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Over 30,000 Myspace friends. More than a million song plays on their Myspace profile. National tours. A rabid following. Zero full-length albums. (Cue corporate record exec shudder.)

Ah, the times they are a changin’ in this crazy music biz, and the members of Arizona electro-pop-dance-avant garde group Peachcake are, in all respects, the quintessential poster kids.

On the strength of two EP releases (2004’s Chain Letter and 2006’s We Should’ve Never Released This and a zany, epically off-the-wall stage show – featuring inflatable animals, neon, confetti, pajama pants, existential ponderings and sporadic nudity, reportedly), Peachcake have transformed from local weirdos to a nationally-recognized indie weirdo force to be reckoned with.

That they haven’t yet to release a real record, taking their cult-like fan-base’s seemingly insatiable thirst for the group and their presence at festivals like Temecula Music Fest and South By Southwest into account, is rather unbelievable. Then again, maybe it’s the lack of normalcy that makes Peachcake such a favorite.

Now Peachcake is out on the road again, gaining new fans every night through musical expression and sheer humiliation, building up to the release of their full-length debut What Year Will You Have The World? in October.

Peachcake w/What Laura Says Thinks And Feels, The Silent Comedy, Or The Whale, It’s Pacific, Modified, August 9, 8 p.m., TBA

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