Friday, January 27, 2012

Red Wanting Blue premieres “Audition” music video as new album makes Billboard debut.

America’s local band’s new “From The Vanishing Point” bows at #10 on Heatseekers chart.

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Red Wanting Blue (L-R): Greg Rahm, Dean Anshutz, Mark McCullough, Scott Terry, Eric Hall Jr. Photo: Jason Tanaka Blaney.

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See the video for Red Wanting Blue’s “Audition” featuring actual fan-filmed footage!

 



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“White Snow” is the latest single from Red Wanting Blue’s new album “From The Vanishing Point”
  



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Columbus, Ohio’s Red Wanting Blue has released the video for “Audition” from its just-released studio album From The Vanishing Point.  The clip was shot at a hometown gig at the Newport Music Hall on October 13th, 2011 and in addition to eight professional videographers, the clip was also shot by the band’s fans.  Encouraged to shoot the song with their smart phones, fans were then asked to send in the footage.  Lots of these submissions made it into the final clip.  It’s just another way that Red Wanting Blue engages its loyal audience and gives them a chance to be part of it all.

The fans are generous too, helping Red Wanting Blue achieve a career milestone as From The Vanishing Point made its Billboard debut in the Top 10 on the Billboard “Heatseekers” chart.  From The Vanishing Point is the band’s first album of new songs since 2008’s These Magnificent Miles which was re-issued in 2010 after Red Wanting Blue signed with Fanatic Records, an EMI/Caroline-distributed record label based in New York City.  The album’s latest single “White Snow” has just been released to radio around the country.

Red Wanting Blue has amassed a loyal following in and around the Midwest since being formed by its leader, songwriter and vocalist, Scott Terry while in college in Ohio in the late 90’s.  Fans of the band are used to its records being “released” when they are manufactured, so a proper record label set up time was something new for them.  To appease Red Wanting Blue’s followers, the label posted a Soundcloud stream of the album ahead of the release date, which has since amassed nearly 150,000 track plays.

Red Wanting Blue will return to one of its strongholds, the House of Blues in Cleveland, for a headlining show on February 4th, a return to World Café Live in Philadelphia is scheduled for 2/19, and then it’s back to NYC to headline Rockwood Music Hall on February 22nd.  The band’s last performance in NYC was also a sold-out show.  Red Wanting Blue is scheduled to perform several times on the 2012 edition of The Rock Boat sailing from New Orleans to Cozumel, Mexico from March 1st through the 5th as well.

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

01/26 Youngstown, OH @ Youngstown State University
01/27 Wheeling, WV @ Wheeling Jesuit University
01/28 Youngstown, OH @ Cedars
01/31 Clarksburg, WV @ PJ Kelly’s
02/02 Indianapolis, IN @ Super Bowl Village, Meridian Stage (at Meridian and Georgia Streets) Super Bowl XLVI Host Committee Party
02/03 Cleveland, OH @ “Fox 8 News in the Morning” Television Appearance
02/03 Findlay, OH @ Nino’s
02/04 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
02/07 Chicago, IL @ Schuba’s
02/08 Ames, IA @ Mother’s Pub
02/09 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
02/10 Kearney, NE @ Cunningham’s Journal
02/11 Kearney, NE @ Cunningham’s Journal
02/16 Rochester, NY @ The Bug Jar
02/17 Cambridge, MA @ The Loft
02/18 Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint
02/19 Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
02/22 New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall
02/23 Vienna, VA @ Jammin’ Java
02/24 Murphy, NC @ Murphy’s Grill
02/26 Columbia, NC @ New Brookland Tavern
02/27 Atlanta, GA @ Smith’s Olde Bar
03/01 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/02 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/03 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/04 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/05 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/09 Raleigh, NC @ Pour House
03/10 Roanoke, VA @ Awful Arthur’s

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Red Wanting Blue
From The Vanishing Point
(Fanatic Records – Out Now)


Track Listing:

01. Stay On The Bright Side
02. Audition (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
03. White Snow (STREAM)
04. Playlist
05. Love Remains
06. Cocaine
07. Walking Shoes
08. Dinosaur
09. Running of The Bulls
10 Ballad of Nobodies
11. Hope On A Rope
12. Pour It Out
13. My Name Is Death

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Red Wanting Blue Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : MYSPACE

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : TUMBLR : SOUNDCLOUD : LAST.FM : BLOG : E-MAIL
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Austin band Moonlight Towers releases video for “The Easy Way Out” single from upcoming “Live At Antone’s” EP

Band’s “Day Is The New Night” album yields Little Steven’s #12 “Coolest Song of The Year” with “Heat Lightning”


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Moonlight Towers (clockwise from upper left): James Stevens, Richard Galloway, Jason Daniels, Jacob Schulze. Photo by Carol He.

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“The Easy Way Out” is the latest single and video from Moonlight Towers 


[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/moonlight-towers-the-easy-way-out


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

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See Moonlight Towers live in Austin, TX on January 31st @ Hole In The Wall

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Austin-band Moonlight Towers released the video for the latest single from its 2011 album Day Is The New Night today.  The clip for “The Easy Way Out” was created by Danny and Miranda Cameron with each band member being shot separately and then composited in post-production. Of the clip, Danny Cameron says, “I wanted to create an atmosphere which made the band seem as though it were playing in the middle of space, surrounded by nothingness.” “The Easy Way Out” is also the title track of a new Moonlight Towers EP scheduled for release on January 31st.

The new EP captures Moonlight Towers live at the famed Austin club Antone’s where the band performed in late April of 2011 to celebrate the release of Day Is The New Night. The performances on the EP give a glimpse into a live show that has been steadily gaining word of mouth for Moonlight Towers around the country. One of the songs featured in its live form on the EP is “Heat Lightning,” the previous single from Day Is The New Night, and the track that caught the attention of Little Steven Van Zandt, famed guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and former co-star of The Sopranos.

Shortly after the release of “Heat Lightning,” Van Zandt named the track as his weekly “Coolest Song In The World” and went on to give the tune (and others from Day Is The New Night) lots of airplay over the following months on his long-running SiriusXM radio show, “Little Steven’s Underground Garage,” syndicated to stations around the world and heard by 1.2 million listeners a week.  Moonlight Towers capped the year by seeing “Heat Lightning” named as Van Zandt’s #12 “Coolest Song of The Year” (LINK) and fans of the show voted the song as their #9 “Coolest Song In The World” for 2011 (LINK).

Proclaimed “amazing” by Performing Songwriter for creating what the Chicago Reader calls “perfectly molded power-pop,” the members of Moonlight Towers are “Austin’s favorite three-minute heroes” according to the Austin American-Statesman. In addition to the new video and live EP, Moonlight Towers is wrapping up production on the video for “Distant Wheels,” another track from Day Is The New Night.

Members of Moonlight Towers are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Moonlight Towers
“The Easy Way Out EP – Live At Antone’s”
(Chicken Ranch, Jan. 31, 2012)


Track Listing:

01. The Easy Way Out (Album Version) (STREAM | VIDEO)
02. Heat Lightning (Live) (STREAM)
03. What Else Can I Say (Live)
04. Baby Don’t Slow Me Down (Live)
05. Back Home To Tara (Live)
06. The Easy Way Out (Live)
07. Can’t Shake This Feelin’ (Live)

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Moonlight Towers
Day Is The New Night
(Chicken Ranch, Out Now)


Track Listing:

01. Heat Lightning (STREAM | MP3)
02. Can’t Shake This Feelin’
03. Distant Wheels
04. The Easy Way Out (STREAM | VIDEO)
05. Comes A Time
06. What Else Can I Say
07. Baby Don’t Slow Me Down
08. Not A Kid Anymore
09. Black River

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Moonlight Towers Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : CHICKEN RANCH RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : TUMBLR : SOUNDCLOUD : LAST.FM : BLOG : E-MAIL
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Fifteen years since original release, Cotton Mather prepares proper American issue of “Kontiki” LP.

Influential album recorded on four-track cassette wins praise from Oasis, Spoon, Little Steven and others.

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Cotton Mather (L-R): Whit Williams, Robert Harrison, Dana Myzer. Photo by: Bruce Dye.

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“Camp Hill Rail Operator” as heard on the original Kontiki album version and in never-before-released acoustic demo form.

 






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“I fucking wish it was ours! I play it all day at home.” – Liam Gallagher of Oasis

“Kontiki gave me something to shoot for.” – Britt Daniel of Spoon

Austin, Texas-based band Cotton Mather will re-issue its influential 1997 album Kontiki on Valentine’s Day, 2012.  Or, as band leader Robert Harrison points out, it will basically issue it for the first time. “People have certain assumptions when they hear ‘re-release,’” says Harrison. “But, if our US label at the time only printed two thousand copies and sent it to rarified writers and overseas, was it ever released in the US at all?”

Truly, it seems that most everyone that got to hear Kontiki, an album that has since gone on to be considered an influential, albeit hard-to-acquire classic, were those it actually influenced. In the US, early supporter Britt Daniel of Spoon talked about Kontiki as an inspiration and Little Steven Van Zandt of the E-Street Band gave it generous play on his nationally syndicated radio show. While the record never had a chance commercially in America, in the UK the album was an instant smash in the press, earning raves from Mojo, Uncut and The Guardian upon its European release. When Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis discovered the record, they talked about it in interviews, and ultimately invited Cotton Mather on tour.

Even though Kontiki suffered from a lack of a marketing strategy in the US, the music itself was no accident. “When we made Kontiki we’d been courted, groomed and disappointed by the music industry for three years already,” explains Harrison. “Records at that time were still being made under the authority of ‘professionals’ and the professionals up until that point had failed us. So we reacted.” Harrison continues, explaining, “We were a band operating with a punk rock ethos that eschewed music industry convention and embraced the garage as laboratory in the age before Pro-Tools. The headlines at the time were all ‘Holy shit! It’s four-track cassette?’ We decided the songs were tough enough to withstand our technical limitations and that we could capture the part of it that was pure rock n’ roll. I think that’s why musicians were into it.”

Continuing to reflect on that time nearly a decade-and-a-half later, Harrison adds, “I suppose that besides the songs, it was also the disobedience and daring we displayed when it came to recording and career path that made Cotton Mather loveable, and yet in some ways, it’s what made us little known, as well. Today, everybody is making their own records, but sometimes that’s not a good thing. We’re now hearing the first generation of artists who’ve modeled their whole aesthetic on crappy sounding home recordings. People have come up to me over the years to say ‘You inspired me to record myself!,’ and I think, ‘Sorry about that!’”

Harrison’s songwriting and ahead-of-his-time production skills on Kontiki can finally be heard instead of just discussed now that he has regained the rights to the album and scheduled it for a deluxe re-issue on February 14th, 2012 on his own Star Apple Kingdom label.  In addition to the original album and copious liner notes, the package comes with the requisite second disc of outtakes, tracks that didn’t make the album and demos like the acoustic version of the rave-up of an album opener “Camp Hill Rail Operator” linked above.

Robert Harrison of Cotton Mather is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Cotton Mather
Kontiki (Deluxe Edition)
(The Star Apple Kingdom – Feb. 14th, 2012)


Track Listing:

Disc 1:

01. Camp Hill Rail Operator (STREAM)
02. Homefront Cameo
03. Spin My Wheels
04. My Before and After (STREAM | MP3)
05. Private Ruth
06. Vegetable Row
07. Aurora Bori Alice
08. Church of Wilson
09. Lily Dreams On
10. Password
11. Animal Show Drinking Song
12. Prophecy For the Golden Age
13. She’s Only Cool
14. Autumn’s Birds

Disc 2:

01. Homefront Cameo (4-Track)
02. Pine Box Builder #1
03. Camp Hill Rail Operator (Acoustic) (STREAM)
04. Little Star
05. Baby Freeze Queen #1
06. Altar Boy (Live at The Hit Shack)
07. Flying Annie’s Kite
08. Innocent Street (Acoustic)
09. Spin My Wheels (Electric)
10. Church of Wilson (4-Track)
11. Private Ruth (Acoustic)
12. The Gold Gone Days

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Cotton Mather Links

EPK : FACEBOOK : THE STAR APPLE KINGDOM

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : TUMBLR : SOUNDCLOUD : LAST.FM : BLOG : E-MAIL

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

New Red Wanting Blue album “From The Vanishing Point” out today. New single “White Snow” hits radio.


Album release tour launches with sold-out shows.  House of Blues, World Café Live, Rock Boat dates on tap.

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Red Wanting Blue (L-R): Greg Rahm, Dean Anshutz, Mark McCullough, Scott Terry, Eric Hall Jr. Photo: Jason Tanaka Blaney.

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“White Snow” is the latest single from Red Wanting Blue’s new album “From The Vanishing Point”

 



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Columbus, Ohio’s Red Wanting Blue released its latest studio album From The Vanishing Point today.  The album is the band’s first album of new songs since 2008’s These Magnificent Miles which was re-issued in 2010 after the band signed with Fanatic Records, an EMI/Caroline-distributed record label based in New York City.  The album’s latest single “White Snow” has just been released to radio around the country.

Red Wanting Blue has amassed a loyal following in and around the Midwest since being formed by its leader, songwriter and vocalist, Scott Terry while in college at Ohio University in the late 90’s.  Fans of the band are used to its records being “released” when they are manufactured, so a proper record label set up time was something new for them.  To appease Red Wanting Blue‘s followers, the label posted a Soundcloud stream of the album ahead of the release date, which has since amassed nearly 150,000 track plays.

Red Wanting Blue is now back out on the road doing what it does best.  The band’s live show continues to generate word of mouth throughout the nation and the first two shows on the From The Vanishing Point tour in Pittsburgh and Akron were both sold-out, with fans being turned away at the door.  See photos from the Akron performance at Musica here: http://www.gmurrayphotography.com/Photography/Concerts/Red-Wanting-Blue-Musica-Akron.

Red Wanting Blue will return to one of its strongholds, the House of Blues in Cleveland, for a headlining show on February 4th, a return to World Café Live in Philadelphia is scheduled for 2/19, and then it’s back to NYC to headline Rockwood Music Hall on February 22nd.  The band’s last performance in NYC was also a sold-out show.  Red Wanting Blue is scheduled to perform several times on the 2012 edition of The Rock Boat sailing from New Orleans to Cozumel, Mexico from March 1st through the 5th as well.

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
  
01/10 Lexington, KY @ Natasha's Bar
01/13 Indianapolis, IN @ The Rathskeller
01/13 Indianapolis, IN @ WTTS Radio In-Studio
01/15 Traverse City, MI @ Union Street Station
01/17 Newport, KY @ Jefferson Hall
01/20 Toledo, OH @ Frankie's
01/21 Bloomington, IL @ Windjammer Lounge
01/26 Youngstown, OH @ Youngstown State University
01/27 Wheeling, WV @ Wheeling Jesuit University
01/28 Youngstown, OH @ Cedars
01/31 Clarksburg, WV @ PJ Kelly's
02/02 Indianapolis, IN @ Super Bowl Village, Meridian Stage (at Meridian and Georgia Streets) Super Bowl XLVI Host Committee Party
02/03 Cleveland, OH @ "Fox 8 News in the Morning" Television Appearance
02/03 Findlay, OH @ Nino's
02/04 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
02/07 Chicago, IL @ Schuba's
02/08 Ames, IA @ Mother's Pub
02/09 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
02/10 Kearney, NE @ Cunningham's Journal
02/11 Kearney, NE @ Cunningham's Journal
02/16 Rochester, NY The Bug Jar
02/19 Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
02/22 New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall
02/23 Vienna, VA @ Jammin' Java
02/24 Murphy, NC @ Murphy's Grill
02/26 Columbia, NC @ New Brookland Tavern
02/27 Atlanta, GA @ Smith's Olde Bar
03/01 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/02 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/03 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/04 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/05 Cozumel, Mexico @ The Rock Boat
03/09 Raleigh, NC @ Pour House
03/10 Roanoke, VA @ Awful Arthur's

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Red Wanting Blue
From The Vanishing Point
(Fanatic Records – Jan. 10th, 2012)


Track Listing:

01. Stay On The Bright Side
02. Audition (STREAM | MP3)
03. White Snow (STREAM)
04. Playlist
05. Love Remains
06. Cocaine
07. Walking Shoes
08. Dinosaur
09. Running of The Bulls
10 Ballad of Nobodies
11. Hope On A Rope
12. Pour It Out
13. My Name Is Death

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Red Wanting Blue Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : MYSPACE

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : TUMBLR : SOUNDCLOUD : LAST.FM : BLOG : E-MAIL

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