On Friday, July 3rd, MANNEQUIN DEPRESSIVES will be performing live at The Underground (733 - 10th Ave SW, Calgary Alberta) as part of Datalink's live performance series. Doors at 9PM. Other bands performing include THE RABID WHOLE, IVARDENSPHERE and SANGSARA. This is gonna be a wicked show, so don't miss it! And, as always, I'm obligated to point out that The Underground is a private club for members and invited guests only, so you need to have a membership or get signed in by a member... or you can buy your own membership.

  -Rod

After a slight delay, our latest release, "reCycle" is now available online at CD Baby, and it should be up and running at iTunes and other digital retailers soon! Click here to check it out!

  -Rod

(First, here's the short version for those of you who don't wanna read so much text...)

CD release / listening party for the new MD release on Friday, April 17th at The Underground! You should come! It'll be fun! Dress all crazy like! Act all crazy like! Dance all crazy like!

(...and now for the "proper" version of this announcement)

The latest release from Mannequin Depressives, "reCycle", is a compilation album featuring remixes, B-sides and other previously unreleased material (including two remixes by releveleR). The album will be released earlier in Calgary on April 17th, and will be available to the rest of the world on May 1st.

There will also be a CD release / listening party in Calgary on Friday, April 17th at The Underground (733 - 10th Ave. SW). Doors at 9 PM. Tracks from the album start at 10 PM, with hard beats from DJ Kosmonaut and DJ Astroboi to follow. $5 cover at the door. (Remember, The Underground is technically a private club for members and invited guests only... so if you're not a member, find a member to sign you in, or you can buy a membership at the door.)

The version of the album that will be sold at the release party is actually a slightly different version than the one that will be available on the net on May 1st. The "Calgary Edition" will be a limited edition, hand-numbered version featuring a different opening track and alternate packaging to the international version.

So yeah, to make a long story short... CD release / listening party on Friday, April 17th at The Underground! You should come! It'll be fun! Dress all crazy like! Act all crazy like! Dance all crazy like! Wooohooo!!!

  -Rod

Summer's just around the corner! You can smell it in the air! At least... I think that's what I'm smelling. Maybe that's the Avenue Diner? No... wait... that's definitely summer coming.

And this summer we're going to try and make up for all the gigs we didn't get to play last summer. Nebulous' injury has healed nicely and he's good to go (actually, we were thinking we'd have to put him down and replace him with the Nebulous-bot 3000 that Russ & Scott built, but fortunately Nebulous pulled through. Now we have this stupid robot here and we don't know what to do with him).

And in other news: Mannequin Depressives will be releasing a compilation CD entitled "reCycle", featuring remixes, B-sides and other previously unreleased goodies from the past few years (in fact, we found so much cool stuff while compiling this, don't be surprised if a second volume appears in the not-too-distant future)!

The album will be released this April and there will also be a CD release / listening party to go along with it! More details coming (as soon as we get them all sorted out).

Ciao for now,

-Rod

We just whipped together a YouTube channel for Mannequin Depressives... so now you have a quick and convenient way to find all of your fave MD clips (okay, so we really only have a bit of live footage so far, but there's more on the way)!

Check it out at...
http://www.youtube.com/user/MannequinDepressives

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, but we've all been quite busy as usual (I feel like all of my entries should start with that sentence... yeesh). Things are going well and we have lots planned for the new year (I can't be too specific yet since we're still working on the details... let's just say we have "several projects in various stages of production")

The new album is doing quite well digitally thanks to CD Baby and iTunes (a definite sign of the times), and it seems to be doing exceptionally well in Russia (didn't see that one coming... perhaps it's time to start thinking about that world tour). Locally the album is also doing quite well... speaking of which, we now have it available in the local section at Hot Wax (and of course it's also still available at Megatunes, Play, Melodiya and Sloth), so if you're a Calgarian living or working near any of those places, you can always swing by and pick up a copy of "Girls Are Evil" as a stocking stuffer!!

Speaking of stocking stuffers, I still need to finish (make that, "start") my Christmas shopping... oh well, I've always been told that I work best under pressure.

Ciao for now, and if we don't get a chance to drop you all a line again, "Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!"

  -Rod

Yeah. Since we just put out a new album, you'd think we would be playing some gigs to support it over the summer. Well, that was the plan, until keyboard player Jared "Nebulous" Brookes damaged himself by completely seperating his left achilles tendon! To quote Neb's MySpace blog, "the friggin' thing popped right off during a Kendo match". BUT, he can be re-built (like the six-million dollar man), and once he's fully functional we WILL be doing some more gigs.

In the mean time we're working on some remixes and some new stuff. Also, Scott "Smoth" Johns will be performing with Broken Paws at The Soda this Tuesday night (June 17), doing some experimental stuff with audio and some video (to be honest, I'm not sure what it is, so come out and check it out with me). Also, Kat from CJSW's Turing Radio will be doing some DJing along with DJ Kosmonaut (with whom I DJ with at the Underground on the first and third Thursdays of the month for the Datalink night).

GREETINGS TO "R! SOCIETY"... a couple of cool synthpop dudes I met at the EMC birthday bash on Thursday night. Don't be surprised if we do some gigs with guys in the future!

  Until then...

  -Rod

Our new album is officially released and available online at CD Baby, and it should be available on iTunes soon. To order it from CD Baby, click here (they have it available as an actual CD, or as a digital download).

If you live in Calgary, you can also pick it up at Sloth Records or Megatunes... and it should also available at Play (downtown location) and Melodiya by the end of the week. It's also gonna be available at our CD release party, which is tonight at The Warehouse! The only place where you can get exclusive MD buttons.

Be the first on your block! Get 'em while they're hot! ...and any other cheesy sales-pitch phrases I can think of.

  -Rod

Our new album, "Girls Are Evil", comes out this week! Go to our Listen page to hear excerpts to tide you over until the album's March 20 release, when you can buy online (or at select retailers).

And don't forget to come to the CD release party this Thursday, March 20 at The Warehouse nightclub (731 10th Ave SW, Calgary AB). Doors are at 9PM (more details below).

  -Rod & Russ

The CD release party for our new album, "Girls Are Evil", will be taking place on March 20 at The Warehouse (731 10th Ave SW, Calgary AB). The cost is $8 in advance (advance tickets available from Megatunes, Sloth, and The Warehouse). Doors are at 9:00 PM.

This is gonna be a night jam-packed with awesome music, featuring live bands playing on both floors - upstairs at The Warehouse and downstairs at The Underground - including:

• -Fritz Helder & The Phantoms
• -Mannequin Depressives
• -Phonotactic
• -Thee Thems
• -The Funfuns
• -Beneath These Idle Tides w/ Morgan Greenwood (of Azeda Booth)

This show is on a Thursday (March 20), BUT it's a long weekend that week (Good Friday), so come on out, see some wicked bands, and party it up with us!

March 20 is also the day of the Vernal Equinox, so come out and party for that reason too!

NOTE: The Warehouse is a private club for members and invited guests of members. If you don't have a membership, come in with someone who does so they can sign you in... although, I think most of you out there already have memberships, and for those who don't (and don't know anyone with one), they're not that expensive and they get you into some sweet shows!

-Rod

The new album by MANNEQUIN DEPRESSIVES entitled "Girls Are Evil" will be officially released on March 20, 2008. We'll also be doing a CD release party at The Warehouse (731 - 10th Ave. SW, Calgary AB) on that date too, which will include live performances by MANNEQUIN DEPRESSIVES (obviously), as well as BENEATH THESE IDLE TIDES w/MORGAN GREENWOOD, PHONOTACTIC, and more! Further details to come (once we get it all sorted out).

We'll also be posting some sample excerpts from the new album, so check back soon!

-Rod

The new album is being sent to the manufacturer this week, so it won't be long until it starts showing up at stations nationwide. We're still on track for a March, 2008 release date. Stay tuned!

We're pleasantly surprised to hear that our new single, "Sweet Disease", has spread as far as Boston! We got an email from DJ Synthetic:Love requesting copies of the single.. apparently it's being well-received at his club. Off to the post office we go!

The official version of Our new single, "Sweet Disease", has gone out to select DJs and radio stations around the world in anticipation of the release of our second album.

Check out some clips in the 'Listen' section, and don't forget to register for a chance to win your own advance copy!

Russ's mission to drop off some special preview editions of MD's new single "Sweet Disease" in Seattle's excellent Musicwerks shop is accomplished, we'll hopefully see him again in a while when he's back from holidays. Then it's back to the studio to finalize "Sweet Disease" and a new track, tentatively entitled "Guilty"...