October 20, 2009
Emily Rodgers' New Release Bright Day Out Now!
Full list of tour dates available here!
Hallelujah The Hills Tour:
September 23, 2009
Hallelujah the Hills Announces Fall US Tour
Full list of show dates available here!
September 22, 2009
Hallelujah the Hills' Colonial Drones Out Today!!
We're proud to announce the latest from Hallelujah the Hills, Colonial Drones - in stores today! You can buy it here!
August 6, 2009
Welcome to the new server! It doesn't look any different, but we've made some sweet changes under the hood. Now it's time to get back to the music!
July 23, 2009
Validate me- The Boston Phoenix loves the song "Blank Passports" from Hallelujah the Hills' upcoming album Colonial Drones!
http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/onthedownload/archive/2009/07/22/new-hallelujah-the-hills-mp3-blank-passports-from-colonial-drones.aspx
July 21, 2009
LIVE! NUDE! BANDS!
Will Johnson
July 25, 2009 - Oakford IL- Hill Prairie Winery
Monahans
July 25, 2009- Austin Texas The Mohawk w/ The Donkeys and Magnolia Electric Co.
June 9, 2009
Validate Me:Hallelujah the Hills new album Colonial Drones announced on Pitchfork
http://pitchfork.com/news/35910-new-release-hallelujah-the-hills-icolonial-dronesi/
The Low Lows added to ATP Fest New York
This year’s ATP Fest New York will be co-curated by The Flaming Lips and The Low Lows have been hand chosen by the band to play
The Low Lows to play ATP New York- Sunday, September 13, 2009: curated by The Flaming Lips
Joining The Low Lows on the bill are Oneida, Boris, Super Furry Animals, Crystal Castles, Deerhoof with Martha Colburn, Caribou, No Age, Boredoms and The Flaming Lips
LIVE! NUDE! BANDS!
Hallelujah The Hills
June 12th, 2009 - Cambridge, MA - The Middle East Downstairs w/ Fiery Furnaces
The Low Lows
June 12th, 2009 - Austin, TX - Continental Club w/ Brothers & Sisters
Palomar
June 12th, 2009 - Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly
May 19, 2009
Monahans Dim the Aurora Out Today!!
We're proud to announce the latest release from Austin, Tx's Monahans, Dim the Aurora - in stores today! If you have yet to listen to the single for this beautiful, slow-burning rock record, check out "It's Enough to Leave You..." ( click here)...or watch the brand new video below.
Dim the Aurora is available thru your local record store, iTunes, Amazon, OR buy the CD and digital download right here from the Monahans' artist page.
May 18, 2009
Validate Me: Monahans on Magnet Magazine.com
Magnet posts Monahans "It's Enough to Leave You..." Video:
http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/05/17/film-at-11-monahans/
May 18, 2009
Watch New Monahans Video for "It's Enough to Leave You..."
May 11, 2009
Editors Present: Mobius Band "Heaven" Released in theU.K.!!
To those who saw Editors on their UK tour in 2008, Mobius Band will be instantly familiar. The bond between the New York based trio of Peter Sax, Noam Schatz and Ben Sterling and the Birmingham quartet was evident on every date of that tour with the members of Editors thoroughly enthused about Mobius Bands album ‘Heaven’. Mobius Band and Editors first met on Editors debut US tour and, as bass player Russell Leech explains, it wasn’t quite love at first sight
‘The opening band rolled up and I think managed to insult pretty much everybody within 24 hours of meeting us all. We thought that we had chosen badly. A few days later and after a great gig in Toronto we went out drinking with Mobius Band. We still didn't know how to take them, they had this intelligent, sadistic humour that was witty and quick. It took time to come round and to click but after 3 more weeks on tour we were all great friends.’
That friendship led to a growing admiration from the four Editors for their new found friends music. As the band’s early EP’s and debut US album release ‘The Loving Sounds Of Static’ (2005) underwent heavy rotation on the Editors tour bus discussions began about how Editors could use their position within the UK as platinum artists to get this music out to the public. Then they heard ‘Heaven’, and the plan became increasingly urgent as Russell remembers:
‘When ‘Heaven’ was released the record blew us away. Our favorite track would change from week to week and we had to have the band come play the album to our fans in Europe. They went down superbly well and sold more CD's on the road than they had in total previously. It made sense for us to help out further and to
put the record out.’
Which is how Editors came to present Mobius Band’s Heaven in the UK. Fuelled by a dual love of the dynamic of pop songs and the possibilities of experimentation, shot through with sounds developed from Noam’s passion for gutting and re-assembling toy keyboards, ‘Heaven’ pulses, crackles and hums through its ten tracks. Self recorded by the band with engineering assistance from Emery Dobyns (Antony and the Johnsons. Battles) and Eric Spring, the tracks came together in between these bouts of touring with Editors, Tom Vek and The National in both the USA and Europe.
Editors Present Mobius Band 'Heaven' available in U.K. stores at HMV, Amazon U.K., and Rough Trade and digitally at iTunes U.K.
May 11, 2009
Centro-Matic Fan Twitter-view Archived
Centro-matic hit the road last week for their only tour of 2009 with Monahans. To celebrate their first show at the Granada Theater in Dallas Texas the band took an hour after sound check to answer fans questions on Twitter. Check out the entire conversation here. Be warned it’s a little wacky, but if you read from start to finish you will see that every question is answered. Don’t miss Centro-matic on tour this week!
Click here to read the archived Twitter feed.
May 05, 2009
Chat with Centro-matic live on Twitter this Thursday May 7, 2009 from 7-8pm (CST)
To kick off their only tour of 2009 with Monahans, Cento-matic will be chatting live with fans this Thursday 5/7 from their first stop on tour at the Granada Theater in Dallas Texas!
On Thursday May 7, 2009 fans can log on to the Centro-matic twitter page at http://twitter.com/centromatic to have the chance to ask the entire band anything Centro-matic related from 7-8pm (Central Time).
Centro-matic Give it Away!
Centro-matic is offering fans who attend the upcoming shows a chance to win one of two amazing prizes
PRIZE #1
Will Johnson House Show: He'll come to your house and play a show for you and up to 20 friends. We'll figure out a mutually agreeable date sometime in 2009 for this to happen.
PRIZE #2
"Centro-matic" for life: Every Centro-matic, South San Gabriel and Will Johnson album past and future and two free tickets to any show anytime for life! (does not apply for festivals where we don't control the ticketing).
*You must fill out an entry form at the show to enter the contest*
(for Centro-matic/Monahans upcoming shows click here for our tour page)
May 05, 2009
Palomar to Play Northside Festival!
The lovely ladies of Palomar (and valiant drummer Dale) have just signed on to play the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, NY. Palomar will be playing Friday, June 12th (10:30pm) @ Public Assembly, but the entire festival takes place June 11-14th, showcasing a slew of amazing bands! For full details please visit the Northside Festival (
click here).
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March 13, 2009
Validate Me- Some SF Hometown Love for Southeast Engine in The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Southeast Engine quivers and lopes toward the deluge:
"For all of its occasional echoes of other lonesome-howl enthusiasts -- the aforementioned [Will] Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) and [Jason] Molina ventures, as well as Phosphorescent and maybe Castanets -- From The Forest To The Sea offers up a distinct essence of its own. Distinctive enough, I should add, that I can't wait to dive into their back-catalog..." - The San Francisco Bay Guardian
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/music/2009/03/southeast_engine_quivers_and_l.html
February 18, 2009
VALIDATE ME: PopMatters loves Southeast Engine!
"Ohio band Southeast Engine releases what could be the first truly outstanding release of 2009."
Click here to read full article
February 17, 2009
Southeast Engine From the Forest to the Sea Out Today!!
Southeast Engine's fourth full-length album, From the Forest to the Sea, has officially dropped online and all across retail land! You needn't go any further, however, than here to score your very own copy of this amazing record. The album is available digtially, on CD and LP.
Already darlings in the press, great features and reviews have been rolling in including spots on
Cokemachineglow.com, Daytrotter, and Randomville. The band also made a video for the albums first single, "Black Gold", which was debuted on Stereogum. Finally, keep your eyes peeled for the forthcoming documentary on the making of From the Forest to the Sea - recorded in an abandoned middle school in the remote hills of Ohio - directed by D.C. filmmaker Thomas R. Britt.
The band has lined-up a great bunch of
shows to celebrate the new album on their way down to SXSW where they'll be playing the Misra Showcase. See you there!
February 13, 2009
Spend Valentine's Day with Mobius Band:
Free "Empire of Love" EP Download
Click here to download EP (39.8 Mb zip)
Tracklist:
1. Say You Will (Kanye West)
2. Love Hurts (The Everly Brothers)
3. Lullaby (Dixie Chicks)
4. Satellite (TV On The Radio)
5. At My Window (Townes Van Zandt)
6. You Don't Know How It Feels (Tom Petty)
Once again Mobius Band, relentless romantics that they are, are showering us with love this Valentine's Day with their brand new EP "Empire of Love". The EP was recorded in a friend's empty house in North Bennington, VT just a couple weeks ago (yes - literally empty save for three rugs and a piano that couldn¹t be moved). They brought in all of the recording equipment and instruments along with sleeping bags, food, pans, etc. (just like camping!), set everything up in one room, decided what covers to record on the spot, and made this EP in four days.
Mobius Band will also be performing Monday 2/16 at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn with The Duke Spirit.
February 04, 2009
Southeast Engine is on Daytrotter!
Southeast Engine's Daytrotter session posted today.
Click here to check it out!!
January 30, 2009
VALIDATE ME: Southeast Engine on KUT!
NPR affiliate, KUT Radio will feature "Black Gold" as the Song of the Day
VALIDATE ME: JamBase names Southeast Engine as Artist to Watch in 2009!
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/16425/Cook%27s-Corner-2008-Year-In-Review
January 28, 2009
Southeast Engine Video for "Black Gold"
Southeast Engine unveil their video for "Black Gold", the sixth track off their forthcoming album From the Forest the Sea - directed by Washington D.C. filmmaker Thomas R.Britt. Filmed in and around the Mall in D.C. the video features the band on a highly covert and random mission that ultimately ends in gas masks. "Black Gold" premiered this week by the good folks at Stereogum.