Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Debut album from “transportive,” “tribal” Minneapolis five-piece Tabah out now. Band plays trio of hometown shows starting tonight.

See group comprised of classically trained players perform live for 89.3 The Current, Watch music video for “Lucid State” via She Shreds.

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Tabah (L-R): Andrew Seitz, Murphy Janssen, Cecelia Erholtz, Charlie Bruber, Jeff Ley. Photo credit: Peter Jamus.

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Tabah – Live

4/4/2017: Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club (w/ the4onthefloor)
4/6/2017: Minneapolis, MN @ Bunkers
4/7/2017: Minneapolis, MN @Reverie (w/ The Ferdy Mayne)

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See Tabah perform “Curtain Call” live in-studio at 89.3 The Current in Minneapolis


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 Hear the album version of “Curtain Call” via Impose, 89.3 The Current, or MAGNET!




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See the music video for “Lucid State” by Tabah streaming now via She Shreds


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“Opaque and beautiful melodies. Pure loveliness. Transportive.” — Impose

“A mystically groovy sound. A tribal sense of belonging.” — City Pages (Minneapolis)

The classically trained, five-piece Minneapolis-based band Tabah recently made its way into the studios of hometown Minnesota Public Radio station, 89.3 The Current to perform a four-song session of songs from the band’s just-released debut album Symmetry Somewhere. The local buzz for Tabah is building, following a sold-out record release show and subsequent tour.

Now back home, Tabah will play several shows in town starting this evening (see dates above.) Tabah has also just issued the first music video for a song off of Symmetry Somewhere. The cinematic clip for “Lucid State” is streaming now via She Shreds, the world’s only print publication dedicated to women guitarists and bassists, and includes an interview with Tabah front woman, Cecelia Erholtz.  Erholtz is often called out in the local Minneapolis press. The word “Earthy” gets used a lot, and while not inaccurate, it leans into a place that is actually smaller than what is required to describe her.

In its preview of Tabah’s recent sold-out record release show at St. Paul’s Turf Club, Minneapolis daily paper the Star-Tribune accurately noted that “Erholtz’s husky vocals are a little bit PJ Harvey and Stevie Nicks.” Pinging two of the universe’s biggest voices is high praise, to say the least. As a matter of fact, Erholtz’s “Earthy” vocals communicate something more universal than what could be attributed to any one planet. They could be “Jupitery,” or “Saturny,” and even Heavenly on Symmetry Somewhere.

Recorded live to tape, with minimal overdubs, the band worked tirelessly during the day at Welcome To 1979 Studios in Nashville, and then retired to a cattle ranch just outside of town where they would meet at a gazebo near a frog pond. That place soon became a temple where the five would find themselves reflecting, releasing, and crafting closely amongst relaxed moonlight, soft mornings and Southern thunderstorms.

The debut album Symmetry Somewhere by Tabah is out now. Members of Tabah are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tabah
Symmetry Somewhere
(S/R)
Out Now
  

Track Listing:

01. Lucid State (STREAM | SPOTIFY | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Curtain Call (STREAM | SPOTIFY | MP3)
03. Closer To Colder
04. Bloom
05. Noble
06. The Hive
07. Spine
08. Kuker
09. False Balance
10. TWC
11. Celebrate
12. Villain
13. Central Why?
14. Myth

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Tabah Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Jared Putnam of The March Divide releases additional 80’s cover tunes, this time taking on Culture Club, ‘Til Tuesday, and The Bangles.

Songs accompanied by individual artwork depicting Putnam in each artist’s “era-compliant” styling. Listen now via Cover Me, Diffuser, Spill.

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Jared Putnam of The March Divide channels Boy George.  Photo: John Glover. Art: Krist Krueger.

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Jared Putnam of The March Divide continues his series of 80’s covers! See below for listening links!

“Manic Monday” by The Bangles [SOUNDCLOUD | SPOTIFY | MP3]

“Karma Chameleon” by Culture Club [SOUNDCLOUD | SPOTIFY | MP3]

“Voices Carry” by ‘Til Tuesday [SOUNDCLOUD | SPOTIFY | MP3]

“Closedown” by The Cure [SOUNDCLOUD | SPOTIFY | MP3]

“Mamma's Don't...” by Willie Nelson [SOUNDCLOUD | MP3]

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The March Divide – In The Press

[A selection of songs from three albums and four EPs released by The March Divide since 2013.]


“Impressively hooky.” — American Songwriter

“Catchy hooks and memorable lines.” — Innocent Words

“His work is uniformly intimate and thoroughly emotional.” — Nooga

“Big Star-informed, strummy acoustic reverie.” — BLURT

“Completely clever.” — Performer

“Gifted with a serious set of pipes.” — The Aquarian

“Quality pop at its best.” — Popdose

“All about lyrics and melodies.” — Babysue

“Bittersweet beauty.” — Impose

“Immediately relatable.” — Atwood Magazine

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“I have an ongoing project, to record every song off of Disintegration.” – Jared Putnam, The March Divide

San Antonio-based songwriter, Jared Putnam, leader of the sometimes more, but usually one-man pop-rock band, The March Divide, is a prolific songwriter (three albums and four EPs worth over the last few years), but he’s also a studio hound, in general, who loves to be there recording.

As Putnam preps songs for a new album, he has been having some fun recording cover versions of songs that have inspired him, some that are beloved hits, and some that are both. Most of all, they are songs he grew up with.

“I feel like these are the songs that introduced me to music, around the age that I started to care,” he says.

Working with engineer Mike Major (At The Drive-In, Coheed and Cambria), who also plays keys on the majority of the tracks and has been working with Putnam for years, was a comfortable environment in which to have a good time with these tunes.

Artists including The Cure, The Bangles, Culture Club, ‘Til Tuesday, and Willie Nelson get a treatment from Putnam that isn’t ironic, but truly interpretive in the best way, as he takes his style and applies it with the thoughtful touch that makes it clear why we love these songs, and why he does, too.

“People might write this off as a rehash, but that honestly didn’t even occur to me until I was finished recording. For me, these songs are endearing. I was a little kid and these songs were on MTV. Everyone loves something about these songs.”

Adding to the fun, graphic designer Krist Krueger has taken Putnam’s image and created “covers for the covers,” with each song accompanied by Warholian art depicting Putnam “wearing” the iconic look of the artist he’s paying tribute to.

Putnam is currently working on a new EP to be released later this year.

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The March Divide – Live

3/23/2017: San Antonio, TX @ Sanchos
3/30/2017: Amarillo, TX @ Leftwoods
3/31/2017: Albuquerque, NM @ Moonlight Lounge
4/01/2017: El Paso, TX @ El Paso Brewing Co.
4/08/2017: Wichita Falls, TX @ The Deep End
4/13/2017: New Orleans, LA @ Checkpoint Charlies
4/14/2017: Galveston, TX @ MOD Coffeehouse
4/15/2017: Houston, TX @ Bohemeo's

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The March Divide Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : TUMBLR

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Friday, March 10, 2017

Lawrence to Los Angeles: Tree Machines bears fruit of move west as soaring single “Waiting On The Sun” is released. Hear it now!

Band sweats bullets through the summer of 2016 to create “Up For Air,” an album of “naked cynicism mixed with a hint of hope.”

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Tree Machines (L-R): Douglas Wooldridge, Patrick Aubry. Photo by Kasia Nawrocka.

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Listen to “Waiting On The Sun” by Tree Machines via Popdust or the links below!





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Tree Machines – In The Press

“It’s some LA soul that indie pop needs.” — Popdust

“Immediately aiming for the anthemic.” — The Wild

“Emotionally staggering.” — Diffuser

“Best new rock song of the year so far.” — BULLETT

“I’ve been unable to stop listening.” — Gold Flake Paint (UK)

“Grips you in such a beautifully brutal way.” — Innocent Words

“Gleaming placidity.” — BlackBook

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Tree Machines built a safe room in Los Angeles. Not for security of the conventional kind, but for a place to unleash, and make the kind of music that is at once vulnerable and strong, without fear of consequence. Anthems for times that don’t make sense, but carve a path forward. Call it a studio, if you have to. But you don’t have to.

Here, Douglas Wooldridge, Patrick Aubry, and producer Mike Giffin (all three contribute to the various instrumentation and music) have been creating Up For Air, the debut Tree Machines full-length album. Its first single, “Waiting On The Sun,” out today and premiered via Popdust, is “one of the best examples of the feel and vibe of Up For Air as a whole,” says Wooldridge, the band’s lyricist and vocalist. “Naked cynicism mixed with a hint of hope and understanding that no matter what, another day will come.”

The upcoming album follows-up 2015’s debut Tree Machines EP, which contained the single “Fucking Off Today,” a hard-to-ignore opening salvo that expressed Midwestern malaise (which these former Lawrence, Kansans know all too well) in a new way. Three more Tree Machines singles appeared during the summer of that year.

Once in Los Angeles (Canoga Park, to be exact), the band proceeded to go down the rabbit hole building the (very) small studio, an effort that took almost a year by itself. Regardless, they were determined to create a room where they could make music that moved, was moving, and was bigger than the tiny space in which it was created.

“I think people are going to be surprised that guys from Kansas can write music with a strong social conscience and unique ideas,” Aubry concludes. “Plus, it sounds pretty fucking good, too.”

Up For Air, the debut album by Los Angeles-based band Tree Machines, arrives in 2017. The album's first single “Waiting On The Sun” is streaming now.

Tree Machines are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tree Machines Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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