We've just moved (this summer) to Detroit! We are finally homeowners! Something we thought wouldn't happen for us. We didn't get one of the $500 rehab homes but bought from people who wanted to sell still living in their home, not foreclosures- this was important to us that no one was going to have to leave to make room for us. Also we aren't urban pioneers or any of that nonsense- people have been here for over 300 years, we're just lucky to be able to get a place to live. This is a quick video journal from Bianka about the move.

Due to our move the traveling focus for the band has been much on moving from Portland to Detroit over these past six months and getting houses, setting up studios and starting the daunting process of booking gigs in a new town. We don't do much on this blog unless there's a tour coming but an occasional update is something we're going to try to keep up with.

Detroit is pretty incredible. Both in the way people who are not actually here seem to always talk about it and the people who are actually here seem to get sick of talking about it. Music has a long history here and we'd love to learn from it. There's still some pretty great Jazz, Blues, and Rock here. Metal bands seem very alive as do the Juggalos.

There's some resentment toward newcomers or so we hear, but so far most people have been very welcoming to us. We all live on the west side out in the neighborhoods not in the trendy downtown/midtown/Corktown that the NY Times is so in love with. This is where you find most of the hipster/Brooklyn wanna-bes/unemployed artists with means. We are working class musicians with little means so we have to work at a wage earning job while spending all the free time we can on our music.

All in all it's pretty exciting here and we're glad to have made the move though Oregon will always been in our hearts it just costs too much. We can afford to explore the east coast, hopefully tour it from here and maybe even have enough time and money to make a bunch of albums!  The plan is to build a studio this year.  Wish us luck!  As always you can check out stuff from us on youtube and we're on facebook too. Bianka's also on Pinterest