One year ago on this Memorial Day weekend we hit the recording studio expecting to lay down a few demo tunes and walked out the next day with an album’s worth. This, boys and girls, was the birth of what we now know as our album “Music To Vacuum To”.

To celebrate this historic event we are offering the digital download of the album at the discounted rate of $1! What? Did we forget a zero or something? NO! That’s 8 spectacular songs (and perhaps a hidden one) for ONE DOLLAR. That’s even cheaper than a Nice-Priced Meat Loaf “Bat Out of Hell” cassette tape at a truck stop. Head on over to our bandcamp page to take advantage of this exciting offer, why don’t ya? And feel free to spread the word to anyone else who might enjoy this outstanding bargain using this link: http://icedink.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-vacuum-to

Tell your friends. Share it on the internets. Burn it to a CD. Dub it onto a cassette tape. Etch it onto a wax cylinder. Torrent it. Paint to it. Vacuum to it. Play it on a boom box in the street and do an interpretive dance to it. We don’t care, as long as you’re enjoying yourself.

p.s. – In addition to the undying effervescing love and thanks to all family, friends, and innocent bystanders who were there representing we’d like to give major props to oddience guest stars Jeff Hovendon and breakdancer Nico for making this show extra spatial. Er. Special.

Per the official Facebook invite:

BODEGA DE LA HABA AND OXHEART PRESENT
“THE WRONG OF SPRING”:
ROCK AND ROLL ONE NIGHT ONLY AT THE BOWERY HOTEL

Guest Sketching by KENLY DILLARD!

Wednesday May 1st 2013 | 7PM | $20
Bowery Hotel
335 Bowery, NY NY

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Next stop: Alphabet Lounge on Tuesday March 5th. Come on out. It’s easy as 1-2-3. Details>>

In other gnus, Iced Ink temporary tattoos are now available at shows and will soon be available online.. how exciting! And last but not least we’re returning to The Rock Shop in Brooklyn on Saturday February 9th. Mark those calendars, this is definitely a show you’ll kick yourself for missing (we’ll be glad to kick you if you can’t reach). Our pals Assorted Animals, Heldin, Slothrust, and The Lost Patrol are also playing. That’s one exceptional evening of entertainment. We hope to see you there!

Friday 12/21 at Free Candy
Sponsored by Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen, the very recording facility where our album Music To Vacuum To was born. Speaking of, check out this awesome review of our album on the Mama Coco’s internets page. Thank you sir may we have another! This show is being recorded for a Mama Coco’s compilation so be sure to come out if you want your heckling immortalized on a live recording.

And then… providing the world still exists the following week:

Ella Lounge on 12/27
with our near and dear friends Assorted Animals.

We may even be debuting a new song or two at these. As if that weren’t enough – some sort of Iced Ink incarnation will be generating live music at a New Year’s Eve event. Details to come on that one. As for the rest of the shows, all of the gory info is just a few clicks away over on our Giggs page. Check it!

One last note: It’s the season of giving and we are giving you the gift of musical awareness of two awesome bands we played with last night at Parkside: Nevermind Orchestra (a super fun all brass Nirvana tribute band) and Lighteater – a super dooper awesome instrumental 4 piece that you should really make yourselves familiar with. Hop to it.

2012 was a great year for Iced Ink and we hope it was for you, too. Here’s to 2013 kicking even more ass!

Get yours today!

We are excited to announce that our new album Music To Vacuum To is now available for your consumption!

At the time this is being typed it is currently available online only as downloads, but CDs (which are already readily available at our shows) will also be available online at CDBaby within the week. Hooray!

Yeah. We’re this excited.

No? Seriously?

On a scale from 1 to 7, 1 being “eeeeh, what’s on TV?” and 7 being spontaneous combustion, we’re somewhere around 700. Oxheart is happening in Brooklyn this weekend. What’s Oxheart? It’s incredible art by incredible artists, live bands, aerialists, people who do cool shit with fire… all under one roof.

We’re playing both nights and releasing our new compact disque entitiled Music To Vacuum To. It will be available on the internets soon enough but if you’re one who likes to gloat about being the first one to have something way back before everybody else had it, pry yourself away from your iPhone 5 long enough to come to Oxheart and grab a copy. If you haven’t heard the McNugget from said CD that was posted online earlier this week here’s your chance:

Mmm. Soothing.

So yeah, come on out to Oxheart. You get $3 off admission if you RSVP in advance at http://www.oxheart.net/rsvp. That’s $3 you can put toward Music To Vacuum To. Here is every possible link you need in order to find out more/get to this Oxheart thing. We’ll hopefully see you there.

OXHEART: DANCETROPOLIS
Friday Oxtober 5 & Splatterday Oxtober 6th
doors @ 8PM
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

DISCOUNT RSVP via Oxheart website = http://www.oxheart.net/rsvp

FACEBOOK EVENTS for both nights (feel free to invite you and your friends) = https://www.facebook.com/oxheartnyc/events

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First off, it’s our drummer Ethan’s birthday on Thursday (September 27) and we’ll be rocking a joint called Don Pedro in East Williamsburg that night in his honor. Read all of the gory details on the official Facebook invite (or peep the details here if you’re not a Facebooker) and be sure to come on out!

Then on Oxtober 5th and 6th we’re back at the second Oxheart event DANCETROPOLIS, a music/art/dance/aerialist/etc event in Brooklyn. Trust us, you don’t want to miss it. RSVP and more info at oxheart.net.

THE NEW ALBUM!

Last but not least we’re terribly excited to announce that our album art and track list are complete. We’re looking at a release date of early October and will have the specific date confirmed ASAFP!

If you’ve been waiting for an exclusive preview of the album title, artwork from cover to cover, and track order your wait is over. Click the preview link below to feast your eyes on a high resolution version of the visual picnic that awaits you.

Fall is near!

Iced Ink has got not one… not two.. but THREE shows in September. And who knows… there may be more! We’re kicking things off at Otto’s Shrunken Head in Manhattan on September 5th and will keep going from there. For more info peep the Giggs page ASAFP.

In other gnus the tracks we cut over Memorial Day Weekend at Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen are in the final rounds of mixing. Sonic i’s are being dotted and t’s are being crossed.  The tunes are sounding great. You’ll be the first to know as soon as things are wrapped up and a release date is established. Be sure to sign up on ye olde mailing list for exclusive infrequent up-to-the-minute news on giggs, the new album, and all other Ink-related shenanigans.