Good day friends, family, and fans!

We have tons of news to share, following an exciting and fun-filled Spring. We had our record-release party, and it was a great success! You can check out photos on our Facebook page, and even add some of your own if you want.

Fences Now Available!

Of course, it wouldn’t be a CD release party without a CD release right? We have successfully finished producing our debut album, Fences, and finally have it out for distribution in the public market. You can pick up your copy at a number of venues, depending on your preference:

• Buy a physical copy online from our online store, which actually links to a CDBaby page.
• Buy a digital copy from iTunes or Amazon.com (and pick your songs if you want).
• Buy a physical copy direct from us at a show. You’ll save money AND see a live performance!

In order to celebrate the Summer months, we’ve gone and booked two shows within eight days of each other. One at a tried-and-true venue and one at someplace new:

• Saturday, June 27th at 9:00 pm, we’ll be playing at Retox Lounge with Atomic Love Bombs and Royal Jam. This show is $6, and is 21+ only.
• Sunday, July 5th at 4:00 pm, we’ll be playing at Milk. This show is $5, and is 21+ only. We’ll be playing with Second and Bay.

The band is in a state of flux, as Elliot is getting married and moving to Michigan towards the end of the summer. Charlie took a job in the South Bay and moved to Mountain View. The band is moving practice space to Redwood City. It’s all very confusing. But, the things to share are:

• Come to one of these shows, because it’s one of the last chances to see our current lineup!
• Does anybody know a drummer and/or keyboard player?
• If we booked shows down the peninsula or in the South Bay, would you come?

We hope to see you soon, but in the meantime, be our friend on MySpace, our fan on Facebook, and check out the latest news right here, on the official website.

Rock on!

Well, it’s official. Two Star Spark has now truly made it in the music industry. Why? Well, because we’re on iTunes of course! So, if you heard our songs, and you told yourself “boy, I like all their songs except for Decay, Hurt Me Out, and Fences, I wish I didn’t have to sit through those ones,” well now you can buy just the songs you want! Or you can buy the whole album!

See you on the internets!

So a lot has been going on lately. We have a new album, which is now available for sale on the internet, and will soon be on iTunes. Remember, you can always still pick one up at one of our shows as well.

Oh, speaking of shows, we have two lined up for the summer so far:

1. Saturday, 6/27 at Retox Lounge with Atomic Love Bombs and Royal Jam
2. Sunday, 7/5 at Milk with The Elevens

You can find out more on the shows page, and we hope to see you there!

Spring is in the air in full San Francisco style, meaning it’s on-and-off freezing and blisteringly hot, paired with strong gusts of ocean-scented wind and plenty of pollen (the latter of which has left this singer with half a voice for a couple days).

… A New Record…
Spring brings plenty of new beginnings, among which include the debut album from Two Star Spark, “Fences.” This long-anticipated record brings new instrumentation in the form of additional guitar tracks never before heard in our live performances, additional keyboards only possible by a drummer-keyboard player with four hands, and bass that pops and carries the songs to a coda of unimaginable strength and emotion. The final (and title) track even includes a guest vocalist, rounding out the sound quite nicely. This will be an album for the ages, a voice of this generation, and a compilation to be reckoned with. You may pick up your copy at a number of venues starting on May 10th, including Amoeba Records, Rasputin, or you can pre-order on our online store. We also hope to eventually add the album to iTunes and Amazon.com. To hold yourself over until the 10th, please feel free to download “Dear Mark” and “Dance Hall” from our music page.

… A CD Release Party…
What album announcement would be complete without a tour to accompany it? But, being a small local band, we have yet to develop a significant fan base outside of the bay area, so our album tour will be strictly confined to one city for an exclusive show. The show will take place on the release date, Sunday, May 10th (a special Mother’s Day indeed), at Kimo’s (1351 Polk St. at Pine, San Francisco). We will be headlining the show, scheduled to start at 9:30, doors opening at 9:00. Our two band friends Parae and The Elevens will kick the night off, and we will close the night down by playing the album live in its entirety, as well as a few other choice numbers. As usual, this show is unfortunately 21+, and comes with a $5 cover charge, but that goes straight to production of the second album. More information:

Facebook event (please RSVP, then attend!) – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=82743893981
The event flyer (print and share!) – http://www.twostarspark.com/flyers/KimosFlyer.jpg

That is all for today, my dear friends. Apologies if you feel inundated with announcements from us – we only wish to keep you informed, and we will continue to do so. We hope to see you on the 10th, and until then, please keep in touch!

Charlie and Elliot and Phil
Two Star Spark

Hello adoring fans! The band is looking for a venue to have a CD release party. We’re not huge, but we’re hardworking and can easily put together a full bill for the evening, publicize, and bring a good number of people. We usually have no problem getting shows, but they’re usually piggy-backing on other bands or they end up being weeknight shows. We’d really like to have this on a Friday or Saturday night because then we’ll get the strongest draw. We’ve played El Rio, Kimo’s, Beale St. Bar, Ireland’s 32, Milk, Grant and Green, and DNA Lounge in San Francisco, as well as a few places outside the city. We’re looking for a mid May show ideally, and I know a lot of places are booked up, but we’ve still got our fingers crossed.

What I’m looking for is advice from other bands or offers from venues. I know someone must subscribe to this blog. We’re going for smaller venues because we’re a small band. We’re building our following, but I won’t lie and say we can fill a room yet. We’re not interested in a pay-to-play situation, but we’ll pay for the sound tech and door person obviously.

So, if you have any leads or ideas, comment or send email to charlie at twostarspark dot com.

Hi Friend -

I heard about this show coming up at Kimo’s that I think would be really fun to go to. I’m going, and a couple of my friends (Elliot and Phil) will definitely be there with me. I think we’ll probably get there around 8:30 because that’s when the doors open and the opening acts are actually good.

The band that’s playing first is this San Francisco garage/indie/electro/pop/noise/shoegaze/post-grunge/rock band called Two Star Spark. They have a great sound, and I heard they’re taking time off recording their upcoming album, “Fences,” to do a few shows. I somehow managed to catch them every time they’ve played, and it’s been fun. You can check out their tunes here, and you can even become their facebook friend!

After them, a couple of other bands will be playing. The Elevens are coming on second, and Tokyo Raid will be closing the night down. Both of these bands seem promising, so if you come to check out Two Star Spark (which you probably should), you should stick around for the others.

Don’t forget these vital details, so we don’t miss each other. I wouldn’t want you to accidentally end up at OK Go at the GAMH instead. Remember:

Two Star Spark with The Elevens and Tokyo Raid
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009. Doors open at 8:30 pm.
Kimo’s Bar at 1351 Polk Street (at Pine), San Francisco, CA.
21+ only, obviously

So, I’ll see you there, right?

Dear friends, the show at Milk was a great time. Thank you all for braving the rain and the upper Haight to be with us.

So we got there at 3pm like the promoter told us to, and nobody was there. We stood in the rain with our cars double-parked until about 3:15 when the bar owner finally showed up and let us in. We loaded in and hung out for a bit. Remember, this was supposed to start at 4. The bartender told us the promoter seldom shows up before 4, and I said we show up on time because we’re professional like that. Then, the bartender gets a call from the promoter saying one of the bands flaked at the last minute (Tree House City), and it would be just us and The Thralls, he wouldn’t be there until 4:45 or so, and the show wouldn’t start until 5. Nice, considering all our friends showed up at 4 when the show was supposed to start. So the show started at 5:15 or so, sans promoter (he showed up at about 5:30).

The upshot of this is twofold: first, we got to go on first, and because the Thralls told all their friends to show up at 7, we played almost everything we know, and were on stage for an hour and a half. Second, because the promoter didn’t show up until midway through our set, none of our fans paid the cover charge (I wouldn’t have if I was them either). The nice thing about that is that we still split the door, which was pretty much exclusively from Thralls fans.

We played Brake Lights, Get Up, Crane Wife III (reggae version), Hurt Me Out, Fences (reimagined version), Dance Hall, Walk on Me (frist time with an audience), Sand (reimagined version, even though I sang the verse instead of the chorus for a line), Crack on the Wall, Dear Mark, Lucky, ATL and Brandon, Decay, and Metro. It’s really the longest I’ve played without a break. People seemed into it though.

In other news, we’re still working on the album. We finished tracking earlier this week, and should have it ready for prime time within another few weeks. We’ll probably have it ready in time for our upcoming show at Kimo’s in late march. Stay tuned for more info on that!

So as most of you know, we have a show this weekend, on Sunday, February 15th at 4pm at Milk in the Upper Haight. Being the good promoter I am, I listed it with a number of sites (interestingly, it’s not listed on Milk’s calendar). We’re all over the internet now, and I think it’s because some of the sites share a back end. If you do a search for Two Star Spark on the google, you’ll find that we’re hit at sanfrancisco.com, oakland.com, carmel.com, and sanjose.com, and a host of other local events sites that I didn’t submit to. Pretty cool if you ask me.

So, to get the hit counts up on these listings and get more people out to the show, here are the ones I put up:

• funcheapSF.com
• SF Station
• San Francisco Chronicle 

I also submitted to the SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly, but they haven’t gotten around to listing me. I guess they’re too busy. But, the cool thing is the proliferation of the posting to less known sites.

In other news, we’re competing (so to speak) with NOFX, Don Caballero, and The Murder City Devils, so all you skate punk/math rock/garage rock kids will have a nice time getting warmed up with a little Two Star Spark before you go to your professional show. See you there!

Hello friends. It’s been some days since a post – I know, I’m sorry. As you probably read in our latest email broadcast, I blame a number of things, including vacations, holidays, a couple of fantastic Sierra storms, general laziness, and studio time. Did I say studio time? Yeah, I did.

As both of you know, we’ve done a little recording in the past with eriq from parae. We were so pleased with the results that we asked him to do six more songs for us, and because he’s cool and we weren’t terrible to work with (i.e. Elliot is solid enough to hit most drum tracks on the first take), he agreed. The album will have Get Up, Hurt Me Out, Brake Lights, Fences, Decay, Sand, Crack on the Wall, ATL and Brandon, Dance Hall, and Dear Mark. We’ll make it available at fine bay area record stores, our online store, and our shows as soon as it’s done. We’ll even make it available for download on iTunes and amazon, and try to get it loaded up to Pandora.

At any rate, the process is going quite well. Elliot remains solid. Phil is adding quite a low-end punch. My guitars are passable. The vocals really tie the room together. When all’s said and done, I think I wouldn’t be ashamed to have this play at a party. But in all seriousness, it’s really solid, and I’m pretty proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish in such a short time.

The other piece of news is that we have a show coming up on February 15th. You need to go to it. It’s just $3, and it’s in the Upper Haight, so you can get a great burrito or a slice beforehand, then walk over and have a few drinks while you enjoy the musical stylings of The Thralls, Tree House City, and Two Star Spark.

The thing tying these two items together is that you can expect us to play all ten songs from the upcoming album at the show, as if you were listening to it in your incredibly loud living room, and as if your living room had a full bar and burritos and pizza within spitting distance (mine does). The bonus? We’ll probably add a few choice covers for good measure… and if you’re lucky, we might actually add something nobody’s ever heard us play.

See you Sunday!