Last night was a many-hued collabo between all the members of the HOYOTOHO fold including (and not limited to): Will Bolton (www.wbolton.com) , Will’s hometown photographer friend/Blonde Bombshell Ashley Kelly (ashleykelly.net), lighting designer Mike Cocanower (www.insideimagedesign.com), and our own Ian Miles recording it all.
We’ll be combing through the footage this weekend, but here’s a few screenshots from the festivities.

NEWSFLASH: We play HOUSE OF BLUES (Main Room) next Thursday night for the 1st time. It’s part of the DALLAS ROCKS! Series and the show is FREE.99.
I have a thousand tickets to pass out.
E-mail me: HOYOTOHO@GMAIL.com and we’ll make sure to get you some.
If anyone wants to help us pass these babies out that’d be stellar!

As we inch closer & closer to the 9th ring of hades, I encourage everyone to resist the devil and flee into an air conditioned space. If, for whatever reason, this is not possible then you’re likely to sweat it out like 2 rats makin’ love in a wool sock…OR perhaps, like Lot’s wife.

I’ll explain.
So, yesterday morn the AC @ the HOYOTOHO Ranch went kaputz and we were left to rehearse in a heat so enveloping that by the end everyone’s jeans were drenched in sweat and coated in a thick layer of salt. I thought nothing strange of it until last night when, while talking about medieval tales w/ HOYOTOHO Musicologist #1, Mr. Thiago Nascimento, my thoughts wandered even further back…to Sodom & Gomorrah and Lot’s wife. THEN! THE EPIPHANY! THE FIRE! THE BRIMSTONE! THE HEAT! THE PILLAR OF SALT! Brothers & Sisters, Could it be that Lot’s wife sweat to death?

Moral of the story: Keep cool and make sure to have a wineskin on your person at all times.

Don’t leave home without it!

AWOLNATION produced one of the most inescapable songs of the summer with “Sail”.

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HOYOTOHO’s sailin’ right along with AWOL as they stop through the Prophet Bar on Thursday night. The show is nearly sold out so grab your tickets here. Afterwards, HOYOTOHO will be curating the afterparty tomfooleries and we’re doing it GRATIS! Get there early for some DJ sets, acoustic sets, then a full on soundsystem blowout ’round 11:30.

See you there mon frere!

Recent delights:

Unknown Mortal Orchestra: “Ffunny Ffrends”
Josh T. Pearson “Country Dumb”
Marcella Emille “falling apart”
Trombone Shorty “Hurricane Season”
TV On The Radio “DLZ”
Allen Ginsberg reads “HOWL”
Burial “Fostercare”
Simon & Garfunkel “Keep The Customer Satisfied”
David Lynch Feat. Julee Cruse “Mysteries of Love”
Jean Sibelius “Symphony #5 in E-Flat”
HOYOTOHO “Dreamin”

Davestock was born out of love for a lost friend and we felt the warmth of that love last night. Here’s a few pics from the sweatsoaked scene.

Said archive is the brainchild of my favorite indie-twee angel, the illustrious, Marcella Emille. The perfect concoction of all things sweet & awkward, she’s parlayed her Gen-Y worldview into a heart-melting series of photos and Miranda Julyesque missives. These ever-present goodnesses have brought her heaps of tumblr re-blog love and enough “how sweet!!!”’s for 3 cavities.

Recently (i mean, in the last week) she ventured forth with a series tuneful ditties, one of which I helped her record this past Saturday.

Listen here

Hello All!
Davestock is this weekend! It’s gonna be a fine, 2-day affair and we’re thrilled to be on board.
Our slot’s Sunday @ 11, but show up early and stay late.
$15 for both days. $10 for one.

VENUE:
The Wherehouse
2510 Hemphill
Fort Worth, TX 76110

Get more specs. HERE

Free.99 & Beer:30 are on a collision course for LaGrange this Friday night and they’re bringin’ the H-Y-T-H along for the ride. Joining in the reverie will be our elementary school mates in The Auxiliary Voice whose fuse-blowing freakouts are near&dear to my inner-guitar slingin’ heart.

Here’s the rundown:
HOYOTOHO – 11:30
The Auxiliary Voice – 10
FREE!
LaGrange
2704 Elm Street
Dallas, TX 75226

Season’s Greetings Everybody!

HOYOTOHO is thrilled to be headlining the 3rd Annual Indentondance Party @ Hailey’s in Denton.
Joey (AKA Yeahdef) has put together a bitchin’ bill and we think it a proper summer debut for the least-danceable of all the dance bands, your humble art-rockers, HOYOTOHO.

GO here to RSVP and check out the flier below.

Keep cool out there and let us melt together on July One.

Bless,
CV