As we explore our new PDX home in the PNW we have decided to invite you to join us for weekly mini-shows! We’ll spend about 20 minutes a week and stream part of our practice time! We would love to chat with you, see your video of you dancing, singing along, hanging out, whatever! Join up with us on Stickam! We’ll be posting our practice times on Stickam, on our twitter page , and our Facebook page

http://www.stickam.com/askyouingray

I was looking at our blog and I decided that we are terrible with updates. I love what Nick did with that give-away banner but I’m sick of looking at it. So I’m going to fill in our reader(s?) with the progress Nick and I have made in our few months together here in Portland!

Nick and I have had many practice/beer drinking sessions at his place toying with new musical ideas and discussing the direction we are heading. There are a number of fun little bits and pieces we have been tossing back and forth and we are feeling good about how our sound is developing. We couldn’t be more happy with how our recent change in location seems to be giving us killer inspiration. Look out cause these are going to be SO fun.

In addition to writing new material we’ve also been scoping out possible venues in P-Town. We have made some quick lists of some places to check out before we send out some music and info to try and land some gigs. We hope to have our first show in Portland very very very very very soon. (sooner than that sounds)

One last thing to hint at. Nick and I have been working on recording a fun cover to post on our site for your sweet little ears. Stay tuned in the next week or so to hear one of our favorite songs done AYIG Style!

love,
-trey
ask you in gray

Hey guys!

It’s been just over a month since the release of “From Satellites” and we’ve decided to give away a copy of the CD to 5 lucky winners!

Here’s the details:

To ENTER, you must leave a comment on this post with your twitter name, you must be following us on twitter! (http://www.twitter.com/askyouingray), and you must retweet this phrase:

RT @askyouingray Win a FREE physical copy of Ask You In Gray’s “From Satellites” Album! Enter here: http://bit.ly/ccP55n

The contest will END on Wednesday, May 12th at 12pm PT and the winners will be contacted to set up the shipping! It is TOTALLY FREE and winners will receive one physical copy of our CD, “From Satellites” AND some AYIG buttons (along with a personal message!) mailed to your door.

Restrictions: MUST be in the U.S. (sorry!) and must have a valid address to send stuff to!

We’ve been awaiting this moment for months now. We are proud to release to you our full-length album: From Satellites.

Along with the album release, we’ve also redesigned our website, Askyouingray.com, and all of our social media sites, which are listed in the right-sidebar so you can connect with us!!!

We are giving an offer to get our album for FREE if you sign up for our mailing list. So, go ahead! Download it! Share it with your friends, family, co-workers, and anyone else! We need your help to spread the ElectroPOP of Ask You In Gray! If you find yourself enjoying the album, you can also come back and donate to the band to help with production costs and travel costs! (Only if you want to, though!) So… without further delay… we hope you enjoy hearing the NEW KINGS OF ELECTROPOP! Ask You In Gray!

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A brief update from the Trey-side of the country.

I was browsing the web aimlessly, like I often do, and stumbled upon a video contest to promote the release of a new book. The book is a theology book, and the videographer is our dear friend, Tristan Carnahan over at Sulva Productions (http://www.sulvaproductions.com).

Go check out the video and drop him a nice comment to help him win!… (and mention the sweet music, too!)

Here’s the link: http://vimeo.com/8788549

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If you’ve got photos of you or your friends listening to AYIG, send them to us!

askyouingray@gmail.com

After my post a few days ago, Nick and I felt compelled to provide a few examples of what the results might look like after successfully playing the Drawring Game.

This is  Nick’s Interpretation of some shapes that I drew for him. Now, all of these characters are exceptional, but it seems there are a few noteworthy creations that I particularly enjoyed. First, I’d like to turn your attention toward the only thing that Nick felt needed a label, the Grim Baby.

It looks very unhappy to be collecting souls at such a young age.

Let me point out that one of the characters is wearing the infamous Italian-style boots that I mentioned in the original post.

This seems to be some kind of puffy-chested bird. These boots often pop up durring any session that Nick is a part of so it does not surprise me that they made an appearance here.

There is the Dancing Badger that I was especially fond of.

He is obviously doing the popular wiggle dance that we have seen from time to time. Being in a band that plays dance music, dancing is the kind of thing that inspires a lot of our creative work which also includes drawrings.

Another reoccurring feature that is often put to use by both Nick and me is the half-moon eyes. There is a chicken wearing a tuxedo in the upper right hand corner that has these eyes.

It usually gives the impression of contentment or gratification but it may also indicate that a creature is asleep or that it is being snooty. This one is definitely content.

There are a few creatures on here that I couldn’t really identify. There seems to be some sort of saggy-eyed, rhino-corn toward the middle of the page that is emitting fumes. I can only assume that Nick was trying to upset me by drawing something grotesque.

It worked. Ugh.

Anyways, other things appearing on his page include: Dead chicken doing some yelling, dead crab with his mouth full, asterisk cobra, happy poo, angry shark-fish, grumpy over-bite, droopy horse, sky diving hedge-cat and many more. I feel that the shapes were interpreted brilliantly. Great work, Nick.