Monday, October 28, 2013

Austin-based duo Loves It releases sophomore album “All We Are” today. Check out “The Angels Sing” via BLURT now.

 “Wild” single available for download now via Rolling Stone, Also named NPR-affiliate KUTX, Austin’s “Song of The Day.”

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Loves It (L-R): Vaughn Walters, Boxie, Jenny Parrott. Photo Credit: Laura Partain.

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“The Angels Sing” is the latest single and video from the upcoming album “All We Are” by Loves It






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See the music video for “Wild” by Loves It now over at Diffuser.fm

Download an MP3 of “Wild” by Loves It courtesy of Rolling Stone

“Wild” is the “Song of The Day” at NPR-affiliate KUTX, Austin

See the exclusive premiere of “The Angels Sing” over at BLURT

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“The Angels Sing” is a Sam Cooke-inspired tune written on a screen porch in Smithville, Missouri by Jenny Parrott, half of the Austin-based duo Loves It.  For a band that is on tour most of the time, songs tend to arrive on the fly and are influenced by the ever-changing surroundings.  As Parrott explains, “We were at a festival bonding with other musicians, and I was overcome by the experience. I really felt just how much I wanted music to be my life, and how these longings can be a forbidden desire. Hence, the angels are singing to me, and giving me advice to be cautious. It’s a reminder to stop looking ahead so much and enjoy the day.”

Born in Austin in 2010, this duo of dual songwriters (Jenny Parrott and Vaughn Walters) has already performed hundreds of shows in the US, Europe and Asia since that time. The harmony driven pair plays with veneration for tradition, and a determination to bring a modern voice to their favorite folk, country, gospel and punk sounds.  It’s welcoming music that has already drawn the attention of Rolling Stone and Austin’s NPR-affiliate KUTX, which have both featured the duo’s tune “Wild,” the first single from the band’s sophomore album All We Are, scheduled for release tomorrow.

Of the monster trucks seen in the video for “Wild,” Walters explains, “They’re right next to my folk’s house in Macomber, so we asked if we could use them in the shoot and they were cool with it.  It’s gotta be one of the greatest video props going!” The entire production was completed by director Geoff Hoskinson with a budget of $300, some food and a keg of beer.  As Parrott recalls, “By the time the keg ran out, Geoff’s battery was about done as well!”  When they aren’t making homespun music videos, Loves It is touring, a subject the band recently discussed as part of an in-depth interview with touring bible Pollstar.

“We played 200 shows in 2011 supporting our first album,” says Walters.  “It would have been 220 shows, but we had to cancel a month of shows because we got plowed by a beer truck.” Fully functioning again, the band is out on the road through the end of the year.  See below for complete tour dates.  All We Are by Loves It is scheduled for release on October 29th via Team Austin.

Vaughn Walters and Jenny Parrott of Loves It are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Loves It
All We Are
(Team Austin – Oct. 29th, 2013)


Track Listing:

01. Katydid
02. Wild (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
03. The Angels Sing (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
04. Rocketship
05. Flag
06. Peace
07. Anne-yr-sm
08. (Would You Like To Be) My First Divorce
09. Dancin’
10. Western Swing Murder
11. Scab
12. Choose
13. Appalachian Ballad

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Loves It Live

10/30 Austin, TX @ White Horse 1045PM, CD Release Show, w/ Leo Rondeau, The Carper Family
10/31 Llano, TX @ Badu House Wine
11/02 San Antonio, TX @ The Cove
11/05 Marble Falls, TX @ River City Grill
11/06 Austin, TX @ The Rattle Inn
11/07 Austin, TX @ The Driskill
11/08 Marfa, TX @ Padre’s
11/09 Terlingua, TX @ Starlight Theatre
11/14 Lufkin, TX @ Standpipe Coffeehouse
11/16 Austin, TX @ Hargrave Arcade
11/22 Wharton, TX @ Milam Street Coffee
11/23 Decatur, GA @ Shootout at Eddie’s Attic
11/24 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ’s Bohemia
12/04 Staunton, VA @ Baja Bean
12/05 Frederick, MD @ Cafe Nola
12/07 Arundel, ME @ House Concert lovesitmusic@gmail.com
12/08 Portsmouth, NH @ Press Room
12/10 Providence, RI @ AS220
12/11 New Haven, CT @ Cafe 9
12/12 Worcester, MA @ Nick’s Bar
12/13 Brooklyn, NY @ Red Hook Bait and Tackle
12/14 Philmont, NY @ Main Street Public House
12/20 Pittsburgh, PA @ Howler’s Coyote Cafe
12/21 Morgantown, WV @ Gene’s
12/22 Thomas, WV @ Purple Fiddle

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Loves It Links

INFO : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Son of 14-time Grammy award winner brings meticulous song construction to debut Mount Pressmore album “Enjoy,” out December 3rd.

“Dry Land” single straddles the jazz-rock line with a level of proficiency that brings to mind an indie-rock Steely Dan. Hear it now via Relix.

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Mount Pressmore (L-R): Kris Studebaker, Danny Anderson, Thomas Shaw, Alexei Sefchick. Photo by: Vanessa Reiser Shaw.

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“Dry Land” is the first single from Enjoy by Mount Pressmore

 
  
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Check out the premiere of “Dry Land” by Mount Pressmore exclusively via Relix!

“Music was his religion,” Mount Pressmore vocalist and keyboardist Thomas Shaw says of his father Robert Shaw, a famed conductor with 14 Grammy awards to his name. “His obsessions were Bach’s ‘Mass in B minor,’ Mozart’s ‘Requiem,’ and Beethoven’s ‘Missa Solemnis.’  This was the music I heard most frequently as a child.”  Raised amid technical exercises, music theory, and classical recitals, the young Shaw was none-the-less eventually drawn to more popular sounds.

“I heard Oscar Peterson and I was blown away,” he recalls of the development of his own obsessions. “Then I listened to B.B. King, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, and Fela Kuti.” Relocating to Austin after school, Shaw formed Mount Pressmore in late 2011 with drummer and fellow New York Collective School of Music classmate, Kris Studebaker. Bassist Alexei Sefchick and guitarist Danny Anderson, both graduates of Boston’s Berklee School of Music, complete the quartet.

Owing to the deep history, education, and influences of its players, Mount Pressmore’s music is a technical revelation.  Its music straddles the jazz-rock line with a level of proficiency that brings to mind an indie-rock Steely Dan on the debut album Enjoy, scheduled for release on Mount Pressmore’s own Pressmore Records on December 3rd , 2013.

“It takes time for all of us to adopt and memorize this material, but I’m hopeful that we can release an album annually.  If we could, I’d like to release a record every six months.”  For now, Mount Pressmore can enjoy the completion of Enjoy and its first single “Dry Land” streaming now via Relix.

Thomas Shaw of Mount Pressmore is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Mount Pressmore
Enjoy
(Pressmore Records, Dec. 3rd, 2013)


01. Here We Go
02. The New Regional Branch Manager
03. Dry Land (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
04. Trampoline
05. A Place in the Sun
06. Vice-Presidential Material
07. Interchange
08. Dawn, Bingham
09. Agnostic
10. Dakota

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Mount Pressmore Links

INFO : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : PRESSMORE RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

L.A. foursome The Black Watch bows “I Don’t Feel The Same” single from “Led Zeppelin Five” follow-up.

Latest track from band’s new “The End of When” double–CD set makes its premiere via Rolling Stone.

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The Black Watch (clockwise from upper left):

John Andrew Fredrick, Steven Schayer, Rick Woodard, Chris Rackard. Photos by Steve Keros.

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Download “I Don’t Feel The Same” by The Black Watch via Rolling Stone

See the video for “Meg” by The Black Watch via USA Today

Hear “Meg” by The Black Watch via The A.V. Club

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San Francisco!  See The Black Watch live w/ Tommy Keene at the Red Devil Lounge on Nov. 7th!  More details here.

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“I Don’t Feel The Same” is the latest single from The End of When by The Black Watch


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“L.A. has not produced a band as capable of both My Bloody Valentine miasma and Nick Drake quietness.” — Andy Gill, Gang of Four

The Black Watch is a band that writes kiss-off songs par excellence - as well as melodies about “altered states.” “I Don’t Feel The Same,” the latest single from the band’s The End of When album (premiered via Rolling Stone) is, as its ambiguous chorus suggests, both: the speaker doesn’t feel the same vibe or trip or feeling he felt before, and he doesn’t feel the same way about the addressee of the song.  In other words, he’d “rather quiz a Siamese cat!” than deal with what “mercurially, from yesterday” his kiss-off’d one has “said in passing or in jest.” But mostly, guitarist Steven Schayer’s otherworldly Telecaster says all of the above with sonic kiss-off love and mad abandon!

Referred to as “a national treasure” by the L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles-based veteran indie pop band The Black Watch formed in the late 1980’s and has released “17-and-counting CDs of remarkable consistency” in that time, according to the paper.  After a relatively short three-year break between albums, the band has returned with the follow-up to its cheekily titled Led Zeppelin Five full-length.  The new record The End of When comes accompanied by a second CD collecting some of the band’s best and brightest tunes from its catalog.  The album is the first release for Austin’s Pop Culture Press Records, an offshoot of the well-respected indie zine of the same name.

Also available from the album is the lead single and video “Meg,” which band leader John Andrew Frederick describes as “revolving around the singer’s appreciation of a woman’s uniqueness and beauty and how he goes all ‘ice cream inside’ when he thinks of her looking at him ‘green-eyed-shyly’ through ‘imperfect bangs.’”  The track recently premiered via The Onion’s A.V. Club and the video for the song has made its debut via USA Today.  The animated clip, co-created by Schayer, was produced under duress.  As he explains, “We’d previously gone through a truly hideous and soul-demolishing experience paying someone to do a video that was unusable. In a Scotch-fueled frenzy, I decided to do it myself and drew a caricature of John playing guitar.  It sort of snowballed from there.”

Members of The Black Watch are available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information, guest list needs, etc.

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The Black Watch
The End of When
(Pop Culture Press, Out Now)


Disc 1 (The End of When)

01. I Don’t Feel The Same (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
02. Meg (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
03. Hardly Nothing Never Ending
04. Oh Oh
05. Sum
06. Always Honey
07. The End of When
08. Of Lovely Surprises
09. The Spare Side
10. A Pleasing Dream / That’s You and Me All Over
11. Unlistening

Disc 2 (Best Of)

01. How Much About Love
02. Emily, Are You Sleeping?
03. Like In The Movies
04. Kinda Sorta
05. On Another Plane (Scott Campbell Remix)
06. Come Inside
07. Quasi Stellar Radio Source
08. Williamsburg
09. Innercity Garden
10. All These Shivers
11. Tear The Sky
12. The Wrong People
13. Caroline
14. Christopher Smart
15. Whatever You Need
16. The Tennis Playing Poet Roethke Said

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The Black Watch Links

INFO : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : POP CULTURE PRESS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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