Dear fans, friends, peers, and loved ones,

Thank you immensely for making Seven Car Pileup by far the most successful and enjoyable  part of my music career to date. I’ve never had more fun playing music than I am now.

However, it would be silly to pretend that making music, especially these days,  is enough to satisfy a human being. The recipe for happiness must contain a level of acceptance of one’s surroundings and that is not something which I can muster in the state of Arizona. Whether it is the hostile political climate, or just the hostile climate, Arizona is just not for me. Arizona is a desert in more ways than just weather. That isn’t to say there aren’t tremendous people who live here. I have met so many wonderful people here. It is just to say that this place, at least at this point, is not my home. With that in mind I announce that I will be moving to Los Angeles California at the end of June.

What does that mean for Seven Car Pileup? That is a really big question and I don’t think we’ve been able to honestly answer that with each other. All we know at this point is that we still love playing music with each other, and we’ll do our best to still crate separated by 300 + miles.

This of course puts any plans to record and release any new recordings of new songs difficult at best. However, I can rest assured that we have left quite a little legacy of recorded music which will live on for eternity. Whenever a guy wants to tell a girl how he wants to rock her world by allusion of a macho 70’s movie actor, if somebody feels like they’re not in control,  if somebody wants to make out at a drive-in, and or if there is a need to express the complicated emotion of juggling work passions and love passions they can find it through the music of Seven Car Pileup.

There will be a few last shows before I leave. This Saturday (5/29) we’ll be at Long Wongs, and on June 4th we’ll be at Long Wongs as well. On June 18th we’ll be at Hollywood Alley. We will have a comprehensive celebration of a show where we will cover the highlights thus far.

We will keep you posted about any side or future projects through this blog. Who knows though. We certainly wouldn’t be the first Arizona band to have a member in LA and another member in the Phoenix area. Thank you again for all the support! We couldn’t have done anything with out your support.

Love,

Mark Mason - Vocals, Guitar, Production, Lyrics, Web, ect…

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Our merch lady extraordinaire will be heading across the continent at the end of January to go work for Disney World for a little bit. It’s a tremendous opportunity for her, but we will miss her. However, probably not as much as her husband our sound guy, Josh Tucker. To celebrate her and to wish her off well we’ll be putting on a show in her honor. I can firmly promise you all the bands we’re playing with are top tier. Some of the best bands that the Arizona music scene has to promise you. There are a couple more I wish I could add into the bill, but each one of these is easily in my top 10 list of favorite local bands.

Mergence - We’ve grown to enjoy this band quite a bit. We have and will continue to profess our strong admiration for Adam Bruce’s lyrics and melodies, Yod’s guitar lines, Jason Roedl’s bombastic but consistent drums and Jason Fingar’s bass lines. Their stellar sound is a mixture of remarkable band chemistry and thoughtful song-writing. Think Zeppelin, with Beatle songs.

The Haymarket Squares - Another one of our favorite local groups. The Haymarket Squares take punk to a place it has seldom gone before, bluegrass. They have mixture of punk energy and irreverence with an ornate folk charm which they call punk-grass for the people. They’re the only band in town that can have people nodding their heads and dancing along to left-leaning politicking.
 

Sister Cities - With their nifty mixture of garage, surf, and sunny pop, the Sister Cities feel like they could be from the mid 60’s California scene. Yet, the Sister Cities have a modern sensibility that is very now. Think a better version of the Raveonettes, or a more aural version of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, or a leaner British Sea Power. Whatever you think, they’re a great show.

…and of course we’ll (Seven Car Pileup) be playing as well.

We hope to see you there!

Tuesday we were fortunate enough to be able to play an awesome show at the Marquee Theatre (our first time at the venue), opening for the high energy rockers Cage The Elephant. They showed that they’re more than their radio rockin ”Aint No Rest For The Wicked”, and we feel they have lots of potential.

We’d like to thank Gadger, and the rest of the staff, at FM 103.9 who have been incredibly supportive of this little band. Thank you very much for the tremendous opportunity.

We especially want to thank our fans for sticking with us up to this point. We couldn’t have done it without you. It’s been a long rewarding journey, and we plan to keep at it. We’ll do something like this again real soon.

How have you guys been? We’ve been good. We’re keeping busy.

We had an awesome time playing with Authority Zero. The stage set-up for the night was very nice. It was also very cool to have our friend Michael Broyles playing piano on a few of the songs. 

We have some cool shows on the horizon. Both cool for different reasons.

This Saturday in Glendale we’ll be playing at Westgate Shopping Center in the Fountain Park. It’s free, all ages, and close for all you west valley folks to come and check us out. We may have a new song or two since you’ve seen us last and this is a great opportunity to experience it for free. We hit the stage at about 6pm and will be done at 9pm.

Next Thursday we’ll be rocking socks off at the posh Scottsdale rock club Dirty Pretty. Come out for an awesome night of music at a really nice bar. We go on at about midnight.

The third Thursday of this month we’ll be rocking with Black Carl and Boston’s Crash Kings. Crash Kings are an awesome band that bridges the gap between the piano rock of Ben Folds Five and the garage punk of The White Stripes. We’re very excited the share the stage with them. This all goes down at Craftsman Court in Scottsdale. Listen to FM 103.9 for more details.

We’ll be playing ASU’s polytechnic homecoming event on the 29th of this month. We’re pretty excited about it as we’ll be opening for Authority Zero (a local band previously signed to Lava Records, a Warner Music Group affiliate label). It will be lots of fun and it will be really fun to play for a larger than normal audience. It’s free to get in with an ASU ID, and ASU students may bring one guest. We’ll go on at 6pm.

Not only will there be a discount for those who attend our Saturday May 16th Zombie Release Party dressed as a zombie, but there will be a prize given away for the best un-dead party attender. A Samsung Pebble MP3 player loaded with every song we’ve recorded thus far. That includes, our new EP, self-titled album, and b-sides and demos some un-released.

The doors open on the venue at sunset for a ghoulish festival of rock.
Trunk Space
1506 NW Grand Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85007