NEWS

11-20-09
Very exciting news!  Our 9 song CD “The Ghost Army” arrived this past week.  We are super happy with how it turned out.  We’d like to thank the labels involved that helped make this happen; The Path Less Traveled (US) & Super Hero / Swell Creek (Germany).  You can order the CD from them or directly from us via our WEBSTORE.



Speaking of which, we’ve introduced a few new things.  For a great price you can purchase digital downloads of our new CD which includes pdfs of all of the layouts and 192 kbps mp3s.  9 songs for only $5!



If you’re an Erie area resident you can pick our CD up at either Ink Assassins Tattoos on 26th & Peach or Nolan’s School of Music on Buffalo Road.  We have also initiated a few apparel specials.  One is a package deal of the new CD and a shirt featuring the cover art.  We have also discounted a few of our other designs that we have some random sizes left in such as our zip up hoodies, the “skull” shirt, and the women’s tank tops.  There’s some great savings and we hope to make some room for some new designs this winter.  Click here to view our WEBSTORE.

There was also a pretty cool write up about us in the Erie Times newspaper the other week and you can view it here.



Our next show is in Rochester PA on Dec 5th with our 814 hombres Jesus Wept & Biter.  It’s awesome playing out of town with these guys so if you’re anywhere near the Pittsburgh / SWPA region you should come out to the show! Let’s caravan down I-79.  Til then…

11-15-09
New show added on Dec 5th outside of Pittsburgh at the Blue Violet in Rochester, PA with our friends in JESUS WEPT and more TBA.  Come out and have fun!

Also thanx to everyone who sang along with us in Meadeville last night.  Hands down the most fun we've had playing a show.  Hopefully we'll be back down there again sometime in the new year.
11-05-09
Thanx to everyone who came out to the show last night in Erie.  It was an honor to play with such great bands like Comeback Kid, Gravemaker, Dead Swans, & Mother of Mercy as well as our local brethren Biter.  If you happened to check out our merch table you would have seen a new shirt design.  It's now up in our webstore here if you'd like to order one:  Click here.  They're only $8!



We're also playing in Meadeville, PA on Nov 14th with our friends in Jesus Wept who haven't played a show in almost a year.  Also playing will be Erie's Precinct Aflame, Biter, & Dead Even.  Come on our if you can!

10-03-09
Hey what's up everyone!?!   There's a really cool Do It Yourself zine collaboration that has recently started up in the 814.  They want lots of contributions to make it very eclectic and also focus on our region so please participate anyway you can.  You can find out more about them on their myspace here:  www.myspace.com/brokenteethzine

Broken Teeth Myspace

The zine will be available all over Erie & Edinboro at shows and various businesses.  You can also download a PDF version to print or read online  On top of all of that goodness they even threw together a FREE downloadable compilation featuring a slew of different artists from NEPA.  Click below to get that, it features a newer Smoke and Mirrors song on there for your audio consumption.

PDF version: http://www.mediafire.com/?feynmzyudjx

MP3 compilation: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?flanyhldqmm

Broken Teeth Compilation

This is going to be a great that will really help bring the art, music, and spirit of our city together.
09-27-09
We had a blast tonight and wanted to thank everyone who came to our show and all of the out of town bands as well as our local bros in Biter.  Coming up real soon will be a late night show  in downtown Erie.  It's 21+ and will be a good one for all of you midnight oil burning ragers.  We're also bringing in some out of town bands of some great friends so here's a good chance to hear some really diverse and talented groups that you normally wouldn't get to.  Hope to see you there.

Run Forever (pittsburgh, pa): www.myspace.com/runforevermusic
First Offense (akron, oh): www.myspace.com/firstoffense
and our friends in Dirt Mcgurtt from here in erie: www.myspace.com/dirtmcgurtt

09-01-09

Following up our recent split 7”, Smoke and Mirrors is pleased to announce that this fall we will be releasing a 9 song CD entitled “The Ghost Army”.   It will be released in North America with The Path Less Traveled Records and internationally by Super Hero Records from Germany.  Once again handling the artwork and design duties will be our guitarist Jack Molnar / Recon Creative.  The CD should be available sometime in October and features all of our recorded material to date.  You can hear one of the brand new tracks "Dr. Doom" on our audio player along with other recent additions "My Brother the Serial Killer" and "Join the Ghost Army".   We are very excited to be getting our songs a bit more available for everyone around the globe and we’re all ready working on some new, high energy stuff that we’re very excited about.  Hopefully we’ll be in the studio again before you know it.  In the mean time please keep an eye out for the “The Ghost Army”.

www.thepathlesstraveledrecords.com / www.superherorecords.com

Check it out!  We're playing on Sept 27th at Forward Hall.  There's a lot of new bands on this bill and you should check out the diverse line up...  hope to see you there!

www.myspace.com/mistletoe315 (syracuse, ny)
www.myspace.com/oakandbone  (syracuse, ny)
www.myspace.com/biter814 (edinboro, pa)
www.myspace.com/weareallcreatures  (california)

09-01-09
Our split 7" vinyl with our friends Heart Holds True from WV are now available.  They are pretty limited (152 on yellow) and came out really nice.  If your interested in ordering one click HERE or on the picture below:

07-09-09
It's been a few months since we've played out as we've been in the studio and working on new stuff so we're pumped to be hitting the tri state region this weekend.  2 shows with the awesome heaviness of ADVENT and then Sincereity Fest on Sunday.  Very pumped.

July 10 - Edinboro, PA
July 11 - Cleveland, OH
July 12 - Springdale, PA

Later this month there's talk of a Buffalo, NY and a confirmed Rochester, PA date so hope to see everyone out! - EMS

www.smokeandmirrors814.com
www.myspace.com/smokeandmirrors814





06-26-09
Today was a great mail day.  It's always so exciting to get a package in the mail.  Fortunately today my local postal carrier brought to my house straight from the record pressing plant 10 test copies of the split 7" w/ Heart Holds True.  Boy was I pumped to receive these!  Everything turned out great with the transferring to vinyl.  Jon even whipped up a little fun test press cover from something of our childhood... spy vs. spy!  I called up the pressing plant and gave them the verbal thumbs up so we should be getting a few boxes of these bad boys in a few weeks here.  Pre-orders will go up in about 2 weeks and they should be shipping out by the end of July to everyone.  The press run is only supposed to be 150 on red, and 150 on yellow so that will be really cool.  Stay tuned!

06-21-09
We're very pumped to be going back into Midtown Recording Studio this Sunday to finish up a new song called Dr. Doom.  We're really pumped on it and can not wait to share it with everyone.  More info soon...  lots of good stuff coming up.

Our friends xRepresentx just filmed a video today that features a guest spot from me (EMS) in the song "Swift Justice" from their new CD (pick it up here).  It was a great time despite the rain, police lurking, naked guy, and the lack of veggie burgers on the grill (what the fuck derek?).  I can't wait to see the finished version as it should be a rager.  Our fellow erie bros are heading off on their first European tour this Monday so if you're in the area go see them live!

We've also spent the last month or two writing a few more new songs while Joe was waiting for his new baby girl Laila to be born.  Next month we'll get back to playing out with some great shows coming up.  First with Advent, then Sincerity Fest, and then we'll be playing down in Rochester PA.  Hopefully we can get more going on the calendar soon too!  Talk to you all soon. - EMS / S&M / 814
05-09-09
Check out these pics of Aaron Bedard from Bane raging with some S&M gear at  Burning Fight Fest in Chicago! Unfortunately none of us were able to make the fest, which is a serious bummer because some amazing bands played that we all grew up listening to. At least we were able to be there in spirit....




4-22-2009
We are playing Sincerity Fest this year

We are very excited to announce that we will be playing this years Sincerity Fest in Springdale, PA. More info will be released but here is the line up so far (oh and it is FREE):

ADD THE MYSPACE PAGE! www.myspace.com/sincerityfest

Confirmed Bands Thusfar (in alphabetical order):

HEADLINERS TO BE ANNOUNCED WITHIN THE WEEK

A Way With Words
Auryn
Bad Moons
Belie My Burial
Bought In Blood
Death Follows Daybreak
Deathright
Dollface Divine
Drought
Drugdealer
Egality
Girlfight
Gutrench
Kamikabe
Lacking Restraint
Not Without Resistance
Peregrine
Sanctify Her Death
Smoke And Mirrors
Steel Nation
Strength To Endure
Surrender The Savior
Taste The Steel
Terminate
The Last Hope
Those Who Fear
Unforgiven
Unit 731
Virgin Birth
Vow Of Hatred
Where We Lie

4-21-2009
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