Details can be found at our website.

For a sense of scale, here’s the itinerary:

April 9th – NYC
April 10th – Philadelphia, PA
April 11th – Washington D.C
April 12th – Frederick, MD
April 13th – Staunton, VA
April 14th – Lewisburg, WV
April 15th – Lexington, KY
April 17th – Bloomington, IN
April 18th – Columbus, OH
April 19th – Ann Arbor, MI
April 20th – Evanston, IL
April 21st – Madison, WI
April 22nd – Minneapolis, MN
April 24th – Fairfield, IA
April 26th – Denver, CO
April 28th – Seattle, WA
April 29th – Portland, WA
May 1st – Sacramento, CA
May 2nd – Santa Cruz CA
May 3rd – San Francisco, CA
May 5th – Los Angels, CA
May 6th – Phoenix, AZ
May 8th – Albuquerque, NM
May 11th – Nashville, TN
May 12th – Knoxville, TN
May 13th – Chapel Hill, NC
May14th – Charlottesville, VA
May 16th – Washington DC
May 17th – Brooklyn, NY

Jesse Andrews, who has gone on to greater things (like publishing this young adult novel) came up with the name. And he has given me the go-ahead to re-assign it to a very fine organ trio, featuring Eric Lane (Full Tang), and Mike Calabrese (Lake Street Dive).

“Taste Explosion”, in its second incarnation, will play fun songs that you will recognize, with some of the spirit, but not quite as much of the method, of its noble forbear.

And we will do it all live, 9pm this Thursday, at Atwoods Tavern, 877 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA.

Check out some Beatles by way of Joe Cocker by way of Taste Explosion!

We’ll be be playing this Thursday, Feb. 16, 8pm, at Rockwood Music Hall, in the Lower East Side.  And then we head up to the Flurry in Saratoga Springs, NY, this weekend, to perform a concert, as well as a workshop with the fine fiddler and multi-instrumentalist, Pete Sutherland.

Full Disclosure:

I’ll have the privilege of playing with Noam at his CD release at the Living Room on Feb 29. And I’ll have played on the day before, June 28, with Anais at Joe’s Pub. Not only that, but Cuddle Magic is planning a whole series of dates with Anais in April, for which we’ll help her realize “Young Man in America” live.

No Somali gigs yet, but I’ll be ready when it happens.

Check out this video interview with the free radicals.

And then, we’ll commence this ambitious wintertime touring schedule:

Friday, January 6th, New York, NY at Pianos, 9 PM
Monday, January 9th, New York, NY at The Living Room, 7 PM – APAP Showcase
Saturday, January 14th, Albany, NY at Upstate Artists Guild, 8 PM
Sunday, January 15th, Kittery, ME at Buoy Gallery, 9 PM
Tuesday, January 17th, Rochester, NY at Bug Jar, 8 PM
[cancelled - sorry] Thursday, January 19th, Harrisburg, PA
Thursday, February 2nd, Brooklyn, NY at Rock Shop, 8 PM
Friday, February 3rd, Cambridge, MA at Club Passim, 8 PM
Saturday, February 4th, Baltimore, MD at Wind-Up Space, 10 PM
Monday, February 6th, Knoxville, TN at The Pilot Light
Tuesday, February 7th, Nashville, TN at The 5 Spot, 9 PM
Friday, February 10th, Frankfort, KY at Kentucky Coffeetree Café, 8 PM
Saturday, February 11th, Columbus, OH at Monster House, 9 PM

More shows to be announced soon as we fill in the holes.

there was beer. there was wine. the lily pad on a friday night is a place that happens.

claudette gardel took some nice photos

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Maestro Gill Aharon on Bass

At the end of this week, Cuddle Magic heads to Old Soul Studio, in Catskill, NY, where we’ll spend 4 days documenting the music we’ve developed with toy pianist Phyllis Chen.

Catch us a few nights later, playing NYE at the Lizard Lounge with the David Wax Museum, and you’ll see us much more relaxed.

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We’ll be embarking on a very extensive tour this fall – dates are below.

We’ll be releasing our third album, “Info Nympho”, engineered and mixed by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Antony & the Johnsons, Akron Family).

And in December, we’ll be entering the studio with Phyllis Chen to record the music, revised and expanded, that we premiered with her last May.

Catch us on tour:

Sep. 28 – Cambridge, MA, “Resonate” at the Oberon Theater
Sep. 29 – Portland, ME, Port City Music Hall
Sep. 30 – Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME
Oct. 3 – Manhattan – Rockwood Music Hall 1
Oct. 6 – Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – Bard Hall, Bard College
Oct. 7 – Albany, NY – Upstate Artists Guild
Oct. 8 – Pawtuckaway, NH – Pawtuckaway Music Festival
Oct. 9 – Upper Jay, NY – Recovery Lounge
Oct. 11 – Philadelphia – Johnny Brenda’s
Oct. 18 – Brooklyn – Sycamore
Oct. 20 – Baltimore, MD – Bohemian Coffee House
Oct. 21 – Harrisburg – Midtown Scholar
Oct. 22 – Frederick, MD – Cafe NOLA
Oct. 23 – Thomas, WV – Purple Fiddle
Oct. 24 – Knoxville – Relix Variety Theater
Oct. 25 – Lexington, KY
Oct. 26 – Louisville, KY – Derby City Espresso
Oct. 27 – Bloomington, IN
Oct. 28 – Chicago, IL – Elastic Gallery
Oct. 30 – Ann Arbor, MI – Sava’s
Nov. 3 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Cafe
Nov. 4 – State College, PA – Chronictown
Nov. 5 – Rochester, NY – Lovin’ Cup
Nov. 6 – Hudson, NY – Spotty Dog
Nov. 7 – Portsmouth, NH – Red Door
Nov. 8 – Portland, ME
Nov. 9 – Cambridge, MA – Lizard Lounge
Nov. 10 – Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Nov. 11 – Keene, NH – Starving Artist
Nov. 12 – Manhattan – The Living Room
Nov. 14 – Purchase, NY – SUNY Purchase

We will be, on the following dates, in the following places:

9/2 – Brooklyn, NY – Cafe Orwell
9/3 – Hudson, NY – The Spotty Dog
9/4 – Becket, MA – Dream Away Lodge
9/5 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Race Track
9/6 – Winooski, VT – Radio Bean
9/7 – Amherst, MA – Mt. Pollux
9/8 – Cambridge, MA – Atwoods Tavern

We are so hip that we have a very minimal web presence: only this, arguably outdated, myspace page.

http://www.myspace.com/babystates