“Destination… Christmas!” released today! Band debuts video for “Santa’s Disco”!

Album now streaming at Spinner.com.  Fred Schneider available for interviews this week.

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The Superions (L-R Noah Brodie, Fred Schneider, Dan Marshall)

Ask Fred Schneider about what he wants for Christmas during 10/28 press day.

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“Santa’s Disco” is the latest video from “Destination… Christmas!” by The Superions

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8QuMA8oGOc

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Destination... Christmas!, the hilarious holiday album by The Superions (featuring the unmistakable lyrics and vocals of The B-52s front man, Fred Schneider), hits stores around the world today. The album defines the modern Christmas classic with a traditional twist. “It’s hard to say who our musical influences for this project were, because we don’t want to get sued,” says Fred.

And if you loved the band’s video for the single “Fruitcake,” you’ll chuckle with delight over the shenanigans in the clip for the album’s lead track, “Santa’s Disco” debuting today! This latest video from Destination… Christmas! is the intersection of “A Christmas Story” and “Disco Bloodbath” as everyone parties down on Christmas Eve and contends with a few uninvited guests.  Watch “Santa’s Disco” HERE and listen to a stream of Destination… Christmas! at Spinner.com right HERE.

If you just can’t get enough of The Superions’ holiday spirit, Fred Schneider will be available to chat on Thursday, October 28^th about all of the topics that perfectly capture the many moods of the season: despair, avalanches, deranged abominable snowmen, leaden fruitcakes, and of course, laughter. Contact Josh at Fanatic to set up a chat with Fred!

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The Superions

Destination… Christmas!

(Fanatic Records, 10/25/10)

Track Listing:

01. Santa’s Disco (VIDEO)

02. Fruitcake (STREAM | VIDEO)

03. Chillin’ at Christmas

04. Teddy and Betty Yeti

05. Christmas Conga (Jungle Bells)

06. Jingle Those Bells

07. Under The Tree

08. Crummy Christmas Tree

09. Laughter At Christmas

10. Christmas Tears

11. Santa Je t’aime

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The Superions Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : MYSPACE : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : FANATIC RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion, Inc.

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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“Destination… Christmas!” pre-release stream now at Billboard. Fred Schneider press days announced.

The Superions’ take on the traditional holiday record can now be heard HERE. Album hits stores worldwide 10/25!

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The Superions (L-R Noah Brodie, Fred Schneider, Dan Marshall)

Fred Schneider is available for interviews on 10/20 and 10/21! Click here

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Destination... Christmas!, the hilarious holiday album by The Superions (featuring the unmistakable lyrics and vocals of The B-52s front man, Fred Schneider) doesn’t come out until October 25^th, but for those who like their egg nog early, the entire album is now streaming over at Billboard Magazine’s website. Follow this link to listen!  While you’re there, read an interview with Fred and why not try some “Fruitcake” too courtesy of the album’s first single and video.

And if you just can’t get enough of The Superions’ holiday spirit, Fred Schneider himself will be available to chat this week about all of the topics that perfectly capture the many moods of the season: despair, avalanches, deranged abominable snowmen, leaden fruitcakes, and of course, laughter

Destination... Christmas! defines the modern Christmas classic with a traditional twist. “It’s hard to say who our musical influences for this project were, because we don’t want to get sued,” adds Fred. Frankly, the response The Superions have received from playing this record for friends has been hysterical laughter. It’s a very radio-friendly, party-friendly album; even Noah’s grandmother likes it!

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The Superions

Destination… Christmas!

(Fanatic Records, 10/25/10)

Track Listing:

01. Santa’s Disco

02. Fruitcake (STREAM | VIDEO)

03. Chillin’ at Christmas

04. Teddy and Betty Yeti

05. Christmas Conga (Jungle Bells)

06. Jingle Those Bells

07. Under The Tree

08. Crummy Christmas Tree

09. Laughter At Christmas

10. Christmas Tears

11. Santa Je t’aime

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The Superions Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : MYSPACE : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : FANATIC RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion, Inc.

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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TV Buddhas make it to the end of 50-date US tour despite every inclination to bail.

Band plays CMJ this week, posts more installments of “Band In The Modern World” series.

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TV Buddhas (L-R Uri Triest, Juval Haring, Mickey Triest)

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TV Buddhas – “Band In The Modern World”

Episode 7 – “No More Neighborhood”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jlWg5kMtOI

Episode 6 – “Band In The Modern World”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQbKMerCjkY

Episode 5 – “You’ll Never Reach The Ocean”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclvWFoUOEk

Episode 4 – “Optimism Will Be The End of Us”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rQnSnznNKM

Episode 3 – “The Neverending Story”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TigNmtUVhM

Episode 2 – “No Adventure Today”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISHdRsMBXc

Episode 1 – “USA”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YooAr3nNsiM

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“Band In The Modern World” is a documentary by TV Buddhas about a band (TV Buddhas) starting from the bottom in the contemporary underground music scene in the USA. Unlike the usual band-on-tour movies showing the band in a positive, cool sort of way, here we see a band struggling, loosing money, and arriving to shows where the promoter forgot about the show, where there was no audience because there was no promotion or no one cared.

The band goes around the United States, sharing the highs and lows of a DIY booked tour in 2010. During the winter of 2011, this vlog will be expanded into a feature film that will travel across Europe and the US in small theaters and festivals.  The movie will show how the underground scene in the US has become an oversaturated and impersonal place, through the experiences of a contemporary DIY touring band, sharing its ups and downs, its hopes and dreams, its road mis-adventures all across America.  The documentary is full of songs written throughout the tour, punk rock songs of alienation, desperation, and the death of small things in rock and roll.

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TUNE IN to the “Band In The Modern World” blog at: http://bandinthemodernworld.blogspot.com

STAY TUNED to the “Band In The Modern World” blog at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151249004906002

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TV Buddhas at CMJ

10/19 New York, NY @ R-Bar (CMJ)

10/20 Brooklyn, NY @ Party Expo (CMJ)

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TV Buddhas

TV Buddhas

(We Are Busy Bodies, OUT NOW)

Track Listing:

1. Let Me Sleep (MP3)

2. Going Out On Saturday

3. Hip Street

4. Defies Definition

5. Fast Generation

6. Fun Girls (MP3 | STREAM | VIDEO)

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More about TV Buddhas

TV Buddhas’ self-titled debut EP was recorded in Berlin in one hour using one mic and a basic tape machine in an attempt to make a spontaneous recording with almost no prior preparations. The band was seeking a way to achieve something raw, not by work on the mix, but rather by just going in and rushing the job. The result is a short record that is oozing with late seventies punk sensitivities and a lo-fi sound that is both gritty and powerful.

The EP was written out of the angst and pressure of being on tour year round. Consisting of brother and sister Uri and Mickey Triest, and Mickey’s husband Juval Haring, TV Buddhas has been playing 200 shows a year since they relocated from their home of Tel Aviv, Israel to Berlin, Germany in 2007. On constant tour, the band’s everyday life got lost and their privacy was invaded by the “cool” people they had avoided contact with through their teen years.

Not having any kind of domestic existence or place to call sanctuary, TV Buddhas turned to their music and put their frustration into words. They wrote about being too tired to face a show, too tired to go out during the very few times they were home, feeling awkward walking down the street in hip neighborhoods, not feeling at home or fitting anywhere besides their own heads, and feeling completely out of their element around other rock n’ roll bands.

The result of this is a unique punk rock record reflecting the image of a band of outsiders making a dirty sound that is honest, primal and full of feelings of impatience and alienation. The EP echoes the kind of discontentment typical of bands like The Wipers and a straightforward quality reminiscent of The Modern Lovers.

The song “Fun Girls” sung by the band’s drummer, Mickey Triest, is almost like a monologue, a testimonial of a private world, threatened by a vulgar mass of Polaroid glory girls. The EP’s cover is also worth mentioning, quoting the style of Raymond Pettibon, and the attitude of Black Flag, whose touring style and ethics have influenced bands worldwide, even reaching three disgruntled record shop workers in Israel who were just looking for a reason to quit their jobs and do something real.

See below for a complete list of US dates.  Members of TV Buddhas are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom for more info.

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TV Buddhas Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : MYSPACE : BLOG : TWITTER : YOUTUBE

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion, Inc.

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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God works in an English mini-mart in The Tins music video for “The Green Room”.

Track called “extraordinarily moving” by the NME; band to perform twice at CMJ 2010.

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“The Green Room” is the first single from Tins by The Tins.

[STREAM + WIDGET]: http://official.fm/track/155777

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/thetins/mp3/thetins-thegreenroom.mp3

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oGin4WT9-U | http://vimeo.com/15401944

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The Tins Live at CMJ 2010

10/19 New York, NY R-Bar (CMJ)
10/23 New York, NY Kenny’s Castaways (CMJ)

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More About The Tins

“The track is a beautiful, slow building, seven minute melody based jam that the most seasoned of bands probably wish they would have come up with.” – Baeble Music

Buffalo, New York-based band The Tins has completed the video for its much-loved song “The Green Room”. The clip is a charming, lo-fi affair depicting God as a clerk in an English mini-mart (you can’t miss the trademark Heinz Beanz). Turns out that even the Almighty’s existence is pretty mundane and fraught with difficult choices that don’t always produce the most desirable results!

The Tins recently released its self-titled five-track debut EP via V2 Benelux, the arm of the influential label based in the Netherlands. It might be out of the ordinary to be discovered by a major label so far from home, but the situation has turned out well so far for the band who will perform twice at next week’s CMJ festival.

“The Green Room,” (MP3) the first single from the Tins EP, has already gained the attention of the UK (and possibly the world’s) most influential music publication, the NME which called the track “extraordinarily moving”. The song is a seven-minute mini-epic that perfectly spotlights the cross section of Radiohead and Wilco that The Tins mine. Fans of pioneering artists such as Yo La Tengo and The Flaming Lips will find much to like about The Tins as well.

The band is now beginning to make its presence known in the states. The energetic stage show put on by Mike Santillo (keyboards, vocals), Adam Putzer (guitar, vocals), and Dave Muntner (drums) shows off the great chemistry these guys have with one another and is also reflected in their collaborative songwriting, multi-instrumentalism and the shared lead vocals of Santillo and Putzer.

The Tins are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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The Tins
Tins
(V2 Benelux – OUT NOW)

Track Listing

1. Subtle Rattle
2. Backbone
3. The Green Room (MP3 | VIDEO)
4. June Avenue
5. Opposite C

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The Tins In The Press

“This song off the band’s upcoming debut EP kicks off with a modern-day ‘Twilight Zone’ vibe that morphs into an extraordinarily moving seven-minute-long serenade. Hopefully this is a good indication of what the rest of the EP will have to offer.” – NME (UK) on “The Green Room” by The Tins

“Every so often music fans come across a young band that is far from amateur. They dazzle you from the start and make you wonder how they are not bigger. This is how I feel about a fantastic band from Buffalo, NY called The Tins.” – We All Want Someone To Shout For

“The Tins are bloody fantastic! A three piece out of Buffalo who might just have wandered into our new favourite band category with ease.” – The Recommender (UK)

“That song, ‘The Green Room,’ doesn’t proceed into the room as if it’s embarrassed to be there, shyly introducing itself and then heading straight for the bar. Rather, it makes the sort of grand entrance that only the most self-aware can pull off...” – The Buffalo News

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The Tins Links

EPK : FACEBOOK : MYSPACE : V2 BENELUX

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion, Inc.

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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Shunda K reunites with Yo! Majesty’s Shon B on “I’m Da Best” single out October 25th.

Maxi-single is second track from Shunda K’s upcoming solo album debut, “The Most Wanted”.

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“I’m Da Best” is the second single from Shunda K’s upcoming solo album, “The Most Wanted”

[STREAM + WIDGET]: http://official.fm/track/71158

[MP3 - EXPLICIT]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/shundak-imdabest/mp3/shundak-imdabest.mp3

[MP3 - CLEAN]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/shundak-imdabest/mp3/shundak-imdabest-clean.mp3

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UK Press for Shunda K’s previous single “Here I Am To Save The World”

“…a route-one electro bludgeon…” – 10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week – NME (UK)

“Razor sharp drums, old school synth stabs and the Florida rapper's stylish, supercool vocal make this one more essential than a spacesuit on the moon.” – iDJ (UK)

“Go for it Shunda, save us all.” – Blues & Soul (UK)

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More about Shunda K and “I’m Da Best”

Shunda K has reunited with former Yo! Majesty band mate Shon B on the second single from Shunda K’s upcoming solo debut album, The Most Wanted.  The song, “I’m Da Best” marks the first time that the two ladies have appeared on record together since the legendary track “Club Action” that started the Yo! Majesty phenomenon in the first place. Shunda explains, “I created da name and vision of Yo! Majesty in January, 1998. I made it a group when I met Shon B in 2000.” A decade later, the pair and is back and the message is intact.  According to Shunda K, “I’m Da Best” is “…dedicated to all my ladies out there dat felt you had to sacrifice your bodies for a place in dis world.”

The track will be officially released on October 25^th, 2010 as part of a nearly hour-long maxi-single featuring the album version along with remixes by a host of up and coming producers including The Superions, Pumpsta, The Surecut Kids, ConeyGurl and others.  The Les Gourmets remix of the track (streaming HERE) features the French rap group laying it down in their native language and the Koax The Droid (streaming HERE) remix made the cut as the winner of a contest held as an effort to introduce yet another talented producer to the world.

Recently, the UK’s legendary music paper, NME, named Shunda K’s “Here I Am To Save The World” single as one of its “10 Tracks You Need To Hear This Week” at #2 right behind Kanye West.  Read about it right HERE.  The maxi-single for “Here I Am To Save The World,” a collaboration with Cindy Wonderful of Scream Club was released worldwide on July 27^th, 2010. The single is Shunda K’s first release as part of her new partnership with Fanatic Records to be followed by “I’m Da Best” on October 25^th, 2010 and Shunda K’s solo debut album The Most Wanted on January 11^th, 2011.

Shunda K is best known as the leader of hip hop duo, Yo! Majesty (Domino Records).  Named to the NME’s “cool list,” Shunda K has recently been seen collaborating with electro superstar Peaches on the track and video for the song “Billionaire” from the Peaches album I Feel Cream (XL Recordings). See the video for “Billionaire” HERE.  Shunda K also appears on Flore’s cover of the legendary Gary Numan hit, “Cars” from Flore’s debut album, Raw.  See the video for “Cars” HERE.

Shunda K is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion for more info.

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Shunda K (feat. Shon B)

“I’m Da Best” (Maxi-Single)

(Fanatic Records – Oct. 25^th, 2010)

Track Listing:

01. I'm Da Best (Album Version) (MP3: EXPLICIT | MP3: CLEAN)

02. I'm Da Best (Koax The Droid Remix) (STREAM)

03. I'm Da Best (Benson Remix)

04. I'm Da Best (ConeyGurl Remix)

05. I'm Da Best (The Surecut Kids Remix)

06. I'm Da Best (Generik Remix)

07. I'm Da Best (The Superions Remix)

08. I'm Da Best (Les Gourmets Remix) (STREAM)

09. I'm Da Best (Pumpsta's Durty South Remix)

10. I'm Da Best (Clean Radio Edit)

11. I'm Da Best (A Capella)

12. I'm Da Best (Les Gourmets Remix A Cappella)

13. I'm Da Best (Instrumental)

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Shunda K Live

11/12 Highbury Corner, London, UK @ The Relentless Garage (Ladyfest 10)

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Shunda K Links

EPK : MYSPACE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : BANDCAMP : YOUTUBE

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion, Inc.

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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