Forty Four Distribution

SUMMER 2008 NOISE CHART

2008-07-09T12:03:00.001-07:00

STAYING STRONG IN 2008

RADIO CHARTS
Radio Chart: Summer 2008
1. Dresden Dolls – No Virginia
2. Ho-Ag – Doctor Cowboy
3. Pulp 45 – Tales of Mad Rock & Roll Savages on a Rampage
4. Neptune – Gong Lake
5. Hallelujah the Hills – Prepare to Qualify
6. Thalia Zedek Band – Liars and Prayers
7. Mission of Bur ma – The Definitive Editions
8. The Rationales – The Going and The Gone
9. Aloud – Fan the Fury
10. Big Dipper – Super Cluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
11. Girls Guns & Glory – Inverted Valentine
12. Glorytellers – Glorytellers
13. Matters and Dunaway – Feel the Future
14. Apple Betty – ABCD
15. December Sound – The Silver Album
16. Destruct-a-thon – Aloha Jihad
17. Dirt Mall – Got the Goat By the Horns
18. Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves – Roll With You
19. Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue
20. The Fatal Flaw – The Fatal Flaw
21. Area C – Charmed Birds Against Sorcery/Darkens the Mind
22. Guillermo Sexo – Magic Lanterns
23. Hot Bo x – The Histone Code
24. Me & Joan Collins – Me & Joan Collins
25. Muck & the Mires – Doreen
26. Static of the Gods – “Peluche”
27. Three Day Thres hold – The Hi-N-Dry Sessions
28. Townsh ip – Coming Home
29. 28 Degrees Taurus – How Do You Like Your Love
30. Witch – Paralyzed

The Noise Top 30 Radio Chart is based on the amount of
radio airplay given to locally released CDs.
It’s compiled by RadioTony using playlists from
WAAF, WMBR, WMFO, WTCC and WZBC.
If your station would like to add its local playlist to the chart,
contact radiotony@comcast.net

Another Review!

2008-07-09T12:02:00.000-07:00

So sweet. Thanks Adam!

LINK HERE!

Little Bits about you know who

2008-06-23T07:17:00.000-07:00

Elle @ DetroitRiot wrote a little bit about us and our tour so check it out here :

Detroit Riot!

Also! Jared @ 5acts.com posted a song and our dates. He posts new music and videos every day check it our here:

5 Acts

We're so excited for tour we can't wait! See you soon

Keeping it Alive RADIOCHART 2008

2008-06-09T07:04:00.000-07:00

Radio Chart: June 2008

1. Neptune – Gong Lake
2. Aloud – Fan the Fury
3. December Sound – The Silver Album
4. Big Dipper – Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
5. Mission of Burma – Dpro
6. Dirt Mall – Got the Goat by the Horns
7. My Own Worst Enemy – Total Action
8. Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves – Roll With You
9. 28 Degrees Taurus – Underwater Love Sequences
10. Ho-Ag – Doctor Cowboy
11. Girls Guns and Glory – Inverted Valentine
12. Lo Fine – Not For Us Two
13 Thalia Zedek Band – Liars and Prayers
14. Destruct-a-thon – Aloha Jihad
15. Dresden Dolls – No Virginia
16. Paper Thin Stages – Flying Herse
17. Vary Lumar – Waiting Room
18. Scotch Rocks – Scotch Rocks
19. The Grownup Noise – The Grownup Noise
20. Televandals – Madison Avenue Reality
21. Black Clouds – “The Thing From Beyond the Amp”
22. Black Fortress of Opium – Black Fortress of Opium
23. The Break Mission – As Much Light As It Will Take
24. Dropkick Murphys – The Meanest of Times
25. Read Yellow – Gang Violins
26. Static of the Gods – Cycles Follow Signs
27. Jason Anderson – Tonight
28. Township – Coming Home
29. Hot Box – The Histone Code
30. Breeders – Mountain Battles

Boston and New York

2008-06-09T06:50:00.000-07:00

Updates Updates Updates.....

We have a new song posted from our live performance on WMBR the other night. Its called "I'll tell you later" and will be on our new release sometime this fall/winter.

Last weekend was our first show at the Mid East Upstairs and we were happy to share the stage with our good friend in Trades and Territories and NYC's Third Border. I'm a big fan of the Middle East. I like the room size and set up. The sound was GREAT. This was probably one of our best performances to date, and I only wish we had it recorded. Trades and Territories were great as usual. I really like the new Territories songs and their new record sound fantastic! Make sure to check it out, when its ready, whenever that is.

If you didn't make it out we will be playing June 23rd @ Charlie's Kitchen with Territories, This Car Up, Dolphinbot and Doomstar!

Saturday we trekked down to NYC in the Dolphinbot van to play at the Lit Lounge with House on a Hill and The Aviation Orange. The van was nice and comfy but lacking some essentials (stereo and ac). Once we hit the city that van turned into a death chamber and I could not WAIT to escape. The show went really smoothly as we shared a lot of equipment. Dolphinbot experienced some "technical difficulties" we helped them out with ;) but they sounded great! We will be playing lots of shows with them in the near future. House on a Hill are one of my current favorite bands. They are wonderful people and sound incredible. If you haven't heard them or see them you really are missing out. I've brought back some copies of their full length "Nicest View of a War" and you can pick it up from me for $10 whenever. (fortyfourdistro@Yahoo.com). The Aviation Orange had a shortened set (sorry guys) but they made the most of it and had the crowd moving quite a bit. They're another Brooklyn based band (www.myspace.com/theaviationorange) if you don't know them yet!

I have now had a combined 6 hours of sleep the past 2 nights and am delirious and disoriented. If this makes no sense I blame that. Or Sal from Quiet Loudly for punching me in the eye. Maybe I should call it pink eye and go home for some R&R.

See you soon <3

FANTASY TOUR 2008

2008-06-04T12:06:00.001-07:00

COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU!!

Review!

2008-05-21T13:31:00.000-07:00

Check our our show June 1st @ the mideast upstairs!! Trades, Territories, Third Border (we feel a bit left out not being a t-named band but regardless) we're on at 9 pm! We'd love you if you come, we probably love you already.

Boston Music Review did a little ditty on our EP "the Histone Code". See what you think of it.

http://boston-music.blogspot.com/2008/05/hot-box.html

Noise Radio Chart May 2008

2008-05-15T07:36:00.000-07:00

So we may have dropped a bit but were still here! CD issues and all. (We will be more officially pressing the EP soon so that this does not happen ever again). And we are so happy to be sharing this with our friends in This Car Up and 28 Degrees Taurus.

Noise Radio Chart May 2008
1. Big Dipper – Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology
2. Mission of Burma – The Definitive Editions, 1979 to 1983 [reissues]
3. Jason Anderson – Tonight
4. The December Sound – The Silver Album
5. Thalia Zedek Band – Liars and Prayers
6. Black Fortress of Opium – Black Fortress of Opium
7. Witch – Paralyzed
8. Action Verbs – “Canary/“Glass Slippers”
9. Aloud – Fan the Fury
10. Neptune – Gong Lake
11. Christ Pearson/Ekranoplan – Soundtracks
12. Township – Coming Home
13. Dropkick Murphys – The Meanest of Times
14. Jason Bennett & the Resistance – Hope Dies Last
15. Meg Hutchinson – Come Up Full
16. Muck & the Mires – Doreen EP
17. This Car Up – Smile When You’re Alone
18. Travels – Travels
19. Tim Blane – Clockwork
20. The Doom Buggies – The Doom Buggies
21. Max Heinegg – These Familiar Days
22. Hooray For Earth – Cellphone
23. The Grownup Noise – The Grownup Noise
24. Hot Box – The Histone Code
25. Magic Magic – LP
26. Me & Joan Collins – Me & Joan Collins
27. Bobb Trimble – Iron Curtain Innocence
28. Rouge Heroes – The King is Dead
29. 28 Degrees Taurus – How Do You Like Your Love?
30. While Rome Burns – The Beauty in Violence

April Updates!

2008-05-05T08:56:00.001-07:00

This is what happens when you get busy and lazy and forgetful.

Things that have happened in reverse order:

1. TSHIRTS! We have them and they are awesome. Two colors, YL S M L. Honey and Jade Green. The design is up on our myspace page. e-mail merch@hotboxboston.com to order. $10 a piece or you can get them at our next show!

2. BUTTONS & STICKERS! New designs to match the shirts and the same out HOT BOX but in new bright summer colors! Stickers with the marilyn design are coming too.

3. First HOT BOX WEEKEND. "We're on tour" "what?" "Last night was the first night in New York and now this is the last night in Philly" (onstage @ the 941 theater).

- If only all of tour will be like this weekend. Friday we played with June Morris, Quiet Loudly and Bridget & the Squares @ Hank's Saloon. I wanted to get in here before it closed but contrary to popular or not so popular belief it is actually just going through renovations and not closing permanently. Crashed in Fort Glassman early while Sara from House on a Hill kept the rest of the gang out until 4 am drinking jager at this sweet dive across from Bill's loft. (Why always jager?!)

- Next day we drove down to philly to meet up with my parents. Had an awesome dinner, got out selves situated at the house and headed downtown. The 941 theater is in the northern liberties which I wasn't very familiar with and stuck between row homes on a back street. Inside it was pretty nice, not the ideal place to have a band playing what with the concrete floors and walls and all, but everyone was nice and there was free beer and diy art. We were very happy to be apart of the 10th Big Art Show. Danielle and Eric both scored some sweet shirts, earrings, prints etc.

4. FRANKLIN BASEMENT

- Our first show, somehow?, was with Horsehands (really awesome new band from Boston who we can't wait to play with again), House on a Hill (from NYC, love love love these guys, you can see us with them June 7th @ the Lit Lounge), Often Airborne (Barry, Kurt, Bryan and Eric D) this was actually my first time seeing them play, I've heard Barry (once) at open mic solo but it was nice to see them all together, and lastly our friends in Abolition Band. This was originally going to be the re-schedule of the Jacques Cabaret show that never got off the ground but only Abolition Band could do it. Oh well, it was as always nice to play with them. Everyone seemed to have a great time.

Now for the future:

MAY 15TH @ O'BRIEN'S PUB in Allston, MA

Fly Upright Kite

My Lucky Stars

Hot Box

Silent Service

Forty {44} Four Distribution

2008-04-16T08:18:00.000-07:00

Now has a website: (albeit spelled incorrectly but still functional) www.fourtyfourdistro.com

I've been learning all the HTML / JAVASCRIPT I can manage and it should be going live sometime this weekend. How exciting?!

It also has a less exciting but still somehow functional myspace page (correctly spelled this time) www.myspace.com/fortyfourdistro

please give a look and listen to the bands if you haven't heard of them.

We're #14!

2008-04-04T07:28:00.000-07:00

Noise Radio Chart April 2008

1. Neptune – Gong Lake
2. December Sound – The Silber Album
3. Black Fortress of Opium – Black Fortress of Opium
4. Dirt Mall – Got the Goat by the Horns
5. Hallelujah the Hills – Collective Psychosis Begone
6. A.K.A.C.O.D. – Happiness
7. Chris Pearson/Ekranoplan – Soundtracks
8. Mobius Band – Heaven
9. Pants Yell! – Alison Stratton
10. Guillermo Sexo – Guillermo Sexo
11. Ball and Pivot – Heart in the Sky
12. Bobb Trimble – Iron Curtain Innocence
13. The Doom Buggies – The Doom Buggies
14. Hot Box – The Histone Code
15. Me and Joan Collins – From Behind EP
16. Miskatonic – Let Us Entertain Us
17. Passion Pit – Chunk of Change
18. While Rome Burns – The Beauty In Violence
19. Apple Betty – Let's Play
20. Cheater Pint – Cheater Pint
21. Concord Ballet Orchestra Players – Flying Together EP
22. Cuddle Magic – Cuddle Magic
23. Dear Leader – Dear Leader
24. Fire on Fire – 5 Song EP
25. Freezepop – Future Future Future Perfect
26. Gondoliers – Gondoliers
27. Paper Thin Stages – Flying Hearse
28. Gregg Porter – Final Final EP
29. Pulse Prophets – Breathe
30. Turpentine Brothers – Turpentine

The Noise Top 30 Radio Chart is based on the amount of radio airplay given to locally released CDs. It's compiled by RadioTony using playlists from WAAF, WBCN, WFNX, WMBR, WMFO, WTCC, and WZBC. If your station would like to add its local playlist to the chart, contact radiotony@comcast.net

Milky Way Recap and Tour Preparations etc.

2008-04-03T08:22:00.001-07:00

I called a friend last night to see if he was going to be coming down to the Milky Way for our show with AM Syndicate, to which he said, "yeah i saw you in the paper,"

puzzlement, confusion, "what?"

"there was picture of you in the paper"

"a picture? of me?"

"yeah there was a picture of you, for the show tonight, i saw it in the Herald"

"what? what do you mean?"

I didn't get it. Its a good thing someone I know reads the Herald or I would have never known there was a cute little picture of us on the front page of the entertainment section of yesterdays Herald. We were in the top corner right above ( of all bands ) Pavement.

"Everyone loves free shows, especially ones with local indie trio Hot Box and Texas' AM Syndicate" Our 2 minutes in fame. But a great two minutes, its hard to feel like your efforts are worthless and no one is going to come to your show and you doubt yourself at every turn, but little reminders that there is a method to all of this madness bring you back to life. This weekend will be filled with mail-outs and song writing and t-shirt making and tour preparations. Can you feel it coming?

Summer Tour 2008

2008-04-01T07:52:00.000-07:00

We are in the works of putting together a 1 week midwest tour this July. How exciting!

It will look (somewhat) like this:

SAT 7/11 Detroit, Mi

SUN 7/13 Chicago, Il

MON 7/14 Madison, WI

TUES 7/15 St. Louis, MO

WED 7/16 Indianapolis, IN

THURS 7/17 Cleveland, OH

FRI 7/18 Pittsburg, PA

SAT 7/19 Philadelphia, PA/ Somewhere, NJ

If you live in these cities we would love to see you and sleep on your couch/floor. If you'd like to help us or are in bands in these cities e-mail me @ adellevigne@gmail.com. Thanks.

Lit Lounge Show

2008-03-31T11:14:00.000-07:00

This past saturday we had the pleasure of playing with our friends in the Soundscapes who are absolutely amazing and you need to check them out if you haven't yet. We were very happy to be back in NYC as we hadn't played down there since July (don't worry we'll be back more often in the upcoming months). We want to thank all of our old and new friends for coming out. There were people in attendance from all points in our lives and it really meant a lot to us.

Werewolves were on after us, and it was nice to see them play (again). They have a sound from another time (try late 70s/early 80s) but slightly updated. People danced, it was great. Last was Modrocket who for 4 seventeen year old girls put on quite the show. Their singer has an amazing voice (No Doubt/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and they finished with a "Where Eagles Dare" cover. (Sweet).

Afterwards we headed back to brooklyn to meet up at the Werewolves loft where we spent the majority of the night hanging out with some mannequins and almost breaking things (unintentionally). Spent the night in Fort Glassman after victorious rock paper scissors and arm wrestling match wins. Thank you Gunfight! for always being so hospitable to our drunken nonsense.

On one final note: Ask your local beer distributors for Boar's Head Brew!

NYC This Saturday

2008-03-26T14:01:00.001-07:00

We cannot wait to play with the Soundscapes, Werewolves & Modrocket. Its only wednesday, why!?!

danielle: my fingers are sweating
me: i just spit out my mouth
because i was laughing
danielle: lol
i love telling you about the parts of me that are sweating

We're awesome. Be our friends.

New Things Are Coming

2008-03-20T07:13:00.000-07:00

New buttons. (new designs) I'll hint: pigs, wings, rats, flowers, or some combination thereof.

Shirts too. Two colors, two designs. Get ready!

Free tickets to our NYC show 3.29

2008-03-18T18:56:00.000-07:00

The Village Voice is doing a special promo where you can win free tickets to our show March 29th @ the Lit lounge. I personally can't wait to play. The line up is: Modrocket, The Soundscapes, Werewolves & Hot Box.

Enter to win free tickets here

If you live in the NYC area you should definitely try and come out. I wouldn't want to miss this one.

Radio Play!

2008-03-18T13:20:00.001-07:00

Hi! This past sunday the song "misery" was playing off our new EP "The Histone Code" on Boston's WFNX 101.7 FM

The song was played on their local music show "New England Product" which airs every sunday from 10 -11 pm. If you haven't heard it before you should definitely check it out.

In other news, we have a show this friday at PA's Lounge with Ara Vora and Muy Cansado. Its $8 ($11 for 8-21) and starts at 9 pm.

WOOt

Plough & Stars Show

2008-03-08T11:11:00.001-08:00

Last night we rocked out the plough and stars in central sq. with Justin Shorey. I love this bar. Its a small enough room that its easily filled and your audience is a foot in front of you, and theres no stage. Its the closest thing to a house party you can get at a venue and I really appreciated the intimacy. There was a great vibe.

We played the longest set we have to date , exhausting all of our old material and bringing out two new songs. Eric Dahlgren played sax with us again. I could hear him for the first time and it was GREAT! He really adds a lot to chainsmokers moody club feel and strengthens the waltz. Video footage was taken and will be posted soon. We had a wonderful time at the plough and hope to play there again.

The after party was at our place as usual. After the last party we didn't expect to need as much alcohol but people came thirsty and probably left thirsty as the beer ran out within the first hour. There was a great collection of neuroscientists and rockers in attendence along with a few randoms I'd never seen before.

Playlist 3.3.08

2008-03-03T13:51:00.000-08:00

DOWNLOAD PLAYLIST

For your listening pleasures:

1. Sweet Marie - The Anniversary

2. Nine Things Everybody Knows - Q and not U

3. Neon Golden - The Notwist

4. Berlin! Berlin! - Colonies

5. The Toy Garden - Helios

6. A Song to End All Songs - Officer May

7. I Wanna Be Your Dog - Stooges

8. Snakedriver - Jesus & Mary Chain

9. I Love You, Blowtorch Eyes - She, Sir

10. Down By The Sea - Beat Happening

11. Baby Its Just You - Skywave

12. Let Me Sleep - The Dead TreeS

2/29/08 @ PINK HOUSE

2008-03-03T12:42:00.000-08:00

Hot Box Live

The wigs, the rock. Enjoy.

Special Thanks to our friend Pat for filming.
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Leap Year Party Show!

2008-03-03T07:36:00.000-08:00

As you may or may not have heard, our recent Jacques show was cancelled due to unforeseen events out of our control. We were really looking forward to playing this one and hopefully it will be rescheduled for sometime in the near future. Please check out Abolition Band, Woodrow Wilsons and Carie Okie Band.

THE GOOD NEWS IS: We still played!

The wonderful wonderful boys (and girl!) in DolphinBot saved the day and hooked us up with a really fun house party in Somerville. Thank you Brian for having us. Wigs were worn, blood was shed, Brian Murphy & Barino made special guest percussion appearances. Most importantly Erik Dahlgren played his first show with us on Sax. His lovely melodies were heard on Chainsmokers and The Waltz, more to come soon.

As the night ended I couldn't help but be reminded of Great Scott as the water dripped began a slow drip from the second floor that spread and leaked and gushed lovely sewage water on the patrons of Pink House, at which point, it was time for us to leave. Look out for more shows at Pink House in the future.

There will hopefully be photos and video soon!

Boston Globe Page One Podcast

2008-02-29T06:08:00.001-08:00

You can listen to the Hot Box on today and yesterday's edition of the Page One Podcast!!

feed://syndication.boston.com/globe/special/podcast/BG_P1P_rss.xml

This podcast sums up the Boston Globe's daily news. We are very excited to be the first local band to ever be featured!

New Song Posted!!

2008-02-28T12:18:00.000-08:00

Hey! Guess what? We posted a new song. How exciting is that? (probably not very except to us) regardless we hope you listen and enjoy it because we do. It is a very early version (we wrote the second half during recording) and was done all at once in garage band. Therefore its more a taste if you will of the future potential of this song. Its for our friend Greg Murphy of 28 Degrees Taurus.

Listen below or check out our page @ www.myspace.com/hotboxboston for the video too!

Note the ridiculous blonde wig that you will see more of if you come out this Friday to Jacques Underground! (The wig was courtesy of Karina DeCosta of 28DT what would we do without those guys?)

Canadians

2008-02-20T08:55:00.000-08:00

Potential Hot Box Cover?

Current Playlist

2008-02-19T09:46:00.001-08:00

My current playlist can be downloaded here:

playlist

My contribution for today.

Pavement - Grave Architecture (Wowee Zowee)
Husker Du - Pink Turns to Blue (Zen Arcade)
Bauhaus - Passion of Lovers (1979 - 83 Disc 1)
Bedhead - Psychosomatica (Transaction de Novo)
Pedro the Lion - Transcontinental (Achilles Heel)
Make Believe - One Zero (Shock of Being)
Cap'n Jazz - Ooh Do I Love You (Analphabetapolothology)
Maritime - Aren't We All Found Out (Heresy and the Hotel Choir)
The Weakerthans - Aside (Left & Leaving)
Unicorns - Sea Ghost (Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?)
Built to Spill - Reasons (There's Nothing Wrong with Love)
Shivvers - Teen Line (Lost Hits from Milwaukee's ...)
Chisel - 8 AM All Day (8 AM All Day)
Thumb of the Maid - Julian Blood Boy (S/T)
Mittens - Like a Shot (Fools on a Holiday)
The Sw!ms - Cinoff It (Ride of the Blueberry Winter)

Science Jokes

2008-02-15T08:18:00.001-08:00

Told to me yesterday by Andrew from Maine:

Two hydrogen atoms are hanging out and one says to the other, "I think I lost an electron."

The second asks, "Are you sure?"

The first responds, "I'm positive."

I would like more jokes. You can tell them to me here: O Ham and A Who

(I am seriously preferential to science jokes but math jokes work too.)

Also, Mittens last show was fantastic last night. If you didn't get a chance to see them, you severely missed out. I'll upload all of their tunes I have so you can bask in the legacy.

Science Jokes

2008-02-12T12:12:00.000-08:00

I guess eventually I should post the first 3 weekly videos but for now you can just enjoy the last weekly video posted yesterday 2/11/08.

Science Jokes: (Courtesy of Alex Rivest)

O'brien's Pub

2008-02-09T12:32:00.002-08:00

"It was frock" (fucking rock) D

This was probably my favorite line up yet. Teletext, Famous Lovers, Gunfight!, and Bridget & the Squares, I mean come on! They stopped letting people in. For future reference O'brien's only holds 70 people at a time. We still couldn't be happier.

Yoyo is our new official sales person. If you were there, she is the tall asian female accosting you to purchase a hot box lip balm (you don't have ONE dollar?!). Danielle and I are not allowed to dance for other bands, at least not after so many drinks (injuries will undoubtably occur). But don't worry Eric will forever save us from driving home drunk. (How did we get home?)

The after party was at our place. Our apt smelled like beer for the first time ever and I forgot how uncomfortable waking up hungover and the unescapable smell of alcohol can be. Apparently I threw someone out of the party by force. I heard he fell down the stairs but that was no fault of my own. I was out of the loop and thought he was actually fighting D so of course I had to stop him. (It had nothing to do with all that whiskey). Making jinsen into a toilet paper mummy just made a mess.

I'd love to shower. I'll post pictures soon. Our next show is March 29th and we have costume ideas. How appropriate. Enjoy the flyer and if you aren't already aware:

enjoy! Oh, on a final note, if you have any pictures from the show/party/of us/ old/ new/ boring/ shitty angles/ blurry we don't care just send them :) thanks.

A

Currently

listening
:

Brighten The Corners
By Pavement
Release date: By 23 June, 1999

Current Thoughts

2008-01-29T12:58:00.000-08:00

I like playing shows. I'd like to play more outside of Boston. New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Montreal, Canada, that means you. I'd like Danielle to stop being an adult so that we could do this more easily. For now we are on a tight schedule. Things will happen soon. Can you feel it too?

In other news, we have written two new songs that I am very pleased with. They are both literary references which also makes me happy. I think we will do an entire EP of literary reference songs. I haven't come up with a clever enough title yet or I would share it with you, or maybe I'm just holding out. We are also bringing back Goodbye due to popular (or singular) demand.

I'm excited.

Abbey Lounge Show

2008-01-26T17:16:00.000-08:00

We played for the first time at the Abbey Lounge on Wednesday. We were on first at 9pm and I was afraid that our friends would not arrive until our set was just ending considering a thirty minute time window is not nearly enough for most people I know (including myself). I was greatly suprised to find that the room was full from the first song. We didn't play many, only 5 to be exact but were well received. Twin falls was a definite highlight. The timing was a bit all over the place but we made it work.

Most exciting we released our first EP "The Histone Code"! Sales were fantastic and everyone loved us bringing back the LIP BALMS. I'm going to need to order new pins soon. What colors should I make them? Red and black again? Bright neon green and orange? HMM. The possibilities are endless.

In other HB news, we have almost finished a new song called "The thing I know" and cannot wait to debut it. (Most likely at the February 8th show!! ***) We also wrote a new song today which I will be singing on. Crazy eh? Exciting things for the hot box.

"The Hot Box is on Fire!!" Is all we keep hearing. We love it. We love our friends. We couldn't be happier.

*** Next show!!

February 8th 2008

8pm !!!

O'briens Pub

Allston MA

Hot Box

Teletext

Famous Lovers

Gunfight

Bridget & the Squares.

"The Histone Code" EP

2008-01-22T13:34:00.000-08:00

CDs are $5 (Shipping Included).

Rwanda photo CDs will benefit the Rwaza Orphanage

Make note when ordering whether you would like the Rwanda or Hot Box covers. The Rwanda covers are limited and more will be made depending on interest.

In the future I'd really love to make a This is Boston! (if you will) mix of current indie rock going on in Boston and have them be benefits for this orphanage. If you are interested in being a part of this contact me here (adellevigne@gmail.com)

On the Radio

2008-01-19T13:40:00.000-08:00

By the way,

Tufts University has a much larger, more stacked, better equipped (could be lying) and funner (more couches to jump on) radio station than Boston College.

Playing on the radio was fun. There will be live recordings which sound fantastic. We couldn't be happier with the sound. The between song banter was at an all time high. "I'll tell you later"

The interview was, awkward. Talk a little bit about your band. You have shows. What about that lip balm? But we are awkward so it all works out.

We would like to play more radio shows. Ideally having enough recordings to choose from we will release a live EP for fun, for free.

Thank you, A

Radio Show

2008-01-16T07:32:00.000-08:00

Tonight we are doing a radio show on Tufts University Radio station 91.5 FM. The show starts around 10 pm followed by a short interview. I already know they are going to ask what Hot Box means. I am going to politely decline to answer.

In other news we now have a lovely practice space at the Sound Museum on Demby Rd in Allston. A bit of a step up from the penis-covered walls of the Billerica Space and much easier to get to. Plus we share with our good friend in Sanguine Drone and Bill and George in Amoroso are just down the hall (until the end of the month at least). Expect impromptu live sessions to happen in the near future.

Listen to my band.

2008-01-10T09:58:00.000-08:00

Here: www.myspace.com/hotboxboston

Here: www.hotboxboston.com

Here: 1/10/08 Sally Obriens

FREE SHOW w/

Trades

Left Hand Does

Hot Box

Here: 1/16/08 WFMO Tufts Radio

10 pm Radio Show

Here: 1/23/08 Abbey Lounge

Trades

Ara Nora

Soap Stars

Hot Box

7 bucks

Here: 2/08/08 Obriens

Awesome show w/

Gunfight!

Bridget & the Squares

Hot Box

Send me money and I'll send you a cd. and maybe a button or a lip balm. or you can order the buttons or the lip balm. everyone wants a lip balm.