San Francisco duo Tidelands teams with Magik*Magik Orchestra on debut album, "If…"

Poetic, percussive record to be released July 26^th. Lead single and video “Holy Grail” out now.

Tidelands (L-R): Mie Araki, Gabriel Leis. Photo Credit: Summer Makovkin.

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“Holy Grail” is the first single and video from If… by Tidelands

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/tidelands/mp3/tidelands-holygrail.mp3

 

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/tidelands-holy-grail

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlYskcAAnc8

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 See Tidelands live in San Francisco at a record release show for If… at Café du Nord on July 26^th!

Tidelands is the duo of San Francisco’s Gabriel Montana Leis (Guitar, Flugelhorn, Vocals) and Mie Araki (Drums, Keyboards, Vocals).  On the duo’s upcoming debut album If..., Leis and Araki have teamed up with Magik*Magik Orchestra conductor Minna Choi and Deerhoof engineer Ian Pellicci to create an album of sharp, poetic lyrics uniquely arranged with looped guitars, Moog bass and beautiful harmonies.

“I found myself writing melodies that I knew were meant for a horn,” Leis says of the Tidelands material that began to take shape in 2009. “Never having played a horn before, I purchased a beautiful vintage Benge flugelhorn and began at the beginning,” Leis says of the decision to learn the horn from scratch on his own. Leis soon recruited Araki, a classically trained percussionist, who then added a Moog to her ensemble of instruments, essentially learning to play the drums and synth at the same time.

Further exploring his earlier experiences in other bands writing for cello, violin and trumpet, Leis began using a looping device to write guitar parts that he could later pair with orchestral instruments. Araki would then transcribe these ideas to standard musical notation and via a connection with musician John Vanderslice, Tidelands was introduced to Choi and her ensemble, the Magik*Magik Orchestra.

“We gave her the framework of the songs and the charts and the freedom to create around what we had already written,” Leis explains. Recording engineer Pellicci was the final collaborator added to the project, and less than six short but studious months into becoming a flugelhorn player, Leis, Araki, Choi and Pellicci convened at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone studios to create If...

If... will be released on July 26^th, 2011.  Tidelands will perform a hometown show in San Francisco at Café du Nord that same evening. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tidelands – If…

(S/R, July 26^th, 2011)

Track Listing:

01 Holy Grail (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02 Holiday

03 Eyes of God

04 Amulet

05 Letter to a Young Soldier I Love

06 Sixes and Sevens

07 The Ship

08 In the Wake

09 Marigolds

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Tampa’s Sleepy Vikings to launch tour amid hometown love for “They Will Find You Here” debut.

“It would be hard to name a debut album with the lean, honed focus… Essential.” – Tampa Tribune

Sleepy Vikings (L-R): Ryann Slauson, Tessa McKenna, Sandra Covin, Nicole Schleif, Julian Conner, Sandi Streppone. Photo Credit: Kelley Jackson.

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“Flashlight Tag” is the latest single from They Will Find You Here by Sleepy Vikings

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/sleepy-vikings-flashlight-tag

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/sleepyvikings/mp3/sleepyvikings-flashlighttag.mp3

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See Sleepy Vikings perform “Flashlight Tag” live in the Paste Magazine offices!

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLO_AC_swPI

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“I urge you to give They Will Find You Here a listen. These self-described “swamp stalkers” have something truly special.” – The Owl Mag

Tampa, Florida’s Sleepy Vikings has landed on the cover of its hometown weekly, the venerable Creative Loafing newspaper, and this week was also featured on the cover of the pull-out section of the city’s daily paper, The Tampa Tribune.  The band has also been lovingly covered numerous times by the fine Tampa-based blog, The Ruckus.

All of this local love for Sleepy Vikings is not without merit – the band has made one of the most striking debut albums of 2011 with its They Will Find You Here.  Now Sleepy Vikings will debut its live show to cities along the East Coast with its first tour, set to launch June 8^th and run through the remainder of the month. See below for dates.

For the uninitiated, the Creative Loafing cover story on Sleepy Vikings does a great job of illustrating the control and out-of-control that makes the band unique on the musical landscape and easily adored.  In the piece, the band talks about having to hurriedly finish writing a set of songs to play its first show ever – a chance opportunity in 2009 to open for the Vivian Girls.

The success of this risk led to an opportunity to perform in Canada at NXNE, a show they drove 26 hours to play in front of a half-dozen people. Turns out that half of that half were bloggers who loved the set, leading to an invite for Sleepy Vikings to perform in the Paste Magazine offices.

The new fans and new opportunities that will greet Sleepy Vikings on its upcoming tour are anyone’s guess, but the love for this band and its debut album They Will Find You Here is already apparent.

They Will Find You Here is out now via New Granada Records. Members of Sleepy Vikings are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Sleepy Vikings Live

06/08 Tampa, FL @ Cappy’s Pizza (Seminole Heights) Acoustic Tour Kick Off Party

06/10 Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge w/ Casper & The Cookies, The Shut-Ups

06/11 Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof w/ Sleepy Eye Giant

06/12 West Columbia, SC @ One Unit Art Space w/ Nathan Hussey (of All Get Out), Future Wives, Dear Kavalier

06/13 Richmond, VA @ Sprout FREE!

06/14 Charlottesville, VA @ The Box FREE!

06/15 Chapel Hill, NC @ Night Light w/ Bastages, Gods of Harvest

06/16 Newark, DE @ Mojo Main w/ The Sky Drops, Troubled Hips

06/17 Baltimore, MD @ The Metro Gallery w/ The Sky Drops, Thrushes, Young Jaguars

06/18 Washington, DC @ Bella Cafe w/ Thrushes, Mittenfields, Forevsner

06/18 Washington, DC Kultura’s Books In-Store

06/19 Philadelphia, PA @ King Fu Neck Tie w/ Gypsy Death and You, Eat Your Birthday Cake

06/20 Somerville, MA @ The Rosebud

06/21 Brooklyn, NY @ The Rock Shop w/ Alberta Cross

06/22 New York, NY @ Pianos w/ The Stationary Set, The Twees, Jump Into The Gospel

06/23 Cleveland, OH @ The Happy Dog

06/24 Champaign, IL @ Mike n’ Molly’s

06/25 Nashville, TN @ The Basement w/ Heypenny, PDA

06/26 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ’s Bohemia

06/27 Atlanta, GA @ Club 529 w/ Today The Moon Tomorrow the Sun

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Sleepy Vikings

They Will Find You Here

(New Granada, Out Now)

Track Listing:

1. These Days

2. Calm (STREAM | MP3)

3. Hunters

4. Flashlight Tag (STREAM | MP3 | LIVE)

5. A Backyard Funeral

6. Twin Peaks

7. Corson Park

8. Dear Long Distance

9. White Wolves

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Sleepy Vikings Links

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Red Wanting Blue to hit East coast, Streams new song “Magic Man” written for “Unraveled” feature film.

Track appears in documentary debuting at Los Angeles Film Fest. Band headlines House of Blues on Sat.

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“Magic Man” is an original Red Wanting Blue song written for the upcoming feature film, “Unraveled.”

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/red-wanting-blue-magic-man

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“‘Where You Wanna Go’ sums up everything anyone is trying to say in pop music today...” – The Aquarian

 
[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/red-wanting-blue-where-you-wanna-go

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/redwantingblue/mp3/redwantingblue-whereyouwannago.mp3

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oKYlAV3hbc

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“…enduringly bright, promising and wonderful.” – Mary Leary, Blurt

Columbus, Ohio’s Red Wanting Blue has the distinction of working with a Grammy®-nominated producer (Jamie Candiloro, who is currently producing his second album with the band), a Tony®-nominated producer (Ken Davenport, who directed the feature documentary film about Red Wanting Blue), and now an Oscar®-nominated producer.

Red Wanting Blue was recently commissioned to write the original song “Magic Man” (STREAM) for the end title sequence of the upcoming documentary feature film, “Unraveled.” The film is co-produced by Oscar®-nominated producer Steven Cantor and is set to premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 17^th with additional screenings on June 19^th and 20^th.

“Unraveled” profiles Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, who, just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, was arrested (and later convicted) for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. The film documents Dreier’s period of house arrest as he awaits sentencing, candidly confessing his crimes for the camera.

On the night of the “Unraveled” premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 17^th, Red Wanting Blue will be on the other side of the US, headlining the Mercury Lounge in NYC.  This stop is part of a recently announced East coast run of dates for the band. This weekend, Red Wanting Blue will headline the House of Blues in Cleveland, a staple venue on its never ending tour schedule and one where the band’s growing legion of fans is at its strongest.

Red Wanting Blue will be previewing songs from its upcoming new studio album at these performances.  The as-yet-untitled album is scheduled for release in the Fall. Meanwhile, Red Wanting Blue continues to support its current These Magnificent Miles album, a record about the road – a subject Red Wanting Blue leader Scott Terry recently told a hilarious story about for NPR’s Snap Judgment.

Red Wanting Blue’s latest album These Magnificent Miles is out now.  Scott Terry of Red Wanting Blue is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Red Wanting Blue Live

05/20 Indianapolis, IN @ The Rathskeller

05/21 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues

05/29 Canton, OH @ Paninis

06/03 Aurora, IL @ Ballydoyle’s Irish Pub

06/04 Downer’s Grove, IL @ Ballydoyle Pub

06/08 Ames, IA @ Mother’s Pub

06/09 Kearney, NE @ Cunningham’s Journal

06/10 Kearney, NE @ Cunningham’s Journal

06/11 Kearney, NE @ Cunningham’s Journal

06/15 Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java

06/16 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fire

06/17 New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge

06/18 Cambridge, MA @ The Loft

06/21 Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint

06/24 Taylorville, IL @ Baileys Pub

06/25 Traverse City, MI @ Union St. Station

07/07 Chicago, IL @ Cubby Bear

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Red Wanting Blue

These Magnificent Miles

(Fanatic Records, Out Now)

Track Listing

1. Gravity

2. You Are My Las Vegas (MP3 | VIDEO)

3. Where You Wanna Go (MP3 | VIDEO)

4. The World Is Over

5. Finger In The Air

6. Red Ryder

7. The Air I Breathe

8. New Cool

9. Probably Nothing

10. U.S. Bumper Sticker

11. Space Time

12. The Band

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Red Wanting Blue Links

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Metal Mother unleashes stunning video for “Shake,” the latest single from “Bonfire Diaries” debut.

Album featuring Beats Antique members out now, Metal Mother plays Lightning In A Bottle fest May 27^th.

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Tara Tati is Metal Mother.  Photograph by Siouxzen Kang.

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“Shake” is the latest single and video from the debut Metal Mother album, Bonfire Diaries 

  

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/metal-mother-shake

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/metalmother/mp3/metalmother-shake.mp3

[VIDEO]: http://vimeo.com/23888920

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Check out the exclusive premiere of the “Shake” video at Performer Magazine!  Read a feature with Metal Mother in SOMA.

Oakland’s Tara Tati (performing as Metal Mother), is proving herself a formidable talent to contend with. In addition to her fantastic just-released debut album Bonfire Diaries, Tati has now produced, directed and styled “Shake,” the album’s first music video.  The clip for the latest Bonfire Diaries single is a stunning visual experience sure to take Metal Mother (who also happened to release the album on her own Post Primal label) even further.

“The video for ‘Shake’ tells a story of an annihilation of the oppression that modern culture lays upon us,” Tati explains. Photographed and edited by Galen Oakes and Nelson Brazil of Manifest Media, “Shake” is a visually memorable and emotionally gripping video complete with alien women, smoky rooms, old buildings, gooey elixirs and the beautiful Tati herself, roaming through a dense rainforest.  It’s just the kind of video one would expect and hope for from this emerging, unique artist.

Hailing from the edge of familiarity, singer-soundmaker Metal Mother developed Bonfire Diaries with nearly a dozen musical madmen, including Tommy Cappell of Beats Antique and Micha Grainger of The Yard Dogs Road Show.  The 11 songs on Bonfire Diaries were mixed by Jeremy Black of Apollo Sunshine. Metal Mother will play the Lightning In A Bottle Festival with Pretty Lights, Thievery Corporation and more on May 27^th at the Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, California. A west coast tour will be announced shortly.

Call Metal Mother, she wants to hear from you. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Metal Mother

Bonfire Diaries

(Post Primal –Out Now)

Track Listing:

01. Shake (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Ashes

03. In The Bones

04. Post Weekend

05. Vices

06. ‘W’

07. Lost Story

08. Gold Lasso

09. Gold Lasso, Unfolded

10. Willow

11. Billy Cruz (MP3)

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Metal Mother Links

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The Shondes announces third album title, Headlines Planned Parenthood benefits May 25, June 11.

“Searchlights” to be released Fall of 2011.  Band featured in Elie Wiesel-founded Moment Magazine.

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(L-R) Temim Fruchter, Fureigh, Louisa Solomon, Elijah Oberman.  Photo by: Will Haddad.

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“Lines & Hooks” is the featured track from The Shondes “Lines & Hooks +3” EP

 

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/the-shondes-lines-hooks

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/theshondes-ep/mp3/theshondes-linesandhooks.mp3

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The Shondes In The Press

“Old-world romance elegantly intertwined with riot grrrl piss and vinegar.” – VenusZine

“Riot grrrl radicalism wed to classically structured songs, distortion pedals, clashing vocals, and powerful lyrics.” – Village Voice

“Radical politics, inspired riffs, textured harmonies and pure sex appeal.” – Curve

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The Shondes Live

5/25 Brooklyn, NY Death By Audio Planned Parenthood Benefit

6/11 Baltimore, MD Area 405 Planned Parenthood Benefit

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Brooklyn-based foursome The Shondes has been hard at work on its upcoming third album (and second for Fanatic Records) and is now ready to announce that the record has a title.

“Searchlights is a sing-along rock record for late nights at Coney Island, blowing off steam and saying goodbye to people who hold you back,” says vocalist Louisa Solomon about the album.  Drummer Temim Fruchter adds, “We’ve had Bruce Springsteen and Pat Benatar in our headphones for months now. These songs are in the spirit of that kind of roll-down-the-windows rock.”

Scheduled for a Fall 2011 release, Searchlights follows an emotional roller coaster of a year for The Shondes during which band member Elijah Oberman was diagnosed with and successfully treated for cancer, an inaugural European tour had to be cancelled, and the band’s van was stolen.  $11,000 in Kickstarter donations later, The Shondes is still kicking adversity’s ass and staying focused on the band’s bigger concerns.

The Shondes has long been known as a band that melds politics with music, notably as Jews for a free Palestine and fighters for queer rights. In a show of support for Planned Parenthood, the band will headline a benefit for the organization at Brooklyn’s Death By Audio on May 25^th and another in Baltimore at Area 405 on June 11^th.

“In a time when accessible, affordable sexual and reproductive health care is under attack, it means a lot to us to be able to support Planned Parenthood,” Solomon explains. “I don’t think I know a single person who hasn’t benefited in some way – directly or indirectly – from their vital services, education and advocacy work.”

Solomon and Fruchter get into more detail about politics, the new album and their affinity for putting on mock Jewish grandmother voices in a recent interview with Moment (referred to by its readers as the “Jewish New Yorker”), the Jewish culture publication co-founded by Elie Wiesel in 1975.  Read the full interview here.

The Shondes “Lines & Hooks + 3” EP is out now.  The title track can also be found on the band’s My Dear One album.  Look for Searchlights, the third album by The Shondes, this Fall.

Member of The Shondes are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion for more info.

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The Shondes

Lines & Hooks +3

(Fanatic Records, Out Now)

Buy It: AMAZON | ITUNES

Track Listing:

01. Lines & Hooks (STREAM | MP3)

02. Mourning Doves

03. Over The Noise

04. Something To Sing About

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The Shondes

My Dear One

(Fanatic Records, Out Now)

Buy It: AMAZON | ITUNES

Track Listing:

01. My Dear One

02. Fire Again

03. Lines and Hooks

04. Nothing Glows (STREAM | MP3)

05. Get Out

06. The Coming Night

07. Miami

08. Gather Up Your Prayers

09. You Ought To Be Ashamed

10. All The Good Things

11. Make It Beautiful

12. Twilight

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The Shondes Links

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Bird Call wins Performance category of International Songwriters Competition over 15,000 entrants.

Singer’s Kate Bush cover premieres at Cover Me. See Bird Call at The Deli’s “Best of NYC,” May 24^th.

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Bird Call’s Chiara Angelicola as photographed by Gretchen Robinette.

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Hear Bird Call’s version of Kate Bush’s “The Man With The Child In His Eyes” at Cover Me 

[STREAM]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/bird-call-the-man-with-the-child-in-his-eyes

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Bird Call’s cover of Beck’s “Lost Cause” is the first single from the “Other Creatures” EP 

[STREAM]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/bird-call-lost-cause-beck

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/birdcall/mp3/birdcall-lostcause.mp3

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See Bird Call live at The Deli Magazine’s “Best of NYC” Festival on May 24^th at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn!

Brooklyn’s Chiara Angelicola, who performs under the name Bird Call, has bested over 15,000 entrants to win the Performance category of the International Songwriters Competition with her original song “Waltz In The Snow.”  The honor comes just as Bird Call prepares to release a brand-new new EP “Other Creatures,” which is comprised of cover versions of some of Angelicola’s favorite songs.

See behind-the-scenes footage of Bird Call creating the “Other Creatures” EP here.

Following the release of Bird Call’s cover of Beck’s “Lost Cause” as the EP’s first single, popular cover songs website, Cover Me, is today exclusively debuting Bird Call’s cover of the moving Kate Bush classic, “The Man With The Child In His Eyes” (STREAM).  See behind-the-scenes footage of Bird Call creating the “Other Creatures” EP here.

The “Other Creatures” EP which also contains Angelicola’s take on songs by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Fleetwood Mac and Man Man will be released on May 24.  Bird Call will perform that evening at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn as part of The Deli Magazine’s “Best of NYC” Festival. The magazine has previously nominated Bird Call as its #1 Emerging Artist of 2010.

Chiara Angelicola is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Bird Call

“Other Creatures” EP

(FHC Records – 5/24/2011)

Track Listing:

01. The Man With The Child In His Eyes (Kate Bush) (STREAM)

02. Lost Cause (Beck) (STREAM | MP3)

03. Creature Spirits Move Interlude

04. Into My Arms (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)

05. Little Lies (Fleetwood Mac)

06. Doo Right (Man Man)

07. Little Lies (Fleetwood Mac) (Big Lies Remix)

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Bird Call In The Press

“...wisely sparse orchestration that allows Chiara’s soulful soprano (reminiscent at times of Kate Bush) to shine and charm...” – The Deli

“...bluesy piano rhythms with a touch of Bob Dylan and Rufus Wainwright...” – Wears The Trousers

“Her vibrant, soulful wail at times recalls the romance of Billie Holiday or the sideways grin of Macy Gray, while challenging young contemporaries like Adele and Duffy.” – East Bay Express

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Bird Call Links

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