Hi all - if you've been expecting an email from one of us and haven't gotten it, please resend your request, or call us at 713.320.1316. Our domain (droptrio.com) has recently been used as the forged source of some spam, so emails from our domain may be temporarily blocked by your mail server. Those bastard spammers! 

¶ posted by Ian Varley at 10:10 AM

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  Our 3rd album, Cezanne (recorded live at Cezanne May 21, 2005), will drop in late October. Here's a sneak preview

Mark your calendars for CD release shows in your town:

10/20 - Luna - San Antonio, TX
10/21 - The Aardvark - Ft. Worth, TX
10/22 - Cezanne - Houston, TX (3pm in-store performance at Cactus Records)
10/28 - The Fainting Goat - Bellville, TX
10/29 - Revolution - Bryan, TX
11/3 - The Elephant Room - Austin, TX
11/5 - The Vortex - Beaumont, TX 

¶ posted by nuje at 12:45 PM

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  I'm sure it's fine, but I would suggest running. I'm old, so I remember how much Hurricane Alicia sucked.

Remember run from water, hide from wind, and don't be an idiot. 

¶ posted by nuje at 8:39 AM

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  Here's where we'll be:

Sunday Sonorities
September 18 , 2005, 6pm
$5 (Cheap!)
DiverseWorks Theater

"DiverseWorks introduces our newest Performing Arts offering: Sunday Sonorities. In an effort to bring together innovative composers, Artists Board Member Thomas Helton has developed a series featuring musicians of all stripes - jazz specialists, classical innovators, and composers who defy categorization - to show off their newest original compositions. The first edition starts off with four of Houston's best composers and improvisors. New works by Eddie Lewis (trumpet), Carol Morgan (trumpet), Drop Trio (jazz funk), and John Edward Ross (jazz)."

Later that night we'll be at the Meridian paying tribute to our departed friend Tim McGlashen who died July 12th of this year. Other bands on the bill include Chris Whitely, The Buddhacrush Norma Zenteno, Orange Is In, and for the first time in 7 years The Zealots. The show starts early 6pm with the Meridian's doors opening at 5.

See you there and there.

The Live Archive is back!!! This weeks addition is an improv titled "Jeff Rocks." Jeff is the one and only Jeff Balke, bass player for Orange is In and one super rad photographer. 

¶ posted by nuje at 8:37 AM

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  This Friday (Sept. 9) at 7pm at HCC Town and Country Performing Arts Center featuring legendary New Orleans drummer Johnny Vidacovich. Johnny has become even more well known in recent years due to the success of one of his students, Stanton Moore of Galactic and Garage A Trois. Here's some info.

Johnny will also perform with the Erin Wright Trio in the Woodlands area Saturday night (Sept. 10) from 7:30-10:30 at Louie's.

Here is a short video of Johnny being RAD!!!

Also this Friday our friends the Psychodillos are playing at the Rhythm Room with New Orleans' New Birth Brass Band. This show is a benefit for hurricane relief. 

¶ posted by nuje at 10:00 AM

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  Thanks to a cool promotion at CD Baby, we're now donating all the profits from sales of our latest album, Leap, to relief efforts. If you haven't bought a copy yet, why not do it now? Everybody wins - you get some new music, we get a new listener, and folks who need help in New Orleans will get it. In the words of Derek Silvers from CD Baby: "You may think that a few sales won't help, but with thousands of musicians banded together to do this, I think it will help a LOT of people get their lives back together after this disaster."

Donate cash:

American Red Cross
(800) HELP NOW (435-7669) English
(800) 257-7575 Spanish

Operation Blessing (800) 436-6348

America's Second Harvest (800) 344-8070



To donate cash or volunteer:

Adventist Community Services (800) 381-7171

Convoy of Hope (417) 823-8998

Mennonite Disaster Service (717) 859-2210

Nazarene Disaster Response (888) 256-5886

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (800) 872-3283

Salvation Army (800) SAL-ARMY (725-2769)

Southern Baptist Convention -- Disaster Relief (800) 462-8657, ext. 6440

United Methodist Committee on Relief (800) 554-8583 

¶ posted by nuje at 10:52 AM

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  If you're in the Austin area (or if you'd like to make a road trip), please join us tonight at Stubb's BBQ. We go on at 10pm, and we'll be followed by our good friends Groovin' Ground. 

¶ posted by Ian Varley at 11:02 AM

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