See you May 26th (and 27th, and 29th!)

Yo! Mimi here. I'm headed down south to see the folks and friends in Atlanta this week. Should be a grand ole (humid) time! If you have any buddies down there, send them over to the Red Light Cafe on Saturday night (5/22) where I'll be playing with my old friend Parker Smith (from Smitty and the Spare Change).

I'll be back on Wednesday for a great run of Fruition family love! We play Fire on the Mountain that night (5/26), followed by a triple bill at Mt Tabor Theater with 4 on the Floor & Rebel String Band on Thursday (5/27), all building up to a gritty explosion of twang & rock with the Villains & Rose's Pawn Shop at the Goodfoot on Saturday (5/29). Can't wait to see you, enjoy the blooms!

Here's some random eye candy for you:


Dan from Off the Grid, Crown Room 4/29/2010





Kellen and Jay being tuffy and sleepy at a sunrise shoot for a short film that we're the featured music in, details soon.





Sketch 2 of the Mimi & Shauger: Smoke and Draw series, Kerryboy's Grad Party SketchPad




Big Love to you all! Off to the dirty dirty...

CD Baby, Baby/Pdx Pop NOW

All sorts of big news in Fruitionland this week!!

First off, we're proud to announce that Fruition will be featured on this years PDX Pop Now! Compilation. This annual two-disc set is a showcase of the some of the finest tunes that our beloved stumptown has to offer.

We sent "Never Again" from the new album in to be considered amongst over 650 other submissions. And we made it! Disc 1, track 10. Here's this years tracklisting:

Disc 1

1. The Basics – Tope & Epp ft. Illmaculate
2. No Nostalgia – AgesandAges**
3. Oooh Kill Ooooh – Nucular Aminals
4. Tange Rine – Deelay Ceelay**
5. City Morgue – Kelli Schaefer
6. Five Little Rooms – Menomena**
7. El Ranchero Tejano – paper/upper/cuts**
8. The Letters – Light for Fire**
9. The Upheaval on Titan – JonnyX & the Groadies
10. Never Again – Fruition
11. My Hip Hop Is Breathing – Beyoung, Empire, Lost Poet, Mr. Flea
12. Starting Over (Bad Habits) – Typhoon
13. bodyblood – the angry orts**
14. Bombast – Trio Subtonic
15. Let This Body Go – Death Songs
16. Steve Don’t Party No More – Mean Jeans
17. Flatlands – Mike Coykendall
18. Bad Buzz – The Mint Chicks
19. Wet & Dripping – Aan
20. Patient Heart – Sean Flinn & the Royal We

Disc 2

1. Mercenary Days – Hockey
2. Boxcar Children – ioa
3. Dalvik Tide – Ocean Age
4. Hoop & Wire – Boy Eats Drum Machine
5. Tramm – Breakfast Mountain**
6. Sleep, Child – Nick Jaina
7. Marianne – Strength**
8. Only A Quality Lime for Eric Gruber – Andrew Oliver Sextet
9. Look My Way – Blitzen Trapper**
10. Don’t Look Down on Me – MY-G
11. Pythia Misunderstood – Transient
12. Battling Giants – Brainstorm
13. Too Many Days Gone – Dharma Bums**
14. Wide-Eyed, Legless – Laura Veirs
15. Midcentury Motion – Talkdemonic**
16. Pulling Weeds – The Great Mundane**
17. Juniper – Y La Bamba**
18. Peacock Dreams – Peacock Dreams
19. See Waves – Nice Nice
20. Giant Stairs – A Weather

**Previously Unreleased Tracks

To check out past comps, get information about the PDX Pop Now Festival and more, head over here...

But wait! Theres more!

Yesterday marked the first official day of CD sales through Portland's worldwide distribution company, CD Baby. As of May 3rd you can now purchase "Fruition" as an actual physical package, or as a digital download. Yay!!!

Check it out, tell your friends, and have them tell their friends.

Also thanks to CD Baby, our tunes will soon be up on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody, Last.fm, Pandora, and over 20 more digital outlets. It will be hard for you to NOT find this cd.

Big things on the horizon! Thank you for your continued support of our ever evolving dream!

love, k