Very nice review of Jim's solo project!

Reviler.org wrote a very accurate, positive review of Jim's solo project Jim and the French Vanilla.  It links The Blind Shake to Michael Yonkers' more folk style recordings.  Good call.  I didn't even think of that, but  it is true.  The band, and Jim in this case, is very influenced by more than Microminiature Love.  Lovely Gold is one Yonkers LP that the three of us listen to on tour more than any other album.

Get Jim and the French Vanilla's LP called II at the Kitty Kat on Thursday, March 1st.  Only 100 printed.  Of course, you still have the itunes/digital option, but you'll find that holding LP artwork is more fun than holding a digital illusion, much like your recent family photos.

Aquarius Records

Hey, the Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake album, Period, got a cool review by one of the best record stores in history!  Thanks, Aquarius!

Cool! You have to love Missoula!

From KBGA FM in Missoula, MT:

Michael Yonkers With The Blind Shake	Period
Cults	Cults
Guided By Voices	Let's Go Eat the Factory
Boots Electric	Honkey Kong
Porcelain Raft	Strange Weekend
The Lost Satellites	The War Will End
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour	Out of Frequency
The Bats	Free All The Monsters
Uzi Rash	I was 30 in 2012
Cruel World Dream Band	Speed Speed Velocity
Bare Wires	Cheap Perfume
Comet Gain	Howl of the Lonely Crowd
First Aid Kit	The Lion's Roar
The Feelies	Here Before
Low Cut Connie	Get Out the Lotion
O'Brother	Garden Window
Claps	Wreck
Shoppers	Silver Year
Blouse	Blouse
Ancient Sky	T.R.I.P.S
Snake River Outlaws	Live Radio 1953: Missoula, MT
TS & the Past Haunts	Gone and Goner
The Big Pink	Future This
Trentemoller	Reworked/Remixed
The Spits	The Spits
Anthrax	Worship Music
PacificUV	WEEKENDS
Cloud Nothings	Attack on Memory
Danny's Dilemma	Phone Home
Various Artists	Istanbul 70 - Psych, Disco, Folk Classics

Interview in Basement Show Girls

Here is a link  to an interview conducted by our good buddy Ezra Silver for Basement Show Girls.  It took place right before our January 7th show at the Turf Club in St. Paul.  Check out the cool collage work by Ezra!


About Basement Show Girls
Basement Show Girls is a website dedicated to music and comic books edited by Ezra Silver and Max Schramm. The site focuses particularly on comics that have found themselves overlooked and under appreciated. These comics, while perhaps dated, are nevertheless relevant cultural artifacts and pieces of a literary heritage that is, these editors find, worthy of exploration and discourse.

Beyond this, music discussions focus on but are not exclusive to artists from the Twin Cities area.

Basesg hopes to bring you content each week day. Mondays feature articles or interviews. Tuesday-Thursdays feature comics rendered by Ray Slao. Fridays feature a podcast compiled by Max or Ezra.

#1 on kdvsFM

Hey, I just saw online that Michael Yonkers with The Blind Shake is number one on KDVS 90.3FM! This is  exciting news. KDVS is based out of University of California Davis and is a one of the most respected stations in the country. If you check their playlist, you'll see lots of awesome bands.  We are very happy to be part of it.

Period LPs are now being distributed through Sub Pop Records.

Awesome Review of Period

Awesome review of Period on Get Bent!