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Hey Sweet Cheeks!
Happy belated New Year! We’re back at work and ready to killlll it this year!

Finishing up in the studio with a vengeance, and it looks like the new album’s THIS CLOSE (fingers millimeters apart) from being finished as far as tracking goes. The artwork is underway too, and before long we hope to have a release date for you. HERE’s a vid with some studio snippets!

The record’s got pretty much everything you’d want in a Dollyrots album – la la las, heavy guitars, oohs, aaahhs, bouncy basslines, screams, and sing-songy vocals. We really think you’re gonna LOVE it.

So here’s the fun part…as soon as we get done putting this all together we’ll be hitting the road to play it all for you…and if you live near Los Angeles you’ll have a chance to be some of the first to see it! We’ve got a show lined up at the Viper Room on March 8th to debut the new album for our hometown fans and if you send an email with your name to thedollyrots@gmail.com we’ll put your name on the FREE GUEST LIST. It’ll be literally us and 100 of our closest friends and we can’t wait!

That’s all for now – so excited for this year and hope to see you at a show in the coming months!

xo,
The Dollyrots – Kelly, Luis, & “Bam Bam” Alicia

p.s. Please consider supporting our amazing pals Jarinus in their Kickstarter album fundraiser; they make good stuff!

Hi there Everyone,
A lot’s been happening in our World over the past few months. Thanks to the jaw-dropping support of our fans in a Kickstarter campaign, we have been working non-stop on an album that’s beginning to feel like the best thing we’ve ever done. As touring musicians, the time in-between albums gives us a chance to reflect.

With that said, we’re announcing the departure of Chris Black from the band. It’s a decision he’s made based on where he’s at in life and we fully accept it and support him. Things change and priorities change. This is not a matter of “creative differences” or of how much we care for each other. We wish Chris the best as he moves onward to new endeavors!

Here’s a statement from Chris:
“My time with The Dollyrots has been the most amazing opportunity to follow my passion for music, but I have decided to move on to the next great adventure that life has in store for me. I am going to miss this band and its fans greatly and want to thank everyone for the support over these past five years.”

We (Kelly & Luis) will continue to make music as long as we can. It’s what we know, what we do, and what we love. We can’t wait to share this new album with you all! The result and how we deliver it live will retain the same creative vision started by us and continued through the time we shared with Chris. We’re gonna miss you, dude!

Reach out to Chris on Twitter

p.s. Don’t worry San Diego Tucson, and Tempe! Your tour dates are still a GO for this week. More details coming soon…

Hi Everyone!
Our Kickstarter album fundraiser is in the final stretch! We’re so grateful and amazed at the generosity of our fans. Due to the current pledges we’ve already been able to finish 2 songs and more studio time is booked for this week. And it’s all happening because you guys believe in us and what we do.

Visit our Kickstarter page HERE to see what we’ve been up to!

If you haven’t yet, please consider pledging your support for our album and in exchange we’ll send you a FREE download of an original acoustic album PLUS 6 previously unreleased B-sides from our digital vaults. We have tons of great rewards and packages you might like that include fun stuff like T-shirts, autographed stuff, personalized things, and unique ways we’re showing our fans how much we appreciate them. For even $1 you’ll even have the chance to get a copy of the album on PURPLE vinyl for a mere $10 (shipping included!) plus exclusive video updates from the studio.

But remember – 2 days left for all of this! Please consider becoming a part of making this album before our project ends! Our fans are our record label now and it feels good

Ahhhnd… here’s the most recent video update from Kelly!

Can’t wait for you all to hear the new album! It’s shaping up to be the bees knees. All because of our fans!
Lotsa Love,
The Dollyrots – Kelly & the Boys

What a great week! Our Kickstarter album fundraiser is going amazing well so far & through the support of our fans we’ll already be able to cover much of the recording costs and the first CD press of the next album! Here’s a vid with the plan for this next week. If we can all get to our next goal we’ll be able to start offering vinyl AND more free downloads for our backers…hope we can get there! You all are a part of something really special here and we’re going to do everything we can to make it count!

Hello you cheeky critters!

Just wanted to make sure and keep you in the loop! Haven’t been checking MySpace much but it since it’s been in the news we figured it should probably be updated. We just got home from our tour with The Go-Go’s and it was unbelievably awesome. Tonight we play at one of our favorite spots in CA, Alex’s in Long Beach (also known in some circles as Fangtasia) and are doing LOTS of writing, some secret stuff we can’t tell you about yet, and then a West Coast Tour with our pals Bowling For Soup in August! We’ve been hopping busy this year and are planing a little something special for the upcoming tour…meaning…

Bowling For Soup and yours truly will each be recording a cover of one of our favorite songs by each other, and releasing it on 7″ vinyl! We’re keeping the tunes a secret for now but rest assured that they’ll BLOW YOUR MIND and MELT YOUR SYNAPSES with sheer awesometude. These will be a very limited run of 1000 premium copies ALL signed by BOTH bands. We’ll also do a digital version with 2 bonus tracks that will be available digitally. So there. You have something new to look forward to. Even if you don’t know Bowling For Soup yet (which seems impossible by now, since we’re practically married to those guys, or at least will probably shack up with them during the zombie apocalypse).

In other news, we’ve got some leftover merch from tour so our online store has been updated with a new shirt and some other cool junk! Please go shopping and let us know how much you love us! If you’re lucky (and everyone who orders directly from us is, HINT HINT) you might even get a little special present in your package with a note from one of us! Here!

The August dates are below. Click for tickets. Please don’t fret if your township, state or country is not on the current route. We want to see you too. Soon. Yes. We mean you in particular Dirty South and the UK.

Fri 7/08 Long Beach, CA - Alex’s Bar
And the following with Bowling For Soup!
Fri 8/05 Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
Sat 8/06 Bakersfield, CA - B Ryders
Sun 8/07 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
Mo 8/08 Sparks, NV - The Alley 
Fri 8/12 Boise, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
Sat 8/13 Seattle, WA - The Gorge (Warped Tour)
Sun 8/14 Portland, OR - Washington County Faigrounds (Warped Tour)
Tue 8/16 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound
We 8/17 Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre 
Thu 8/18 Lubbock, TX – The Office Bar & Grill
Fri 8/19 Houston TX - Warehouse LIve 
Sat 8/20 San Antonio, TX - Jack’s Patio Bar 
Sun 8/21 Dallas, TX - Grenada Theatre

Here’s a video in case you didn’t actually read all of that:

With snapping gum and sweaty shirts,
Your Dollyrots

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