pILLOW tHEORY

Just in case you missed the update, the songs in our MUSIC section on http://facebook.com/pillowtheory are FREE, for awhile at least. Take advantage while you can. There’s also the option of buying music from our latest album, Meltdown on https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/meltdown/id568496658 and internet stores that are cool of course. No this is not an April Fool’s joke. You’re welcome!

Mar 30

News For April 2013…What the hell is going on?!!

Been awhile, missing you all and the stage so much! Bless those who attended our last show in January at The Studio/Webster Hall in NYC with some awesome old friends on the bill (Alex Kelly of course) and new ones too (yeah Dynasty Electric, Jadex & peeps). Since then Kelsey and Danos have been in the lab working on new material, Joaquin has been traveling and Bill has been spreading his drum love all over NYC and Boston. We’re hibernating but still busy behind the scenes.

Nov 20

NEW Deluxe Edition Of Our MELTDOWN Release is Available NOW!!!

Kelsey, Slim Willy & Ron St Germain were behind production for the original. The new release also welcomes the sonics of Emanuel Ruffler better known as Rufftone (“Subway”), Mike Genato of RVRS:PLAY (“Miscommunication”) and Denise Barbarita (“Subway” & “Miscommunication”). Longtime pILLOW drum soldier Scott Garapolo plays on “Miscommunication” and Rich Kulsar plays on “Subway”. Pascal Schonegg is the man responsible for the awesome new cover art!

Nov 06

Bad Brains, Tour, Album Re-Launch & Brooklyn! Yessir!

Here’s what’s going down in our camp this week and month. First, Kelsey will be lending his voice to the BAD BRAINS tribute TONIGHT, Election Day Tuesday November 6 at Bowery Electric on the Lower East Side. Great band (Vernon Reid of Living Colour, Mackie of Cro-Mags, Melvin Gibbs) and an awesome line up of revolving vocalists: Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage, Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio, Jesse Malin, H.R. himself of Bad Brains and many surprise guests! Proceeds will benefit Amnesty International, American Red Cross & Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund. 7PM showtime, tickets are $15 and the event is 21 & over. 327 Bowery @ E 2nd. http://www.theboweryelectric.com/

Oct 12

CMJ 10/18/12 & ORANGE MELTDOWN TOUR 11/11/12!!!

Hope your weekend is off to a good start. Taking a break from writing now to let you know what’s next on the live front! Next week, CMJ takes over NYC once again and we’ll be representing at the BOWERY ELECTRIC’s Map Room Thursday October 18th! There’s an open bar from 9-10pm to celebrate and the concert is FREE for everyone. Free show and booze…why would you want to miss this? http://www.theboweryelectric.com/

Next month we’re back in the van, this time with ALEX KELLY for our ORANGE MELTDOWN tour. Both groups will be touring together to terrorize y’alls neighborhood, well at least the following:

The second leg of Orange Meltdown will take place in December so we may hit your area soon. In fact, let us know if you want us to invade (via here, Twitter and/or Facebook) and we probably will! Can’t wait to bleed again for ya! Miss you gals and guys.

Sep 25

Yep, that’s rockin right! Both groups will join forces together to bring the ruckus in the NE this November. Stay tuned for dates, details and fun stuff to follow!

Sep 01

September 1…I Know What You Did Last Summer

Thank you so much for your support and good vibes this summer. Haven’t been here for awhile so let’s play catch up.

If you attended the BAM, Gibson and multiple Mercury Lounge performances in NYC then we appreciate your presence! If not, then we hope to see you at our CMJ showcase at Bowery Electric in October.

At the last Mercury show 2 weeks ago we performed some new material so you know what that means…Yes, we’re gearing up for a new album to be released next year. But before that, our critically acclaimed EP MELTDOWN will be re-released November 5th via Europe’s FILTER label with some extra spices on it. We are so looking forward to this and hope that you are too. FILTER recently released electro sensation LITTLE BIRDS’s new single and EP with remixes of “THE STRUGGLE OF DISTANCE” featuring pILLOW’s Kelsey on vocals. You can find that on iTunes and pretty much any cool internet store of your liking.

Shortly after the release we will hit the NE for a short tour which we haven’t done in awhile. Definitely looking forward to invading your city! Until then, be on the lookout for sporadic solo Kelsey shows like the upcoming one in Harlem at SHRINE on Labor Day. Kristi Martel is also on the bill. Shes sounds lovely!!!

You’re up to date. See you this Fall. Looking forward to getting banned in your area and having some fun!!! You gals & guys are the absolute best!

May 21

This was taken at last night’s Mercury Lounge show by Lana Winter! It was most definitely too much fun! Big thanks to Black Box Revelation! Next pILLOW live stop? Gibson Showroom, NYC June 1st!

May 09

EVERYONE should have the right to be married!!!!

Not too surprised but it’s more like a “lowest of low” or “last straw” situation. REGARDLESS of your opinion of him or his presidency, Obama finally put his support of gay marriage on blast! This is again a pretty historic moment and day, especially after the NC situation. However, probably the worst excuse for a ‘news’ station, FOX twists this with the stupid, BIASED, childish headline “Obama Flip Flops, Declares War On Marriage.” I don’t really expect anything of substance or close to fairness with this channel (neither do a large number of conservatives actually) and I understand it has a “reality tv” type of quality which can be humorous at times, but this is really a shame (almost as low as Hannity’s anti-Trayvon mission but I spoke about that previously). It really shouldn’t be a conservative vs. liberal issue in my opinion. This is about the rights of PEOPLE, point blank. If it’s not for you then don’t get married to a gay person but why would you want to censor the rights of other PEOPLE? Live your own life and stop trying to keep enforcing these 1864 laws against human beings. Hell the people that support the views of this channel probably wouldn’t have invited me over for dinner 30 years ago or want me to get married to ANYONE (you know where I’m going with this obviously)! I can’t see how anyone can reach for some kind of “decent reason” why FOX Nation is a credible source of unbiased, non racist, non sexist, non homophobic news. I wrote a shorter version of this on my personal page and hesitated putting this on the band page due to the political nature and/or the risk of alienating fans. Then I realized, we don’t want to have anything to do with racist, sexist or homophobic people anyway! So there you go! Sorry, yes I said it with my liberal and conservative point of view! Have a great hump day and celebrate intelligent freedom of expression!!!

May 03

It’s here! The official video for “Blipsters & Buppies”, our first single from our EP Meltdown (you should have that by now right? No? Go to iTunes or something and buy it damnit!!!). Mika Kenyah of Sugar & Spikes fame directed and Bandit23 edited the thing! We’re super proud of the result and you will be too.

Special thanks to our Kickstarter contributors who made this all possible, Stephanie Castillo for being an awesome star, Cake Shop for providing a venue for Kelsey to smash guitars and all the amazing people in the shoot.