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By Surprise

About Me



Pitman, NJ | 4.18.09
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BY SURPRISE/HIGHTIDE HOTEL SPLIT 7"
Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl, each copy will come with a digital download card allowing you to share these songs with your friends who don't own a turntable, or listen to them on your sony walkman. Two new songs from each band and an additional third song featured on the download card. We recorded the songs with Dave Downham of Up Up Down Down at Gradwell House Studios in Haddon Heights, NJ.
all pre-orders are sold out at this time... check back in May
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FOUR ON SEVEN IN EIGHT
As we gear up to release our split 7" with Hightide Hotel, with only less than 50 physical copies remaining, we've decided that it's time to make sure everyone can get thier hands on our 2008 EP. We spent the second half of 2007 writing the aforementioned songs and brought them to Dave Downham of Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start to help us flesh it all out. "478" was recorded at Gradwell House Recording Studios in Haddon Heights, NJ during the winter of 2007/2008. Enjoy this free download...
download "478" for free
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DISCOGRAPHY CASSETTE
While omitting some stuff that no one would ever want to hear, we've managed to gather a collection that rounds out to about 13 songs. This collection spans everything we've done from 2006 up until 2009. Included are both EPs, two unreleased songs, and two new songs. We've decided to make this special for ourselves and our friends by releasing it in a very limited quantity (42 unnumbered copies total) on a cassette format. The songs were dubbed by Rob and Pat in Pat's basement on his old two deck player. Hand-assembled artwork is included. Mailorder one from us by sending $8 well-concealed cash to:
Calling All Cassettes
127 4th Avenue
Haddon Heights, NJ 08035
USA
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you too can look like CJ
mailorder shirts | eight dollars | drop us a line

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/23/2006
Band Website: www.bysurprise.net
Band Members: // Devin Carr // Pat Gartland // Dan Saraceni // Rob Wilcox
Influences: Archers of Loaf, Braid, Guided By Voices, The Replacements, Superchunk, UUDD (sorry steve), Vitreous Humor...
Sounds Like:
Diner State Halloween 5

Record Label: runneruprecords|callingallcassettes|dinerstate
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

May 22, 2009 | first hometown show of the year

loƅcal [loh-kuhl] adjective 1. pertaining to or characterized by place or position in space; spatial. We don't play around our southern New Jersey towns often because there's not too many p...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 20:18:00 GMT

new song sunday | "direct loans" demo

Hey there...A huge huge thank you to the people who befriended us over the course of the last month... the overall response to the new songs has us feeling pretty amped and ready to finish writing our...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:28:00 GMT

UK distro and appreciation

We just came across a review done for "478" through UK's Collective Zine, done by Andy Malcolm... click here to check that out... kudos to him for such a well-worded and constructive criticism.He's al...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:12:00 GMT

Split 7" pre-orders are SOLD OUT

Dear __your name__,If you helped us out by pre-ordering a 7", then all I can say is thank you. All 50 screen- printed/ pressed flower copies of our split 7" with Hightide Hotel are now officially spok...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:11:00 GMT

pre-orders for our split with Hightide Hotel are UP NOW!

It's been a wait and a while... and there's still some legwork to go (like pressing them) but in the meantime, we're opening the gates, for 50 people.For those who pre-order the 7", you'll get a uniqu...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:53:00 GMT

Four on Seven in Eight | a totally free download

We shoul d note that our EP, Four on Seven in Eight , is final ly avail able for free downl oad on our myspa ce. The past year has been a prett y succe ssful run for us and this EP was the m...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:43:00 GMT

we're hibernating for the next month..

Thank you to everyone who's been chugging along with us since the Thanksgiving holiday.. we've had a great time and made a laundry list length of friends in the process.. We're now going to take some ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:06:00 GMT

Gibson House on Friday / Cassette & Vinyl releases

Totes.We were asked to play @ the Gibson HouseIt's a pretty big deal for us...Friday night at the Gibson House in Marlton, NJ...Gennera | The Ruining | By SurpriseCrucial Dudes | The Great ExplainerPr...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:55:00 GMT

"No Mistletoe" - a new song just in time for the holidays

Dan Saraceni is our bassist.. and a great kid all around. We hope you enjoy the song he wrote with us for this year's Arbor Records Christmas Volume 9. We'll be sharing it with everyone at the next th...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:12:00 GMT

CALLING ALL CASSETTES **IMPORTANT -- PLEASE READ**

Atten tion all dead- forma t enthu siast s. . . The CD playe r in my car (the By Surpr ise Toyota Matri x) broke last month, so now I'm stuck liste ning to the radio ( wprb, wkdu, wxpn) and va...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:37:00 GMT