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2013 has proved to be a whirlwind year for the legendary rock band The Flamin’ Groovies. After successful tours of Japan, Australia, the UK and the US, they’ve been in the studio laying down tracks for their next release due in 2014, one of which songs, “The End of the World,” Rolling Stone recently premiered, claiming that “like their best tracks, this music is timeless.”

What people probably don’t know is that this reunion was initially triggered by Groovies’ frontman and guitarist Chris Wilson inviting his former bandmates, Cyril Jordan and George Alexander, to help record his latest full-length studio album, It’s Flamin’ Groovy! Like the Groovies’ most beloved material, these 12 tracks of archetypal rock ‘n’ roll dig deep into the band’s own influences, while still retaining that “timeless” element, and is proof that these guys haven’t lost any of their edge.

Chris is also joined on this effort by ex-Groovies Roy Loney, Mike Wilhelm and James Ferrell, along with Procol Harum’s Hammond legend Matthew Fisher, who played live with the Groovies during their UK dates earlier this year.

The album contains plenty of the harmonies and jangle from the band’s classic Shake Some Action era; in fact opening track “All the Action” is a world-weary riposte to its forebear. “She Satisfies” and “Heart in Her Hand” are both Cyril Jordan originals that have their roots back in the ’80s as lost Groovies classics. Elsewhere the album ventures into Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street territory, while Roy Loney chips in on the high energy rock’n’roll of “Gamblin’ Man.” There are also nods in the direction of The Beatles’ Revolver and touches of psychedelia in the track “Bad Dreams.”

This album is – at least for now – the nearest thing you’ll get to a full-blown Flamin’ Groovies album. It embraces all the influences that have been with the band since the days of Teenage Head and serves as an ideal companion to the band as they return to live action.

Following its UK release in September, It’s Flamin’ Groovy! will see its official U.S. release on CD & digital formats January 14th.

IT’S FLAMIN’ GROOVY  TRACK LISTING:

1. All The Action

2. She Satisfies

3. Last Roll of the Dice

4. Heart in Her Hand

5. Shake That Feeling

6. Bad Dreams

7. Semaphore Signals

8. Down to the Wire

9. Sweet Anne

10. Feel Your Love

11. Can’t Let Go

12. Gamblin’ Man

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A HI-RES PHOTO OF COLLIN HERRING (PHOTO: BRETT ROBBINS) & “SOME KNIVES” ALBUM ART

Some Knives is Collin Herring‘s fifth studio effort, yet it’s his first in nearly five years. “This album has been done for a lot longer than it seems,” the Texas singer-songwriter admits. “Most of the process was coordinating dates and small sessions here and there. Producer and drummer Matt Pence (Centro-matic) was able to hear the demos and the rest was just making it happen. We liked working with Matt and after some discussion about the initial recordings, it was a no brainer that he was going to mix this record as well. We didn’t want anything lost in translation on this project.”

Herring & Pence were joined in the studio with Jeremy Hull on bass and the singer-songwriter’s father, Ben Roi Herring, on keyboards, pedal steel and backing vocals. “I like that the credits on this album are short. I like small groups,” Herring states. “There was no ‘that sounded good’ and then re-recording it at a later date. We all just played our parts.”

One of the underlying influences of the album occurred unintentionally during the sessions. As Herring explains, “During the recording process my Dad got cancer and beat it (Remission). Good surgeon and good cannabis oil. There was a point when Dad was laying down the pedal steel on one of the songs that I had to go outside and take a walk. It was emotional. While he was recording he looked up at me with this look on his face that told me his entire story. A look that said this is for you. This note. All these notes. All these bends. Everything that’s weaving around. This is life and it’s not over yet.”

“We kept the health stuff to ourselves but I’d be lying if I didn’t say it had some impact. Most of the recording was done when we found out but I still feel like, every now and then, that some of the emotional shadows crept onto the recordings.”

Some Knives is, in fact, an emotional ride, yet it’s a beautiful trip not only shrouded with dark corners, doubt and fear, but also dappled with light and a shimmering sense of hope throughout. These 11 moving tracks, that stylistically traverse through rock, alt.country and even touches of psychedelia, should prove what regional Texas press has already been hailing as both “the torchbearer for alt.country” and “the next big thing.”

Collin Herring’s Some Knives will be available on CD & digital formats on May 13th. Spring/summer U.S tour dates to be announced soon.

SOME KNIVES TRACK LISTING:

1. Psychopaths

2. Some Knives

3. Covered Up

4. Higher Ground

5. Woke Up The Same

6. One Last Twice

7. Kicked Around

8. Different Ways

9. Hard To Hear

10. Come Home

11. Lights At The End

HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT COLLIN HERRING:

[Song Premiere: Collin Herring’s “Some Knives”] “The Texas-based singer-songwriter crafts intimate, country-tinged tunes that remind me of some of my favorite bands, like Son Volt and Whiskeytown. Close your eyes and open your ears to this track, and may you be temporarily transported … (And seriously, how great is this song? I’ve heard it about a dozen times already and that’s still not enough!)” – Whitney Matheson / USA TODAY: POP CANDY

“… a phenomenal album that melds the alt-country and power pop genres with captivating ease. Herring’s songs can be utterly heartbreaking and poetic even when he’s banging the hell out of his guitar.” – DALLAS OBSERVER

“… electric-honed alt.country in the vein of Son Volt.” – THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE

“If you are a fan of Matthew Ryan, then adding Herring’s work to your collection is a must. His poetry, robed in rock with a slight spark of twang continues to be an impressive combination.” – TWANGVILLE

“On Herring’s fourth album, Ocho, the Austin singer/songwriter assembles an eight-song set that often bristles with the Roots/Rock Americana of his first three discs while incorporating more of the kind of atmospheric texturalism found in the wheelhouse of Tom Waits and Chuck Prophet. Herring’s plaintive and tremulous vocal style and disquieting lyrical honesty puts him in proximity to Ryan Adams, Freedy Johnston and Chris Whitley, especially when he goes full bore electric. But when he applies those same gifts in an acoustic Folk direction, there’s a haunted, ethereal quality to the songs reminiscent of Elvis Costello’s collaborations with T-Bone Burnett. And in a lot of cases, the cumulative results are Herring’s distinctive sonic fingerprint, giving the clear impression that he’s well on his way to establishing the kind of broad, expansive and unique range that Neil Young has successfully cultivated for the past four decades.” – CINCINNATI CITY BEAT

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DAYTON-BASED PSYCH-ROCK BAND CRICKETBOWS TO RELEASE THEIR NEW STUDIO EP COMMUNION SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Dayton, Ohio’s Cricketbows are set to release an inspired EP of new material this fall. Produced by Buffalo Killers’ Zachary Gabbard, this six-track effort, entitled Communion, is the band’s first release since their 2015 debut album, Diamonds (produced by Grammy Award recipient Brian Olive). The EP will also coincide with the release of a full-length film entitled “Where The Ocean Meets The Sky” that will feature behind-the-scenes footage and videos for all of the songs from Communion.

“We wanted to showcase our songwriting and our voices and our playing on this one,” said Chad Wells, the band’s founder and male lead vocalist. The band is often categorized as a psychedelic band and though that subgenre of rock is an ingredient in Cricketbows’ musical recipe. Communion finds the band climbing out of the psych tunnel and into a more refined style of rural indie rock that borrows equally from ’60s and ’70s inspirations like The Beatles, The Byrds, Little Feat, The Allman Brothers, Fleetwood Mac and The Grateful Dead, as well as ’80s and ’90s college radio and indie stalwarts like R.E.M., The Replacements, X, Uncle Tupelo and Lollapalooza generation giants like Jane’s Addiction, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and the band’s hometown heroes, Guided By Voices and The Breeders. “We’re all over 30 years old – some of us are over 40 – and we grew up in a time that had so much great music. These songs are mostly about childhood and reflecting on stuff that happened to us in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, so the music should be a reflection of that,” said Wells. “The goal here is timelessness, so we’ve stripped the band back to basics and recorded straight to tape in the top of an old barn in rural Ohio.”

During the lengthy recording process for the EP the band experienced a number of life changes, losses and new beginnings. The band replaced original drummer Jim Ingram with Kyle Sweney, two members of the band opened substantial new businesses and other members changed their careers and day-jobs and nearly everyone in the band experienced weird phenomena that ranged from sleep paralysis to possible contact with otherworldly life forms. “We all have had some bizarre dreams and weird lights coming in windows and shadowy figures looming in our dreams and things like that,” admitted Wells. “Sometimes we get freaked out by it but it’s kind of par for the course for this group. Everybody in the band had weird childhood experiences and experiences as adults that sort of ties us together. Sometimes we’re as much a support group for each other’s weird experiences as we are a band. That’s a little bit what the title of this EP is about. Communion is about coming together or being brought together and experiencing these life changing moments.”

Cricketbows’ Communion will be available September 8th on CD, digital and streaming formats via Mosquito Hawk Records.

COMMUNION TRACK LISTING:
01 Beat Of My Heart
02 Summer Festival Sky
03 Games People Play
04 End Of The Night
05 Jupiter
06 Sea Green

CRICKETBOWS ARE:
Chad Wells – Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Banjo
Aarika Watson – Vocals, Flute, Electric Mandolin, Tambourine
Michael Bisig – Electric Guitars, Effected Horns
Christopher Corn – Electric and Acoustic Bass, Bass Noise
Kyle Sweney – Drums and Percussion

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Click here to download hi-res band photos of Dani Bell and The Tarantist (photo credit: Kristy Walker) and Wide Eyed album art

Dani Bell and the Tarantist is an American rock band based in San Diego, California, led by singer-songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Dani Bell. Inspired by the early days of Motown, Dani Bell and the Tarantist creates a modern style of dreamy psychedelic pop. The band records and tours as part of the Redwoods Music record label and musicians collective, which adapts Bell’s bedroom compositions into intimate songs with expansive arrangements.

With their sophomore record Wide Eyed, Dani Bell and the Tarantist awake from the dreamy pop reveries that fueled their 2015 debut, Dark West, to contend with a present day that’s taken a greater emotional toll. While their previous effort lent the intimacy of Bell’s vulnerable vocals to romantic whispers, here they’re compelled to answer the shifting contexts of an unsettling world, offering turns of disenchantment, wariness and resilience.

For an artist who sings with vulnerability and introspection, Bell offers scarce hints of a persona through her performance with her band. On stage, the singer’s face is partly concealed by a feathered commedia dell’arte mask, which she procured in the Venice Republic. Her body reveals only a compulsive devotion to the music, the possessed dancing ecstasy of a tarantist.

Bell formed Dani Bell and the Tarantist in 2015 with San Diego lyricist and percussionist Alfred Howard. The duo originally performed to prerecorded music while wearing Venetian masks. In 2017, the band expanded its stage show, and began performing with a four-piece band, featuring Austin Burns (guitar), Ian Owen (keyboards and guitar), Aaron Hook (bass) and Dylan Joans (drums), including an appearance at the 2018 Bottle Rock Festival in Napa, California.

Contrary to a common misconception, Alfred Howard was never “The Tarantist.” During the Italian Renaissance, tarantism was a phenomenon of psychological hysteria attributed to the bite of a tarantula spider. Those bitten would experience a short period of extreme apathy, followed by prolonged bout of unrestrained dancing ecstasy, which would temporarily remit the illness. A tarantist is any person given to this compulsive dancing in the presence of live music.

Dani Bell and The Tarantist’s Wide Eyed will be available January 18, 2019 on vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats via The Redwoods Music.

Album artwork for Dani Bell and The Tarantist’s Wide Eyed by John Gourley, of the band, Portugal. The Man.

WIDE EYED TRACK LISTING:
1. The End
2. Driving Me Crazy
3. Free
4. Tension
5. Mystery
6. Best Intentions
7. Empty Hands
8. Down
9. The Stereo
10. Wide Eyed

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Dani Bell and The Tarantist will be performing live Sat. Nov. 17th at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, CA. Additional dates to be announced soon.

[photos: Kristy Walker]

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KENTUCKY SINGER-SONGWRITER DANIEL MARTIN MOORE TO RELEASE HIS NEW STUDIO ALBUM “NEVER LOOK AWAY” OCTOBER 4, 2019 VIA SOFABURN RECORDS

Never Look Away, the 9th album from Daniel Martin Moore, finds the artist expanding, experimenting, and having fun in the studio. Co-produced by multi-instrumentalist Seth Kauffman, the recordings are candid, unfussed-over, and full of energy and light. “Seth is a wonder. I’ve admired his work for years, and it was a joy to bring this batch of songs to life with him,” said DMM. Kauffman is best-known for being the man-behind-the-band Floating Action, playing nearly all of the instruments, producing, recording, and mixing the albums himself. (In his spare time, he plays on the albums and in the touring bands of Jim James, Ray Lamontagne, and many others.)

The two artists convened at Kauffman’s home studio in Black Mountain, NC and set about to build the framework for the songs. Working from the rhythm up, they then added DMM’s guitar or piano, and a scratch vocal as a road map. From there, Kauffman added percussion, bass, and other supporting instruments.

At that point, DMM took the tracks back to his home studio in Kentucky, enlisting a trusty team of long-time collaborators to complete the record: Dan Dorff, Jr. on piano; Alexis Marsh on flute, clarinet, and saxophone; Scott Moore on violin; Charlie Patton on cello; with Sarah Teeple adding harmonies on the title track. The end result is a richly-layered, rhythmically-driven, vocal-centered, incredibly enjoyable album – the strongest of DMM’s career.

The artwork is also the result of a meeting of creative minds. The cover is by artist Ruth Speer. DMM said, “I came across some of Ruth’s paintings online, and I thought they were great, so I reached out to see if she’d be interested in working on something together. During our correspondence, she mentioned that she has synethsesia, and experiences colors associated with sounds. I sent her a recording of my favorite chord, Ebmaj7, with A=432hz, and that is the color palette for the painting she made.”

There’s profound beauty to be found all throughout the 10 songs of this record. The lyrics touch on loss, acceptance, admiration, love, peace, and a need for quiet and open spaces and times in our hurried, ever-more-digital lives. Immersing ourselves in the sonic environment of Never Look Away would be a good place to start.

Daniel Martin Moore’s new album Never Look Away will be available October 4th via Sofaburn Records.

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PRESS RELEASE FOR DMM’S 2017 ALBUM TURNED OVER TO DREAMS:

DANIEL MARTIN MOORE TO RELEASE HIS FORTHCOMING STUDIO ALBUM “TURNED OVER TO DREAMS” ON JULY 7, 2017 VIA SOFABURN RECORDS

NEW LP FEATURES BOTH NEWLY-PENNED AND REINTERPRETED LULLABIES

Always, music is the balm. And these days we seem to need it more than ever. Daniel Martin Moore’s newest album, Turned Over to Dreams, offers just that with ten lovely gems, including six original compositions.

“At every step I was consciously doing my best to evoke peace and gentleness and love and care,” Moore says. “I took a moment before each take to bring forth the most peaceful frame of mind & spirit that I could.”

The idea for the record came after Moore learned that close friends of his were using one of his previous albums as a bedtime lullaby routine for their children. So he decided to make some new recordings to help out. “I just felt so honored that the songs were being used in that way, and I wanted to see what would happen if there was even more intention behind the recordings,” he says. “Along the way, it expanded into a whole batch of songs and eventually into this LP.”

While it may aid in getting the kids to sleep, this album might not do the same for the adult listener—it’s so beautiful we won’t want to nod off for fear of missing something wonderful. Moore’s work has always been known for its meditative quality. His trademark combination of velvety vocals and a masterful use of instrumentation— often featuring his piano skills—naturally evokes a peaceful mood. Turned Over to Dreams surely contains some of his best compositions, singing, and craftsmanship on an effort he produced, recorded, and mixed himself.

Moore’s eighth full length recording opens like a music box with the tender plucks of keys on its title track, and features heartfelt lessons on “Consider the Worlds”, the ache of pining on “You Are Home”, and four carefully chosen covers that range from a 1960s standard, “Touch the Earth”; a haunting interpretation of Brahm’s Lullaby; his own spin on the ever-popular “Stay Awake”, which he couldn’t resist, “because of its cleverness;” and even his recording of the Mr. Rogers’ classic “It’s Such a Good Feeling.” Moore says he can hardly get through singing it without tearing up, articulating an entire generation’s endearment to the children’s television legend. All of this is punctuated by wonderfully varied interludes like the rising strings of “Amid the Stars” or the soothing electric guitar found on “Drifting” that make for an album that provides a much-needed respite.

Moore chose to record in A=432 (slightly flatter than modern tuning) because of its ability to capture a more mellow sound. “The instruments sing and resonate in different ways with the tension lessened and loosened,” he says. “The voice itself takes on different shades and overtones, hitting notes and frequencies that don’t exist at sharper tunings, and that I had probably not ever sung before.” Many musicians share a deep love for this unusual tuning, and some even point to the fact that the 432 ratio shows up in the natural vibrations of celestial bodies and number sequences found even at the level of DNA. The number 432 is reflected in the ratios of sacred sites like Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids, and many others. Moore was using everything he could to create a warmer and softer listening experience.

The result is the album we need right now for trying times, a record that encourages us to be still, and most importantly, to listen.

Album Credits:
Produced, Recorded, & Mixed by DMM
Mastered by Joe Lambert
Art Direction by DMM
Design by Dusty Summers
Photos by DMM

Daniel Martin Moore’s Turned Over To Dreams will be available on vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats July 7th via Sofaburn Records. Click here to pre-order the vinyl and CD.

TURNED OVER TO DREAMS TRACK LISTING:
01 Turned Over to Dreams
02 Consider the Worlds
03 O’er Wave & Sky
04 Good Evening, Good Night
05 Amid the Stars
06 You Are Home
07 Touch the Earth
08 Drifting
09 Stay Awake
10 It’s Such a Good Feeling

tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 written by DMM
track 4 written by Johannes Brahms, arranged by DMM
track 7 written by Jeri Southern & Gail Allen, arranged by DMM track 9 written by the Sherman Brothers, arranged by DMM track 10 written by Fred Rogers, arranged by DMM

Alexis Marsh plays the saxophone, flute, and clarinet on tracks 2, 4, and 9
Scott Moore plays the violin on tracks 1, 4, and 5
Charlie Patton plays the cello on tracks 1, 4, and 5

MORE INFO ON DANIEL MARTIN MOORE:
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PRESS RELEASE FOR DMM’S 2015 ALBUM GOLDEN AGE:

DANIEL MARTIN MOORE TO RELEASE NEW GOLDEN AGE ALBUM OCTOBER 9TH (CO-PRODUCED BY MY MORNING JACKET’S JIM JAMES)

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“Our golden age is here,” Daniel Martin Moore sings on the title track of his latest offering, and he could easily be singing about his own career. Moore has steadily gained a following as one of our most emotive and haunting singers since his acclaimed debut back in 2008. Those deeply moving vocals are pushed to new heights on Golden Age, which he coproduced with Jim James of My Morning Jacket.

The album is also a whole new sound for Moore. Known for his meditative singing and guitar-driven melodies, Golden Age manages to hold onto that calming element while also giving Moore a more upbeat quality on a larger canvas.

“We wanted a bigger sound—full band treatments, strings, outer-space, and less guitar,” Moore says of his collaboration with James. “It was Jim’s suggestion that we start each song from the perspective of the drums & bass, finding the right foundation, and then seeing how the rest of the instrumentation would fit into that.  In the past, it had very much been the other way around—everything was based around what my guitar was up to.  We turned that on its head for this record.”

The result is Moore’s best album to date. Golden Age defies description beyond being a solid and beautiful record. Lyrically tight and sonically adventurous, here is an album that demands you tap your foot along on tunes like “On Our Way Home”, sway to the deep grooves of the profoundly singable “Our Hearts Will Hover” as it builds to its perfect mixture of piano and eerie electric guitar. The listener will sink into the cloud-like vocals and pensive melody of a song like “In Common Time” and be mesmerized by the humming perfection of “Lily Mozelle” or the eyes-closed-with-feeling singing style displayed on “Proud As We Are” that finds Moore remaining sultry and low while the instruments climb toward full exhilaration. The record fairly bursts with emotion, chiefly hope, and firmly establishes a new chapter in the interesting evolution of Moore’s music.

His debut was a storied one: after serving in the Peace Corps, Moore sent an unsolicited four-song demo to the legendary Sub Pop Records that garnered him a record deal. Sub Pop released three of his records: Stray Age in 2008, co-produced with Joe Chiccarelli, Dear Companion in 2010, an album of duets with acclaimed cellist and singer Ben Sollee, which James also produced, and In the Cool of the Day in 2011, a deeply spiritual album that reimagined gospel. Along the way he played at the Newport Folk Festival, toured the world, and became a darling of NPR. Moore went on to found his own record label (OK Recordings) and released two more albums (Farthest Field in 2012 with Joan Shelley, and Archives, Vol. I. in 2013). Through it all James has been one of his biggest supporters and frequent contributors. Their artistic vision gelled completely on Golden Age.

James says the album is much like “a flower tucked back in the tall grass” and hopes that listeners “will recognize themselves reflected back from the sounds…and discover a magical place for their mind to wander and wonder.”

Moore found James’s presence a centering force. “He is always encouraging the pushing of boundaries.  It’s in his nature to expand and elaborate until he finds the spot he’s looking for.  He’s a deep well of creative energy – it’s like he can see the way the future bends the present.”

Golden Age manages to be a lament but also hopeful at the same time. For Moore the album is very much about “the nature of togetherness and how our perspective shifts when we lose someone, when we gain someone.”

Even more interesting than the profound themes of the album is the sound.

The record is populated by a fine cast of players and singers including a masterful Dan Dorff, Jr. on piano, organ, and keyboards; Dave Givan providing rousing percussion; Alana Rocklin and Zak Appleby (Houndmouth) weaving bass grooves throughout while Charlie Patton’s cello and Scott Moore’s violin float like evocative ghosts. Joan Shelley’s ethereal vocals are on fine display here in what Moore calls her “inspiring ability for disappearing into a harmony”; and James bringing his unique guitar stylings and vocals.

Again and again Golden Age reminds us that this is an album that is not afraid to celebrate love, friendship, and—best of all—the wonderful power of outright possibility that is suggested by every song on the record. Always there is the power of music in Golden Age’s expressive piano solos, in the thump of bass, in the soaring vocals or in lyrics that tell us “maybe we can never know / these things we love so well / but the music never leaves / the dusk & the dawn & the memories.”

Daniel Martin Moore’s new studio album Golden Age will be available October 9th via Sofaburn Records. 

GOLDEN AGE TRACKLISTING:

01 Golden Age

02 Our Hearts Will Hover

03 Proud As We Are

04 Anyway

05 Sign Of Life

06 Lily Mozelle

07 To Make It True

08 On Our Way Home

09 In Common Time

10 How It Fades

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On March 9, Dark Dark Dark releases the stunning six-song EP Bright Bright Bright on Supply and Demand Music. Hailing from New Orleans, New York and Minneapolis, the chamber-folk sextet have yielded a lush and intoxicating follow-up to their 2008 full-length debut, The Snow Magic. The band has also unveiled their new website, www.brightbrightbright.com, where you can listen to the entire EP and pre-order it in both digital and 12″ vinyl formats.

On the new record the band moves beyond lost love, heartache and loneliness toward more hopeful horizons. “These songs are about new beginnings, and usually have a little triumphant twist in them,” says band member Marshall LaCount. “The songs are often about a character finding a place in the world, and the strange interactions that happen along the way.”

The EP is also about finding and creating beauty. “Lyrically we’ve grown,” says LaCount. “We’re working on the new songs the way a painter might work. Each of us adds a different shade or texture to the canvas.” The resulting songs are expansive and dynamic, layered with serious overtones but with joy at the center.

After a successful run opening for the band WHY? last fall, Dark Dark Dark recorded the new EP at Sacred Heart Studios in a former church overlooking Lake Superior, and worked with Minneapolis producer Tom Herbers (WHY?, Low, Retribution Gospel Choir, The Jayhawks, Fog). Herbers engineered, produced and mixed Bright Bright Bright on analog equipment from start to finish. He encouraged the band to record live as opposed to tracking instruments separately, taking advantage of the band’s unique chemistry and using the chapel’s natural reverb to amplify the power of their live performances. LaCount explains, “Recording like this allowed so much room for musicality, warmth and energy. It’s the most honest way we’ve ever worked.”

Bright Bright Bright also features new additions to the band, resulting in a much fuller and melodic sound.  Multi-instrumentalist Walt McClements, of the New Orleans bands Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship and Panorama Jazz Band plays trumpet, accordion and piano. Brett Bullion, a member of the Minneapolis outfit Tarlton, adds percussion.

Dark Dark Dark is currently recording new material for their sophomore album (due Fall of 2010) at the historic Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis with Tom Herbers again producing. Once completed, the band will tour in support of the EP, beginning with three SXSW showcases in Austin this March.

BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT TRACK LISTING:
1. Bright Bright Bright
2. The Hand
3. Something For Myself
4. Make Time
5. Flood
6. Wild Goose Chase

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HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DARK DARK DARK’S BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT EP:

“The band’s acoustic lineup (piano, accordion, string bass, banjo, etc.) and lead singer Nona Marie Invie’s smoky vocals combined with a penchant for styles like sea chanties and lyrics that seemed to take place anywhere from the 1880’s through the 1920’s,  gave their [first] album an old-timey, Americana feel. Their style hasn’t changed much on the new EP, Bright Bright Bright, but as befitting the title, the mood has definitely lightened… as they add some new shades to their sound.” – POPMATTERS

“Every once in awhile a band comes along that is truly impossible to classify. Dark Dark Dark blend Americana, Gothic Cabaret and European-folk-fusion so seamlessly within each song that you feel as if you are traveling through space and time inside the melodies. This is music so beautiful that it rattles you to your very core.” – L’ETOILE MAGAZINE

“I find few artists that as chillingly or effectively as Dark Dark Dark inspire such a weighty mindset with such equal parts light and dark approach, utilizing song instrumentation smacking of authenticity, narrative strategy, and some really fucking sweet vocal manhandling. ….their songs are grounded in a really refreshing devotion to a precisely executed, eclectic cocktail of Bal Musete Jazz, the occasional hint of blues and both the tone and the narrative nature of Appalachia.” – COKE MACHINE GLOW

“The dramatic chamber-folk sextet operates a shoestring boxcar-cabaret orchestra with haunting and hopeful anthems and ballads.” – GAMBIT WEEKLY / NEW ORLEANS

“Bright Bright Bright  is a super album with great vocals and complex chamber-pop instrumentals.” – WDCV RADIO

“Between the haunting piano and the stark vocals of Nona Marie Invie (who could be thought of as an even quirkier, darker Regina Spektor) they’ve created a folk-inspired chamber pop sound that I haven’t been able to stop listening to…” – GAPER’S BLOCK / CHICAGO

“…melancholic and alluring…. moving in every respect.” – THE MINNESOTA DAILY

“… chamber pop of the post-Decemberists variety, with dueling (and sometimes harmonizing) vocals from main contributors Nona Marie Invie and Marshall LaCount. The new EP at times betrays the New Orleans roots of utility player Walt McClements by going in a jazz direction, but maintains the airy calm throughout that at times recalls bands like Destroyer.” – PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER

“Dark Dark Dark are a band of stunning emotional insight.” – DROWNED IN SOUND

“It’s vivid stuff; as Nona sings, you can see the scene unfold right in

front of you.” – PROVIDENCE PHOENIX

“Dark Dark Dark creates beautiful and often haunting folk soundscapes.” – THE CURRENT / MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO

“Intriguing indie act.” – ROANOKE TIMES

“…some of the most magnificent combinations of sounds and lyrics I have ever heard. This is authenicity personified. Dark Dark Dark’s Bright Bright Bright proves that even in the darkest chambers of your heart, there is enough light to find your way.” – INDIE MUSIC UNIVERSE

“… lauded haunted folk songs.” – RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH

“Explore a unique genre of music with Dark Dark Dark, a four-member band that’s played everywhere from basements and bars to warehouses and street corners. Through an array of instruments such as the accordion and banjo, their music references the travels of wandering musicians, with a mix of alternative and folk showing up on their latest album, Bright Bright Bright.” – CHARLESTON MAGAZINE

“Using the natural acoustics of an accordion, stand-up bass, banjo and cello, [Dark Dark Dark] definitely knows how to find the touches of beauty in life’s little miseries and heartaches.” – RICHMOND STYLE WEEKLY

“Dark Dark Dark is a band that finds comfort in the melancholic beauty that surrounds us all. Each vignette that passes proves to be as captivating or as enthralling as the last. What you come to realize though is that every composition on this release is a splendid reminder of what it’s like to feel human and share that with everyone around you.” – RVA MAGAZINE / RICHMOND, VA

“Drawing heavily on Eastern European and early American music, this six-piece acoustic ensemble’s songs are beautifully haunting.” – BALTIMORE CITY PAPER

“Demonstrating that the lush songwriting of their debut was no fluke, ‘Bright Bright Bright’ is an enthralling release.” – CLASH MUSIC / UK

“Dark Dark Dark’s music is carefully crafted and performed brilliantly; it is touching, cinematic and enchanting, not to mention wonderfully experimental.” – INDIE ROCK CAFE

“Whatever the future holds for the band, Bright Bright Bright is filled with confident, fully-developed songs that are at once intimate and expansive, and represent a group that is focused intently on exploring both the peaks and depths of their own inspiration. The tracks have a thoroughly original spirit and style that gives them a fresh, modern sound. But there is also a timeless aura to their music that wouldn’t seem out of place wafting out of the cafes of Montmartre, and that only adds to their appeal.” – THE LINE OF BEST FIT / UK

9/ 10 – “ Accordions and almost Piaf-like vocals seem to whisk one away to early 20th century Europe. Fresh, interesting and deserves our attention. Keep an eye on these guys.” – INDIE ROCK REVIEWS

“Call them whatever you want, but don’t lump Minneapolis chamber folk band Dark Dark Dark in with any other accordion-wielding act. There’s a lot more to focus on in this sextet, like their melodic orchestral arrangements or their bespectacled lead singer Nona Marie Invie, whose dark-roast voice is as rich as it is stimulating.“ – STAR TRIBUNE / MINNEAPOLIS

“This unplugged chamber-folk sextet will appeal to those who like Beirut (the band, that is, not the bomb-torn Middle Eastern city).” – THE GUARDIAN / UK

“I find myself listening over and over, each time finding, and feeling, something different. I cannot pigeonhole Bright Bright Bright. It is closer to a personal experience than a genre of music.” – THE RIPPLE EFFECT

“Austere in its simplicity and beauty, with an undercurrent of piano-and-cello-driven anguish bubbling up in multi-part harmonies.” – MINNEAPOLIS F***ING ROCKS

“…full of ghosts and beautifully mysterious.” – LA IS THE NEW NY

[85/100] Dark Dark Dark have finally released a follow up to 2008’s fantastic debut, The Snow Magic.  It’s a six song EP entitled Bright Bright Bright, and is a wonderfully fleshed out extension of the band’s established sound…. Beautiful music. – REVILER MAGAZINE

“Art and atmosphere” – NO DEPRESSION

“The six piece effort conjure up sounds of melodic adventures…full of ghostly vocals accordions, banjos and strings. Keep a watchful ear, this bands buzz will continue to grow.” – CAFÉ MAROON

“Dark, beautiful and cinematic.” – JOHNNYLEATHER.COM

“Bright Bright Bright”, is lush, historical, dark, and beautiful.  At times they sound like a slower, folkier version of The Arcade Fire, other times like a poppier, lighter version of Beirut.  I’d be surprised if most folks didn’t find something to like here, it is simply well-made, well-thought-out music.  The vinyl sounds beautiful, the cover art is great, it’s an all-around winner.” – OMG VINYL

“Stunning” – FLAVORPILL NYC

“As the name suggests, the band’s new EP, Bright Bright Bright has an air of optimism, and, of course, brightness that was missing from their first album…and the change works. There is a lightness about it that whisks you away as you listen.” – THE NEEDLE & THE GROOVE / ROANOKE, VA

“… hauntingly original music worth seeking out.” – METROMIX TWIN CITIES

Datura4 (photo: Jon Tarry)

DATURA4’S FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM “NEANDERTHAL JAM” IS OUT NOW (8.26.22) VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS!

West Australian boogie masters Datura4 return with their highly anticipated fifth album, Neanderthal Jam. Fronted by Dom Mariani of legendary Oz garage rockers The Stems, Neanderthal Jam is eleven new tracks of psychedelicised blues and full-tilt heavy rock that were jammed out and recorded at their favourite south-west farmhouse studio during the early months of 2021. Having already released four acclaimed albums on AliveNatural Records Demon Blues (2015), Hairy Mountain (2016), Blessed is the Boogie (2019) and West Coast Highway Cosmic (2020), Neanderthal Jam sees them building upon and going beyond on another diverse collection of songs.

Album opener ‘Going Back to Hoonsville’ gets things started with a relentless and pounding swing to get your hot wheels on. The jam is well and truly underway, and so the boogie gets heavy pursuing love in an inner sanctum on ‘Secret Society’ until the joyous organ groove of ‘Open the Line’ invites us to dance to the music.

‘Bad Times’ digs in on their OZ rock roots with a groove that the ‘Tatts’ (Rose Tattoo) would be proud of. ‘Black Speakers’ and title track ‘Neanderthal Jam’ keep the jams cooking with Bob Patient’s keyboard playing prowess on display proving what a welcome addition he has been to the band. An acoustic prelude that is ‘Hold My Life’ that leads into a pummelling boogie riff on ‘Worried Man’s Boogie’ sets the scene for personal concerns about a world and the times we find ourselves in.

Full-throttle rocker ‘Digging My Own Grave’ turns the lights to ‘black and purple’ and the Witchdoctor takes us for a ride on ‘Fish Fry’ until we get to the epic sun-kissed west coast highway closer ‘Dry-By Island.’ Neanderthal Jam,……to be continued.

Datura4’s new album Neanderthal Jam is out now via Alive Naturalsound Records. Click here to purchase/stream. Click here to order the limited splatter vinyl.

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PREVIOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR DATURA4’S 2020 LP “WEST COAST COSMIC HIGHWAY”

DATURA4 DROPS THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM “WEST COAST HIGHWAY COSMIC” APRIL 17, 2020 VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS

Hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed third album, Blessed is the Boogie, Australian rockers Datura4 have hit the motorway running for another sonic journey through burning boogie, dirty blues and rock & roll soundscapes on their follow-up opus West Coast Highway Cosmic. The title was inspired by the highways that the band has traveled to get to the recording studios they’ve been using over the four albums they’ve done so far. The two studios are 200 kilometres [124 miles] apart and situated along the southwest coast of Western Australia. The long and sometimes lonely drives back and forth along these routes have definitely played its part in the band’s creative process, and whether it be new ideas or just listening back to what they’ve done in a previous session the ‘West Coast Highway Cosmic,’ as they like to call it, has been a constant spirit over all of Datura4’s studio recordings.

West Coast Highway Cosmic sees Datura4 stretch out and experiment with their sound that they’ve been building on ever since their debut release Demon Blues in 2015. “I see every album as an extension from the previous one,” admits frontman Dom Mariani, “and I’m conscious about not rehashing the same things over. The collection of tunes on WCHC is slightly more eclectic than on the previous albums, which makes it really interesting and exciting for albums in the future. There was a more spontaneous and looser approach for the majority of the recording, where we would take the basic song idea and let things go until we had the take that we liked. We got into the grooves you might say.”

“Bob Patient, who joined the group toward the end of the Blessed is the Boogie recording, was involved from day one on the new album and his keyboards play a bigger part and have added an additional flavour to the D4 sound,” Mariani adds. “I wouldn’t say it’s a different direction, but more about exploring additional possibilities as musicians.”

Datura4 is:
Dom Mariani: guitar and vocals
Warren Hall: drums
Stu Loasby: bass
Bob Patient: keyboards

Datura4’s new studio album West Coast Highway Cosmic will be released April 17th on limited edition vinyl, CD and digital/streaming formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.

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PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DATURA4’S 2019 ALBUM BLESSED IS THE BOOGIE

AUSTRALIAN ROCK BAND DATURA4 TO RELEASE THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM “BLESSED IS THE BOOGIE” APRIL 5, 2019 VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS

Blessed is the Boogie is the eagerly anticipated third album by Western Australian rockers Datura4.

Fronted by Aussie legend Dom Mariani, who came to prominence on the music scene in the 1980s with legendary garage rock combo The Stems, and later went on to form revered power pop outfits DM3 and The Someloves, Datura4 is Mariani’s return to his blues and heads-down, full-tilt boogie roots.

Blessed is the Boogie is ten new songs that build on Datura4’s ‘guitars to infinity’ approach of Hairy Mountain (2016) and the hard rocking, progressive blues and psychedelic stylings of debut LP Demon Blues (2015). Both albums were released through Alive NaturalSound Records and gained critical acclaim at home, in Europe and the USA.

Datura4 are stoked to share with you this new collection of songs. “Boom boom boom boom – Blessed is the Boogie.”

Datura4’s Blessed is the Boogie will be available April 5th on Limited Edition Vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.

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BLESSED IS THE BOOGIE TRACKLISTING:
01 Black Dog Keep Running
02 Blessed Is The Boogie
03 Looper
04 Run With Lucy
05 Ooh Poo Pah Doo
06 Sounds of Gold
07 Evil People Pt 2
08 Not For Me
09 Cat On A Roof
10 The City of Lights

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PREVIOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR DATURA4’S 2016 LP HAIRY MOUNTAIN:

DATURA4 TO RELEASE THEIR LATEST STUDIO ALBUM “HAIRY MOUNTAIN” OCTOBER 28TH VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS!

Rock ‘n’ Roll fans – please welcome Hairy Mountain – the second album from West Australia’’s Datura4. Building upon the “‘guitars-to-infinity’” approach of Datura4’’s acclaimed debut LP ‘Demon Blues’, ‘Hairy Mountain’ is ten solid tracks celebrating an unbridled joy for rock ‘’n’’ roll, with a nod to the spiritual presence of their hairy Oz Rock forefathers.

The psychedelic cover art is by Joshua Marc Levy/Asheville Art Family.

Datura4’s Hairy Mountain will be available on limited colored vinyl, CD and digital formats October 28th via Alive Naturalsound Records.

HAIRY MOUNTAIN TRACK LISTING:
1. Fools Gold Rush
2. Trolls
3. Mary Carroll Park
4. Uphill Climb
5. Hairy Mountain
6. Greedy World
7. Confide in Me
8. Too Much (or not enough)
9. Something to Hide
10. Broken Path

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PREVIOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR DATURA4’S 2015 LP DEMON BLUES:

Hailing from Fremantle in Western Australia, Datura4 is the brainchild of Dom Mariani (frontman of legendary Australian garage rockers The Stems and Power Pop favorites DM3) and Greg Hitchcock (former You Am I and one-time New Christs’ guitarist). In 2011 they joined forces combining a shared passion for full-tilt boogie, psychedelic rock and progressive blues.

Along with drummer Warren Hall who previously played with The Drones and bass player Stu Loasby Datura4 have been steadily building a reputation in their hometown with their live performances. With a healthy nod to early ’70s Australian Psych/Blues/Boogie from the likes of Buffalo, Coloured Balls, The Aztecs and latter era Masters Apprentices, Demon Blues represents Mariani & Hitchcock’s love of hard hitting bell-bottom blues.

The psychedelic cover art is by Joshua Marc Levy/Asheville Art Family.

Datura4’s Demon Blues will be available on limited colored vinyl, CD and digital formats July 10th via Alive Naturalsound Records. The CD will include one bonus track not available on other formats, as well as alternate cover art.

DEMON BLUES TRACK LISTING:
1. Out With The Tide
2. You Ain’t No Friend Of Mine
3. Another Planet
4. Journey Home
5. Demon Blues
6. Hoonsville
7. Pissin’ Up The Wall
8. Killjoy
9. Gravedigger Man
10. Love To Burn

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Glasgow-based blues musician Dave Arcari will be releasing his fifth studio album, Whisky In My Blood, worldwide March 25th. On it, the slide guitarist & songwriter turns in 14 tracks that owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues. Arcari is joined by his backing band The Hellsinki Hellraisers, featuring Finnish musicians Juuso Haapasalo (upright & electric bass) and Honey Aaltonen (snare drum, cymbal, rub-board). Melding the rural sounds of the Deep South with a hint of folk music that emerged from the British Isles over a century ago, Arcari & Co. manage to update these age-old sounds into an energetic and often bone-chilling new modern take on the blues.

Whisky In My Blood features three cover songs – two from Robert Johnson (“Traveling Riverside Blues” & “Preachin’ Blues”) and one from Bukka White (“Jitterbug Swing”). The remaining 11 tracks were all composed by Arcari and showcase his ability at crafting equally timeless songs that sit comfortably next to the blues masters he covers.

Performing more than 100 UK dates a year, as well as regular shows in Finland, Estonia, France, Germany, Belgium, Poland and Ireland, Arcari is one of the hardest gigging live artists on the circuit. In addition, he’s performed at numerous music festivals around the globe, including appearances at Glastonbury (UK), BluesAlive (Czech Republic & Poland shows), Moulin Blues (Netherlands), The Great British R&B Festival, Peer Festival (Belgium) and NXNE (Toronto), among others. Notable performances opening for music legends such as Steve Earle, Alabama 3, Seasick Steve, Toby Keith and Jon Spencer, along with his relentless tour schedule has established Arcari as a formidable international solo performer who, with his hard-hitting gravel-laden voice and slashing bottleneck steel guitar, is quickly building a reputation with media and fans alike as a ‘hell-raising National guitar madman’.

Dave Arcari & The Hellsinki Hellraiser’s Whisky In My Blood will be available March 25th on CD, digital and limited edition colored vinyl.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD & SHARE DAVE ARCARI & THE HELLSINKI HELLRAISERS’ TITLE TRACK “WHISKY IN MY BLOOD”

DAVE ARCARI (SOLO) 2013 U.S. SUMMER TOUR DATES
July 3 – Terra Blues, New York, NY
July 6 – The Legendary Dobbs, Philadelphia, PA
July 9 – Preservation Pub. Knoxville, TN
July 10 (midday) – WDVX Blue Plate Special radio session, Knoxville, TN
July 10 – JJ’s Bohemia, Chattanooga, TN (w/ Husky Burnette)
July 17 – The Mill, Iowa City, IA
July 20 – Bayport BBQ, Bayport, MN
July 21  – Weber’s Deck, French Lake, MN
July 25 (6pm) – Rock n Roll Land, Green Bay, WI
July 25 – The Crunchy Frog, Green Bay, WI (w/ Meantooth Grin + Dead Modern Villains)
July 26 – Kruse, Wausau, WI (w/ Meantooth Grin)
July 27 – Reggies, Chicago, IL (w/ Meantooth Grin)
August 3  – venue tba, Grand Rapids, MI
August 4 – InsideOut Gallery, Traverse City, MI
August 8 – Polish American Citizens Club, South Hadley, MA (w/ Cannibal Ramblers)
August 9  – Nick a Nees, Providence, RI (w/ Cannibal Ramblers & Ten Foot Polecats)
August 12 – The Trash Bar, Brooklyn, NY
(more dates to be announce soon)

Whisky In My Blood track listing:
1. Whisky in my Blood (Dave Arcari)
2. Cherry Wine (Dave Arcari)
3. Tell me, Baby (Dave Arcari)
4. Traveling Riverside Blues (Robert Johnson)
5. Rough Justice (Dave Arcari)
6. Day Job (Dave Arcari)
7. Still Friends (Dave Arcari)
8. Wherever I Go (Dave Arcari)
9. See Me Laughing (Dave Arcari)
10. Jitterbug Swing (Bukka White)
11. Third Time Lucky (Dave Arcari)
12. Heat is Rising (Dave Arcari)
13. Preachin’ Blues (Robert Johnson)
14. Get Outta My Way (Dave Arcari)

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After years of helping steer the lauded and eclectic careers of both of his bands, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, co-founder and frontman David Lowery has seen fit to present a collection of songs recorded apart from those iconic indie & alternative rock entities. Stopping short of calling it a solo record, Lowery has collaborated with a handful of trusted musical cohorts associated with his Richmond, VA-based studio, Sound of Music – an inner circle that Lowery has relied on for over 17 years and who’ve been instrumental in helping create the sounds heard on this album as well as past projects. David recorded and produced The Palace Guards in conjunction with John Morand and Alan Weatherhead. Key players include Miguel Urbiztondo on drums, David Immergluck on guitars and bass, Craig Harmon played organs and Ferd Moyse on upright bass and fiddle. Special guest appearances include Cracker mates Sal Maida and Johnny Hickman, as well as the late Mark Linkous(Sparklehorse) who played keyboards on “Big Life.” The Palace Guards will be available everywhere February 1st, 2011 through 429 Records.

The Palace Guards took David several years to complete. Lowery felt it liberating to write the songs without the constrictions of how they might fit in with the Cracker or Camper canon of songs and performances. The easy rapport and powerful creative chemistry that Lowery shared with his studio pals allowed his introverted musical inclinations to shine through.  Apparent in this collection of nine songs is a willingness to push the envelope stylistically—from the Appalachian-woven folk of the album’s first single “Raise ‘em Up on Honey” to the swirling, languid psychedelia of “Deep Oblivion” and eclectic Syd Barrett-inspired title track, to the rocked-out “Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing to Me,” Lowery enjoys the freedom to write and record just about anything that pleases him at that moment.

“One of the reasons the album sounds the way it does is that I have pretty strong personalities playing with me,” says Lowery,“guys who I’ve worked with for years, who have done engineering or playing on Camper and Cracker albums. There’s that instant easy rapport that shines through. Working with them brought out the more extreme edges in these songs and amplified them. It was also liberating to start with no preconceived notions of what they would end up sounding like or worrying about how they might sound in a live setting, as I have to do when I write songs for Cracker.”

THE PALACE GUARDS TRACKLISTING:
1. Raise ’em up on Honey
2. The Palace Guards
3. Deep Oblivion
4. Ah, You Left Me
5. Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing To Me
6. I Sold the Arabs the Moon
7. Marigold
8. Big Life
9. Submarine

This is all in advance of what will certainly be a very busy year for Lowery in 2011. In addition to promoting The Palace Guards, he’ll also be doing a string of East Coast this January with both Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker as part of their Key Lime & Kerosene Tour, where both bands will be performing their signature albums (CVB’s Key Lime Pie and Cracker’s Kerosene Hat) in their entireties.  David has also currently been writing new music with Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven for upcoming albums from both bands (this will mark the first new material from CVB since their lauded 2004 New Roman Times release). In addition, David also plans to continue working on his popular 300 Songs project – a blog chronicling all of the songs he’s written and recorded with both Cracker & CVB. Plans are also in the works to turn these wry, humorous and informative musings on his songs, bands and, ultimately, the music business in general, into his first published book later in the year.

FOR MORE INFO ON DAVID LOWERY
http://davidlowerymusic.com

FOR MORE INFO ON DAVID LOWERY’S 300 SONGS BLOG:
http://300songs.com

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http://crackersoul.com

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http://campervanbeethoven.com

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[4/5] “Amazingly, after more than 25 years in music, this is Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker frontman Lowery’s first solo album. He’s not fooling around; these cuts show the serious side of Lowery, eschewing his usual biting sardonicism and roots-rock crunch for more sincere emotions and a score of laid-back alt-country. It’s a pleasure to meet him.” –LONDON FREE PRESS

“… these songs are rich and clever, and Lowery’s many friends and collaborators offer excellent musical support on a piece of work that in subtle but important ways is an album he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) have made with either [Cracker or Camper Van Beethoven]. Lowery might not want to make a career out of his serious side, but The Palace Guards shows he can wise up and still make music that’s smart and satisfying.” – Mark Deming / ALL MUSIC

[8/10] “Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker frontman David Lowery splits the difference between the former’s loose eclectic twang and the latter’s tight psych-country on his solo debut. Assisted by some Virginia studio pals, Lowery sticks it to celebrity on the acerbic title track and the cock-schlockin’ “Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing to Me.” He logs his own love story in the heady aquatic shimmer of “Deep Oblivion” and its sweetly redemptive sequel “Submarine.” Sincerity trumps sarcasm, especially in his convincing cover of the Belgian band Mint’s gloriously morose “Ah, You Left Me.” – SPIN

“At 50 years old, David Lowery is still out-performing musicians half is age, and on February 1, his debut solo album, The Palace Guards, will be released through the 429 label. The title track and first single from the LP bears all the signature wit and observations of Lowery at his finest, though the new record represents the direction he’s never gone: songs that fit neither here nor there but that deserve equal attention.” – MAGNET MAGAZINE

“If the eclectic, alternative rock of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker lit you up, Lowery’s new album is going to make you a very happy camper all over again. The nine tracks on The Palace Guards, eight written by the singer, are as good as anything he’s done in the past, and he’s done some mighty good things.“ – SEATLLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

“A gleeful, all-over-the-map vibe that signals the songwriter’s liberation from Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven’s musical modus operendi, From sprawling ballads to raging rockers, Lowery’s quirky aphorisms, childlike wonder and deep irony remains thankfully intact.” – UNCUT

“David Lowery’s The Palace Guards is a vitalizing, thoughtful collection of songs that are not merely B-sides or out-takes of material intended for his two working bands. Instead they fall somewhere in-between the generous confines of both, showcasing a songwriter that has matured without losing his buoyant, crackling wit.“ – GOOD TIMES SANTA CRUZ

“The songs on The Palace Guards are at times moody and introspective and other times they are glorious and indignant. They are, perhaps, more personal accounts of those things that have been addressed thematically and musically with the same charisma and charm in both Camper and Cracker.” –  HOLLYWOOD ICON MAGAZINE

“… intellectually stimulating and musically entertaining.” – M: MUSIC & MUSICIANS MAGAZINE

“Though the songs are neither Cracker nor Camper tunes, they are unmistakably Lowery’s, full of the droll wit and sly subversion that has characterized his songs for 25 years.” – SPINNER

“The Palace Guards showcases his current musical vision in a way that neither of his bands [Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven] could have done justice to… hits to the core of what Lowery is able to do best.” –UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE

“The Palace Guards creates a wide palette of musical styles, sounds and moods, from Americana to soft rock to pure angst.” – PERFORMER MAGAZINE

“A very cohesive affair with some serious high points.”  – SKOPE MAGAZINE

“At the age of 50, Lowery brings a maturity to these songs that may not have been there earlier in his career. This is a great solo effort.” – SCATTERED BLACK AND WHITE

“… a little bit of country, rock, Americana, and thankfully ‘weirdness’ thrown together that ranks as amongst the best stuff he has ever produced. This album gets better and better every time I spin it.” – HUGH SHOWS REDU

“ This is amongst Lowery’s best work to date and easily one of the year’s best releases to date.” – RYAN’S SMASHING LIFE

“Bona fide gems.” – EXCLAIM / CANADA

[5/5] “The lyrics are unsurprisingly wonderful and it’s also a very well-sequenced disc… If you’ve ever enjoyed Lowery’s peculiar vision in the past it’s well worth surrendering to The Palace Guards.”  – TIME OUT SYDNEY

“The songs are pure Lowery all the way: droning violins, drawled song-spiel singing, and lyrics that pierce the heart while revealing a slacker’s wit…. this intimate album is a welcome addition to the Lowery catalog.”  – AMERICAN SONGWRITER

[4/5] “The deliriously wry songwriting and raspy vocals remain intact, and Lowery continues to blend rock snarls with almost literary smarts.” – RICHMOND STYLE WEEKLY

“The Palace Guards is equally good at being gorgeous, particularly on the illusory “Deep Oblivion,” where a spaced-out Lowery weaves surreal imagery about “a place below the sea… cold, bright, and white.” It’s delivered with a sly grin, but like the rest of The Palace Guards, it’s seriously good.”  – THE ONION

“The Palace Guards, is blissfully idiosyncratic, indulging in sweet buckwheat hootenannies, tempered garage-rock blessings and hard-earned alt-pop homilies.” – MAXIMUM INK

“… a stylistically diverse effort. There are, of course, bits of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven to be heard throughout the disc, but it wanders from folk to psychedelic rock and back.” – CHARTATTACK

“… consistently charming and engaging. The Palace Guards is a gift; teeming with spontaneity and vigor. It’s one of those cases when grabbing the whole kaboodle is recommended: it’s well-ordered, and there are too many winners for it to make sense to favorite some for download.” – SAN DIEGO READER

“… a strong and consistent series of songs that, at times, reaches for the best of Lowery’s work. More than two decades into his career, David Lowery has, more or less, just proven his relevancy, which, to crib from an earlier song of his, could just very well be what the world needs now.” – POPMATTERS

“While this is a little different from his full band days, everything that made CVB and Cracker great is used and expanded upon with this collection. The Palace Guards is an excellent mix of alt-country meets folk rock that is guaranteed to stay in your CD player for a while” – RICHMOND PLAYLIST

“… a surprisingly invigorating batch of songs, running the gamut from quirky-sounding indie rock to the more predictable country-leaning stuff Lowery’s always been so good at. His voice sounds wonderfully ragged and weary, and the melodies are subtle but addictive. The production really shines too—or maybe “shines” is the wrong word: It’s gritty and dynamic, perfectly matched to the songs themselves.” – CRAWDADDY

“Finally, at 50, Lowery releases his solo debut, The Palace Guards, and the best elements of both his bands share space on the same excellent album. It’s about time fans met the man behind the magic of two great bands, and here’s a chance to get to know him on engagingly intimate terms. – Gene Triplett / THE OKLAHOMAN

“The Palace Guards takes in the work of his previous bands but adds something else. It might be called maturity, even though Lowery’s voice retains the raucous raggedness that implies the rolled-eye snarl of eternal adolescence. And there are twangy and psychedelic touches that will be familiar to fans, but they’re unusually muted and focused.” – MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL

“Lowery manipulates chord progressions, taking the sound in an unexpected direction not only between tracks, but within each song. We’re not dealing with a new album from a new guy — the maturity and depth on each track screams of the years Lowery has put into mastering his craft.” – THE RED AND BLACK

“That voice and keen melodic sense, the same qualities that typify David Lowery’s other projects, are apparent on The Palace Guards. He continues to create anthemic, countrified rock and piquant ballads.” – THE WHEEL’S STILL IN SPIN

“… with a focused weaving of folk, alternative country, psychedelia and peeled back indie pop, beefed up a little help from Cracker mates Sal Maida and Johnny Hickman, plus Sparklehorse’s late great Mark Linkous, Lowery has no trouble making his mark as a solo artist.” – HEAR/SAY MAGAZINE

[5/5] “The Palace Guards is a great sounding record from beginning to end, filled with subtle twists, surprising changes, and great playing throughout. There’s a wealth of strange textures, unusual instrument choices, and an overall sound that harkens back to the best records coming out of Britain in the ‘60s. But, for all the soundscaping that goes on, Lowery’s songs and voice are always the main attraction, and he’s at the top of his considerable game.” – ROCK GUITAR DAILY

“Lowery has crafted an incredible record in The Palace Guards. Not only does he still have it, his smart songwriting hasn’t faltered a bit. The album’s title track sounds like a vintage Pavement tune from the ‘90s. More importantly, it signals that the album is no one trick pony – it’s loaded with variety.”  – HEAR YA

“…a witty, lyrically clever and incisive, musically eclectic solo debut.”  – AMERICANA BOOGIE

“… semi-psychotic alt-country introspection that makes for some real entertainment. The Palace Guards might just be a stop on Lowery’s long journey, but a singular and sweet one.” – QRO MAGAZINE

“… the songs exude an air of personal reminiscence and fluctuate between weighted gravity and flighty whimsy, exploring themes of love, loss, and liberalism, sprinkled throughout with songs of sheer beauty.” – THE NEEDLE AND THE GROOVE

“… provides a great survey of the breadth of Lowery’s abilities. – TORONTO SNOB’S MUSIC

“Amazing. The Palace Guards is a nine-song wonder, with Lowery employing a bit of twang, dreamy guitars and a host of stirring formidable lyrics well worth taking to heart.” – ABANDONED COUCHES

“Unsurprisingly great” – THE BOSTON PHOENIX

“A batch of incredible songs.”  – CULTURE MAGAZINE

“Lowery jumps around stylistically on the album, with country rock (“Raise ’em Up on Honey”), psychedelia ( “Deep Oblivion”) and pedal-to-the-metal rock ‘n’ roll ( “Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing to Me”).” – SOUNDSPIKE

“David Lowery’s beautiful first solo album, The Palace Guards, is a must-have for fans of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker. For others, it’s the ideal opportunity to get better acquainted with this important artist.” – ROOTSTIME / BELGIUM

“If you’re skeptical about David Lowery’s new music, take one listen to the album’s title track. It’s a wonderfully executed homage to Syd Barret’s strange songwriting style.”  – MECCA LECCA / NYC

DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2014 MOVES DOWN SOUTH TO THE CRADLE OF THE BLUES THIS OCTOBER!
 
THREE-DAY FEST IN CLARKSDALE, MS TO FEATURE SPECIAL REUNIONS FROM SOLEDAD BROTHERS & SOUTH FILTHY, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER GREAT DEEP BLUES ACTS!
 
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2014 PLAYLIST FEATURING ALL OF THIS YEARS PERFORMERS!

Seven years after Chris Johnson started his first official Deep Blues Festival in the Twin Cities, the fest organizer and owner/operator of Bayport BBQ in Bayport, MN is moving the fest to Clarksdale, MS for three days in October.

The core of the fest will be held at Shack Up Inn’s Juke Joint Chapel and will boast a wealth of talented Deep Blues artists, such as Scott H. Biram, Kenny Brown (RL Burnside’s slide guitar player for 30 years), Charlie Parr, Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early, Dale Beavers, Guadalupe Plata from Spain, James Leg (aka Black Diamond Heavies’ John Wesley Myers), Boogaloosa Prayer and two very special reunions shows from Soledad Brothers and South Filthy.

This year’s fest won’t be limited to just this venue and these acts, however, as it will continue to grow right up to its October residency, with many other Clarksdale venues and blues acts to be added. These new additions will be announced over the coming months as they’re confirmed.

Johnson, a passionate fan of Deep Blues music, gives an insight on how the fest originally took root, “The first official festival was August 2007 with 18 bands. It was on a golf course driving range just outside the Twin Cities. The summer before, I had a block party in my neighborhood with Scott H. Biram and the Black Diamond Heavies performing. I had done this type of thing each summer for years, and it was Scott that suggested I rent a room and have tickets so I didn’t have to pay for it all myself.  I thought that sounded like a good idea, and thought I might have a few bands and make a night of it. I wrote to 18 bands and asked if they were interested and every one replied immediately that they wanted in. I couldn’t say no to anyone, so that’s how we ended up with an all day event.”

“I really like the opportunity to share all these outsider bands with new fans,” Johnson admits. “Once people hear them, they’re hooked. All these bands should be so much more popular. I think the whole world should know their music. The two reunion events of South Filthy and the Soledad Brothers this year are very special. Also, the return of Scott H. Biram to the Deep Blues Festival is very special to me personally. I consider him to be the epitome of deep blues or punk blues.”

Johnson is also doing something a bit different this year, as he’s asking for “benefactors” to help fund the fest with $100 donations. All benefactors will also receive perks, such as the first opportunity to reserve rooms at the Shack Up Inn, along with guaranteed admission to the late night shows at the Chapel. “We’ve been fortunate to have many generous fans already make these contributions,” Johnson said. “I’d say we’re about a third of the way there already.”

“As with all of the Deep Blues Festivals, we anticipate fans and bands to join us from all over the world,” Johnson said. “Hope you’ll think about joining us too.”

DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL 2014
Shack Up Inn – Juke Joint Chapel, 1 Commissary Cir, Clarksdale, MS (662) 624-8329

Thu Oct 16
Kenny Brown (RL Burnside’s slide guitar player for 30 years)
Charlie Parr
Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early
Dale Beavers

Fri. Oct. 17
Scott H. Biram
South Filthy (special reunion show!)
Guadalupe Plata

Sat. Oct. 18
Soledad Brothers (special reunion show!)
James Leg
Boogaloosa Prayer

Entire fest emceed by DJ HWY 7.

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The Delta Routine have just released their fourth full-length album, You And Your Lion. While this effort follows a similar path laid out on their last acclaimed album Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares – incorporating elements of garage, power-pop, punk and classic rock – the Milwaukee foursome also add a more rough-hewn Americana undertone to the mix. This decidedly rootsier approach was influenced, in part, by the band’s heavy tour schedule, which as frontman Nick Amadeus admits, “The last year and a half of touring has been pretty important to me… getting to see a ton of the Midwest and East Coast, going into the mountains and seeing Colorado for the first time. Seeing Austin and Texas for the first time, first trip to New Orleans, first time playing Nashville, etc. I think all of that stuff really helped shape the direction of the new album. It’s also probably my closest thing to a travel album. I wrote a good majority of the lyrics on the road and that shows up a lot on this record.”

The Delta Routine’s You And Your Lion was recorded at the Factory in Chicago and co-produced by bandmembers Mike Hoffmann and Nick Amadeus. It’s available now on both CD and digital formats.

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2012 PRESS RELEASE FOR THE DELTA ROUTINE’S “CIGARETTES & CAFFEINE NIGHTMARES” ALBUM

The Delta Routine are set to release their third full-length album Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares this fall. On it the Milwaukee quintet taps directly into the jugular of early rock-n-roll; distilling the raw, impassioned power and updating it for a younger generation. The eleven tracks traverse through a number of genres, such as garage, power-pop, punk, classic rock and even a bit of earthy Americana for good measure, and while this may not make it easy to categorize, it’s no matter, as it’s sure to get the blood pumping, feet moving, and transform a simple get-together into an instant party.

While critics have favorably compared some of their previous work to the likes of The Stones, The Black Crowes and The Strokes, what really emerges on Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares is the sound of a fully-realized band with their own distant voice in an all too homogenized rock scene. Infectious hooks, strong melodies and indelible riffs abound on this effort, as do the whip-smart lyrics and musical dynamic that swaggers at times, coos at others and, more often than not, explodes with a reckless abandon.

Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares was recorded in Milwaukee and produced by Mike Hoffmann whose production credits include The Verve Pipe, Willie Porter and Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes), among others. The band is comprised of lead singer/rhythm guitar player Nick Amadeus, bassist Evan Paydon, lead guitarist Victor Buell IV, keyboardist Al Kraemer and drummer Kyle Ciske, and on the strength of both their incendiary live shows and 2011 full-length album More About You, the band took home the 2011 Best Band and Best Alternative Artist awards earlier this spring from 88Nine Radio Milwaukee and the WAMI Awards (Wisconsin Area Music Industry), respectively.

The Delta Routine’s Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares will be available October 9th in both CD and Digital formats, and the band will be touring in support of it throughout the year.

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HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT THE DELTA ROUTINE:

2011 Band of the Year – 88NINE RADIO MILWAUKEE

2011 Alternative Artist of the Year – WAMI AWARDS (WISCONSIN AREA MUSIC INDUSTRY)

“I’d like to think the Delta Routine called their new album More About You because Cee-Lo and Bruno Mars beat them to “F**k You.” 2K11’s first great album is one of the great rock and roll kiss-offs. Not a break-up album, it’s the kind of disc you reach for when you’re done with the break-up albums, when you’re ready to stop being mopey and start being pissed off. The Delta Routine have just made a giant leap forward, and one of Milwaukee’s greatest rock records. Ever.” – Joey Taylor / ROCKSPOSURE

“More About You blends catchy guitar pop (opener “Blame It On Me” and “Felicia”) with swaggering blues-rooted rock and roll that nods at The Black Crowes (“Ain’t Worth Your Wait”), The Who (“Cause We’re Young”) and The Rolling Stones (“Nothing You Can Do”).” – Bobby Tanzilo / ON MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee’s The Delta Routine emulates the sound and swagger of old-school Rolling Stones, and 2011’s More About You, is a really fun record. “Ain’t Worth Your Wait” is an effective New York Dolls-style glam stomp, and channels both that group and the later solo work of guitarist Sylvain Sylvain. Other tracks find the group practically spelling out its influences in neon: “Cause We’re Young” nicks the opening guitar riff of The Who’s “I Can’t Explain,” while “And It Goes” borrows the rough shuffle of The Strokes’ “Someday.” There’s no denying how great this kind of music can sound live, as long as the beer is flowing and sexy people are shaking their hips in front of the stage. –  Steve Hayden / THE ONION’S A/V CLUB

“Fast-paced straight-up f**king rock ‘n’ roll, The Delta Routine’s blue toned power-rock sound tells no lies; their style reminiscent of The Black Keys, or a more pop oriented version of early White Stripes.” – Dustin Zarnikow / UWM POST

“The Delta Routine conjures the sound of vintage Rolling Stones and early punk bands like The Stooges and New York Dolls.” –  SHEPHERD EXPRESS

“The Delta Routine  come on like a volcano. Live, the act steams up a room. Their following is growing at an amazing rate.” – Lane Klozier / MAXIMUM INK

“Plays out like the soundtrack to a good night out. It’s very Milwaukee in nature; that is to say, it’s eager and energetic, loads of fun and goes down as smoothly as a pint of Pabst.” – Julie Lawrence / ON MILWAUKEE

(photo credit: Danielle Hanson at Local Playlist)

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DEVOTIONALS is the new solo project by Tyson Vogel of TWO GALLANTS.
Devotionals’ music is based around Tyson’s guitar compositions, with Anton Patzner (Judgement Day, Bright Eyes) invigorating the musical space with his violin mastery, and they are joined by various guests and collaborators. The result is a unique combination of simplicity and raw emotion that will delight new and old fans of Two Gallants, a kind of street music with nods to Rachmaninov and John Fahey. The recording is entirely analog.

Destruction, breakdowns, heartache, heart attack, these songs and their process, born out of a darkness, are the representations of the light that is inherent in the blindest of moments. Unrequited Life has been congesting my every silent moment, every living heartbeat, every waking; it tore me apart in dreams or when at the corner store buying soap to clean the only thing that I had left – these sounds are a devotion, a meditation, to the only truly consistent pulse we can depend upon while alive… our own pregnant breathe. – Tyson Vogel

Devotionals self-titled full-length debut is out now on CD, digital and limited edition vinyl formats through Alive Naturalsound Records.

“Devotionals is the name of both Vogel’s project and the album, which just came out and finds the drummer moving to the front with a guitar in service of gorgeous, mostly instrumental songs aided by great strings.” – SAN FRANCISICO WEEKLY

“…hauntingly beautiful.” – THE ROCK AND ROLL GURU

“The self-titled debut from Devotionals, out now on Alive Naturalsound Records, brings together Tyson Vogel’s finger-picked, Fahey-esque ragas with Anton Patzner’s mournful violin (plus various guests/collaborators) to create a sound that is a bit like a less dirty, Dirty Three. Where Dirty Three’s often wild cacophony sounds like that moment when an already out of control party goes off the rails in a crash of emotions unfettered by inebriation, Devotionals’ subdued  musical confessionals play like the conversation that comes the day after – a conversation that provides context for things that were said and done after way too many that is languid and honest and not trying to impress the listener with lofty insights into the human condition. And like a conversation born from such raw emotion, these songs simply want to tell a story, and it is in this simplicity that they offer true insight. Ultimately, Devotionals deliver timeless testimonials and minimalist morning-after confessions for those days of warm beer and cold comfort.” – LOS GRILLOS / SAN FRANCISCO

“I was struck by how Devotionals’ compositions channeled the players’ prodigious talents into a moving, transcendent energy. “Chest Like Expansive Wings” is from their self-titled album, out earlier this week on Alive Records, and it showcases Vogel’s fingerpicking and Patzner’s violin intertwining vibrantly.” –  THE BAY BRIDGED / SAN FRANCISCO

“Tyson Vogel of Two Gallants joins forces with Anton Patzner (Judgment Day, Bright Eyes) for the Devotionals project and we’re all better for it. Vogul’s folks-y, backwoods compositions drenched in deep thoughts and whiskey are the perfect companion to Patzner’s violin prowess.” – THE OWL MAG

“Devotionals is for the most part Anton Patzner (Judgment Day), Jeff Blair, and Tyson Vogel. Based around the guitar compositions of the latter, Anton invigorates the space with his inspired form of violin mastery and intuition, Jeff percussive sensitivity and heart. Giving a nod of reverence to what has come before in forms of Rachmaninov to John Fahey, to the unknown echos of the street musician, these songs, in form mostly instrumental, represent only the beat of the heart, and the ache to understand.” – METRO ACTIVE / SAN JOSE

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Hailing from Tuscaloosa, Alabama the Dexateens have built an institution from their fiery brand of punk and roll. Since 1998, as one line-up or another, they’ve left jaws agape and arms akimbo as if some kind of inadvertent hypnotism has occurred. Their first two releases, a self-titled southern punk masterpiece lovingly known as “Headphones” and their sophomore effort Red Dust Rising both came out on the legendary Estrus Records label.

Since then the band has amassed an impressive discography penned largely by bandleader Elliott McPherson. 2009’s Singlewide marks the last time songwriter and original lead guitarist John Smith worked with the band in studio. The acoustic balladry of that release along with changes to the lineup opened up fresh studio approaches while live shows remained unhinged. The sum of their parts, a bottling of rock’s essence, they keep it locked and loaded – A Voltron-esque band of brothers with several powerful conjoining pieces that can form at any time, in any variation, to wreak audible havoc on anyone and everyone within striking distance.

This past Febuary 13th the band kicked off the Drive-By Truckers’ annual Heathens Homecoming at the legendary 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia. The line-up was almost back to basics with founding songwriters Smith and McPherson on guitars and vocals, original bassist Matt Patton (also with DBT) and the great Brian Gosdin (2007-present) on the trap kit. This is one of the few times McPherson and Smith have played together in the past 10 years. The results are impeccable and it waves the spear for how deep the roots of “bandhood” can be – an unrehearsed recall of Smith-era highlights and less expected audibles.

Thankfully, Athens producer David Barbe (Sugar, Drive-By Truckers), had his mobile rig humming to catch this show in all its glory. The tracks were then brilliantly mixed and mastered by Barbe at his Chase Park Transduction studio. Barbe previously co-produced The Dexateens’ Hardwire Healing along with DBT’s Patterson Hood.

Dexateens, Live from Athens, GA – Heathens Homecoming 2020 is a Cornelius Chapel Records release, and it will be a Bandcamp only release made available on July 3rd. Easter eggs include Andy Griffith and craftily inserted Jimmy Page solos to name just a few! A phenomenal representation of barebones rock’n’roll.

Click here to pre-order Dexateens’ ‘Live from Athens, GA – Heathens Homecoming 2020’ via Bandcamp. All pre-orders will get immediate access to download the track “Grandaddy’s Mouth.”
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THE DIRTY CLERGY TO RELEASE THEIR NEW ALBUM IN WAVES MAY 22, 2020 VIA CORNELIUS CHAPEL RECORDS

With 2020 marking a decade into their musical careers The Dirty Clergy vacillates between shoegaze-esque ruminations on love and struggle and more straightforward garage numbers that surge into ecstatic cacophony all accented by eerily laconic vocals, The Alabama-based trio (featuring vocalist/guitarist Brian Manasco, bassist Ky Carter and drummer Cody Moorehead) are looking to expand their already respectable discography with their upcoming full-length, the aptly titled In Waves.

The 12-song collection represents the band’s second collaboration with producer Les Nuby (Verbena, Holiday Gunfire and co-owner of Ol’ Elegante Studio in Birmingham), who had engineered the Clergy’s previous album, 2016’s Rattlesnake, a release which would go on to be nominated for “Indie/Alt Album of the Year’ at the 2016 Independent Music Awards, get played on LA’s legendary KROQ station, receive multiple accolades from AL. com and land the band two placements for the songs “Decades” and “Strange Love” on the tenth season of SHOWTIME’s Shameless.

After having a couple of other singers in the tenure of the band, founder Manasco uses this latest record to give his own voice to the lyrics and melodies that he has crafted.

“Everything was different because we had a different lineup,” Manasco recalls. “I wrote all of the new songs and when we started rehearsals, the former singer had wanted to rewrite the lyrics. But we had already recorded all of the music. I was then talking to Anton Newcombe from The Brian Jonestown Massacre and he said ‘tell that dude to hit the road.’ And Les was aware of all this stuff. I had to go back and redo all of the songs in terms of tempo and key to accommodate a new singer. I was not planning on singing the songs myself, but ultimately I didn’t have a choice.”

“That’s what the band wanted from the start,” Manasco continues. “They wanted me to sing from the beginning. Everything sputtered a bit at first, but I knew the sound I was trying to achieve once started singing because it was something I always wanted to do.”

These sudden rearrangements helped the Dirty Clergy develop a record that sounds truly unique. Beginning with the fuzz and percussion-drenched introduction of opening track and first single “Trials,” the band immediately draws in the listener for an emotional and visceral journey of an album. One of the standout tracks in the album’s first half (“Young Lovers” featuring guest vocals from Cameron Lane) brings the trio’s instrumentation into true focus with a lengthy section of hard-hitting drums, throbbing bass and an iconic guitar solo which seamlessly reconvenes with an excellent interplay between the singers. The synth-heavy and dreamlike “Homesick” focuses on the prevalence of school violence in today’s society.

“The shooting at Parkland High School is one that I really focused on for that song,” Manasco said. “I was just trying to put myself in their shoes. We recorded it a few months after it occurred.”

Songs like “Wonderland”, “West Coast” and “Whiplash” continue to build on the band’s sonic evolution. Even though the threesome hails from the small town of Winfield, AL, the tunes do not really contain any indication of the music that one might expect from the state, instead exuding a vibe in line with some of the experimental indie rock found in the epicenters of both US coasts.

Despite the title of the record’s last track “Too Good to Last,” the Dirty Clergy are here to stay with a collection of tracks that will linger in your mind long after the final note.

The Dirty Clergy will release In Waves on digital platforms and CD on May 22nd as one of the newest signings of Birmingham’s Cornelius Chapel Records. Click here to pre-order.

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Scan the press on soul-groove outfit Dirty Streets and you’ll see numerous references to rock, soul, and dirty-blooze touchstones like the Faces, Humble Pie, Otis Redding, CCR and more. Spin Dirty Streets’ records and you’ll hear all of those echoes, plus others—some jazz timing, some acoustic balladry. But by and large, what you’ll hear is a raw, rowdy blend of Motown, Stax and rock—the pure American blood-beat moving through the heart of Memphis groove.

Austin-born Justin Toland (guitar/vocals) found his own musical food early through his father, a classic-rock aficionado who turned Justin on to the Stones, Creedence, soul music and the Stax sound. At 17 Toland moved to Memphis and met Thomas Storz (bass), a native of the city, through mutual friends; the pair found common musical ground and began playing groove-grounded rock with a series of temporary drummers. Andrew Denham (drums), a Shreveport-born drummer and British hard-rock fan, joined up with Storz and Toland in 2007.

The trio began demoing using a basic setup: a single cassette recorder, no tracks, no real separation, just mics on the bass/drums and guitar and vocals live in the room. Without the option to isolate, tweak or sweeten after the fact, Dirty Streets became accustomed to running through a take 40 or 50 times as they worked to get it right, all the way through. By the time they began gigging live, that level of discipline had honed Dirty Streets into an instinctual, responsive outfit. Bootleg recordings of their shows in and around Memphis helped to generate buzz, and established Dirty Streets’ rep as a band whose timing was as sharp as their sound was ragged.

Albums followed—Portrait of a Man (2009), Movements (2011), Blades of Grass (2013), White Horse (2015), Distractions (2018), and their latest live effort Rough and Tumble, an LP drawn from an in-house performance for the DittyTV Americana music television network. All of these albums are steeped in the raw rock-soul groove that serves as the band’s taproot, the musical core from which all of its explorations still proceed. And within that core, too, is the element that gives their music, the music they love and play, its unique character.

Rough and Tumble includes eight positively explosive takes from three of the Memphis trio’s previous studio albums, and also features two meaty, revved-up covers by the great Joe South.

Dirty Streets’ Rough and Tumble is out now on limited vinyl, CD and digital & streaming platforms via Alive Naturalsound Records. Click here to order the limited yellow vinyl LP.

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2015 PRESS RELEASE FOR DIRTY STREETS’ ALBUM WHITE HORSE

DIRTY STREETS TO RELEASE THEIR LATEST STUDIO ALBUM DISTRACTIONS SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee, a hub of historical soul and blues that crafted much of the world’s modern music, Dirty Streets have spent years on the road and in the studio forging their own style. They’ve moved from DIY, independant recordings to ambitiously self-produced studio ventures over the course of five albums. Their fifth, and latest, LP, Distractions, is an explosively charged follow-up to their acclaimed 2015 release White Horse, which contains a unique style of heavy, soulful and sometimes psychedelic rock. Recorded at the historic Sam Phillips Recording studio in Memphis, the album pushes the sonic palette of the band to the next level with an eclectic mix of songs. Drawing from influences that span from the bluesy twang of Howlin’ Wolf and Wilson Pickett, to the heady expansiveness of Hendrix and Donovan, Distractions lives in its own time and place. The album was recorded live in the studio by Matt Qualls and Wesley Graham in the room where the raw and explosive energy of the Yardbirds’ iconic “Train Kept a Rollin’” was originally put to tape. This album continues the tradition.

Dirty Streets’ Distractions will be available September 14, 2018 on vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats.

DISTRACTIONS TRACK LISTING:
01 Loving Man
02 The Sound
03 Dreams
04 Riding High
05 Can’t Go Back
06 Distractions
07 Take A Walk
08 Death’s Creep
09 On The Way
10 Trying To Remember

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2015 PRESS RELEASE FOR DIRTY STREETS’ ALBUM WHITE HORSE

DIRTY STREETS TO RELEASE NEW WHITE HORSE ALBUM NOV. 27, 2015 VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS

Memphis-based power-trio Dirty Streets are gearing up for the release of their fourth studio album, White Horse (their second for Alive Naturalsound Records) on Black Friday.

Following the release of their well-received 2013 album, Blades of Grass, the band began writing and recording material for this new record. As frontman Justin Toland explained, “We wrote and re-wrote tons of songs and it really ended up hitting a great point as far as expression. We recorded at the renown Ardent Studios in Memphis with our friend Matt Qualls this time, who is a great engineer and really helped in forming the sound of the record. It became a very pure time creatively for us and I feel we locked into something we hadn’t previously. Over all, it worked out in a way that we could take more time to find our sound than we previously had.”

And judging from these 11 red-raw tracks informed by the band’s love of deep soul, funk, blues and heavy boogie & psych-rock it was time well spent.

“This album is definitely more fluid and natural,” Toland continued. “We made a big deal out of just feeling out the songs rather than getting them technically perfect. Percussion was definitely a compass as far as groove on this one. If we couldn’t play the tambourine, or shaker with feeling then it wasn’t cutting it. It was actually Budos Band that was a huge influence as far as groove goes for the writing of this record.”

Following various tours throughout the U.S., including a successful run opening for label mates Radio Moscow, Dirty Streets will be bringing their pile-driving live show to a city near you soon (initial tour dates listed below).

Dirty Streets’ White Horse will be available on Limited Vinyl, CD & digital formats on Nov. 27, 2015 via Alive Naturalsound Records. The stunning psychedelic cover art was created by Joshua Marc Levy of Asheville Art Family.

FOR MORE INFO ON DIRTY STREETS:
http://www.dirtystreetsmusic.com
http://www.alive-records.com/artist/the-dirty-streets

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PRESS RELEASE FOR DIRTY STREETS’ PREVIOUS ALBUM “BLADES OF GRASS”

Formed by Thomas Storz (bass, percussion), Justin Toland (vocals, guitar, percussion) and Andrew Denham (drums, percussion), and originally from Mississippi, the power trio Dirty Streets now calls Memphis home. That’s where they recorded their new album Blades Of Grass, at the legendary Ardent studio, under the guidance of sound engineer Adam Hill. The core trio also enlisted the talents of Lucero’s Rick Steff on keys for this effort. Blades Of Grass is an old school rock’n’roll record with nods to the sounds of Humble Pie, Jeff Beck Group and others. It’s heavy music bathed in blues, folk and psychedelia, with chops to spare and a working class point of view. The band already has two independent releases under their belt, including an album with renown Memphis producer Doug Easley, and has toured extensively in the Southeast, with a couple of East Coast runs, and an eight week U.S. tour with Radio Moscow. Summer 2013 U.S. tour dates to be announced soon.

Dirty Streets’ Blades of Grass will be available in all formats on July 9th. Limited Edition Color Vinyl exclusive to Bomp-mailorder.

BLADES OF GRASS TRACK LISTING:
1. Stay Thirsty
2. Talk
3. No Need To Rest
4. Movements #2
5. Try Harder
6.  Blades Of Grass
7. Keep An Eye Out
8. Heart Of The Sky
9. Truth
10. Twice
11. I Believe I Found Myself (bonus track exclusive to CD and digital download)

FOR MORE INFO ON DIRTY STREETS:
dirtystreetsmusic.com
facebook.com/thedirtystreets

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http://www.alive-records.com

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DM3 made their mark on the international Power Pop scene with three official albums from the mid-to-late ‘90s and are revered by fans and critics alike. Consisting of Dom Mariani (frontman of legendary Australian garage rockers The Stems & more recently the heavy-hitting rock band Datura4), Toni Italiano and Pascal Bartolone, this trio could, arguably, be the best Power Pop band Australia has produced.

DM3’s new remastered compilation album West of Anywhere is out now on limited vinyl, CD and digital formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.

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https://www.facebook.com/DM3-Official-344960085688952
http://www.alive-records.com/artist/dm3

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