It appears a group of Russian scientists have discovered a well-preserved mammoth with still-liquid blood inside it!

http://news.yahoo.com/russians-mammoth-carcass-liquid-blood-184322259.html

While we’ve been able to reconstitute part of the mammoth DNA sequence using hair, this puts us one big elephantine step closer to being able to clone these wooly bastards, miniaturize them and start selling them in chain-store pet boutiques or mall kiosks.

One of the best quotes is from Seymon Grigoryev, head of the Mammoth Museum…

“The fragments of muscle tissues, which we’ve found out of the body, have a natural red color of fresh meat,” Grigoryev said.

Clearly this man knows a good burger when he sees it, and we can only hope that, once the bacterial tests come back okay, Seymon will throw a few tusks on the barbie.

And although the prospect of cloning an extinct mammal is pretty incredible, we’re most excited about the fact that by discovering mammoth blood - long thought to be the secret ingredient in Faygo’s Rock ‘n Rye soda – will result in a wider distribution range for this most elusive of beverages.

After a too-long hiatus, the Surfeci descended on The Cave tonight for a reverberated reunion!

Once the customary grunts and clicks were delivered in greeting, we ran through several songs just to knock the rust off – always an interesting proposition after a long break! – and then got down to the business of writing new tunage.

First up was a dive back into a riff of LFEC’s that we started to get a bit of traction on in the run-up to the Ho-Daddy show.  True to form for the Kilbass, it’s nine measures long, which makes it tough when Six-string only thinks in multiples of four!  It’s groovy like glaciated sediment, though, and SSS took four measures that complemented it and began morphing them into nine that would work even better.

Toying with tempo uncovered a very spy-music vibe, and as Drumbuie started hashing out his preference for associated noise it started to gel into a type of song that we don’t currently have in our catalog.

The really exciting news, though, is that after five years on the shelf, one of our favorite song titles now has an actual song to go with it…

That’s right, folks… we finally wrote “Marmoset Knock You Out!”

It is flat-out surf stadium rockin’, no doubt, as if an arena rock intro got smacked by a tsunami and then struck by lightning.  It came together very quickly and by the end of the night we even made a run at playing the entire thing, front to back.  If we ever play a show of nothing but original material that doesn’t start with Rumble, this is guaranteed the opening number.

So just for S&G’s, here are the Top 5 Reasons Why “Marmoset Knock You Out!” is rockin’ tarsiers from here to Sulawesi…

For those of you who don’t share contiguous habitat with Australosurfecus, you can now purchase our first album, And Now the Use of Tools…, directly from our site using PayPal!

Shipping is a flat two bills for anywhere in the US of A, and for our friendly surf-music diaspora across the globe, simply drop us an email and we’ll send this thing off internationally using the appropriate pigeon.

Just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out to Byrne’s last night in support of the Mid-Ohio Foodbank!  Crazy great time that included some very unexpected highlights…

- Blue Jackets hero Leo Welsh stepped in to sing his trademark renditions of “Oh, Canada” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” which had everyone, including we Surfici, belting it out to the rafters!
- Pat Byrne blowing our carnivorous minds by busting out mason jars full of BACON.
- The wildest rendition of “Apes of Wrath” we’ve ever played.

But the big news is that, thanks to your generosity, the 4th Annual Ho-Daddy raised MORE THAN $800 IN DONATIONS!!

That’s a huge, huge number that blew our expectations away and means big things for hundreds of Ohioans this holiday season.

So thanks again for your support of local music, local business and, most importantly, an incredible local charity – we’re already looking forward to next year’s show!

Guess what showed up on the cavestep this morning?

That’s right… at long last our first album is finally here in all it’s shrink-wrapped glory!!

And just in the Saint Nick of time for the Holiday Ho-Daddy tomorrow night!

Most of you know by now, but wanted to put out the official poster and info for this week’s Foodbank benefit show!

When:  Thursday, December 20th at 8:00 p.m.
Where:  Byrne’s Pub in Grandview (1248 West 3rd Avenue – 43212)
Admission:  $5.00 donation to the Foodbank

Doors open at 7pm, with tunes starting at 8pm.  We’re staring down the pipeline at a 23-song set list that includes pretty much every song we know – and maybe a couple we don’t! – and it’s also serving as a CD release party for our first album, And Now the Use of Tools…

Great time for a great cause – Hope to see you there!!

At long last, we’re proud to give everyone a sneak peak at the artwork for our first album, And Now the Use of Tools…

If all goes as planned, the 6-song EP will be in hand and ready to go at next week’s Holiday Ho-Daddy at Byrne’s – just in time to stuff the surf out of every stocking in town!!

The band’s favorite skateboarding sapien, Taylor Nawrocki, was in Italy for a couple months, tering up the sidewalks and blowing their gelato-addled minds with his deft bipedalism.

Check it this killer video of Taylor, who bears more than a passing resemblance to one drum-fisted Surfeci we know…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WbC5M1SQ1o

Maybe we’ll see The Ecola Virus in Part 3???

Mark your calendars, folks, because it’s official… The 2012 Holiday Ho-Daddy Benefit Show is set for Thursday, December 20th at Byrne’s Pub!

This will be our 4th annual show to raise money for the Mid-Ohio FoodBank, which helps provide more than 100,000 meals to hungry Ohioans every day.

Stay tuned for times and details, and get ready to surf it up for a great cause!

We decided to switch things up a bit before our studio session next week and moved tonight’s noise session out of The Cave and into… The Garage!

Like so many surf bands that came before us (or after, rather!), tonight found us busting out the extension cords and plugging in forty watts of fun into the nearest wall outlet that would have us. After keeping things quiet in The Cave for the past few sessions, it was awesome to hear the songs full bore again – particularly the Drumbuie, who always takes full advantage of open air to really throw some stones.

With the exception of Rumble and Dragonmen, we stuck to the six songs we’re running to tape. An impromptu Gorilla session under their belts earlier this week kept Drumbuie and LFEC especially tight – so much so that by the second song I realized I needed to get on the beat or get left behind! Overall, things sounded great, and with a little extra time in the woodshed over the next week, we should be in pretty good shape when the red light starts to blink.

It was also good to hear the song order play out as well as it did. On paper it made sense, but sometimes a setlist can have audible consequences when two songs butt against each other in unintended ways.

Nothing doing for this list, though, so we’re officially locking in the EP as:

1) The Ecola Virus
2) Panbanisha Raises the Alarm
3) Butch Cassowary and the Sundance Echidna
4) Sleepover at Camp Tsavo
5) Surf’s Up at the Cape of Good Hope
6) The Apes of Wrath

As for the title of this disasterpiece… Well, you’ll just have to wait until we get the artwork done to find that out!