Original SAIGON KICK guitarist and OWL STRETCHING mastermind Jason Bieler has issued the following update:

"We're putting finishing touches on a new song for you, should be done in a few days! In the meantime, who wants to hear the original version of 'Super Down', when the band SUPER TRANSATLANTIC was called FLAT. Mixed by the legendary Jack Joseph Puig? Far better than the released version IMHO."

Check out the track at this location.

'Super Down' was originally released on Super Transatlantiic's debut (and only) album, Shuttlecock, released in 2000. It was also featured on the American Pie soundtrack. The band also featured EXTREME bassist Pat Badger.

As previously reported, Bieler has made his 1998 solo album, Houston We Have A Problem, available digitally for the first time via his Bieler Bros. Records label:

"These are a rare collection of writing demos, briefly released in limited quantity on CD. This demo collection displays a serious need for ADD meds and or an obvious multiple personality disorder. They are being released again now because people seem to really love and want them. Thanks, have fun and enjoy!"

The tracklist is as follows:

'Control'

'My Love'

'Before The Fall'

'Divine'

'End Of An Era'

'How Long'

'John And Paul'

'Jupiter'

'Presuppose'

'Oh Yeah'

'On Fine Day'

'Shadows'

'Treason'

'Who Do You Love'

'Arriane'

'Fire Dance'

Go to this location to purchase.

Bieler recently launched Owl Stretching, which he told BW&BK; first-hand is "a constantly morphing project with different guests that I use as a vehicle to release new music." Bieler is now offering the song 'All At Once' via his Bieler Bros. record label. Fans have the option of downloading the mp3 for free or paying what they want for the track here.

During an exclusive interview with BW&BK; discussing the rumours of a Saigon Kick reunion - due to be published soon - Bieler shed some light on Owl Stretching:

“I’m writing a lot more lately," Bieler reveals. "I’ve been spending more time in the studio. I’ve spent a lot of time producing, but I’m getting away from it because at some point I felt I needed to do other things. For the last five years I’ve done nothing but play hockey (laughs), but once I realized that I wasn’t going to get into the NHL and that I should probably focus on something where I have a degree of talent, I started writing again and working with different musicians. It’s been cool.”

Which led to the formation of an oddball project called Owl Stretching, which has seen Bieler go so far as to re-record Saigon Kick's ‘The Lizard’ with some industrial tweaking. All in the name of having fun with the music.

“Owl Stretching is me working with different musicians, some of them older and more experienced, some new guys, and constantly messing with it and evolving with it. Because I own a label and a studio, I don’t really have to do anything. It’s been the most fun, and the most dangerous in a sense, because I really don’t care. I can do what I want with whoever I want and how I want along with the people working with me, with no real justification for it. I’m not concerned about whether radio will like it or being able to tour with it. We’re just making music that we think is cool for that moment. We’ve only done a few things so far, but the diversity of Owl Stretching makes Saigon Kick look like a death metal band (laughs).”
“There are about 12 songs almost done that are completely different from each other. There’s some heavier stuff, and some other material that may be more on the alternative side. My goal is to release music every month or so. I’m not too concerned about making an album because the music isn’t geared that way, and I think that in this day and age people don’t really listen to albums anymore. I’d love to do something with Benji from Skindred, I think the guys from Sic are amazing, and people that came out of the woodwork over years that are in really big bands now. I just want to keep it fun and different and see where it goes.”

The original version of 'The Lizard' is the title track of Saigon Kick's second album, released in 1992, which featured vocalist Matt Kramer on lead vocals.