Songwriters Kate Tucker, Ross Flournoy team up as new pop duo Little Reader. Upcoming debut album produced by Mark Watrous of The Shins.

Take a trip to Iceland with artist Shan Turner-Carroll in music video for “Speed of Light” single at Team Coco now! “The Big Score” arrives May 19^th.

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Little Reader (L-R): Kate Tucker, Ross Flournoy. Photo credit: Dan Long.

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Check out “Speed of Light” by Little Reader at Team Coco or the links below!

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXkd9CnIfbg

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[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/little-reader-speed-of-light

[SPOTIFY]: https://open.spotify.com/track/0S4oyEwcAFBeDaFJhuwqmx

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpr.com/littlereader/littlereader-speedoflight.mp3

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“It’s an accidental love child,” says Nashville-based singer-songwriter Kate Tucker of Little Reader, her new and unexpected pop music collaboration with Los Angeles-based songwriter and guitarist, Ross Flournoy, late of Merge Records bands The Broken West and Apex Manor. The duo’s debut album The Big Score (out May 19^th) was produced by Mark Watrous of The Shins.

The music video for the first Little Reader single “Speed of Light,” featuring the life-affirming dance moves of visual artist Shan Turner-Carroll, is streaming now via Team Coco or YouTube now. The song is also available today via the usual streaming providers.

In addition to working on their own projects, Tucker and Flournoy have both found success writing for others in recent years. If you’ve watched Jake Tapper’s CNN show, then you’ve heard Flournoy’s theme music, and Tucker has found herself on stage at the Sundance Film Festival for her work in film scoring and soundtracks. Between the two of them, dozens of television shows have used Tucker and Flournoy’s songs.

So, when these two met for the first time, in the hills over Los Angeles, it was merely to try writing together at the request of their publisher Rough Trade, or as Tucker jokes, “It was basically as blind a date as a co-write can be.” But, as we now know, the pair ultimately decided to take it all the way, and soon, Flournoy was in Nashville recording with Kate and her mates.

From The Big Score’s opener and first single “Speed of Light,” listeners will feel like they are taken into a John Hughes film, namely “Pretty In Pink,” specifically right into Trax, the record store where Molly Ringwald’s “Andie” worked, and where Annie Potts asked for “applause, applause, applause!”

It’s lighthearted fun for those who have fought-for perspective on what’s lighthearted and/or fun. Namely, it can take some heartbreak – a “heavy heart” – to know what feeling lighthearted even is.

The Big Score by Little Reader arrives May 19^th, preceded by the single and music video “Speed of Light.” Little Reader is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Little Reader

The Big Score

May 19^th, 2017

Track Listing:

01. Speed of Light (YOUTUBE | SPOTIFY | SOUNDCLOUD | MP3)

02. Running Toward the Sun

03. Burn Eternal

04. Give It

05. Light as a Feather

06. Disappearing One

07. Love Lust Life

08. Strange Lightning

09. Best Regret

10. Here Forever

11. Point of No Return (Bonus Track)

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Little Reader Links

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Tree Machines counters mid-western malaise, Los Angeles loneliness with “an extended vocal-synth crescendo of hope and illumination.”

L.A. by way of Lawrence, Kansas-based band drops high-flying lyric video, :DFACE remix of anthemic “Waiting On The Sun” single.

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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” via Popdust and see the lyric video at The Vinyl District or the links below!

  

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0n9n0E_PB8

[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/tree-machines-waiting-on-the-sun

[SPOTIFY]: https://open.spotify.com/track/6OCiQuwegc1lS3Ljxi0Idm

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpr.com/tree-machines/treemachines-waitingonthesun.mp3

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Hear the :DFACE remix of “Waiting On The Sun” via Last Day Deaf or the link below!

[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/dj-dface/waiting-on-the-sun-dface-remix

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Tree Machines – In The Press

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

“An extended vocal-synth crescendo of hope and illumination.” — The Vinyl District

“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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“Los Angeles is a lonely city,” says Doug Wooldridge of Tree Machines.

After releasing a debut EP that contained the band’s hard-to-ignore, first-ever single “Fucking Off Today,” Wooldridge left Lawrence, Kansas behind in 2015 to move into a house in the tiny L.A. neighborhood of Canoga Park. There, with bandmate Patrick Aubry, and producer, engineer, and drummer, Mike Giffin (all three contribute to the various instrumentation and music of Tree Machines), Wooldridge turned the garage into a tracking room, and began creating the first full-length Tree Machines album Up For Air, scheduled for release in late 2017.

“We went down the rabbit hole building a studio here,” says Giffin. “We thought it would be quick, but it quickly became eight months.”

Regardless, the group was determined to create a room where they could make music that moved, was moving, and was much bigger than the space in which it was created. The initial result is the powerful single “Waiting On The Sun,” released last month, and now followed up by a manic lyric video which spotlights Wooldridge’s words about “naked cynicism mixed with a hint of hope and understanding.”

When the band visited L.A. before deciding to move there, Aubry says that the city “had a golden aura around it. This was the place dreams happened. This was the place where opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to jump out and surprise you.” But, like Wooldridge, Aubry eventually sensed a certain kind of loneliness that only comes with being ignored. “Los Angeles doesn’t care how much time or energy or effort or blood or sweat or anger you’ve spent to make your shitty music. It doesn’t care that you put together a band. It only cares about the result.”

Up For Air, the debut album by Los Angeles-based band Tree Machines, arrives in 2017, preceded by the singles “Waiting On The Sun,” “Weights and Stones,” and “Don’t Give Up.” Members of Tree Machines are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tree Machines Links

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Traditional Welsh folk group Calan suggests that Accordion, Harp, Clogs could be next Guitar, Bass, Drums on “Solomon,” out May 12th.

Upcoming UK tour to be followed by runs in Australia, North America, China later this year. See the video for “Apparition” at Yahoo! now.

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Calan (L-R): Angharad Jenkins, Sam Humphreys, Bethan Rhiannon, Patrick Rimes, Alice French. Photo credit: Richard P Walton.

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See the video for “Apparition” at Yahoo! and read all about the song via Atwood.

[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/calan-apparition

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKGH71FzVuY

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpr.com/calan/calan-apparition.mp3

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“Grace, daring and sheer joy.” — The Daily Mirror (UK)

“Stunning. Gorgeously crafted songs, sprightly foot-tappers, verve and raw excitement.” — The Belfast Telegraph (UK)

The untraditionally traditional Cymru, Wales-based group Calan is the only Gwerin (translation: Folk) band to be held in a detainment cell at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport alongside a death metal band from Estonia. Calan is also the only band of any genre to follow-up that experience by performing alongside Sting at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the 50th birthday celebration of famed opera singer, Sir Bryn Terfel Jones.

These facts, even without listening to a note (or a foot stomp) from Calan, makes them rock stars, albeit rock stars on a mission to prove that traditional music, based on folklore and taught and performed through the generations, actually does rock. With 2017 performances in Australia and China following several months touring the US and UK supporting the new album Solomon (Sain Records, May 12^th), Calan is on its way to accomplishing that.

Despite the ancient roots of Calan’s music, this brash, young group is comprised of a new generation of ambassadors, striving to take their sound to new audiences, raising some eyebrows with their deliberate presentation, while also raising the international profile of traditional Welsh music. Get used to this: Accordion, Fiddle, Pipes, Harp, and the percussive sound of Clogs are the new Guitar, Bass, and Drums.

To date, Calan has gone from busking in the streets of Cardiff to introducing Welsh traditional music to curious music fans in the UK, Belgium, Italy, France, and on several tours of North America, playing festival shows on huge stages to tens-of-thousands, as well as at local folk club shows, unrestricted by sound systems, while standing on tables and jumping off chairs.

The musicians making these old sounds new, blasting their way through the old reels, jigs and hornpipes, include Calan vocalist, accordionist, and wearer of the clogs, Bethan Williams-Jones, who sings in both English and Welsh, and learned her style of award-winning clog dancing from her father, who was also a champion.

Soloman’s first single is “Apparition,” a Calan original based on entries in the bizarre diaries of Rev. Edmund Jones, a minister and soothsayer living in Wales during the 18th century. The writings affirm Jones’s belief in fairies, and discuss the legend that claimed that when the coal and iron industries came to Wales, the fairies disappeared, as fairies don’t react well to metals. No word on how fairies react to Estonian death metal.

Solomon, the latest album by Calan, arrives via Sain Records on May 12^th, 2017. The band launches a UK tour later this month (see dates below), with dates in Australia, North America, and China to be announced. Members of Calan are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Calan

Solomon

May 12^th, 2017

(Sain Records)

  

Track Listing:

01. Kân

02. Ryan Jigs

03. #DeportationSelfie

04. Apparition (SOUNDCLOUD | YOUTUBE | MP3)

05. Hayes and Quinn's

06. Madame Fromage

07. Pe Cawn I Hon (If She Were

Mine)

08. Yr Eneth Ga'dd Ei Gwrthod

(The Rejected Maiden)

09. Synnwyr Solomon

(Solomon's Wisdom)

10. Dennis, Polca!

11. Yr Hwiangerddi (The

Lullabies)

12. Big D

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Calan – Live

4/20/2017: Hereford, UK @ Courtyard Arts Centre

4/21/2017: Farnham, UK @ Maltings

4/22/2017: New Milton, UK @ Forest Arts Centre

4/23/2017: Hitchin, UK @ Folk Club

4/24/2017: Maldon, UK @ Blue Boar/Mac Theatre

4/25/2017: Norwich, UK @ Arts Centre

4/27/2017: Baston, UK @ Barn

4/28/2017: Bangor, UK @ Pontio

4/29/2017: Settle, UK @ Victoria Hall

4/30/2017: Gateshead, UK @ Sage

5/02/2017: Glasgow, UK @ Cottiers Theatre

5/03/2017: York, UK @ National Centre for Early Music

5/04/2017: Sheffield, UK @ Greystones

5/05/2017: Otley, UK @ Courthouse

5/06/2017: Bury, UK @ Met

5/07/2017: Liverpool, UK @ Philharmonic Hall Music Room

5/09/2017: Wavendon, UK @ Stables

5/10/2017: London, UK @ King's Place

5/12/2017: Ivybridge, UK @ Watermark

5/13/2017: Bridport, UK @ Arts Centre

5/14/2017: Horsham, UK @ Capitol Theatre

5/16/2017: Bristol, UK @ Colston Hall Lantern

5/18/2017: Swansea, UK @ Taliesin AC

5/19/2017: Brecon, UK @ Theatr Brycheiniog

5/20/2017: Cardigan, UK @ Theatr Mwldan

5/25/2017: Fareham, UK @ Ashcroft Arts Centre

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Calan Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : INSTAGRAM : VEVO : SAIN RECORDS

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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