Fresno Famous

In the two and a half years since The Mean Way In, Division Day finished college, moved to Los Angeles, and began to establish themselves in the music community. They took up residence in an Eagle Rock rehearsal space, sharing a back yard with Earlimart's The Ship studio, and played out regularly at local venues including the Silverlake Lounge, Spaceland, and The Echo. About a year ago, they began writing songs for what was intended to be a split EP, but quickly evolved into a bona fide full-length record. Working again with engineer Scott Solter, the band made a series of frenzied weekend dashes to San Francisco, where they tracked and mixed at Solter's 15th Street Studio, The Bahamas, and Tiny Telephone, again working all in analog. The result was Beartrap Island, an album that is at once cohesive and far-flung, spanning a stylistic spectrum from the steady, dub-inflected grandeur of "Hand To The Sound," to the smoky, heart-string-tugging twang of "Hurricane", to the manically syncopated, gleefully vitriolic gallop of "Tigers."

Division Day have toured up and down the West Coast, playing alongside such bands as Xiu Xiu, We Are Scientists, Minus The Bear, The Joggers, Cass McCombs, Dredg, The New Amsterdams, John Vanderslice and The Velvet Teen. They performed at this year's Noise Pop festival in San Francisco with The National, shortly after completing a coveted Monday night residency in March at The Echo in Los Angeles. After a spring tour of the Northwest with San Francisco's Birdmonster, Division Day will return to the road for a national tour beginning in August.

Catch Division Day with Batteries and Sleepover Disaster live Thursday September 28th at Tokyo Garden.

Location: Tokyo Garden, 1711 Fulton St, Fresno
Starts: 2006 Sep 28 - 9:00pm
Ends: 2006 Sep 28 - 9:00pm
Website: http://www.divisionday.com