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The Blow's Poor Aim: Love Songs EP landed in 2004 as the first project in States Rights Records' and Slender Means Society's collaborative Pregnancy Series. The work, initially limited to 1000 copies, was later released on vinyl via K Records. Now, K is gearing up to reissue Poor Aim on CD with seven bonus tracks. It is due in its expanded form on April 24.

Bonus songs include remixes from Blow buds Strategy, Lucky Dragons, and DJ Alan Fortarte (White Rainbow), as well as the pair's own Jona Bechtolt (aka YACHT) and Khaela Maricich.

The Blow have a short line of shows on the agenda, many of them alongside Of Montreal and YACHT, including one tonight (January 30) at San Diego's SOMA.

YACHT has a handful of his own gigs lined up as well, including two performances at SXSW in March. He plans to release a new album sometime this year.

Tracklist:

01 Hey Boy
02 The Sky Opened Wide Like the Tide
03 Knowing the Things That I Know
04 Let's Play Boys Chase Girls
05 The Love That I Crave
06 Hock It
07 "Come On Petunia"
08 Begin Remix
09 Hock It (YACHT remix feat. Claire L. Evans)
10 The Love That I Crave (Strategy's Strata Club remix)
11 The Sky Opened Wide Like the Tide (Lucky Dragons New Age Powermix)
12 Hey Hey Hey Boy (K Maricich remix)
13 Hey Boy (DJ Alan Fortarte remix)
14 We Are Over Here (Lucky Dragons remix)

The Blow dates:

01-30 San Diego, CA - SOMA *
02-02 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
02-04 Los Angeles, CA - Echo #
02-08 Spokane, WA - HUB Cafe at Whitworth College
02-09 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
02-10 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall *
02-16 Portland, OR - Holocene #^

* with Of Montreal
# with YACHT
^ with Tara Jane O'Neil

YACHT dates:

02-25 Seattle, WA - Vera Project *
03-03 Portland, OR - Rotture #
03-16 Austin, TX - Lucky Lounge ^
03-18 Austin, TX - Emo's

* with Mt. Eerie, Holy Ghost Revival, Tiny Vipers, Ghost to Falco
# with Yip Yip
^ with Castanets, Marnie Stern, Panther, Ecstatic Sunshine, Mae Shi