Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Peelander-Z launches 50-date tour in support of “Metalander-Z” album at SXSW tonight!

 Hear the band’s latest 80’s-era hair metal homage “Killer Thunder” at The A.V. Club now!

RIYL:  Gwar, Aquabats, Black Flag, Gorillaz, Anamanaguchi

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Peelander-Z (L-R): Peelander-Purple, Peelander-Pink, Peelander-Yellow, Peelander-Green. Photo by: Daisuke Yoshida.

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Peelander–Z put sanity in a headlock...” – Alternative Press

“Standing on the sidelines is not an option when Peelander–Z hits the stage.” – Time Out New York

“There is no escape from the grind like the Peelander–Z escape from the grind.” – The Fader

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Hear “Killer Thunder” courtesy of The A.V. Club!

Hear “Ride On The Shooting Star” courtesy of USA Today!

See the “Ride On The Shooting Star” video by courtesy of MTV Hive!

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“Killer Thunder” is the latest single from “Metalander-Z” by Peelander-Z!

 




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Peelander-Yellow talks touring with Pollstar.  Read “Live From Planet Peelander” here!

Brooklyn-by-way-of-Japan-by-way-of-planet-Peelander foursome, Peelander-Z launches a 50-date tour tonight at SXSW at the Chicken Ranch Records showcase at Valhalla in Austin.  Peelander-Z takes the stage at midnight.  The band will perform several more times throughout the week including shows at the Fader Fort, and the band’s own Peelander-Fest and Mad Tiger Festival.  A complete Peelander-Z tour itinerary can be found below. Band leader Peelander-Yellow recently discussed the upcoming tour with industry bible Pollstar.  Read the interview here.

Following SXSW, Peelander-Z will embark on a cross-country trek that will keep the band occupied until mid-May supporting its new album Metalander-Z, which references the glory days of hair metal’s reign.  Peelander-Z poured over hundreds of gear reviews and blogs, and started collecting era-appropriate gear to construct Metalander-Z, a recording that is both completely of its time and completely timeless.  The album’s latest single “Killer Thunder” can be heard via an exclusive premiere at The A.V. Club.

Peelander-Yellow of Peelander-Z is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information, guest list needs, etc.

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Peelander-Z On Tour

03/11 Austin, TX @ Valhalla 12AM, SXSW
03/12 Austin, TX @ Hole In The Wall 615PM, SXSW
03/13 Austin, TX @ Fader Fort SXSW, 11AM
03/14 Austin, TX @ Grackle 625PM, SXSW, Peelander-Fest w/ Buffalo Daughter, Those Darlins, Anamanaguchi & More
03/16 Austin, TX @ Kenny Dorham's Backyard SXSW, 12PM, Mad Tiger Festival w/ The Octopus Project
03/18 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's Upstairs
03/19 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
03/20 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree Cafe
03/21 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
03/22 Knoxville, TN @ The Bowery
03/24 Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn
03/25 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia
03/26 Nashville, TN @ High Watt
03/28 St. Louis, MO @ The Demo
03/29 Springfield, MO @ Outland Ballroom
03/30 Tulsa, OK @ Mercury Lounge
04/01 Norman, OK @ Opolis
04/02 Wichita, KS @ Lizard Lounge
04/03 Lincoln, NE @ Knickerbockers
04/05 Kansas City, MO @ Middle Of The Map Fest
04/09 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
04/10 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
04/11 Las Vegas, NV @ Double Down Saloon
04/12 Phoenix, AZ @ Last Exit Live
04/15 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
04/16 West Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theatre
04/17 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
04/19 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
04/21 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
04/22 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
04/24 Missoula, MT @ The Palace
04/25 Bozeman, MT @ Zebra Cocktail Lounge
04/26 Billings, MT @ Railyard
04/28 Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
04/29 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St. Entry
05/01 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's Rock Club
05/02 Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room at The Crofoot
05/03 Toledo, OH @ Frankies
05/04 Newport, KY @ The Southgate House Revival
05/05 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
05/06 Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café
05/07 Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
05/08 Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter
05/09 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
05/14 Providence, RI @ Fete Lounge
05/15 Boston, MA @ Church of Boston
05/16 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
05/17 Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands Gallery
06/21 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero Theatre

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Peelander-Z
Metalander-Z
(Chicken Ranch, Out Now)


01. Heavy Snake
02. High Five Boy
03. Ride On The Shooting Star (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
04. Killer Thunder (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
05. Alphabet
06. I Got Fired
07. Metal Man (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
08. Two Bass
09. Dye Your Hair
10. My Shake

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Peelander-Z Links


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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


Thursday, March 6, 2014

David Bronson preps first album of new material in ten years, Launches run of tour dates with Daytrotter taping.

 New York-based songwriter’s upcoming release to feature guest appearances from Bowie, Lennon collaborators.

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David Bronson as photographed by Ben Goldstein

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“Times” is from Story, the first in David Bronson’s two-album “The Long Lost Story” song cycle





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“Bronson has soaked up all the best parts of ‘70s rock and created his own vibe.  Captivating.” – MAGNET

NYC-based singer-songwriter David Bronson is currently putting the finishing touches on what will be his first album of all-new material in ten years.  Working once again with Lou Reed producer Godfrey Diamond, Bronson’s as-yet-untitled new collection will be made extra special by some of the guests that will appear on the recordings, including vocalist Robin Clark and guitarist Carlos Alomar.

Bronson excitedly explains, “Robin is famously one of the voices of David Bowie’s ‘Young Americans” and Carlos was the guitarist on some of Bowie’s biggest hits, including ‘Young Americans,’ ‘Heroes,’ and ‘Fame,’ which he co-wrote with Bowie and John Lennon. Benefitting from Godfrey’s decades of experience, this new album has been done in a very different manner than the first two,” Bronson says of the new material, which follows-up 2013’s “The Long Lost Story,” comprised of two separate albums (Story and The Long Lost) that were recorded a decade earlier, but hidden until last year due to the painful nature of the content. “The new album is very far along, and sound-wise, it’s a whole different thing, a real evolution from ‘The Long Lost Story’ and the first music I’ll be putting out that’s contemporaneous with my actual life.”

The Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin-evoking songs on “The Long Lost Story” earned the attention of influential music discovery publications such as MAGNET, Under The Radar, Baeblemusic, American Songwriter, and My Old Kentucky Blog last year, and Bronson is set to make good on that with the new material.  He’ll debut acoustic versions of a handful of the new songs as part of his first Daytrotter session, taping on March 6th, the same day that he’ll launch a string of tour dates.  See below for full itinerary.

When Bronson isn’t writing and recording his solo material, he can be found working as a contributing composer and editor on filmmaker Jennifer Elster’s “The Being Experience.”  The project is an unflinching look at existence, featuring a cast of actors, thinkers, and musicians including Dave Matthews, Moby, Questlove, Rufus Wainwright, and Yoko Ono among many others.

David Bronson is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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David Bronson Live

03/06 Rock Island, IL @ Daytrotter 1PM
03/06 Dayton, OH @ Blind Bob’s 10PM
03/07 Muncie, IN @ Be Here Now 9PM
03/08 Chicago, IL @ Uncommon Ground (Clark Location) 8PM
03/08 Chicago, IL @ Fearless Radio 3PM
03/11 Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean 830PM
03/12 Worcester, MA @ Electric Haze 9PM
03/13 Manchester, NH @ Cafe Le Reine 7PM
03/14 New Paltz, NY @ Cafeteria 8PM
03/24 New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall 7PM

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David Bronson
The Long Lost
(S/R – Out Now)


Track Listing:

01. The Lost (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | VIDEO)
02. October
03. Animals (STREAM | DOWNLOAD)
04. Crooked Trails
05. Incompetent Assassin (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
06. Idols (VIDEO)
07. Living In Name (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
08. In A Cave
09. Once When I Was God
10. One Simple Myth (VIDEO)
11. Stay In Touch

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David Bronson
Story
(S/R – Out Now)


Track Listing:

01. The Turns (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Times (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO | REMIX | REMIX VIDEO)
03. If
04. Easier (VIDEO)
05. The Ones
06. Us (VIDEO)
07. Momentary (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO | REMIX)
08. Adrift
09. Watch the Sun (October Reprise) (VIDEO)
10. Outside (VIDEO)
11. Unending (Underture)

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David Bronson Links


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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Andrew St. James reacts to bay area city’s murder rate on track from critically praised new album.

“A Prayer For East Oakland” is latest from 18-year-old singer-songwriter’s “Doldrums” debut.

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“He possesses remarkable lyricism and self-awareness.” – Interview

“We’re seriously looking for proof that St. James is only 18…” – Nylon

“Overflowing with clever lines and lyrical intricacies.” – American Songwriter

“This kid is headed for big things.” – USA Today

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Andrew St James as photographed by Peter Ellenby

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Hear the premiere of the “A Prayer For East Oakland” single via Under The Radar

See the premiere of the video for “A Prayer For East Oakland” via The Bay Bridged

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“A Prayer For East Oakland” is the latest single and video by Andrew St James





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“The lyrics to ‘A Prayer For East Oakland’ are formed around Psalms in the New Testament,” explains 18-year-old singer-songwriter Andrew St. James. “The song was originally a poem I wrote after a childhood friend of mine was murdered during the summer of 2011 outside of his home in East Oakland.  Watching the homicide rate in the city rise almost exponentially during that time made me frustrated with how little people around me knew or cared about the violence in a community so close to our home.”

The song, an epic and beautiful tune that takes a serious look at the rate of gun-related deaths in the bay area, specifically Oakland, is the latest track and video from the debut Andrew St. James album Doldrums.  St. James, and the mature quality of his timeless songwriting have already been noticed by MTV Hive, Interview, SF Weekly, USA Today, American Songwriter, and Performer Magazine among others.  The album, produced by St. James himself along with veteran Bay Area producer Jim Greer (a platinum record recipient for his work with Foster The People), is out now.

St. James continues, “There were 110 reported homicides in Oakland during 2011, rising to 131 in 2012. Almost every night of those two years, the first ten minutes of the nightly news would be attributed to reports of gun violence in Oakland. Reports of toddlers being shot and killed in random acts of violence were forgotten along with the weather report. The memory of those 241 people, the majority of them African-American, has been lost on the outside world, disregarded by people of privilege, and forgotten by people with power.”

St. James goes on to conclude that “The casualties of poverty are widely misunderstood in a land where the struggles of economic opportunity are foolishly attributed to racial culture, and subsequently swept under the rug. In communities like East Oakland, it is easy to see that the African American community has been abused, and is today still abused, by systematic oppression in the highest, most obvious degree.”

Doldrums, the debut album by Andrew St. James, is out now via the Island Jar / Fortune label.  Andrew St. James is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Andrew St James
Doldrums
(Island Jar/Fortune – Out Now)


Track Listing:

01. Cassidy (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Maybe It’s Time For Me To Go
03. Visions (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
4. The Lost, The Vain (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
5. A Prayer For East Oakland (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
6. No Hurry (Subterfuge)
7. Nightmares Pt. 5
8. East of Eden
9. I’m All About You
10. Marigold
11. Before The Flood

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Andrew St James Links


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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion