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Tourdates 6/26/08 Bicycle Thieves on YouTube. 7/13/07 IOTA! Tonight, Friday, July 13th! Todd Wright (of Getaway Car) will be opening, followed by the Thieves, then Shwa. Show mentions bythe Washington Post and Mr. Joel of OnTap. 2/16/07 We'll be at the Black Cat TONIGHT, Friday, February 16th. All ages and smoke free. Why not? Mentions of the show here, here, and here. 9/27/06 Bicycle Thieves will be featured on the TV show "MHz Spotlight" this Friday, September 29th at 8pm. Find the channel on your cable or satellite system here. 9/8/06 We're back at the Black Cat this Sunday, September 10th with The Damnwells. Come one, come all. 4/28/06 Make plans to come out tonight-Friday, April 28th! The Thieves return to Iota in Arlington before taking the summer off to write and record. Our friends Shwa will be opening the show and releasing their new CD! 1/27/06 TONIGHT! The Thieves will be coming out of winter hibernation and headlining at the 9:30 Club TONIGHT--Friday, January 27th. Advance tickets here. Two very cool bands will be playing as well: Nethers (formerly Carlsonics) followed by Cedars (formerly Cartel). Join us for the rock. 9/3/05 Bicycle Thieves will be making their debut at the world-famous 9:30 Club tonight, Saturday, September 3rd. You can buy tickets at the club or get advance tickets here. Make sure to get there early...8:30 set time. 6/30/05 Come check out the Black Cat show tonight! We play first, at 9pm, so get there early. 6/10/05 Here's a review of our DC9 show from bigyawn.net. Check it out. Also, check out all the info about the Black Cat show on June 30th. This show is being put together by DCist.com, a D.C.-based blog about local news, culture, and entertainment. They are cool. 5/13/05 Come check us out tomorrow (Sat 5/14) at DC9... 4/1/05 The band was recently mentioned in a Washington Post article. 3/11/05 Come check out our show tonight at IOTA, with Army of Me and The Upwelling! 1/26/05 We need your support next Saturday at the Continental...spread the word. Listen to Z104 this Sunday at 9pm to hear an interview with Jon and a live, acoustic performance. 12/15/04 Come check out our last 2 shows of 2004 this week. We'll be in NYC on Thursday and Fairfax, VA on Saturday (this one is 18 and over). 11/20/04 Black Cat, Black Cat! Tonight--Saturday, November 20th--we will be making our debut at the legendary Black Cat in DC. If you live anywhere near Washington, DC, please come to this show and tell your friends. We're opening for The High Strung and Army of Me, and we are on first so get there early....at 9pm! Rock. 9/3/04 Thanks to everyone who came out to our IOTA show. We'll be playing a free show tomorrow (Sat 9/4) at Fairfax Corner. Thanks to Marianne Meyer who mentioned the show in The Washington Post. There are some new links on the left to make life a little easier; the new website will be launched soon. While we were away, we got a nice review from Smother.net, who named us an Editor's Pick. And Time Out New York gave our New York show their little red star which means "recommended or notable" and said: "Washington D.C.'s Bicycle Thieves show promise on their self-released Second Place Confession EP. Lead singer Jon Kaplan writes hooky, melodic songs reminiscent of early Weezer, and the four-piece handles their rawk in a summery, laid-back way." Weezer=good, so we'll take that as a compliment. 6/11/04 We are off writing new material in June. Check out the new tourdates for July and August, which include our returns to Boston and NYC, and a show with Better Than Ezra, Cowboy Mouth, and Antigone Rising at Live on Penn in DC. Starting June 14th, you can buy a season pass to Live on Penn which gets you all 10 shows for $35.00! Our music was recently featured on "Collegetown USA," a show on the National Lampoon Network which is broadcast to over 600 colleges and over 4.5 million students across the country. 4/30/04 iTunes! Our songs are now available on iTunes for 99 cents each! If you already have the program, this link should take you to our page. If not, you can download iTunes here. If you don't want to use iTunes, you can also buy our songs at NetMusic or Buymusic. We are back from our minitour...thanks to everyone who came out to see the shows...we will be back soon. 4/21/04 Today, we'll be heading out on our minitour of the East Coast. Stops include Philly, Boston, and New York, followed by Pittsburgh, which Jon will hit with two solo acoustic dates. If you live in any of these cities, please come out and say hi and if you don't, please spread the word to your friends. 3/11/04 We are the Top Pick on The Washington Post MP3 site this week! And now, you can download an MP3 of the song Monuments for free. 2/27/04 Thanks for helping us play a sold-out show at Iota last Saturday! Jon will be playing the finals of the Austin Grill SXSW Contest tomorrow night (Sat 2/28), so come out and support him if you can. It's a free show! 2/20/04 Bicycle Thieves won a Wammie! At the Washington Area Music Awards, the band was awarded the Wammie for Best Rock Group. Come celebrate the win tomorrow--Saturday, February 21st--at Iota! Wanna see some Wammies coverage? Click for pictures, video, and a Washington Post article. 2/12/04 You can hear Jon Kaplan in a special acoustic performance and interview this Sunday night, February 15th, from 9pm-10pm on DC101 (101.1FM). In other news, Jon has made it to the final round in the Austin Grill SXSW contest...it will be held later this month! 2/3/04 Come cheer Jon on and help him win a trip to the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, TX! He'll be doing a solo set tonight at Austin Grill Silver Spring. The free show starts at 9pm. 1/29/04 - Surprise New York Show! Bicycle Thieves will be playing in New York City this Saturday, January 31st at Luna Lounge. It's a FREE show and we would love to see you there. Thieves play at 8:30pm. And don't forget our DC show on Saturday, February 21st at Iota. 1/8/04 This year's Wammie (Washington Area Music Award) nominations are out and Bicycle Thieves have been nominated for 8 awards! In addition, the Thieves have been invited to perform at this year's Wammies ceremony. The nominations include: Best Rock Vocalist (Jon Kaplan); Best Rock Group; Best Rock Instrumentalist (Mark Lewis); Best Rock Recording; Musician of the Year (Jon Kaplan); Song of the Year ("Loser of the Year"); Album of the Year; and Songwriter of the Year (Jon Kaplan). 12/24/03 Happy Holidays everyone! There are two acoustic
shows this weekend. Jon and Mark will be at XM Radio's Acoustic
Stage at the Washington
Auto Show this Friday, 12/26, and at Jammin'
Java this Sunday, 12/28. Also, a new review of our CD: 12/17/03 Get ready for our last show of the year...THIS SATURDAY, December 20th, at Velvet Lounge in DC. Opening the show at 10pm will be Laura Burhenn, followed by our friends from NYC, Carbondale. Thanks to Joe Heim of The Washington Post for mentioning us in this week's Soundcheck. 11/3/03 Exciting new shows coming up! Jon will play solo in LA Nov. 7th, and then he'll open for Everclear's Art Alexakis in VA on Nov. 24th! Bicycle Thieves will return to DC on Dec. 20th at the Velvet Lounge! Click on the dates below for more info (after you click on the date, wait until the page reloads and scroll down). 10/15/03 Join us this Saturday for another FREE show. Click here for all the details on Clarendon Day. 7/25/03 7/21/03 7/14/03 Bicycle Thieves' new album The Second Place Confession was released on July 12, 2003. You can download an MP3 of our new song "Loser Of The Year" here. The CD is on sale now at DCCD, 2423 18th Street NW DC. Read an interview with Jon from OnTap newspaper here. Read a review of the CD from OnTap here. Request us on DC101 by emailing Roche. Email us at info@bicyclethieves.com for more info about the band, booking, or anything else. If you have a trivia question, we might even answer it. Try us, you'll like it.
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Bio
With a new EP released in July 2003, entitled The Second Place Confession, Bicycle Thieves have already started to get radio play on DC101 and were recently chosen to play two sets (one acoustic, one electric) at the HFStival, the legendary annual concert at RFK Stadium, sponsored by one of the biggest Alternative rock stations in the country, WHFS. The Washington Post has praised the band's "smart, rocking pop songs" and the band has been garnering more awards and coveted performance slots in the DC area every year. Recent highlights include an upcoming slot at the Fort Reno concert series, which helped launched the careers of bands like Fugazi and Dismemberment Plan, and a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities towards completion of the band's new EP. Lead singer Jon Kaplan has won the Washington Area Music Awards (Wammies) for Best Alternative Rock vocalist two years in a row and the band was awarded Best Alternative Rock Duo/Group in 2002; they've also been nominated for six Wammies this year. Finally, the band has had music licensed to MTV's "The Real World".