For the last couple shows and for our next at September 10th at Rancho Relaxo we have had posters made by my girlfriend (me, being Jeff), the very talented Dara Skolnick.

Check out more of Dara’s work at her website and her Flickr. Thanks so much to Dara for all her great work!

It’s been a while since any updates have appeared on our website. All the while, we’ve been having an incredibly busy, productive and fun time as a band. Since the last post we’ve played two more great shows – one at the Smiling Buddha and one at the Savannah Room and we have another show upcoming at Rancho Relaxo on September 10th. New songs are shaping up, and we hope to get down to recording again soon.

In the meanwhile, we’ve been experimenting with recording our live shows. the Smiling Budda recording didn’t work out very well, but we think we have something passable to show from the Savannah Room. Keep in mind that this is a very rough recording made from a microphone in the room (the board was a little messed up) and as such it’s noisy and really not the best presentation of these songs. That said, we think it’s pretty cool to have a record of our performances and be able to hear these new songs and old songs with drums. Check out the two new songs – Ghosts from the War and The Moroccan.

So forgive us for the sound quality and download the songs (and a couple interludes) below as individual mp3s or as one zip file.

• Intro
• Green (Red)
• The Spanish One
• Chronicles
• Day to Day
• Another Wall
• Ghosts from the War
• What Have You Done With the Rain?
• The Moroccan
• Baroque Tuning Break
• Rest for the Wicked
• Afraid of the Dark
• I Thought I Died

Enjoy and look out for more news coming soon!

This Wednesday we played our first live set with new and excellent drummer Matt Butash to a great crowd at Rancho Relaxo.

We decided to record the show in order to share it with everyone. Unfortunately the first couple songs (The Spanish One and Chronicles) came out distorted due to volume levels being too high. While the recording of the other songs isn’t the best, we still want to share the songs with you. Apologies for some distortion in the tracks and the rough mix (piano and Jon’s vocals are obviously much too low.)

With that said, we hope you enjoy these recordings as a taste of The Printing Press with drums.

Keep your ear out for the brand new song I Thought I Died.

You can listen and download the songs individually from the links below or as one big zip file.

• Another Wall
• What Have You Done With The Rain?
• Green (Red)
• Day To Day
• We Gotta Be
• Rest for the Wicked
• I Thought I Died
• Afraid of the Dark

Thanks to everyone who came out!

This past Thursday March 13th, the Printing Press played a show at Rancho Relaxo in Toronto. At the show we gave out a CD to everyone in attendance with three brand new Printing Press recordings on it. Some of these CDs remain and are likely to be given out and future shows, but we’re also making these three songs available to download right here for anyone who wants to.

The three songs on this EP of sorts are Chronicles, Another Wall, and To Dreaming. Chronicles and Another Wall were recording almost a month ago while To Dreaming is an improvisational demo that we happened to capture while recording a practice session. Everything on the recording of To Dreaming was made up as we went along, and it was so good we knew that we had to share it.

We hope you enjoy these songs as a prelude to our next album. Stay tuned for more show announcements!

Each song is available as an MP3 at the links below or as a zip file containing all three.

• Chronicles
• Another Wall
• To Dreaming
• Chronicles EP zip file

The Printing Press will be playing The Rancho Relaxo on Thursday March 13th, 2008 in association with Two Way Monologues along with William the Conqueror, Construction & Destruction and Deadbeat Dads. Doors are at 8:30 and music starts shortly thereafter. The show will cost $6 at the door.

We hope to put on a great show, and the other bands are all excellent too. We hope to see you all there on the 13th!

More exciting news!

Exhibit A is now available on the iTunes Music Store. Tracks are sold for $0.99 each, and the whole album for a very reasonable $7.92. These are the Canadian and US prices; international prices may vary.

Not only does this mean you can buy it from the iTunes Store, but if you have the CD ripped into iTunes and an iTunes Store account, iTunes can now download the album artwork automatically.

Check it out, and while you’re there, write us a review!

We’re pleased to announce that you can now order our album Exhibit A online through CDBaby. You can preview every track on the album on our Media page.

You can order Exhibit A by visiting our profile at CDBaby, clicking on the album cover below, or using the built-in form.

We’re pleased to announce that our brand new first album, Exhibit A, has been printed and pressed and is now available for purchase. You can get your copy by contacting Jon or Jeff. We’re working on getting it also sold through our website and CDBaby.com It’s being sold for $10 and contains the following songs:

1. The Spanish One
2. What Have You Done With the Rain?
3. Afraid of the Dark
4. We Gotta Be
5. Day To Day
6. Green (Red)
7. Fifty-Eight Pianos
8. Quarter to Nine

We’re really proud of this album and recommend that everyone get their hands on it!

Today is the day that theprintingpress.ca, our own home on the internet away from the nine circles of Myspace, goes live. Thanks for checking us out! We hope to add a lot of cool things here in the near future, including videos, photos, setlists, lyrics and information on how to buy our upcoming album, Exhibit A.

Right now, however, you can find all the tracks from Exhibit A streaming from the media page, plus a remix of “The Spanish One” by Christian Caldeira.

Keep on checking the site or subscribe to our RSS Feed for more information.

We would like to thank everyone who came out to see our show this past Tuesday at Tranzac. It was a great night.

Watch this space for collected photos, videos, etc. from the show. In the meantime, here is the setlist as played:

First Set

1. Green (Red) [intro only]
2. The Spanish One
3. Take The Money And Run - Steve Miller Band
4. Money - Pink Floyd
5. What Have You Done With The Rain?
6. Altruistic Enemy
7. Another Wall
8. Rest For The Wicked
9. Fades Back In
10. Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? - The Beatles
11. We Gotta Be

Second Set

1. Green (Red)
2. Vigilante Harmony
3. Piano Man - Billy Joel
4. Book of Love - Peter Gabriel
5. Fifty-Eight Pianos
6. Quarter To Nine
7. The Steel of the Knife
8. Day To Day
9. Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
10. Afraid of the Dark

For any fans of the band Destroyer, we were meaning to play the song “English Music”, however due to a broken guitar string we had to preempt it in favour of Jonathan’s solo rendition of “Piano Man”. Look for “English Music” to reappear at a future date!