Hey guys,
As we promised, we have uploaded two new songs to "The Big Cedar Sessions" called "Maps" and "Down at the Crossroads." These are totally free songs so we hope that you all download and share with your friends. Also, just a reminder about our Halloween show, this Friday, at our house. Details can be found on the shows page here on the site. This is not a show to miss. Enjoy the new songs and hopefully we'll see you Friday!

Hey y'all,

Coming off of last night's show at the 400 Bar on the West Bank, we wanted to say hey to all of you. In case you missed it, there was a Zombie Pub Crawl last night along Cedar Avenue. Everyone was hungry for brains and looked bloody and possessed. We kicked off at 10 and rocked out to some new originals for an hour. Thanks to those of you who made it out, it was a bumpin' time. Check out all the gig pictures here on the gig pics page.

In other news, we are pumped to release some new tunes to you online. Over Summer '08, we went up to the Wickert lake house on Big Cedar Lake in West Bend and recorded a whole batch of David's folk-sy songs. We went after the most organic sound we could capture, really attempting to record performances instead of isolated takes.

The end result is the eight songs on "The Big Cedar Sessions".

We will be releasing these tunes gradually over the next four weeks. Every Sunday night, we'll post two new songs to the growing album tracklist until all 8 are posted by mid-November. And if you're lucky, we might post a couple covers we recorded too. (Don't tell the RIAA...)

In addition to these recordings, we are releasing a new acoustic single called "Firefly Lullaby" that can also be found on the music page here on the site.

Also, a new show in the makings to put on your radar. We've been offered to play at Blarney's in Dinkytown on Friday, November 21st. We will be playing three, count them, three 45 minute sets. More details to come on this marathon show.

Have a happy Monday and please browse around for all your updates on shows, free music, band member blogs (Dan's is really funny), and local Minneapolis music.

Register to vote November 4th!
Take care. Stay classy.

- apollo

Hello everybody,

As the weather starts to cool off, apollo's show schedule is starting to heat up. (That was the corniest opening line I could possibly think of). We actually do have quite a busy month ahead in terms of performances. All of the details surrounding our shows can be viewed from our convenient "shows" page here on the site, but I'll outline the month for 'yall here. This Friday the 10th apollo will be playing, sans eye-candy/funk train conductor Alex, an acoustic set at the West Bank's annual Artsmosis event. The following weekend on Saturday the 18th we'll be headlining the lovely 400 Bar over on the West Bank as well. The weekend following that, on Friday the 24th, apollo can be found at an SAE party down on good 'ol frat row. And finally, the following Friday, the 31st, Holloween, we will be hosting a house concert/party/frightfest/girls dressing inappropriately event right here in our very own basement. This will definitely be one to mark down on your calandars. Details for all these performances can be found on the shows page here. That's all for us for now. Good luck on mid-terms and register to vote!

Hello all,

I hope the transition back to school has been going swimmingly. apollo has been hard at work getting some gigs around the Twin Cities area and beyond. All shows will be posted here on our shows page and we will be utilizing the free-time vacuum that is Facebook as well to keep you all in the loop. Hopefully you can all make it out to see us. Also, in an attempt to create a website with more dynamic content that will keep 'yall coming back, we thought it might be cool for each of us to have our own little blog journal thing. These can be found on our individual bios & journals page. These will be used for writing things about the band and things that have nothing to do with the band or music whatsoever. So we're gonna try this out. Hopefully we will be diligent in writing on these. Please comment away to let us know your thoughts or if you just would like to talk some shit about us. That's all to report for now on our end. See you all on the scene and go out and vote in November!

Love,

apollo