“A party on its way to becoming an institution.” —Jon Pareles, The New York Times
July 16th (Midsummer Night's Swing):
Ponderosa Stomp: The Get Down
* William Bell - a principal architect of the Stax/Volt sound.
* The Bobbettes – girl group known as the ‘Harlem Queens’ known for their hit, “Mr Lee”
* Bo-Keys - authentic, greasy Memphis soul stew w/ Stax Records stars
* Harvey Scales - a hard-hitting soul man, writer of "Disco Lady" and “Love-i-tus”
July 17th (Midsummer Night's Swing):
Ponderosa Stomp: Best Dance In Town
* Joe Clay - New Orleans’ proto-rockabilly genius, appeared with Elvis
* The Collins Kids – 50’s TV faves, this brother/sister duo features double neck guitar pyrotechnics
* Deke Dickerson & The Eccofonics - the nitro-charged country and rockabilly specialists
* Carl Mann - Sun Records artist had his first hit with Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa”
July 19th (Lincoln Center Festival): A Tribute to "The Creole Beethoven,"
Wardell Quezergue, celebrated New Orleans arranger and mastermind behind
countless rhythm and blues classics. On the bill:
* The Dixie Cups – hit makers who recorded classics, "Chapel of Love" and "Iko Iko."
* Jean Knight - New Orleans-based singer of "Mr. Big Stuff."
* Tammy Lynn - soul singer and legendary background singer for the Rolling Stones, Dr. John, and countless others.
* Zigaboo Modeliste - New Orleans master drummer and member of funk originators the Meters.
* Dorothy Moore - Malaco Records' soul/blues balladeer.
* Tony Owens - Lost soul king of New Orleans.
* Robert Parker – recorded his hit record, "Barefootin’” with Querzegue
* Mac Rebennack - New Orleans musician/producer/arranger/ songwriter better known as Dr. John.
Direct from the press release:
The Ponderosa Stomp Concert, a New Orleans musical tradition, highlights the world’s most authentic musicians of rockabilly, R&B, jazz, blues, garage, soul, funk, and swamp pop. The annual show has become a must-see event, functioning as a showcase for living musical history. The Ponderosa Stomp exists to acknowledge, pay tribute to, and teach the cultural significance of the unsung heroes and heroines of rock-n-roll, rhythm & blues and other forms of American roots music. The Stomp began when a group of like-minded friends began presenting shows at a small club; it has evolved into a multi-faceted musical, cultural and educational juggernaut. Events in New Orleans every spring include two jam-packed nights of music, a conference and symposium, film festival, record hop and now, a museum exhibit. Unsung Heroes: The Secret History of Louisiana Rock & Roll is currently on display at the Louisiana State Museum in the historic Cabildo in the heart of the French Quarter, running through May 2010.
American Routes, the nationally syndicated roots music show, recorded interviews and live performances at the New Orleans Stomp in late April 2009. As part of the 4th of July show, American Routes will air this show the week of Independence Day, listeners can visit http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/stations/ or check their local listings for specific days and times in each market.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Mile High Music Festival
Line-up Announced for Colorado's Mile High Music Festival
Saturday, July 18
TOOL
Widespread Panic
Incubus
Ben Harper & Relentless7
G. Love and Special Sauce
Big Head Todd & The Monsters
The Black Keys
Ani DiFranco
Matt Nathanson
Galactic
Paolo Nutini
Gomez
The Greyboy Allstars
Railroad Earth
India.Arie
Lyrics Born
Rocco DeLuca and The Burden
needtobreathe
Band of Heathens
Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam
The Northern Way (formerly Set Forth)|
Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real
Early Pearl
Sunday, July 19
Widespread Panic
The Fray
Thievery Corporation
3OH!3
Gov't Mule
Gogol Bordello
John Butler
Devotchka
Buddy Guy
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Pepper
The Wailers
Matisayhu
Jack's Mannequin
Guster
Mat Kearney
Dead Confederate
Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons
Erin McCarley
Paper Bird
Honeyhoney
Joe Pug
Electric Touch
Saturday, July 18
TOOL
Widespread Panic
Incubus
Ben Harper & Relentless7
G. Love and Special Sauce
Big Head Todd & The Monsters
The Black Keys
Ani DiFranco
Matt Nathanson
Galactic
Paolo Nutini
Gomez
The Greyboy Allstars
Railroad Earth
India.Arie
Lyrics Born
Rocco DeLuca and The Burden
needtobreathe
Band of Heathens
Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam
The Northern Way (formerly Set Forth)|
Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real
Early Pearl
Sunday, July 19
Widespread Panic
The Fray
Thievery Corporation
3OH!3
Gov't Mule
Gogol Bordello
John Butler
Devotchka
Buddy Guy
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Pepper
The Wailers
Matisayhu
Jack's Mannequin
Guster
Mat Kearney
Dead Confederate
Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons
Erin McCarley
Paper Bird
Honeyhoney
Joe Pug
Electric Touch
Australia's Sneaky Sound System
With a debut album that's gone twice platinum and a single ("I Love It"), that had the longest chart run in Australian history - perhaps someone might want to see what the fuss is all about?
US DATES
June 17 - LIV (Fontainbleau) - Miami, FL
June 18 - The Church - Denver, CO
June 19 - Celebrities - Vancouver
June 20 - SPIN - San Diego, CA
June 23 - Cinespace - Los Angeles, CA
June 24 - Abbey Pub - Chicago, IL
June 25 - Tattoo - Toronto
June 26 - Webster Hall (GBH & Webster Hall Presents) - New York, NY
Sneaky Sound System are Sydney trio Miss Connie (Connie Mitchell), Black Angus (Angus McDonald), and MC Double D (Daimon Downey}.
The press bio:
Their story began back in 2000 when Daimon met Angus at a fancy dress party and stole the flute from his mariachi costume. They became friends and decided to start a club on the quietest night of the week. Angus spun tunes and Daimon hyped on the mic. It wasn’t some trendy minimal techno joint, but unpretentious hands in the air fun, “no shoe-gazing, no wallflowers,” as Angus describes it. Still going strong seven years later, it packs in around 1000 people each Sunday, and guests have included Tiga, LCD’s James Murphy, Mylo and Hot Chip.
“I got fired from my job after that first Sneaky night,” Daimon recalls, “because we had such a good time I didn’t go to work the next day. Angus was in publishing and was made redundant the next week. We thought, ‘Fuck it, let’s keep doing this and see how far we can go’,”
Angus had long had musical aspirations. He spent time in New York as a singer-songwriter followed by four years in London developing his DJ skills on the club scene. Daimon, meanwhile, was born in South Africa and raised in the tiny rural town of Bellingen on Australia’s east coast. He came to Sydney to be an artist but ended up a barman. Once Sneaky Sundays was up and running, however, everything changed.
In 2003 Sony asked them to put together a mix CD. The result was ‘Other Peoples Music’, a housey affair that ran into edgier territory such as Gonzales and Metro Area, occasionally overlaid with live instrumentation and Daimon’s rapping. It was a success and before long the pair tried their hand at their own music. The third piece of the Sneaky jigsaw was about to fall into place.
For five years since leaving school Connie Mitchell had been in reasonably successful industrial rock band Primary but after they split, she was at a loose end. One day, as she sat in a park playing guitar to a friend, Angus and Daimon happened by and asked her to sing for them.
“I thought they were a bit dodgy,” recollects Connie, “You know, two guys coming up to you, excited, jumping around a bit, saying ‘Come to our studio’.”
They did, however, have a recording set up - Whack Studios - and when Connie sang through what was to be their breakthrough single, the contagious dance-pop of ‘I Love It’, Sneaky Sound System had their vocalist. Within days, they’d laid down vocals to their eponymous debut album which, as Angus says, “has one foot in the clubs and one foot in the pop world.” The industry, however, was not convinced.
“We were told by every label we might sell 10,000 copies and it wasn’t worth it,” says Angus, “so we decided to do it ourselves.”
Setting up their own label, Whack Records, they did exactly that with slow-burning but spectacular results. Strangely though, ‘UFO’, their catchiest song of all, was almost an afterthought. Angus wrote the music and chorus – “I saw a UFO and nobody believes me” - in two minutes after watching a National Geographic programme about flying saucers. The next day Connie attended to the verses; she, after all, could relate to the subject matter, having once been abducted by aliens. One night putting a few pieces of washing out on the line to dry…
“I heard this buzzing sound like a swarm of flies moving from left to right,” she remembers, “I looked in the sky and saw three white lights doing super-quick triangular movements. When I came back in everybody said, ‘Where have you been?’ I looked at my watch and I’d lost 40 minutes about which I have no recollection.”
Almost as worrying was suddenly playing in nightclubs. Primary had only ever played pubs and venues. “I’d never been in a club before,” she giggles, “It’s a completely different world, it’s mayhem, isn’t it?”
Sneaky Sound System were soon bona-fide pop stars, recognized in the street or, in Connie’s case, having to pose for a fan photo when she’d popped out in her pyjamas to buy a pint of milk. The recognition also resulted in her making prestigious guest appearances on albums by Kanye West and Snoop Dogg. A whirlwind of Sneaky tours began with a full band, initially a completely sold out run of dates at home and then all over the world. Appropriately, they even popped into Ibiza. “That is one messed up place, I don’t know how they get away with it,” says Daimon, “The loneliest, quietest place on earth is the airport departure lounge in Ibiza...”
At home they toured with the aforementioned Robbie Williams, Jamiroquai and, perhaps the group they have most in common with, The Scissor Sisters.
“They knew the words to some of our songs and, on our first date together, stood on the side of the stage cheering us on,” laughs Daimon, “Jake Shears had been recording with Kylie Minogue and apparently they were obsessed with our song ‘Pictures’.”
Now Sneaky have finished their second album, working with Spike Stent of Madonna and Gwen Stefani fame. For world release, it will be compiled with the best of their debut and released in September 2008. Like the Scissor Sisters, they’re a pop band whose heart lies in the swirling giddy party attitude of club culture. And like all the best pop bands, they’re a team of distinct personalities and roles. Black Angus, named after a corrupt copper from Oz TV series ‘Blue Murder’, is the musical dynamo, MC Double D is the flamboyant showman with a mic – “Better to be looked over than overlooked,” he says - and Connie, the quirky front woman whose hobbies include fast cars and robot-building, is quite the opposite of a diva. In a time of predictable R&B dross and Luddite indie bands, it’s refreshing to be presented with an ebullient outfit overflowing with such hooky choruses and colourful character.
www.myspace.com/sneakysoundsystem
US DATES
June 17 - LIV (Fontainbleau) - Miami, FL
June 18 - The Church - Denver, CO
June 19 - Celebrities - Vancouver
June 20 - SPIN - San Diego, CA
June 23 - Cinespace - Los Angeles, CA
June 24 - Abbey Pub - Chicago, IL
June 25 - Tattoo - Toronto
June 26 - Webster Hall (GBH & Webster Hall Presents) - New York, NY
Sneaky Sound System are Sydney trio Miss Connie (Connie Mitchell), Black Angus (Angus McDonald), and MC Double D (Daimon Downey}.
The press bio:
Their story began back in 2000 when Daimon met Angus at a fancy dress party and stole the flute from his mariachi costume. They became friends and decided to start a club on the quietest night of the week. Angus spun tunes and Daimon hyped on the mic. It wasn’t some trendy minimal techno joint, but unpretentious hands in the air fun, “no shoe-gazing, no wallflowers,” as Angus describes it. Still going strong seven years later, it packs in around 1000 people each Sunday, and guests have included Tiga, LCD’s James Murphy, Mylo and Hot Chip.
“I got fired from my job after that first Sneaky night,” Daimon recalls, “because we had such a good time I didn’t go to work the next day. Angus was in publishing and was made redundant the next week. We thought, ‘Fuck it, let’s keep doing this and see how far we can go’,”
Angus had long had musical aspirations. He spent time in New York as a singer-songwriter followed by four years in London developing his DJ skills on the club scene. Daimon, meanwhile, was born in South Africa and raised in the tiny rural town of Bellingen on Australia’s east coast. He came to Sydney to be an artist but ended up a barman. Once Sneaky Sundays was up and running, however, everything changed.
In 2003 Sony asked them to put together a mix CD. The result was ‘Other Peoples Music’, a housey affair that ran into edgier territory such as Gonzales and Metro Area, occasionally overlaid with live instrumentation and Daimon’s rapping. It was a success and before long the pair tried their hand at their own music. The third piece of the Sneaky jigsaw was about to fall into place.
For five years since leaving school Connie Mitchell had been in reasonably successful industrial rock band Primary but after they split, she was at a loose end. One day, as she sat in a park playing guitar to a friend, Angus and Daimon happened by and asked her to sing for them.
“I thought they were a bit dodgy,” recollects Connie, “You know, two guys coming up to you, excited, jumping around a bit, saying ‘Come to our studio’.”
They did, however, have a recording set up - Whack Studios - and when Connie sang through what was to be their breakthrough single, the contagious dance-pop of ‘I Love It’, Sneaky Sound System had their vocalist. Within days, they’d laid down vocals to their eponymous debut album which, as Angus says, “has one foot in the clubs and one foot in the pop world.” The industry, however, was not convinced.
“We were told by every label we might sell 10,000 copies and it wasn’t worth it,” says Angus, “so we decided to do it ourselves.”
Setting up their own label, Whack Records, they did exactly that with slow-burning but spectacular results. Strangely though, ‘UFO’, their catchiest song of all, was almost an afterthought. Angus wrote the music and chorus – “I saw a UFO and nobody believes me” - in two minutes after watching a National Geographic programme about flying saucers. The next day Connie attended to the verses; she, after all, could relate to the subject matter, having once been abducted by aliens. One night putting a few pieces of washing out on the line to dry…
“I heard this buzzing sound like a swarm of flies moving from left to right,” she remembers, “I looked in the sky and saw three white lights doing super-quick triangular movements. When I came back in everybody said, ‘Where have you been?’ I looked at my watch and I’d lost 40 minutes about which I have no recollection.”
Almost as worrying was suddenly playing in nightclubs. Primary had only ever played pubs and venues. “I’d never been in a club before,” she giggles, “It’s a completely different world, it’s mayhem, isn’t it?”
Sneaky Sound System were soon bona-fide pop stars, recognized in the street or, in Connie’s case, having to pose for a fan photo when she’d popped out in her pyjamas to buy a pint of milk. The recognition also resulted in her making prestigious guest appearances on albums by Kanye West and Snoop Dogg. A whirlwind of Sneaky tours began with a full band, initially a completely sold out run of dates at home and then all over the world. Appropriately, they even popped into Ibiza. “That is one messed up place, I don’t know how they get away with it,” says Daimon, “The loneliest, quietest place on earth is the airport departure lounge in Ibiza...”
At home they toured with the aforementioned Robbie Williams, Jamiroquai and, perhaps the group they have most in common with, The Scissor Sisters.
“They knew the words to some of our songs and, on our first date together, stood on the side of the stage cheering us on,” laughs Daimon, “Jake Shears had been recording with Kylie Minogue and apparently they were obsessed with our song ‘Pictures’.”
Now Sneaky have finished their second album, working with Spike Stent of Madonna and Gwen Stefani fame. For world release, it will be compiled with the best of their debut and released in September 2008. Like the Scissor Sisters, they’re a pop band whose heart lies in the swirling giddy party attitude of club culture. And like all the best pop bands, they’re a team of distinct personalities and roles. Black Angus, named after a corrupt copper from Oz TV series ‘Blue Murder’, is the musical dynamo, MC Double D is the flamboyant showman with a mic – “Better to be looked over than overlooked,” he says - and Connie, the quirky front woman whose hobbies include fast cars and robot-building, is quite the opposite of a diva. In a time of predictable R&B dross and Luddite indie bands, it’s refreshing to be presented with an ebullient outfit overflowing with such hooky choruses and colourful character.
www.myspace.com/sneakysoundsystem
Los Amigos Invisibles On Tour
Los Amigos Invisibles album, Commercial, now available via iTunes; and available everywhere June 9th.
Live:
6/20: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
6/23: New York, NY @ Nublu (CD Release Show)
7/10: Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park (LAMC/Celebrate Brooklyn)
7/12: Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
8/5: Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
8/6: San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
8/7: Los Angeles, CA @ House Of Blues Sunset Strip
8/8: San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
10/2: Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festiva
Primary songwriter, Jose Luis Pardo, breaks down several tracks on Commercial giving insight to the album:
Mentiras
Mauricio and I wrote this track thinking of an 80s era funk song a la Prince or even LCD Soundsystem. The idea for the lyrics came from a couple pictures that some bartenders in the Dominican Republic took of us really wasted after a gig on the beach. The pictures made it to one of those party websites and it only took 20 minutes for our wives to find them. So, we were both like... “That is not me, I swear! I was at the hotel sleeping!”
Vivire Para Ti (feat. Natalia Lafourcade)
This is our tribute to the Salsoul Orchestra. We wanted to make a straight-up disco track that also had mellow and funky feel. After we made it and Everhard Paredes recorded the strings (one violin, like 10 channels), we felt that we needed some Hispanic Jocelyn Brown to take it to the top. We have been huge fans of Natalia Lafourcade since we first listened to her. So I contacted her, offered to clean her house if she did some vocals and she came back with some wonderful arrangements that took the track far beyond our expectations.
Burundanga
When we started touring the U.S., we were embraced by a scene that Americans call the "jam band crowd". People from all ages, all nationalities that love to dance, to get down, to trip out and have fun with bands that usually go under-the-radar of mass media. This track is to thank them for so many great gigs. We wanted to keep paying our tribute to Fela. So there’s a drug that is being used in Venezuela to assault people, it’s called burundanga. You touch this powder (it could even be on a flyer in the street) and you instantly go on psychedelic trip, the robbers take you to ATMs, your house and you do nothing but please them. I know - insane!
Live:
6/20: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
6/23: New York, NY @ Nublu (CD Release Show)
7/10: Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park (LAMC/Celebrate Brooklyn)
7/12: Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
8/5: Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
8/6: San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
8/7: Los Angeles, CA @ House Of Blues Sunset Strip
8/8: San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
10/2: Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festiva
Primary songwriter, Jose Luis Pardo, breaks down several tracks on Commercial giving insight to the album:
Mentiras
Mauricio and I wrote this track thinking of an 80s era funk song a la Prince or even LCD Soundsystem. The idea for the lyrics came from a couple pictures that some bartenders in the Dominican Republic took of us really wasted after a gig on the beach. The pictures made it to one of those party websites and it only took 20 minutes for our wives to find them. So, we were both like... “That is not me, I swear! I was at the hotel sleeping!”
Vivire Para Ti (feat. Natalia Lafourcade)
This is our tribute to the Salsoul Orchestra. We wanted to make a straight-up disco track that also had mellow and funky feel. After we made it and Everhard Paredes recorded the strings (one violin, like 10 channels), we felt that we needed some Hispanic Jocelyn Brown to take it to the top. We have been huge fans of Natalia Lafourcade since we first listened to her. So I contacted her, offered to clean her house if she did some vocals and she came back with some wonderful arrangements that took the track far beyond our expectations.
Burundanga
When we started touring the U.S., we were embraced by a scene that Americans call the "jam band crowd". People from all ages, all nationalities that love to dance, to get down, to trip out and have fun with bands that usually go under-the-radar of mass media. This track is to thank them for so many great gigs. We wanted to keep paying our tribute to Fela. So there’s a drug that is being used in Venezuela to assault people, it’s called burundanga. You touch this powder (it could even be on a flyer in the street) and you instantly go on psychedelic trip, the robbers take you to ATMs, your house and you do nothing but please them. I know - insane!
Wild Beasts To Release New Album
"Wild Beasts singer Hayden Thorpe can conjure extraordinary melodrama with his voice, as he sings in high, clear tones and stretches his range into a growl with equal finesse. All the while, the rest of the band wraps his fragile, aching phrases in clean guitars and tip-toed drums. It could easily come off as overly posed or mannered, but in the English group's short career, it's already demonstrated an instinct to push past easy uses of its gifts, through both wild experimentation and subtle restraint." -- NPR.org
Wild beasts release their second album, Two Dancers Septemeber 8 on Domino Records. The album which was recorded live, is said to include references to "booty calls, puckered lips, bodies as perfect machines, and dim-lit streets."
Two Dancers Tracklisting:
01. The Fun Powder Plot
02. Hooting & Howling
03. All The King's Men
04. When I'm Sleepy...
05. We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues
06. Two Dancers (i)
07. Two Dancers (ii)
08. This Is Our Lot
09. Underbelly
10. Empty Nest
http://www.dominorecordco.us/artists/wild-beasts/
http://www.wild-beasts.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/wildbeasts
Wild beasts release their second album, Two Dancers Septemeber 8 on Domino Records. The album which was recorded live, is said to include references to "booty calls, puckered lips, bodies as perfect machines, and dim-lit streets."
Two Dancers Tracklisting:
01. The Fun Powder Plot
02. Hooting & Howling
03. All The King's Men
04. When I'm Sleepy...
05. We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our Tongues
06. Two Dancers (i)
07. Two Dancers (ii)
08. This Is Our Lot
09. Underbelly
10. Empty Nest
http://www.dominorecordco.us/artists/wild-beasts/
http://www.wild-beasts.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/wildbeasts
Lullatone Will Rock Your Baby
MP3: "A Mobile Over Your Bed" -
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/lullatonemobile.mp3
Make Your Own Lullatone Song: The Lullatone Melody Maker -
http://www.lullatone.com/news/raindrop-melody-maker-2/
Bio: Lullatone is Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Seymour from Nagoya, Japan who have been releasing conceptual pop albums since 2002, displaying artwork, touring the world, and even hosting a Japanese children's TV program. Lullatone began out of necessity when Shawn Seymour was schooling in Japan and could only travel with his portable Casio SK-1 keyboard, sampling sine tones, he crafted quiet pop tunes in the apartment to not wake Yoshimi; now his now wife and vocalist for the band, as she was sleeping.
Press Release: Songs That Spin in Circles is their sixth album and will be released via Audio Dregs and furthers the concept of sleep-worthy pop hits as a "music for babies" concept album. Demos for the tracks were begun by Shawn while he was waiting in the hospital for the newest "band member", Niko, to be born. Niko soon went to work testing the advantages of the new songs in helping take him into dreamland. The album features a high level of sound science to ensure ultimate effectiveness in snooze inducing. Underwater recordings, heartbeats as drumbeats, and tape hiss as ambient white noise are just the beginning of the shuteye science the duo employed to create their most careful concept album to date. Imagine Calder making sound pieces instead of mobile sculptures or a Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Babies, that babies actually enjoyed. Perhaps if Brian Eno had made a Music for Airports For Babies it would sound like this. Or Sigur Ros on Nyquil? Beck has said that he played Lullatone songs in the past to his infant son and Momus has dubbed them "the cutest formalists in town."
Lullatone
Lullatone
We Will Rock You.. to Sleep
(Audio Dregs)
1. A Mobile Over Your Bed
2. Bedroom Bossa Band
3. Good Morning Melody
4. Wake Up Wake Up
5. Leaves Falling
6. Make This Sound
7. Marching To Sleep
8. Kitty Koda (Extended Lullaby Remix)
LULLATONE LINKS:
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lullatone
Official Lullatone website: http://www.lullatone.com
http://www.forcefieldpr.com/lullatonemobile.mp3
Make Your Own Lullatone Song: The Lullatone Melody Maker -
http://www.lullatone.com/news/raindrop-melody-maker-2/
Bio: Lullatone is Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Seymour from Nagoya, Japan who have been releasing conceptual pop albums since 2002, displaying artwork, touring the world, and even hosting a Japanese children's TV program. Lullatone began out of necessity when Shawn Seymour was schooling in Japan and could only travel with his portable Casio SK-1 keyboard, sampling sine tones, he crafted quiet pop tunes in the apartment to not wake Yoshimi; now his now wife and vocalist for the band, as she was sleeping.
Press Release: Songs That Spin in Circles is their sixth album and will be released via Audio Dregs and furthers the concept of sleep-worthy pop hits as a "music for babies" concept album. Demos for the tracks were begun by Shawn while he was waiting in the hospital for the newest "band member", Niko, to be born. Niko soon went to work testing the advantages of the new songs in helping take him into dreamland. The album features a high level of sound science to ensure ultimate effectiveness in snooze inducing. Underwater recordings, heartbeats as drumbeats, and tape hiss as ambient white noise are just the beginning of the shuteye science the duo employed to create their most careful concept album to date. Imagine Calder making sound pieces instead of mobile sculptures or a Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Babies, that babies actually enjoyed. Perhaps if Brian Eno had made a Music for Airports For Babies it would sound like this. Or Sigur Ros on Nyquil? Beck has said that he played Lullatone songs in the past to his infant son and Momus has dubbed them "the cutest formalists in town."
Lullatone
Lullatone
We Will Rock You.. to Sleep
(Audio Dregs)
1. A Mobile Over Your Bed
2. Bedroom Bossa Band
3. Good Morning Melody
4. Wake Up Wake Up
5. Leaves Falling
6. Make This Sound
7. Marching To Sleep
8. Kitty Koda (Extended Lullaby Remix)
LULLATONE LINKS:
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lullatone
Official Lullatone website: http://www.lullatone.com
Holly Miranda
Holly Miranda, 26, SWF. Detroit born, Tennessee raised, Brooklyn resident. Loves horses, whiskey, kale. Skilled parallel parker; thumb wrestling champ; "lousy banjo player".
Note from Holly: I’m very, very happy to announce that I will be on tour with AA Bondy for a few weeks starting this Friday in Northampton, Massachusetts!! Auguste is a ridiculously talented musician, and I’m so grateful to get to share the stage with him. I’ll also be bringing Tim Mislock and Marques Toliver with me for the dates, so don’t miss it & please tell your friends.
You can now download the acoustic single "Waves" gratis as well as the new Sleep On Fire EP digitally (and order a physical copy)at http://www.hollymiranda.com.
TOUR DATES w/ AA BONDY
June 5 - Iron Horse Music Hall - Northampton, MA
June 6 - Bell House - Brooklyn, NY
June 8 - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA
June 9 - Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
June 11 - IOTA Club & Cafe - Arlington, VA
June 12 - Snug Harbor - Charlotte, NC
June 15 - The Basement - Columbus, OH
June 16 - Radio Radio - Indianapolis, IN
June 17 - Pike Room - Pontiac, MI
June 18, 2009 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL
June 19, 2009 - Club Garibaldi's - Milwaukee, WI
June 20, 2009 - The 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
http://www.hollymiranda.com
Note from Holly: I’m very, very happy to announce that I will be on tour with AA Bondy for a few weeks starting this Friday in Northampton, Massachusetts!! Auguste is a ridiculously talented musician, and I’m so grateful to get to share the stage with him. I’ll also be bringing Tim Mislock and Marques Toliver with me for the dates, so don’t miss it & please tell your friends.
You can now download the acoustic single "Waves" gratis as well as the new Sleep On Fire EP digitally (and order a physical copy)at http://www.hollymiranda.com.
TOUR DATES w/ AA BONDY
June 5 - Iron Horse Music Hall - Northampton, MA
June 6 - Bell House - Brooklyn, NY
June 8 - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA
June 9 - Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
June 11 - IOTA Club & Cafe - Arlington, VA
June 12 - Snug Harbor - Charlotte, NC
June 15 - The Basement - Columbus, OH
June 16 - Radio Radio - Indianapolis, IN
June 17 - Pike Room - Pontiac, MI
June 18, 2009 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL
June 19, 2009 - Club Garibaldi's - Milwaukee, WI
June 20, 2009 - The 400 Bar - Minneapolis, MN
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Canada's The Lovely Feathers announce their sophomore effort
Canadian band The Lovely Feathers announce their second album Fantasy of the Lot, available August 18 on Sparks Music/Tommy Boy. The album was recorded in Montreal’s Studio Plateau with Dan Lagace (Stars, Dears, Death from Above) and features eleven tracks.
Background info:
In 2006, The Lovely Feathers – Mark Kupfert, Mark Shortt, Richard Yanofsky, David Buzaglo and Ted Suss – released their debut album Hind Hind Legs . The band received raves from Pitchfork, SPIN, and Rolling Stone. Metric tapped the band to join them on a world tour. After the road, and a love spell from Cupid, the band took an “indefinite hiatus.” But they return in full force with what they hope will be an effort worth the wait. For this new release, the band "experimented with low cost tape recordings, transformed dining rooms into recording studios, and wrote music at anytime, anywhere." Visit http://www.thelovelyfeathers.com or www.myspace.com/thelovelyfeather for more information.
Background info:
In 2006, The Lovely Feathers – Mark Kupfert, Mark Shortt, Richard Yanofsky, David Buzaglo and Ted Suss – released their debut album Hind Hind Legs . The band received raves from Pitchfork, SPIN, and Rolling Stone. Metric tapped the band to join them on a world tour. After the road, and a love spell from Cupid, the band took an “indefinite hiatus.” But they return in full force with what they hope will be an effort worth the wait. For this new release, the band "experimented with low cost tape recordings, transformed dining rooms into recording studios, and wrote music at anytime, anywhere." Visit http://www.thelovelyfeathers.com or www.myspace.com/thelovelyfeather for more information.
Riot Fest Chicago and Riot Fest West
What is Riot Fest? Have a look see:
In 2005, the men and women who began Riot Fest planned shows with a focus on the Chicago punk scene and bands they considered seminal to underground music. Riot Fest continues it's campaign in Chicago, and announces their new Riot Fest West, including three nights in Los Angeles. While 2009’s entire line-up remains undetermined, a few of the choices for this year’s Chicago Riot Fest have been announced.
Those announced for Shytown are: The snarky punks of Screeching Weasel, NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Murder City Devils, The Dead Milkmen and U.K. band Cock Sparrer.
Riot Fest Chicago:
October 7-11th at Congress Theatre, Metro, Double Door, Subterranean and Cobra Lounge. A limited number of five day passes will be for sale June 6th, for $99.00 – which includes 14 shows. Five day pass holders will have the opportunity to win tickets to one of 4 secret shows which are planned for August and run until the start of the fest.
Riot Fest West November 12th – 14th at four venues, Palladium, The Wiltern, Key Club and The Roxy in Los Angeles, stay tuned for the line-up.
Website: http://www.RiotFest.org
Myspace: http://www.MySpace.com/RiotFest2005
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1445527879&ref=ts
Riot Fest 2009 Promotional Video from Riot Fest on Vimeo.
In 2005, the men and women who began Riot Fest planned shows with a focus on the Chicago punk scene and bands they considered seminal to underground music. Riot Fest continues it's campaign in Chicago, and announces their new Riot Fest West, including three nights in Los Angeles. While 2009’s entire line-up remains undetermined, a few of the choices for this year’s Chicago Riot Fest have been announced.
Those announced for Shytown are: The snarky punks of Screeching Weasel, NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Murder City Devils, The Dead Milkmen and U.K. band Cock Sparrer.
Riot Fest Chicago:
October 7-11th at Congress Theatre, Metro, Double Door, Subterranean and Cobra Lounge. A limited number of five day passes will be for sale June 6th, for $99.00 – which includes 14 shows. Five day pass holders will have the opportunity to win tickets to one of 4 secret shows which are planned for August and run until the start of the fest.
Riot Fest West November 12th – 14th at four venues, Palladium, The Wiltern, Key Club and The Roxy in Los Angeles, stay tuned for the line-up.
Website: http://www.RiotFest.org
Myspace: http://www.MySpace.com/RiotFest2005
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1445527879&ref=ts
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