KSPC Radio Show On Feb. 3rd!!!

Abandon will be playing on the local radio station at the Claremont Colleges on February 3rd at 8pm. So please be sure to tune in and enjoy! It will be a live performance and then an interview with our friend Troy who runs the radio show.

Since the radio station doesn't come in everywhere. The best way to check it out would be online at http://www.kspc.org/. Then click on the link that says, "Hear Us Online Via Live365". The rest of the information is on the above flyer.

We hope you tune.

The Catalyst artwork is coming together and we should have more info as to when the CD release will be ready for ordering ASAP.

Thank You,

XanthonyX & Abandon.

"The Death Of Urgency" Pre-Orders Are Up!!!

We're finally glad to say that the pre-orders for our upcoming LP "The Death Of Urgency" are up through our good friend Chris' label Death Of A Modernist. Here are the links to both is wordpress website and his Big Cartel.

Wordpress Link:

DeathOfAModernist Wordpress

Big Cartel Link:

DeathOfAModernist Big Cartel

We have been very bad at keeping everyone updated and for that we apologize. We'll keep this blog updated at least once every two weeks with upcoming shows, tours, shirt designs, and just updates having to do with the bands endeavors in general.

We will also update you as to when the Catalyst CD release of this LP will be up for pre-order within the next few weeks.

Once again thank you for your on going support.

XanthonyX & Abandon.

Moving forward...

We are making the final push to release our new record, to be entitled "Death of Urgency." It will be released on vinyl by our friend Chris's Death of a Modernist label. The heralded Catalyst records will be putting out the CD version. We are extremely anxious to get this out and get things rolling again after a few months of limited activity. The band is happy with what we've put together and hope that you can all get something from it. Expect to see this record available for purchase sometime early this winter. After a record release show somewhere in Southern California and some additional hometown shows to get back in the swing of things, we will tour to our fullest ability (though that may be limited for a few months). The following areas should look out for some Abandon shows in the next year: West coast, East coast, and maybe Europe or Japan.

Sincere thanks to everyone who has supported us and will continue to support us. We will try our best to return the favor however we can.

With life in every breath,

xandyx and abandon.

AZ was everything we hoped for.

So we got back from the Abandon/Separation mini tour a while ago, I always just end up lagging super hard on blogging about our trips. Jesus fucking run-on sentences man. Anyways, the trip was fucking awesome. AZ back down to So Cal gave us a little taste of being back on tour, sans the shitty aspects. Just pure fun.

My current thoughts regarding this trip: The Separation is filled with great dudes. Their new shit is unbelievable. Vegan bacon cheeseburgers rule. Falafel rules. I love drums. I love drummers. Feel Bad Now will be missed. Kurt is a champion. Orange County is still the best place ever.

Thank you for everything.

-XcodyX

Arizona, here we come.

Later tonight we'll be loading up the gear and getting ready to take off for Flagstaff, AZ. I'm seriously so excited.

I lied.

Turns out our last session is set for Friday of next week. Hell yeah...

Our last recording session..

..is set for tomorrow. Fuck yeah.

-XcodyX

This Blog is seldomly updated.

Every now and then I'll stumble across this page and realize how infrequently it's posted on. My apologies to anyone who may actually follow this; seemingly we tend to forget the importance of internet communication.

Anyways, a shit ton has been going on with Abandon lately. We've just finished writing and recording the LP material and are now waiting for our final studio session to finish up the Vocals/Add-ons. As for now, we're working on tuning and tightening everything up before then. We're still massively in debt from the $1,800 emergency tour van we rented last winter (U-haul, I fucking hate you.) and because of this, there has been a slight change of plans. The mix will be a little rougher, and our budget for vinyl and merch will be way less, so bear with us on this one.

As far as shows go, we've booked a weekend trip out to Arizona to play with our good friends in The Separation from Aug. 7th - Aug. 9th. After these, October 24th marks the date of Seven Generations' final performance. This is more than an important show. 7G has been one of the most significant bands to come out in the last decade. If you're reading this right now and haven't heard of them, my mind is blown.

Other than those, we're going to take it easy on shows until the record's out. We want to get as much done as possible within the next couple months, and it doesn't quite help when all of your equipment is going to shit. Anyways, expect a tour coming up sometime shortly afterwards and be on the lookout for any updates and reminders. Thanks for reading.

-XcodyX

2008 Demo

Lately it's been brought to my attention that a lot of people have been asking us for or if we still have any copies of the demo left.  Unfortunately, we've been out of them for awhile now do to the short amount of them that we actually made which was about 110 I believe.   

So myself and the band have decided to allow the demo to be downloaded for free though this blog.  We want everyone to at least have the demo recordings so that people can listen to them whenever they please.  So here is the link for all the people who've been asking us for a copy of the demo.  I know it's not a hardcopy, but it's the best that we can do.

Download: 

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yywgeqtyixt

Thanks for all of your support.

Anthony & Abandon.

Restrained is breaking up.

This is Restrained's 2nd to last show. Ever. Please come out to support these dudes, they're great people in a great band and deserve more than a worthy goodbye.

-XcodyX

Upcoming Shows

Come out and support some great bands, we would definitely love to see you at these.

Miscellaneous Updates

Yet again, it's been quite a while since we've posted anything new. We've been back from tour for quite a while now and I think it's definitely safe to say that the trip went very well. We met some great friends, made some new ones, played with awesome bands, and had an overall great experience. Though I could go on with tour for hours, I suppose I'll concentrate on the present and future for now.

It turns out that the idea of a one-sided 12" has been surpassed by a full length LP, hopefully due out sometime in late Spring/early Summer of this year. We've coincided with our good friend Chris' upcoming label Death of a Modernist Records to press and release the vinyl. As of now, The LP will consist of all 3 demo tracks re-recorded along with 5-6 newly written songs we've been working on. The vinyl will be out of 500, including 100 on color & 400 on black and shall be coming along with new shirts and re-printed hoodies (for those of you who missed them on tour). Since we don't actually have a website to blab on yet, we'll be posting all of the information regarding merch, shows, tour, & etc. on this blogspot for now. Pre-orders for the record should be up within the next few months, so check back with us soon.

-XcodyX

EP, Tour, & Merch Updates.

First post back in a while and there's so much to say. There has been a lot going on lately, so I figured I'd take a second of time to update everyone on how the band has been coming along. We took a small break from playing any shows to get everything settled as well as to write some new material for an upcoming one-sided 12" we're planning on releasing sometime in the near future. Still in the aggrivatingly slow process of finishing everything up before tour, but everything has surprisingly been running very smoothly. The Demo/EP layouts have been finished, hoodies, posters, and patches have been printed (shirts will be soon), and tour has been (for the most part) situated. We leave in 10 days exactly.

As for the merch, we've printed a limited run of 20 vegan straight edge pullover hoodies that will be coming along with about 45 shirts, so I'd recommend getting these fast; they WILL run out. I've also hand-screened an edition of 25 show posters for this Sunday at the Che. Our Demo/EP is going to be out of 150 with an extra 10 in exclusive colors that too will most likely be available on Sunday.

I'll leave you with an updated account of the West Coast Tour:

Dec 30th: The HQ @ Reno, Nevada.
Dec 31st: Baxter's @ Salt Lake City, Utah.
Jan 1st: Calabozo @ Boise, Idaho.
Jan 3rd: Chaos Cafe @ Portland, Oregon.
Jan 4th: Squid And Ink @ Seattle, Washington.
Jan 5th: Cretin Hop @ Spokane, Washington.
Jan 7th: TBA @ Berkeley/Oakland/San Francisco, California. (HELP NEEDED)
Jan 8th: TBA @ Santa Cruz/Watsonville, California. (HELP NEEDED)
Jan 9th: Bici Centro Bike Collective @ Santa Barbara, California.

Goodnight and thank you.

- XcodyX

thank you, thank you, thank you.

It has been less than a day since we made our demo available for listening on the internet, and already the support has been overwhelming. We have all put a lot of time and energy into this band, and we're excited about it, but i don't think any of us expected the response we have gotten so far. For me, to know that others can relate to and enjoy our expressions of indignation is the only affirmation i need to know that this is worth doing. There is also a select group of people whose support deserves much more praise than can be put into words, let alone this blog. They know who they are, and so do we.

So, i figure i should let everyone in on some of the plans we have for the near future. Our demo now recorded, we're going to be putting together a d.i.y. packaged demo with a lyric/explanation booklet in the next couple weeks. We'll do a fairly small run of those, have a release show for it, and hopefully get going on some more shows in the area. We're also looking to do a short west coast tour sometime this winter, but that is still in the works.

Again, thank you to everyone who has been supportive so far. Long live the vegan straightedge.

andy and abandon.

here we are.

so after a few months of being around, we are making our internet debut.  not all of us were exactly ecstatic to jump into the vast and nonsensical ocean that is the internet, but the good does outweigh the bad, and we want people to hear our music.  consequently, we now have a myspace page (myspace.com/abandonxvx) with our recently recorded 3 song demo posted on it, as well as this blog account which we will use to update everyone on what's going on with us, in a slightly more intimate fashion than we would on myspace.  check back, please.

abandon.