All around nice folks and melodious pop band Anarbor are getting to be quite the road dogs these days. They’re already on tour right now, and they will be joining The Cab and The Secret handshake this summer before meeting up with the Warped Tour.

I totally understand why: their home town of Phoenix is a total dump.

Hey, if you catch Anarbor on the road, ask them if they’ve seen Video Matt. We miss that crazy kid around here.

Phoenix’s Anarbor have been touring non stop since the release of Free Your Mind, their second EP for Hopeless Records. With a winter long stint on the 2009 Take Action Tour (alongside Cute is What We Aim For, Breathe Carolina, Meg & Dia and Every Avenue) behind them and a tour with Forgive Durden and You Me and Everyone We Know currently underway, the band has just announced plans to tour with The Cab and The Secret Handshake starting June 18. Watch for them on the Vans Warped Tour from July 15-18th.

Tour Dates after the jump:
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Since I’m sick of looking it up every time a band asks me, here is a fairly complete list of Chico’s press and radio contacts as of 4/15/09.

www.Chicolist.com
Chico Independent & Underground Music Scene

Jason Cassidy, Arts Editor
Chico News & Review, 353 E. 2nd St., Chico, CA 95928
Phone: (530) 894-2300 ext. 2242; Fax: (530) 894-0143
E-mail: jasonc@newsreview.com
Web: www.newsreview.com/chico

Christy Pryde, Calendar Editor
Chico News & Review, 353 E. 2nd St., Chico, CA 95928
Phone: (530) 894-2300 ext. 2243; Fax: (530) 894-0143
E-mail:christyp@newsreview.com, chicocalendar@newsreview.com
www.newsreview.com/chico

Jake Sprecher, Managing Editor
Synthesis Weekly, 210 W 6th Street
Chico, CA 995928
530-899-7708
jakes@synthesis.net
www.synthesis.net
blog.synthesis.net

Serena Jennings, Calendar Editor
Synthesis Weekly, 210 W 6th Street
Chico, CA 995928
530-899-7708
calendar@synthesis.net
www.synthesis.net
blog.synthesis.net

The Orion (Chico State Student Newspaper)
Editorial: (530) 898-4033
Business: (530) 898-4237
Fax: (530) 898-4799
Mailing address:
The Orion
Department of Journalism
CSU, Chico
Chico CA 95929-0600
Managing Editor
Nicole Williams managingeditor@theorion.com
Entertainment Editor
Eric Wendt entertainmenteditor@theorion.com
Features Editor
Sonja Kydd featureseditor@theorion.com

107.5 The Point
Jeremy V
1459 Humboldt Rd, Suite D
Chico, California 95928
Business Office 530-899-3600
Request Line 530-342-5775 & 342-5778
Jeremy@107thepoint.com

106.7 Z-Rock KRQR
856 Manzanita Court, Chico, CA 95926
Office Phone: 530-342-2200
Office Fax: 530-342-2260
Request Line: 530-342-SLAM
Randall - PD randall@zrockfm.com
Matthew Reisz -WebMaster mreisz@resultsradiomail.com
Bueller bueller@zrockfm.com
meatwad meatwad@zrockfm.com

KCSC Student Radio
kcscradio.com/
CSU, Chico Chico, CA 95929-0950
Spencer Beavers – Programming Director - pd@kcscradio.com
Robin Bacior – Music Director - md@kcscradio.com
Juan Gomez Jr. – Local Music Director - local@kcscradio.com

KZFR Community Radio
www.kzfr.org
341 Broadway Street, Suite 411, Chico, CA 95928
Office: (530) 895-0706
Fax: (530) 895-0775
Studio: (530) 895-0131
OnAir Line: 530/895-0167
janb@kzfr.org - Jan Bielfelt Oceans of Rock & Roll
bill@kzfr.org - Bill Deblonk Playing Dead and Creole Stomp (jam / groove)
radioinfernofm@gmail.com - Marshall Elliott – Radio Inferno (Metal/Underground/DarkWave)
jeffreyh@kzfr.org - Jeff House – Random Pick (odds & sods, underground rock)
barbara@barbaramanning.net - Barbara Manning – Radio Detour (indie & odds & sods)
djspenny@kzfr.org - DJ Spenny - Wax On and Kid Universe
aarony@kzfr.org - Tazou Yamaguchi (aka DJ X) - Chico Butter (local music)

Repeat after me: Never, ever keister an entire kilo.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuu…..

It could take years of practice to master, Johnny. But once you hit puberty you’ll understand why it was TOTALLY worth it.

By the time The Overtones were on stage, Gina, the owner of the Sail Inn, had been feeding me PBRs and Jager all night. Hell, she even let me sign the knockoff Explorer on the wall. God bless him, Dr. Genius even had most of a Guinness all to himself. Rip roarin’ and ready, our host Brighton found us inside the bar and claimed that we had to see the band playing outside. He was right. The Overtones, from Tempe, were spellbinding.

Playing as a seven-piece, The Overtones consisted of two guitars, two drum kits, one female singer, one bass and one Lead Psychedelic Bass, the last handled by the band’s mastermind and lead singer, Slim Bolba, who looked like he stepped right out of a National Geographic magazine.

Psychedelic Lead Bass: pitch-shifted-up, fuzzed-out and delayed, Slim’s tone sounded like David Gilmour’s slide guitar on Pink Floyd’s “Careful With That Axe Eugene,” coupling with his vocal melodies or otherwise soaring into psych-out dreamland. Plus, in the stage light, it looked like they had just thawed CroMagnon Man out of a glacier and handed him a bass guitar.

“In my land, we call this the ThunderStaff!” The supporting cast worked like a well-oiled, stoney machine, with drummers playing in near unison ala The Grateful Dead, the guitarists plucking lean, delayed Afro-pop style arpeggios close to the chest (figuratively and literally), and the (I guess rhythm?) bass holding a rumbling bottom end. The grooves were long on the drone, with dub and Afro-beat qualities giving the gathering of hippies something real to shuffle to.

Word on the street, according to one of the locals, is that Fortress of Attitude opened up for the king of the Tempe psych scene. Simultaneously, we found the missing link. He fronts The Overtones.

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The High Desert in Arizona/New Mexico is a beautiful part of this country.

Is a cactus a tree or a plant? We know it’s a succulent, and believe succulents can only be plants. Too bad we didn’t bring a biologist on this trip.

Beautiful Country…

Then it started to snow. In March. If you also had no idea it snows in March in New Mexico, maybe you’ll be more prepared than the Fortress of Attitude.