Late July Update

It’s been a great summer for us so far! We’re sad to be nearing the end of it, but excited for everything that we have planned for the near future. If you’d like to reminisce with us over some of this summer’s greatest moments, please take a little trip over to the Live Music Archive. What is the Archive, you ask? The Live Music Archive is home to live recordings of about 40 of our shows, alongside of many, many other live recordings of all sorts of great bands. You can view our archive at: http://www.archive.org/details/GoKartMozart.

In other news, we’ve been busy recording our new album. We’re proud to say that all of the basic tracks are complete. We have officially moved on to the overdubbing phase. No release date is set as of yet, but please stay tuned for more details about the release. There are a few more upcoming local shows on our calendar, including a show this Sunday night at the Green Tortoise Hostel in San Francisco. Hope to see you all soon! Please don’t forget to show us love on Twitter (@gokartmozart11) and Facebook!

Happy 4th of July!

What a great weekend we just had down in Southern California! I, for one, am still recovering from it. We were honored to be a part of No Pants Fest 5 at A Wing and A Prayer in Lancaster. Just like No Pants Fest 3 and 4, No Pants 5 was a blast. The weather was great, the crowd was pumped, and the BBQ was delicious. Thank you to all of the folks in Lancaster for being so awesome (as always)! After Lancaster, we spent a day playing in San Louis Obispo at Boo Boo Records and Frog and Peach. With the exception of a random, unexpected dog attack on Anna, the weekend could not have been better! We have a few local and semi-local shows coming up in July, in addition to another recording session at Ex’pression in about a week. After the Ex’pression session, we’ll take the tracks to good ole Music Time Academy for more overdubs and mixing with our new toy, the SM7B! Woo hoo!! Have a safe, warm and BBQ-filled holiday weekend, y’alls!

Recording! And other fun things.

Last Saturday and Sunday we embarked on the recording of our third full length album. As opposed to the last two that we recorded entirely on our own, this time around we took advantage of an awesome local facility, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. We had a blast recording to 2″ tape through their Neve and SSL consoles and some amazing outboard gear. Unfortunately, our tape reel could only hold 30 minutes of music, so we were limited to just 7 songs (for this session). We recorded live (with all 4 of us playing together), just like you see in the movies! Recording live is often difficult, however we really like the energy and feel of playing together so we were excited to get to record in a facility that could accomodate it. We’ll be adding vocals and other overdubs at Music Time Academy (Anna’s studio). Another Ex’pression session is scheduled for July. We hope to track at least 5 more songs at that time.

Not only were we busy recording, but our live show schedule is still quite full. After 3 weeks in a row of Friday night shows in San Francisco, we finally take a break from the city and head down to Mountain View for a show this Saturday at Red Rock Coffee. This is our first show in that area, so please come on out if you happen to be in town. We are (of course) really looking forward to our 3rd time playing NO PANTS FEST down in Lancaster! Check out the shows section for many, many more GKM appearances.

Friday Night in San Francisco!

What are YOU doing this Friday? Well, I’ll tell you what we’ll be doing – playing our little hearts out at the Union Room at San Francisco’s Biscuits & Blues! This is an important local show for us, so please come show some support. We’ll be playing all night (8:30 to 11:30pm), so please stop by for a drink or dinner and (of course) live music from your friends, Go Kart Mozart! It’s been busy times for us as we play all sorts of shows in the midst of preparing for recording. We’re set to go into the studio to begin recording the new album on June 4th & 5th. So far it’s looking like 12 or so new original songs will be recorded, along with some covers. Any requests for covers to put on the new album? Please email your suggestion to anna@kidmoe.net, or (as always) feel free to contact us on Facebook or Twitter any time. Don’t forget to visit the Archive for all the latest live recordings, like this one from Ex’pression College a couple of weeks ago: http://www.archive.org/details/gkm2011-05-02.

Vote GKM for Best of the Bay!

It’s been a while since we’ve bugged you to vote for us for something, so please…VOTE FOR US! This time we are trying to score points for SF Weekly’s “Best of 2011″. Please go to http://polls.sfweekly.com/polls/san/bestof11/ and type “Go Kart Mozart” into the little field number 4, labeled “Best Local Rock Band”. You don’t have to fill out all the fields, but please do click through until you hit “Submit” at the end of the survey. Thank you much! We have a ton of shows on the calendar, so if you haven’t already visited the “shows” section of this page, please do it NOW! We’ve also been good about posting recordings of all of our live shows onto the Live Music Archive. All recent shows (and some not-so-recent ones, too) can be found HERE!. Our next local show is TOMORROW, April 22nd (Earth Day) at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland. See you there!

Have you been the The Archive?

Did you know that we have been uploading live recordings of all of our shows for about a year now? It’s true! If you haven’t been yet, please take a moment to visit:http://www.archive.org/details/GoKartMozart. Oh, and speaking of live shows, we have put up even more events on the calendar, too. It’s great to be playing live again! We have also scheduled some studio time for recording a new afull-length album in early June, so be ready for that as well. Over the next few weeks we’ll be very busy writing and arranging the new material, and we plan to perform tons of new songs at all of the upcoming live shows. Lots of excitement at the Go Kart Mozart factory! Please connect with us on Twitter and Facebook to keep up with all the latest happenings. Thanks for reading!

Shows, shows, shows, shows…

After taking it WAY too easy for WAY too long, we’re finally back to the old Go Kart Mozart schedule of lots and lots of shows. Please take a look at our schedule on the “Shows” page to see where we’re playing at over the next few months. We are in the process of booking more, too, so please keep checking back often. Unfortunately for anyone outside of California, all of our upcoming shows are local (with the exception of NO PANTS FEST 5 in Southern California), and we have no plans to tour just yet. In other exciting GKM news, we are now on Jango. You can see our profile here. We’ve also done some updates to the old MySpace, if you still remember how to get there. Yay for actually having some news…

Happy Valentine’s Day!

We hope that everyone has had their share of chocolates, flowers and heart-shaped pizzas! Thanks always for visiting our little site. We love you all, so we thought it would be appropriate to send some love on love day. Last week we posted a new live set onto the Live Music Archive – our acoustic show from Steeltown Coffee & Tea on January 29th. Please CLICK HERE to listen or download. We’re gearing up for an exciting show at Mutiny in Antioch on March 4th with our friends The Runaway 5 (from Tucson, AZ). We’ve played with them several times in Arizona, and we’re very excited for them to make their way out to CA. Please see the shows section for details. We’re still writing and rehearsing new material, with plans to record as soon as we have enough material together. Stay tuned for details and news as they come in!

Rockin’ 2011!

Happy new year! Although we took it easy in late 2010, we’re READY TO ROCK in 2011! If you missed our first show of 2011 at Red Hat in Concord Rock City then you’re in luck because it’s available for streaming and download on the Live Music Archive! CLICK HERE to listen. Did you know that we have 20 shows posted on the Live Music Archive? If you have not yet visited, please take a minute to look and listen! Since MySpace has made a rather sharp decline over the past year or so, don’t forget to visit our online homes at Twitter, Facebook, ReverbNation, and YouTube! We’re so hip.

We have a few upcoming local shows on the calendar now and more to come. Plans for recording are still in the works, as we are currently still in the writing/arranging process at the moment.

Bored? Online? Vote!

Season’s greetings from Go Kart Mozart! Thanks for your visit to our little site. Since you have the time to come here and to read this, you certainly have the time to vote for us in the Converse “Get out of the Garage” Contest. Not that we are currently or have ever been in a garage, but hey, vote for us anyways! HERE is where you can visit to quickly and easily cast your vote – one vote per email per day. Let them know who’s boss! In other news, we’re getting ready to record a new album. Local shows are in the works for early next year. We’ll keep you posted on any tour info, although you will most likely see a Kickstarter page soon (at least sooner than you’ll see a tour announced, since we need funding before taking off again). Thanks for your support and understanding!