The People In Your Mind

It's been awhile...

But in our bit of time off we recorded an album, wrote some songs, partied hard, some of us traveled great distances, and some of us moved small distances. Either way we have been busy.

In some official news we asked Chelsey Coy to help us out live with vocals. We have missed having a third part to our harmonies and since Chelsey was singing on our new record we figured we should ask her to be a part of the live sets. Thankfully for us she said YES!

Recording for the next record has concluded and the mixing process is almost complete. We have tossed around a few ideas about what it will be called but very soon we will be releasing more details about these new tracks once we have everything finalized! We're getting pretty excited to share these with you. To give you a little bit of an idea of what the record will look like in term of song selection here is a list of the tracks on the record... This is in no particular order.

You Would Know
Saturn In The Sea
Caverns
Familiar Love
Bones
Pull Out Your Eyes
Over My Head

I gotta say we are pretty damn excited about these recordings. This is the first record that features the current lineup with Roozie Tehranian on drums and Garrett Sadler on organ and Rhodes piano. Easily two of our favorite people to play with ever.

So now that we have a new record, new member, and it's a new year we are all ready to take on 2012 like it's the last year humanity will ever have. End Of The World - World Tour. Our End Of The World Tour starts with a show at Santa Monica's Central SAPC. 2 days from now! Playing again with our friends in Y Luv and friends we haven't met yet... The Lucky Lonely! We are headlining so get there early and stay late. We don't care if it's a Wednesday.

See you all soon!

Jamming An Album

Hey everyone!

So despite the lack of updates we've been keeping pretty busy.  We played some great shows in April.  We recorded most of our album over a weekend in April.  And then May came and Tyler went to Canada for a month and Roozie went to Hawaii!  So our creative process too a little vacation.  But I wanted to let you know we're alive and well.

Actually check out this little jam we did in our rehersal space (minus Kyle since he was driving to New York?)


We've got a We Are The Pilots Weekend coming up!  June 11th and 12th are BACK TO BACK SHOWS! For the events pages check out these links!

June 11th with Moostache @ La Cave
&
June 12th with Becky Holt @ Continental Room

Both are FREE and seriously going to be awesome.

As far as when the album will be released... you're just going to have to check back.  We'll be releasing details like.... track names, album name and maybe some sneak peaks!  So check back soon!  Or see us at the shows!

PEACE.

Happy New Year!

Today is the Persian New Year! Woke up this morning and decided to record a little piece of music in honor of today. I think I've decided to title this chord progression something to do with New Year. Who knows.

In other news today is our move in day! We are moving into a new "lock out" where we hope we can safely store all our gear and have a dependable space where we can go to create whatever we want to create. Music? Yeah we hope so. Does anyone have an silkscreen press they don't want? We'll take it and start making our own shirts and posters. Also, we need a nickname for our new home! What should we call it!?!?!

Once we're set up in there we'll make some videos, share new music, post pictures and let you know how we do things.

We got some fantastic shows coming up in April! So check back for full details on that. LA, we'll be hitting you up in April so get ready... and by ready we mean show up and have a good time.

Peace and Love,

The Pilots.

We Started Recording Our Second Album... BUT First....

THE STEELWELLS!  They're in a contest on Rolling Stone cause they're like the next big band and shit.  What you don't believe us?  Visit that shit and rate them 5 stars and then watch them take over the world.  We are big fans, these boys have been nothing but great to us so help us return the favor!  Rally your troops and support fantastic local music.

Peace, and love.

Kyle

Time To Catch Up

News for 2011!!!

Ok ok ok... it's been a long time and we have a lot of news to share... First off we're working on a wearethepilots.com.  We want it to act as a main portal to all of our creative and media outlets.  We started hosting a semi-weekly podcast that is basically us just talking nonsense about music, people, shows, and sometimes news.  No one has really heard these lost podcasts but we'll post them as soon as the site is done.  Also the site will be connected to our facebook, myspace, twitter, youtube, music, and of course this blog.

In other big news we're seriously planning our next record.  Our very talented friend Charlie Bow has offered to start working with, producing and recording our next project.  You should probably check out his work with his band Salvae.  Also Tyler has been tracking some acoustic jams with Mr. Bow.  Check out this video of his making some shit up.  

Next up... the pilots have all been donating some time into a place we've called home since we first started playing music AAA Electra 99.  We'd like to get some shows going on there again and hosting events like Jam nights and art nights.  Check this place out.

It's great and we don't want to see it go anywhere.  So if you're in a band and want to play a show, or you're an artist and would like to show your work here contact us!  AAAelectra99@gmail.com

Last but not least we have still been playing a decent amount of shows between preparing to record and some of us traveling.  We have another one coming up right now actually.  This Saturday!  We're excited to be playing on the campus of USC.  Should be a great way to spend the weekend.  Check out the event page on Facebook here!

So that pretty much gets things up to date.  We have some more exciting news we'll share with you a little later once everything is confirmed so keep checking in!  PEACE!

Goodbye Residency, Hello More Shows

We had so much fun with the Detroit Bar residency that we forgot to update this blog! Our bad. You wanna know how it went? Then check this out... OCAC. That is theOC Arts and Culture article on our residency. It was so much fun! And we really appreciate all the support.

Oh look! About the last 50 seconds of our Detroit Bar residency. Look at all those damn lasers! Looks like fun!... It was. But goodbye residency, hello future shows.

We got two shows coming up! Continental Room, November 15th with The Steelwells!

Oh my goodness. And the Yost Theater in Santa Ana on November 21st with Honeypie, and more band TBA! That show is a very special show because it is our second time we will be playing for our friends Turkey and friends that organize these MS Benefit shows! They're always great and always stacked with great bands! We'll update the site with more details once we get them!

Pretty much, we're excited about everything right now. We can't wait for these shows, we can't wait for the new year, and we can't wait to get back to writing and recording as soon as possible! We wanna share some new music with everyone!

Detroit Bar Residency Update 1

Holy crap. That was fun. We loved pretty much every minute of our first night at Detroit. Ken ran some fantastic sound, Luke served some fantastic drinks and Canvas started the night off perfectly. Hearing them play again was exciting. The pilots have missed them. After that Argyle Smile, a band near and dear to our hearts, mostly cause they know how to party... played an amazing set. They sounded tighter than ever, and everything was in perfect harmony. Toy Robot then pretty much killed everyone in attendance with their super catchy vocals and Loren's face melting guitar riffs. They have a new drummer and key player, both of whom fit right in to Toy Robot's sound like a glove. Then we went on and danced around a little bit, looked like dorks and sang some songs. We did at least one song we've never played before... Thanks to Jared of Argyle Smile for letting me use his ukulele. We were just excited to give everyone a little bit of a light show complete with home-made on stage lights. Our friend Ryan, you may know him from Honeypie, handled the Detroit Bar lights like a damn pro. That is why we love him.

All in all it was a great start to the month. We're hoping people continue to come out and support every Monday this month! We have some more surprises coming up, and always there will be free music being given away!

We really just want to convey that we are so thankful for everyone who came out for the first night! We know the weather wasn't the best, but you all came out anyway. Thank you so much!



This next show will have California Condors (members of Ozma), Gentlemen (Members of No Motiv), us, and then Toy Robot. We can't fucking wait. So screw your commitments, and screw work in the morning... Monday is a holiday... Come celebrate Columbus "finding" a "new" world with us...

Love,
Kyle