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"Awesome bullshit" is a pretty good way of describing the Blow's aesthetic. It's also the way Blow half Jona Bechtolt describes his band's forthcoming remix album, Paper Tivo. But everyone knows that before the remixes you have to have the original release (M.I.A. didn't get that memo), and thus, new record Paper Television must precede Paper Tivo.

The only album of the two with a release date at the moment, Paper Television comes out October 26 on K Records, and the duo (also consisting of founding member Khaela Maricich) are in the throes of a fall U.S. tour with Architecture in Helsinki (and, later, Jenny Lewis With the Watson Twins) to support it. They plan to take on Japan and Australia in January.

As for Paper Tivo, the Blow hope to release the remix project sometime in December. The CD/DVD will include remixes of songs from Paper Television, and Bechtolt tells us remixers might include "some famous people like Mu, Max Tundra, Hot Chip, Soft Pink Truth [and] DFA" in addition to Bobby Birdman, Anna Oxygen, and Andrew Kaffer, among others. The DVD portion of the release will feature "a tour video by Matthew Chambers, music videos that we're making, real and fake commentary, Google image searches” and, of course, the above referenced "more awesome bullshit."

Bechtolt has also been busy with "Ultimate Blogger", the internet "reality show" he helped create. The last episode of the second season aired back in March, but that just means you have time to catch up before the inevitable third season begins. Check it out here.

Paper Television:

01 Pile of Gold
02 Parentheses
03 The Big U
04 The Long List of Girls
05 Bonjour Jeune Fille
06 Babay (Eat a Critter, Feel Its Wrath)
07 Eat Your Heart Up
08 Pardon Me
09 Fists Up
10 True Affection

Get Blown:

09-20 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live *
09-21 New Orleans, LA – Howlin' Wolf *
09-22 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club *
09-23 Nashville, TN – Exit/In *
09-24 Charlottesville, VA – Satellite Ballroom *
09-25 Washington, DC – Black Cat *
09-26 New York, NY – Sin-é #
09-27 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street *
10-15 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club ^%
10-17 Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom ^$
10-19 Tampa, FL – Tampa Theatre ^$
10-20 Orlando, FL – The Club at Firestone ^$
10-21 New Orleans, LA – The Parish at House of Blues ^$
10-23 Austin, TX – Stubb's BBQ ^!
10-24 Tulsa, OK – Cain's Ballroom ^!
10-25 Ft. Worth, TX – Ridglea Theater ^!

* with Architecture in Helsinki
# with You Say Party! We Say Die!
^ with Jenny Lewis With the Watson Twins
% with Vietnam
$ with Jonathan Rice
! with Will Sheff (of Okkervil River)