ACTUAL LIVE CONCERTS

We're going to play actual live rock concerts in April, Gusterrhoids!  Three of them.  In really arbitrary locations.  

April 14th -- Worcester MA
April 18th -- Vail CO
April 25th -- Atlanta GA

The Worcester show's at the Hanover Theater, open to the public, with discounted tickets for students in the Worcester Consortium.  Go easy on us!  We haven't played in months.

The Vail show is downtown on the street to celebrate the last ski day of the season.  They're letting us send One Very Lucky Guster Fan out there, all expenses-paid style (lift tickets, snowboard rental, etc), through a "contest" -- if we figure out some trivia question or something for this in the next ten minutes, I'll include it at the bottom of this emailer so you can try to win the trip.

The Atlanta show is supporting Ben Harper at the Verizon Amphitheater in Alpharetta Georgia for a Dave FM Earth Day show.  I recently had the privilege of seeing Ben Harper play lap steel alongside Will Ferrell on Conan O'Brien's farewell Free Bird.  Must see TV.


SET LIST WHEEL

Speaking of actual live concerts -- one of the more interesting ones we've ever played was in 1998 at the Met Cafe in Providence RI.  We spent hours making a totally functional "set list wheel" (idea stolen from Elvis Costello) that night, with every song we'd ever recorded written in sharpie on it.   Any song in our young repertoire had a chance to get played whenever we spun the dial.  I can't remember if we played songs twice if we landed on them twice, and I won't go back and listen a show we played twelve years ago, but now YOU CAN!  Thanks to Michael "Pasty" Corcoran, the show has been digitized and uploaded to our website for your... enjoyment.  Enjoy.  Yes, "Happy Frappy" is on there.


I AM A FANTASY BASKETBALL CELEBRITY

This really happened:  Twenty questions for Guster's Brian Rosenworcel with Rotoworld's NBA Fantasy Basketball Guru Steve Alexander... watch me talk about Tyreke Evans and Chat Roulette in the same interview!  Learn more about our new album on a fantasy basketball website than you do through the studio journal!


WE FINISHED RECORDING OUR ALBUM

Hallelujah!  We're off to mix the album with our friend Peter Katis for the rest of March, and then we have to master (!) our album, and then we have to wait a few more months for it to be released, but it's in the bag and it's going to be awesome.  Smart money's on a September 1st release date.


AM I REALLY DOING A VAIL SHOW TRIVIA QUESTION?

Alright, here it is.  Who is Brian's fantasy basketball team named after?  Do your research. Win a trip to Vail.  Go.
Email your answer to guster@guster.com no later than March 22 with VAIL in the subject line and maybe you and a friend will be the big big lucky winners.   You have to be 21+ to enter.

Click here for all the info.


Much love,

g



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Our friends at HeadCount and the NRDC Action Fund put together a Best of Bonnaroo compilation featuring “Happier” to encourage action on climate change. You can download it FREE at www.musicforaction.org, where you can also email your elected officials on the issue. Get “Best of Bonnaroo” now.

Sign up with Green Music Group and get a free song download from a special all-band collaboration featuring members of Maroon 5, The Roots, Dave Matthews Band and Guster.

There is also a guitar giveaway - you could win one of three autographed eco-friendly guitars that's up for grabs.

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G-friends,
 
We are proud to announce the launch of Green Music Group, a coalition of musicians, industry leaders, and fans working to inspire widespread environmental action.  GMG was created by Adam and his wife, Lauren Sullivan as a new initiative of their non-profit Reverb.  Other founding artists include Dave Matthews Band, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, The Roots, Bonnie Raitt, and Barenaked Ladies.

This past weekend, Ryan and Adam played with members of Maroon 5, The Roots, and Dave Matthews Band in an "eco-supergroup"  at the GMG launch event in Hollywood.

Anyone who loves music and wants to make a difference can join, and we hope you will.  Check out Green Music Group for videos, prizes and challenges from your favorite artists.  As a thank you for getting involved, we're giving away some cool eco-friendly guitars signed by GMG founding artists.  Join us! www.greenmusicgroup.org

Read Adam's Piece in the Huffington Post

New Pasty Tapes show up via guster.com! This time Pasty picked the 10.31.97 show at Avalon in Boston. Yours to download or stream RIGHT HERE. g

On Saturday, November 28th, Calling All Crows will host a care package assembly party at Brooklyn Bowl to benefit soldiers serving overseas this holiday season. The service event is free, open to the public, and will include performances by members of Guster, fun., State Radio, and Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers– all on stage at Brooklyn Bowl!

Live music fans in NYC for Thanksgiving Weekend are asked to arrive with care package donations (see list of items below). Volunteers will write letters to troops, thank them for their service, and pack the notes with care packages to be shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan in time for the holiday season. Cash donations will also be collected to help offset international shipping costs.

ITEMS FREQUENTLY REQUESTED BY TROOPS:
Ramen noodles, Easy Mac, peanut butter, energy bars, etc.. (food must be pre-packaged)
Salt and pepper or spice mixes
Deodorant, toothpaste, soap, baby wipes, body/foot powder, lip balm
Long-distance phone cards
Insoles for shoes
Gatorade mix/general drink mixes
Black boot socks
Books, CDs
Batteries
Playing Cards
Ziploc bags
Disposable cameras

Special thanks to Brooklyn Bowl for offering to host this special event!

Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Please be sure to RSVP now and encourage your friends to do the same.
THANK YOU!

The Yukon Kornelius project will join together for a performance as part of the Bud Light Concert Series portion of Vail's Snow Daze event. Yukon Kornelius includes DMB's bassist Stefan Lessard, guitarist/vocalist Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies, guitarist/vocalist Adam Gardner from Guster and drummer Eric Fawcett from N*E*R*D.

SPECIAL GUSTER TICKET ACCESS CODE: GUSTERYK09

Purchase tickets at: http://yukonkornelius.tickets.musictoday.com/YukonKornelius/calendar.aspx

All Ages Event

Our friend Dave Yonkman caught us rehearsing last night (here's the video):



And Ryan will be tweeting each show day on how you can find & win a pair of hidden tix stashed away for the sold out shows. http://twitter.com/guster


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Gusterrhoids.

We're getting in game shape for our Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour.  If you like that album and want to see this show, we recommend a trip to Cincinnati OH or Rochester NY.  The other shows on the tour have all sold out.  Here are the dates:

10/28/09 - Charlotte NC @ Neighborhood Theater
10/29/09 - Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
10/30/09 - Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
10/31/09 - Boston MA @ Orpheum Theater
11/04/09 - Cincinnati OH @ Madison Theater...TICKETS
11/05/09 - Cleveland OH @ House of Blues
11/06/09 - Rochester NY @ Armory...TICKETS
11/07/09 - Burlington VT @ Higher Ground
11/27/09 - New York NY @ Beacon Theater
11/28/09 - New York NY @ Beacon Theater

Remember Pasty?

Back in 1999 when Lost & Gone Forever came out, our tour manager was a former Guster bootlegger (he made "tapes") named Pasty.  Well, Pasty's all grows up and just had a (10 pound) baby named Max.  He's turned over his vast bootleg vaults to us and we're releasing them on our slightly redesigned website, a new one every month or two, free to download or stream.  Right now, he's got one from April 2000 in Portsmouth NH up there.  If you're into that sort of thing, enjoy.

How to Get VIP Tickets or Your Very Own Piece of Guster Rejected Art History

We've given Adam's environmental nonprofit, Reverb, a bunch of stuff to auction off to help support their cause.  You can bid on VIP tickets with meet and greets for each show on our upcoming tour, a signed acoustic guitar, and LAGF framed album cover rejects from 10 years ago.  Here's where to do your bidding:  www.charityfolks.com/guster09

Much love and see you soon,

g


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Billboard recently interviewed Adam Gardner about the upcoming "Lost and Gone Forever" tour and the new Guster songs. Here's the link for you: Billboard.com.

Willie Nelson and the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance recognize environmental visionaries Adam Gardner & Lauren Sullivan of Reverb by presenting them with the 2009 SBA Visionary Award.  

Since 2008 the SBA has honored an individual and an organization for their efforts in the field of sustainability, through biodiesel.  Last year's recipients were the City of Portland, OR and City Commissioner Randy Leonard.  This year's award was presented to Adam and Lauren for their work with their environmental non-profit Reverb.  A visionary award was also presented to www.nearbio.com.  

The SBA is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2006 to develop standards for sustainability in the biodiesel industry and for public education on how sustainable biodiesel can help the US move towards a sustainable energy future.  

Reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans alike to take action toward a more sustainable future, through their website reverbrock.org and through work with music tours, like Guster's Campus Consciousness Tour.  To date Reverb has helped tours source over 376,000 gallons of biodiesel and prevented over 62,000 tons of carbon from being released into the atmosphere.  Since 2004, Reverb has worked on over 70 major tours and 1,100 events, helped artists and fans reduce or eliminate over 62,000 tons of CO2, fueled trucks and buses with over 375,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel, hosted 1,700 environmental groups in their interactive Eco-Village, and reached over 8 million fans.  

Nice work, Adam and Lauren!!
For more about Reverb go to: reverbrock.org

Gusterrhoids.

We have five more festival dates this summer before we go back into the studio and finish our album once and for all. This weekend we're playing before Levon Helm in Connecticut and after Peter Bjorn & John and Aimee Mann in Philly. Come out and say hi. Here are the remaining summer dates:

July 25th in Bridgeport CT
Gathering of the Vibes
Tickets

July 26th in Camden NJ
XPoNential Music Fest
Tickets

July 31st in St Louis MO
Live on the Levee (FREE)

August 7th in Newport RI
Newport Yachting Center
Tickets

August 8th in Portland ME
Baystock Music Festival
Tickets

And thanks for the great response to the Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour. You have spoken and we'll be playing the album in order. It will be weird to see Fa Fa batting clean-up but it's the right thing to do. The show at the Beacon Theater in NYC sold out right away so we've added a second night (Saturday, November 28th) and tickets are available now.

Those of you who want to attend the Halloween show in Boston at the Orpheum Theater should note that you can get tickets without a surcharge if you visit the Orpheum Theater Box Office between the hours of 10AM to 5PM Monday through Saturday.

Much love,

g

Gusterrhoids.

It's been ten years since we released Lost & Gone Forever, the album that put us on peoples' radars, helped us graduate from our van to a bus, and taught me to fill my finger cuts with krazy glue.

To celebrate, we're turning the clock back to 1999 and announcing the Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour -- 9 very special evenings with Guster. No opener. Two sets, one of which will be the album in its entirety. Yes, even Two Points for Honesty and Rainy Day. I haven't decided if we should play the album in order or in shuffle mode. Any thoughts?

Some facts about the album, mangled together in one chunky paragraph with no flow:

* Produced by Steve Lillywhite, who was our #1, I Can't Believe He Said Yes, dream producer choice. We played Woodstock '99 right before the album came out, well before we were ready to play a show that big, and mere hours before people set the place on fire. The Barenaked Ladies liked the album and brought us on tour with them, thus doubling the size and Canadian-ness of our following. Karl Denson played sax on Fa Fa, one take, that was it. There were no drum sticks used on the album, only hand drums, and I said so in the liner notes -- Ryan would later make fun of me for including this detail in the album package. We recently found another band's album with the same cover photo of the boy throwing the big rock on the piano. Paige from Phish played theremin on All the Way Up to Heaven. We almost didn't put Happier on the record. What You Wish For and Rainy Day were featured in the movie "Life as a House," which is about cancer. When we toured with Ben Folds in the summer of 2004 he made All the Way Up to Heaven sound so good with his piano chops we never played the song again after that.

Tour dates, all lined up in a row:

10/28/09 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theater...Tix / Facebook Event
10/29/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club / Tix / Facebook Event
10/30/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club / Tix / Facebook Event
10/31/09 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theater / Tix / Facebook Event
11/04/09 - Cincinnati, OH @ Madison Theatre / Tix / Facebook Event
11/05/09 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues / Tix / Facebook Event
11/06/09 - Rochester, NY @ Armory / Tix / Facebook Event
11/07/09 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground / Tix / Facebook Event
11/27/09 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theater / Tix / Facebook Event

Some facts about the above tour dates:

This will be the only real Guster headlining tour of 2009. There are no west coast dates, or Texas dates. The only shows near the midwest are two dates in Ohio. The only show in the south is in Charlotte NC. For those of you who find this tour appealing but live in places we're not visiting, we feel your pain. We are visiting some venues of historical significance -- Higher Ground in Vermont, though in a new location now, was where we launched the original Lost & Gone Forever tour. The Orpheum, in Boston, was where we put on an epic Halloween show ten years ago where we wore tuxes and pretended it was New Year's Eve, Y2K. The Beacon in New York, while a relatively new venue for us, harkens back to a time when we played Thanksgiving Weekend in NYC five years in a row. We encourage you all to get your tickets early as these shows will probably sell out... you can get tickets here, on sale Friday July 17th:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/Guster-tickets/artist/781894

http://www.livenation.com/artist/guster-tickets/

We will all have the same clothes, facial hair, and hair cuts we had ten years ago on this tour. Promise. Even Joe.

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It's festival season, Gusterrhoids!

That means we're playing with Skynyrd and the Doobie Brothers on Sunday in Alabama (no kidding). And playing a free set after Rusted Root in Atlanta this Saturday night (wait, are *we* a nostalgia band too?) ... and playing in Mississippi for the first time in ten years on Friday.

So come on and out and see us. And Lynyrd Skynyrd. By the way, anyone know the over/under on how long "Sweet Home Alabama" runs when it's actually played *in* Alabama? I said twelve minutes, but other people tell me fifteen's a safe bet. I know when we play "Ramona" in the state of Oklahoma we jam that shit out for twenty sometimes.

Other summer festivals are in the cards too, including a new FREE SHOW IN ST LOUIS JULY 31st. See the whole list below.

6/19/09 – Jackson, MS @ Jubilee Jam Festival...TIX
6/20/09 – Atlanta, GA @ MidSummer Music Fest...FREE SHOW
6/21/09 – Birmingham, AL @ City Stages...TIX
7/02/09 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest...TIX
7/04/09 – Chicago, IL @ Taste of Chicago @ Grant Park...FREE SHOW
7/05/09 – Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Festival...TIX
7/19/09 – Denver, CO @ Mile High Fest...TIX
7/25/09 – Bridgeport, CT @ Gathering of the Vibes...TIX
7/26/09 – Camden, NJ @ XPoNential Music Festival...TIX
7/31/09 – St. Louis, MO @ St. Louis Riverfront...FREE SHOW
8/07/09 – Newport, RI @ Newport Yachting Center...TIX
8/08/09 – Portland, ME @ Baystock Music Festival...TIX

And inbetween those shows we're going to be working on our album. Promise. Much love.

g

Here's our summer schedule, for now, Gusterrhoids... yes, that's a Mississippi date on top!

6/19/09 - Jackson, MS @ Jubilee Jam Festival...Tix TBA / Facebook
6/20/09 - Atlanta, GA @ MidSummer Music Fest at Candler Park...Free / Facebook
6/21/09 - Birmingham, AL @ City Stages...Free / Facebook
7/02/09 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest...Tix / Facebook
7/04/09 - Chicago, IL @ Taste of Chicago...Free / Facebook
7/05/09 - Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Music Festival (exact show date TBA)...Facebook
7/19/09 - Denver, CO @ Mile High Fest...Tix / Facebook
7/25/09 - Bridgeport, CT @ Gathering of the Vibes...Tix / Facebook
8/07/09 - Newport, RI @ Newport Yachting Center...Tix / Facebook
8/08/09 - Portland, ME @ Baystock Festival...Tix on sale 4/22 / Facebook

They're all weekend festivals, as far as I can tell. Levon Helm of The Band goes on after us in Bridgeport, and we'll be the ones obnoxiously pushing our way through the crowd to get to the front row for his set, stepping on heels and spilling beers if necessary to get there.

Right now we're on the road, however, writing in the road journal, tweeting, and playing in the pocket. If you're planning to come see us over the next few weeks, be sure to participate in the clothing drives and check out Reverb's daytime schedules for campus activities.

Much love,

g

Gusterrhoids!

Hi from the road. It's good to be back, but we're easing into it slowly over here. One song, played extra fast, last week for the REM tribute gig in New York. Two songs (one new, one old) this Thursday night for a fundraiser on a docked boat. By April when the Gusbus is visiting colleges and universities around the country we'll be up to full speed, and even playing "just one more song" if people keep clapping after the last one that's written on the set list. This summer we'll be playing our instruments in July here and there.

HERE: Rothbury Festival, Rothbury MI July 2-5. With Dylan, The Dead, The Cold War Kids, and more...

THERE: Mile High Festival, The Fields at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Denver CO July 18-19. With The Fray, Tool, Widespread Panic, and more...

More to come as far as July goes...


In the meantime, we'd love to see you in April, and if you want to get involved with the environmental side of the Campus Consciousness Tour, that'd be fantastic. Here's how:

1. CLOTHING DRIVES... Most shows on this tour we will be hosting clothing drives along with Reverb and Planet Aid. What better way to recycle? Bring out any clothes, shoes, bedding, and even soft toys that you don't use and we'll make sure they find homes where they're needed. Click HERE to find out when and where this is happening on your campus.

2. DAYTIME ACTIVITIES WITH MEMBERS OF GUSTER... Most accessible band ever! We're working with local student groups to put together daytime activities on campus that may or may not include bocce. Biodiesel Workshops and Eco-Classroom Takeovers are in the plans, and we're open to your ideas as well. Send us suggestions.

3. SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER... We're looking for a few solid eco-volunteers to help out at each show in exchange for showers of gratitude. Click HERE to sign up.

4. WIN STUFF... In our eco-village there will be many opportunities for you to get free stuff and win glorious prizes, all while taking action for the environment.

Your central headquarters for all of the goings-on from the Reverb side of the tour is through the new CCT website. Why not visit and stay awhile.

Once again, here are your open-to-the-public college shows:


4/16/09 - Durham, NH @ University of New Hampshire...Tix / Facebook
4/17/09 - Philadelphia, PA @ University of Pennsylvania...Tix / Facebook
4/19/09 - Dayton, OH @ University of Dayton...Tix / Facebook
4/21/09 - Fayetteville, AR @ University of Arkansas...Free Show / Facebook
4/22/09 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's...Tix / Facebook
4/24/09 - Richmond, VA @ University of Richmond...Tix / Facebook
4/26/09 - Syracuse, NY @ Syracuse University...Tix / Facebook
4/29/09 - Madison, WI @ University of Wisconsin...Tix / Facebook
4/30/09 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marquette University...Facebook
5/02/09 - Reading, PA @ Albright College...Tix / Facebook


That last one there's new. Reading!

g

We're coming out from under our rock.

The album's not exactly finished, but we're coming out from under our rock (to rock) anyway. Here's what's on tap, patient Gusterrhoids:

March 11th -- Tribute to REM at Carnegie Hall, NYC. 20 bands playing one REM song each. We chose a lovely and rather obscure number off of our favorite REM record, Murmur. Other acts on the bill include Bob Mould, Patti Smith, Calexico, Kimya Dawson, and The Feelies. The Feelies! Who's with me!? This will be our first performance on stage together in almost a year and a half... it's three and a half minutes, but if you're an REM fan you might not want to miss it. TICKETS. INFO.

March 26th -- Safely docked in San Pedro CA, we're playing a VH-1 Save The Music benefit with John Mayer, Gavin Rossdale, DJ Logic, and others aboard a Carnival cruise ship. It's a short acoustic set for a great cause (music education). Glycerine! TICKETS. INFO.

March 27th -- We set sail on the Mayercraft Carrier with John Mayer & Friends. This will be our second performance on stage together in almost a year and a half, and our first one performing Guster songs (new and old). Add dangerous undulating tides into the mix and it's sure to be an event you don't want to miss. We're going to Jamaica or Barbados or something. TICKETS. INFO.

APRIL -- College tour with Adam's Campus Consciousness tents in tow. We'll be getting our land legs back, literally and figuratively, at various institutions of academia around the country over the month of April. The following is a list of shows where the public is welcome to come and watch us play our instruments:

4/03/09 - Columbus, OH @ Ohio State University ...Private Show / Facebook
4/16/09 - Durham, NH @ University of New Hampshire...Tix TBA / Facebook
4/17/09 - Philadelphia, PA @ TBA...Facebook
4/19/09 - Dayton, OH @ University of Dayton...Tix / Facebook
4/21/09 - Fayetteville, AR @ University of Arkansas...Free Show / Facebook
4/22/09 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's...Tix / Facebook
4/24/09 - Richmond, VA @ University of Richmond...Tix TBA / Facebook
4/26/09 - Syracuse, NY @ TBA...Facebook
4/29/09 - Madison, WI @ TBA...Facebook
4/30/09 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marquette University...Facebook

The Stubbs gig is a benefit for a local Texas environmental group. And speaking of environmental groups, the Reverb kids are back this time with more eco-goodness for another Campus Consciousness Tour. They're stepping it up with Daytime Activities, Clothing Drives, and contests for autographed guitars, a year's supply of Ben & Jerry's, and a chance to watch Joe eat an entire bag of Doritos backstage. The Joe/Dorito thing isn't so much a contest as much as it is a spectacle. Tickets and information are all available on the Tour Dates section of our website. In the meantime, we're looking for a few good eco-volunteers to help out at each show that we will shower with gratitude. Click here if you'd like to sign up.


As for the album we spent 2008 writing and 2009 recording, we are still working on it, and it will definitely be the best group of songs we've released yet. I make no promises as for release dates, as I once promised to keep an active studio journal and that didn't work out so good. It was the splash page! Too much pressure! Perhaps the road journal, or my new favorite activity, Twistering, will rekindle my devotion to the blogosphere.

Godspeed Gusterrhoids.

g



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Greetings from the couch behind the sound board in the control room of the studio where our band is hard at work on studio album #6. Still untitled. I have begun to document the recording process in a studio blog thru Tumblr, and today I noticed that guster.com has transformed itself into a giant splash page celebrating the one journal entry I've squeezed out so far. There are more to come.

If you dig a little deeper on our website you'll notice new t-shirts and other delicious products in our merchandise section. Should you be inclined to give the gift of Guster this holiday season, please place an order no later than Friday, December 19th, so Liz from our office won't fall asleep in her Christmas stocking after three consecutive all-nighters making packages. The Guster office is an elf-free environment.

Looks like we're going to be playing some tour dates in the spring (!) as we get set to release an album next year. Been a while.

Much love,

g

Gusterrhoids!

We've got a major election coming up, so if you're not registered to vote, for the love of God let our band direct you to a place where you can do that. The deadline for voter registration is October 4th in many states.

And though we hadn't expected to play live again this year, we're going to be performing Tuesday October 7th at a fundraiser for Barack Obama at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn NY. The concert was put together by Brian's wife Megan and features an awesome line-up of bands and comedians. The order of performers is random and we're likely to play a 5 song acoustic set (with a few new songs in the mix too if we can write the lyrics by then).

Bands on the bill:

Andrew Bird
Fiery Furnaces
Guster (duh)
Les Savy Fav
Alina Simone
Martin Bisi

Comedians on the bill:

Lizz Winstead
Eugene Mirman
John Roberts
Heather Lawless
Kumail Nanjiani
Adira Amram


There's also a super special totally secret band that we can't list, and an "Obama Room" where you can watch the VP debate and sign up to volunteer. Tickets are $40 and all proceeds go to the Obama campaign. Music starts at 7:30 and goes until 12:30am.

Here's the myspace page for the event. Here's the Music Hall of Williamsburg page for the event. Here's where you can buy an "I Voted for Kodos" t-shirt.

If you live in in NYC, you can get tickets without paying the Ticketmaster surcharge here:

Mercury Lounge Box Office
217 E. Houston (corner of Ave A & Houston)
NY, NY
212-260-4700
Hours: Mon.--Sat. Noon--7PM

Music Hall of Williamsburg Box Office
66 N. 6th St. (Btw Wythe and Kent)
Brooklyn, NY
718-486-5400
Hours: Sat. 11 AM--6 PM


Look for the Gusters to hit the studio in the next month to begin recording 18 new songs!

Ciao
g

Check out this great article about Reverb and Guster helping with the Jack Johnson tour.

Another Guster email announcement. Another baby girl.

Ryan and Angela's daughter, Lionelle Rosalie Miller, arrived June 16th. The third (and final) Guster-girl of the year, Leo weighed 7 pounds and 14 ounces at birth. Her photo is up on the road journal, along with pictures of her friends Jolene Rosenworcel and Sloan Gardner.

Despite all the procreation, we've been putting the finishing touches on about 17 new songs this summer and we ought to begin recording them in a month. For those of you keeping score at home, we've moved from Reprise/Warner Brothers Records to Aware/Columbia Records. Expect a new album in early oh nine.

And those of you hoping to stalk Scooter this summer can find him traveling the world greening tours by Jack Johnson and DMB for Adam's environmental non-profit, REVERB. Our merch-girl, Amy, is doing the same thing on tours by John Mayer, Maroon 5 & Counting Crows. Visit this link, where Adam becomes an official "EarthKeeper," to check out what Scooter and Amy have been up to, sign up to volunteer, and see free music.

Until the next newsworthy Guster event, whenever and whatever that may be....

g

Gusterrhoids,

We've got another baby girl to welcome into the ever-expanding Guster family. Sloan Sullivan Gardner, the sleeping/pooping/burping by-product of Adam and his wife Lauren's love, joined us on May 16th. There's a beautiful photo up on the road journal, which is really just a baby announcement journal this year. We've got another Guster baby due this month.

Meanwhile we've found time to write a big batch of new songs and we can't wait to record them. This summer? We'll have to see how it all balances with the newcomers. But we expect to have an album finished this year and a tour ready to go in early oh nine.

And those of you who like all you can eat buffets and sea legs with your Guster: Our barenaked friends are mixing it up with some new bands next year, so we're paddling our little rock 'n roll dinghy over to the Mayercraft Carrier and hitching on for the ride on March 27th, 2009, returning March 31st. Join us!

Until the next baby!

-- g

Adam talks to the Sundance Channel about green touring. "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" is a documentary series presenting the forward-thinking designers, products and processes that are at the forefront of a new green world. Each episode revolves around a different green theme as it spotlights three specific innovators or innovations that have the potential to transform our everyday lives. The individuals profiled range from scientists to fashion and product designers, and from entrepreneurs to first-time inventors. The series also features a cast of recurring expert commentators, including award-winning scientist, geneticist, and author, Dr. David Suzuki, GOOD Magazine Founder Ben Goldhirsh, Deputy Commissioner for Capital Project for the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation Amy Freitag and former Talking Heads frontman and bicycle advocate David Byrne who all provide the big-picture context to each week's stories. Season 1 of "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" received the 2007 Environmental Media Award for Best Documentary.

Visit www.sundancechannel.com/thegreen to find out more info. Watch a preview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpY0U8rGewY

First Act Guitar Studio in Somerville, MA presented Adam with custom made eco-friendly guitars last week. Here's a mention in the Boston Herald: www.bostonherald.com

And here's a scan of the recent Billboard Magazine Q&A with Adam.




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Interviews with Ryan will be featured in "Wetlands Preserved", a new documentary by Dean Budnick about Wetlands, the legendary club in New York. The film opened in theaters last month, and comes out on DVD this month. Learn more & pre-order the DVD on the official documentary website: http://firstrunfeatures.com/wetlands_synopsis.html.


-Team G

Click Here to read an article posted in Billboard online about Guster & Reverb. Stay tuned for more green news, coming soon.

Team G

Gusterrhoids -- We've been a distant and incommunicative rock band over the past few months, and for that we apologize. Or should I say I apologize, as it's really me, the drummer, the Rosenworcel, who's the gatekeeper of the band email list. And in this time of music and babies and email communication, I allowed certain offspring to take precedence over others. Forgive me, there is much to celebrate:

My daughter Jolene was born February 6th, and I've been slowly redefining my relationship with sleep and poop ever since. While there may be an influx of diaper-themed road journals on our website when we tour again, for now I've put a photo of my sweet little girl up there, to linger until the next Guster baby arrives in May, followed by a third Guster baby in June. Oh yeah! Now-is-the-time-in-Guster-when-we-make-humans!

But we're also well into the gestation process of another album, as we spent the winter working up songs on a slightly out of tune upright piano in Brooklyn. And believe you me it's not shaping up to be the mellow dad-rock album you might expect from a band of expecting band members. We're keeping it up. We're rollicking if not rocking. There's still time to write a bunch of sappy lyrics about daddyhood.

So this is what's on our plate. Make more babies. Make an album. Eventually play our instruments live again but not for a while. Remember to check in every now and then with the people out there who remember us well. Many thanks for sticking with us, life is good over here.

Bri etc

Exciting holiday announcements, Gusterrhoids!

1) The Joe's Place DVD is now online as a pre-order link. Also known as "D.F. Yonkman's Greatest Hits," also known as "Guster Can't Act for Shit," this is a collection of our Joe's Place episodes, bonus Joe's Place footage, and many other video collaborations between our band and our friend Dave's camera. It's 8 bucks.

2) But that's not all! Among our exciting holiday announcements is this one: We can't promise it'll reach you before Christmas, like we expected. There was a little hang-up at the printing plant, so we still think it's likely your Joe's Place DVD will show up by Christmas morning, but no guarantees. Those of you who have been banking on this as a gift idea will surely enjoy the ass-covering "this DVD is on its way to you" card we've made available for you to print off of our website.

3) There's a Guster Holiday Calendar website. I don't quite understand it, but it appears that we're clearing out our merchandise inventory by making one item available at a huge clearance price every day from now until Christmas. So you visit every day, and it tells you the daily special. Correct me if I'm wrong here.

4) Adam has a lot of holiday-themed stuff going on. His Chhannukkahh band, The LeeVees, are currently touring temples across the USA, and he's playing a benefit show with Stefan from DMB and Ed from BNL at the Pickle Barrel in Killington VT on January 9th. The band is called Yukon Kornelius and tickets are available here.

5) We're writing songs right now... which means a Guster album is only a few years away! (Or maybe sooner).

Much love and happy holidays,

g

As a treat for our loyal fans, we've created a holiday calendar full of gifts. Each gift is only available for a limited time, so be sure to check back every day - you never know when you're going to find a super merch deal, an mp3 download, or a chance to win prizes!

More soon... Team G.

Hello. Gusterrhoids.

Last night Ryan and I attended the "MTVU Woodie Awards" and much to our surprise we won the award we were up for (the "Good Woodie" -- or the band with the greatest social impact). A spontaneous and very awkward acceptance speech at the podium is what followed, and while I'm pretty sure I thanked "Spank Rock" for an inspiring performance, I wish I'd remembered to thank our fans who voted for us online and especially Adam, who made a big splash greening the way bands tour this year with his non-profit, Reverb.

So another long touring season is behind us. Thanks to everyone for coming to our rock concerts and keeping our engine running. Much was accomplished during the Ganging Up on the Sun era. Adam learned how to play trumpet, live on stage in front of people. A 16 year old named "Scooter" became the most popular member of our band. We broke three sets of bocce balls before we discovered the plastic kind, and I learned how to create web-based graphic email newsletters with images, colors, embedded videos, and flash animation. No I didn't.

This holiday season we have one last item to promote before we leave you alone in 2008 and go write songs. It's our self-released Joe's Place DVD (for those of you who aren't familiar with our very own reality sitcom, check out Episode 2 where Ryan tries to feed peanut butter to a snake in Joe's front yard) .... since it's way too controversial for stores it'll only be available through our website. And the Joe's Place DVD is not just a collection of episodes that our friend Dave (I mean D.F.) Yonkman created while we were recording at Joe's house in Nashville a couple of years ago. It's more like Dave (I mean D.F.) Yonkman's Greatest Hits Reel. Here come the bullet points! It's got:

• All 5 original Joe's Place episodes in their original form
• All 5 original Joe's Place episodes with Dave and the Gusters talking over them, dvd-commentary-style
• A bonus 6th Joe's Place episode that gets a little dark
• Deleted Joe's Place scenes. Everyone loves deleted scenes!
• Our promotional spoof of The Last Waltz
• "GSPN" -- our collaboration with ESPN and Fenway Park for our Boston Opera House show
• Our ill-advised re-enactment of the famous YouTube grape stomping video
• Dave's segueway video for "C'mon" (shot in one hour in South Boston)
• Dave's abandoned Ganging Up on the Sun documentary
• Minimalist packaging to keep the price ($8) low

So if there's a very special Guster fan in your life, we urge you to set aside 8 dollars for this little piece of Guster video history -- when the dvd's arrive in our office in a few weeks we'll send along an active ordering link and we'll make sure everything gets to you in time for the holidays. And for every Joe's Place DVD sold, a contribution is made to the Dave (I mean D.F.) Yonkman Relief Fund, a charitable organization that helps offset the costs of having your friend document a six month project without getting reimbursed by your label.

There is one last chance to see Guster, live in person, with Tyler Stewart from Barenaked Ladies playing drums instead of me. I expect nothing short of an epic week of concerts and poolside shenanigans. It's the Ships & Dip Cruise at the end of January. I can't be there because I'm expecting a little Thundergod(dess) that week. You should all go and tell me how it is.

Ciao!

Brian and the Gusters

"Satellite" was nominated for a Boston Music Award, in the category of Song of the Year. CLICK HERE and vote for Guster! Voting closes on 11/16...

-Team G

Adam has been asked to testify in a hearing about BioDiesel to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. This hearing on Capitol Hill is open to the public. If you live in the DC area, come watch him wear a suit and see if he sweats as much during this gig as he does when playing on stage. You can also watch him live on line: globalwarming.house.gov

Here are the details:

WHEN: This Wednesday, October 24, 9:30 AM EDT

WHERE: 2175 Rayburn House Office Building (come early if you plan on attending)

WHO: Adam Gardner, Guster/Reverb
Nathanael Greene, Natural Resources Defense Council
Don Endres, CEO, VeraSun
Steve Gatto, CEO Bioenergy LLC

ALSO: Adam will stick around afterwards to say hi to anyone who comes and we'll take a group photo in front of the Capitol Steps.

Guster has been nominated for The Good Woodie award (Greatest Social Impact)...The award for the artists whose commitment to a social cause has effected the greatest change this year.

Help spread the word! You can read more about why we were nominated plus vote right HERE for Guster.

The final phase of the Ganging Up on the Sun tour begins today in California, Gusterrhoids. Come see our band one last time before we disappear into the dark windowless cave where we sometimes write songs.

Down below we have our Western Leg with opener Tally Hall (including an exciting venue change in Utah), our College Leg Peppered with Southern Club Dates with opener Brett Dennen (now featuring a Charlotte NC show), and the link to our charity auctions where you can get aftershow passes to meet us while supporting Reverb's eco-projects on this tour. Commence final phase!

WESTERN LEG

09/14/07 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield...TICKETS
09/15/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon Hollywood...TICKETS
09/16/07 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues...TICKETS
09/17/07 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre...TICKETS
09/19/07 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue...TICKETS
09/20/07 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium...TICKETS
09/22/07 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox...TICKETS
09/23/07 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom...TICKETS


COLLEGE LEG PEPPERED WITH SOUTHERN CLUB DATES

09/27/07 – Vermillion, SD @ University of South Dakota...TICKETS
09/28/07 – St. Louis, MO @ St. Louis University...(Private Show)
09/30/07 – East Lansing, MI @ Michigan State University...TICKETS
10/01/07 – Kent, OH @ Kent State University...TICKETS
10/02/07 – Bloomington, IN @ Indiana University...TICKETS
10/04/07 – University Park, PA @ Penn State University...TICKETS
10/05/07 – Rochester, NY @ University of Rochester...TICKETS
10/06/07 – Burlington, VT @ University of Vermont...TICKETS
10/12/07 – Nashville, TN @ Vanderbilt University...TICKETS
10/13/07 – Gainesville, FL @ University of Florida...(Free Show)
10/14/07 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room...TICKETS
10/16/07 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre...TICKETS
10/17/07 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre...TICKETS
10/18/07 – Murray, KY @ Lovett Auditorium...TICKETS
10/19/07 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel...TICKETS
10/22/07 – Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre...TICKETS
10/23/07 – Richmond, VA @ Toad’s Place...TICKETS
10/26/07 – Raleigh, NC @ NC State University...TICKETS
10/27/07 – Williamsburg, VA @ College of William & Mary...(Private Show)


CHARITY AUCTIONS

Meet our band! Talk to us until it gets awkward! The website is here if you want to bid on tickets with aftershow passes: www.charityfolks.com/guster. Proceeds benefit nonprofit organization Reverb who's helping us with our environmental efforts on tour.

Willie shook all our hands at Farm Aid,

g

Bid to win VIP tickets and Meet & Greet with Guster! Proceeds benefit Reverb who will be continuing to help Guster be more green on tour.

There's a lot of news packed into this message, Gusterrhoids... strap on your attention spans and come along for the Guster emailer ride of your life, you won't regret it. I don't want to hear any of you saying "you never told me there were three shows in North Carolina in October" -- they're in there. You just didn't focus.

First order of business ** FALL COLLEGE TOUR **

Right on the heels of our west coast run with our best friends Tally Hall, we're playing a month of college dates with our new best friend Brett Dennen. We're not even stopping inbetween. Here's the thing though, there's an entire Southern Tour interwoven in there too -- Charlotte, Athens, Richmond, Fort Lauderdale, Asheville, Knoxville -- they're not college shows, but college students won't be turned away at the door.

Here's the complete list of dates we have lined up this fall. More news on the other side:

NORTHEAST WEEKEND:

09/07 – Providence, RI @ Providence Piers............TICKETS are $10
09/08 – Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion for WFNX Disorientation show............TICKETS ($10) on sale 8/24
09/09 – New York, NY @ Randall’s Island for Farm Aid...TICKETS

WEST COAST DATES:

09/14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield............TICKETS
09/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon Hollywood............TICKETS
09/16 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues............TICKETS
09/17 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre............TICKETS
09/19 – Orem, UT @ McKay Events Center............TICKETS
09/20 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium............TICKETS
09/22 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox............TICKETS
09/23 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom............TICKETS

NEW DATES: COLLEGE TOUR + SOUTHERN CLUBS

09/27/07 – Vermillion, SD @ University of South Dakota............TICKETS on sale 9/6
09/28/07 – St. Louis, MO @ St. Louis University...Tickets TBA
09/30/07 – East Lansing, MI @ Michigan State University...Tickets TBA
10/01/07 – Kent, OH @ Kent State University...Tickets TBA
10/02/07 – Bloomington, IN @ Indiana University............TICKETS on sale 8/31
10/04/07 – State College, PA @ Penn State University...Tickets TBA
10/05/07 – Rochester, NY @ University of Rochester............TICKETS on sale 9/10
10/06/07 – Burlington, VT @ University of Vermont............TICKETS on sale 8/25
10/12/07 – Nashville, TN @ Vanderbilt University...Tickets TBA
10/13/07 – Gainesville, FL @ University of Florida...Tickets TBA
10/14/07 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room............TICKETS on sale 8/31
10/16/07 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre............TICKETS on sale 8/25
10/17/07 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre............TICKETS on sale 9/7
10/18/07 – Murray, KY @ Murray State University...Tickets TBA
10/19/07 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel............TICKETS on sale 8/25
another NC date TBA
10/23/07 -- Richmond, VA @ Toad's place..................TICKETS on sale 8/25
10/26/07 – Raleigh, NC @ NC State University............TICKETS on sale 8/25
10/27/07 – Williamsburg, VA @ College of William & Mary ...Tickets TBA


BOSTON SHOW: $10
PROVIDENCE SHOW: $10
FARM AID FESTIVAL: $54
SEEING GUSTER ONE LAST TIME IN THE NORTHEAST BEFORE A LONG HIATUS: (priceless) (duh)

Up at the top of the list you'll notice we have three shows in the Northeast -- Farm Aid, with our best friend Willie Nelson, which we mentioned last weekend; the Providence show for WBRU we mentioned last week; and the brand new show at the Bank of America Pavilion for WFNX, which you didn't know about until right now.
Like the Providence show, it's only ten dollars to get in. The show is September 8th but tickets go on sale tomorrow. Go git 'em!


THUNDERGOD NOT CRUISING

Those of you going on the Ships & Dip BNL Cruise in January are in for a unique Guster performance. Brian's not going to make the trip as he's *expecting something* that week, but Tyler and Andy from the Barenaked Ladies are going to fill in, with aplomb. And panache. And percussion. There'll also be a special private acoustic show by the three other Gusters for everyone that marked "Guster" as the reason they're cruising. Both of you.

We're thrilled that Tyler and Andy are stepping up to fill in. The other option was a "Thundergod for a Day" video contest, but that would have gotten ugly. There will be more news forthcoming in your next Ships & Dip email newsletter.


Okay then. See you all soon.

-- g

Gusterrhoids...

Soon our band will have more in common with Willie Nelson than just our love for organically-enhanced diesel fuels. We will be sharing the stage together in New York City on September 9th as a part of this year's Farm Aid concert at Randall's Island, which benefits small farmers in the United States.

And by "sharing the stage together" I don't just mean one of us playing after the other. I mean one of us playing a good six hours after the other. Good news is you have Neil Young, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews, Matisyahu, John Mellencamp, and lots of others to entertain you inbetween. And you're performing a mitzvah if you attend. As Mellencamp says: "If people eat, they should come out and support Farm Aid."

www.farmaid.org

We've added one show to our schedule two days before, September 7th in Providence RI. Sure, it's not on WBRU's website (I just went there for information about our show) -- but it's a WBRU-sponsored event where we play a concert in a park and you the people of Rhode Island & Surrounding Areas only pay 10 bucks to see us.

If you live a little closer to Massachusetts and prefer Modest Mouse with your Guster, come see us at the Tweeter Used-to-be-Great-Woods Place on August 18th as a part of this year's Download Festival in Mansfield MA.

After Farm Aid we're heading west for a couple of weeks, then hitting colleges in October, and finally hibernating for a good long while. Come say hi/bye to us this fall -- here's the complete list as we know it:

8/18/07 – Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center for Download Festival...tickets
9/07/07 – Providence, RI @ Providence Piers...tickets
9/09/07 – New York, NY @ Randall’s Island for Farm Aid...tickets
9/14/07 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield...tickets
9/15/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon Hollywood...tickets
9/16/07 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues...tickets
9/17/07 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre...tickets
9/19/07 – Orem, UT @ McKay Events Center...tickets
9/20/07 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium...tickets
9/22/07 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox...tickets
9/23/07 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom...tickets



And for those of you who might be collectors, our UK single for "Satellite" was just released -- it's a vinyl 7" with "G Major" as the B-side. It's the only way you can hear G Major on vinyl! If people eat, they should own the UK single for Satellite! Here's a link if you want to order it: HMV UK


Bye!

g

"Satellite" was released as a single in the UK this week. You can download it digitally or buy the special edition 7" vinyl at HMV UK and get free shipping if you live in the UK. "G Major" is the b-side.

Look! We put "All the Way up to Heaven" on our myspace page... a song we haven't played live since our summer tour with Ben Folds in 2004. It just wasn't the same playing it without Ben after that so we canned it.

Meanwhile we've been holding out on "I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today" because Ben Kweller needs to be a part of that one, and thankfully he's joining us on the road for the next two weeks. Tickets are still available but get them soon:

7/20/07 – Detroit, MI @ State Theatre... tickets
7/21/07 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Lawn at White River State Park...tickets
7/22/07 – Apple Valley, MN @ Music In the Zoo...very small # of tickets left...
7/23/07 – Apple Valley, MN @ Music In the Zoo...very small # of tickets left...
7/25/07 – Costa Mesa, CA @ Orange County Fair...tickets
7/27/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Penn’s Landing...tickets
7/28/07 – Northampton, MA @ The Pines.... tickets
7/29/07 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom...tickets
7/31/07 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap...tickets
8/18/07 – Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center...tickets

Ben Kweller opens 7/20, 7/21, 7/22, 7/23, 7/27, 7/28, 7/29
Chantal Kreviazuk also opens 7/20
Toad the Wet Sprocket opens 7/25
State Radio & Trippin Balls open 7/28
Pete Yorn opens 7/31
Modest Mouse closes 8/18

The rest of the year looks like this: September we're visiting the western half of the country, and October will involve visits to various institutions of academia in the United States (stay tuned). Fall European tour has been canned, like "All the Way up to Heaven" after Folds killed it.

In November we start writing our next album and hopefully release a Joe's Place DVD with uncensored footage, an extra episode, and a collection of Yonkman-filmed rarities and greatest hits. You don't want to miss that. In November.

So here are those September dates, west coast. Let's see the love, Arizona! This is your last chance!

9/14/07 -- San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield...tickets
9/15/07 -- Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon Hollywood...tickets
9/16/07 -- San Diego, CA @ House of Blues...tickets
9/17/07 -- Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre...tickets
9/19/07 -- Orem, UT @ McKay Events Center...tickets
9/20/07 -- Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium...tickets
9/22/07 -- Seattle, WA @ The Showbox...tickets
9/23/07 -- Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom...tickets



Ciao!

g

We're making one last trip to the west coast this year, Gusterrhoids. These will be the last club & theater shows of the Ganging Up on the Sun era -- you know we like to do it. Tour a lot, then hibernate and hopefully emerge with new songs. Amazing how an entire album touring era could go by and I still don't feel comfortable typing "Ganging Up on the Sun" ... why does "up" get capitalized when "on" doesn't? Aren't they like, the same part of speech? Up. On.

Come see us out west!

9/14/07 -- San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield...ticket pre-sale on 7/19
9/16/07 -- San Diego, CA @ House of Blues...tickets
9/17/07 -- Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre...tickets
9/19/07 -- Orem, UT @ McKay Events Center...tickets
9/20/07 -- Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium...tickets
9/22/07 -- Seattle, WA @ The Showbox...tickets
9/23/07 -- Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom...tickets

So that's it for the west coast. We're giving Arizona one last chance to realize they love us, and we're going to rock the living shit out of the McKay Events Center because our last show in Utah was called off while Adam was recovering from pneumonia (wimp). Tickets have recently gone on sale for all of the above.

Meanwhile we interrupt Guster's summer vacation to announce three shows this weekend:

7/06/07 – Interlochen, MI @ Interlochen Center...tickets
7/07/07 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest...tickets
7/08/07 – Bridgeview, IL @ Toyota Park (opening for DMB)....tickets

You're welcome to create your own "one time at band camp" joke, put it on a t-shirt and come see us in Michigan on Friday night. Otherwise, Summerfest is a new favorite tradition of ours, and we're happy to be playing on the Briggs and Stratton Big Backyard Featuring the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame with Miller High Life Stage this year. The DMB show is on a big soccer field in Chicago and if there are golf carts backstage we plan to cruise the parking lot after our set. Look for us.

And our July tour-that-is-mostly-with-Ben-Kweller is just a couple weeks away. See if you can find the one show that makes no geographical sense in the middle of the tour! Hint: It's not the one in yellow county...

7/20/07 – Detroit, MI @ State Theatre... tickets
7/21/07 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Lawn at White River State Park...tickets
7/22/07 – Apple Valley, MN @ Music In the Zoo...limited # of tickets just released...
7/23/07 – Apple Valley, MN @ Music In the Zoo...limited # of tickets just released...
7/25/07 – Costa Mesa, CA @ Orange County Fair...tickets
7/27/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Penn’s Landing...tickets
7/28/07 – Northampton, MA @ The Pines.... tickets
7/29/07 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom...tickets
7/31/07 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap...tickets
8/18/07 – Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center...tickets

Ben Kweller opens 7/20, 7/21, 7/22, 7/23, 7/27, 7/28, 7/29
Toad the Wet Sprocket opens 7/25
State Radio & Trippin Balls open 7/28
Pete Yorn opens 7/31
Modest Mouse closes 8/18

See you this summer!

g

More shows go on sale this weekend, including Denver and Salt Lake City. Here's another listing of the new dates and ticket links (some have switched over from pre-sale to Ticketmaster):

9/16/07 - San Diego, CA @ HOB
Buy tickets at Ticketmaster

9/17/07 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
Buy tickets at MusicToday

9/19/07 - Orem, UT @ McKay Events Center
Buy tickets at Smithstix.com

9/20/07 - Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium
Buy tickets at Ticketmaster

9/22/07 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Buy tickets at Ticketmaster

9/23/07 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Buy tickets at Ticketmaster

More soon.
Team G

We have added a bunch of new tour dates out west, and four of them just went on pre-sale today!

The pre-sales are only up until late Friday afternoon until the general on-sales (Ticketmaster) start on Saturday.

Here's what you need to know:

9/16/07 - San Diego, CA @ HOB
Buy pre-sale tickets at MusicToday

9/17/07 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
Buy pre-sale tickets at MusicToday

9/22/07 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Buy pre-sale tickets at MusicToday

9/23/07 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Buy pre-sale tickets at MusicToday

We have also posted other brand new tour dates out west with on-sales TBA. Keep checking back for more news as it comes in.

Team Guster

Hello (Gusterrhoids) from somewhere above Iceland on the way home from our week in London. We had a lovely time over the pond. We ate mushy peas, released an album, detected more British accents in the crowd than American ones, and have already begun to schedule a return trip for the fall. For those of you on this list who don't happen to live in the UK, check out the following developments on our summer tour in the USA. There's almost something for everyone:

AUGUST 18 -- We'll be co-headlining the Download Festival along with Modest Mouse at the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield MA. We've wanted to play this venue ever since we saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse bring the house down in 1997 when it was called "Great Woods." Tickets go on sale June 16th.

JULY 28 -- Our Northampton MA show at the end of July is turning into something of a Guster-curated festival with music all day -- right now the lineup includes Guster, Ben Kweller, State Radio, and (from Chico, CA) Trippin' Balls. More entertainment might be added too. Our manager has dubbed it "Mump Camp" because he wishes in his heart of hearts that we would have named our last two albums "Mump Camp" -- instead he'll have to settle for a festival in Western Mass. No one will contract the mumps if they attend this concert (bring a lime if you wish to avoid the scurvy though).

JULY 25 -- The Orange County Fair gig where we thought we were opening for Cake now appears to be Toad the Wet Sprocket opening for Guster instead. Come on down to Costa Mesa CA and watch us headline, yes?

JULY 22 & 23 -- Our two shows with Ben Kweller at the Minneapolis Zoo sold out very quickly. Tickets just went on sale for the rest of the summer shows, so we recommend getting tickets early if you plan to attend. Here's the schedule along with the ticketing links:

6/22/07 – Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival....tickets
7/06/07 – Interlochen, MI @ Interlochen Center...tickets
7/07/07 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest... tickets
7/08/07 – Bridgeview, IL @ Toyota Park (opening for DMB)... tickets
7/20/07 – Detroit, MI @ State Theatre... tickets
7/21/07 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Lawn at White River State Park... tickets
7/22/07 – Apple Valley, MN @ Music In the Zoo...SOLD OUT
7/23/07 – Apple Valley, MN @ Music In the Zoo...SOLD OUT
7/25/07 – Costa Mesa, CA @ Orange County Fair...tickets
7/27/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Penn’s Landing...tickets
7/28/07 – Northampton, MA @ The Pines... tickets
7/29/07 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom...tickets
7/31/07 – Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap...tickets
8/18/07 – Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center... tickets

Ben Kweller opens 7/20, 7/21, 7/22, 7/23, 7/27, 7/28, 7/29
Toad the Wet Sprocket opens 7/25
Pete Yorn opens 7/31

WEST COAST GUSTERRHOIDS: Leave September open for us. That includes you, Salt Lake City.

-- g

Tickets for the July 20th show at State Theatre in Detroit go on pre-sale starting Friday June 1st @ 10AM at MusicToday.

Team G

Here's an entire list of all the Guster shows that went on-sale this week:

7/21/07 - The Lawn @ White River State Park
Indianapolis, IN
Get your tickets at gustertickets.musictoday.com

7/27/07 - Festival Pier
Philadelphia, PA
Get your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com

7/28/07 - The Pines Theatre
Florence, MA (Northampton)
Get your tickets at www.nbotickets.com

7/29/07 - Starland Ballroom
Sayreville, NJ
Get your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com (password is GMAJOR)

Team G

Drew Lightfoot and "One Man Wrecking Machine" won best animated video of the year from Music Video Production Association (MVPA).
You can read about it and also see winners in other categories here:
www.mvpa.com/events.htm

Gusterrhoids.

Here's what our summer looks like. We're doing some headlining, playing a free show in Boston in a week and a half (!), adding a third night in England, and joining up with bands like Modest Mouse, Dave Matthews, Counting Crows, Emmylou Harris, and Pete Yorn at various points along the way. Ben Kweller will be playing with us for most of our July run too -- Sha Sha vs Fa Fa? Dig in and see where you can join us this summer, as it's our last hurrah on the Ganging Up on the Sun tour.

Listed in reverse monthly order for your convenience...

LITTLE TOUR -- JULY 2007

July 06 @ Interlochen ----------- Interlochen, MI tickets
July 07 @ Summerfest ----------- Milwaukee WI tickets
July 08 @ Toyota Park ---------- Chicago, IL (opening for DMB) tickets
July 20 @ State Theater -------- Detroit, MI (Ben Kweller opens) tickets TBA at Ticketmaster
July 21 @ White River --------- Indianapolis, IN (Ben Kweller opens) tickets TBA at Ticketmaster
July 22 @ Zoo Amp ------------- Minneapolis, MN (Ben Kweller opens) pre-sale tickets / general on-sale 5/21 @ 10AM
July 23 @ Zoo Amp ------------- Minneapolis, MN (Ben Kweller opens) pre-sale tickets / general on-sale 5/21 @ 10AM
July 25 @ Pacific Amp ---------- Costa Mesa, CA tickets TBA at Ticketmaster
July 27 @ Penn's Landing ------ Philadelphia, PA (Ben Kweller opens) tickets TBA at Ticketmaster
July 28 @ Pines ----------------- Northampton, MA (Ben Kweller opens) tickets TBA at NBO Tickets
July 29 @ Starland Ballroom -- Sayerville, NJ (Ben Kweller opens) tickets TBA at Ticketmaster
July 31 @ Wolf Trap ------------ Vienna, VA (Pete Yorn opens) tickets

Yes, that's a California show in the middle there. Some of these shows are on sale already, others are waiting patiently to go on sale. Our website is a bubbling geyser of information.

LITTLER TOUR -- JUNE 2007

June 4 The Barfly Camden, London UK (SOLD OUT)
June 5 Monto Water Rats Kings Cross, London UK (SOLD OUT)
June 6 KCLSU King's College, London UK -- NEW SHOW, JUST ADDED!

(We've added one last show in London at King's College before we head home! Tickets are £10 -- here's the online ticketing link. Or get tickets by phone at 0871 2200 260)

June 22 Tel. Bluegrass Fest Telluride CO (with Counting Crows, Bela Fleck, Emmylou Harris, etc) tickets

LITTLEST TOUR -- MAY 2007

May 26 WBOS EarthFest at the Hatch Shell Boston MA (FREE)

This is a big one. We'll play our instruments in a gigantic half-egg, and you guys will save the earth. Speaking of which, you people managed to offset 503,400 pounds of CO2 on our recent Campus Consciousness Tour by purchasing our "green friend" stickers to make your drive to the show carbon neutral. It's the equivalent of 26,007 gallons of gasoline not used. Hell of a job, Gusterrhoids!

See you soon,
g

Why do clubs in the UK have cooler names than clubs in this country? If you're in London right now, or planning to be in London in June, you might want to pick up tickets for the two shows we just scheduled over there:

June 4.......The Barfly..................Camden, London UK
June 5...... Monto Water Rats....Kings Cross, London UK

Here's your ticketing link. We recommend you act soon since these venues are tiny. In the meantime, if you run into someone with an accent that sounds British-like but not exactly British, you are probably talking to someone from New Zealand. Tell them about our show at Monto Water Rats anyway.

Moving on, if you're in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, or planning to be in Hampton Beach New Hampshire tomorrow, you might want to pick up tickets for our show at the Hampton Beach Casino Wednesday night.

This method of show-by-show promotion has grown old and weary. Back to the equal sign dash equal sign dash method of band promotion...


=-=-=-=-=-=- UPCOMING GUSTER ROCK CONCERTS -=-=-=-=-=-=

4/18/07 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
4/20/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/21/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/22/07 -- Amherst, NY @ University at Buffalo
4/24/07 – Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
4/26/07 – Williamstown, MA @ Williams College
4/27/07 – Middlebury, VT @ Middlebury College
4/29/07 – Baltimore, MD @ Loyola College

*Dates below not part of the Campus Consciousness Tour*

5/01/07 -- Stevens Point, WI @ University of Wisconsin
5/02/07 -- Dubuque, IA @ Clarke College
5/04/07 -- Greenville, SC @ Furman University
5/05/07 – Due West, SC @ Erskine College
5/06/07 – Memphis, TN @ Beale Street Music Festival
5/12/07 -- San Francisco, CA @ Piers 30/32
6/04/07 -- London, UK @ London Barfly
6/05/07 -- London, UK @ Monto Water Rats
6/22/07 – Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival
7/08/07 – Bridgeview, IL @ Toyota Park (opening for DMB)...Tickets on sale 4/21
7/31/07 -- Vienna, VA @ Wolf Trap (with Pete Yorn)... Tickets on sale 4/21 @ noon

There are more details about these shows on our website, www.guster.com -- it's more reliable than the drummer's emails. I promise.

Cheers.

g

A lot of information to disseminate, Gusterrhoids, so this week we'll break things up by category according to likes and dislikes. Commence disseminating...

PEOPLE WHO LIKE MUSIC: We've put a new song named "G Major" up on our myspace page. It's not so new to us, actually, since we recorded it at Joe's house during the sessions for Ganging Up on the Sun, but it won't officially be released until Tuesday April 10th when our Satellite EP comes out in stores. You can visit our website for details about the EP or stream the whole thing (8 songs!) for free at Rhapsody right now.

PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO SAVE MONEY IN SAN FRANCISCO: We're playing "KaBoom" this year... it's a KFOG festival happening May 12th on Piers 30/32 and it's only $10. We're sandwiched between Ozomatli and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, for those of you who like both kinds of music. Like in years past there's a massive fireworks show after the concert, but unlike years past, there's a limited number of tickets available this time.

PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE THE FACT THAT WE NEVER COME TO THE U.K. AND EMAIL ME ABOUT IT EVERY WEEK: "Ganging Up on the Sun" comes out in England June 4th on Rykodisc Records. To celebrate, we're coming to England on June 4th too. We're planning to set up a couple of shows out there, and we'll know more about it in next week's emailer. Tell your British friends!

PEOPLE WHO LIKE RYAN MILLER: He's blogging again on our website. I suppose I could have gone with "PEOPLE WHO DISLIKE THE ROAD JOURNAL" for this one, but it's not a mutually exclusive thing. Ryan's writing about music and current events in his new guslog 2.0 -- check it out.

PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO READ MAGAZINES AND WATCH MOVIES: Next week you'll have two opportunities to encounter our band while engaging in your favorite pasttimes. The Newsweek that comes out on April 9th is running a bit about our efforts to green up our tours, and the horror movie "Disturbia" that comes out April 13th will feature "One Man Wrecking Machine" somewhere towards the end.

PEOPLE WHO LIKE THINGS THEY PAID FOR TO SHOW UP ON TIME: Um. Yeah. Bad week for you guys. Those of you who pre-ordered the Satellite EP might be receiving those on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, instead of on Tuesday like we promised. There was a manufacturing problem that held things up. The good news is everyone's getting extra stickers in their packages, on the house. Sorry for the delay.

PEOPLE WHO LIKE ICE CREAM: The folks at Ben & Jerry's are helping to sponsor the Campus Consciousness Pavilion part of this tour, and they've made a Guster-themed eco-friendly video game to show they mean business. It's not as much fun as shooting people dead during Ghost Recon, but those guys make delicious ice cream.


THE CAMPUS CONSCIOUSNESS TOUR CARRIES ON...

4/06/07 – Austin, TX @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
4/07/07 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater (SOLD OUT)
4/09/07 – Macomb, IL @ Western Illinois University
4/10/07 – Decorah, IA @ Luther College
4/13/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater (SOLD OUT)
4/14/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater (SOLD OUT)
4/18/07 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
4/20/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/21/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/22/07 -- Amherst, NY @ University at Buffalo
4/24/07 – Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
4/26/07 – Williamstown, MA @ Williams College
4/27/07 – Middlebury, VT @ Middlebury College
4/29/07 – Baltimore, MD @ Loyola College
*Dates below not CCT*
5/01/07 -- Stevens Point, WI @ University of Wisconsin
5/04/07 -- Greenville, SC @ Furman University
5/05/07 – Due West, SC @ Erskine College
5/06/07 – Memphis, TN @ Beale Street Music Festival
5/12/07 -- San Francisco, CA @ Piers 30/32
6/22/07 – Telluride, CO @ Telluride Bluegrass Festival
7/08/07 – Bridgeview, IL @ Toyota Park (opening for Dave Matthews Band)
1/27 – 2/1/08 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Ships N Dips Cruise w/BNL


Your best friends,

guster

You can now preview the whole Guster Satellite EP right here at Rhapsody. And you can order your copy HERE

Guster's stop-motion animated video for "One Man Wrecking Machine," the first single off of their current studio album "Ganging Up on the Sun," has been nominated for three MVPA Awards (Music Video Producers Association), including Best Vid under $25k, Best Animated Video, and Best Directorial Debut. The visually childlike, playful video directed by Drew Lightfoot (Corpse Bride) tells the story of a social misfit (“played” by a necktie-wearing plush puppet) who makes good and stitches his torn cloth world back together.

What did you think "soy ink" was made of?

Gusterrhoids. We're proud to announce the upcoming release of a new album of-sorts, the 8-song Satellite EP. When we wrote and recorded "Ganging Up on the Sun" we ended up with surplus material and difficult decisions about what to include on the record. Battles were fought. Band members won. Band members lost. This new EP helps us share some of our favorite album rejects with you, along with remixes, rare covers, and a vocal interpretation from yours truly (this is Brian again, special thanks to Adam for filling in last week with the Guster Green Update Issue #0000000001). Here's the track list for the new EP:

1. Satellite (album version)
2. G Major
3. Rise & Shine
4. Timothy Leary
5. I'm Through
6. Satellite (dance remix)
7. Two of Us (live from KCRW)
8. Total Eclipse of the Heart (live from State Theater, Portland ME in 2004)

It's 8 songs for 8 dollars, and you can pre-order it from us right now, or pick it up in stores when it comes out on April 10th. A few more bullet points about the EP, if I can figure out how to make the bullet thing show up:

(I can't)

Bullet Point 1. As those of you followed the studio journal know, this is only half of Guster's current b-side treasury. The rest of the album rejects will hopefully see the light of day some time in the near future too.

Bullet Point 2. The Satellite EP is entirely carbon-neutral. The carbon emissions from the manufacturing process have been offset with renewable energy credits, and the ink used on the package was soy ink. Go Adam, go!

Bullet Point 3. You might recognize that "I'm Through" has a very familiar verse melody ... the song was discarded and used for parts and eventually re-built into "C'mon." We thought you might like a small window into our songwriting process. Enjoy that small window.

Bullet Point 4. I can't sing for shit.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

WE'RE PLAYING ON A CRUISE SHIP WITH BNL AGAIN IN 2008

Tickets went on sale today for Ships 'n Dip 2008. This year, like last year, we'll be playing our instruments on an enormous floating vessell while 900 Carnival staff members replenish tray after tray of all you can eat sausages. And carrot cake. This year the ship's making two stops though -- one in Grand Cayman and one in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. The dates are January 27 - Feb 1st, 2008, and if you're sure you want to come, book the trip by May 31st and specify that "Guster" sent you, so you can win access to a Guster soundcheck party. A wild, savage, hedonistic, flesh-ridden soundcheck party. All the information is available at www.shipsanddip.com

THE CAMPUS CONSCIOUSNESS TOUR STARTS WEDNESDAY

New shows have been added in Amherst NY, Stevens Point WI, and Greenville SC. See the full list below and visit www.guster.com for more information.

3/28/07 – Winston-Salem, NC @ Wake Forest University
3/29/07 – Savannah, GA @ Lucas Theatre
3/30/07 – Macon, GA @ Mercer University
3/31/07 – Crawfordsville, IN @ Wabash College
4/02/07 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
4/03/07 – Norman, OK @ University of Oklahoma
4/04/07 – Tulsa, OK @ University of Tulsa
4/06/07 – Austin, TX @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
4/07/07 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
4/09/07 – Macomb, IL @ Western Illinois University
4/10/07 – Decorah, IA @ Luther College
4/13/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater (SOLD OUT)
4/14/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater (SOLD OUT)
4/18/07 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
4/20/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/21/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/22/07 -- Amherst, NY @ University at Buffalo
4/24/07 – Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
4/26/07 – Williamstown, MA @ Williams College
4/27/07 – Middlebury, VT @ Middlebury College
4/29/07 – Baltimore, MD @ Loyola College
5/01/07 -- Stevens Point, WI @ University of Wisconsin (NOT CCT)
5/04/07 -- Greenville, SC @ Furman University (NOT CCT)
5/05/07 – Due West, SC @ Erskine College (NOT CCT)
5/06/07 – Memphis, TN @ Beale Street Music Festival (NOT CCT)

Bye bye!

g

Hello.

You may notice a slightly different writing style in this emailer. Don't worry--Brian hasn't lost his touch-- it's just me, Adam, writing to you to give you all the latest info on what our band has been up to environmentally. I will admit up front that the witty writing chops that seem to effortlessly fly out of our esteemed congeurro's fingertips do not come so easily to my otherwise guitar strumming hands.

Enough self-deprecation--here's what we've been doing...

12 Month Recap
Since our launch of last year's Campus Consciousness Tour, every concert has been "carbon neutral" by purchasing renewable energy offsets that bring new clean energy sources onto the power grid. We've also been filling up our tour bus with biodiesel, a clean-burning, domestically-made, vegetable oil-based fuel.

Through these two efforts alone, Guster has reduced and neutralized our global warming emissions by:

2,100 TONS of CO2
= not driving 4.2 MILLION miles
= powering 262 homes for an entire year with wind power.

After realizing how easy and effective this was, we have been furthering our greening efforts and will be greener than ever for this coming Campus Consciousness Tour...


Reverb and the Campus Consciousness Tour '07
What's Reverb? My wife, Lauren Sullivan, and I started Reverb in 2004 with the mission to green artists’ tours and the music business at large while raising awareness and support for the environment through the powerful connection between musicians and their fans. In addition to Guster, we help green many bands including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne, Dave Matthews Band, and Sheryl Crow.

Created by Reverb in 2006, the Campus Consciousness Tour aims to educate, inspire, and activate students, and above all leave a positive impact on each community and college/university that the tour reaches. This year we will be focussing on supporting campus groups that are working to make their schools more sustainable.

Here's what's happening for this year's CCT...

*********************Daytime Eco Activities******************

• Town Hall Forum—an open discussion with students, faculty, trustees and members of the bands to discuss campus sustainability and the school's endowment. Featuring Mark Orlowski of Sustainable Endowments Institute and the Campus Climate Challenge. All attendees get entered to win 2 tix and meet and greet to that night's show!

• Pimp My Clean Ride—attendees from the Forum will get a tour of the biodiesel-powered tour bus and learn about alternative transportation!

• Shift Shout Out Video Contest—Visit the Stonyfield Farm Shift Shout Out video booth on campus and tell us your ideas/inspirations about global warming. Winners receive big cash prizes for themselves and their favorite charity!

**Click HERE for times and locations of these activities. Please join us!


**************************At the Show*************************
The Stonyfield Farm Shift Consciousness Pavilion will be located at each concert:
• Learn about renewable energy and alternative fuels
• Sample a free Stonyfield Farm Shift energy drink
• Win a “meet and greet” with the band
• Offset your personal energy use by buying a "Big Green Friend" Carbon Offset sticker
• Enter to win an autographed guitar
• Donate food to your local food bank
• Learn more about your on-campus enviro organizations
• Sample a free ice cream treat from Ben & Jerry's

********************Our Greenest Tour Yet*********************
• Carbon-Neutral concerts
• Biodiesel-powered tour busses and trucks
• Recycling at venues and on busses
• Reducing plastic waste by switching to SIGG aluminum reusable water bottles
• Use of biodegradable cups, bowls and utensils backstage
• Post-consumer recycled paper products
• Organic cotton merchandise
• Rechargeable batteries on stage
• Non-toxic eco-friendly cleaning products on the bus
• Reusing old guitar strings to be made into artisan jewelry
• Every Guster CD ever produced has been made carbon neutral thanks to Warner Music Group

Special thanks to our friends at Stonyfield Farm --without their support none of this would be possible.

Are you still with me? If you've made it this far into the email, then you might be interested in what you can do to join the cause...

What You Can Do
--> Bring Canned Food to Shows -- there will be a food drive at each show. Whoever brings the most food each night will be invited to the after-show meet and greet. A total of 18,800 meals were collected from last year's CCT...let's break the record!

--> Be An Eco-Volunteer at the Consciousness Pavilion--Reverb would like volunteers to help hand out flyers to concert attendees and help at the eco-village when needed. In return, the volunteers will get into the concert for free (via a pass) and get to meet & greet with members of Guster after the show! We need folks that feel like they're dedicated to the issue and to helping green this tour.

If you want to be part of the eco-team at any of the CCT dates this spring (March 28th-April 29th)-- please email Reverb at: gustervolunteer@gmail.com (do NOT hit "reply" from this email!) Please put in the subject: ECO-TEAM - CITY,STATE - DATE - for example: "ECO-TEAM - MACON,GA -MARCH 30th" Remember to include your full name, and cell phone number so we can get in touch with you easily. Please also include a sentence or two about why you'd like to get involved with the greening effort on this tour.

Volunteers will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis. Please understand that by submitting an email you are not automatically an eco-team member--Reverb will get in touch with you to let you know if you've been selected.

--> Stop Getting Junk Snailmail-- if you sign up with GreenDimes, they'll get you off those annoying lists (which will save trees) and even plant more trees for you.

--> Buy Clean Renewable Energy-- our partners at Native Energy have been helping us be carbon neutral. You can be too. At the shows we'll be selling BIG GREEN FRIEND offset stickers that neutralize the equivalent of 300 miles of driving or powering a dorm room for a school year. You can also click HERE to learn about how you can neutralize your home, computer, and travel. Click on the movie to hear Guster's own Joe Pisapia attempt to narrate the short video that explains how carbon offsets work!

--> Join Us in the Virtual March to Stop Global Warming

OK, that's more than plenty of info for now...thanks for reading this!

Adam and the Gusters

Gusterrhoids.

We begin today's message with another online video. This one is from Pancake Mountain, a cable access show in the Washington DC area that's popular among infants, toddlers, and indie rockers. You'll notice they shortened our song, "C'mon," down to two minutes in order to hold the attention of the aforementioned demographic. Those of you with longer attention spans might prefer to watch Dave Yonkman's full-length video of the song, where we form a criminal gang that plunders the streets of Boston while riding Segway scooters and wearing Members Only jackets. Whichever direction you prefer, from our perspective it's just nice to have two videos for one song, and so many thought-provoking interpretations of the same lyric.


WE'RE PLAYING A FREE CONCERT IN LOS ANGELES MARCH 22ND

All you have to do is show up for it in a week and a half, Southern California. Here's the information:

Thursday March 22nd
The Grove LA
6301 W 3rd St
Los Angeles, CA
Guster at 7:30
FREE show for Indie 103
www.thegrovela.com
www.indie1031.fm

And if you have a television, watch our band play our music on the Jay Leno Late Nighttime TV Program on Friday March 23rd.


NEW SHOWS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ROCHESTER, MEMPHIS, AND SAVANNAH ADDED TO SPRING CAMPUS CONSCIOUSNESS TOUR! NEW YORK AND BOSTON SHOWS VERY CLOSE TO BEING SOLD OUT! "GUSTER" BAND WRITES LONGEST BOLD-FACED HEADER IN TEN YEAR HISTORY OF BAND EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS!

These two exciting new additions to the tour will have tickets up for sale this weekend:

* April 18th @ Hampton Beach Casino in Hampton Beach NH
* April 24th @ Water Street Music Hall in Rochester NY

This is getting so confusing. Why not list the entire spring tour then, for the sake of clarity....

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WHY NOT LIST THE ENTIRE SPRING TOUR THEN -=-=-=-=-=-=-=

3/28/07 – Winston-Salem, NC @ Wake Forest University
3/29/07 -- Savannah, GA @ Lucas Theatre
3/30/07 – Macon, GA @ Mercer University
3/31/07 – Crawfordsville, IN @ Wabash College
4/02/07 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
4/03/07 – Norman, OK @ University of Oklahoma
4/04/07 – Tulsa, OK @ University of Tulsa
4/06/07 – Austin, TX @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
4/07/07 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
4/09/07 -- Macomb, IL @ Western Illinois University
4/10/07 -- Decorah, IA @ Luther College
4/13/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater
4/14/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater (SOLD OUT)
4/18/07 -- Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
4/20/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/21/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House (SOLD OUT)
4/24/07 -- Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
4/26/07 – Williamstown, MA @ Williams College
4/27/07 – Middlebury, VT @ Middlebury College
4/28/07 – Loudonville, NY @ Siena College
4/29/07 – Baltimore, MD @ Loyola College
5/05/07 – Due West, SC @ Erskine College
5/06/07 -- Memphis, TN @ Beale Street Music Festival


We will have more news about our upcoming 8-song Satellite EP in a couple weeks. In the meantime, those of you looking for free Guster cell phone wallpaper can text Guster to 50505 and it will magically appear. Our band offers free cell phone wallpaper! -- g

You can now hear Satellite and the Satellite (Astronauts Remix) for Free at Rhapsody.

Click Here.

Also, you can get a free Guster Cell Phone Wall Paper. Text Guster to 50505 and you will be sent a free wallpaper.

Gusterrhoids. It's back, and it's just as awkward to say as it was last year -- The Spring Campus Consciousness Tour! The dates are below, and a handful of them are already on sale. Texas, Kansas, and Cypress Hill, we're looking in your direction.

CAMPUS CONSCIOUSNESS TOUR DATES (more to come...)

3/28/07 – Winston-Salem, NC @ Wake Forest University, with The Format...tickets on sale 3/1 at 10 am through www.wfu.tickets.musictoday.com
3/30/07 – Macon, GA @ Mercer University, with The Format
3/31/07 – Crawfordsville, IN @ Wabash College, with The Format
4/02/07 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall, with The Format ... tickets on sale at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
4/03/07 – Norman, OK @ University of Oklahoma, with The Format
4/04/07 – Tulsa, OK @ University of Tulsa, with The Format
4/06/07 – Austin, TX @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q, with The Format ... tickets on sale at gustertickets.musictoday.com
4/07/07 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater, with The Format ... tickets on sale at tickets.granadatheater.com
4/09/07 – Macomb, IL @ Western Illinois University, with The Format
4/10/07 – Decorah, IA @ Luther College, with The Format
4/13/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater, with Mason Jennings ... tickets on sale at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
4/14/07 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theater, with The Format ... tickets on sale at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
4/20/07 –Boston, MA @ Opera House, with Mason Jennings ... tickets on sale at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
4/21/07 – Boston, MA @ Opera House, with The Format ... tickets on sale at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
4/26/07 – Williamstown, MA @ Williams College, with The Format
4/27/07 – Middlebury, VT @ Middlebury College, with The Format
4/28/07 – Loudonville, NY @ Siena College, with The Format
4/29/07 – Baltimore, MD @ Loyola College, with The Format
5/05/07 – Due West, SC @ Erskine College, with The Format

DATES ON THE TOUR WE JUST STARTED ON THURSDAY

2/15/07 – North Charleston, SC @ Center Stage at the Plex, with Mason Jennings
2/16/07 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues - SOLD OUT
2/17/07 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle - SOLD OUT
2/20/07 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts - SOLD OUT
2/21/07 – Champaign, IL @ Foelinger Auditorium, with Mason Jennings ... tickets on sale @ www.star-course.com
2/23/06 – St Louis, MO @ The Pageant, with Mason Jennings ... tickets on sale @ www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
2/24/06 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Murat Center - SOLD OUT
2/25/07 – Cleveland, OH @ HOB, with Mason Jennings ... tickets on sale @ www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
2/26/07 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix, with Mason Jennings ... tickets on sale @ www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
2/28/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club - SOLD OUT
3/01/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club - SOLD OUT
3/02/06 – Providence, RI @ Lupo’s - SOLD OUT
3/03/06 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory - SOLD OUT

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW...

... is another animated video for a Guster song. Our friend Chad Van Gaalen, who is a Sub-Pop recording artist, a renaissance man, and an all-around good guy, stepped up and created a very psychotomimetic (thank you, thesaurus.com) video for our song Lightning Rod. And if that doesn't satisfy your hunger for Guster videos that don't include the band, check out this random person's unfinished video for Satellite. Encourage this person!

TICKET AUCTIONS

Charity Folks will be hosting an auction for 2 pairs of Guster tickets and meet-&-greets for the following shows coming up on this tour...

02.28 Washington, DC
03.01 Washington, DC
03.02 Providence, RI
03.03 Philadelphia, PA

Proceeds benefit REVERB, who will be with us all spring to make everything nice and green. Here's the auction link

RAVED-OUT SATELLITE REMIX

You may be wondering why a dance remix of Satellite with a block-rocking beat and a trance feel is available on iTunes. Well, someone made a dance remix of Satellite with a block-rocking beat and a trance feel. So there you have it. You can check it now, and it'll be on our 8-song Satellite EP when it comes out in a couple of months, featuring B-sides, covers, and a dance remix of Satellite with a block-rocking beat and a trance feel.

That's it for now. See you all soon! Unless you live out west!

g

The Astronauts Mix of "Satellite" is now available to buy at iTunes

In 2007, I vow to start every email announcement by calling the recipients of these messages "Gusterrhoids," a very special hybrid of our band's name and an itchy inflamed condition of the butthole-- that'll be fun.

Gusterrhoids,

We're in the midst of booking a spring tour that'll take us to your colleges, and we're anchoring that tour with two weekends playing music in the two nicest theaters of New York and Boston. Watch this:

April 13th & 14th --- Two nights at the Beacon Theater in NYC
April 20th & 21st --- Two nights at the Boston Opera House in, um, Boston MA

The sheer majesty of these venues will offset every gymnasium we've ever played where they duct tape a blue tarp to the floor so you don't track mud onto the basketball court. We plan to have special guests, unique set lists, and plenty of costume changes. Mason Jennings opens the Friday night shows in each city and The Format open the Saturday night shows in each city. Beware, these venues are small and these shows are likely to sell out, so we encourage you to get tickets ($35) as soon as they go on sale this Saturday:

TICKETS ON SALE: Saturday, Feb 3rd through Ticketmaster


In the meantime, we've got our land legs back and we're getting ready to hit the road in February. Here's what the winter tour looks like:


02/11/07 -- Seattle, WA *
02/15/07 – North Charleston, SC @ Center Stage at the Plex
02/16/07 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
02/17/07 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle SOLD OUT
02/20/07 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
02/21/07 – Champaign, IL @ Foellinger Auditorium
02/23/07 – St Louis, MO @ The Pageant
02/24/07 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Murat Center
02/25/07 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
02/26/07 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix
02/28/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club SOLD OUT
03/01/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club SOLD OUT
03/02/07 – Providence, RI @ Lupo’s
03/03/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory SOLD OUT

* New show at Neumo's. The only way to get in is to win tickets through 107 The End. Try the request line to get in: (206) 421-1077
Mason Jennings opens all other shows on the tour

IF YOU'RE FANS OF THE BAND: Our version of "This Wheel's On Fire" is the first track on "Endless Highway," the Band tribute record that came out yesterday. You can preview the album on this website: www.429records.com

IF YOU'RE FANS OF GUSTER: Our version of "Satellite" by Guster is actually getting played on a bunch of radio stations right now. If you were to call your local station and disguise your voice and say "who was that band you just played?" after you hear us, or "that song wasn't as good as Satellite by Guster" after you don't hear us, it'd be sweet.

Thanks much and see you soon.

g

Sincerely, thanks everyone, for helping us have a great 2006. We asked a lot of you this year. We gave you an online sitcom, a new studio album, more information than you ever wanted about "biodiesel" and "wind power," an interesting summer tour line-up, a self-indulgent podcast, a partridge in a pear tree, a new and very irreverent live version of Airport Song -- and you all came through like champs, clapping after nearly every song at every show we played this year... we couldn't ask for more. We really have the best fans/friends ever. Here's to an exciting 2007.

Speaking of which, this is what we have planned for the winter, in terms of playing our instruments in front of crowds:

02/15/07 – North Charleston, SC @ Center Stage at the Plex -- TICKETS
02/16/07 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues -- TICKETS
02/17/07 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle -- TICKETS
02/20/07 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts -- TICKETS
02/21/07 – Champaign, IL @ Foellinger Auditorium -- TICKETS
02/23/07 – St Louis, MO @ The Pageant -- TICKETS
02/24/07 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Murat Center -- TICKETS
02/25/07 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues -- TICKETS
02/26/07 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix --TICKETS
02/28/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club --TICKETS
03/01/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club -- TICKETS
03/02/07 – Providence, RI @ Lupo’s -- TICKETS
03/03/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory --TICKETS

Mason Jennings will open up every night. You'll like him.


BONO WATCHES "GUSTER ON ICE" CONSTANTLY

In somewhat bizarre Guster news, there are two crowd shots from our Live in Portland Maine DVD concert in the new U2 video. See if you can pick them out. Likewise, see if you can spot the two U2 live references in Adam Bizankski's new video for "Satellite" -- (HINT: there aren't any). In the event that this video inspires you to want "Satellite" to be your cell phone ringtone, we can accommodate that too.

MAMACITA, DONDE ESTA SANTA CLAUSE?

You need more Christmas music in your life right about now. Amuse the people whose friendship you've accepted with this somewhat Spanish holiday classic, as interpreted by the Gusters. Up on www.myspace.com/guster until the 12 days of Christmas have expired and Santa has returned to purgatory.

TOYS FOR TOTS IN BOSTON

Special thanks to everyone who braved the cold in Boston a couple of weeks ago to see us play a five-song set at First Act Guitar Studio. You guys created a whole heap of toys for kids in need. Two live recordings from that night are available for download if you pick up "Ganging Up on the Sun" at Newbury Comics right now. The songs are "Rise & Shine," which is unreleased and was left off of Ganging Up on the Sun, and "Two of Us," which I do believe was the first song on "Let It Be." Here's a link to more info.

See you in the new year,

g

The winner of our Scooter For A Day contest will be announced in tomorrow's road journal! Be sure to check it out!

Gusterrhoids...

We're playing free concerts inside record stores the next two Fridays in Boston and Chicago -- acoustic sets, witty banter, rejection of most requests along with sincere apologies and solid explanations of the technical reasoning for the rejection, etc. You can also get to meet the band behind the bi-weekly emails, as we'll be hanging around to write our names on pieces of paper following the show. Here are your details:

Friday, December 8th: Grand opening of Borders Back Bay
511 Boylston Street, Boston MA
12:30pm. Free. INFO

Friday, December 15th: Virgin Megastore
540 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago IL
1pm. Free. INFO

And as 'tis the season for holiday radio events, here's a rundown of what's left this year for the Pneumonia-Free Gusters:

12/03 -- Headlining concert at Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA.
12/05 -- Headlining concert at Whitman College. Walla Walla, WA.
12/08 -- Free show at Borders Back Bay, 12:30pm. Boston MA.
12/08 -- WBOS winners show at Museum of Science Planetarium. 3:30pm. Boston MA.
12/08 -- WXRV Toys for Tots Benefit on Boylston St. Free if you bring a new unwrapped toy. 7pm. Boston MA.
12/11 -- WTSS holiday show at Shea's Smith Theater opening for Barenaked Ladies. Buffalo NY.
12/12 -- WTIC holiday show at Hartford Civic Center. 20 min set on the acoustic stage. Hartford CT.
12/14 -- KBCO holiday show at the Ogden Theater. Guster headlines! Denver CO. TIX
12/15 -- Free show at Virgin Megastore, 1pm. Chicago IL.
12/16 -- Q101 holiday show at Aragon Ballroom with Jet. Guster headlines! Chicago IL. TIX

There's more info and a bunch of 2007 tour dates piling up at www.guster.com too.



IF YOUR MEMORY SERVES YOU WELL

We're honored to have a track on the upcoming tribute record to The Band. And we're happy to announce that this time our song is actually the lead-off track, after landing deep in the batting order on the Randy Newman tribute record (9th out of 12) and even deeper in the batting order on the Daniel Johnston tribute record (17th out of 18). The song we covered is called "This Wheel's On Fire," written by Rick Danko and Bob Dylan in 1967 and available on The Band's "Music From Big Pink" album. The other artists on the compilation are all over the map. The Allman Bros cover "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," Jack Johnson covers "I Shall Be Released," Death Cab For Cutie does "Rocking Chair," etc. It comes out January 30th, 2007...

... but you can preview the album on this here website: www.429records.com/endlesshighway -- and get this, if you click on the VIDEO link you can watch a ridiculous short film that we made with Dave Yonkman (oh wait, I mean D.F. Yonkman) to promote it. Beware though. If you aren't familiar with The Last Waltz it's going to be confusing and it's going to give you sweaty nightmares.


THE DEADLINE FOR YOUR SCOOTER-FOR-A-DAY VIDEO ENTRIES IS NIGH

"Nigh" meaning December 10th. INFO



Be Adequite,

g

OUR BAND TOURS EVEN WHEN IT'S COLD OUT

And in the upcoming months we'll be visiting such wintery destinations as Charleston SC, Toronto ON, Palo Alto CA, and Philadelphia PA. Look out! There's a whole bunch of new tour dates below:

12/03/06 – Palo Alto, CA @ Memorial Hall (Stanford University) -- INFO
12/05/06 – Walla Walla, WA @ Whitman College -- INFO
12/11/06 – Buffalo, NY @ Shea's Smith Theatre w/BNL -- TICKETS
12/12/06 – Hartford, CT @ Hartford Civic Center Coliseum w/BNL -- TICKETS
12/14/06 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre – KBCO Holiday show -- TICKETS
12/16/06 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom – Q101 Christmas show -- TICKETS
01/15/07 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL for the Ships N Dip Cruise w/BNL -- TICKETS
02/15/07 – North Charleston, SC @ Center Stage at the Plex -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
02/16/07 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues -- TICKETS
02/17/07 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle -- TICKETS
02/20/07 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
02/21/07 – Champaign, IL @ Foellinger Auditorium -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
02/23/07 – St Louis, MO @ The Pageant -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
02/24/07 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Murat Center -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
02/25/07 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues -- Ticket info TBA
02/26/07 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
02/28/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
03/01/07 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)
03/02/07 – Providence, RI @ Lupo’s -- TICKETS
03/03/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory -- PRE-SALE TICKETS (11/22)

Did you see! Two nights at the 930 Club in DC, and one night in Canada. We're going to play our instruments in Canada!


EVERYTHING MUST GO!

We have a bunch of special merchandise deals on our website because it's the time of year when everyone buys stuff. You can now get a holiday bundle of all 5 Guster studio albums for $40. We've got new shirts, hats, and posters for sale too, plus we're trying to clear our shelves of excess tour shirts, stickers, and road journal books ("print thousands of them, I promise they'll sell" -- Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel) -- so you can find some pretty crazy clearance deals at our website merchandise store.

And if you're looking to give the gift of Guster for the holidays, place your order by Dec 12th and to ensure it'll arrive by Christmas. After Dec 12th it'll probably arrive by Christmas anyway but Guster and the USPS can't promise anything. Hannukah is early this year and looks best without the "C" in front.


SCOOTER-FOR-A-DAY CONTEST RULES HAVE CHANGED

1) You have an extension. The submission deadline has been pushed back to December 10th, with a winner chosen on Dec 12th.
2) Because you spoke, and because we sometimes listen, the contest is now ALL AGES and the prizes have been adjusted:

 a. Winner can choose to go on the cruise with a passenger of their choice if winner and friend are both 21+
 b. If winner is under 21, winner can still choose to go on the cruise as long as they are accompanied by someone 25 years or older
 c. Winners under 21, who can not attend the cruise, can instead choose to go to a show of their choice (this will include airfare and hotel if need be)

To watch the 20 submissions we have so far or learn about the contest, visit our Scooter Contest Page or our Guster YouTube Page.

Visit and vote for the ones you like. People are doing good things over there. Keep it up!

g



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Does anyone recognize the subject's reference *without* googling it?

We have a lot to get to in this email, Gusterrhoids.

WE HAVE A NEW MUSIC VIDEO
Unlike our other music videos, the video for the song "Cmon" was made in just 45 minutes. And unlike our other music videos, the video for the song "Cmon" was made on Segway scooters in South Boston -- a spontaneous-idea-taken-too-far right after soundcheck in August, with Dave Yonkman behind the camera and our truck driver as our star actor. You can check it out on our official new dedicated You Tube page ... www.youtube.com/guster

WE SAW "BORAT" YESTERDAY
It was really funny. Yes, I look a little bit like Borat. Take it easy.

YOU WILL PROBABLY WIN THE SCOOTER-FOR-A-DAY CONTEST IF YOU ENTER IT
The deadline for entries is November 25th and there have only been a few brave video applicants thus far. Winner gets to come with us on a week-long cruise to the Turks & Caicos islands with the Barenaked Ladies in January, and you only have to assist our drum tech, Scooter, for one show. Check out all the fine print here... www.guster.com/06/scooter

SOME CABINS HAVE OPENED UP ON OUR CRUISE WITH BNL
The "sold out" cruise ship is now a little less sold out than it used to be. If you'd wanted to come along for a vacation with Guster and the Barenaked Ladies, now's your chance as some cabins have become available on the Ships & Dip Concert Cruise from January 15-19... www.shipsanddip.com -- and if you're already coming with us, visit the site to help us on our quest to make the trip a "zero emissions voyage." There's a GREENING link where you can help us neutralize carbon emissions from the cruise.

JOE'S SOLO RECORD IS OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE AT THE ITUNES MUSIC STORE NOW
Let's all celebrate by visiting and purchasing it and putting it in our iPods. Be sure to search for Joe Pisapia and his record Daydreams or click here: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=159753835&s=143441 if you have iTunes installed on your computer.

g

Guster's complete performance at the Vegoose Music Festival will be webcast from the Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, NV on Sunday, October 29th at 6:10pm pacific.

This exclusive performance footage can be viewed at www.blueroom.att.com. Be sure to check back in the Blueroom following the event for archived footage from Vegoose!

Good news and bad news, Gusterkids.

BAD NEWS: Tomorrow's show in Salt Lake City, UT is cancelled, as Adam Gardner is still recovering from a miserable three-week bout with pneumonia. Refunds will be given at the point of purchase.

GOOD NEWS: Those of you coming to the Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas NV this weekend will get a chance to see Adam sweat through three shirts in the course of a one hour set! What could be sexier than an emaciated, feverish man with a guitar having the schvitz of his life in the desert?

All kidding aside, we're upset to have to miss a show in Utah, which is consistently one of our favorite places to play, and we're all pulling for Adam's antibiotics to kick in soon. Fortunately tour dates are a part of a greater cycle of life, and the death of the Salt Lake City show falls on the same day that we can announce the birth of two new shows next year:

2/16/07 - Orlando, FL
House of Blues
Tickets $19... on sale 11/4


2/17/07 - Atlanta, GA
The Tabernacle
Tickets $20... on sale 11/11


This will kick off an exciting three weeks of rock concerts in places we've been avoiding, like St Louis, Cincinnati, and Providence. Stay tuned. For now, we're off to tour the world with a contagious man and his hot flashes.

=-=-=-=- THIS WEEK IN GUSTER ROCK CONCERTS -=-=-=-=

10/27 ... Salt Lake City UT *** CANCELLED ***

10/29 ... Las Vegas NV
Vegoose Music Festival (www.vegoose.com)
Guster plays at 2:50 in the Cabaret Clubs Tent

10/31... Omaha NE
Sokol Auditorium (402-346-9802)
Trippin Balls opens up

11/3 ... Minneapolis MN
State Theater (612-339-0075)
The Bees open

11/4 ... Greencastle IN
DePauw University (765-658-4949)
The Bees open



In other Guster news, that guy Marc Horowitz is wearing a Guster t-shirt in Day 6 of his "How I spent a week living in my Nissan Sentra" ad campaign, me and Ryan are still talking to Jeff Garlin from Curb Your Enthusiasm on our website, and if you want to enter our "Be Scooter for a Day" contest, so far you have very little competition.

Oh, and now we have "widgets" so you can keep our tour dates on your desktop.

Sorry Salt Lake / Get Well Gardner,

g

You can check it out here: http://www.improper.com.

Or go pick up your free copy in the blue Improper newsstands located all around Boston!

Four things!

1. WE HAVE A NEW CONTEST ON YOUTUBE TO GET TO BE "SCOOTER FOR A DAY"

Scooter's my drum tech and if you submit a video explaining why you deserve the job (and if you win because you're video is better than the others), we'll fly you to Florida and send you on a week-long cruise with Guster and the Barenaked Ladies in January, where you get to join the band on stage and drink orange soda with Scooter all day. The contest information is on our website, and the YouTube link is here: http://youtube.com/group/gusterband

But the real reason to click on that link is to see Scooter attempt to read a cue card about the "Scooter for a Day" contest.


2. WE HAVE A PODCAST RUNNING WITH JEFF GARLIN FROM CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

If you've never tried listening to a podcast, it's easy. Click this link if you have iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=196933498 -- Or visit http://www.guster.com if you don't have iTunes. You click in the obvious place and it downloads a conversation between our band and one of our favorite comedians onto your computer, but in five ten-minute installments, because that's all you really want to digest at once. Do it!


3. WE HAVE RINGBACK SONGS AVAILABLE, WHATEVER THAT MEANS!

I missed this whole thing and that's okay. If you know what I'm talking about and you like that sort of thing, we now have 17 "ringbacks" available on our website. Here's the link: http://www.guster.com/06/ringbacks.html


Much love,

guster

Guster won Album of the Year (Major) last night at the Boston Music Awards! Thanks to everyone that voted for us.

Gusterrhoids...

Here's the deal with the "collaboration" between Curb Your Enthusiasm and Guster I hinted at a few weeks ago:  It's not a Season Six band cameo on the show.  I wish.  But it's the next best thing, a five-episode podcast of a long, winding conversation between two Guster members (the singer and the drummer) and our friend Jeff Garlin, who plays Larry's agent on the show.  

If you have people in your life who like Curb Your Enthusiasm but don't know Guster, this is your chance to get them hooked on our.... conversational... skills?  Having befriended Jeff at our Central Park show two years ago, we thought a mutual podcast would be interesting since we like his comedy and he likes our music.  Around the time we were finishing up "Ganging Up on the Sun" we actually went into the studio with Jeff and recorded it.  A lot of topics get covered since it's almost an hour long.  This might be the deepest Guster interview to date.  Don't fear the podcast. 

A ten-minute episode will become available, for free, every Monday in October, on our website and through iTunes.  I am told there are five mondays in October this year.  Anyway, you can rest assured that we'll remind you about this next week.  On to the tour dates...

Visit http://www.guster.com for more information, and to play whack-a-mole with Ryan's head.  

Fondly,
g

Any one that buys pre-sale tickets will be placed in a drawing to win after show passes! We will randomly select three people from each pre-sale show to win two pairs of after show passes. So buy your pre-sale tickets today!

You can hear a live streaming version of our set at Austin City Limits today from the "Blue Room" online at http://blueroom.att.com/events/aclschedule.php. Our set is today at 2:30PM Central Time.

Hello from back-on-the-road. Texas. We're ready for our red-hot Friday afternoon slot at the Austin City Limits Festival tomorrow. If you're attending the festival this weekend, and tired of watching bands from the middle of a field, you can come see us play a more intimate show late Friday night with Gomez at La Zona Rosa (details below).

Five (5) other touring developments:

1. We added an Ohio show to this tour to make up for our cancelled ones this summer. It's November 8th at PromoWest Pavilion in Columbus. We realize that people in Cleveland and Pittsburgh still hate us. We can not return the feeling. We have nothing but love for Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

2. Another pillar in the career of Guster will fall when we open for Kansas at a free show in Iowa next month. It's in Iowa City, where we used to play a lot in the mid-nineties. Back when we were wayward sons, carrying on in a van. {Insert your favorite 'dust in the wind' joke here}.

3. Speaking of Kansas, our Kansas City show on September 22nd has been moved from the outdoor "City Market" to the fabulous indoor "Beaumont Club," where there's a mechanical bull. Come on down, even if you're coming to the freebie in Columbia on the 20th. We know K.C. is in Missouri.

4. West Virginia!

5. For those of you reading this email from Spokane Washington or Orono Maine, we're coming for a visit. October 2nd and November 16th, respectively. All the information is below, along with all the non-Spokane-or-Orono tour dates. Here we go again...

Heading west...

g

Guster has been nominated for TWO Boston Music Awards: Album of the Year and Song of the Year ("One Man Wrecking Machine"). Please take a minute to VOTE for Guster to win at http://www.nemoboston.com

Gusterrhoids. We've got a bunch of new tour dates to announce, in the following urban centers:

Harrisonburg VA
Salt Lake City UT
Omaha NE
Minneapolis MN
Greencastle IN
Ann Arbor MI
Milwaukee WI
Geneva NY


Did you see, there are proper Milwaukee and Minneapolis shows. And a Halloween show in Nebraska. And a triumphant return to Salt Lake City. And at long last, our Greencastle Indiana debut! These are old-fashioned Guster headlining rock concerts, and a handful of them are going on sale today. Check the big list below for details.

We're also playing Las Vegas NV at the Vegoose Festival on October 29th. It's a two-day Halloween-themed rock concert featuring Tom Petty, Ben Folds, Fiona Apple, and "much much more." Check out the full line-up at www.vegoose.com/2006

It's not unlike the Austin City Limits Festival we're playing on September 15th, before we head out to the West Coast with Nada Surf where will we make sweet music together and abuse bold face type until the wee hours of the night.

That's it. Tune in next week when Guster meets Curb Your Enthusiasm. No kidding.


g

Guster will be appearing on NPR's Day to Day today around 3:00PM E.T. Tune in to your local NPR station or CLICK HERE to listen on-line.

Today only Guster fans can buy tickets to the August 17th show at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY for ONLY $10! It's a great deal, so make sure you buy your tickets today!

Purchase your $10 tickets at Ticketmaster

Hello Gusterrhoids...

Put your cassette tapes in your VCRs and program them to record next Thursday night, August 10th, as we'll be making an appearance on the Conan O'Brien Late Into The Night Television Show on NBC along with our old friends, the Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra (or, as many of them as we can fit on stage with us -- probably about 10 of them).

And if you live west of the Mississippi, beware that the Guster / Nada Surf tour (formerly the Guster / Ray LaMontagne tour) will be making its way out west in September and October. Tickets go on sale this weekend for many of those shows. Here's the on-sale schedule:

Dallas: tix go on sale august 5th
Austin: tix on sale now
Houston: tix on sale now
New Orleans: tix go on sale august 12th
Tulsa OK: tix on sale now
Kansas City: tix go on sale august 5th
Denver: tix on sale now
Tucson AZ: tix go on sale august 5th
San Diego: tix on sale now
Los Angeles: tix on sale august 5th
Berkeley CA: tix go on sale august 13th
Seattle: tix go on sale august 5th
Portland: tix go on sale august 5th


I just discovered "tabs" -- did they work? Anyway, complete ticketing information is listed below. Hey, did you Arizonians see the Arizona show? We're coming to Arizona, damn it. It's gonna be so Arizona. You spoke up, and we listened and now we're playing in Tucson September 27th. Democracy at work.

Next week the tour resumes in Toledo Ohio, where our good friend Trippin' Balls (www.trippinballs.com) will be joining us in Ray's absence for one night. Be sure to get there early as the Balls play first, followed by Rogue Wave and then the Gusters.

From there the tour heads east to Rochester NYand two nights in Boston MA. Tickets are still available. I'm just gonna print the whole tour schedule again -- there's nothing else below that, so if you're tired of reading our tour dates, you can just move on now.

Lovingly!
-- g

Hello Gusterrhoids:

Everybody loves Ray LaMontagne! But he's dropping off the tour in September, due to "unforeseen conflicts in his schedule." Here's the official word from his camp:

Ray LaMontagne regretfully has to cancel his participation in the second leg of his co-headlining tour with Guster due to unforeseen conflicts in his schedule. There are also a few midwest dates that are affected during the first leg. He enjoyed the first leg with Guster and is disappointed he can't continue at this time but is looking forward to returning to the road soon.

It's too bad, since the shows so far have really been great and we've been flattered to be on the same stage with someone as talented as Ray. More bad news: The shows in Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh have been cancelled (8/4, 8/5, 8/6). Full refunds are available from the point of purchase, and we hope to make it up to Ohio on our next tour. Kettering and Toledo are still on though! Bring your cornhole bags!

AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS:

Nada Surf are taking Ray's place as opener, along with Tristan Prettyman, for the second leg beginning in mid-September. Everybody loves Nada Surf! Most ticket prices have been adjusted to reflect Ray's departure (meaning, they're cheaper now), and some venues have been switched as a result too. Here are some recent developments in our touring world:

INDIANAPOLIS (July 29th) -- Special acoustic in-store at Luna Music at 1:30pm. INFO: www.lunamusic.net

TOLEDO (August 8th) -- Show will be Guster & Rogue Wave, without Ray LaMontagne.

DALLAS (September 14th) -- Show has been moved to the Gypsy Tea Room. Tickets on sale real soon.

AUSTIN (September 15th) -- Special late-nite show at La Zona Rosa with Gomez. TICKETS: www.frontgatetickets.com

LOS ANGELES (Sept 29th) -- It's now a one-night stand at the Wiltern. September 28th show has been cancelled.

SEATTLE (October 3rd) -- Note the new date and venue... October 3rd at the Moore Theater.

Much love

g

New ringbacks are now available!

Verizon Wireless now offers a new large selection of Guster ringbacks

Go to the following website to get yours!

Verizon

Check out the new Relix radio episode featuring:

-A message from Ryan (recorded at the 5th Annual Jammy Awards)

-Dear Valentine (Live)

-Growing Up Guster: A Lunchtime Converstation w/ Ryan

Go to WWW.RELIX.COM/RADIO to hear this episode!

Gusterrhoids...

We will be playing our instruments in the Northeast this week. I want to say we'll be playing in the "tri-state area" this week, but that gets controversial. And neglects Maryland. So if you live near Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, or Connecticut, this week is your chance to catch our summer tour with Ray LaMontagne. Remember, even though it's a double bill, we're playing our full headlining set. More Guster songs than you can stand. Here are the details:

REVERB: The Adam-created environmental non-profit group REVERB will be with us all summer, fueling our vehicles with biodiesel, setting up eco-villages at every venue, and putting on some food drives as well (check our website to find out which shows). You can even pick up "Cool Tags" to neutralize the carbon emissions from your drive to the show. Here's their website: www.ReverbRock.org

JOE'S PLACE: is over! You can still watch all five episodes on our website. See you guys later.


g

Gusterrhoids! This first week of having-an-album-out-again has been a lot of fun. Thanks for all your nice emails about Ganging Up on the Sun and the Leno appearance, and thanks especially for helping us debut at #25 on the Billboard Album Sales charts -- just 167 units behind Nickelback at #24. Nickelback!! Next week we plan to drop off the charts but thanks to you guys we always make impressive debuts...

We want to let you know that the fifth and final episode of Joe's Place is now streaming on our website. It's the saddest episode, but no one dies in the end... be sure to watch all the way until the end of the credits. Thanks to Dave Yonkman (er... D.F. Yonkman) for hours and hours of sweat putting that together and dealing with our label's lawyers.

Down here! Here I am! Still promoting things. This Friday we'll be on one of our favourite radio programs, "Morning Becomes Eclectic" on KCRW in Los Angeles. Tune it at 11am or catch it streaming on the worldwide web at http://www.kcrw.com/show/mb -- and later this Friday we're taping an NPR show called "Day to Day" ... stay tuned for airing information.

We're getting bored of the photos on our website! If you have any that you think are front page-worthy, upload them to a free hosting service and send the link to us at guster@guster.com -- We'll pick the best ones and feature them on the front of guster.com

REVERB will be joining us this summer to keep up the green work when we're on the road. Also, our friends at Rock for a Remedy, Inc. announce the first two food drives of the tour: Prospect Park in Brooklyn and The Chevrolet Theatre in Wallingford. Non-perishable, non-glass food will be accepted on site to benefit local community food shelves. This time, we'll be taking cash donations too. One dollar allows a Food Bank to purchase five pounds of food! Each person who donates 10 items or more (or $2 plus) will be entered into a raffle: One lucky donor and a guest will win an after-show meet & greet with Guster! Stay tuned for more dates with food drives

Much love,

g

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www.myspace.com/guster
www.mylocalbands.com/guster

The World Cafe with David Dye can be heard on more than 180 stations nationwide. Find your local station by going to the World Cafe website or listen online to XPN Monday to Friday at 2pm EST by going to http://www.xpn.org/listen.php.

Later today, the audio will be available on National Public Radio

Oh, and our album came out today.

Honestly, there were so many good suggestions for anticlimactic day-of-release subject lines, I just went with the most obscure one. So thanks to Dawn Kingsnorth from Greenland... when we rock Nuuk, you're totally going to be on our guest list.

It's now a tradition that once every three years, when we release an album, we very temporarily get hi-fi on your asses and include a little embedded image in our otherwise text-based email announcement. So here it is, the album cover for GANGING UP ON THE SUN... and our apologies if this little technological journey happens to erase your hard drive:



If you would, check and make sure they're selling it at a music store near you. And you can always visit the iTunes Music Store and grab it for ten bucks. However you obtain our album, know that you're acquiring something we're very proud of, and please share it with everyone you know. We worked for the better part of a year and a half on this record and it's all time well-spent so long as people hear it. We realize the only reason we're still here today is because our fans have been so passionate about spreading our music. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you, and keep up the good work.

And just in case the sound on our new album isn't enough of a change for you, we've given our website a makeover. Don't worry! The same stale jokes we wrote in 1997 are still up there getting older and older, we just gave the page a fresh look. We hope you like it or at least can get used to it. It's www.guster.com (duh)...

And after that the real touring begins. Stay tuned!

g

"Keep It Together" came out three years ago, on June 24th, 2003. There was a lot of anticipation since it took so long to write and record, and the day it was finally released, I put out one of these here email announcements with what I considered the most brilliant, ironic, and playfully subversive subject line in the history of Guster emailer subject lines:

Obstructed View Seats Still Available for Boise Idaho Show!

My anti-climactic genius was lost on some people at our record label, who still haven't forgiven me (like, they think some people here *never* found out about Keep It Together because they only skim the subjects or something). In any event, at the risk of alienating the good people of Reprise Records just a little bit more, I am accepting your suggestions for what to put in the subject next week when "Ganging Up on the Sun" comes out. Bring them on, the suggestions. If yours gets used, I will give you guest list spots.

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There are some interesting promotional events going on for us, in honor of Release Week being here -- events as boring to most of you as an album listening party in Florida, and as exciting to most of us as singing the national anthem at Fenway Park.

There are also a few live performances at record stores coming up (Philly, Boston, Portland, Seattle, etc), so check this link to see if our "interesting promotional events tour" comes to you over the next couple of weeks: www.guster.com/events

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If you like our band, then check out the E-town broadcast schedule at www.etown.org -- our interview and acoustic performance that we recorded in Boulder CO in the spring is airing this week on the show (NPR-affiliated radio stations). And while we're on the subject of Colorado, no, we're not playing Red Rocks with David Gray. Ticketmaster fucked that up.

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Have you seen the Guster Player yet? See the Guster Player! www.warnerbrosrecords.com/gusterplayer/

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This just in -- Joe's Place Episode 4 went up! Yes!

Until next week.

g

Gusterrhoids.... things are happening. Read!

• Our album comes out two weeks from today! But they tell me Rhapsody has the whole thing streaming online as of this morning, so go listen to it! It's free. Pass it around to friends if you will, to help us get the word out. Here's the link: http://play.rhapsody.com/guster/ganginguponthesun

• Also, we have five songs from the album, along with our video for "One Man Wrecking Machine" and the Joe's Place episodes all in one neat online player now: http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/gusterplayer/

• Joe's Place Episode 4 is being held up by our new best friends, The Warner Brothers Legal Department. Seriously, it should go up any day now. I was eating a chicken carcass in episode 3, by the way, not a "porcupine" as someone suggested in an email. If it had been a porcupine, the Warner Brothers Legal Department would have made us edit it out

• We're playing the Jay Leno TV Program and also the Craig Ferguson TV Program late in June. It's like three weeks away. Watch us, see if we screw up! You only get one take! And now we have some new tour dates to tell you about.....

PROVIDENCE CD-RELEASE SHOW JUNE 22

Rhode Island gets the big cd release show this time! It's going to happen in Station Park, downtown, on the 22nd of June. It's only ten bucks through WBRU! But for twenty bucks you get a cd too, and we'll sign it after the show. How is this possible! www.guster.com has all the details. Look for it under "tour dates"...

BLOCK PARTY IN MINNEAPOLIS JULY 7

We still play block parties! Apparently everyone in Minnesota already knows about this event, but you can get tickets after any Basilica Mass, at any metro area Borders Books, or by calling (612)-317-3511. They have a website too, and it's a dot org. www.basilicablockparty.org

GUSTER AT THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FESTIVAL SEPT 15

This one's a long way away, but we're kicking off the western leg of the tour with Ray LaMontagne by playing this festival and then wishing we could stick around and see all the other bands. You know what, at this point I may as well just list the entire summer tour as we know it. It will turn this little 2K email into a mega 7K email but sometimes you just have to cut and paste.

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g

WE MADE ANOTHER MUSIC VIDEO

Although we pretty much got out of the way while an amazing animator did his thing. You have to watch this. I can't believe this is our video and not some other band's video. Especially after the huge debacle that was The Making of Fa Fa. Anyway, we now have a temporary splash page up at www.guster.com so you have no choice but to find the link to the "One Man Wrecking Machine" video, but if you'd like to see it right this second, try this:

www.guster.com/splash060518/video.html

We can all watch it while we wait for Episode 3 of Joe's Place to get released from the frightened hands of the Warner Bros Legal Department. You say the word "Comcast" just ten times in ten minutes and suddenly everyone's freaking out...

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS

We need to find some people to join our "street team" to help us advertise local shows and check stores to make sure our new album is in stock, etc... are we really calling this a "street team," Dalton? It's a dorky name, but our only other idea, "The Guster Wrecking Machines" is equally dumb. One of those (dumb) names will stick. In any event, we're offering a free download of an unreleased song from the new record in exchange for signing up. It's called "Empire State" and it's sad and poignant and beautiful, so sad and poignant and beautiful that it feels awkward aligning it with a "street team" promotional idea, but what the heck. All you really do when you sign up is join a list where we email you about helping us flyer now and then. Worth it. Totally worth it. Enlist yourself here:

http://streetteams.nettwerk.com/gusterstreetteam/signup.jsp

WE RELEASED SOMETHING

An E.P. specifically for independent record stores. It's good to support independent record stores. Those of you who want to check out more of the new album before it's released on June 20th can pick up the limited edition One Man Wrecking Machine EP that's being sold exclusively in independent record stores beginning May 23rd. We put "Ruby Falls," the album's seven minute piece de resistance, on there along with some random rare nuggets. Here's the track listing:

1. One Man Wrecking Machine (from Ganging Up on the Sun)
2. Days (Kinks cover)
3. Ruby Falls (from Ganging Up on the Sun)
4. Two at a Time (demo version)
5. Good Feeling (Violent Femmes cover, live w/ Gordon Gano on violin)

And here's where you can find it:

www.cimsmusic.com
www.musicmonitornetwork.com/directory.htm
www.thealliancerocks.com
www.newburycomics.com

WE ADDED A SECOND NIGHT IN BOSTON

It's August 12th and Ray LaMontagne can't join us so we're gonna do a night without him. Here are the shows that went up for pre-sale this week:

8/5/06 Columbus, OH
8/11/06 Boston, MA
8/12/06 Boston, MA
8/16/06 Essex Junction, VT
8/17/06 Saratoga, NY
8/19/06 Portland, ME

Go git 'em! Visit www.gustertickets.musictoday.com or www.guster.com to get in on the pre-sale (though if you miss it, the real sale will happen soon so don't worry). Our website has the complete list of summer tour dates on it too.

Until next week, when the emailers will begin coming twice as often. Hooray!

g

Those of you who got hooked on our making-of-the-record soap opera, "Joe's Place," last week should check out Episode 2, which begins streaming from www.guster.com today (remember to refresh your browser). In this week's episode, Ryan tries to feed peanut butter to a snake. That's crazy! He's Brian Fellows!

Um. Tickets to a bunch of our summer shows are now on sale via Music Today Pre-Sale. This is a way for you, the members of our email list, to get first crack at the good seats (with lighter service charges) before the formal Ticketmaster on-sale date, and before the Ray LaMontagne fans snatch them up. Specifically, if you live near one of these cities:

.. those shows are now on sale through our Music Today Pre-Sales. And our Brooklyn NY and Holmdel NJ shows are on sale now through Ticketmaster. You know, they moved the CT date and added a new VA date too, and this is feeling a little tedious, so I'm just gonna list the whole (updated) tour again with all the ticketing information below.

Look for your city! Unless you live out west because you guys have to wait until September for the Guster/Ray tour!

7/8/06 - Milwaukee, WI
Summerfest - Miller Lite Oasis Stage
Tickets $15, Guster headlines
www.summerfest.com/summerfestinfo/admission_tickets.htm for info on how to get tickets

7/11/06 - Baltimore, MD
The Pier Six Pavilion
Tickets $37.50, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.piersixpavilion.com

7/12/06 - Brooklyn, NY
Prospect Park
Tickets $40.50
Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
With Ray LaMontagne
www.prospectpark.org

7/13/06 - Philadelphia, PA
Penn's Landing
Tickets $35.50, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.pennslandingcorp.com

7/14/06 - Wallingford, CT
Chevrolet Theatre
Tickets $38.50, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.chevrolettheater.com

7/17/06 - Myrtle Beach, SC
House of Blues
Tickets $32, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.hob.com/venues/clubvenues/myrtlebeach

7/18/06 - Cary, NC
Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park
Tickets $33, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.amphitheatreatregencypark.com

7/20/06 - Knoxville, TN
Tennessee Theatre
Tickets $42, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.tennesseetheatre.com

7/21/06 - Atlanta, GA
Chastain Park Amphitheater
Tickets $20-56, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.classicchastain.org

7/22/06 - Nashville, TN
Ryman Auditorium
Tickets $33/$43
With Ray LaMontagne
www.ryman.com

7/23/06 - Birmingham, AL
Alabama Theatre
Tickets $35.50/$43, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.alabamatheatre.com

7/25/06 - Interlochen, MI
Interlochen Center for the Arts - Kresge Auditorium
Tickets $39.50, Music Today sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.interlochen.org

7/26/06 - Detroit, MI
Meadow Brook
Tickets $20/$32
With Ray LaMontagne
www.meadowbrookmusic.com

7/28/06 - Chicago, IL
Charter One Pavilion
Tickets $38, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.charteronepavilion.com

7/29/06 - Indianapolis, IN
The Lawn at White River
Tickets $29, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.thelawnatwrsp.com

7/30/06 - Dayton, OH
Fraze Pavilion
Tickets $24.50/30.50, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.fraze.com

8/1/06 - Vienna, VA
Wolf Trap
Tickets $36/25, Music Today sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.wolftrap.org

8/2/06 - Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville Pavilion
Tickets $30, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.charlottesvillepavilion.com

8/4/06 - Cleveland, OH
Tower City Amphitheater
Tickets $29, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.towercityamphitheater.com

8/5/06 - Columbus, OH
PromoWest Pavilion
Tickets $27.50
With Ray LaMontagne
www.promowestlive.com

8/6/06 - Pittsburgh, PA
Chevrolet Amphitheatre
Tickets $29
With Ray LaMontagne
www.chevroletamphitheatre.com

8/8/006 - Toledo, OH
The Zoo Amphitheatre
Tickets $25.50/$30.50, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.toledozoo.org/events/events_summer.html

8/9/06 - Rochester, NY
High Falls
Tickets $28, Music Today Pre-sale on now at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com
With Ray LaMontagne
www.highfalls.us

8/11/06 - Boston, MA
Bank of America Pavilion
With Ray LaMontagne
www.bankofamericapavilion.com

8/16/06 - Essex Junction, VT
Champlain Valley Fairgrounds
With Ray LaMontagne
www.cvfair.com

8/17/06 - Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Tickets $15/$35
With Ray LaMontagne
www.spac.org

8/18/06 - Holmdel, NJ
PNC Bank Arts Center
Tickets $20 & $35, on sale now at www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
With Ray LaMontagne
www.artscenter.com

8/19/06 - Portland, ME
Cumberland County Civic Center
Tickets $30
With Ray LaMontagne
www.theciviccenter.com


=-=-=-=- THIS WEEK IN GUSTER SAVING THE EARTH -=-=-=-=

Through the food drives hosted by Rock For a Remedy on this spring tour, you guys donated over 2 TONS of food to local food banks. You guys rule.

We have two very exciting ebay charity auctions to let you know about this week in Guster Saving the Earth...

1) A Guster and Peter Frampton signed acoustic guitar. Proceeds to go to support Reverb and the Campus Consciousness Tour: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7413570948
2) The head staples and staple remover from Adam's tampon dispenser incident. Ew. Proceeds go to Rock For a Remedy: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9518236870

You can watch Ryan pulling a staple out of Adam's head on the YouTube by following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG4NwYMTXWc

Finally, you will have the option to add fifteen cents ($0.15) to your ticket this summer to plant a tree to offset the paper used for your ticket through the Tickets Plant Trees Program. Do the right thing.

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And that, my Gusterrhoid friends, is enough emailer-ing for now.

Until next week adios ** the Gusters



www.guster.com
www.myspace.com/guster
www.mylocalbands.com/guster

Fans in Myrtle Beach, SC and Knoxville, TN can pre-order their tickets TODAY at MusicToday starting at 2PM. See the tour dates page for additional information, and keep your eyes peeled for more pre-sales to be added in the next few days.

If you read just one of these little email announcements all year and ignore the rest, this would be the one to read. All the way to the end. No skimming.
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Joe's Place is now up and running on the front page of www.guster.com -- check out episode one, it's got teaser snippets of the new songs and way too much footage of me talking. We'll reveal a new episode every week or so until the album comes out on June 20th, and those of you who are geeks like us can sign up to receive the episodes as a video podcast.

You can pre-order Ganging Up on the Sun from our website while you're there. Holy crap, it's coming out in just eight weeks! The first five hundred people to pre-order the album at www.guster.com will get autographed copies delivered to the comfort of their cement doorstep the day it comes out. All shipping is free on pre-orders in the US!

We're going on a huge summer tour and Ray LaMontagne is coming with us. Were finally getting a chance to play all the venues where we used to just open up for other people. We hope to see you there. We'll be closing each night with a full set following a full set by Ray LaMontagne, a singer-songwriter that we're huge fans of. The tour starts up in July and will go all the way to October, but you're best off getting tickets sooner than later (some tix go on sale this weekend).

Did you see the Brooklyn date!? We're playing in Brooklyn and I can walk there from my apartment. The second leg of the tour will begin in September and include the western half of the country (both Greeks!)... stay tuned for that.

But for those of you joining us this summer, we've set up a page at My Local Bands so you can coordinate road trips and meet up with one another. Check out the site when you get a chance, it's brand new. Right now we have only 4 friends. And one of them is our manager:

www.mylocalbands.com/guster


Finally, the Campus Consciousness Tour is still soldiering on for another week:

4/27 @ Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove PA (570) 374-0101
4/29 @ Amherst College in Amherst MA (413) 542-8448
5/02 @ Holy Cross College in Worcester MA (508) 793-3487
5/04 @ Fitchburg St College in Fitchburg MA (978) 665-3160
5/05 @ Dartmouth College in Hanover NH (603) 646-3399

Special thanks to everyone who visited the eco-village on this tour and contributed to the food drives!



Much much love,


g

Thanks to everyone we saw last week in New York City. We had so much fun we're coming back this July to Prospect Park with Ray LaMontagne! Tickets go on sale TODAY 4/24 @ 10AM EST through MusicToday. See the tour dates page for your ticket link and all the details. Many more shows to be announced soon...

Adam hit his head on a tampon dispenser while getting off the toilet today, and had to miss the National Biodiesel Press Conference he'd scheduled here in East Lansing Michigan. While the rest of the Gusters were on hand to fill-in, we were far less eloquent on the topics of renewable fuels and alternative energy than Adam would have been, so our first plug in today's emailer will go to the Campus Consciousness Tour, which is well underway out here as we tour the academic institutions of our country. Visit www.CampusConsciousness.org, or the bottom of this emailer to find out how you can participate in the green side of our rock concerts.

And visit www.guster.com/diaries/02road to read more about Adam's crapping injury.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THIS WEEK IN GUSTER -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

April 6th @ MSU Auditorium in East Lansing MI (517) 355-7733

April 7th @ John Carroll Univ in Cleveland OH (216) 397-1885

April 8th @ Xavier University in Cincinnati OH (513) 745-3564

April 9th @ Valparaiso Univ in Valparaiso IN (219) 464-5007

April 10th @ The Cubby Bear in Chicago IL DETAILS BELOW

April 13th @ St Lawrence Univ in Canton NY (315) 229-5757

April 14th @ Union College in Schenectady NY (518) 338-6188

April 15th @ SUNY Geneseo in Geneseo NY (585) 245-5855

Better information: www.guster.com's tour section

THE ANSWER WAS PETER FRAMPTON:

For those of you who didn't figure out who we're playing with at the 6th Annual Jammy's in New York based on the hints "talk box" and "are you feeling me" -- it's legendary guitarist and singer Peter Frampton. We're playing "Do You Feel Like I Do" together for thirteen psychedelic minutes at the Madison Square Garden theater on April 20th. More information here:

www.jammys.com

CHECK OUT OUR UPCOMING OPENERS:

Andrew Bird opens the shows next week in the midwest, and Luke Temple joins us for the upstate NY run after that. These guys and their albums come highly recommended from the Gusters.

www.andrewbird.net

www.millpondrecords.com

HIRO BALLROOM SHOW IN NYC IS APRIL 21, NOT 19:

I screwed that up last time but the show sold out real fast, so if you got tickets make sure you note the correct date. Sorry. I play drums and sometimes give misinformation in Guster. And for those of you who are tired of being turned away from our New York shows, stay tuned because there's a big summer announcement coming in the next emailer.

THERE'S A LAST MINUTE CHICAGO SHOW:

It's Monday night (April 10th) at the Cubby Bear, but you have to win the tickets from WXRT in Chicago. First, register to be a "VIP" here: www.93xrt.com -- then sign in and try to win the Guster tickets. Oh, it's a 21+ show and the last day to enter is Friday April 7th. Sorry, we're slow. Me drums. etc.

JOE'S PLACE IS STILL IN PROMO-MODE:

But oh what promos they are! Visit www.guster.com/joesplace to watch. The real episodes will kick in in another week or two.

CAMPUS CONSCIOUSNESS FEVER IS RUNNING WILD!

Auctions:

- Win a pair of tickets and meet and greets to the sold-out Hiro Ballroom show 4/21.

- Bid on an Alvarez acoustic guitar signed by Guster.

All proceeds go to support the Consciousness elements of the tour. http://www.reverbrock.org/campusconsciousness/winstuff.html

City Year Community Service Projects:

The City Year Concert Corps works to build national service by connecting touring artists and their fans with local volunteer projects and City Year, a 10-month AmeriCorps program at 17 flagship sites across the country. Come participate in these projects and feel good helping out the community you live in. Check http://cityyearconcertcorps.org/ for details.

Campus Climate Challenge events:

The Campus Climate Challenge is a coalition of 25 youth environmental groups working to get students at 500 universities across North America to reduce their campus' global warming pollution down to almost zero as quickly as possible. Come attend alongside members of Guster the various environmental events happening during the day of the shows. Check http://studentpirgs.org/action.asp?id2=23046 for details.

Food Drives:

Rock For a Remedy will be hosting food drives at most shows. The person who brings the most food (in poundage) wins an after show meet and greet with the band. Before bringing food to a show, please CHECK TO MAKE SURE THERE IS A FOOD DRIVE by going to: www.rockforaremedy.org/

For more info on the Campus Consciousness Tour: www.CampusConsciousness.org

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We love you!

guster

Tune in on the web - www.ktlkam1150.com - at 11AM PST / 2PM EST Saturday 3/25 to hear Guster live on air!! LA locals can tune in on the real radio.

guster people. please enjoy this week's email in bold headline form.

GUSTER TO PLAY AT THE JAMMYS IN NYC

i think that our hectic touring schedules and grass-roots style of development once led people to consider us a "jam band" even though we can't improvise a lick and generally write three and a half minute pop songs. now that it's 2006 and we're secure with our pop identities, we're playing the 6th annual jammy awards on april 20th in new york city -- it's an awards show for jam bands that combines older legends with younger bands (we fall in the "younger bands" category even though we're in our thirties). we'll be a part of a two-song collaboration where we'll play one guster song (probably one from the new album), and one song backing up the legend we're paired with, and his talk box. we can't say who it is but some of you out there are feeling me...

april 20th @ madison square garden theater
www.jammys.com

LITTLE NEW YORK GIG

if you're a new yorker and you've been wanting to see us play a small venue like back-in-the-day, this is your chance. we're playing the 600-capacity hiro ballroom in manhattan next month and tickets go on sale today. that's like, a wetlands-sized venue. it's all a part of the green apple festival in new york which celebrates earth day. look how goddam green we are!

april 21st @ hiro ballroom, nyc
ticketing information:www.ticketweb.com
festival information: www.greenapplefestival.com

L.A. SHOW SCALPER-DICKHEADS

our los angeles shows this weekend have been sold out for a while, but scalper-dickhead-people bought out a bunch of the tickets and have been trying to peddle them on ebay for a month now. i'm just saying, no promises, but some tickets might become available at the box office on the day of the show or some scalper-dickheads might sell you tickets for face value. we just want our fans to be able to see us play our instruments. godspeed.

GUSTER ON A BOAT

i think it's a carnival cruise ship, just like the one where a fire broke out yesterday and that person died. but it'll be fun, we promise. we're joining the barenaked ladies for a trip to turks & caicos island in january 2007. we're the opening band. why are we telling you this now? there are only 200 cabins left on the cruise -- canadians make their plans well ahead of time. tell your travel agents:

january 15-19, 2007
departs from ft lauderdale, florida
more information: www.shipsanddip.com

FOOD DRIVES

just to be clear, the food drives on this tour begin this week in tacoma washington and carry on throughout every show on the rest of the tour (except the jammys awards show). visit our website for more information about the campus consciousness tour and what's going at our rock concerts this spring.

www.guster.com
www.reverbrock.org

JOE'S PLACE

we're still just in "promo mode" for this, but the first episode of our own making-of-the-album docu-comedy ("docu-comedy" is a term coined by our record label, not by any member of guster) is just a week or so away. to watch our new video promos check in at our docu-comedy home on the worldwide web:

www.guster.com/joesplace

AN IMPORTANT REMINDER:

this information comes from a drummer. you are much better off visiting www.guster.com for details or calling the venue for more information.

from the road, now
--g

Gusterrhoids...

We'll be debuting "Joe's Place" in a few weeks at guster.com -- this is our little sitcom that Dave Yonkman created from the hundreds of thousands of hours of studio footage he shot in the last year or so. (That's means he had to sift through like a million billion terabytes of information). In the meantime, we've posted some cute promos for the show on our website. You can follow this link to watch one:

www.guster.com/joesplace

The goal is to unveil a new episode every two weeks or so until our album comes out on June 20th. Those of you with video iPods or "computers" will be able to download them through the iTunes music store eventually. So like I said, our album comes out on June 20th! It's called "Ganging Up on the Sun" and these days I'm comfortable capitalizing the "G" in "Ganging," the "U" in "Up," and the "S" in "Sun," while leaving the "o" in "on" and the "t" in "the" lowercase. For now thats working for me. Here's the final track list, in case you're keeping score at home:

1. Lightning Rod
2. Satellite
3. Manifest Destiny
4. One Man Wrecking Machine
5. The Captain
6. The New Underground
7. Ruby Falls
8. C'mon
9. Empire State
10. Dear Valentine
11. The Beginning of the End
12. Hang On

Those songs, in that order, added up to a great record for us. If you notice a song missing that we've played live or mentioned in the studio journal, chances are it will get released in due time on a B-sides record. We have a lot of those. B-sides.

Besides that, today's an exciting day as our first official "single" was released. "One Man Wrecking Machine," batting clean-up on the album, will be the first song you might hear on the radio. Feel free to request it and see what happens. The album version has been uploaded to our myspace site: www.myspace.com/guster and the single version is available today at the iTunes music store. The album version has a 40 second masturbatory intro that the single version doesn't have. The single version has a wholesome electric guitar in the first verse that the album version doesn't have. There's also a b-side to the single, an up-tempo number called "The New Underground," over at iTunes.

And finally, as we often do when we've been off the road a little while... we're going back on the road. The tour dates have all been announced but never this neatly. Ticketing information and other details are waiting eagerly for you at guster.com -- and you can scroll to the bottom of the list to see who our opening bands will be on this tour...

Food drives:

Remember, this is all part of our "Campus Consciousness Tour" and the person who donates the most food at each show wins aftershow passes. "Rock for a Remedy" (capital "R's" lowercase "f" and "a") is in charge of that. Click here for more information: "http://www.reverbrock.org/campusconsciousness/whatyoucando.html

Panic on the streets of Omaha:

We're back to having a Nebraska show on April 3rd now, instead of April 4th. Yeah, sorry. The show's at the University of Nebraska and there are details about it on our website.

West coast here we come.

Much love,

g

Gusterrhoids. There are a bunch of new shows listed here underneath the block of west coast dates that you already knew about. Our website will have all the latest information as we learn it, but if it's on this list the show is open to the public...

All of the dates are part of our "Campus Consciousness Tour" idea.  To explain what that means, I need to paste in something that Guster's very own Adam Gardner wrote about it:

For the first time since 1995, we won't be able to refer to our tour bus as the "Earth-Eater"--with the help of the National Biodiesel Board, it will be running on biodiesel.  Thanks to the folks at NativeEnergy, we will also be offsetting our carbon emissions with wind power.  There will be a bunch of cool activities ranging from a "Pimp My Clean Ride Car Show" to community service workshops and projects throughout the tour.  At each concert there will be a "Consciousness Pavilion" hosted by eco-friendly companies, Clif and Luna Bar.  Here you can learn about wind power, biodiesel, sign up for a service learning project, and grab a sample of an organic energy bar.  In addition, there will be a food drive at every show, signed guitars you can win, and opportunities to "meet Guster."  To learn more about all of the stuff happening on the Campus Consciousness Tour, go to www.CampusConsciousness.org.

By no means does our involvement in the Campus Consciousness Tour mean we will begin playing long, extended, meandering solos in every song on the spring tour.  I don't know where you got that idea.

One last thing before we go away for a week or two -- I donated the bongos that I used on the "Lost & Gone Forever" album to Dave Schneider of Zambonis/LeeVees fame so he could auction them off for a benefit concert he's putting on.  If you have a lot of money and want my bongos, check out these links:

  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7391704648&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

http:// www.thezambonis.com

Besos,

-- guster

Question.

If this, the first Guster emailer of 2006, were to arrive in shocking full technological splendor, a graphic dreamcoat of embedded images, large colorful fonts, and hyper-active links, would you consider that a good thing or would you miss the old days where the drummer was still figuring out how to use "tabs" and stuff?  In other words, let me know when it's no longer endearing.  I'm on some other bands' email lists and I know we're not exactly cutting edge.

I bring it up because things are picking up over here.  Your pleasant little hiatus from Guster news is through, and we're about to come at you with a fury of information, tour dates, and new music this year.  We're even going to have six episodes of our own making-of-the-album reality sitcom to broadcast from our website soon.  Strap on Kyle, let's ride!

First things first.  The record will be called GANGING UP ON THE SUN and it's coming out June 13th on Reprise Records.  You won't have to wait that long to hear music though -- "Manifest Destiny" is already up on our myspace site, and other tracks will be seeping out to the public through digital singles, EP's, videos, and online jukeboxes over the next few months.  The only thing left for us to do on the album is sequence the order of the songs, and we plan to drag that process out as long as possible.

Second things second.  The Gusbus (now fueled with biodiesel!) is ready to take us, and our instruments, to you.  The tour begins next month on the west coast.

After these dates we're heading to the midwest and east coast for some college shows, taking a little break, and then gearing up for our album release.  We'll be bringing a small eco-village with us on this tour, promoting alternative energy, social justice, community service projects, food drives, and soy! soy! soy! Maybe not so much soy.  But thanks to Adam and his wife's organization, Reverb, we will be launching our first "Campus Consciousness Tour"... be sure to check it out if you can make it to a show this spring.

You'll be hearing from us,
g

Happy Holidays, Gusterrhoids!!

This will be our last announcement of the year and it feels like a good time to reflect. It was a year spent recording lots of music, and releasing very little music. Next year will be different. We will be releasing albums and recording next to nothing, I presume. 2006 feels like a vintage Guster touring year.

In any event, a rough mix of "Manifest Destiny / Sorority Tears" is streaming from our My-Space site. I have never been to this My-Space place, I swear. But I know that it's bigger than Jesus and maybe even The Beatles. Here's the link to our page: http://www.myspace.com/guster

And after a couple days of technical issues, the iTunes store now has the track(s) on sale for 99 cents. Here's the link: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=95857313&s=143441&i=95857116

Thanks for another year of humbling support, loyalty, and encouragement. See you in oh six,

Your friends the Gusters

Gusterds.

This week we again make the shift from reclusive studio band to open-to-the-public touring band, beginning where we like to begin in the warm welcoming bosom of the midwestern United States. Details about all the midwest shows are contained in this email, but there are also some new releases, charity auctions, and free frozen gigs to tell you about...

MANIFEST DESTINY / SORORITY TEARS

We're about a month away from releasing a digital single on iTunes... for 99 cents you'll be able to download "Manifest Destiny / Sorority Tears" -- a hybrid of two new songs for one low price. By putting a slash in the title and cross-fading the music, we got our record label to agree to pretend it was just one song. "Manifest Destiny" will be on the new album, and contains a swear word. Parents be advised.

THURSDAY 10/27 "WARM-UP SHOW" IN NASHVILLE:

It's a free block party at 1201 Villa Place to mark the opening of our management's new office in Nashville, where the recently-wedded Michael "Pasty" Corcoran will talk on the telephone, shuffle his fantasy sports line-ups, and otherwise live off the road. Originally conceived as a chance to "warm up" for our tour, our set time seems to be shrinking along with the temperature. When we go on at 8pm it might be 40 degrees outside and we'll be lucky to survive a 40-minute set.

Guster recommendation: Bundle up, bring a flask, but don't travel from out of town. The Thundergod may chicken out on this one.

ACOUSTIC SHOW SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN CHICAGO:

The plugged-in evening show at the Riviera is sold out, but you can still get into our daytime acoustic show at Schuba's through WXRT's "Live from Studio X." Information on how to win is available at www.wxrt.com

=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THIS WEEK IN GUSTER ROCK CONCERTS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=

10/27 -- Very brief, very freezing free show in Nashville TN (Music starts @ 5:30, Guster @ 8)
10/28 -- Eastern Illinois University in Charleston IL (Doors @ 7, Matt Pond PA @ 8, Guster @ 9)
10/29 -- The Riviera Theater in Chicago IL (Doors @ 6, Matt Pond PA @ 7:30, Guster @ 8:30) SOLD OUT
10/31 -- The Blue Note in Columbia MO (Doors @ 8, Matt Pond PA @ 9, Guster @ 10)
11/01 -- The Orpheum Theater in Madison WI (Doors @ 6:30, Matt Pond PA @ 8, Guster @ 9)
11/02 -- The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor MI (Doors @ 6:30, Matt Pond PA @ 7:30, Guster @ 8:30) SOLD OUT

Phone numbers, website links, ticket information and other good stuff is available at www.guster.com

The rest of the tour looks like this:

11/04 -- Atlantic City NJ
11/05 -- Gettysburg PA
11/06 -- Baltimore MD
11/08 -- Ithaca NY
11/10 -- Fairfield CT
11/11 -- Hampton Beach NH
11/12 -- Providence RI
11/14 -- Bethlehem PA
11/15 -- Burlington VT
11/16 -- Burlington VT
11/18 -- New York NY
11/19 -- New York NY
11/20 -- Villanova PA

FOOD DRIVES: Rock For A Remedy

11/12 - Providence, RI /// 11/15 & 11/16 - Burlington, VT /// 11/18 & 11/19 - New York, NY

Bring non-perishable food items (canned goods, etc.) to any of the above shows, and the person who brings the most food donations to one of these shows will get a pair of after-show passes for the meet & greet scheduled for that show. (NOTE: Winners will have to have their own tickets to get into each concert where the food drives are being held)

AUCTION TO BENEFIT KIDS OF KATRINA / LOVE OUR CHILDREN USA

Visit http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6570467762 to place your bid!

Auction ends 10/27 at 9PM EST (tonight!).

Bid to win 2 tickets to the sold out 11/18 (Friday) Guster show at Nokia Theatre in NYC, plus a pair of aftershow passes. 100f proceeds benefit Love Our Children USA. Visit www.loveourchildrenusa.org to learn more about this organization.

AUCTIONS FOR REVERB:

Two additional auctions will be announced on www.guster.com in the next few days. They are as follows:

1) Win 2 tickets to the sold out 11/19 (Saturday) Guster show at Nokia Theatre in NYC, plus a pair of aftershow passes.

2) You can win Adam's guitar... Adam is retiring his customized Gibson Chet Atkins SST acoustic/electric. Everyone in the band signed it. It comes with a cherry sunburst finish and a hardshell case. This guitar lists for $2298 before you add the midi pick-up customization and Guster autographs. Bid high! All proceeds go to Adam's environmental non-profit organization, "Reverb."

Keep your eyes out for these auctions but for now visit www.reverbrock.org to learn more about Reverb.

best wishes / reach for the stars / don't ever change
guster

We've added new shows in Baltimore MD and Ithaca NY to our fall tour, plus three new college dates in the Northeast. Looks like the schedule's complete now, and you can scroll on down to the bottom of this message to check out the full list.

Many of you Gusterrhoids flared up when we announced these shows, demanding "west coast tours" and "some love for the state of Florida" and "better music." We here at Guster hear your complaints and are working to resolve them. The six songs we're currently recording are shoe-ins for the new album, which we hope to release and support in a very geographically-thorough way early next year. In the meantime our studio and road journals will resume shortly and there's plenty of touring news below...

New Shows:

Nov. 6th @ Sonar
Baltimore, MD
410-327-8333
On Sale Now @ Ticketmaster
Matt Pond PA opens
http://www.sonarlounge.com

Nov. 8th @ State Theatre
Ithaca, NY
607-273-6633
MusicToday pre-sale going on now!
Matt Pond PA opens
http://www.statetheatreofithaca.com

Nov. 10th @ Alumni Hall - Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
203-254-4000
MusicToday pre-sale begins 10/17 @10AM
Matt Pond PA opens

Nov. 14th @ Stabler Arena - Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA
610-758-3770
Ticketing info TBA
Matt Pond PA opens

Nov. 20th @ University Pavilion - Villanova University
Villanova, PA
610-519-6900
MusicToday pre-sale going on now!
With Michael Tolcher, The Roots
Concert is an AIDS benefit for UNICEF's Hope Lives Here



Complete List:

Oct. 28th @ Eastern Illinois University... Charleston, IL
Oct. 29th @ Riviera Theatre... Chicago, IL
Oct. 31st @ The Blue Note... Columbia, MO
Nov. 1st @ Orpheum Theatre... Madison, WI
Nov. 2nd @ Michigan Theater... Ann Arbor, MI
Nov. 4th @ House of Blues... Atlantic City, NJ
Nov. 5th @ Gettysburg College... Gettysburg, PA
Nov. 6th @ Sonar... Baltimore, MD
Nov. 8th @ State Theatre... Ithaca, NY
Nov. 10th @ Fairfield University... Fairfield, CT
Nov. 11th @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom... Hampton Beach, NH
Nov. 12th @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel... Providence, RI
Nov. 14th @ Lehigh University... Bethlehem, PA
Nov. 15th @ Higher Ground... South Burlington, VT
Nov. 16th @ Higher Ground... South Burlington, VT
Nov. 18th @ Nokia Theatre Times Square... New York, NY
Nov. 19th @ Nokia Theatre Times Square... New York, NY
Nov. 20th @ Villanova University... Villanova, PA

Visit these websites for online ticketing:

Guster on Ticketmaster: http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
Guster on Music Today: http://www.gustertickets.musictoday.com (password: guster)

See some of you very soon,
g

Not a very long tour, and not a tour that goes too many places. But there are two casinos on the schedule! How you like us now?

Oh, and beware, Illinois -- Tickets for the October 29th show at the Riv in Chicago go on sale this Saturday morning.

I will now paste in all the dates and ticket information just as it looked when Nicky, the latest addition to the Guster office (welcome Nicky), emailed it to me. Hopefully it won't show up as a bunch of <<&% gibberish %&>> to all you non-Mac-using types. I don't know shit about computers.

NOT A VERY LONG TOUR 2005

Oct. 28th @ Lantz Arena - Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL
Box Office: 217-581-5122
On sale Oct 3rd for Students
On sale Oct 10th General Public
Tickets available by calling box office only
Matt Pond PA opens

Oct. 29th @ Riviera Theatre
Chicago, IL
773-275-1014
Music Today pre-sale sold out!
Ticketmaster On Sale 9/17
Matt Pond PA opens
www.rivieratheatre.com

Oct. 31st @ The Blue Note
Columbia, MO
573-874-1944
Music Today On Sale 9/19
Ticketmaster On Sale 9/23
Matt Pond PA opens
www.thebluenote.com

Nov. 1st @ Orpheum Theatre
Madison, WI
608-255-8755
Music Today On Sale 9/19
Ticketmaster On Sale 9/26
Matt Pond PA opens
www.orpheumtheatre.net

Nov. 2nd @ Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor, MI
734-668-8397
Music Today On Sale 9/19
Ticketmaster On Sale 10/1
Matt Pond PA opens
www.michtheater.com

Nov. 4th @ House of Blues
Atlantic City, NJ
609-343-5700
Music Today On Sale 9/19
Ticketmaster On Sale 9/24
Matt Pond PA opens
www.hob.com

Nov. 5th @ College Union Ballroom - Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA
717-337-6304
Music Today On Sale 9/19
Matt Pond PA opens

Nov. 11th @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
Hampton Beach, NH
603-929-4100
Matt Pond PA opens
www.casinoballroom.com
TICKETING DETAILS TBA

Nov. 12th @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
Providence, RI
401-331-5876
Music Today On Sale 9/19
Matt Pond PA opens
www.lupos.com

Nov. 15th & 16th @ Higher Ground
South Burlington, VT
802-654-7079
On sale now through Music Today
Also on sale via http://higherground.frontgatetickets.com
Matt Pond PA opens
www.highergroundmusic.com

Nov. 18th & 19th @ Nokia Theatre Times Square
New York, NY
646-843-0440
BOTH SHOWS SOLD OUT!
11/18: Matt Pond PA opens
11/19: opener TBA
www.nokiatheatre.com

Here are the websites for online ticketing:

Guster on Ticketmaster: www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894
Guster on Music Today: www.gustertickets.musictoday.com (password: guster)

=-=-=-

So between now and the start of the tour, we'll be at the weddings of Ryan Miller and Michael "Pasty" Corcoran (separate weddings)... as well as recording a new batch of 7 songs that we hope to introduce on this next tour. I know it's been a while since we've released music to you, but there's a lot forthcoming. You can't handle it all!

In the meantime here are two Guster-related side projects to know about...

1. "The LeeVees" featuring Adam Gardner (of Guster) and Dave Schneider (of the Zambonis) are releasing their first Jew-themed record "Hanukkah Rocks" on October 25th. Visit www.myspace.com/theleevees for Jew-themed information.

2. The first ever Rosenworcel-produced record just came out on Tuesday. "Sam Champion" is the name of the band, "Slow Rewind" is the name of the record, and "Noah Chernin" is the name of the former-Guster-rep-turned-indie-rock-idol who fronts the group. It took us a week to make the album and I love it. Visit www.samchampion.com to check it out.

Much love,

Bri & the Gusters

Neglected atrophying Gusterrhoids...

Please forgive our extended absence from your lives. We've been locked in a room without windows, again, preparing another batch of songs that will ultimately bring the number of recorded-but-still-unreleased tunes in our back pocket up to twenty (20). One way or another, these songs will find their way onto your iPods in due time. The plan is to get the proper full length Guster album out early next year, and maybe a five-song EP of delightful album rejects out in time for the holidays.

But the plan is also to tour a bit, on the heels of this recording session and, coincidentally, on the heels of yet another Guster member's wedding (speculate people, speculate)... so it's with great pleasure that I announce a big fall tour! Combing the Northeast and the Midwest, sprinkling fresh songs on... sprinkled people.

The tour will be from mid-October to mid-November, and will culminate with our first proper New York City headliners since Radio City Music Hall show in 2003:

November 18th @ The Nokia Theater, Times Sq. NYC
November 19th @ The Nokia Theater, Times Sq. NYC

It's a brand new venue and much more intimate than most of our shows in the city, so we recommend getting tickets as soon as you can. They actually go on sale this Saturday at noon through Ticketmaster (212) 307-7171.

Here's the link to our very own Ticketmaster page: http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/781894/ -- and all the information is summarized neatly at guster.com too.

Stay tuned for the rest of the tour dates real real soon. There's gonna be one in Chicago. Promise.

Much love,

Ticketmaster Artist # 781894

Greetings Gusterds,

Look for "I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today," the song we wrote and recorded with Ben Kweller, in the movie "The Wedding Crashers" starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. We're also on the soundtrack along with Spoon, The Flaming Lips, and Jimmy Eat World. So, if you never made it that deep into "Keep It Together," here's another chance to hear our most slow-danceable song ever. Click here for your chance to win a free copy of the soundtrack (along with an autographed movie poster, DVDs, and more).

Alive with pleasure!

g

We finished making our album today. Sort of. There's still a song to mix, but for all intents and purposes it's done and for all intents and purposes we love it dearly. What sort of broad statements can I make about it in a mass email announcement, five months before it's hopeful release date? We really went for it this time. We had our best batch of songs yet and our most positive recording experience yet. It's our first album as a four-piece band, and our first self-produced effort. Check out the Studio Journal at www.guster.com for more details. The album may or may not be called "You Say France & I Whistle."

We're going on tour tomorrow. Just a coincidence that we finished making the album today, the day before we leave for a tour. We didn't cut any corners I swear. So we'll be trying to play these songs at colleges for the next few weeks. Check out the ever-growing list of spring dates at the bottom of this message.

Pasty has left the building. Our beloved tour manager of 6 years, the mythical Guster-Rep-turned-most-popular-crew-member-of-all-time doesn't want to be on the road anymore. We'll miss him terribly, except for the foot fungus thing that he never did kick, even with prescription toe medication. Check out the latest Road Journal on our website for a brief unworthy tribute to our fair-skinned friend. Well-wish him here too: farewell_pasty@hotmail.com -- I'm sure he'd appreciate it.

Guster & The Boston Pops Orchestra June 22nd & 23rd. Holy shit. Someone really made this happen!? We're playing a set with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, two nights in a row in June. New songs, old songs, second violins, timpani, etc. You have the choice between cheap tickets and really expensive tickets, depending on how close you want to be to Keith Lockhart and the Thunderman. See ticketing information at the bottom of this email.

Extended Version of Keep It Together Coming Out in the UK. On May 16th, Keep It Together will get a long overdue UK release on the Fenway Recordings label. To celebrate, we've attached the two songs from the KIT sessions that didn't make the original cut -- "Say That To My Face" and "Starless Heaven." The album is available for pre-order at this link here

. New dates in the UK. We've added a few shows to our UK tour -- Liverpool and London opening for Thirteen Senses. And another London date with G. Love & Special Sauce. This is in addition to our headlining shows May 18th & 19th in Manchester and London. You can find details in the tour dates below.

Local Nashville Band Makes Incredible Guster Medley. They're called "Popular Genius" and we flipped when we heard it. Check it out for yourself here.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

COLLEGE SPRING EVENT THINGS + ONE MILWAUKEE SHOW AND FIVE IN THE UK TOUR 2005

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:

April 15th -- Ohio Wesleyan University/Gordon Field House
Delaware, OH
Tickets available by calling OWU Student Activities Office: (740) 368-3188
or by purchasing online at www.TicketWeb.com (for non-students).
Full ticketing details available at: http://www2.owu.edu/springfest/

April 17th -- University of Iowa/University of Iowa Memorial Union
Iowa City, IA
Free ticket if you complete 10 hours of community service, otherwise no ticket for you!
Visit http://www.10000hours.org/splash.php for details

April 20th -- Purdue University/Elliott Hall of Music
West Lafayette, IN
Tickets available by calling the Elliot Hall of Music Box Office: (800) 914-7469
or by purchasing online at http://www.ticketmaster.com

April 22nd -- Winona State University/McCown Fieldhouse
Winona, MN
Tickets available by calling the Ticketmaster/Campus Box Office: (608) 789-4545
or by purchasing online at http://www.ticketmaster.com

April 24th -- Bradley University/Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse
Peoria, IL
Tickets available by calling the Campus Box Office: (309) 677-2625
or by purchasing online at http://www.ticketmaster.com

April 26th -- North Iowa Area Community College/North Iowa Community Auditorium
Mason City, IA
Tickets available by calling the Campus Box office: (641) 422-4188

April 27th -- Lawrence University/Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Appleton, WI
Tickets available by calling the Campus Box Office: (920) 730-3760 or by purchasing online at http://www.ticketmaster.com

April 30th -- Eagle's Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI
Tickets available by calling the Venue Box Office: (414) 342-7283
or by purchasing online at http://www.ticketmaster.com

May 1st -- University of Minnesota/Romano Gymnasium
Duluth, MN
Tickets available online at http://www.etix.com

May 13th -- Carling Academy
with Thirteen Senses
Liverpool, UK
Tickets available by calling TicketWeb: 011 44 870 771 2000
or by purchasing online at http://www.ticketweb.co.uk

May 14th -- Astoria
with Thirteen Senses
London, UK
Tickets available by calling See Tickets: 011 44 115 912 9000
or by purchasing online at http://www.seetickets.com

May 17th -- Electric Ballroom
with G. Love & Special Sauce
London, UK
Tickets available by calling See Tickets: 011 44 115 912 9000
or by purchasing online at http://www.seetickets.com

May 18th -- Night and Day
Manchester, UK
Tickets available by calling See Tickets: 011 44 115 912 9000
or by purchasing online at http://www.seetickets.com

May 19th -- The Garage
London, UK
Tickets available by calling See Tickets: 011 44 115 912 9000
or by purchasing online at http://www.seetickets.com

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

POPS ON THE EDGE

Boston Pops
June 22, 2005 8:00 PM
Doors: 7:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
$16.00 - $120.00

Boston Pops
June 23, 2005 8:00 PM
Doors: 7:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, Massachusetts
$16.00 - $120.00

Tickets for the 6/22 and 6/23 are available by:

* Visiting the BSO Website: www.bso.org (this is for the general BSO website. The direct link is much longer but will take you directly to the Guster dates)

* Calling the BSO box office: 617.266.1200

* Calling Symphony Charge: 888.266.1200

Tickets range from $16-$120

1st price - $120
2nd price - $72
3rd price - $55
4th price - $37
5th price - $43
6th price - $32
7th price - $20
8th price - $16

2005 Spring Pops Single Ticket Prices Seating Chart is available here

Please note that Orchestra seating rows A & B will not be available that night, due to a stage extension that will be added for the show.

=-=-=-=-=-=-

You're still here? It's over. Go home. Go.

g

We're halfway through the album-making process here in Nashville, Gusterrhoids... we sound good!   The studio journal at www.guster.com has been up and running for over a month now.  What are you waiting for?  Go read about kick drum tones!   We actually have some real things to report in this here announcement...

Our scheduled March dates in England have been postponed until May.

Here are the new details:

May 18th @ Night & Day
Manchester UK
Tickets:  www.gigsandtours.com

May 19th @ The Garage
London UK
Tickets:  www.gigsandtours.com
115.912.9000


And with that piece of news, the British will no longer be the first ones to hear our new tunes performed live.  That frightening privilege belongs to the distinguished student body of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, because as soon as the album's done we're celebrating with a two week college tour!  Most shows are open to the public, but all shows are in the Midwest!  No more will we hide our love for the Midwestern people behind a superficial veneer of token concerts in other regions!  We're out!

A limited number of advance tickets for the open-to-the-public shows go on sale Friday, February 18th at www.gustertickets.musictoday.com (password = guster).  These are special "Guster Ticketing" tickets only available to recipients of the Guster email newsletter (this thing), and anyone else with access to the internet.  You can get there from the tour dates page on our website too.


COLLEGE SPRING EVENT THINGS + ONE MILWAUKEE SHOW TOUR 2005


April 14th -- Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
STUDENTS ONLY

April 15th -- Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH
(740) 368-3188

April 16th -- Rhodes College
Memphis, TN
STUDENTS ONLY

April 17th -- University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Free ticket if you complete 10 hours of community service, otherwise no ticket for you!
Visit www.10000hours.org/show.php for details.

April 20th -- Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
(800) 914-7469 (Elliot Hall of Music Box Office on sale 3/8)
Ticketmaster tickets on sale to public on 3/8

April 22nd -- Winona State University
Winona, MN
(608) 789-4545 (Ticketmaster-Run Campus Box Office on sale 3/30)
Ticketmaster on sale to public on 4/2

April 23rd -- St John's University
Collegeville, MN
STUDENTS ONLY

April 24th -- Bradley University
Peoria, IL
(309) 677-2625 (Campus Box Office on sale 4/1)
Ticketmaster on sale to public on 4/2

April 26th -- North Iowa Community College
Mason City, IA
(641) 422-4188 (Campus Box Office on sale to students and public 3/8)

April 27th -- Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
(920) 730-3760 (Campus Box Office on sale 3/30)
Ticketmaster on sale to public 4/2

April 29th -- University of St. Thomas
St. Paul, MN
STUDENTS ONLY

April 30th -- Eagle's Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI
(414) 342-7283
Ticketmaster on sale 2/26


That there last Milwaukee show is the only non-college gig in the bunch.  Remember, you can get tickets for the public shows through internet pre-sale starting on Friday, and www.guster.com is the place with the more reliable information.  This is the email announcement typed by the drummer.

Studio!

g

Due to scheduling issues, we had to move our Manchester and London shows to May 18th and 19th. Click here for info on the new dates, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Many, many thanks to all of our friends in the good ol' UK. With your support, we had a fantastic tour, released our first Limited Edition UK EP, are being broadcast on London's XFM, sold out our final show at Bush Hall, and will be coming back in March! Woo-hoo!

We can not say it enough... thank you thank you thank you.

For those of you interested in grabbing a copy of the EP, Come Downstairs and Say Hello, click here.

And for you eager beavers in the crowd, click here to snag tickets to the March 26th show at The Garage in London. Can't wait to see you there!

Cheers,

Guster

Guster appears on 3 new compilation albums in stores now:

"For the Lady," is a double CD set dedicated to freeing the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi and the 50 million people of Burma. The album features unreleased material by R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Damien Rice, and Lili Hadyn. As well as the music of Coldplay, Ani DeFranco, Avil Lavigne, Guster, Eric Clapton, Sting, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Gabriel, Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant, Eric Clapton, Talib Kweli and Paul McCartney.

“The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered,” includes Beck, T.V. On The Radio, Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse w/ The Flaming Lips, Guster, Tom Waits and more. The double CD set also includes unreleased tracks by Daniel himself.

You can check out some reviews of the album here:
Pitchfork Media
Village Voice

Guster also appears on the new ”Everwood Soundtrack” with Jars of Clay, Griffin House, David Mead, Jason Mraz, Travis, Toby Lightman, Stereophics and more.

For our friends across the pond, be sure to check out the boys at London's Bush Hall this Monday, 11/8. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8, and the band takes center stage at 8:30.

Click here to purchase tickets. Cheerio!

We realize this email only really affects the .0005% of you that are currently in England, but our first ever U.K. tour is a month away, and we thought we'd spread the word through this list in case any of you know people out there who would shell out ten pounds to see Guster.

Maroon 5 (that's a household name now, yes?) invited us to play four shows with them:

Nov 4th @ Apollo in Manchester
Nov 5th, 6th, & 7th @ Royal Brixton Academy in London

But with Maroon 5's album being big-like-Thriller over there, those four shows are sold out. They were sold out before we were even added to the bill. So, we've tacked on our own headlining date:

November 8th @ Bush Hall (310 Uxbridge Rd, London W12 7LJ) (telephone: 020 8222 6933)

Tickets are available now: www.gigsandtours.com & 0871 2200 260

I must admit it's a little bit of a dream come true to be typing venue phone numbers that begin with a zero. If you can help us draw an audience from across an ocean, we'd love that. The British will be the first to hear a new batch of Guster tunes.

I think I might start writing a Songwriting Journal on the website beginning next week... you can follow the process, or at least as much of it as I choose to reveal, that way.

Cheers.

G

Listerrhoids,

Big news for those of you who've been waiting for a price break before you picked up our DVD! A much cheaper, DVD-only version of "Guster On Ice" was released today in stores, we are told. Please to check on this for us. It's $12.99 for just the DVD if you order through our website (www.guster.com). You can get the version with a second disc of 13 live recordings for $19.99 there too.

In other news, welcome to the Guster Offseason, and thanks for making the KIT touring era so damn special for us. We're holing up in a rehearsal space in Brooklyn to write songs for the rest of the year -- an album will hopefully be recorded in early '05 and released next summer. You can keep up with us on the website via the studio journal if you like, and these emailers will pop up whenever there's something exciting to announce, like a potential visit to the UK in November. No shit!

Cheers,

Guster

Gusterrhoids...

We recorded a song called "The Sun Shines Down On Me" for the upcoming Daniel Johnston tribute album, which is due in stores September 21st on Gammon Records. The album is called "The Late, Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered, Covered," even though Daniel Johnston's not dead. What a wonderfully ironic title. Since most people are unfamiliar with his work, the album will be a two-disc set, one disc of covers, one disc of Daniel's original versions.

And as huge fans of Daniel Johnston's songwriting, we encourage you to check this one out. Proceeds benefit Daniel Johnston, who is not dead, but is in a difficult situation, medically and financially. Other artists on the compilation include Beck, Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, Bright Eyes, Death Cab For Cutie and The Eels.

Guster has been nominated for 4 Boston Music Awards:

Act of the Year

Album of the Year (Major Label)

Outstanding Pop/Rock Band

Song of the Year

Boston Music Awards Nominations

You can vote for Guster here: VOTE

Los Gusteros.

YOU CAN LISTEN TO OUR BONNAROO SET OVER AND OVER AGAIN

If you're into that kind of thing. It's available to be downloaded now at www.livebonnaroo.com for "a very reasonable price."

DISC ONE: Happier, Careful, Nothing But Flowers, Ramona, I Spy, Homecoming King, Airport Song, Either Way, Red Oyster Cult
DISC TWO: Backyard, Come Downstairs & Say Hello, Barrel of a Gun, Two at a Time, Amsterdam, Demons, Fa Fa, Keep It Together

TOUR DATES, IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM

So we're wrapping up the summer, and the Keep It Together Era, with some dates in the west half of the country. Here they are, in a slightly smaller font size than the rest of this emailer:

8/25 -- Marymoor Amphitheater, Redmond WA*
8/26 -- Horning's Hideout, North Plains OR*
8/27 -- Les Schwab Amphitheater, Bend OR*
8/28 -- Greek Theater, Berkeley CA*
8/30 -- House of Blues, Las Vegas NV*
8/31 -- Mesa Amphitheater, Mesa AZ*
9/01 -- Viejas Outdoor Site, Alpine CA*
9/02 -- Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA*

9/04 -- Universal Lending Pavilion, Denver CO+
9/06 -- In the Venue, Salt Lake City UT+
9/08 -- Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa OK+
9/09 -- Granada Theater, Dallas TX+
9/10 -- Meridian, Houston TX+
9/11 -- Austin Music Hall, Austin TX+

* = w/ OAR, Howie Day and Matt Nathanson
+ = Headlining

TWO WICKED PIANISTS

It's true, this summer we're going on tour with Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright, two wicked pianists who we listen to in our spare time... it's a triple-headliner, so everyone will play an hour a night and the order of the bands will change every show, though the line-ups will be announced ahead of time. We recommend getting tickets in advance when they go on sale (mostly this weekend) because the shows might sell out.

Here are the dates:

Wait. No. Before you look at the dates. Many of you will notice that we're ignoring large chunks of the country -- the Guster/Folds/Rufus tour only lasts a month so we're planning to service the rest of you (Florida, Texas, Colorado, West Coast, etc) on our own before we retire to a rehearsal space to write a new album for the rest of the year. No one will go unserviced!

Guster + Ben Folds + Rufus Wainwright
June 19th.... Dayton OH.... Fraze Pavilion
June 20th .... Detroit MI.... Freedom Hill Amphitheater
June 22nd.... Columbus OH.... PromoWest Pavilion
June 23rd .... St Louis MO.... Fox Theater
June 26th.... Indianapolis IN.... White River State Park Amph.
June 27th.... Cleveland OH.... Scene Pavilion
June 29th.... Vienna VA.... Wolf Trap Filene Center
June 30th.... Baltimore MD.... Pier 6 Concert Pavilion
July 1st.... Gilford NH.... Meadowbrook Farm
July 3rd.... Rochester NY.... High Falls
July 5th.... Sayreville NJ.... Starland Ballroom
July 7th.... Philadelphia PA... Penn's Landing
July 8th.... Boston MA.... Fleet Boston Pavilion
July 10th.... Wallingford CT.... Oakdale Theater
July 11th.... Boston MA.... Fleet Boston Pavilion
July 13th.... New York NY.... SummerStage (Central Park)
July 14th.... New York NY.... SummerStage (Central Park)
July 15th.... Pittsburgh PA.... Chevrolet Amphitheater

WAIT WHAT IS ALL THIS TALK ABOUT THE SUMMER, WE'RE ON A TOUR RIGHT NOW AREN'T WE?

We're still playing our instruments for the colleges and universities of America, except in Toronto, where we're headlining a club, and Albany, where we're playing some outdoor festival with our good pal DMX, and St Paul MN, where the show is in a theater that will rock mercilessly. Here's a list of remaining spring shows. All shows are open to the public.

4/28 -- Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI
with The Bees
(616) 957-6065

4/29 -- The Phoenix, Toronto ON
with Danny Michel
(416) 323-1896

4/30 -- Messiah College, Grantham PA
with The Bees
(717) 796-1800 x 7234

5/1 -- R.I.T. Arena, Rochester NY
with The Bees
(585) 475-7685

5/2 -- Altamont Fairgrounds, Altamont NY
with all our buddies -- Dropkick Murphys, Default, Michelle Branch, DMX -- we play early afternoon

5/4 -- Roy Wilkins Auditorium, St Paul MN
with Joe, Marc's Brother
(651) 265-4800

5/5 -- Midwest Wireless Civic Center, Mankato MN
with Joe, Marc's Brother
(507) 389-3000

5/7 -- Ohio State Spring Fling, Columbus OH
with Joe, Marc's Brother
(614) 461-5483

5/8 -- Memorial Auditorium, Athens OH
with Joe, Marc's Brother
(740) 593-1780

By the way, if you come to one of the last four shows of the tour, in Minnesota or Ohio, you get to see Joe Pisapia (the mythical fourth Guster) reunite with his old band "Joe, Marc's Brother" to open up the concert.