http://www.vivalasalle.com A three-piece rock band from Michigan. Tue, 06 May 2008 04:30:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good news! Our new record is called Pretty World and it's coming out this month. To kick things off, we posted four songs from the record over here - www.myspace.com/lasalle. We'll have more details on how to get your hands on a copy later this week. See you then! Here's the ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2008/05/04/pretty-world-new-songs-posted-tracklist-and-cover-art/ Good news friends...we're pretty much finished up with our new record. The mixing is done and we're just putting the finishing touches on the artwork right now. Here are a few things that we think make it our best record yet (yeah, it's only our second one). We tracked the drums, bass, ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2008/03/10/all-mixed-up/ Alright, quick update. Most of the basic tracking is done for the next record. We spent last Sunday getting the rest of the vocals finished up and added some fun things in there as well. Mixing starts in a couple of weeks, so hopefully we'll have this thing wrapped up ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2007/09/19/tracks-done-mix-next/ We jumped on a show tonight (Sept 14) at Mac's Bar in Lansing, MI with Oh My God!, Relapse, and The Hat Madder at 9:00pm. On Sunday we're heading down to Tempermill to start working on vocals for the new record. Thanks to everyone who came out to the Small Brown Bike ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2007/09/14/last-minute/ In June we went down to Broadside Studios in Kalamazoo to start work on the basic tracks for our second record. It's been almost two years since Expedition Songs hit the streets, so we're definitely ready. We recorded drums, bass and guitars pretty much live. Things went great and we somehow ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2007/09/01/recording-our-second-record/ Small Brown Bike is getting back together to play a couple of benefit shows for a good friend of ours who has been battling Leukemia. The shows are on September 7 , 8 and 9 in Michigan and Chicago. Hope to see some of you there. It should be a rip ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2007/07/10/small-brown-bike-reunite-for-a-benefit-show/ Hi Friends. Welcome to the new website. The old one served us well for over two years. Thank you old website, we'll miss you. The new one is going to be a lot easier to keep updated. We're working on adding more video, MP3's, photos, and all of that fun stuff. It ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2007/06/01/hello-new-website/ Hey! We've finally dusted off the van and decided to book some shows...Lansing, Chicago, Albion, Detroit, Ann Arbor...we're coming your way. We've also been busy working on new songs, and to our collective surprise, we have about eleven new ones cooked up for our next record. Stay tuned... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2007/03/07/unhibernating/ Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of communication lately. Not to worry, we're keeping busy working on a bunch of new songs. More on that soon. Our new year's resolution will be to keep in touch. We have a new email address to help with that. contact@vivalasalle.com That's going to be the best ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2007/01/09/happy-new-year/ We safely returned home from tour on Sunday after ten days of pure fun. Thanks so much to the great people of Cursive and Make Believe. It was an honor to play with them and inspiring to watch them make the speakers shake every night. A special thanks to Jenny J ... http://www.vivalasalle.com/2006/07/17/home-again/