Album update 2014 woo woo

Last summer, I headed to Lafayette to go to work on my first studio album. 11 tracks.

Since then, I've flown to Nashville to mix it with my buddy and amazing dude Paul Kintzing. We're still putting the final touches on it. I can't wait to let you hear what the band has been working on.

In the interim, I'm working on a limited edition run of a collection of our first three EPs—Friendly, Central Discount and All But Gone.

The collection is called Whatever, Sorry and features all 18 tracks from said EPs on one disc.

More information on the release will be coming soon.

For now, we are excited to announce a slate of shows this Spring.

3/28 — with Mahayla at Chelsea's Cafe, Baton Rouge
4/12 — Blue Moon Saloon, Lafayette
5/24 — with Maker's Reel at Mud and Water, Baton Rouge

More details, flyers and info coming soon. Thank you for being patient.
-Matt

Interview with LSU Legacy Magazine out now

Photo by Rebecca Ratliff/LSU Legacy Magazine

We're featured in the latest issue of LSU Legacy Magazine.

You can check out the entire interview online now here. You can also pick up a copy as it is on the campus newsstands now.

Special thanks to Sydney Blanchard and Rebecca Ratliff for this.

In other news, the studio album is completely tracked. More news is coming soon.

-Matt

From the depths of the studio

This is Aaron Thomas, the producer/engineer/madman/guy
who puts up with me. He calls this the Sasquatch pose. 

All right, all right, all right
—Matthew McConaughey

Well, the album is almost completely recorded. We've got the skeleton for 11 tracks down, and it's sounding great.

Now, we're going to overdubs and getting the final takes down.

We had Andrew Toups of Feufollet and numerous other great bands come in to lay down some keys on a few tracks.

Jonathan Loubiere threw down some bass, and Lee Barbier will provide some hot guitar solos in the coming weeks.

We'll have more updates for you coming soon, a video of the sessions and some live dates.
-Matt

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Buy a physical copy of the latest Split!

Buy the latest Childrens Church/Joshua Polk split over at Kunaki.

The physical copies are $8 — quite a deal, if you ask me. The disc features 8 songs and art by Matt Sigur.

Childrens Church's songs were written and performed by Matt; mixed and mastered by Paul Kintzing; and feature additional help from Ross Lawrence.

Buy it today here. 

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Studio update!

We are hard at work on our first, full-length studio album.

The disc is being produced by Aaron Thomas and worked on at KRVS Studios in Lafayette. Paul Kintzing will head the mixing and mastering of the disc later this year.

Thomas has impeccable credits, including working with Brass Bed, Allison Bohl, Caleb Elliott and many, many more.

So far, seven tracks have been put to tape. We have a few sessions left. And yes, as you see in the picture, the album will feature a few horns.

Among the musicians who have contributed and helped out are Jonathan Loubiere, Jacques Doucet, Christiaan Mader, Lee Barbier, Andrew Toups and Ross Lawrence.

The album will feature 10 songs, overall and will be released in 2014. More updates coming soon!

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Live on tape: "Catarina"

Check out our live performance of "Catarina" from Mud and Water, earlier this year.

The song will be on our upcoming studio, full-length debut.

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Childrens Church releases Split with Joshua Polk

Matt's solo/pop-rock pet project, Childrens Church, has released a new Split with Joshua Polk. Both Polk and CC recorded four exclusive songs.

Polk's side includes
Big Man/Surrender/Even Odds/Rubbish Heap

Childrens Church's side includes 
Liz Science Fair/Stormsong/Big Shot/Cheap Jokes

All songs were written and performed by Matt, and mixed and mastered by Paul Kintzing of German Error Message with additional engineering and input from Ross Lawrence.

The release is 008 for Baton Rouge's local collective, Exploding God Heads.

You can download Polk's side here for name your own price.

You can download CC's side here for name your own price. 

If you're like a physical copy, place your order here on Kunaki. CDs are $8. Pictured to the right are the front and back covers, designed by Matt.

Enjoy!

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Show announcement—8/23 with Joshua Polk, Kozmic Nod

The Widowers are performing live with our good friends Joshua Polk and Kozmic Nod Friday, August 23 at Chelsea's Cafe. Doors open at 9 p.m. Music starts around 10:30 p.m. 

The show is the first in a weekend slate of shows for the Exploding God Heads compilation, which is called River Hymns. 

The compilation features tunes from The Widowers, and we heard that Secret Annexe, Childrens Church, Joshua Polk, Kozmic Nod, and many others will be on it. It should be a great release. We'll have the link for you as soon as we have it. 

RSVP to the show here.

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-Matt 

Show alert! May 25 at Mud & Water with The Tomatoes, The Way High Men

We'll be playing with The Tomatoes and The Way High Men May 25 at Mud and Water.
Doors open round 8ish.
Show starts round 10ish.
Cover TBA.

Other news: 
The Widowers will release an upcoming full-length album, Mint Grizz, fall 2013. Stay tuned for more details.

Also this fall, The Widowers will have limited edition, physical runs of Friendly, Central Discount, All But Gone, and a compilation of singles and b-sides for purchase online and at shows.

Childrens Church will release a split with Joshua Polk. It is due tentatively Aug. 1, 2013. Childrens Church's songs include, "Stormsong," "Cut," "Port of Death," and "Dust." You can expect an album cover and more details soon.

German Error Message has released its fourth EP, The Lifting, and it is beautiful. Though the cassette is sold out, you should grab a digital copy via Bandcamp, iTunes, or check it out on Spotify.

Band FB roll!

Matt from junior high football says:
listen to these damn bands, ya hear?

A lot of us play in a lot of different bands. Here is a list with the FB page and bandcamp page.
Like us and listen, would ya? 

The Widowers  

on Facebook 

on Bandcamp 

The Diane Lanes - rock of the highest order from Loubie, Lee Barbier, Spencer Johnson, and me on drums. We are playing tomorrow night (March 30) at Mud & Water. 

on Facebook 

on Bandcamp 

Dov Charney - a noisy trio consisting of Loubie, Lee Barbier, and me on drums. 

on Facebook 

on Bandcamp 

Arabian Safari - Paul Kintzing and I doing pretty much doing whatever we want. 

on Facebook 

on Bandcamp 

German Error Message - Paul Kintzing's always-beautiful bedroom music. His new album will be out in April, and trust me, it's amazing. 

on Facebook 

on Bandcamp

on Tumblr

The Its — Bridget Gary's pop-rock band that I sometimes rock the drums for. We are playing next Saturday in New Orleans, which should be a good time. I'll have more info on that show soon. 

on Facebook 

Childrens Church — my solo project 

on Bandcamp 

The Tomatoes - Will Doon's rock trio which has an amazing new EP out, dubbed Into the Blackout.  

on Facebook 

I'll be posting some of our good friends in the next days that you should check out, too! If you're into Twitter, my handle is @MatthewSigur. Here is my tumblr as well. 

Childrens Church gets high praise in DIG Baton Rouge

While living in Lafayette, I worked on some different style recordings with my good friend Paul Kintzing (of German Error Message and Arabian Safari).
The project is called Childrens Church, and the debut EP is now available on bandcamp for name your own price. To hear it, click here.
Randy Faucheux of DIG Baton Rouge calls the EP "bedroom music with cabin fever." Check out the full review here.
If you enjoy Childrens Church, you can expect more tunes before the end of the year. Paul and I have tons of songs we didn't put on this release, and we're working on some more stuff right now.

Check out some live videos from our March 15 show

A couple weekends ago, we took the stage as a trio and rocked it. Check out our videos from the show below.

Get our latest stuff at our Bandcamp page now! 

All But Gone now online!

The new album, "All But Gone," is now available online here.

The album features five new tracks, including "Stranger," "Stuck in Here So Long," and "Season's Change." Yet all songs don't start with the letter "s."

If you download it digitally, you'll get a few specially made pictures. The digital download is now available for name your own price.

A physical copy of the album is also available. For $3, you can get a handmade edition with your choice of a limited edition poster with painting, or big poster with the cover, as well as a special edition postcard.

We will be performing live at Artmosphere on Friday, July 6 with Mahayla. More details coming soon. Like real soon. Like so soon, oh man, it's already soon, isn't it? Damn.

For now, enjoy the tunes.

Mmmm....newsbites

We're back, baby. Err.. we never left, but anyway....
We'll be performing live with Elsah and Bobcat at Northgate Tavern on Saturday, May 5.
Pretty excited about the show. We've been working on some new tunes, including "Green Tea" and a brand new jam entitled, "Love Song (In the Key of Who the Fuck Cares)."
The band will be headed to the studio this summer, doing a few songs which may or may not be featured on our upcoming Singles Collection — more info on that coming soon.

Don't forget about our latest release, the double a-side, featuring "Roach Motel" and "Saturday City Lights," which is available now at this link.

In other news, Loubie and I have been moonlighting in a rocking-ass four piece, entitled Teen Hustle. Do check out their three-song debut EP, One Hundred Beers of Solitude. It's badass and free, unless you wanna donate some money to that cause.

Also, what do you think about this little design on the bottom here for a t-shirt? Do tell!

NOLA show pictures, upcoming shows and more

Last Friday's show at The Circle Bar in NOLA was amazing. Thank you to everyone for coming out. A very special thanks to Mahayla (who are amazing), Lovey Dovies (also amazing) and Sally Asher (for taking some awesome pictures...see to the left).

Barryfest was there, and they also took some pictures. The photo gallery can be viewed here.

If you missed the show, we'll be playing Friday, Feb. 10 at Red Star in Baton Rouge with Secret Smoker and Neighborhood Threat for Heartthrob Skateboard's three-year anniversary party.  Stay in Baton Rouge Saturday as Heartthrob will host a Skate Jam and show at BREC Skate Park with live art and music from our good friends Secret Society in Smaller Lies.

The next volume in the SPPLIT series will start recording in March. The new disc will feature us and Pacifico.

New songs are coming soon. Check out our latest single here.

"Saturday City Lights" featured on DIY Radio

One of the band's latest songs, "Saturday City Lights," was featured on The Folk Bloke's DIY Radio playlist.

The song was featured among other songs such as "Feverhead" by German Error Message, Philip Selway's  "By Some Miracle" and "Twenty-One Crows" by Lament for J. Peel.

Check out the full radio playlist here.

"Saturday City Lights" is available for free download along with "Roach Motel" at our bandcamp site.

New single out 11/1/11

We will release a new single next Tuesday, November 1.

"Roach Motel" and "Saturday City Lights" will be available via free download on our bandcamp website.

Here is the cover.

The songs were recorded at Northmaiden Studios and The Plantation. Both songs were produced by Matthew Sigur and are mastered by German Error Message's Paul Kintzing.

After this release, we will be heading down to NOLA to record a few tracks for a little somethin'-somethin'.

Until then, see you 11/1/11.

The Widowers | Mahayla | Rareluth this Saturday night!

We hit the stage this Saturday at The Spanish Moon in Baton Rouge with Lafayette's Rareluth and New Orleans' Mahayla. 

Doors open at 9 p.m. Show starts at 10 p.m. Tickets are $7. 

We will be performing some new songs....Come rock. 

New Arabian Safari single is here