After much sweat, tears, and sparkles, we are pleased to announce that you can actually play Outta the Band on Rock Band! I know, how meta: playing a song about band breakups with your imaginary band on Rock Band. It’s going to be awesome!
We are very pleased to be one of the first few hundred bands to independently get our song on the Rock Band Network for your Xbox-rocking pleasure. Wondered what that rocking will look like? Check out this music video.
Thursday, August 5 at 9pm
Bottom of the Hill [map] in savory San Francisco
We’ve got a bunch of new songs to play! We are thrilled to be accompanied by LA’s Little Red Radio and SF’s Elissa P.
We are proud to present our newest recording, Crush. This (free!) 4-song collection is already getting great reviews.
The Bay Bridged writes, “Its four songs ring true to MFE’s fun, clever pop with its upbeat rhythms and catchy melodies.”
The Examiner writes, “Although a dash more polished and sophisticated, “Crush” is another dose of pure MFE awesomeness. Even with their sound a tad bit dressed up, MFE remains a uniquely funky and fresh sounding hidden San Francisco electro-rock gem.”
Along these auditory enjoyment, we invite you to experience some visual overload with our latest fan-made music video for Neon For You. It’s crazier than anything we could have made ourselves! And that’s saying something!
We are pleased to announce that our new EP,Crush, will be out June 17. This four song collection was recorded at the famous Hyde Street Studios over the course of one long non-lazy Sunday with super engineer, Scott McDowell. The EP was mixed by our favorite producer and world’s best hair haver, Anthony Molina. The album art was done by our designerly front femme, Rebecca.
Oh, and not to forget the best part…we are giving away CRUSH for FREE! Sign up for our emailing list to be the first to hear it!
Thursday, June 17th at 9pm
The Rickshaw Stop [map] in SF
Playing with The Downer Party and The Attachments
We will be releasing our third recording on this splendid evening and we will be absolutely pumped to play for you as always.
Ticket price is $10. Buy tickets in advance! All ages.
We are stoked to be playing the glitzy and glammy closing party for The San Francisco International Film Festival!
Thursday, May 6 at 9pm.
1015 Folsom [map]
Guest of honor and subject of all our songs: Joan Rivers
Tickets: Film Society Members $60 & General Public $75
See you there, film fans!
Saturday, April 3: 8pm
The Secret Alley [map]
$10 donation
Also playing:
Dave’s awesome other band,
Sir Salvatore and Total B.S. yep, that’s a Bob Seger cover band.
We are very excited to be a part of this benefit to raise money and awareness for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Noelle and Shawn need our help to raise money for the AIDS Lifecycle! That’s why they’re throwing a kick-ass dance party! Cheap cocktails! Cheaper beers! Tandem bike photo booth! RSVP on Facebook.
Thanks so much to everyone who downloaded our album in January. We donated all the profits to Save the Children’s earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. $278 in total! Your contribution was very much appreciated!
Didn’t get on on the donating in exchange for a free album? Haiti still needs help. Donate to The Red Cross.
Saturday, Feb 27, 8pm:
Mezzanine [map] with
!!! (Chk Chk Chk)
and local favs, Maus Haus and Sugar & Gold.
This show is a NoisePop Music Festival show and boy are we excited to play it!
Buy TICKETS early! ($20 and going fast!)
With a name like ours, our traffic rumbles every time the earth does. Most times, it’s small quakes and we hear folks’ reports to their bookshelves shaking for a few seconds. But the recent earthquake in Haiti was much more serious.
Listening to Bill Clinton and relief workers today on the radio, the resounding need is for money. So for the month of January, My First Earthquake are donating all the profits from our album downloaded through our site and Bandcamp to the Haitian earthquake relief efforts. Thanks in advance for your contribution.
Wednesday, February 3 at 8pm:
The Rumble at Cafe du Nord [map]. Playing with Jaguar Love, The Butterfly Bones, BAGeL Ted and more.
This is an official NoisePop warm-up partaytay! The 5th Anniversary of The Owl Magazine and freakin’ FREE if you RSVP!
Even if we don’t all celebrate the same holidays, we can at least agree that those ridiculous holiday sweaters are consistently made of unbreathable fabrics.
Therefore My First Earthquake brings you Holiday Sweaters for your listening and viewing enjoyment!
Wednesday, Dec 2, 8pm: Rickshaw Stop [map] with Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band and The Growlers, both talented mofos in the indie rink! Dang, we’se excited or this one! $10 adv/$12 door. Buy your tickets in advance and buy a candy bar with the extra $2!
Friday, Nov 13, 9:30pm:
Cafe du Nord [map] with
The Generationals (from New Orleans and extra awesome) and The Attachments
and Goh Nakamura. $10.
Buy TICKETS early!
Hey Bay Area, October 17 is the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake. In addition to gussying your survival kits, why not rock out all weekend?
Saturday, Oct 17, 11am: The Big Rumble [map] We rock early so you can practice safety drills for the rest of the day! FREE!
Saturday, Oct 17, 9:30pm: The Hemlock Tavern [map] with The Chop! and Goodbye Nautilus. We play first. 21+ $6. RSVP to our Facebook event.
Sunday, Oct 18, 11am: Bernal Heights Fiesta on the Hill [map] with pony rides, a petting zoo, and a pumpkin patch! All ages. Free!
Our Pacific Northwest tour went so well that we can’t wait until we accrue enough vacadays to do it again! We met tons of awesome fans and bands in Seattle, Portland, Burlington and Bellingham; found out what it’s like to drive up the 5 with no A/C in the summer on seats made of duct tape; and how to love each other more deeply. Overall: a grand tour! Here’s the tour videos to prove it: Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3
Thursday, September 17: San Francisco, CA at The Rickshaw Stop [map] with The Brunettes and Throw Me the Statue 8pm. $12. Buy Tickets!
Saturday, August 22: San Francisco, CA
At Thee Parkside [map] with The Ex-Boyfriends and Vitamin Party
Monday, August 24: Eugene, OR
At The Samurai Duck [map] with Shining Through and A Makeshift Resolution
Tuesday, August 25: Portland, OR
At Dunes [map] with Soft Tags and The Timbreines
Wednesday, August 26: Seattle, WA
At Sunset Tavern [map] with Elba and Man Rockwell
Thursday, August 27: Open for suggestions
Email us if you have a house party or venue
Friday, August 28: Burlington, WA
At Common Ground [map] with No-Fi Soul Rebellion, Vera, The Ghost, and Pillow Army
Saturday, August 29: Bellingham, WA
At The Rogue [map] with No-Fi Soul Rebellion and Thee Satisfaction
Wednesday, July 15 (SF): Playing the opening night of The Mission Creek Music Festival at San Francisco’s The Knock-Out [map] with Dreamdate, Sonny & the Sunsets, and Grand Lake. 9pm/$7
Wednesday, July 22 (LA): Playing West Hollywood’s The Viper Room [map] with Heavy Water Experiments and Pericardium. We play at 10pm/$10.
We are absolutely ecstatic for you to hear our new album, DOWNSTAIRS: 10 new songs, amazingly produced by Mercury Rev’s Anthony Molina. We love our song, Cool in the Cool Way so much we think you should have it for free!
Tickets are going fast for our release show, so get your ticket soon!
Because you love our bodies, not just our minds: we made a music video for Cool in The Cool Way.
We play Cafe du Nord [map] with the femme-fabulous Blue Rabbit and the pop-not-crackle B an Not B. We will have copies of our new album for sale, we will have awesome surprises, and we will have the excitement of small children around the winter holiday season. We recommend buying tickets pre-sale! $10. It’s going to rock! Rb
We play The Make-Out Room [map] with Sir Salvatore. Not only do they make awesome “breezy jangle-pop,” they are fronted by your favorite guitarist, our bandmate, Dave Lean. We are so excited to play that we all got new outfits. The Make-Out Room is so classy! $7! Start your Saturday night out rockously! Rb
Excitement! This Friday, we head up to the rural Oakland hills to start a five-day all-out banging-singing-noodling fest (aka album recording) with hopefully no bird sounds caught on tape. Here’s some footage of us getting of crazy nervous at last band practice before recording.
My First Earthquake: Our last practice before recording!
In other news, we are one of Art Star’s picks for the month of February! They recommend us for road trips and the confused. Score! Glad we could help.
We are doing our first radio interview on Pirate Cat Radio this Thursday, February 18 at 9:15. Stream it or listen live: 87.9FM in SF. We will be spinning some songs we like, some songs we made, and fighting like sibs…on air!
As a final offering, here’s another song off our upcoming album. It’s a live recording called Outta the Band. It’s a real punker of a song and I love singing it! //Rb
All the songs are written, so now it’s time to record the next album. We’re flying in an overly-talented friend of ours from New York:Anthony Molina. He’s played with Mercury Rev and Longwave, and now he’s playing producer on our full-length album. We’re shacking up in a little house in the Oakland hills in a next week. Quaint alert!
My First Earthquake: recording our second album
We’ll be posting songs in progress, photos, and videos along the way. To wet whistles, here’s a live recording of one of our favorite new songs, Vow to Vowels.
We’re very excited to return to the guaranteed goodtimes venue and site of our virginal stage voyage, San Francisco’s The Knock-Out [map] for a ball of a time hosted by the lovely, The Lower Class Revolt. We will be headlining with the support of other dangerous elements, Raised By Robots and Bears! Bears! Bears! What a Wednesday. All for $5! / see you there, Rb
Hey Oakland, we are playing a show in your neck! We will be opening (aka come EARLY) at the Stork Club [map]. Maldroid and DJ Amp Live with special guests The Soft White Sixties and us!
Coming up: MFE at the Knock-Out: February 25th.
Oh, joyous joy! We get to play Bottom of the Hill (map) again! This time with “radiant and lushly orchestrated” headliner, The Botticellis and the”multi-instrument pop attack”, The Old-Fashioned Way who will be celebrating the release of their newest EP! We are so excited to open this fun night! Score!! 18+/$8
Playing at Bottom of the Hill (map) with Oh My God and Highway Patrol. We are so smiley excited! Our first time playing the famed BoTH! A heart-fluttering thought for any SF band (or any band for that matter)! We play first so come early, and stay for Chicago’s un-laxing indie monkey rock, Oh My God and San Francisco’s own queen of The Road, Highway Patrol. It’s going to be such a memorable night I’m already having flashbacks (err..forwards?…err) $8! //Rb
Tune your (radio) knobs:
We are on “The Next Big Thing” on KALX-FM 90. 7 & kalx.berkeley.edu, Monday Sept 8: 6-7pm PT.
Some nice blog rumblings:
“They’re snappy, energetic, and just plain playful”
Mainstream Isn’t So Bad
“What do graphic designers do in their spare time? If you said make catchy pop music, you’d be correct.”
Howard Who
“I was very pleased when their song “Teleprompt” was really catchy and had an interesting story”
Appetite For Distraction
“My First Earthquakes non solo scrivono ottime email di presentazione, con buona dose di autoironia e pomposità”
Brugo. (you know Italian, right?)
A podcast complete with robo-impressions!
The contrast podcast features musicians introducing their own songs. We give good intro if we do say so ourselves…
The latest in socio-networking technology!
Bump us on The Sixtyone!
There’s a new way to buy our music that rewards you for being such a Sally-Come-Early to our music! It’s called Popcuts and we currently the #1 top artist on the site! Buy now to get a 30% cut of our future profits! We are also mentioned on TechCrunch! Horray for the interwebs!
Playing at Amnesia (map) with Young Moderns. They start off the night with awesome power pop-bop, we go second doing our thang, and DJ Dirty Dishes showcases his vintage soul collection in between and all around! Rock! $7!
Our first EP and the show this Sunday are getting some hot coverage. This week, we were featured in The Bay Bridged, SF Weekly and this from The Deli SF:
“This first EP from My First Earthquake, entitled Tremors, is totally fun and infectious. The six tracks are adorned with plenty of synth and hip-shaking bass lines, making for a continuous stream of well-executed, straightforward indie pop.”
Our shipment of The Tremors EP CDs arrived in the mail yesterday in time for the show on Sunday. We are really happy with them! Hope you will be too! Here are some hot shots.
The Tremors EP CDs are on press. Get a hot one and free poster at our June 1st show. Take a listen to the EP here.
Our EP release party at The Makeout Room (map). 8pm/ $7. Playing with the magestically awesome Jonesin’ (Matt Jones of Master/Slave). And as if that’s not enough fun, we’ll have a post-punk dance party with DJ Carlstone Rock after the live music! RSVP: Facebook & SonicLiving.
At Radiance Factory (map). Playing a benefit to build a ginormous Sierpinski Tetrahedron.
Red Devil Lounge (map) with The May Fire, Gran Ronde, and Excuses for Skipping
The Make-Out Room (map) with Charles Gonzalez and The Stereo Glitter
Playing at House of Shields (map) with Charles Gonzalez and DJ Carltone
Playing at Amnesia (map) with Young Moderns and Little Fuzzy.
At The Knockout (map). We’re getting busy with The Aerosols
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