Hello! We know it's been a few months, but we wanted to let you know that we're coming to play in your town. This will be our last tour of the year, so we hope to see you over the next few weeks. Please note, most of these shows are All Ages, but a select few have age restrictions. Please check with the venue or visit our website to determine this information.

09-19-08 @ Kilby Court -- Salt Lake City, UT (#)
09-20-08 @ Hi Dive -- Denver, CO (#)
09-21-08 @ The Slowdown -- Omaha, NE (#/%)
09-22-08 @ The House Cafe -- Dekalb, IL (#/%)
09-23-08 @ The Beat Kitchen -- Chicago, IL (#)
09-24-08 @ Mac's Bar -- Lansing, MI (#/%)
09-25-08 @ Beachland Ballroom (Tavern) -- Cleveland, OH (#/%)
09-26-07 @ Midpoint Music Festival -- Cincinnati, OH (#/%)
09-27-08 @ Big Orbit's Soundlab -- Buffalo, NY (#)
09-28-08 @ Brandeis University (Usen Castle) -- Waltham, MA (#)
09-30-08 @ Middle East Upstairs -- Cambridge, MA (#/*)
10-01-08 @ Heirloom Arts Theatre -- Danbury, CT (#)
10-02-08 @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg -- Brooklyn, NY (#/$)
10-03-08 @ Johnny Brenda's -- Philadeplphia, PA (#)
10-04-08 @ Black Cat -- Washington, DC (#)
10-06-08 @ Local 506 -- Chapel Hill, NC (#)
10-07-08 @ Milestone -- Charlotte, NC (#)
10-08-08 @ The Drunken Unicorn -- Atlanta, GA (#)
10-09-08 @ Bottle Tree Cafe -- Birmingham, AL (#)
10-10-08 @ Spanish Moon -- Baton Rouge, LA (#)
10-11-08 @ The Mohawk -- Austin, TX (#)
10-12-08 @ Hailey's -- Denton, TX (#)
10-13-08 @ The Opolis -- Norman, OK (#)
10-14-08 @ College Of Santa Fe -- Santa Fe, NM (#)
10-15-08 @ The Rhythm Room -- Phoenix, AZ (#)
10-16-08 @ UC San Diego (The Loft) -- San Diego, CA (#)
10-17-08 @ The Echo -- Los Angeles, CA; All Ages (#/&)
10-18-08 @ Bottom Of The Hill -- San Francisco, CA (#/&/^)
10-19-08 @ Venue TBA Soon -- Portland, OR
10-24-08 @ The Vera Project -- Seattle, WA

# = with Jukebox The Ghost
% = with Pepi Ginsberg
* = with Throw Me The Statue
$ = with Spacekamp
& = with Princeton
^ = with The Ian Fays

http://www.ilikesayhi.com
http://www.myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom

Get some MP3s here:
http://www.ilikesayhi.com/music.htm

Buy Vinyl, CD's, MP3's, Shirts and Stuff here:
http://www.ilikesayhi.com/shop.htm

The band's new name -- slimmed from the indefensibly ill-fitting Say Hi To Your Mom -- should bring with it some new respect for Eric Elbogen, whose melancholy indie rock has gotten stronger and more serious over five albums. "Wishes" puts him in league with literate emoters like Pedro The Lion's David Bazan and the Long Winters' John Roderick, both of whom contribute guest vocals. "Back Before We Were Brittle" feels gorgeous and grown-up, and even when Elbogen is overearnest ("Zero To Love"), it's with a solid sense of purpose. -- SPIN

Memo to bands everywhere: Joke names? Not such a good idea. Turns out the time we've spent intentionally ignoring who we thought were some poop-joke pop-punk band we could've been spacing out to sophisticated, psych-tinged Rogue Wave-style indie rock. Perhaps it's maturity that drove main dude Eric Elbogen to drop the "To Your Mom" part of his band's name -- or perhaps a broken heart. Whatever the motive was, it all comes through on this eclectic collection of blissed-out, bass and synth-heavy ruminations. There's a quiet sense of dread in Elbogen's off kilter, echoing, wounded voice; a world-weary confusion that peeks tentatively though the moments of tension and release, particularly in songs like the beautiful "Northwestern Girls." Not that everything is dour; the band employ bouncy, Cure style bass lines on "Toil And Trouble" and "Apples For The Innocent," and a resplendent "doo-doo" chorus on "Back Before We Were Brittle." -- ROLLING STONE

In just about any other place or time in human history, a guy like Eric Elbogen never would have thought to pursue singing as a career, or even a hobby. He's an inveterate mumbler with a shaky sense of pitch, and he looks pretty awkward onstage. But there's something likable -- sometimes lovable -- about his indie-rock band, Say Hi. For the band's new album, "The Wishes and the Glitch" (Euphobia), he ditched his old vampire fixation as well as the last three words in his band name (to Your Mom); the result is a warm, modest set of songs that hide their melancholy beneath sturdy tunes and lots of fuzz. Expect his cult to grow, but just a little. -- THE NEW YORK TIMES

For his fifth album in six years, Eric Elbogen shortened his band moniker from Say Hi To Your Mom to Say Hi, but his musical ingredients hold firm: catchy indie-pop buoyed by synthesizers. Elbogen's mumbly croon, and clever lyrics. The croon marks a step forward: Elbogen isn't a great singe, but "Shakes Her Shoulders" sounds dynamic compared to the flat vocalizing that saddled some of Say Hi's previous work. Regardless, it isn't much of a liability, because Elbogen has a good ear for melody; "Wishes" has plenty of instantly gratifying pop hooks, the type its predecessor -- 2006's vampire-themed "Impeccable Blahs" -- lacked. That abundance makes "The Wishes And The Glitch" Say Hi's strongest disc yet. -- THE ONION

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SF & LA with The Long Winters + Block Party in Seattle

Hello! We're very excited to announce that we'll be playing with The Long Winters for two shows in California this month. We're also playing the (always good times) Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle. If you're planning on coming to one of the California shows, we recommend getting tickets in advance, to guarantee you get in. For those of you not on the West Coast, don't get your underoos in a noodle, because we're embarking on another long, nationwide tour in September and October, so we'll see you very soon.

7-17-08 @ The Independent -- San Francisco, CA*
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=273539

7-19-08 @ Spaceland -- Los Angeles, CA*
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=274009

7-25-08 @ Capitol Hill Block Party -- Seattle, WA**
http://ticketswest.rdln.com/Artist.aspx?contentID=11161

* with The Long Winters
**with Vampire Weekend, Les Savy Fav, Girl Talk and more

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Tour Update / Rolling Stone & Spin Reviews / Sasquatch

In this email:
1. Tour Updates
2. Rolling Stone & Spin Reviews
3. Sasquatch Music Festival
4. Links

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Hello from the road! We have some updates regarding our current
tour:

a: The Bowery Ballroom show in New York City this Sunday, which was
originally listed as an 18 and older show, is now 16+. You can get
your tickets here:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000402F9589759C

b: A few shows have been added to our immediate itinerary. You will
find these preceded by an asterisk in the below list:

02-29-08 @ Soundlab -- Buffalo, NY
03-01-08 @ Great Scott -- Boston, MA ($)
03-02-08 @ The Bowery Ballroom -- New York, NY (%)
03-03-08 @ Johnny Brenda's -- Philadelphia, PA
03-04-08 @ The Black Cat -- Washington, DC
03-05-08 @ The Boot -- Norfolk, VA ($)
03-06-08 @ Local 506 -- Chapel Hill, NC ($)
03-07-08 @ The Earl -- Atlanta, GA
03-08-08 @ The Bottletree Cafe -- Birmingham, AL ($)
03-10-08 @ The Opolis -- Norman, OK (#)
*03-12-08 @ Corner of 6th and Lamar -- Austin, TX; 5pm
*03-12-08 @ The Purevolume Ranch -- Austin, TX
03-14-08 @ Red Eyed Fly (SXSW Showcase) -- Austin, TX (@)
03-16-08 @ Lola's -- Fort Worth, TX (!)
03-18-08 @ The Hi-Dive -- Denver, CO (!)
03-19-08 @ Kilby Court -- Salt Lake City, UT (!)
*03-21-08 @ Live on Indie 103.1 FM -- Los Angeles, CA; 3pm PST
03-21-08 @ Spaceland -- Los Angeles, CA (!)
03-22-08 @ Bottom Of The Hill -- San Francisco, CA (!)
04-02-08 @ Live on KEXP -- Seattle, WA; 12pm PST
04-03-08 @ Chop Suey -- Seattle, WA (&)
*04-04-08 @ Someday Lounge -- Portland, OR

% with Illinois
$ with The Big Sleep
# with Headlights and Evangelicals
@ with Lucero, Cloud Cult, Land Of Talk and more
! with Kevin Devine
& with Siberian and Battle Hymns

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The new record, "The Wishes And The Glitch," was recently reviewed in
Rolling Stone and Spin, among many other publications. Here is what
they had to say:

"Sophisticated psyche-tinged indie rock ... an eclectic collection of
blissed out, bass and synth-heavy ruminations." -- Rolling Stone

"The band's new name should bring with it some new respect for Eric
Elbogen, whose melancholy indie rock has gotten stronger and more
serious over five albums." -- Spin

"A warm, modest set of songs that hide their melancholy beneath
sturdy tunes and lots of fuzz." -- The New York Times

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We've just been confirmed as part of The Sasquatch Music Festival in
May, along with the following bands:

R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For
Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y
Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill
/ The Hives / Tegan & Sara / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The
New Pornographers / Blue Scholars / The National / The Kooks /
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Cold War Kids / Beirut / Rogue Wave /
Okkervil River / Fleet Foxes / Kinski / Mates of State / Sera Cahoone
/ Crudo (featuring Mike Patton & Dan The Automator) / Battles /
Destroyer / Dyme Def / The Blakes / Pela / Jamie Lidell / The Cops /
Dengue Fever / Siberian / White Rabbits / David Bazan / The Little
Ones / "Awesome" / Dead Confederate / The Heavenly States /
65daysofstatic / Grand Archives / Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio /
Joshua Morrison / Throw Me The Statue / J. Tillman / The Shaky Hands
/ Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down / Matt Costa / The Cave
Singers

This is terribly exciting for us.

Tickets: http://sasquatchfestival.com/2008/main.php?page=tickets

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(site) http://www.ilikesayhi.com

(shop) http://www.ilikesayhi.com/shop.htm

(myspace) http://www.myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom

(itunes)
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=6546953

(amazon)
http://www.amazon.com/Wishes-Glitch-Say-Hi/dp/B0011HF61Y/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201981667&sr=8-1

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Sunday's New York Times Review

New York Times critic Kelefa Sanneh graciously reviewed the new record in Sunday's Edition. He writes: "... For the band?s new album, ?The Wishes and the Glitch? (Euphobia), [Elbogen] ditched his old vampire fixation as well as the last three words in his band name (to Your Mom); the result is a warm, modest set of songs that hide their melancholy beneath sturdy tunes and lots of fuzz. Expect his cult to grow ..." (here)

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New Record In Stores / Tour Dates

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THE WISHES AND THE GLITCH
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Hello! We trust everyone is well? Good. We?re writing now to tell you the fifth Say Hi record, The Wishes And The Glitch, is in stores today! It?s available in CD, Vinyl and Digital formats and can be found at your favorite indie stores and chains, as well as various places online. As always, you can get it from us in all three formats too.

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Listen to an MP3:
http://www.ilikesayhi.com/SayHi_NorthwesternGirls.mp3
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Here?s some help finding the record, if you please:

FROM US:
http://www.ilikesayhi.com/shop.htm

iTUNES:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=6546953

AMAZON:
http://www.amazon.com/Wishes-Glitch-Say-Hi/dp/B0011HF61Y/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201981667&sr=8-1

INSOUND:
http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?select=meta&query=say+hi&fromindex=1&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

BEST BUY:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=16372836&st=say+hi&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1799461

It?s also available at: Borders, Newbury Comics, Virgin, Amoeba, Waterloo, Easy Street, Bull Moose, Sonic Boom, Rasputin, Electric Fetus, Silver Platters, Fingerprints, Vintage Vinyl, Music Millennium, Atomic, Stinkweeds, Sound Garden, End Of An Ear, Ear X-Tacy and many, many others
(Please note, while we make our records available in as many outlets as possible, we strongly urge you to buy from your local independent shop when possible)

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TOUR DATES
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Please come see us play!:

02-16-08 @ The Royal Unicorn Cabaret -- Vancouver, BC
02-18-08 @ Toomey's Pub And Pizza -- Spearfish, SD
02-20-08 @ Triple Rock Social Club -- Minneapolis, MN
02-21-08 @ Project Lodge -- Madison, WI
02-22-08 @ The Beat Kitchen -- Chicago, IL
02-23-08 @ Mac's Bar -- Lansing, MI
02-24-08 @ Waldron Arts Center -- Bloomington, IN
02-25-08 @ The Beachland Tavern -- Cleveland, OH
02-26-08 @ Skully's -- Columbus, OH
02-27-08 @ Live on WOXY -- Cincinnati, OH; 4pm EST
02-27-08 @ The Gypsy Hut -- Cincinnati, OH
02-29-08 @ Soundlab -- Buffalo, NY
03-01-08 @ Great Scott -- Boston, MA
03-02-08 @ The Bowery Ballroom -- New York, NY (***)
03-03-08 @ Johnny Brenda's -- Philadelphia, PA
03-04-08 @ The Black Cat -- Washington, DC
03-05-08 @ The Boot -- Norfolk, VA (%%%)
03-06-08 @ Local 506 -- Chapel Hill, NC
03-07-08 @ The Earl -- Atlanta, GA (###)
03-08-08 @ The Bottletree Cafe -- Birmingham, AL
03-10-08 @ The Opolis -- Norman, OK (@@@)
03-14-08 @ Red Eye Fly (SXSW Showcase) -- Austin, TX ($$$)
03-16-08 @ Lola's -- Forth Worth, TX (^^^)(!!!)
03-18-08 @ The Hi-Dive -- Denver, CO (^^^)
03-19-08 @ Kilby Court -- Salt Lake City, UT (^^^)
03-21-08 @ Spaceland -- Los Angeles, CA (^^^)
03-22-08 @ Bottom Of The Hill -- San Francisco, CA (^^^)
04-02-08 @ Live on KEXP -- Seattle, WA; 12pm PST
04-02-08 @ Venue TBA -- Portland, OR
04-03-08 @ Chop Suey -- Seattle, WA (&&&)

*** with Illinois, Meowskers and The Postelles
%%% with The Big Sleep
### with The Features
@@@ with Evangelicals and Headlights
$$$ with Lucero, Cloud Cult, Land Of Talk and more
!!! with Gil Mantera's Party Dream
^^^ with Kevin Devine
&&& with Siberian and Battle Hymns

Please visit http://www.ilikesayhi.com/tour.htm for tickets and more information

Please be our friend on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom

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PRESS
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#4 most played record in the country -- CMJ Top 200

A lush new collection of introspective songs -- NPR

Critic?s Pick: A bedroom full of instruments and a knack for writing simple, hummable tunes and droll lyrics -- New York Times

For a musician with five albums now under his belt, Eric Elbogen continues to crank out memorable indie pop -- The Tripwire

Once you listen, you will wonder where music like this has been all your life -- Seventeen

Say Hi To Your Mom recalls the futuristic feeling of Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie ... that intellectual battle with impending modernity and the feeling of alienation from real humanity explored by Grandaddy and Radiohead ... Eno-esque with eerie, fantastical motifs -- Spin

Buzz bands: Cheeky, fuzzy electro-pop -- LA Times

A dreamier variety of indie rock -- The Onion

A delightfully fractured fairy tale of Williamsburgian proportions -- Time Out New York

On a homemade PC, Say Hi assembles slow, statuesque indie rock with analog synthscapes, overlapping distorted guitars and lots of low-end -- Pitchfork

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... thank you for your support, we'd never be able to do it without you.

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Vinyl, iTunes, The Shop & More

Hello! As the proper release date for "The Wishes And The Glitch," the fifth Say Hi record, approaches, we've got some items to tell you about. You can now order the Vinyl version from our shop. It is pressed on 180 Gram vinyl and includes a nifty download card that'll get you the whole album in DRM-Free 320kbps MP3 form for free. The record is also now available on iTunes and will be in your favorite physical record shop on Tuesday, February 5th. We are almost sold out of the limited edition t-shirts that are part of exclusive pre-order package, so, if you want one, get it now before it's too late. Finally, we just got around to updating our other t-shirt stock quantities on our shop page, so many of the designs you have all been asking for are for sale again. Some of them will not be re-pressed, so get those now too, if you want em. We'll remind you too that most of the shop items ship for free in the US and that buying directly from us is the best way to support the band, in case you were wondering. Cheers and thanks and all that stuff.

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Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot Dot

Most of the tour dates for February, March and April have been posted. The rest should be here very soon. The dates are here.

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Hm ...

Looks like this week's Stranger took a bit of a cue from what we call the "Say Hi school of photographic poses" (thank you Westin, for pointing this out).

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2008

Boy, are we glad all that holiday business is all done with. The new record comes out in a little bit more than a month. We're gonna go on tour to support it. You probably knew all that stuff already, but we thought we'd remind you. Many details regarding the record and the tour are coming soon.

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Blerg Blerg Borg

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Say Hi Covers The Song Of Your Choice: An Auction

We're participating in an auction The Stranger has organized, to benefit a very good cause. The winner gets to pick any song which will be carefully and thoroughly covered by us in Say Hi land. Bid here.

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Say Hi on NPR

NPR's Second Stage just featured a track from the forthcoming record. Despite the incorrect pronunciation of my name (it's a hard g, folks), it is very flattering. Listen here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16850532

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Stuff, Stuff and Other Stuff

I'd like to express a warm thanks to everyone who came to see our shows this fall and let you know that we had a very good playing our songs for you. Our touring mates The Velvet Teen and The A-Sides were a treat to watch every night too, so we'd like to send a wholehearted thanks to them for coming on tour with us. Thanks are also in order for all of kind words everyone has been saying / writing in regards to the new record. I worked very hard on it, so it pleases me immensely to hear that many of you have been enjoying it. Finally, I'd like to wish everyone a great rest of the year, as we'll be hibernating (read: not doing any more shows) until early 2008. We're currently working on a tour for late Winter / early Spring, so we'll see you again then.

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The Wishes And The Glitch

Well hello. This may be the biggest announcement we've ever made and we're actually quite giddy about it. The new record has been mixed and mastered for a few weeks now but we've been all hush hush about it because, well, this lovely digital age of ours seems to spread mutated rumors faster than you can hiccup and we wanted to make sure all our hairs were combed and ties tied before we presented the news. So here goes: the fifth Say Hi record (and the first bearing our new tidy band moniker) is entitled "The Wishes And The Glitch." It will be in stores February 5th, 2008. However, AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE MOST EXCITED ABOUT, we've made it available to you right now. That's right. That whole thing where you find out a band has a new record coming out but you have to wait four months to buy it. Yeah, that doesn't apple here. As you will see, there are a number of options for you to purchase this new record from us, but every one of them includes the ability to download DRM-free MP3s encoded at the superb bitrate of 320kbps virtually immediately. If you prefer an actual CD, that's ok too, download the record now and your CD will arrive very very soon, and very very long before you can buy it in stores. We're personally most excited about the deluxe package though, which, well, you'll see. Enough with the blah blah blah already. Go forth, friends:

Buy "The Wishes And The Glitch" here:
http://www.ilikesayhi.com/shop.htm

Listen to clips and download some free MP3s here:
http://www.ilikesayhi.com/music.htm

To celebrate the pre-release of the new record, we also have a ton of tour dates with The Velvet Teen and The A-Sides, beginning next week. We'll be playing these shows as a four-piece for the first time since 2005. Do come say hello when we make it to your city:

http://www.ilikesayhi.com/tour.htm
http://www.ilikesayhi.com
http://www.myspace.com/sayhitoyourmom

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Hamburg

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Thing Have Been Overhauled Here A Little Bit

You can read the previous five years of news items here: www.ilikesayhi.com/oldnews.htm .

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