I told you yesterday that Houston's favorite weird pop band, The Black Math Experiment, has returned to the scene. Today I have the official announcement from singer Jef with one F Rouner:

Photo by Bill Olive: Black Math Experiment circa 2005.

It's been a year since the members of The Black Math Experiment accepted their award for Best Unclassifiable Band, and then parted ways. A relentless performance and album release schedule left us all numb and exhausted. Still friends, there has been much to celebrate since we left the stage. Christi Lain became Mrs. Peter Vest with us all in attendance. Brian Coleman graduated college. Bill Curtner continued to play guitar with Houston-based goth rockers, The Abyss. Captain Mongo Nelson returned to Minnesota, where he is celebrating the birth of his first child, a daughter named Genevieve Sara Nelson. Jef With One F went to work as a journalist for the Houston Press, and is also expecting a daughter (Katy Elizabeth With One F) in August. He also penned a biography of the band called The Bible Spelled Backwards Does Not Change the Fact That You Cannot Kill David Arquette and Other Things I Learned in the Black Math Experiment that is currently seeking publication.

Hopefully, publishers will be interested in a sequel, as the original members of Black Math have agreed to meet in July at an undisclosed location in order to prepare for a return. A long rest has given us the chance to recover, and to remember why we began the experiment in the first place. The music we wanted to listen to didn’t exist, so we made it. Simple as that. We’re looking for salvation through absurdity. Though we’ll be playing infrequently, when we do you can expect spectacles unlike any we’ve unleashed before. We’re coming back to destroy things and paint the rubble. And there just may be enough left in us for another album. There are demos just lying around that make You Cannot Kill David Arquette and Everyone is Gay look like b-sides from a Ringo Starr solo album.

Before the year is over, we are coming back.

For those new to Houston or new to the Houston music scene or if you just weren't paying attention a couple of years ago, here are some things that will help you understand why we love BME:

1. BME writes an essay, gets to open for the Misfits

2. BME writes a song about David Arquette, he sends cupcakes in return.

3. BME sends David Arquette a t-shirt, who goes on to wear it on TRL.

4. BME manages to get David Arquette to come to their show at the Proletariat. (Here's some video from that show.)

5. Listen to this classic (by "classic," I mean "kind of rough") podcast with the band from 2006:

We here at 29-95 welcome you back with open arms, Black Math Experiment, and hope you will return to wreaking havoc in a live setting very soon.