Thursday, May 29, 2008

Multinational surreal pop group Sunny Day Sets Fire announces limited U.S. dates surrounding premiere of Paramount Pictures documentary American Teen.

Sunny Day Sets Fire has announced a very limited stateside engagement in late June, when the band of musicians from many lands and backgrounds will perform a handful of shows surrounding the premiere party for American Teen (LINK), a documentary on seniors in an Indiana high school and their various cliques. The Paramount Pictures release features songs by Sunny Day Sets Fire, which the band will perform at a private launch party as well as select venues and radio appearances around Los Angeles. See complete show details below. These will be the band’s only U.S. dates until the fall 2008 CMJ New Music Festival.

Ostensibly a band founded in London, Sunny Day Sets Fire is a group with many homelands, many talents and many sounds. The quintet’s unique brand of hummable surreal pop is a perfect soundtrack to summertime that could perhaps best be compared to artists like Blonde Redhead, The Flaming Lips, Architecture in Helsinki and Band Of Horses. The mid-summer release of its IAmSound full length debut Summer Palace will certainly establish Sunny Day Sets Fire as a reference point unto itself.

In a swirling event of coincidence and musical attraction, band founders Onyee and Mauro found each other between paychecks and popcorn. Both were ushers at their local repertoire Chelsea cinema in London when they realized their similar palates for bands, artists and sounds exacted a nice beginning for some collaborative efforts. Ideas occurred and the two recruited friends to fulfill orchestral duties. An act was born. Sunny Day Sets Fire dug their toes into the ground, and got pumped for the future comings of their psych-pop band life.

It is a landscape that is both rich and broad. Any band can drown themselves in old vinyl for some choice inspiration, but the Sunny Day worldly influence and background provoke a top spirit and caliber to their topsy-turvy psychedelic stack-up. Collectively, the band hails from Hong Kong, Italy, Sardinia, Canada, and of course, London. The result is something of a pop hybrid where 60’s beach rock collides with new patents. Catchy melodies spill into astral instrumentation and kaleidoscopic guitar tangents. These tunes are very much alive and optical.
Lead guitarist Max, deriving from Sardinia, says it best: “Our music is the result of the clash of five different backgrounds that in most cases, come out in a very unconscious way. Any input coming out from anyone of us triggers something from the musical and visual imagery of the rest of the band members. [This] adds to initial ideas of the songs and in a way that often transform them into something a bit different.”

Mauro, originally from Italy, is the lead vocalist, 12-string guitarist and occasional drummer of Sunny Day Sets Fire. He cites director Harmony Korine, black metal bands and Surrealism as personal influences, and acts as the band’s main songwriter and composer. When his rounded and endearing chorals flirt with the whimsical electronics, the result is snappy and fun. The rest follows as effortlessly as a picnic.

After Onyee (a Hong King native) and Mauro found each other at that fateful cinema, the two performed as a duo for a handful of exhibition openings and artist video projects. Onyee contributed her appreciation for Velvet Underground, 60’s Motown girl groups, and Leonard Cohen, as well as the “pure memories and emotions you get from watching gigs, [and] from looking at a work of art or performances.”

Evolution knows how to ignite. When Mauro whipped up a set of songs with a mint-fresh direction, Onyee (sporting her talents with back-up vocals, drums, synth and glockenspiel) got motivated and pulled Max from shaking cocktails to play lead guitar. Now things were rolling, now music was being made, gigs were being played, and bands like Sunny Day Sets Fire were really covering ground. A year and a half later, Ed joined on the bass, the band’s only London native.

So, Ed, what influences you? “Touring and the exposure to new sounds, attitudes and altitudes. Fearless freaks. Michel Gondry... James Jamerson... Paul McCartney and The Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers... Salvador Dali.” Ed’s addition adds another layer of novelty and complexity.

But that wasn’t enough. “We needed a Timpani player! So thanks the almighty we found Matthew,” Mauro says. “We started playing as a four-piece and after having some fun, guess what? We wanted to have much more fun.”

In addition to his percussion roles, Matt the Canadian toils in synth and backing vocals. He notes favorites in Sonic Youth, Television, Stereolab, Chuck Berry and more. Daydream Nation “taught me about what a band should be.” Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs “taught me that music could be like a book” and Television’s Marquee Moon “taught me about musicianship and striving for excellence.” Surely, he nested into the forward-thinking Sunny Day Sets Fire just fine.

In the summer of 2006, the band signed to American indie label IAMSOUND Records with the four-song Brainless EP released later in the year. On February 26th, 2008, IAMSOUND issued a remix EP featuring CSS and XXXChange from Spank Rock, The Cool Kids and Mad Decent/Diplo. The EP has been wrangling in excitement for Summer Palace, the Sunny Day full-length set for July 8th, 2008. One can only begin to envision the sorts of cakewalks Sunny Day Sets Fire crafted for these upcoming 14 tracks. It’s the kind of project you can easily get stoked on.

Yet, no one is as excited as Sunny Day Sets Fire. Like Mauro says, “Here we are now. The fantastic five looking for adventures in the sublime jungle of frequencies.”
Sunny Day Sets Fire Live:
06/22 – Los Angeles, CA The Roxy (w/ Oxford Collapse and Frightened Rabbit)
06/24 – Los Angeles CA Spaceland
06/25 – Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theater (Paramount Pictures party for American Teen. Private event – e-mail for invite.)

Summer Palace Tracklisting:
Release Date: July 8th, 2008

01. Wilderness
02. Stranger
03. Teenagers Talking
04. End of the Road
05. All Our Songs
06. Smallest Heart on Earth
07. Mandarins
08. Siamese
09. I Dream Along
10. Adrenaline
11. Hollywood
12. Brainless (MP3)
13. Map of the World
14. Lack of View

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www.myspace.com/iamsoundrecords

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Die! Die! Die! tours the U.S. with Von Bondies, assails the rest of the world with brilliant new video.

“If the name didn't tip you off, Die! Die! Die! have little patience for pop concessions. Abrasive and bare-bones, the band makes a lot out of a little... ...the result is mind-numbingly satisfying.” – Spin

The relentlessly touring Dunedin, New Zealand trio Die! Die! Die! has launched yet more U.S. tour dates, this time with Detroit garage rockers The Von Bondies throughout May. While the energetic trio can't be everywhere at once (though if you've ever seen their live show, they certainly try) the band has posted a new video HERE. The cleverly animated clip is for the song “Sideways, Here We Come” off Die! Die! Die!’s recently released epic Promises, Promises.

Die! Die! Die! was recently featured on the cover of CMJ New Music Report and earned considerable praise in Alternative Press, Spin, Paper Thin Walls and more. As if that weren’t enough excitement, Die! Die! Die! was also recently chosen as one of the highly-sought-after featured artists on MySpace.com, resulting in the band receiving tens of thousands of plays for select songs culled from Promises, Promises.

Die! Die! Die! has been compared to an intriguing mix of bands, including ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Wire, Sonic Youth and kiwi faves like Bailter Space and The Clean. The boys in the band -- vocalist/guitarist Andrew Wilson, drummer Michael Prain and bassist Lachlan Anderson -- traveled to Chicago two years ago to cut its first self-titled release with Steve Albini in a brick basement (responsible for some of the greatest records of all time). Needless to say, this record sent the trio on a whirlwind series of countless tours (supporting Blood Brothers, Wire, Slint and Wolfmother) and gained it considerable world wide notoriety which no band from their native Dunedin, New Zealand had seen since the Dunedin sound heyday of the 80’s.

In August 2007, Die! Die! Die! recorded Promises, Promises with popular New Zealand songwriter Shayne Carter producing. The record was engineered by Kevin Mcmahon in upstate New York in The Walkmen’s Marcata studio.

Reminiscent of the spirit and sounds of Black Flag, The Pixies, The Wipers, Wire, and Bailter Space, Die! Die! Die! delivers an unfiltered and powerful stage show. The band’s relentless tour schedule and onstage antics has earned it a reputation as one of the most energetic and hardest working bands around. Shows for Die! Die! Die! go on with fearless and confident delivery. In a wild fit, Wilson occasionally removes his guitar (with microphone in hand) to enter the crowd. This is a most effective way of dissolving the invisible crowd/performer boundary as Prain and Anderson keep the pummeling rhythms flowing without missing a beat.

The trio embodies a vitality that has long since made its way into the recent rock and punk circuits. There isn’t a rehearsed set of messages or stage antics, no glitter, no make-up, no phony sass. Cutting to the quick, Die! Die! Die!’s songs and live delivery are nothing short of awe-inspiring. These three are on the forefront of a new revolution without the aid of gimmicks or pretense.

Cathartic, direct, indispensable… You will know the sound as Die! Die! Die!

Quotes From The Press:

“This trio has called Dundedin and Auckland their home but are in actual fact more like confrontational musical nomads plying a situationist international inspired lifestyle and calling it a band. The fact that they can make a simply brilliant noise along the way has been duly noted by fans around the world.” – CMJ

“This hit the player and eye’s shot up! Totally in your face, like they're playing vaccum cleaners, and their vicious, spare, distorto-punding and vocals are hair rasing like a splatter film.” – The Big Takeover

“Willful dissonance is often the terrain of effete art rockers, but Die! Die! Die! pull it off with cool aplomb, recalling the abrasive hypnotism of mid career Sonic Youth and the noisy vigor of Jesus Lizard.” – The Sentimentalist

“This first full-length from New Zealand’s Die! Die! Die! is a shattered, angular masterpiece of animal instincts and serrated edges.” – Exclaim!

“...full of an indescribable power and beauty.” – Chord Magazine

“Play this record to really f***ing appreciate your own dull ache, to wallow in the disaster of your own creating - and secretly enjoy every last wail.” – Plan B

Die! Die! Die! On Tour:
* w/ The Von Bondies
05/30 Victoria, BC @ Sugar Nightclub *
05/31 Vancouver, BC @ Richard's on Richards *

Promises, Promises Tracklisting:
Stream the album HERE
Release Date: February 12, 2008

01. Blinding
02. Britomart Sunset
03. Sideways, Here We Come (MP3 VIDEO)
04. Death To The Last Romantic
05. Whitehorses
06. A.T.T.I.T.U.D. (MP3)
07. Maybe: Definitely
08. People Talk
09. Promises, Promises
10. Hold Me
11. Echo Echo
12. Throw A Fit
13. Blue Skies (MP3)

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Jex Thoth throws down psychedelic hard rock gauntlet with debut album, transnational band features skull-thwacking riffs and soaring female vocals.

Jex Thoth, a psychedelic hard rock band named after its enigmatic singer, has announced the release of its self-titled debut album courtesy of Swedish imprint I Hate Records. The transnational quintet features a bevy of skull-thwacking riffs and folk-tinged tones supporting Thoth’s gloriously soaring voice. The band also includes the impeccable musicianship and creativity of former Wooden Wand leader James Jackson Toth (Grim Jim) on bass and guitar, backing the frontwoman who had previously lent her remarkable harmonies to his former group. Likewise, members Silas Paine (guitars / bouzouki / flute), Zodiac (keyboards / studio wizardry) and Johnny Dee (drums, percussion) gathered from fields afar, solidify the Jex Thoth totem pole.

Jex Thoth does not fall into predetermined categories. Its sound is far from “stoner rock” or cookie-cutter doom often associated with similarly thunderous metal-leaning urchins. Rather, Jex Thoth is a bright shining phoenix rising from the drudgery of predictable metal formalism. Taking its influences from sources obvious (early Danzig, Ozzy) and not so obvious (avant garde chanteuse Catherine Ribeiro, over-the-rainbow psych-folk savant Bobb Trimble), the band, led by the beautiful and commanding goddess Jex, follows its muse wherever it leads them. The band is not afraid to take cues from progressive rock and folk, and the band's debut album (which follows an EP released under the name Totem) marks a huge step forward for Jex Thoth. From the vociferous opener “Nothing Left To Die,” a statement of intent that begins with Jex singing “You think you know me / but you won't believe your eyes,” to an ambitious cover of Bobb Trimble’s psychedelic masterwork “When The Raven Calls,” Jex Thoth is out to prove they are peerless when it comes to intrepid, bone-shaking rock and roll. Reverent while maintaining a defiantly original sound, Jex Thoth embraces all that is good about the past and shuttles it defiantly into the future.

Jex Thoth Tracklisting:
Stream The Album HERE

01. Nothing Left To Die
02. The Banishment
03. Obsidian Night
04. Separated At Birth (MP3)
05. Son of Yule
06. Warrior Woman
Equinox Suite
07. a. The Poison Pit
08. b. Thawing Magus
09. c. Invocation Pt. 1
10. d. The Damned and Divine
11. When The Raven Calls
12. Stone Evil

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Monday, May 19, 2008

Charming anti-folk duo The Terrordactyls to release new demos via MySpace, lands lucrative kazoo sponsorship, plans fall tour of the US and new album.

“Everything The Terrordactyls do is wonderful.” – Megan Seling, The Stranger

“The earnest quality of their music is immediately endearing, and at the same time belies a deeper songwriting. Keep this band on your radar for 2008." – Rock Sellout

“Amidst the extended and passionate kazoo solos, the toy piano melodies, and lo-fi guitar strums lives the conflicted story of youth. The I love you, but you broke my knee caps, the joy and sorrow, the humor and the tears, all packed into a charming 37 minutes.” – What To Wear During an Orange Alert

Michael Cadiz and Tyrel Stendahl – the duo behind The Terrordactyls - will be posting a new demo every two weeks starting May 26th on their MySpace page (www.myspace.com/theterrordactyls). Some demos will appear in finished form on the the duo’s next LP (tentatively scheduled for winter, 2008.) Some are older tracks that didn’t make the cut for previous releases.

Each demo will be accompanied by a poster, hand drawn by the boys themselves (in keeping with the group’s penchant for unbridled crafting.) Each demo track will be will be available for free with the purchase of a poster or you can get the poster for free with the purchase of the track. Pretty sweet, huh?

The band is also celebrating a recent score – a coveted kazoo sponsorship from Kazoobie (LINK). The company provided the duo with a supply of kazoos for its currently-in-the-works fall tour. Soon to be available – Terrordactyls branded kazoos – perfect for audience members that wish to kazoo along.

On their current self-titled album, The Terrordactyls' quirky, lighthearted yet decidedly melancholic pop/anti-folk tunes are augmented by toy pianos, kazoos, and the voice of Kimya Dawson (The Moldy Peaches, Juno) on the song “Devices” -- the stop-motion video (LINK) which has been viewed almost 200,000 times on YouTube and was recently AOL/Spinner’s “Video of The Day.”

Despite all these charming trappings, though, nothing really serves to take the edge off the band’s gutsy interpretation of the sad sweetness (or sweet sadness) of living. This is demonstrated by the contrast of their childlike music to the dark and serious subject matter explored by lyrics such as (from “Fall”):

“Shoot me in the face / I’ll shoot you in the face / We’ll see which one of us / Can shoot the other in the most accurate place / Stab me in the chest / I’ll stab you in the chest / We’ll see which one of us / Can stab the other in the chest the very best / Hang me from the rafters / And I’ll hang you from the lamp post / We will see which one of us / Wants to end everything the most.”

Despite being labeled a “lo-fi” band, The Terrordactyls say they “strive for the highest fidelity” while maintaining the whimsy you might expect in homemade recordings. HEAR Cadiz and Stendahl discuss this and more on The Needle Drop show which airs on Connecticut’s NPR-affiliated public broadcasting station WNPR.

Originally a quartet, The Terrordactyls once featured Brendhan Bowers on drums and Scott Yoder on guitar. The two eventually left the band because, according to Cadiz and Stendahl, “they were no longer willing to participate in the rigorous daily regimens of weight lifting and jumping jacks required by the group’s image consultant, Extremeline.” Humor aside, Bowers and Yoder went on to form The Pharmacy – and Cadiz and Stendahl went on to create The Mike Bowers EP – a collection of Pharmacy covers dedicated to Brendhan Bowers father.

The Terrordactyls Tracklisting:
Stream The Album HERE

01. Facelift
02. Sabina
03. Zombie Girl
04. I Want To Cry
05. Decoration Daniel (VIDEO)
06. Fall (MP3)
07. Devices (MP3)(VIDEO)
08. Sandcastles
09. Shipping
10. Parking Lots
11. Nobody Knows
12. Swimming
13. Home
14. Baltimore

The Mike Bowers EP Tracklisting:
Stream The EP HERE

01. Overcast Summer (MP3)
02. Prince
03. Growing Old (MP3)
04. Two Small Armies
05. Andy

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Pharmacy tours with Japanther in support of new album Choose Yr Own Adventure, is honored by new Terrordactyls EP covering five Pharmacy tunes.

“...art-punk tunes combined with earworm-worthy pop sensibilities and rhyming Seuss-like lyrics ready for blissful sing-alongs.” – Spin

“...a crazy, quirky blend of punk, synthesizer-driven pop and arty, retro rock” – Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“...dance hooks and dirty punk together in a delightful kaleidoscope of bandanas and pearl necklaces.” – Performer

The Pharmacy has played Bumbershoot, the Capitol Hill Block Party, every club in Seattle and every basement in the country. They have played with The Moldy Peaches and toured with Kimya Dawson (as her opening and backing band), Jeffrey Lewis and Matt & Kim. And now they’re on tour with Japanther. See below for current dates for this busy band supporting their new album Choose Yr Own Adventure.

The Pharmacy is currently planning a massive tour of Europe for the fall. Beyond that, who knows where you might end up seeing the trio. Check out the group’s MySpace page (LINK) and you’ll see they’ll play just about anywhere upon request: “Email us and we’ll probably play for you at your homecoming party, Cliffside generator show, barn, BART station, children’s TV show, etc., etc.”

Choose Yr Own Adventure isn’t the only new Pharmacy related record out now. Life-long friends The Terrordactyls recently released the Mike Bowers EP, also on Don’t Stop Believin’ Records, covering five Pharmacy songs using their signature classical guitar, toy pianos, and kazoos to take the edge off The Pharmacy’s old school spazz punk stylings by transforming them into perfect campfire songs. Have a listen to The Terrordactyls take on The Pharmacy HERE.

More about The Pharmacy:
Scott Yoder and Brendhan Bowers made plenty of noisy racket in the local garages and teen centers while growing up on Vashon Island, Washington. They moved across the Puget Sound to Seattle and booked their first tour as The Pharmacy (with then-member Joey Seward) in 2003 and have kept the show pretty much on the road ever since. In 2006 Joey left for more metal pursuits and classically trained pianist and fellow Vashon kid Stefan Rubicz joined on keyboards. Since then The Pharmacy have transformed from the synth-heavy overdrive of their 2005 debut album B.F.F. through the drizzly sunshine of the Overcast Summer 7-inch at last landing on the off-kilter psychedelic pop of Choose Yr Own Adventure. Replete with epic instrumentation - viola, violin, cello, harpsichord and horns all make an appearance - Choose Yr Own Adventure has been years in the making, re-vamped re-recorded and re-written over time.

The Pharmacy In The Press:
“...quirky, Beatles-informed tunes filled with quick tempo changes, fuzzy vocals, and cowbells. It’s cluttered like a scrapbook and yet catchy as hell.” – Brian J. Barr, Seattle Weekly

“...a drunk, less intellectual They Might Be Giants.” – threeimaginarygirls.com

“[The] wonderful new video for The Pharmacy’s “Little Toys [on a Shelf]” proves that the band is having much more fun than you are.” – Seattle Sound Magazine

“The Pharmacy is the band that won’t die. Thank Christ. Their new record, Choose Your Own Adventure, is finished... it’s the strongest stuff the band has done yet—weaving their less polished, basement sensibilities with playful keyboards and harmonies.” – Megan Seling, The Stranger

“I believe that, if the current path is any indication of the future, all pharmacies will have to be renamed because the term “great music” will unequivocally be associated with Seattle’s The Pharmacy. I mean, if The Pharmacy [the band] keeps giving us songs like “Mirror,” no longer will pharmacies be known as the place where you acquire prescription drugs and other useful necessities. A “pharmacy” will instead evoke strong, polished, tempo-wavering melodies, creeping up to catch you through hook-laden guitars and delightfully varied keys.” - A Limerick Ox

The Pharmacy Live:
* w/ Japanther
05/14 Tallahassee, FL @ Charles Mansion*
05/15 Pensacola, FL @ Sluggo's *
05/16 New Orleans, Louisiana @ Big Top*
05/17 Austin, TX @ Red 7 *
05/19 Las Cruces, NM @ The Farm *
05/22 Flagstaff, AZ @ Stab Mountain *
05/23 Long Beach, CA @ Babe’s Warehouse*
05/24 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell *
05/25 San Francisco, CA @ Thrillhouse Records *
05/25 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern *
05/27 Eugene, OR Shady Pines *
05/28 Portland, OR @ Exit Only *
05/29 Olympia, WA @ Midnight Sun *
05/30 Seattle, WA @ Sonic Boom Records - Ballard
05/30 Seattle, WA @ Booty Cave *
05/31 Silverdale, WA Jackson Hall
06/27 Seattle, WA Bend-It Fest @ Cal Anderson Park

Choose Yr Own Adventure Tracklisting:
Stream The Album HERE

01. Choose Yr Own Adventure
02. Black Ice Cream
03. Mirror (MP3)
04. Tropical Yeti
05. Warm and Untorn
06. My Friends
07. Little Toys On A Shelf (MP3) (VIDEO)
08. Try To Explain
09. Five Five Five
10. Turned Into Granite
11. Old Man And The Sea
12. Adieu, Adieu (MP3)

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Rolling Stone “surprise find” My Education to give off Bad Vibrations on new album to be released in June.

Formed in Austin in 1999 by Brian Purington, Eric Gibbons and Sean Seagler, three refugees from San Angelo, TX, My Education flirted briefly with the idea of vocals but soon decided they were never necessary to begin with and became a purely instrumental outfit. With the addition of keyboardist Kirk Laktas (Stars of The Lid, Ultrasound, etc.), viola virtuoso James Alexander (Cinders, ecfa) and Floridian transplant guitar god Chris Hackstie (Saturated, Loring), the lineup stabilized and their first album 5 Popes was recorded at the Bubble with Chris “Frenchie” Smith (16 Deluxe, Young Heart Attack) at the helm. The self-released record peaked at number one on many college radio stations across North America.

The band has toured the Midwest, East Coast, and Canada multiple times since the original release of 5 Popes along with showcasing at South By Southwest for several years running. The first self-released pressing of 5 Popes sold out in December 2003, and was promptly re-released on the Austin, TX-based record label Thirty Ghosts Records in January 2004. In February 2003 the UK-based label, Jonathan Whiskey, released a 7-inch single for the song “Concentration Waltz.” My Education also has songs featured on the Rollerderby Records compilation The Speed By Which We Fall, and the Clairecords compilation Test Tones Vol. 2.3.

After three years of blood, sweat, and tears My Education finally completed their second CD, Italian, which was released on Thirty Ghosts Records on April 26th, 2005. Rolling Stone Senior Editor David Fricke soon chimed in with critics all over the world in their admiration of this fine record, which has been described as everything from “...swirling and swaying and leading your ears and your soul into a trippy, calm world, where the sky is glowing a beautiful shade of pink and the sun is always setting on a cold winter’s eve” (Joseph Kyle, mundanesounds.com) to “careening around mischievously, like the score to a fictional film” (Chris Elkjar, trust-me.ca) and “slow-cooked noise bombs (that) left everyone in a daze” (Audra Schroeder, Austin Chronicle).

Following up Italian is the EP/remix record Moody Dipper. Along with this new record come changes for the band, as Eric decides to leave to pursue his blossoming fine art career (Eric’s lovely paintings adorn the covers all four My Education releases and will likely continue to do so). New bassist Scott Telles of ST37 fame and vibraphonist Sarah Norris (Benko, Austin New Music Co-Op) join the fold. Accompanying the three new My Education songs on this release are remixes by Dalek, Red Sparowes, Kinski, and Teith (Trevor from Pelican.) The CD was released on June 27th, 2006 and the band hit the road in July to bring the magic to the kids. The tour was a rousing success, seeing the band do some remarkable shows all over the East including particularly memorable ones with Tone in Washington DC, Bardo Pond project Alasehir in Philadelphia, the Early Day Miners in Baton Rouge, A Place To Bury Strangers at Cakeshop in NYC and all the way down to Jackson, Mississippi with Living Better Electrically.

On a rare day off in the NYC area, the band had the privilege of recording at Deadverse studios with Dalek, who collaborated with the band on the brand new 12-inch release of “Spiegel im Spiegel”, an interpretation of a piece by the eastern European composer Arvo Part, which features the band’s original recording on one side of the disc, and Dalek’s radical, extended reworking of the piece on the other, complete with a My Education first, vocals (gasp!) in the form of one of Dalek’s trademark abstract verses. Subsequently, the band continued to stay busy with shows opening for the likes of Isis and Red Sparowes, and the composition of a score for F.W. Murnau’s classic 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which premiered at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in March 2007.

The intensive woodshedding required for the film score saw another changeup for the band as longtime drummer Seagler departed to be replaced by Chris Stelly of Austin heroes the Handsome Charlies, who actually shares deep San Angelo roots with Purington, having played in one of Brian’s high school outfits previously. Newly invigorated, the band re-entered the Bubble in May 2007 to record the full-length follow-up to Italian, entitled Bad Vibrations. The album was completed in July, and the band hit the road again for a summer tour which found them in locales as diverse as Milwaukee (playing with Beer City legends F/i), Chicago (two shows, including a triumphal sold-out rendition of the “Sunrise” score as well as a very successful show at the Empty Bottle), Champaign, St. Louis, Columbia MO, Dallas, etc.

My Education returned home in August in time to play the release party for the “Spiegel im Spiegel” 12-inch with their friends Maserati, followed by a quick, surreal journey in September up to the Texas/Oklahoma State Fair to play their music on the carnival midway next to the Ferris Wheel and the Dizzy Dragons and dine on free funnel cakes and corn dogs. Bad Vibrations is slated for release June 10th, 2008 on Portland, OR imprint Strange Attractors Audio House (Cul de Sac, Kinski, SubArachnoid Space, etc), with a full US tour to follow in the Summer 2008.

Bad Vibrations Tracklisting:
Release Date: June 10th, 2008

01. This Old House
02. Arch (MP3)
03. Britches Blanket
04. Mother May
05. Aria
06. Sluts and Maniacs
07. Bad Vibrations

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

65daysofstatic kicks off U.S. tour supporting The Cure this week. BBC Radio 1 calls new EP the “hottest record in the world right now.”

“Kicking off with their trademark electric crackle, it’s clear that with their third album 65daysofstatic have resisted the urge to tone down their quite frankly mental tsunami of noise and make a play for the mainstream sales potential of an ever scene-conscious world. Instead, they have done what they’ve always done -- thrown the rulebook out the window and grown organically. With such clinical conviction 65DOS are utterly peerless in their chosen field of post-rock.” -- Razio Rauf, Kerrang Magazine

“65daysofstatic have made their masterpiece, or something close to it; three albums in, in the most dirty, shallow decade of music we’ve known, who else can say that? A handful, not enough. The Destruction of Small Ideas is a weight, a tower of babel, a journey, learnings, understandings, communication, evolution. I’ve been waiting. I was promised this or something like it. The rise and fall. All so deep, so rich, so comically dynamic and detailed and powerful for it that it makes me want to cry. How to make a record. Play loud.” -- Stylus Magazine

As a prelude to its triumphant return stateside next week, Sheffield, England’s 65daysofstatic released a new EP The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties (or, more succinctly, Dance Parties as the band likes to call it) this week on its longtime label, Monotreme Records. The EP landed in the UK last month and receiving an early spin on the national BBC Radio 1, the “Dance Parties (Mechanized)” track was introduced by DJ Dan Carter as the “hottest record in the world right now!”

When the post-rock quartet was hand-picked by goth-pop legends The Cure to support its entire North American tour last fall, the group’s fans were ecstatic; only to be disappointed a short time later when the headliner decided to postpone all tour dates. Now, 65daysofstatic’s fans can catch the band on the reinstated dates with The Cure beginning in Washington, DC on May 9th. The British are coming!

The aftermath of the April 2007 release of their third full-length album, The Destruction of Small Ideas, saw 65daysofstatic fill the year with almost continuous touring: a headline tour of Europe, numerous festival appearances, and in July, their first ever US tour, with Fear Before The March of Flames.

They returned to the USA in October to play the main stage at the Download Festival in San Francisco, followed by another tour of Europe, playing to ever larger crowds. 2008 finds them solidly on the road for five months: February - March touring as special guests of The Cure all across Europe, and May - June again with The Cure all over North America, including Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall and Red Rocks, to name but a few stops along the way. And shoe-horned in between those, a month-long headline tour across Europe.

During its brief winter hiatus, the band went into the studio to record The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties EP to accompany its 2008 tour dates. Comprising two very different takes on the LP track of the same name, plus two completely new songs, The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties answers the question “What happens if we put these instruments down for a couple of seconds and create a 16 strong choir from our own under-rehearsed voices?”

Misleading - Sheffield’s 65daysofstatic missed most of the supposedly major progressions in popular culture during 2007. Instead they were pre-occupied making and promoting their third album, The Destruction of Small Ideas, an entirely unfashionable record of confused time signatures and misleading electronics, with a production value closer to Neil Young’s Harvest than to the “one louder than you” wars of current day time radio.

Heartbreaking - 2007 saw a wave of bands rising to prominence on a combination of tough, crispy beats and chiming guitars. Some were praised with writing the most forward-thinking music of all time because, brilliantly, they fused ‘dance’ music with ‘guitar’ music and invented a brand nu-genre. Anyone who knows their music history will also know that 65daysofstatic had been pioneering this kind of thing, constantly for five years now, albeit with less media fashionable haircuts. (If only they stopped messing around making heartbreaking instrumental music and reading their books on foreign policy and turned their attentions to a fresh attack on popular culture...)

The Aftermath - The aftermath of this album release saw them fill the year with almost continuous touring - just like the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that, and that. They set out on their first US tour with Fear Before The March of Flames, played SXSW and shows and festivals in exotic climbs. Moscow and Japan being but two. Meanwhile back in Europe, their popularity continued to soar - they found themselves closing Saturday night of All Tomorrow’s Parties “ATP vs The Fans” festival (selected by a popular vote of ticket-holders to perform), then racing back to London the following day to headline a sold-out gig at KOKO - with Lethal Bizzle and Josh T. Pearson supporting. A summer of festival appearances around Europe increased their reputation as one of the most amazing live acts ever. They returned to headline across Europe in November, playing to ever-larger crowds, including a sold-out 800 capacity show at AB Brussels in Belgium.

Earlier this spring, American fans were finally able to acquire a domestically released edition of 65daysofstatic’s 2004 debut album The Fall of Math which includes bonus tracks from a subsequent EP released that same year. And, a gatefold double-LP edition of the band’s most recent album The Destruction of Small Ideas also hit U.S. shelves in spring 2008. Upon its original release, The Fall of Math was heaped with critical praise and championed by BBC Radio 1 DJs John Peel and Zane Lowe, among others. It appeared on numerous best of 2004 lists and earned the band recognition as “one of the few genuine boundary-pushers in contemporary rock music.”

The Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties EP Tracklisting:
Stream The EP HERE
Release Date: 04.29.08

01. Dance Parties [Distant] (MP3)
02. Dance Parties [Mechanised]
03. Goodbye, 2007
04. Antique Hyper Mall

65daysofstatic Selected Discography
Stream the sampler HERE
The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties EP (US/UK April 2008)
Hole EP (US 2008)
The Fall of Math LP (US 2008)
The Destruction of Small Ideas LP (UK/US 2007)
Don’t Go Down To Sorrow EP (UK/US 2007)
One Time For All Time LP (US 2006)
One Time For All Time LP (UK 2005)
Hole EP (UK 2004)
Retreat! Retreat! EP (UK 2004)
The Fall of Math LP (UK 2004)

65daysofstatic Live:
* w/ The Cure
05/12 Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena *
05/14 Montreal, PQ @ Bell Center *
05/15 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre *
05/16 Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena *
05/17 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
05/18 St. Louis, MO @ 2 Cents Plain
05/19 Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre *
05/21 Denver, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheater *
05/22 Englewood, CO @ The Falcon
05/23 Salt Lake City @ E Center *
05/24 Boise, ID @ The Venue
05/25 George, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheater (The Sasquatch! Festival)
05/26 Vancouver, BC @ General Motors Place *
05/28 San Jose, CA @ HP Pavillon
05/29 Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl *
05/30 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
05/31 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *
06/01 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
06/02 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
06/03 San Diego, CA @ Cox Arena *
06/04 Phoenix, AZ @ Modified Arts
06/04 Phoenix, AZ @ Dodge Theatre *
06/06 Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center *
06/07 Austin, TX @ Music Hall *
06/07 San Antonio, TX @ Rock Bottom
06/08 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
06/09 Houston, TX @ Toyota Center *
06/11 Tampa, FL @ St Pete Times Forum *
06/12 Orlando, FL @ The Social
06/13 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Bank Atlantic Center *
06/14 Gainsville, FL @ The Atlantic
06/15 Duluth, GA @ Gwinnett Civic & Cultural Center
06/16 Charlotte, NC @ Charlotte Bobcats Arena *
06/18 Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland State University *
06/19 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
06/20 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden *
06/21 New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall *

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Saxon Shore lands publishing deal at home of Nirvana, Daniel Johnston, bombards TVs with tunes, heads back to studio w/ Flaming Lips producer Fridmann

“Dude, just minding my business watching American Idol and all the sudden I hear Saxon Shore and nearly fall off the couch.”

So says a Saxon Shore fan on the band’s MySpace page. It’s a great example of the age in which we live -- one where as the record industry crumbles, a band that makes “instrumental music for people who don’t like instrumental music” can be heard by millions.

Over the course of several albums and international tours, Matt Doty, leader of the Philadelphia based vocal-less group Saxon Shore, has been steadily building a fan base for his epic, uplifting brand of movies scores without movies.

Now, Doty’s meticulously and lovingly created sounds -- let’s not forget that he is ably assisted by mega-talented Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann -- have begun to appear as a soundtrack of sorts, helping to move Dannon yogurt and Sony televisions via national television ads.

Recently, next generation music publisher Primary Wave Music caught on, signing Saxon Shore to a publishing deal which will bring Doty’s music to even more of the public. The publishing home to Nirvana, Daniel Johnston and other notables is staffed by passionate music fans who quickly took to the enormity of Saxon Shore’s potential.

And who doesn’t like yogurt and TV? Especially when their consumption is motivated by tunes like Saxon Shore’s “Marked With The Knowledge” (MP3). Download the track and check out the Sony advertisement via the company’s website HERE or at YouTube HERE. Additionally, Doty’s work has also been picked up by the Sundance Film Festival, the Kentucky Derby, Major League Baseball, MTV, Toyota, Blue Cross, Nortel and Payless.

And for anyone still living in the 90’s that may take umbrage with any of this, here are the facts: as the independent musician joins the corporate world in a way they may have never imagined, the careers of these true artists are allowed to survive and thrive.

Case in point, Doty and Fridmann, who will reconvene for the recording of the fifth Saxon Shore record this spring. Now that these veterans have worn a good groove, this latest recording jag is sure to reveal the band’s finest moments to date.

As evidenced by everyone from American Idol fans on MySpace to the band’s rabid followers in Asia -- more of the world is ready for the life affirming, mood enhancing, and sonically soaring music of Saxon Shore.

The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore Tracklisting:

01. The Revolution Will Be Streaming
02. The Shameless Moment
03. With a Red Suit You Will Become a Man
04. Silence Lends a Face to the Soul
05. Isolated By The Secrets of Your Fellow Men
06. The Shaping of A Helpless Joy
07. Marked With The Knowledge (MP3)
08. A Greatness At The Cost of Goodness
09. How We Conquered the Western World on Horseback
10. The Lame Shall Enter First

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Multinational, multi-instrumental, multi-faceted surrealist pop group Sunny Day Sets Fire primes summertime launch of debut album

Ostensibly a band founded in London, Sunny Day Sets Fire is a group with many homelands, many talents and many sounds. The quintet’s unique brand of hummable surreal pop is a perfect soundtrack to summertime that could perhaps best be compared to artists like Blonde Redhead, The Flaming Lips, Architecture in Helsinki and Band Of Horses. The mid-summer release of its IAmSound full length debut Summer Palace will certainly establish Sunny Day Sets Fire as a reference point unto itself.

In a swirling event of coincidence and musical attraction, band founders Onyee and Mauro found each other between paychecks and popcorn. Both were ushers at their local repertoire Chelsea cinema in London when they realized their similar palates for bands, artists and sounds exacted a nice beginning for some collaborative efforts. Ideas occurred and the two recruited friends to fulfill orchestral duties. An act was born. Sunny Day Sets Fire dug their toes into the ground, and got pumped for the future comings of their psych-pop band life.

It is a landscape that is both rich and broad. Any band can drown itself in old vinyl for some choice inspiration, but the Sunny Day worldly influence and background provoke a top spirit and caliber to their topsy-turvy psychedelic stack-up. Collectively, the band hails from Hong Kong, Italy, Sardinia, Canada, and of course, London. The result is something of a pop hybrid in the vein of The Beach Boys, The Flaming Lips, Architecture in Helsinki, and Of Montreal. Upbeat 60’s beach rock collides with new patents. Catchy melodies spill into astral instrumentation and kaleidoscopic guitar tangents. These tunes are very much alive and optical.

Lead guitarist Max, deriving from Sardinia, says it best: “Our music is the result of the clash of five different backgrounds that in most cases, come out in a very unconscious way. Any input coming out from anyone of us triggers something from the musical and visual imagery of the rest of the band members. [This] adds to initial ideas of the songs and in a way that often transform them into something a bit different.”

Mauro, originally from Italy, is the lead vocalist, 12-string guitarist and occasional drummer of Sunny Day Sets Fire. He cites director Harmony Korine, black metal bands and Surrealism as personal influences, and acts as the band’s main songwriter and composer. When his rounded and endearing chorals flirt with the whimsical electronics, the result is snappy and fun. The rest follows as effortlessly as a picnic.

After Onyee (a Hong King native) and Mauro found each other at that fateful cinema, the two performed as a duo for a handful of exhibition openings and artist video projects. Onyee contributed her appreciation for Velvet Underground, 60’s Motown girl groups, and Leonard Cohen, as well as the “pure memories and emotions you get from watching gigs, [and] from looking at a work of art or performances.”

Evolution knows how to ignite. When Mauro whipped up a set of songs with a mint-fresh direction, Onyee (sporting her talents with back-up vocals, drums, synth and glockenspiel) got motivated and pulled Max from shaking cocktails to play lead guitar. Now things were rolling, now music was being made, gigs were being played, and bands like Sunny Day Sets Fire were really covering ground. A year and a half later, Ed joined on the bass, the band’s only London native.

So, Ed, what influences you? “Touring and the exposure to new sounds, attitudes and altitudes. Fearless freaks. Michel Gondry... James Jamerson... Paul McCartney & The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s... Salvador Dali.” Ed’s addition adds another layer of novelty and complexity.

But that wasn’t enough. “We needed a Timpani player! So, thanks to the almighty, we found Matthew,” Mauro says. “We started playing as a four-piece and after having some fun, guess what? We wanted to have much more fun.”

In addition to his percussion roles, Matt the Canadian toils in synth and backing vocals. He notes favorites in Sonic Youth, Television, Stereolab, Chuck Berry and more. Daydream Nation “taught me about what a band should be.” Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs “taught me that music could be like a book” and Television’s Marquee Moon “taught me about musicianship and striving for excellence.” Surely, he nested into the forward-thinking Sunny Day Sets Fire just fine.

In the summer of 2006, the band signed to American indie label IAMSOUND Records with the four-song Brainless EP released later in the year. On February 26th, 2008, the IAMSOUND issued a remix EP featuring CSS, XXXChange from Spank Rock, The Cool Kids and Mad Decent/Diplo. The EP has been wrangling in excitement for Summer Palace, the Sunny Day full-length set for July 8th, 2008. One can only begin to envision the sorts of cakewalks Sunny Day Sets Fire crafted for these upcoming 14 tracks. It’s the kind of project you can easily get stoked on.

Yet, no one is as excited as Sunny Day Sets Fire. Like Mauro says, “Here we are now. The fantastic five looking for adventures in the sublime jungle of frequencies.”

Summer Palace Tracklisting:
Release Date: July 8th, 2008

01. Wilderness
02. Stranger
03. Teenagers Talking
04. End of the Road
05. All Our Songs
06. Smallest Heart on Earth
07. Mandarins
08. Siamese
09. I Dream Along
10. Adrenaline
11. Hollywood
12. Brainless (MP3)
13. Map of the World
14. Lack of View

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Neither Elf nor Cat: mr. Gnome delivers Creature power to the U.S. and throughout the blogoverse.

Cleveland duo’s #1 most-blogged-about new album and national tour’s imminent launch.

The music of mr. Gnome has been described as utilizing elements of AltRock, Metal, Post Punk, and Prog, but lands in a realm of their own making, crafting a compelling sonic-psychedelic melange of indie rock. Since its conception in 2005, the Cleveland duo has released two EPs, receiving wide-ranging and honorable comparisons to Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Tool, Portishead, Pelican, Death From Above 1979, Bjork and Blonde Redhead. Above all else, mr. Gnome’s compositions work -- and in very unusual and clearly soon-to-be-influential ways, where truly adequate descriptions aren’t yet available.

While comparisons vary, one thing is certain - the duo’s unique sound explores unpredictable shades of violence and intensity, while meshing the sludgy, reverberating monsoon of hardcore with the feminine. Its debut full-length CD, Deliver This Creature, hits stores May 6, 2008 on El Marko Records. And, hot on the heels of that release, the band takes to the road to truly deliver the creature -- as it has nearly incessantly over the past three years -- city to city across the US. See complete tour dates below.

The phenomenally unique and powerful pair recently catapulted to the #1 most blogged about band on the Elbo.ws blog aggregator immediately after release of the first MP3 from the album Pirates. Print press has also resolutely responded to the album, including forthcoming coverage in SPIN, Paste, Venus, Big Takeover, Amplifier and many more.

Guitarist/vocalist Nicole Barille and drummer Sam Meister began experimenting a few years ago with a sound based on minimalist instrumentation and the rigid dichotomy of soft vs. loud and masculine vs. feminine. Within a year, the two released their first EP, Echoes on the Ground, and were touring the regional circuit. Their second EP, self-titled (mr. Gnome), was released in November of 2006 and the two, having hooked up with Lost Barrio Artists, a booking agency based out of Tucson, AZ now found themselves touring nationally. After completing their first two national tours, Barille and Meister found it hard to go back to the daily grind and felt an immediate urgency to continue traveling the countryside.

With the road calling, Nicole and Sam ditched their belongings in a storage space and temporarily parted ways with the midwest. mr. Gnome, an officially homeless band, began touring the United States, living out of a van and sleeping on random couches for the second part of 2007. With a handful of new material in their setlist, the two used practice spots along the way to complete the writing of their new creation and by the force of their journey, discovered both Larry Crane’s Jackpot Studios (Elliott Smith, Cat Power, The Shins, The Decemberists) in Portland, Oregon and Craig Schumacher’s Wavelab Studios (Calexico, DeVotchka, Neko Case, Animal Collective) in Tucson, Arizona where they recorded their first full-length album with engineers Kendra Lynn, and Chris Schultz. mr. Gnome headed back to Cleveland to put the finishing touches on their album at Ante Up Audio (Bone Thugs N’ Harmony, Tori Amos, Guided By Voices) working with Michael Seifert. The album was then mixed at Butch Vig’s Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin by Beau Sorenson (Death Cab for Cutie).

With four national tours under their belt within the last year and countless regional dates, mr. Gnome, with the support of El Marko Records, will continue to tour the countryside in spring of 2008, behind its first full-length release.

Press Quotes:
“Boy does this Ohio duo make a lot of noise. Such is the overwhelming nature of the twosome’s aggressive-yet-beautiful sound.” – Paste Magazine

“mr. Gnome glides through catchy and crunchy hard rock arrangements, thanks to big sonic blasts of aggressive elegance. The Cleveland duo showcases a knack for squeezing big hooks into hard driving numbers.” – Amplifier Magazine

“Think White Stripes turned inside out and upside down, with a dash of psychedelia, and then you can get an idea of this duo’s sound.” – Detroit News

“A mix of Death From Above 1979 with the intense vocal wail of Diamanda Galas, while Kurt Cobain sits in on guitar. In short, mr. Gnome makes a lot of beautiful noise.” – Albuquerque Journal

mr. Gnome Live:
05/10 Nashville, TN @ Springwater
05/12 Atlanta, GA @ Smith’s Olde Bar
05/13 Athens, GA @ Tasty World
05/14 Birmingham, AL @ The Nick
05/15 New Orleans, LA @ The Circle Bar
05/16 Houston, TX @ Rudyard’s British Pub
05/17 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
05/18 Austin, TX @ Beauty Bar
05/20 Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s
05/21 Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar
05/22 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
05/23 Madison, WI @ The Annex
05/24 St. Louis, MO @ The Bluebird
05/26 Denver, CO @ 3 Kings
05/27 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
05/28 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
05/29 Portland, OR @ Towne Lounge
05/30 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
05/31 Tacoma, WA @ Le Voyeur
06/02 Arcata, CA @ Jambalaya
06/03 Oakland, CA @ The Stork Club
06/04 San Diego, CA @ Beauty Bar
06/05 San Francisco, CA @ Amnesia
06/06 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory
06/07 Tucson, AZ @ Plush
06/09 Albuquerque, NM @ Atomic Cantina
06/10 Oklahoma City, OK @ OKC Infoshop
06/11 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
06/12 Minneapolis, MN @ Hexagon Bar
06/13 Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club
06/14 Chicago, IL @ Ronny’s
06/20 Cleveland, OH @ Jigsaw
08/08 Cincinnati, OH @ TBD

Deliver This Creature Tracklisting:
Release Date: May 6th, 2008

01. Pirates (MP3)
02. Rabbit (MP3)
03. Deliver This Creature
04. The Machine
05. Night of the Crickets (MP3)
06. I’m Alright
07. Silhouette
08. Thief
09. After the Sun
10. Tied

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