Illegal Art to release collaborative album by Matt Groening faves, People Like Us & Wobbly.

“Music For The Fire” is a plunderphonic concept album told through hundreds of samples.

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“... beautiful, compelling, funny, crazy stuff. I listen to [People Like Us] while sitting at my drawing board.” - Matt Groening

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Check out the madcap world of People Like Us & Wobbly on “Giant Love Ball.”

[STREAM + WIDGET]: http://fairtilizer.com/track/peoplelikeusandwobbly-giantloveball

[MP3] http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/peoplelikeusandwobbly/mp3/peoplelikeusandwobbly-giantloveball.mp3

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People Like Us & Wobbly
“Music For The Fire”
(Illegal Art)
Release Date: June 15^th, 2010

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More about People Like Us & Wobbly

The fruit of many years of work, Music For The Fire began as People Like Us & Wobbly collected and collaged their way through various depictions of misfired communications and heartbreak sourced from popular culture for a series of live improvisations.

Strangely direct and evocative for an album assembled entirely from a patchwork of disparate sources and music both obscure and over-familiar, Music For The Fire comes with an illustrated lyric sheet which reproduces the countless sampled voices as a single if utterly schizophrenic text -- a bedtime story that is wildly inappropriate for actual children. No reliable narrators, just the familiar and absurd, which on different spins of the disc might strike you as either maudlin, poignant or almost painfully hilarious.

Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. She has shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, the National Film Theatre, Purcell Room, Pompidou Center, the Sonar Festival in Barcelona, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Wobbly is the long-running collage project of Jon Leidecker, who improvises live with pre-recordings to coax the harmonies out of recorded sounds of individuals and animals from disparate cultures. Previous and ongoing projects include collaborations with Negativland, Matmos, Thomas Dimuzio of Loop 2.4.3, Blevin Blectum and more.

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LINKS

EPK : PEOPLE LIKE US : WOBBLY : ILLEGAL ART : FACEBOOK: MYSPACE : TWITTER

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CONTACT JOSH BLOOM | FANATIC PROMOTION

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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Wall Street Journal portrait artist contributes to Richard McGraw’s elaborate “Burying The Dead” package.

Fans of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Lou Reed will love McGraw’s “My Life” cover.

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Hear Richard McGraw’s reinterpretation of Billy Joel’s “My Life” from “Burying The Dead.”

[STREAM + WIDGET]: http://fairtilizer.com/track/richardmcgraw-mylife

[MP3] http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/richardmcgraw/mp3/richardmcgraw-mylife.mp3

“Hurting Heart” is the first single from “Burying The Dead” by Richard McGraw.

[STREAM + WIDGET]: http://fairtilizer.com/track/richardmcgraw-hurtingheart

[MP3] http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/richardmcgraw/mp3/richardmcgraw-hurtingheart.mp3

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“What's extraordinary is not just the packaging's careful design, its handsome lines and sense of play - but the way this elaborate artwork feels, complements and salutes the music. It's a fitting package for well-dressed songs.” – Sean Michaels, Said The Grammophone

In this digital age, where the physical object is becoming a thing of the past, Brooklyn-based musician, Richard McGraw, is trying to revitalize the dying idea of the physicality of music. McGraw spends much time designing detailed and belabored album art. It’s the kind of art one wants to look at and hold. The first edition of McGraw's new album Burying The Dead features metallic copper artwork by Kevin Sprouls (creator of the Wall Street Journal-style portrait) and each CD is numbered and signed by the artist. The soon-to-be-released Deluxe Edition of Burying The Dead includes a magnifying glass “lyric reader” and an existential tattoo kit.

The music on Burying The Dead represents a lyrical tour-de-force, covering familiar themes (life, death, religion, love, heartache, God and Godlessness) with a candid freshness. Following in the footsteps of the poet-songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Lou Reed -- McGraw contemplates the trials and tragedies of the human condition with beautiful and poignant honesty. His uncommon vocals tremor and plead heavenward, relaying woeful tales of love and loss, existential terror and a longing for transcendence.

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Richard McGraw

“Burying The Dead”

(Non-Utopian Records)

MP3: “My Life”

MP3: “Hurting Heart”

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LINKS

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : MYSPACE : TWITTER : PURCHASE

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CONTACT JOSH BLOOM | FANATIC PROMOTION

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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L.A.’s Wake Up Lucid: an unsigned family band that has already netted two Rolling Stone mentions.

Trio to release “Look Alive People” EP of fire-breathing blues. MP3 of first single available NOW.

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PLAY and POST

“A Minor” is the first single from the Look Alive People EP by Wake Up Lucid

[STREAM + WIDGET]: http://fairtilizer.com/track/wakeuplucid-aminor

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/wakeuplucid/mp3/wakeuplucid-aminor.mp3

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Wake Up Lucid In The Press

“If their demos are any indication of what’s in store, we’re expecting raunchy rock at its best.” - Rolling Stone

“Forging a fresh take on funk, while bronzing the best in blues, this heavy trio’s stripped-down sound earns their renown.” - Performer Magazine

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Wake Up Lucid

Look Alive People

(Self-Released)

Release Date: 5/4/2010

MP3: “A Minor”

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More About Wake Up Lucid

LA’s Wake Up Lucid started as a vision of singer/guitarist Ryan Baca’s deceased father. In the dream they wrote a song together, and the name of the song was “Wake Up Lucid.” Since that fateful night in 2008, Ryan and his two cousins Ian (bass) and Jamie Baca (drums) have quickly burned their name into the rock and roll conscience of Southern California with their old school brew of savage blues, heavy rhythm, and the kind of down home sincerity long lost to middle aged ponytails, how-to-play-guitar videos, and ten thousand dollar “vintage” guitar amps.

In the two years since Wake Up Lucid’s inception, the band has already seen two mentions in Rolling Stone Magazine’s “Smoking Section” and won Urban Outfitters’ “Your Band Here” contest -- two achievements made without a record label or a professional recording. Now, Wake Up Lucid has cut their first EP, Look Alive People, at the fabled Village Studios in West Los Angeles onto two-inch analog tape (what else?) The band continues to gig around the west coast while planning a national tour for the fall. Obviously, the future is definitely bright for this rock and roll family. As Ryan Baca says, “Our dads were brothers. We grew up watching them play together doing this just keeps up that family tradition.”

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Wake Up Lucid Live

05/07 Avila Beach, CA @ Mr. Ricks

05/09 San Francisco, CA @ Grant & Green

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WAKE UP LUCID LINKS

EPK : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : MYSPACE : TWITTER

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CONTACT COREY GINGERICH | FANATIC PROMOTION

WEBSITE : TWITTER : FACEBOOK : E-MAIL

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