Sonny & Cher, Alexis & the Samurai, Ben & Jerry– what the great duos of our time have in common is endless tenacity, boundless optimism, and out-of-the-box creativity. Also ice cream.

Offbeat Magazine‘s Rory Callais seems to agree and wrote an extremely flattering and eloquent piece of prose about little old us for April’s issue.  Offbeat is one of a dying breed of full-color, monthly entertainment journals– one which keeps the arts and culture of Louisiana (and beyond) alive and cooking.  Moreover, Offbeat is available for shipment all over the world and it, along with a few other media ambassadors such as the FM radio titan WWOZ, carries an international following.  This comes as no surprise as, notwithstanding the flavor of our dear home it provides, the journalism therein is exquisite.

Go pick you up a copy, and/or go to the website and browse a spell.  And make sure you read this article.

Thanks, everybody and thanks, Offbeat!

-AM

The excellent SoundSpike blog picked us up for their Austin showcase during SXSW, as well as wrote this excellent little piece about us.

Check “Upcoming Shows” for where/when we are Austin-ing during this most nutty week.

-AM

WHOA! Hello Everyone!

These past few days I’ve been on a cloud and I’ll get right to it…

First off, we played Saturday night at Carrollton Station and it was insanely fun. We played with great friends Andrew Duhon and the Lonesome Crows and Sean Bruce. All of our friends and fans were there and we could not have had more fun in one night. I guess its that Mardi Gras magic in the air!

Then Sunday we got to play for the Official Grammy Viewing Party at the Hard Rock Cafe. The Grammys or should I say “Adele Fest” was really fun and the Viewing Party gets bigger every year, so make sure next year you can be a part of it. Its always a treat.

AND THEN: The icing on that king cake was definitely opening up for the happy, magical band The Polyphonic Spree at The House of Blues! Thanks to these wonderful people for letting us be apart of their show, it was such an honor! We loved hanging with them, they even let us on stage at the end of the night to dance with them for their encore. We really hope we can do it again sometime!

We are so lucky to have such great friends and fans that support what we do and we will never be able to thank them enough. Its weekends like this though, that we try our best to let them know one by one that we appreciate all of it!

NEXT UP:

South By Southwest – AUSTIN, TX!

We can’t wait, we are ready to pack the escape full of gear and head on down to the big state!

Love and penguins,

Lexicon

P.S. – Check out the new addition to the family, her name is Satsuma. Mmmm, so sweet:

Hello Everyone,

Although the new year is just around the corner, we have one last piece of business to discuss, or perhaps 25 of them.

Recently Orange Moon was listed #3 in Muruch.com’s Top 25 Albums of 2011.  For those out of the know, Muruch was pretty much the internet’s first ever music blog, so we’re very excited for this stocking stuffer.  We beat Tori Amos and Florence & the Machine (whom we adore)! Not sure how that happened, but we humbly accept.  Great exclamation point on this great year!  And so was that.

Here’s the straight dope: Top 25, baby.

Thanks!

-AM

A great gang of Austin-based folks, Adobe Airstream, did an awesome interview with me.  Felt all warm inside after.  Kinda like after eating Thai food.  Minus the bathroom trip.

Do read it, and read all the interviews and such they’ve posted.

Thanks so much, Adobe Airstream.  We loved playing and hanging in Austin this week, and this interview is nice exclamation point! And so is this!

-AM

…For now.  But we had 0h-so-much fun.

Thanks so much to the excellent bands who played with us.  ROLL CALL:

Sean Bruce

Empress Hotel

Elaine Greer

Day Sailor

Gold Spine

The Sour Notes

Shakey Graves

All the bands listed above totally killed it.  “It” being melancholy and woe. Do look into their excellent music.  We will do our level best to play with them in NOLA soon.

Next stop: Los Angeles, Nov. 4. Swimming pools, movie stars… And, of course, the Whisky A Go-Go.  Yeah the Who and Zepplin played there and stuff, too.  No pressure.

Well, gotta go rehearse! Bye!

-AM

The fine people at Magnet Magazine lost their mind this week and decided to feature “Leila and the Orange Moon” (the opening track from Orange Moon) on their site!

Check it!

YAAAAAAAY!

-AM

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are proud to say…   CLICK HERE!

Orange Moon is now out on iTunes (as well as AmazonMP3, Spotify, eMusic, and a bunch more if you feel like Googling).

YAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!

Hey Orange Moonsters!

As the faithful may know, Orange Moon becomes available for purchase-able download tomorrow via iTunes, AmazonMP3, Spotify, and a bunch of other places. In the meantime, AOL has featured the album on its site!

Listening party!

I don’t know who these kids are. But that cake is mine.

But seriously the real-live-in-person party is happening this Friday at AllWays Lounge in New Orleans. OOOOHHH YEEAAAHHHHH.