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Oh my! We have alot to talk about so let's get to it.

Shows

Lee's Palace was set aflame by our show with freinds Vitaminsforyou and Bonjay! Pics can be found at TakeMorePhotos and Eye Weekly and a write-up can be found here courtesy of Ben Boles. 600+ people showed up to party with us. We had dancers (shouts to swagger crew), pyrotechnics and a moving stage that I've dubbed "the thunder dome". Definately one of our favorite shows ever and so much love was in the crowd, it almost brought a tear to my eye!!! Thank you for being part of this experience and we look forward to doing it again!

Sunday was spent dans la belle province at the newly renovated Blue Dog Motel. My boys, Team Canada bought it out and are throwing ill jams on Sundays. The sound system is incroyable and people were super rowdy for a sunday night. Only in Montreal. esti.

Video Contest

All the submissions are in and we are still going through them. We want to narrow it down to the top 3 in the next week before we go on tour (more on the tour below). We had a shitload of submissions and most of them are really well put together. It really amazes me how much effort everyone put into this and I'm kinda humbled by the whole thing. We will be placing our favorite top 3 on the site with a voting system real soon.

T-SHIRTS

We have restocked and have added a few new sizes. If we learned anything is that these Men's mediums go like hotcakes so dont wait too long to pick these up!

JERK IT 12"

All of the remixes are done. They are currently being mastered. The artwork is done. We are getting real close people. I think it's really tough to decide which remix is best, they are all really awesome in their own way.

VICE/COLT 45 TOUR WITH THUNDERHEIST AND BLACK GHOSTS!!!!

YES YES! We are about to embark on a 5 city US tour (LA-ATL-CHI-PHI-NYC) with these awesome dudes from the UK. The best part for you all is that these shows are FREE OF CHARGE. You just have to RSVP here:
http://www.viceland.com/talesofcolt45/rsvp.html
 
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Our Jerk It contest has been extended until April 7th. There was so many requests for an extension and so we felt compelled to give an extra week. We didnt want to overdo the extension however since we know alot of you probably cut things out in order to get it in on time. Trying to do best of both worlds here...

Now some of you have been asking how to get these videos to us. You can either

a) Upload them to Sendspace or Zshare or some other big file host, or you can mail it to the following address:

c/o Thunderheist Video
1458 Queen St. W, #5
Toronto ON M6K 1M2

Secondly we have a few very important shows coming up, including our first one in Toronto in 2008. We are going all out with this show and so we want to make sure everyone comes out to this!!! Our friends Bonjay and Vitamins for you will be performing LIVE. And we got DJ Caff on the decks between acts.
Do us both a favor and pick up your tickets in advance, you'll save money and we can sleep easier knowing how many people are coming!! Tickets are available at Rotate This, Soundscapes and Ticketmaster.
]]> http://www.thunderheist.com/news.php?news_id=78 Ben Pobjoy

Well!

We did our first shows since January. Felt good to be back out there!! I tell you there's a serious depression that sets in after travelling constantly for a year and then suddenly stopping. Speaking of travelling, we are not going to SXSW next week. Why, you ask? Well, one of us (hint rhymes with crisis) has some visa issues that aren't going to be resolved in time. Therefore we had to cancel everything. Sucks because we were super stoked to blow shit up down there. Definately check out our canadian homies that will be all over the place.

Now for some good news: the Jerk It 12" is coming along nicely with 2 out of the 3 remixes having been handed in! We're still waiting on the Nacho Lovers who had computer problems this week. Speaking of which, Megasoid has put their remix on a new mixtape so you can check it out here:
http://www.weaponshouse.com/megasoid-tank-thong-mixtape-sxsw-action.

It slays!!!

]]> http://www.thunderheist.com/news.php?news_id=75 Isis mentioned last week, we're having a video competition for our forthcoming 12" Jerk It. This release will feature by some of our favorite Canadian producers, namely: Jokers of the Scene, Nacho Lovers and Megasoid. We're offering you the opportunity to create the official video for this song which will inevitably get airplay on Much Music, MTV and who knows where else.

Here's the rules:

1- Be creative!
2- No leaking of the video before we have judged and decided a winner to the contest.
3- No content that will get the video banned from the networks. We need something usable here!

The prize:

1- Braggin rights as the first producer for a Thunderheist video.
2 - Worldwide exposure on TV and the internet.
3 - We will submit this video whenever any TV interviews need footage.

Deadline: April 1st, 2008

Download the song here: http://www.thunderheist.com/videocontest/ (Sorry for the low quality but we need to keep it safe for now)

Please submit your completed video to Thunderheist [at] thunderheist [dot] com as soon as possible!
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Blogging is so 2002.

That being said, Isis has been blogging up a storm lately. And I was thinking to myself, if this girl is gonna pour her heart out to the world in text form, it may as well be done on our damn website!!!

So now we have a full blog engine. With comments and all. You can reach ISIS' new superblog through the menu at the top or directly by going here. It's worth it cause not all of her posts will end up on the home page:

www.thunderheist.com/isis

I also have one as well. But definately not as exciting or regularly updated as Icey ICe.

www.thunderheist.com/grahmzilla

Also, we were selected as one of CBC's top 10 bands to watch in 2008!! We're in good company, but inevitably, there can be only one winner. You can vote for us over here. We also recently did a short live set for Sun TV in Toronto from which the above picture was taken. That should be entertaining!


Oh and please leave comments to this entry so I can see that my work does not go to waste!!!

]]> http://www.thunderheist.com/news.php?news_id=59 Jokers of the Scene. Speaking of which, have you heard their last few remixes? Badonkers. Anyhoo, I am bored out of my skull and so here I sit trying to get inspired. It's not working. However, theres this one dude that spoke to me about how he works for the government and thinks that I better not be sending his information out (points to the ceiling) there. Okay Mulder, please step away from the Soy Mocha Capuccino Latte Smoothie. Okay and just now an old guy with a guitar case sat down next to me and said, and I shit you not, 'Are you in the Mafia? Are you in the Mafia? Are you in the Mafia? Are you in the Mafia?'. I said yes. I also had the sketchiest Shish Taouk of my life. The man who made the sandwich also handles the cash. No gloves, just plain old bacteria. Gross.

As we enter the deep throws of winter (but really though, where is the freezing cold winters of my youth), Thunderheist is hibernating with only the occasional exodus to somewhere equally snowy. Slowly but surely figuring out which songs and which label(s) we will be putting out our EP and/or LP with. There have been murmurs about who will be lucky enough to put our music out and some of these rumors just might be truthiness. Expect a big announcement very soon!!! There's also rumor of another 12" featuring remixes by a bunch of our favorite canadian producers.

I have been watching alot of quality shows lately. My short-list: Dexter (fuck you Doakes), The Wire (all 4 seasons...again), Curb your enthusiasm (pret-ty pret-ty good) as well as The Office which has me laughing so hard (thats what she said...or he said... i never know). It's official: Streaming TV is the best thing about the internet.


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I know it's been too long since the last update, but to be honest, I'm glad to be busy finishing up the Thunderheist LP. I will do a proper update soon but I wanted to leave you with this. This is Model 500 in Detroit  at the DEMF with this dance crew called the X-men. Shit is off the hook!
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Wednesday had us the Rex club, where Clark Magazine and Disques Primeur were doing the CD launch for JUICE Vol. 1 which features yours truly. IT was a wild party and I think that we let Paris know wassup with Canadian Club (tm). Shouts to Faker, Severin, Roxy, Freon, Goon and Koyote, Kazy, Tido and Subtitle (still suprised to see you there).

On thursday, we took a train to Rotterdam and entered the weed vortex that is Holland. We obviously went to the nearest coffee shop to purchase some choice buds. During our actual performance, we declared our love for the legalized stuff and people started lighting up huge cannons. We were so fucked up! And you people know that we are no novices at this shit so it was no joke. we went back to the hotel, smoked some more and watched Heroes. Pretty much the best thing ever. I didnt fall asleep till 5am because I was contemplating the concept of time and space being intertwined. I made some videos, if you're lucky, I'll put them online.

On friday, We headed to Utrecht where we were on a bill with MSTRKRFT and Duchess Says in an all-Canadian festival. It was an ill party with like 700 people. They were really into the Canadian electronic shit and everyone was wyling out.

Finally on Saturday, we went to Groningen where we soon discovered that the party was in fact a full-blown rave. UFO pants and all. We were up against Jeff Mills in the main room. NAGL. It was mad fun tho, and they really came through on the rider (as you can see in the picture above). Isis got black-out drunk and did and said some shit that I will not repeat here. But let me tell you it was epic. Some would even say a preview of the Matrix 12. Shouts to Oizo and Krazy Baldhead.

Pictures of our trip here

And now, we're in LA and about to do our Beauty Bar tour. We're playing in Vegas for the first time. Vegas baby, VEGAS. Please come and party with us. We Love Cali.

Dec 7: Los Angeles Beauty Bar
Dec 8: Las Vegas Beauty Bar
Dec 9: San Fransisco Beauty Bar
Dec 10: San Diego Beauty Bar

I just put up a new podcast. Check it out. Hot shit on this mix fo sho.

Midnight Juggernauts - Into the galaxy
Sensual Seduction (Fistfight's Disco Edit) - Snoop Dogg
Wanna Wine (Scottie B Remix Edit)  - Maggie Horn
My Piano (Original) - Hot Chip
Day 'N' Nite [Jokers Of The Scene Remix] 12" EDIT - Kid Cudi
Yall know the name - Nacho Lovers
Back at the Club (Boy 8-bit Remix) - Pomomofo
firetruk (drop the lime remix) - infants
NYC Beat - Armand Van Helden
Valerie (Count of Monte Cristo) - Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse
Blazin feat. Face-T - Ghislain Poirier

Finally, thanks to everyone who's bought a T-shirt off the site. That money really helps us out in emergencies and so we sincerely appreciate it.


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Yessir!!!

I finally got the shopping cart fully functional for selling physical product. And so I'm proud to annouce that you can now buy limited edition tees from us right here!

Act fast, these things won't last long!!!


Check it out!!!

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