We just released our cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” AND since we love you more than anyone, we’re giving it away for FREE right now!

Download it HERE!

Send this link to your friends! Let us know what you think!

nick + trey

It seems I might have unknowingly contributed to the latest internet meme. These pics look quite similar to this pic of me playing Crack-the-hWhip with some metal kids.

-trey

101 Performances of Bad Romance Covers… whoa.

Response from Trey:

Want to download the song???
Here it is:
Movin – Half You In Gray

Here’s a song I wrote since I missed Trey.

-nick
ask you in gray

UPDATE!
Do you want to DOWNLOAD the song? Or listen without the movie? Here it is:
I Miss Trey – Half You In Gray
We love you.

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

A new genre? We’ll see what we can do. (designed by Trey)

We just found these photos taken at totally different times, with totally different people. We’ve decided that we are absolutely destined to be together…. 4evr.

If you’d like to Crack your hWhip, head over to Navy Pier in Chicago!

nick + trey

Sometimes we write music that is just ridiculous. We’ve decided that we are going to post a couple of our unheard tracks here on our AYIGBLOG so you can hear them! These aren’t available anywhere else… and thats the way we like it. Yeah! Thanks!

This song was a birthday song that I wrote for my lil’ baby cousin, Fynn for his 2nd birthday. Its really just Happy Birthday recorded to a high-energy dance beat and some fun synth instruments! Have a listen!

Fynn’s Birthday Song – By Nick Wichman

nick + trey
ask you in gray

Hi Friends,

I want to take some time to talk about our favorite game to play.

Those of you that have been fans for a while may have received a copy of our very first demo recording. We copied this recording on plain white  discs so that we could customize each and every one. When we first had the idea to customize the discs, we had no idea what to do for a cover. We thought about designs and other random things we could do with a blank white space. Suddenly, it became obvious what we had to do. We had to play the Drawring Game.

The Drawring Game came about after numerous moments of boredem in the early years of AYIG. This game was often played by Nick, Mercy, Courtney, our good friends Ian and Joseph and I. Here’s how you play:

First, one person drawrs a shape. It can be any shape you can think of. Typically the shape is some form of amoeba shape with no real obvious form. . Once a shape has been drawrn, the drawrer passes the paper to the next person. Now it is this persons job to add features to the shape and turn it in to a unique character. Usually they end up becoming silly animals with ridiculous accessories. Nick tends to drawr his characters wearing black Italian-style pointy boots. I often add a belly button to my characters especially if it is a bird of some sort. The sky is the limit so it is necessary to let your imagination run wild. There is no rush, besides the anticipation of everyone playing but sometimes it helps to spend some time rotating the shape, looking at it from different angles, while trying to get some inspiration for your creation. We like to keep the shapes simple to enhance creativity but it isn’t a rule ( I once drew an arrow shape with two points on either side and regrettably Nick turned it into a woman giving birth… wearing Italian boots). This process continues until most of the space on the page is completely filled up. As the space gets filled the shapes and therefore the characters become more and more interesting.

Since the invention of the Drawring Game, we have incorporated on occasion some additional guidelines to make the game more challenging. For instance, Nick and I have played a version of the Drawring Game in which after the shape has been drawrn but before the second person begins to create a character, a third party will randomly select an animal which the shape will become and the creator has to drawr that animal. This results in some interesting outcomes. This is why creating custom rules is a way to make the game more fun for you and your friends.

I hope to have inspired you by sharing this game and we hope that you all will take joy in playing it as we have. If anyone creates an especially ridiculous creature we would love to see it! Maybe in the future we can hold AYIG’s first web contest.

trey

ask you in gray