July 28, 2010
We had a great time playing at the 2010 Traverse City Film Festival opening party. Thanks to everyone for inviting us to be part of such an amazing event, and special thanks to Carolyn Koebl for filling in last minute while Mike is off touring the country with Seth Bernard and May Erlewine. "Let Me Go" and "Jewbacca" are also featured ont he official festival CD!
Check out a video from the night, featuring a performance of our song "Whiskey Stealer":

June 20, 2010
We're so pleased to announce that Cori Somers has officially joined the band! She's an incredibly skilled violinist and singer, as well as many different instruments. We have a whole list of great shows coming up this summer, so come on out and welcome her to the RSP tribe in person!

April 22 , 2010

We're proud to be featured on the cover of this week's Kalamazoo Gazette "Ticket" section. Thanks to John Liberty, John Lacko, and Simon Thalmann. We had a super fun photo shoot at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven, upon the Wilhelm Baum and Evelyn S. ships, and no one got seasick. A success! Check out the article here.

April 3 , 2010
Our new album, Adrift, is on it's way! From Ira's wood-heated house, to Rachel and Ian's attic, to Western Sound Studios, and finally to 1/2" analog tape at Glenn Brown's in Lansing. Many long hours have been spent creating this baby, and we sure are proud. Here are the stats: Twelve songs, four songwriters, months, six band members' intense devotion, two wonderful musical guests, four geeked-out audio engineers, one sleep-deprived graphic designer, and no less than three Pedestrians playing a pump organ at one time. Come celebrate with us at our April 23 CD release show at Bell's Brewery!

February 15 , 2010
Check out a video of our performance at this year's Cooper's Glen Music Festival. Thanks, Peg!

January 21, 2010
Well, our epic recording week is over, and we can't describe how happy we are with the tracks! We turned Ira's house into a recording studio for a week, brought in engineer supreme Ben Lao, and got to playin'. We recorded a few newer tunes we've been playing live for a while (Jewbacca, We'll Be Sky), as well as a lot of brand new tunes (Conversations, The Dirty Hora, Happy To Move With You, Picture in a Locket, Sacrilege, I Xenitia, The Bismarck Waltz...). Pics from the session are up on our facebook page,. Thanks to everyone who helped us do this (Ben Lao, John Campos, Bryan Heany, Martin Klemm, and The People's Food Co-op).

Hopefully, we'll get this thing out by the spring! Now, for overdubs...

January 1, 2010
Happy New Year everyone! Check out this sweet article on us in the January issue of Revue Magazine.

2009 was an amazing year for us (To name a few highlights: The Michigan Theater, The Ark, the masquerade ball, the vaudeville show, the drum kiva performance at Blissfest...) We're looking forward to the new year as well - We have a ton of exciting stuff planned, and hope you do to!

December 17, 2009
Hey, Grand Rapids fans! Our CDs are now available at Vertigo Records and Schuler's Books and Music. As always, you can get them from Itunes and CD Baby, as well.

On the visual side of things, you might notice some changes to our site design. Many thanks to Kate Peterson (From Nervous But Excited) for lending her creative eye to our little webspace.

We're also getting excited for the new record, which we start work on next month. . Lots of new material coming together for it, and everyone's been bringing songs to the table. A couple of tunes we've been playing live for a while ("Jewbacca", "We'll Be Sky") are going to be on, too. We can't wait to get a new full-length CD out there!

November 29 , 2009
We had such a blast playing the Michigan Theater last night, as part of the 4th annual Jeff Daniels and Friends concert. We packed four tunes into our 15 minutes, and dare I say we rocked it. Everyone brought their A-game: Shout Sister Shout, The Ben Daniels Band, Paul Princen, The Scotville Clown Band, and of course Jeff Daniels himself. Here's a review of the night, from annarbor.com

November 2 , 2009
The Devil's Night Masquerade Ball was an amazing time! Thanks to everyone who came out, and we've got to say the masks and costumes were incredible, as were The New Sprites.

Thanks also to Hether Frayer and Sheri Lynne Simah for taking some great pictures!
Click on pics for full size...

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September 27, 2009

Well, the big news is this here, brand-spankin' new website! Please let us know what you think, what works, what doesn't...

Looking forward, we're excited about some upcoming shows, especially the Devil's Night Masquerade Ball at Bell's, and Jeff Daniels and Friends at The Michigan Theater. We're going back into the studio in January to work on a new full-length, and are proud to have some brand new, locally-made stickers and buttons available at shows!