So we changed our name.....

Last year during SXSW, I ran all over the place handing out fliers to our show. I talked to a lot of people about our band. One day during the festival, as I was walking down the street someone drove by and yelled out their window "Yo, there goes Soy Beans!"

Harder than playing an instrument and writing songs is coming up with a name for your band. We practiced as a group for probably 6 months before we decided on a name. I wanted something that no other band had used, but also something that would be easily recognizable. We chose Soy Bombs after the 1998 Grammy incident where a guy jumped up on stage during Bob Dylan's performance, danced crazily and had 'Soy Bomb' written across his chest. I had come to find out that not very many people watched Bob Dylan's 1998 Grammy performance.

People would ask us, "What are Soy Bombs? Are you guys vegan? Are soy bombs the farts you cut after eating a lot of soy?" And I always explained that it was a reference to the 1998 Grammy incident...and well...it doesn't really mean anything. It's just a cool name.

So after playing a gig at One 2 One bar a while back, we were discussing our past weekends and the word 'Safeword' came up. I instantly thought, If I ever have another band I'm going to call it Safeword. Everyone must have had the same idea because we kept talking about it. Finally during SXSW this year after getting really drunk we voted to change the name. My only reservation was now I have to get a new logo, make all new web sites, get our fans on board....

So, today the change was made. If you own a Soy Bombs' shirt it is now a collectors' item, likely to be worth a lot of money some day.

We're playing a show

Trophy's flyer, originally uploaded by iamcootis.

So things have been a little hectic lately in our personal lives and the EP keeps getting pushed back, so we're deciding to put on another show at Trophy's. This time we'll be playing with our friends Milk Thistle and a newcomer Miss Moonlight.

Lots of exciting things have been happening. We got William Hundley to shoot our EP cover featuring Jessa Peters. They also shot some promo material for us as well. Hopefully we can show you some of that and some outtakes from the photo shoot. Also, Jon bought a video camera so hopefully we'll also be able to post some cool videos when we figure out how to get the sound levels to work on the camera.

And if you missed our last show, we featured 3 new songs: "New Bruises," "Study Abroad," and "Girls Believe Me."

We're playing the Parlor

After possibly the worst practice every last week, we've decided it's a great time to play a show. We've hooked up with the Parlor to bring you awesome music and hot, doughy pizza. Come check us out and let us know what songs you want to hear on our EP.

Kicking off our official blog!

I have some exciting news for our first post in our official blog. Soy Bombs are currently planning to record an EP, or at least we talked about it today in practice. Don't want to give away too much information, but the EP will contain 4 songs. If you have any input on what songs you'd like on the EP, let us know in the comments. We're tentativlely looking to start recording in August or September or October...whenever we have time actually.

We also have two new songs that we'll be adding to our set list: "Tired of Love," and "Annie Ray." And we're hoping to be playing a show in the coming weeks so stay tuned.