The Mint Chicks may be working away in Portland but at least they’re keeping in touch. Between working on new music, getting nominated for a Silver Scroll award and playing shows, the three-piece are keeping everyone up to date via Twitter and their blog. Last week Ruban told us about his severely fucked-up experience of the US healthcare system, making us hope like hell that all this reform talk really will work out.

Right now on their website, the band is offering this for free. They describe it as “a mini album of chiptune versions of some of our songs.”

There’s also this…

“Later this morning I decided that I would start to discuss the music of young or unsigned bands on here in some way. I was thinking about how important gatekeepers had been to me in art and music, and how the role of gatekeeper had receded because of the online mob mentality of upvotes, tweets, and bulletins. We get quite a lot of traffic through this website and I thought it might be cool to build some kind of bigger network. You can send me stuff to listen to at themintchicks@gmail.com and then I can figure out what to do with it. No promises. R”