on crystal meth and only ever having listened to the Dwarves and bad 70′s TV themes for inspiration.“

And if that review got you all pumped up to get your own copy of “Boneslinky!”, you can purchase it at iTunes, or download it in hi-res FLAC (or any format of your choice) at http://music.theflutesquad.com. 

If you want an actual, physical CD to hold tight against your (insert body part here), there are a very limited number left!  You can either purchase them at CDBaby or contact us directly via email at nikc@theflutesquad.com

We met Al at the last Midnight Sun shindig at The Brewer’s Art, and have kept in touch since, letting him know when and where we’re playing.  There’s a fine line between harrassing music columnists and giving them the info they need to do their job.  But basically just try not to spam people; treat them like you’d like to be treated, and you’ll be fine.

Here’s the link to the piece: http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=19157

P.S. Congratulations to Al and his wife on their new baby, who was born just 5 days after this show!