Howdy y'all.  We're glad to announce our first show of 2010.  WBT will be taking the stage at 9pm on Saturday, February 20th at Fat Baby in New York City.  We'll be sharing the stage with Albany friends 7th Squeeze.  Come early and check out their 8pm set.  This promises to be a great night of music...we might even throw out a couple sneak previews from our forthcoming album.

Additionally, we're calling on our fans and friends to help us get to Camp Bisco, and no we're not looking for your extra, brah...  This year, the folks who put on Camp are looking for your suggestions for bands you want to see rip it up.  Just CLICK HERE and fill out the form and help get WBT to Camp.  Plus 20 heady points.

See you on the 20th!

We were digging through the miles of file cabinets holding old WBT shows when we realized that the 10/28/06 show from the Dsan/Lord Lounge had never been properly released in full, and so now we aim to rectify that!  The show came near the end of the power trio years, and thus, has a nice cross section of Green songs, still being fleshed out at the time, and songs that disappeared completely with lineup shifts.  Despite the transitional elements, the show was an important one for the band, in terms of stretching out compositions and segues, and maybe a pinnicle of our nights at the Lounge.  The DLL was an apartment venue about 2 blocks south of Central Park, and in the end WBT played about 5 shows there from 2005-2007, including the Green release party.   

From the owners:

John "Dsan" Dennison:

The Dsan/Lord Lounge - Many of you may not know that I had a love/hate relationship with the DLL.  I would love the fact that a show was approaching and I could do all the things I felt were necessary to throw the bash.  I would hate that this process would consume me to the point of thinking only about the night for a full week before, and wishing the following week that it was still happening.  That's a full two weeks of thought!  It was worth it.  I didn't even have to invite anyone.  You all just showed up!  That's the amazing part.  The shape of the room was a rectangular cube.  You could have picked it up and put us on a flatbed truck.  More than half was taken up by humans.  Instruments and equipment took up an incredible amount of space.  The rest was sound.  But somehow it all worked.  Everywhere I looked people would be doing their thing, whatever that meant to them at the time.  For me, I could have been doing any of 10 different things at the same time, my favorite of course was going on stage and interacting with the band.  Because the Wounded Buffalo theory would be doing their thing - playing whatever the hell they wanted.  That was my other favorite part of their shows at the lounge.  Their dynamic range as a band was greatest in this space, and yes I mean both ends of the range.  There's a spacious quality found throughout this show - MDMA, Lies, NF and the Pledge all open up real wide.  Even Putin Bay opens up nice.  The fun is in Thriller and Elements because Shamellow free verse over wbt is just too good.  Elements feeds off of that.   So does the the remainder of the show, for that matter.  When I think back, this was probably the most successful night there.  Unless, by successful, you mean raising money to cure cancer, which we did there as well.

   Eric Lord:

So after last week's Dub collection, we decided to dig deep for our next online release, and bust out a whole shitload of old, new, and heretofore unreleased softies, acoostics, love songs, ballads, sagas, psalms, hymms, madrigals, strains, and even a sweet-ass instrumental in 7/8 time. And so, we sweetly and soothingly give you, Songs That Got Us Laid, Vol. 1, a collection of  various versions of songs that, througout the years, have often gotten some of the best responses of anything we've preformed or recorded, while achingly playing second fiddle in setlists and albums to louder, more obnoxious stuff that we happened to like playing more.

 The first 4 songs are new, or, in other words, written in the last 5 years:).  There's a couple from John, and one each from Rob and myself.  The following 5 tracks, starting with Blanton's beautiful string version of "Traveler's Song", are various mixes, remixes, and demo versions of more familiar material.  "The Under Over", "Where's Crosby" and "Why Can't We Just Be Enemies?" are all live acoustic versions, and the album concludes with some golden oldies, including unreleased takes on "Butternuts", and a "McGuirk's" with alternate ending.

We should mention that besides John, Rob, Lucas, and myself, there are several incredible musicians who are playing on some of these tracks, namely, Hannah Hens-Piazza on fiddle on "Butternuts," and Mark Wise on guitar for several of the tracks (not to mention, "The Count" and "McGuirks" were produced in his apartment in Brooklyn in 2005).  There's also an undetermined keyboard player on "Underground," although signs point to that being WBT archivist John Dennison.

"Wounded Buffalo Theory Mostly Acoustic Collection - Songs That Got Us Laid vol. 1"

1. Ocean Prayer
2. You'll Have a Greatest Hits Album When You're Dead
3. Below the Fold
4. Acoustic
5. Traveler's Song (string quartet version)
6. Bottom of the World (acoustic pirate version)
7. The Count (enemys version)
8. Station (johnson demo)
9. Irish Drinking Song (enemys version)
10. The Under Over (live)
11. Where's Crosby (live)
12. Why Can't We Just Be Enemies? (live)
13. Underground
14. 9:09 Albany Time
15. Butternuts
16. McGuirks Last Chicken Bull
17. Traveler's Song: Coda

Download the entire "album" here, on our music page!

And, finally, to whet your appetite, here's some acoustifying video's...

free download: wbt in dub

Throughtout the years, Wounded Buffalo Theory has prided itself on trying lots of different genre's while synthesizing the overall sound, throughout different locales, personel changes, and at times, vastly different periods of writing and production output.  One of few constants, however, has been the band's affinity for dub music, and finding ways to integrate it into the general ethos of composition and improvisation.  Whether it was the most recent incantation of Buffalo exploring afro-beat and psy-dub at Cabinfest 2009, or the John Demming-era WBT, who was more inspired by the dub-remixes and jams of Bad Brains and how to combine post rock with spacey, funkier rhythems, WBT has retained a penchant for infusing dub into places it otherwise shouldn't be.

Indeed, 3 of the pieces included in this collection are some of the band's sturdiest jam vehicles, and they all owe their general template to reggae, dub, and the extended tension/release of such visionaries as Fela Kuti, him, and Antibalas ("Losing Points" is a "Pledge" excerpt, "Omnibot" hails from an 2006 version of "Putin Bay," and "Symetrics" grabs a piece of a Demming-era "White Lies Black Ties").

Also included are several studio outtakes and b-sides, exploring dub from the recorded side of things.  The opening track is a new Malko/Blanton piece entitled "We Can Sell That," so far unreleased, and there's pieces from Japan on the Moon, as well as the rarely heard Electronic Side Project, featuring Justin Wood, a integral part of the band's learning process with regards to the genre.

Get the whole "album" at the link above, and it'll be on our music page starting tonight for individual downloads..enjoy!