cleanse my mind

I know it has been quite a while since i have made a new blog post and I apologize for that. Things have been really good with The Vox Jaguars. We played a jam packed show at pergolesi last saturday and we were very happy with the turnout. It was our first show with Noah on guitar and we're looking forward to the future of the band having two guitars. Right now we are currently working on two new songs. We've written one new one already and i think we are calling it "Rumble". It is a psychedelic 60s rock 6/8 #1 jam that is infectiously fun to dance to. We will be playing it at our next show at The Crepe Place with Man/Miracle and The Botticellis on september 26th 8pm $8. Man/Miracle is like one of our best friend bands, they totally rock.

There was also an article about us in the Metro Santa Cruz this week.
Check it out: http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/09.17.08/muz-0838.html

"The sound they've created is well beyond their years. Topf sings in a swanky, almost Jagger-esque croon, and, with crisp and quick guitars and loud and minimal drums, the music takes full advantage of his unique vocals. Crepe Place music booker and all-around badass Adam Bergeron sounded off about the Jaguars and their upcoming show, calling them "America's next indie sensation." "I love these kids. I mean, Jordy will call me and say, 'I'm trying to get some extra bands to play with us and I called Death Cab For Cutie but they haven't got back to me yet,'" Bergeron laughed. "Still, I think it's universally agreed that he's the next big indie rock kid."


A couple days ago we also found out that we will be playing bottom of the hill in San Francisco on October 1st with The Felix dukes. We also got a show in Monterey with The Mystery Lights at the lounge underground. A lot of things are a float.
Adam Levin our manager has a meeting with Tony at ABC Studios on Tuesday.
Which is very exciting I am hoping that we landed the webisode series with them.

Here is a recent mix i made.
Check out the bands if you've never heard them.
I think I'm going to start doing a mix thing for this blog.



1. Gravity Grave - The Verve
2. Beetlebum - Blur
3. Time Is Honey (So Cut The Shit) - Brian Jonestown Massacre
4. Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
5. Set Me Free - The Kinks
6. There She Goes - Babyshambles
7. Seven Years of Holidays(for Stretch) - The Walkmen
8. Loch Raven - Animal Collective
9. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
10. Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
11. Alameda - Elliott Smith
12. Red Moon - The Walkmen
13. Nevertheless - Brian Jonestown Massacre
14. Sad Song - Oasis
15. Guess I'm Doing Fine - Beck

Enjoy this mix my comrades,

-Jordy

A Recent Los Angeles Trip

On sunday at 2pm we met up at the practice space packed up two guitars, a tamborine, a shaker, and a couple bags and began our long journey to los angeles. It took us a long time because we made a couple stops (In-N-Out Burger and Santa Barbara hellz yeah). Noah's a vegetarian so it sucked for him when we bought juice burgers, but he said he was content eating snacky chip things that you'd buy at the average gas station. So we rolled into Los Angeles after a grueling 6 1/2 hour drive and we met up with Adam at his apartment in Silverlake. He gave us the itinerary for the next day. So after receiving all the information and seeing our manager in the most casual clothes we'd ever seen him in we decided to get to our hotel finally and drop all of our shit off. We snuck in through our Motel 6 off of hollywood without them knowing that we had been stuffing 4 people into one room (via the underground parking garage). After we dropped our stuff off we grabbed some food at this local pizza place (the pizzas were huge and i ended up getting a gyros). After walking down hollywood for a while Mason and the rest of us ran into a funny situation.

He saw some friends of ours who we knew were visiting in La driving down Hollywood blvd. We called them and met up with them in their green volvo. It was shocking. After wasting an hr with our lunatic friends Mason and I eventually got back to the hotel in one piece and we all crashed at about 12. I was so nervous about our audition with ABC TELEVISION the next day that i barely slept at all that night. The next morning we rolled out of bed at 8:30 and got our beautiful faces on for the meeting with ABC and breakfast with Adam. We went to this spot that we'd been twice before the last trip. It was a sweet burger joint in Los Feliz (where the real culture is) called fred 62.
Adam, Mason, and I got this thing called Strawberry Berret.
It was waffles covers in delicious strawberries and whipped cream. Yum!
After that we killed some time with Adam and drove down to some wonderful stores in Echo Park. We passed Sunset Lodge which was the recording studio that we recorded our new -EP- at. The first store in Echo Park we went to was filled with all this old style stuff. They had 3D glasses, dinosaur eggs, old posters, flint, gold pens, soap, funny shit idk. It was intriguing. The girl that worked there (Noah and I came to the conclusion) was super beautiful and that he should've gotten her phone number. After that store we went to a pawn shop that had a gnarly buzz in door where trevor got a really sweet drum symbol for way cheaper then it was worth. There were some gnarly cholos walking in there who looked like they had stolen the shit they were about to sell to the seedy pawn shop. Then we went to American Vintage across the street where Noah bought this rad black members only jacket. He is officially ready for the disco. After that we met up with our producer of the new -ep- at this cool coffee shop and talked about music and the world.

I'm going to have to talk about the ABC interview in the next blogpost.
Anyway goodnight everyone.
Love,
-jordy