MISTER NEUTRON: Updates

Bearded scientists from around the globe recently got together in Zurich to study our new CD, NOR'EASTER. This morning, they publicized their findings in a well-known science journal: "To the best of our knowledge, anyone who does not love Mister Neutron's new NOR'EASTER CD -- anyone who does not give it five stars and rave about it to friends, family and passers-by -- has serious, serious, profound, serious mental problems. Ergo, to choose Mister Neutron is to choose sanity." It's official, folks! Make the right choice! Side with sanity in '08!

NOR'EASTER, our new 17-song surf/instro CD, is finally for sale! It's available at the CD Baby and Deep Eddy Records Web sites. You also can download the CD (with a PDF of the CD art) at DigStation for $9.99. See the link at the Store page for more details. If you live in New Jersey, it's available at Sound Station in Westfield. More stores will be named soon!

LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, Mister Neutron's first live CD, will be released this spring on Deep Eddy Records. It was recorded by Steven Libis on Oct. 7, 2007, at the International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach, CA. It's got 17 songs, including live versions of totally new stuff that will be released on NOR'EASTER later this year, plus covers of "Lenny," "Jellyfish Race" and "Man of Mystery," among others. The art is being done by Ben Ferrell of Los Angeles.

Mister Neutron's third (and best) album, NOR'EASTER, will be released this year on Deep Eddy Records. NOR'EASTER features 16 new songs, including "The Big Island," "Nor'easter," "Adriatica," "Tahiti Throwdown," "Point Pleasant," "Neutron Summer" and "Mambo Italiano." NOR'EASTER contains some of the best instrumental rock you'll hear in 2008. Be sure to check it out. Stay tuned for updates on a release date.

Deep Eddy Records (Mister Neutron's label) was voted the best local record label in Austin, Texas, in an online poll conducted by the Austin American-Statesman in October. Here's some of the story, which was published on austin360.com: "For every Jay-Z or Richard Branson out there, living in houses made of gold and using Benjamins as Kleenex, there are hundreds of small, independent labels grinding away on their labor of love, in hopes of promoting local music and maybe making a buck or two. Of the many local record labels here in the Live Music Capital of the World, you have chosen Deep Eddy Records as the primary target of your admiration and affection. With 44 percent of the vote, Deep Eddy Records is the winner of the Your A-List poll for Best Local Record Label. Deep Eddy Records has been kicking around for 10 years, exploring the space where twangs meet — surf instrumentals, spaghetti western soundtracks and Texas Telecasters. its artists include 3 Balls of Fire, who reissued their 'Best of the Balls 1988-2000' last year, and the Nematoads (check out their western twang-scapes on 'Five Gun West')."

According to BMI, our song "Super Constellation," which is on BIG WAVE RIDERS and RED TRIANGLE, was played 257 times on American college radio stations in the first quarter of 2007. We're using the royalties as a down payment on a sandwich. Seriously, this is a lot of airplay, and we thank Clint in San Diego and Brian in San Antonio -- plus everyone else who took our bribes -- I mean "helped us out." "Super Constellation" was recorded in 2005, and Damian wrote it. It's his current favorite Mister Neutron song.

Mister Neutron is covered in the June 2007 issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine (Shore Guide '07), the one with the hot blonde on the cover. We're on page 24. To read the story online, go to our "Press" link.

Yes, it's true: Mister Neutron will be back in the Golden State in October 2007 for a few more shows, including an Oct. 7 show at the International Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach. More dates will be announced soon. Who knows? We might even stay out there this time.

"Submariner" is track 1 on a new comp CD put out by Texas Independent Musicians. The CD is called TEXAS INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS VOL. 1, and it's available at our shows and via this Web site. Please note that this is an all-new master of "Submariner"; it was mastered at The Brain Machine in Austin. There are 14 other songs on the comp, all by great bands -- members of Texas Independent Musicians -- including our friends The Nematoads and 3 Kisses. For more on TIM, see the "Links" page.

Throughout March 2007, Mister Neutron is the featured NESMA (North East Surf Music Alliance) band at www.nesmasurf.org. There's an interview with Damian, plus exciting tidbits about Tony's amps and Drew's grain-alcohol fixation.

Mister Neutron is heading to California in March to play five shows. For more info, visit the CALENDAR page. Here are the basics: 3/22: We're playing with The Barbwires on Clint Beachwood's KCR radio show in San Diego. 3/22 (later that night): We're at The Tower Bar in San Diego with The Barbwires and Monsters From Mars. 3/23: We drive up the coast to play at The Blank Club in San Jose with Pollo Del Mar, The Pyronauts and The Barbwires. 3/24: It's back down to SoCal for a show at Suzy's in Hermosa Beach with The Penetrators and Outerwave. 3/25: Things wrap up nicely with a show at The Purple Orchid in El Segundo with The Insect Surfers and The Barbwires. Huge thanks go out to Dusty, Unsteady, Dave and Ferenc!

Mister Neutron's RED TRIANGLE CD made Bob Makin's top-10 list of 2006 New Jersey CDs. Makin is an entertainment editor/writer at the Courier News in Bridgewater, N.J. In Makin's story, which appeared Dec. 31, RED TRIANGLE came it at No. 8, right after COLORBLIND by Robert Randolph & The Family Band and before WEEKEND SESSIONS by Thomas Mack.

Besides lunch, Mister Neutron's first stop on its March tour of California will be a live show on Clint Beachwood's "A Day At The Beach" radio show 4 to 6 p.m. (PST) March 22. Clint broadcasts live every Thursday on KCR from the campus of San Diego State University. We'll be sharing the two-hour slot with The Barbwires, a surf band from Sweden that happens to be touring California at the same time. To hear us on Clint's show, visit www.kcrlive.com. On the East Coast, it's 7 to 9 p.m.

In November, Damian, Tony and Drew returned to Mike Caro's Submarine Studio in New York to start working on the next Mister Neutron CD. Much of this CD will be recorded live in the studio (which ain't easy). Tracks include "Mambo Italiano" by Rosemary Clooney and Dominic Frontiere's "Hang 'Em High." There's also a new batch of Damian tunes, including "Big Sur Prize," "Tahiti Throwdown," "Stratosfear" and "Neutron Summer," plus a new recording of "Naughty Bits." And then there's Tony's new tune, "Sea Girt Agent Man." Stay tuned for more reverberating updates!

Mister Neutron's "10'll Gretsch You 20" (from MISTER NEUTRON LOVES YOU) has been nominated for a Just Plain Folks Music Award for Surf Song of the Year. It was nominated by CD Baby artists, plus music management and label representatives. The awards ceremony is Nov. 4, 2006, in Santa Ana, Calif. Unfortunately, Mister Neutron can't make it to Santa Ana -- they have a gig at Otto's Shrunken Head in NYC that night.

Mister Neutron's RED TRIANGLE CD became only the second surf/instro CD ever to hit the Top 35 Playlist at WRUW-FM in Cleveland, Ohio. This means pretty much every DJ at the station is playing it. It shot up to No. 28, just below Ani DiFranco and above The Sadies.