Summer Tour Dates, 2010. Coming to a town near you!

Music Hall of Williamsburg this Wednesday with Greg Laswell and Cary Brothers!

Hello folks!

Come join us this Wednesday, July 7th, 8pm at Music Hall of Williamsburg, where we'll be not only opening for Greg Laswell and Cary Brothers, but we're gonna be their band as well! HB will be on stage ALL NIGHT. Y'all just can't git enough. Check out the nifty flyer above, and email it around to some friends! It's gonna be an amazing night. We'll also be debuting a few T-Shirts that will be for sale! Come check em out!

Unlucky in Kentucky

Let's begin by saying that Sarab is a good driver. No, he's a great driver. He's safe, conscientious, and has stamina for days behind the wheel. He does, however, have a healthy fear of the middle line, and, by logical extension, cars passing him on the left or coming the other way.

We've gotten on his case for years about it, but it finally took a run-in with the law in the great state of Kentucky for him to change his ways. Fortunately, cameras were ready. And yes, we gave the cop a CD. He was psyched.

Brooklyn Bowl this Friday, May 21st! // CD Release Party!!

Look at Tricky Dick go! My high school English teacher, Barry Bergh, was a speechwriter for Nixon, and he was actually the one who ended up letting the FBI into the Oval Office to recover the Watergate tapes. My teacher therefore has gone down in history as "that son-of-a-bitch Bergh". True story. What a rockstar

But this is all beside the point! Our new album 'Loneliest Generation' is OUT in stores and SPINNING on the radio in at least a handful of cities so far. And YOU, yes you, can have one in your hot little hand if you come to our NYC CD Release Party at Brooklyn Bowl this Friday, May 21st! Comedian Craig Baldo is MCing the night, and Jupiter One will be opening the show. Showtime 9pm. It's gonna be an amazing night, and it's only $5 ADMISSION! Can't argue with that, folks.

And if you have to let the FBI into the venue at some point during the night, do it. You'll be upholding justice and sticking it to the man.

Progress

Progress is a tricky, often elusive thing. We at the Baby Jackal are always seeking ways to measure how far we've come over the years, musically, and generally in life. This weekend, upon doing my first flip of the season off the diving board, I believe I inadvertently charted my own personal progress over the last 4 years. Enjoy!

July 2007
photo by Catherine Popper


May 2010
photo by Su Beyazit

Our Last April Living Room Show This Week - Last week's roundup

I just like saying roundup. It's like we played a sportsball match where one team tried like hell to score more or less points or strokes than the other team and then eventually one team prevailed and everyone cheering for the losing team was really upset for about 3 hours until they got sleepy or hungry or happy or sad and then they moved on to something else.

So here's last week's ROUNDUP!!

9pm. Bases loaded. Harper Blynn plays a show. And the crowd goes wild. Schuyler Fisk and company were on deck, and stepped up to the plate to play after us. Pinch hitting was us again on all the other instruments. Again the crowd goes wild. There ya go! What a ROUNDUP!!!

Here's a picture. Come on out to see what will happen that needs to be rounded up for next week's ROUNDUP!!

Luv,
Pete

Harper Blynn and Schuyler Fisk at the Living Room tonight

Just over a year ago, when Harper Blynn was still called Pete and J, the two members of the band that weren't Pete or J went on a little road trip. The month of february '09 was a quiet one, so Sarab and I climbed aboard a rickety RV to join LA songstress Schuyler Fisk on her month-long tour around the US, opening for Ben Taylor. Highlights included Sarab almost losing his nose in an encounter with a glass door, the heat in the RV going out as soon as we hit Canada, discovering a jackalope, losing the keys to the RV and finally thawing out once we hit California. Sarab's mom gave him a bathrobe so he wouldn't freeze, which probably saved his life:

In September we joined Schuyler again when she got invited to Tokyo, Japan, for the release of her record there. Going there pretty much blew our minds. We ate many crazy things, including a few whole animals:

Cut to the present: Harper Blynn is in the middle of a residency at the Living Room in NYC, and for this week we invited Schuyler to come to New York and play a set right after us. This time our whole band is backing her up. It's gonna be epic. So that's tonight, wednesday April 21st. Harper Blynn is at 9 pm, Schuyler Fisk at 10. See you there.

Whynot

Our Living Room Residency and XPN Festival this summer in Philly

So this is what it looked like at the Living Room last night for the first show of our April Residency. Pretty bangin, huh?

Ok so maybe this isn't what it looked like. BUT it was really rocking. So good to be back in that room where we first started playing music and having people give a damn. These next two shows are going to be off the hook.

And this picture is actually from the festival that WXPN throws each summer down in Philly. This year it's July 17-18. AND WE'LL BE PLAYING ON THE MAINSTAGE. July 17th. Details to come. It's going to be unforgettable.

Alright folks. Hopefully we'll see you New Yorkers on April 21st and 28th at the Living Room. 9pm my friends and get there early if you want to sit and/or see. Next week we'll have the lovely and talented Schuyler Fisk playing after us at 10.

hugs and stuff.
P

WELCOME!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the baby jackal, your number one source for all news, touring, pics, videos, musings and rants by and pertaining to, heretofore sanctioned by, Harper Blynn.

That's right folks!  Check in frequently for touring news, album release parties, ticket giveaways, or if Sarab happens to knock over a giant display of Slinkys in a Cracker Barrel in Georgia.  We're gonna cover it ALL!  

So where does "baby jackal" come from, you ask?  A lot of you may be saying, "I didn't ask that at all", but I'm gonna tell you anyway!  The Jackal was Pete and J's first ever touring vehicle, a trusty old '99 Corolla with a voracious appetite for oil.   We drove all over the country in that thing, and we listened to A LOT of Gillian Welch.  A lot.  It also happens to be the inspiration for our new label we've just started, Baby Jackal Records!  Harper Blynn's new album Loneliest Generation will be out on Baby Jackal (distributed by MRI/RED) on May 11th.  Get happy!

Ok so now for the fun stuff.  Here's a video shot by the members of Harper Blynn and edited together by Whynot.  It's a highlight reel of sorts from our March 2010 tour, which included a nutty week at SXSW.  Enjoy!