10 Year Anniversary Concert & Screening

Tickets for our Concert at Guadalupe Plaza are on sale now. Joining us for the concert is David Garza. The concert is opening night for San Antonio's Cinefestival.

Come celebrate the 10th anniversary of our first show at Sin 13 when Nina was only 13 years old. We will have limited edition posters by Tattooed Boy at the concert. 

Guadalupe Plaza
1327 Guadalupe St. San Antonio, TX 78207 A
Ages • $10 adv/ $15 dos
Doors at 7:30pm 
Special Guest: David Garza 
Tickets available at: Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center or online 

**Please note only concert tickets are available. The Cinefestival screening of Jammin has sold out! Thank you, San Antonio! 

Girl In A Coma: Tiny Desk Concert

January 30, 2012 The San Antonio trio gets back to basics to explore its songs' forms and the soul of its lyrics.

By Felix Contreras

One of the best features of our Tiny Desk Concert series is the occasional opportunity to hear a band perform its songs as they were written: with just an acoustic guitar and unamplified voices. That's the case with Girl In A Coma. In an interview, singer Nina Diaz said she writes the band's songs by closing herself off with just a notepad and her acoustic guitar. Which is slightly different than what we get on the band's albums: loud, crunchy guitars and seamless interplay between Phanie Diaz's drums and Jenn Alva's melodic bass work.

For the three songs Girl In A Coma performed during a recent stop in the NPR Music offices on a short East Coast tour, the San Antonio trio deftly gets back to basics to explore not just the form of its songs, but also the soul of its lyrics. You don't easily forget Nina Diaz's voice after you hear it for the first time, and as her songwriting skills grow, so do her vocal performances — it feels as if there's less effort and more emoting.

Nina's sister Phanie Diaz and bassist Alva pull off what I've found to be the Holy Grail of music-making: playing as one rather than merely accompanying each other. Being on stage for a long period of time with the same musicians creates a form of unspoken communication. Girl In A Coma's great songs and riveting performances all benefit from a sense that, while one member writes the songs, all three inhabit them.

Check out the video interview and article on Girl in a Coma featured on the front page of CNN.com today! Part of CNN's In America series, the interview took place last summer when the band opened for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts at the Coney Island Summer Concert Series. 

Hello Everyone!

It's been awhile since we blogged but here is a quick one for ya. Jenn is working on a video so we should have that soon. Tour has been great! We started off playing the biggest show yet in San Antonio to over 2500 people! Dallas, Brooklyn,NYC, Chicago were some of the highlights of the tour. Got to see Joan at our NY show. Made some awesome new friends, our tourmates The Coathangers. They left us already and we miss them so if you have a sec go and check them out. Right now we are on tour with Black Box Revelation, a Belgium rocking band. Yesterday we joined up with Fences who will be with us the rest of the way.

SADLY, we had to cancel Denver. Along the way Nina picked up a nasty bug which lead to a sinus infection. She is recovering now and we should be all ready to go in time for Utah.

We got to play some tunes for the Carson Daly show and even charted on Billboard's Hotseekers charts! Thank you to everyone who has bought our new record Exits & All The Rest! Help us continue spreading the word about the album. We are just getting started! We have a lot more to come and a lot more touring to do for this record... and we promise to be back Denver!

We love you all and hope to see you out on the road!

Girl in a Coma regrets to announce that the show tomorrow night (11/23/11) at Marquis Theater in Denver is canceled. Nina is sick and lost her voice last night during the show in Minneapolis. Doctor's orders that she gets some rest so that she can heal. The rest of the tour will continue as scheduled. 

Phanie D will DJ the after party hosted by Blackheart Brigade in New York City.  Click for details. 

Tune in to NBC to see Girl in a Coma on Carson Daly this Wednesday night, November 9^th at 1:35 AM EST/ 12:35 CST (technically Thursday). The band will be featured in a spotlight segment including an interview and performances of songs off their new album Exits & All the Rest. 

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the show in Columbus, OH has been cancelled. We are actively working on a replacement show and will let you know if we are able to schedule one on this tour.

We will be playing a set at AMOEBA MUSIC - SAN FRANCISCO!

NOVEMBER 2ND • FREE • ALL AGES • 6 PM 

Full details can be found at Amoeba.com. For those of you not in San Francisco, watch the live stream on Amoeba's website. 

**We had previously announced an in-store in Los Angeles on November 1st. We regret to announce that the Amoeba-Hollywood event had to be canceled. We will be back to LA on December 2nd at The Echoplex and hope to see you there!**

Exits & All the Rest is streaming on NPR Music all week! Take a listen and leave a comment and let us know what you think! 

We are at home, rehearsing for the new songs for tour. Just thought we'd take the time to write a blog about the new album.

Exits & All the Rest is probably the rawest album we’ve made so far. We recorded on analog for the first time. It is definitely a progression for us. I think we are becoming very comfortable in the studio now. We have a lot more confidence in what we are doing and we are a lot more vocal about what we want.

We recorded in Austin, TX with Mike McCarthy. We played live together and Nina went in for her overdubs after. It was the first time we cut songs as a band instead of recording our instruments separately. We also did songs in a few takes. Just a lot of vibing and chemistry going on in the studio, which we hope you can hear in this record.

The year we were writing and making Exits & All the Rest was a very emotional one for us. Each of us had different personal things and changes happening. We grew as a band and we grew as people and I think you can hear this on the record. Jenn came up with the title for Exits & All the Rest. It has a lot to do with the year we went through. There are always ways out of anything and then there is dealing with all the rest.

“Sly” is one of our favorite songs on the album right now. It’s a new sound for us. “Smart” is one of our favorites as well. At first Jenn and I (Phanie) were not into it. We thought it was way to poppy. Now its one of our favorite songs. It just molded itself into our brains. It reminds us of Echo and the Bunnymen . Just good vibes. “Adjust” is fun to play live because of the dynamics. “Mother's Lullaby” has a lot of deep meaning to it. Family is very important to us…and this is our song to them.

Dates for Minneapolis and Orange County have been added to the tour! 

If you don't already have a copy of the first single from our upcoming album, check out Fuse.TV where you can get a free download of the "Smart" mp3.

You can get a free download of "Smart" the first single off Exits & All the Rest here.

Thank you to the following stations which have already started to give the track some airplay:

107.1 The Peak (Anything Anything with Rich Russo)

KFMI (Eureka, CA)

KFMI (Eureka, CA); KLBQ (El Dorado, AR)

WGXL 92.3 (Lebanon, VT)

Indie 1031 (Sala de Espera Radio)

Girl in a Coma announces the dates for their national fall headline tour celebrating the release of their upcoming album, Exits & All the Rest. The tour will kickoff in their home state of Texas and includes two pre-release concerts: October 28th at Mohawk in Austin and a free show on October 29th at Pearl Amphitheater in San Antonio. Please check the shows page for full details and to buy your advance tickets. The Coathangers will join Girl in a Coma as support for the first leg of the tour starting November 4th. Fences will be support on select dates on the second half of the tour. 

Girl In A Coma Tour Dates
^ = w/Concrete Blonde
* = w/The Coathangers
# = w/Fences

Oct 28, 2011: Austin, TX @ The Mohawk   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Oct 29, 2011: San Antonio, TX @ Pearl Park Amphitheater  FREE  RSVP
Oct 30, 2011: Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's (opening for Concrete Blonde)  
Nov 4, 2011: Dallas, TX @ The Prophet Bar *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 5, 2011: Houston, TX @ Cactus Records (free with purchase of CD at Cactus      RSVP
Nov 6, 2011: New Orleans, LA * @ Siberia  RSVP
Nov 7, 2011: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade *   Buy Tickets RSVP
Nov 8, 2011: Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 * Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 9, 2011: Washington DC, DC @ DC9 *    Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 10, 2011: Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 11, 2011: New York, NY @ The Studio @ Webster Hall *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 13, 2011: Cambridge, MA @ T.T. The Bear's * Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 15, 2011: Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 16, 2011: Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 17, 2011: Indianapolis, IN @ Radio Radio *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 18, 2011: Detroit, MI @ The Magic Stick *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 19, 2011: Chicago, IL @ Double Door *   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 20, 2011: Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon * Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 23, 2011: Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theater # Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 25, 2011: Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court # Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 26, 2011: Boise, ID @ Neurolux # -  RSVP
Nov 27, 2011: Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 28, 2011: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge # Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 29, 2011: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent # Buy Tickets  RSVP
Nov 30, 2011: Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's #   RSVP
Dec 2, 2011: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex #  Buy Tickets  RSVP
Dec 4, 2011: San Diego, CA @ The Casbah # -  Buy Tickets  RSVP
Dec 7, 2011: El Paso, TX  @ House of Rock #  RSVP
Dec 9, 2011: Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock #   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Dec 10, 2011: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live #  Buy Tickets   RSVPDec 4, 2011: San Diego, CA @ The Casbah # -  Buy Tickets  RSVP
Dec 7, 2011: El Paso, TX  @ House of Rock #  RSVP
Dec 9, 2011: Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock #   Buy Tickets  RSVP
Dec 10, 2011: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live # Buy Tickets   RSVP

Girl in a Coma's fourth studio album will be released on Blackheart Records on November 1, 2011.  The album was recorded in Austin, Texas with producer Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Trail of Dead). NPR's Alt.Latino said the album sounded like "Desert landscapes, punk rock and a little bit of desperation." Visit their Fall Music Preview to hear the song "Sly" off the new album. 

The Go-Go's / Girl in a Coma tour ended last night in Austin. It was an incredible tour. Thank you to the Go-Go's for having GIAC on the tour and thank you to all the fans who turned out. Check our photos page for some images from the show at The Greek.