Tidelands re-teams with Magik*Magik Orchestra on new album “We’ve Got A Map” out August 7th.

San Francisco duo’s video for “The New Black” is homage to band’s Mission Potrero neighborhood.

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Tidelands (L-R): Gabriel Leis, Mie Araki. Photo Credit: Nelsen Brazill.

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“The New Black” is the first single and video from the upcoming new album “We’ve Got A Map” by Tidelands.

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFeSYklGag0

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/tidelands-the-new-black

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

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Tidelands interviewed by the San Francisco Bay Guardian about “We’ve Got A Map” here.

“The video is basically an homage to the Mission Potrero neighborhood of San Francisco, which is not only where I live, but also where we rehearse and record,” explains Gabriel Leis, the flugelhorn playing half of the San Francisco duo Tidelands, about the band’s new video “The New Black”. The song is the first single from the duo’s We’ve Got A Map album due from Redgummy Records on August 7^th.

“The entire thing is shot within about a four block radius and that was really my concept for the video,” Leis says of the clip which was shot and directed by filmmaker Nelsen Brazill. “Nelsen did a great job at capturing the feel in that part of the city, as well as matching the tension of the song,” Leis says. “The locations are all on the route from my home to our rehearsal studio out on Cesar Chavez. Tiny Telephone studios, where much of the video is shot, is on the other side of the fence from the skate park where the skateboarding shots are from and San Francisco General Hospital is right there too.”

We’ve Got A Map is the follow-up to Tidelands’ debut album, last year’s If…. As they had on If..., Leis and Araki once again collaborated with the Magik*Magik Orchestra (currently on a world tour with Death Cab For Cutie).  “We had such a successful collaboration with Minna Choi and the Magik*Magik Orchestra the last time.” Leis says.

The latest Tidelands album We’ve Got A Map will be released on August 7^th.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic to talk to the band or for more information.

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Tidelands

We’ve Got A Map

(Redgummy Records)

August 7^th, 2012

Track Listing:

01. Coil

02. The New Black (VIDEO | STREAM | MP3)

03. Rock Bottom

04. Sexy Fox

05. Japan

06. Toaster

07. Twin Lakes

08. Half a Century

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Tidelands Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : YOUTUBE

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Female-led French label Lentonia comes to North America. Tom Tom Magazine to present NYC night.

Phoebe Jean and The Air Force and EDH release new albums today. Video Love’s debut also out now.

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L-R: Album covers of new albums by Phoebe Jean and The Air Force, EDH, and Video Love.

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Phoebe Jean and The Air Force – “Day Is Gone”

 

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/phoebe-jean-the-air-force-day-is-gone

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaYjFDDNgN4

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EDH – “Ice”

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/edh-ice

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ggWv_DaPU

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Video Love – “Le Bruit des Machines”

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/video-love-le-bruit-des-machines

 

[VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPZdy4uxHDo

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The leading cutting edge female-led French record label Lentonia Records will bring several of its artists to North America this week.  A string of shows, including a Lentonia Records night presented by Tom Tom Magazine (the only magazine in the world dedicated to female drummers) is on tap and will include performances from Phoebe Jean and The Air Force, EDH, and Video Love on various nights.  See below for complete dates and details.

The mini tour is in support of the launch of Lentonia Records on our shores.  The label has already established itself in Europe and with a new distribution deal with Portland, Oregon-based Nail Distribution, Lentonia is now making itself known here.  Today marks the release of the debut album Heartbreakers by Phoebe Jean and The Air Force.  The latest album Yaviz by Emmanuelle De Héricourt aka EDH is also out today. Prior to today’s releases, Lentonia has also issued the debut album by Video Love on May 8^th in North America.

As for the aesthetic of Lentonia Records and its artists, the sounds are eclectic and span several genres, with the main ideology being to bring across the music of powerful women on a label run by women.  Video Love’s sound reminds of an electro-infused take on Stereolab’s pop concrete sound.  Phoebe Jean and The Air Force (actually the one-woman Baltimore based project of Phoebe Jean Dunne) is a hip-hop and pop inflected take on Baltimore club music.  EDH is the most experimental of the three, with sounds mainly mechanic, but still sensual are ripe for the remixes recently returned by artists such as Subtitle, UNISON, and Hypo.

All Lentonia Records artists are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Phoebe Jean and The Air Force

06/23 New York, NY @ Pianos Tom Tom Magazine presents Lentonia Records Night w/ EDH, Video Love

06/25 New York, NY @ Standard Hotel w/ EDH, Video Love

06/29 Brooklyn, NY @ XPO929

07/12 Baltimore, MD NowChild Soundstage

07/12 Baltimore, MD Sonar

EDH

06/15 Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong

06/16 Brooklyn, NY @ XPO929 w/ Video Love

06/20 Montreal, PQ @ L'esco w/ Video Love

06/21 Toronto, ON @ The Embassy

06/23 New York, NY @ Pianos Tom Tom Magazine presents Lentonia Records Night w/ Phoebe Jean, Video Love

06/25 New York, NY @ Standard Hotel w/ Phoebe Jean, Video Love

Video Love

06/16 Brooklyn, NY @ XPO929 w/ EDH

06/20 Montreal, PQ @ L'esco w/ EDH

06/23 New York, NY @ Pianos Tom Tom Magazine presents Lentonia Records Night w/ EDH, Phoebe Jean

06/25 New York, NY @ Standard Hotel w/ EDH, Phoebe Jean

07/06 Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong w/ Heavy Breathing

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Lentonia Links

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK

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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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Tiger! Tiger! issues single for title track from scathing new “Cut Them Where They Bleed” album.

 Atlanta band to play songs from latest “love/hate letter” on several upcoming East coast shows.

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Tiger! Tiger! (L-R): Sam Leyja, Buffi Aguero, Mario Colangelo,

Shane Pringle, Suzanne Gibboney. Photo credit: Karla Jean Davis.

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“Cut Them Where They Bleed” is the title track and latest single from the new Tiger! Tiger! album out now!

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/tiger-tiger-cut-them-where-they-bleed

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/tigertiger/mp3/tigertiger-cutthemwheretheybleed.mp3

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Tiger! Tiger! Live

06/14 Roanoke, VA @ The Bazaar

06/15 New York, NY @ Parkside Lounge w/ The Insomniacs, Party Lights (LINK)

06/16 Philadelphia, PA @ The Level Room

06/17 Charlottesville, VA @ The Pigeon Hole

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Cut Them Where They Bleed, the latest “love/hate letter” from Atlanta, Georgia band Tiger! Tiger! is out now via Austin’s Chicken Ranch Records. The album, featuring cover art by renowned illustrator John Baizley, kicks off with its title cut which is also the album’s latest single.

Tiger! Tiger! front woman Buffi Aguero delivers a bitter, battering wind, alternately cooing and caterwauling in a haunting harangue throughout the album. In concert, the band uncorks this bottle of emotional spirits, dumps the contents and uses the empty vessel to make a Molotov cocktail of words.  See below for a handful of upcoming dates on the East coast.

In addition to the scathing vocals of Aguero, the reckless fivesome further describes its sound as being comprised of “guitars strung with razor wire (courtesy of Mr. Shane Pringle), tubercular organ (by Mr. San Leyja), stomach punch bass guitar (Ms. Susanne Gibboney), and drums that Mr. Mario Colangelo thumps and snaps like the neck of a hanged man, wrongly convicted, but guilty of... something.”

Tiger! Tiger! has performed with notable luminaries Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Woggles, and The Subsonics, superstar centurions The Fleshtones, and international big-shots Mastodon and Black Lips.

Cut Them Where They Bleed is the follow-up to 2007’s The Kind of Goodnight and is out now. Members of Tiger! Tiger! are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tiger! Tiger!

Cut Them Where They Bleed

(Chicken Ranch, Out Now)

01. Cut Them Where They Bleed (STREAM | MP3)

02. Judith

03. These Unlikely Skins

04. The Law of Attrition

05. Gin With Sailors

06. Circle The Drain

07. Perfume of Despair (STREAM)

08. Knock On My Door

09. Dangerous Crowd

10. The Heart Does Not Grow Fonder

11. Interlopers

12. You Should Know By Now

13. Ballad of An Imaginary Girl

14. Sugar In My Tank

15. The Woodsman’s Job

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Tiger! Tiger! Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : CHICKEN RANCH RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Michael The Blind releases latest album “Are’s & Els” today featuring upbeat new single “Who Is She?”

Portland-based band celebrates with hometown show this evening. Video for “Sympathies” also available.

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Michael Gerard Levasseur of Michael The Blind. Photo Credit: Rachael Renee’ Levasseur.

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“Who Is She?” is the latest single from the new Michael The Blind album “Are’s & Els”

  

[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/michael-the-blind-who-is-she

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/michaeltheblind/mp3/michaeltheblind-whoisshe.mp3

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Click to read the Michael The Blind feature in this week’s issue of the Portland Mercury.

Michael The Blind performs live tonight in Portland at The White Eagle at 11PM (LINK)

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Portland’s Michael Gerard Levasseur, performing as Michael The Blind (a candid nod to his medically notable poor eyesight) released his latest album Are’s & Els today.  The album was recorded at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone studio and features the Magik*Magik Orchestra (currently on tour with Death Cab For Cutie).  Are’s & Els takes its title in part from the name of Levasseur’s band The Els, a clever reference to the fact that all of the band’s members have names beginning or ending in “el”.

Levasseur has been called “one of Portland’s most exceptional musicians” by The Portland Mercury for a sound that combines “the velocity of punk rock with mellifluous traditional folk instrumentation” and this is evident on “Who Is She?”, the latest single from Are’s & Els, streaming and available for download now.

“I wrote ‘Who Is She?’ about a friend of mine who always seemed to have a different new lady-friend that he would be trying to hide from everyone. He was so carefree about life in general and didn't seem to me to take romance and relationships all that seriously. Maybe I was a touch jealous. It’s sort of just name calling in good fun,” Levasseur humorously admits.

Unlike some of the more somber tracks on the album, “Who Is She?” bursts with the sunshine of a roaring guitar solo and the only appearance of a synth on the entire record, both reminders that Are’s & Els was recorded during the middle of a San Francisco summer.

Closer in tone to much of the other material on the album, My Old Kentucky Blog exclusively premiered the video for track “Sympathies” which can be viewed here: http://www.myoldkentuckyblog.com/?p=29624. The cast of “Sympathies” includes local New York-based artists, comedians and musicians including photographer Kelsey Bennett and her sister, actor Remy Bennett, both of whom happen to be granddaughters of singer Tony Bennett.

Michael The Blind’s latest album Are’s & Els is out today on Alder Street Records.  Michael Gerard Levasseur is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Michael The Blind

Are’s & Els

(Alder Street Records, Out Now)

 

01. Another Circle of Fifths (STREAM | MP3)

02. Instead

03. Can’t Stay

04. Metaphor Life

05. Sympathies (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

06. Who Is She? (STREAM | MP3)

07. Just Life A Song

08. Depth Perception

09. All & More

10. Have It Out

11. My Regards

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Michael The Blind Links

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : BANDCAMP : TUMBLR : ALDER STREET RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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