Seattle-based Eric Elbogen, aka Say Hi, is releasing his latest album Oohs Aahs at the beginning of March. It's his first for Barsuk. One of Oohs highlights is the upbeat, thematically similar "Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh." Even though we feared he might be out of breath after that sort of excitement, we caught up with Elbogen and asked him a couple questions about the song. Turns out he wrote the song about a "recurring dream saga" that featured a girl who "bore a striking resemblance to Mary Louise Parker, but with a little more of the personality of her West Wing character than Nancy Botwin." Find out more about their walk between Seattle and the East Village, which includes Built To Spill's "Randy Described Eternity" and a secret message, here. Oohs & Aahs is out 3/3 via Barsuk. He's taking it on the road.
This week's drop also offerd a chance to win a Diana+ camera and accompanying start kit.
A Lomography store opened last month in the West Village. In honor of anything opening in this current economy, and courtesy of the band Company Of Thieves, we're offering up a Diana+ camera and Camera Starter Kit plus Chicago trio Company of Thieves' Ordinary Riches, which came out yesterday. The Starter Kit includes the Diana+ Camera (with lens cap and shutter lock), Diana Vignettes photo and story book, and, of course, an instruction manual. This is what it all looks like:
Company of Thieves' debut Ordinary Riches is out via NYC's Wind-up Records. You can get more info about Genevieve, Marc, and Mike Ortiz at their MySpace. Here they are in the woods:
For more information about Diana+ and Lomography, head to Lomography's site. Sign up to win the Diana+ here. There's also time to take home an 8GB iPod Touch & Sundry Lonely Island Swag. Enter for that one here.
CONTEST ENDS 03/11/09 AT 12PM EST.
[Say Hi photo by Jenny Jimenez]
