THE BLANK TAPES have a new psychedelic, garage rock album called SUN’S TOO BRIGHT coming out on cassette tape on BURGER RECORDS May 22. Featuring songs spanning from 2006 in Orange County to 2012 in the Bay Area. David McClymonds of Forward Fast Productions made a killer underwater music video for the song A’BERGINE.

Korduroy TV & Laid Back Corporation presents: THE BLANK TAPES / STOKED & BROKE JAPAN TOUR!!! TOUR SCHEDULE & INFO Thur. Apr. 26 Press Party, Theatre Cybird, Kamakura Fri. Apr. 27 19:30 Patagonia Surf Tokyo Sat. & Sun. Apr. 28, 29 18:30 Patagonia Surf Chiba Mon. Apr. 30 18:30 Surf shop Bloom, Kamogawa, Chiba Wed. May 2 19:00 Patagonia Surf Kamakura Thu. May 3 21:30 Cinema Amigo, Zushi Coincidently, Coco [...]

The Blank Tapes + This Frontier Needs Heroes + Levi Strom [[[{{{(((WEST COAST SPRING TOUR 2012)))}}}]]] March 26 Detroit Bar w/ Indianna Hale & Parker Macy – 843 West 19th St Costa Mesa, CA Free 28 Tin Can Alehouse w/ Brainstorm (PDX) – 1863 5th Ave San Diego, CA $6 29 Pirate Bar w/ Tic Tocs – 4850 Tyler St Riverside, CA Free 30 HM157 w/ Buffalo Electric – 3110 [...]

THE BLANK TAPES are playing every Monday in March at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa with some of our favorite local bands as well as a couple touring bands! Expect a different set and band line-up each night! 9pm 21+ FREE! MARCH 5 – DRINKING FLOWERS, DIRT DRESS, THE BLANK TAPES w/ DIRDY BIRDY. MARCH 12 – LUCID DOOM, NOW, THE SWEET SWEET THINGS, THE BLANK TAPES (BDAY/PISCES PARTY!) MARCH [...]

The Blank Tapes made the LA WEEKLY TOP 5 LA Garage Rock Bands! We came in at #3! Not bad for just moving back down to LA from SF a couple months ago. Here’s the list: After forty-odd years of revivals and re-imaginings, garage rock isn’t much of a clear-cut genre. Here in L.A., though, where garage is a persistent fixture in the venues and living rooms, you start to [...]