New MSO CD/Xmas Card Combo. GREAT gift idea – check it out!

Holden demonstrates the new CD featuring a 2 new Holiday tracks. 1 from My Sister Ocean and 1 from Cara Albo.

Details at www.mysisterocean.com

Episode 7

My Sister Ocean plays Campus Chaos and brings you some clips of bands playing, a brief interview clip, and lots of tomfoolery with Travis from Social Code.

Episode 5

After a brief recording hiatus, the band gets back into action but joins a MSO Street Team member in her charity effort before the recording session.

Episode 4

Holden checks out Jezibelle at Warped Tour in Calgary. Holden and Eug work on a song with a limited setup and limited time.

Episode 3

Holden and Eug work on a song and share a little more footage of the writing process. Also, a brief clip of Holden at Virgin Festival sharing some Pearl Jam live footage.

Episode 2

Holden & Eugenio work on track 2 of the new album.

Episode 1

Holden and Eug work on the first song. It is written in about an hour, and Eug then tracks the drums. Eug explains a bit about his process. TECH SPECS: All the drums are tracked on Holden’s “old” system, a Windows machine running XP. He uses Cubase to track the drums through a Yamaha mixer and Delta 1010 soundcard, and a Delta 2496 card, for 10 total inputs. It’s a shitty system by any “pro” standards, but it works. The tracks recorded are then transferred as OMF files to Holden’s “new” system, a MacBook Pro running Logic. Then Holden tracks the rest of the instruments using his Apogee Duet soundcard (bass, vocals, etc…).

CMW 2009 [Walk on Queen St with Holden]

MSO is in Toronto for Canadian Music Week 2009. Holden gives a recap on the event. The band won an approx. $4000 prize pack that included airfare to Toronto and executive delegate passes to CMW 2009. (the band also won the same contest in 2007)

Work begins this Friday on the new MSO record.

Thanks to all that have come to see the shows this year and have enjoyed the music thus far.

Eug and I are excited to get to work. We’re going into this first session feeling rebellious, so I anticipate a few of the songs might not fit the previous MSO mold. Or maybe they’ll be the most MSO sounding songs yet. I don’t know… Since talking about music is like dancing about architecture, I’ll simply say that Eug and I are planning on recording 10-12 new songs between now and August 31st. If you want to hear them, you’ll have to sign up for the mailing list at http://www.mysisterocean.com (there happens to be 6 free songs there already from our last EP).

So, tell your friends that My Sister Ocean has some new songs coming down the pipe.

In the meantime, Eug and I will be updating y’all on the progress of our songs in a weekly Podcast on iTunes. You can go there now to subscribe and see my quick lame intro. http://mysisterocean.blip.tv/rss/itunes/ [trust me, there will be plenty of more lameness to come]

This Saturday @ Urban Lounge

If you haven’t messaged Eug or myself for advance tix, better do so! We only have a handful left. You can email us at info@mysisterocean.com too.

We’ll be shooting a portion of the evening for the upcoming “Can I Buy You a Drink” music video, which will combine live clips with some cool additional visuals we’ve dreamed up. Bring your best pickup lines too for your shot to be in the video!

Doors @ 9pm. 18+. Hope to see you there!