Swim Party profile picture

Swim Party

Free-range cookies

About Me

...
Our Full Length Album is so close! the Recording is done. the Mixing is done. the Album art is basically done. Mastering is booked for May 2nd with Jeff Golden at Golden Mastering (Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Primus) Holy Crap.
Most of the recording took place at local BLACK BOX STUDIOS in Golden Hill, San Diego. Check them out! Mike and Mario of Black Box are doing great work and are recording tons of excellent SD bands right now. 2008 is the year of Black Box bands including new albums by Modern Rifles, Transfer, Japanese Sunday, Fever Sleeves, and Apes of Wrath just to name a few
...
Our 1st EP is SOLD OUT!!! although there may be a few copies left at:
Lou's Records
M-Theory Records
read a REVIEW from CABLE & TWEED
read a REVIEW from SD CityBeat
...
We also have a song, Pariah, out on a compilation of San Diego bands by the boys over at BLACK BOX STUDIOS . Pick up a copy at one of our shows or any of the bands on the compilations shows, or at M-Theory Records
...
Here are some things people have said about us live:
Show Review by SD: Dialed In
Show Review by Performer Magazine
Show Review by It's Too Sunny Out Here plus Natalie at it's too sunny included us in her Top 13 Live Shows of 2007
Show Review by Dirtbag's Delight
...
upcoming show:
...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/9/2005
Band Website: swimpartymusic.com
Band Members: Alex Devereaux - bass
Eric Tremblay- guitar, voice
Petro Halkowycz- drums
Nadia Shihab - violin (on sewing and blood EP)
Influences: broken social scene
yo la tengo
modest mouse
grandaddy
sonic youth
fugazi

Sounds Like: tuning a bobcat
Type of Label: None

My Blog

update on the new record

Well, we’re still mixing.  We had a couple of things to redo and fix along with working with our mixing engineer/ friend Jacob Feinberg’s schedule.  At this point we’re abo...
Posted by Swim Party on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:57:00 PST

Going, Going, Gone!!!

So, it's hard to believe, but we basically sold out of our first EP last night (there's 1 left at M-Theory records in Mission Hills and 2 at Lou's Records in Encinitas) !!! 300 limited Edition EP's, h...
Posted by Swim Party on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:49:00 PST

City Beat Review & Feature

From the good folks over at SD CityBeatreview of our album in the March 28th Issue:Swim Party - Sewing and Blood EPMiss the days when Modest Mouse was modest and Arcade Fire was just a spark in the in...
Posted by Swim Party on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:18:00 PST

Signonsandiego Review

By Doug WagnerFOR SIGNONSANDIEGOYou might expect that a band called "Swim Party" from San Diego should sound summery and pop-heavy, the type of music with the word "bubblegum" in the genre. You would ...
Posted by Swim Party on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:06:00 PST

Swim Party - "rookie of the year"

the fabulous blog, Cable and Tweed, has named us 1 of 3 "rookies" of the year! We're big fans of his blog and are honored to get the mention. feel free to visit cable and tweed and check out his great...
Posted by Swim Party on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:19:00 PST

San Diego Music Award Nomination

So we've been nominated for "Best Alternative (to what?) Album" in the SD Music Awards (opens new link). We have no idea how this happened, especially since other nominations for that category include...
Posted by Swim Party on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:04:00 PST

Sewing and Blood, the EP is here!

our EP's are here! After many beads of sweat, tears, arguments of "dude, i'm too quiet..." or "so you're going to play it like that, huh?", blood (yes, literally some of the packages have drops of blo...
Posted by Swim Party on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:25:00 PST

2 new songs

We've uploaded two new songs: Twentyfive and Perfectly Still.  We still have a few more that we're furiously trying to home record, so those should go up sometime, well, eventually anyway.  ...
Posted by Swim Party on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:17:00 PST

recording and so on

This weekend we're finally getting to recording a bunch of new songs.  Nadia is going to Turkey for 9 months next January, so thats our real inspiration for getting off our lazy collective asses ...
Posted by Swim Party on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:29:00 PST