News: July 3rd, 2008 The first 6 songs of the new album, "Dream Out Your Window," are now on our MySpace page. Enjoy. -Dora Flood- June 29th, 2008 The new album, "Dream Out Your Window," is finished! As soon as we have a release date we will announce it here. There are 11 songs on the new release: Never To Forget Meet Yer Maker Suspended The Message Nothing Became Something Entangled Mantra Present Is A Place Up To You The End All Are you dying to hear what it sounds like? Come out to one of our upcoming live shows. The current set contains most of the songs from the album. In celebration of the summer solstice, our resident psychedelic head, Valis, has compiled a great psychedelic compilation which we have contributed a track to. The rule was, the song had to have the lyric, "trip inside this house" in it. We found a recording of a live jam from last year, dusted it off, added some vocals and voila! A TRIP INSIDE THIS HOUSE!!! You can hear the whole compilation here. HAPPY SUMMER!!!!! -Dora Flood- March 20th, 2008 It has been a while but creativity has been in the air at the Dora Flood camp. A new album is in the works with a possible fall '08 release date in mind. We are also working with Andrei Pasternak on bass who will play his first 2 shows with us in San Francisco and Grass Valley next week. stay tuned... -Dora Flood- June 4th, 2007 The video of Everywhere We Go has been added to the Visuals-section. This is an edited version of this song. We’re going to play the west coast of the US in September, and as we get the gigs confirmed they’ll be listed on the shows page as always. So far we have two Los Angeles shows confirmed. Talk to you soon friends! -Dora Flood- April 12th, 2007 Thanks for everyone who came to see us on the East Coast! So much fun was had that it’s hard to remember all of it. We’ll be adding some photos from the tour soon, so check back. Also, We Live Now has been getting really good reviews all around and we posted some of them in our, you guessed it, Reviews-section. We are currently working on new material, as well as setting up some West Coast shows for the summer/fall. We are moving ahead now with Jaakko on drums and are glad to have him in the band. More to come... -Dora Flood- February 13th, 2007 Hey all! The album release is getting close now, and we’ve started the rehearsals for our East Coast shows in March. A couple of things have changed: long-time band member Sean DeGaetano dropped out of the tour last week. Ville’s brother, Jaakko Vilpponen, will take over the drums for the duration of these shows. We also had to cancel our Ohio appearance in these circumstances, which we do regret. In any case, we are really excited to do the remaining gigs and naturally hope to see as many of you there as possible. Spread the word, friends! More updates to follow... -Dora Flood- December 16th, 2006 Hey friends! There’s good news to report: our east coast dates for early spring are coming together, keep checking the shows page for progress. Additionally, the release date for "We Live Now" is set for the 20th of February. So we’re all looking forward to the upcoming year... See you in 2007! -Dora Flood- October 2nd, 2006 Confirmed: "We Live Now"- The new album by Dora Flood will be released through Elephant Stone Records in February 2007. It’ll be worth the wait, we promise. Some touring is in the cards to coincide with the release. More about that later. -Dora Flood- September 30th, 2006 Just a quick update... We’ve christened our new album- it’s called We Live Now. Release details are still TBC, watch this space. Also, thanks to everyone who came to see us at our shows this past month in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco. We had fun and your support means a lot. We have a couple of local gigs still to come this year... Check out the shows page for more info. -Dora Flood- June 30th, 2006 Good news! We’ve finished mixing our, yet unnamed, new album. Mastering will take place in a couple of weeks’ time... As soon as we have news regarding the release we’ll let you know. Tracklisting runs as follows: -Phoenix Rising -Everywhere We Go -Feels Like Yesterday -Revelation Blues -Atlantis -Humble High -Daydream -Invisible Throne -Faith And Deviation -Light More updates to come soon! -Dora Flood- June 26th, 2006 Two San Francisco shows announced. More to come... June 2nd, 2006 (archived) Some news: We have a new bass player! Aaron Robberson is an old friend of the band and we’re happy to welcome him into the fold. Aaron came in just in time to make a contribution to the new album (of which we’re now in the mixing stages). Also, there will be some Dora Flood shows this summer. As we get these confirmed, they’ll be listed on our Shows page, so check back. -Dora Flood- April 10th, 2006 (archived) Hey all. It’s been a while since our last update, but we’ve been making progress: We started recording 4 new songs last week! Sean already finished his drum tracks and the bass parts are up next. Live dates will have to wait a while longer as we are focusing on completing this album. There will be something cool happening in late summer though... Stay tuned for more. -Dora Flood- December 14th, 2005 (archived) Wow... another year almost done... This is Dora Flood wishing everyone Happy Holidays. Or if you’re not into all that stuff just enjoy the cool breezes and the darkness of winter. We’d like to thank all the good people who made it to our shows in San Francisco and Oakland over the past few weeks- your support means a lot. There’s one more happening scheduled this year: If you’re in the vicinity, come and start your New Year celebrations a day early with us and good friends The Junior Panthers. We’re playing The Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco Friday December 30th. This is going to be a fun night! Party time. We’re taking a small break from recording but the tracking will resume in January with new material we’ve been writing for the album. We’ve also been doing some raw mixes of songs and everything sounds really promising to us. More updates to follow soon. Looking forward in seeing you in 2006! Over and out for now. -Dora Flood October 16th, 2005 (archived) Hey Everybody! It’s been a long while since we wrote anything of any interest here and it’s about time to make good. First of all, big thanks to everybody who came to see us at the Ivy Room, Starry Plough and Make-Out Room shows in the past few months… You are the greatest and a lot of good times were had! Also, tons of good karma to those who were present at the Hurricane Katrina benefit night at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. It was a bit of a different scene for us, but it was nonetheless great to be there in support of the cause. So let’s see what’s happening here… We’re writing and recording the follow-up to last years’ Highlands-album. We’re really excited about the new material and things are going smoothly so far. Recording is being done at Michael’s new Sound Port Recording Studio in Berkeley, CA, and everything is tracked to 2-inch tape producing super-nice fat analog sounds and smiles all around. The live room of the studio also serves as our practice space, and we have a refrigerator that sometimes has beer in it, and… well, you get the idea- it’s pretty laid back, yet productive. We’ll probably continue the writing/recording process for a few more months or as long as we feel that we have enough stellar music for this next album in the can- hopefully this can be achieved without us permanently beaming ourselves into a parallel psychedelic universe which we so love to create. After that, the usual: mixing, mastering, artwork etc. We’re hoping and shooting for a release next summer, but these things tend to change. Oh yes. We’d like to perform some of the new songs live before the year is over and are putting bills together for a couple of nights around the Bay Area. When we get these gigs confirmed we’ll announce them here so check back often. We understand that there are a lot of you out there who’d like to see us play but who don’t live in Northern California and with that in mind we hope that next year would bring some touring for us as well. And we promise more frequent updates from now on, and you know we could never lie to you… Until next time then- stay spacey. -Dora Flood- September 23rd, 2005 (archived) We're playing live this Saturday! September 20th, 2005 (archived) MP3s from our latest Highlands album are now available in Music. May 2nd, 2005 (archived) Updated shows and reviews sections. March 31st, 2005 (archived) The band is currently working on new material for a release later this year. West Coast live dates are also in the works. Watch this space for updates. January 25th, 2005 (archived) Dora Flood will be playing live on Sunday, January 30th at Hush Hush Lounge. We now have a new guitarist - Ville Vilpponen from Finland. The band will play selections from new album, Highlands, which is now available through Elephant Stone Records Septempber 7th, 2004 (archived) We have some new reviews posted on the reviews section for "Highlands". Also, you can download the whole album through itunes and audio lunchbox July 15th, 2004 (archived) The new Dora Flood CD "Highlands" is finally here. It is available for purchase from Elephant Stone Records However it won't be in stores until August 24th. Please visit our music page to hear MP3 samples from new album March 29th, 2004 (archived) Well we thought we were done before, but now we really are done. You see, a song was born at the last minute that had to be included on the CD. Now there will be 11 songs on "Highlands". Also, it is official. Elephant Stone Records will be putting out "Highlands" this summer. February 12th, 2004 (archived) We have good news... The new Dora Flood CD is finally finished! It will be called 'Highlands'. We are currently discussing the track listing for these 10 songs. We are excited and proud to present this to you, but it will not be released until June. Patience is rewarded with great things. More to come... June 9th, 2003 (archived) Hello again! The 2 songs selected for the Ptolemaic Terrescope Compilation CD ( "The View" and "Echoes" ) are up for free download on our music page. Click here to listen. Enjoy! June 2nd, 2003 (archived) So the first half of the new record is about done and we are gearing up for sessions for the second half. Two of the new finished songs ("The View" and "Echoes") are featured on the Ptolemaic Terrascope compilation CD that comes with the Magazine of same name. If all goes as planned, expect an early 2004 release date. Full speed ahead! April 25th, 2003 (archived) Sometimes ones life gets so busy that cyber space takes a back seat. We are sorry for neglecting our site but we are back. We have some shows coming up as well as a new CD in the works. We are approaching the halfway mark, however, being that life deals us a lot in these times, it will be a short while before it is completed and released. Michael is getting married in May so his last show as a bachelor is the May 11th show at the Hush Hush. Also check out the hot photos from our Great American Music Hall performance last year. tr> August 7th, 2002 (archived) Hello again you lovely people. Thanks for coming out to the dunord show to those of you who did. To those of you who didn't, well, we are playing at Nadines Wild Weekend which is a big showcase for bands in SF. Our date is August 23rd at the Tongue And Groove on Van Ness avenue in SF. We go on at 10:45 sharp!!! Hope to see you there.