We had a blast making a new music video for our song “Ghost Hits.” It’s got violence, romance, laughs, tears … everything you could ever want from a few rogue barons. It’s gonna hit the internet sometime real soon, but we’re going to screen the film at Glasslands in Brooklyn on Friday 5/17 as a little sneak peek. We’re also going to play a set with some new jams, our first in NYC for a while! Come hang, cast and crew of the video will be there too, along with Tinmouth and Nightbox opening.

8pm, $10 cover, 21+, get tickets here.

Austin is sweeeeeet. Having a huge time seeing music and being dumb. Time to throw down, come say hillay. Free smooches for the first 1,500 in attendance …

3/13 – Spicy Evolution Music Festival @ Touché 12AM – 417 E. 6th
3/15 – Black Paint Music/SDR SX Party @ Shakespeare’s 8PM – 314 E. 6th
3/16 – Outlet Collective and Swing House Presents @ Rusty’s 11:45PM – 405 E. 7th

 

We know him as our endlessly talented, bedredded drummer. You may know him as the dashing lad who fictionally dates Grammy Award-winning songstress Esperanza Spalding in this music video … Unreal, we’re floored and stupidly proud of Addo.

We had a huge time on tour this summer– to all you beautiful people who we briefly connected with: we’ll be back (that means you, Las Vegas). Now we’re pumped to announce that we’ll be playing a set at this year’s I AM Festival in New London, CT on Saturday 9/8, alongside some amazing bands including Hospitality, Dom, Bear Hands, and Bearstronaut. For updates and more information visit the I AM Fest website.

We’ve been to I AM every year as audience members, so we’re stoked to be onstage this time around. We’ll be posted up in Ernie’s and The Dutch ’til we have to hit the stage, naturally … See you there.

Our sophomore album Ghost Hits is now available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and Rhapsody!  A bunch of tracks from this puppy are also streaming for free on our website.  Scope it, we hope you dig.  We’ll have physical copies up the wazoo for our CD Release show coming up at the Rock Shop in Brooklyn. Tickets and info here. Smang Dallas.

We also have a brand spanking new music video for the song “Crazy Align” which you can view here.

Check out our Shows page for updates on summer shows.  We’ll be adding a bunch soon!

We were sitting around in the Brooklyn heat recently and contemplated how we could get sweatier, since summertime is upon us. Someone mentioned going on tour, and it was agreed upon that shlumping across country in a van would be a great way to up the sweat ante. Stay tuned to our McShows page for updates.

In preparation for the Ghost Hits release on June 12th, here’s a video we did for our new song “Crazy Align” in collaboration with twisted film genius Ricky Shabazz. Big ups to the peeps at Three/21 Media and SDR who do a helluva job.

After over a year of work, we’d like to announce our sophomore release on super duper records, which is called Ghost Hits. It’s coming out on June 12th, 2012. We’re excited for you to hear it. In the meantime, here’s the artwork, tracklisting, and a little something from our upcoming video by Ricky Shabazz. Stay tuned for more stuff …

You may ask yourself, “What’s going on with that band, Shake the Baron? What have they been up to?” Well, you saxy music-lover, we’ve been up to quite a bit! We’ve sequestered ourselves in our basement and in various Brooklyn sound spots for the past year, feverishly writing and recording new music. Too much new music in fact … so much music that it’s bursting from our hard drives, flooding our basement studio, collecting in our brains and oozing out of our ears. We can’t wait to give it to you.

Good news is, it’s almost done! We start mixing next week with the talented Justin Gerrish, and then it’s on to all the other stuff– like artwork, titles, wine pairings, etc. We promise we’ll keep you posted with updates. We’re so proud of this album and we think you’ll dig too.

The third and final video documenting our day at Grand Street Recording featuring Porchfork darling Jon Markson. Big ups to Grand Street, Justin Gerrish, and Benjamin Sweet. Download the exclusive FREE mp3 of the live version of “Sinking Sailor” right here on our website for a limited time!