Brooklyn-based The Rad Trads launch coast-to-coast summer tour today; See recent sessions for Paste, Jam in the Van, KUTX (Austin) now.

Run wraps Aug. 20^th at hometown venue Baby’s All Right; “Excellent musicianship, deft writing and one wicked sense of humor.” — PopMatters

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The Rad Trads (L-R): Michael Fatum, Mike Harlen, Patrick Sargent, John Fatum, Alden Harris-McCoy. Photo by Kelly Teacher.

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“Their second album, On Tap, is catchy, old school, and very New York at its heart.” — Paul Cavalconte, WFUV 90.7FM

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The Rad Trads | On Tour | Summer 2019

07/10/2019: Park Forest, IL @ Main Street Nights

07/11/2019: Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry

07/12/2019: Lincoln, NE @ Zoo Bar

07/14/2019: Huntsville, UT @ Snowbasin Resort

07/17/2019: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge

07/18/2019: Yakima, WA @ Downtown Summer Nights

07/20/2019: Vancouver, Canada @ Vancouver Folk Music Festival

07/21/2019: Vancouver, Canada @ Vancouver Folk Music Festival

07/24/2019: Seattle, WA @ Barboza

07/26/2019: La Pine, OR @ Newberry Event Festival

07/27/2019: San Francisco, CA @ Hotel Utah

07/31/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge

08/01/2019: Phoenix, AZ @ Musical Instrument Museum

08/03/2019: Pinedale, WY @ Soundcheck Summer Music Series

08/04/2019: Casper, WY @ Beartrap Summer Festival

08/08/2019: Bozeman, MT @ Music on Main

08/11/2019: Denver, CO @ Globe Hall

08/14/2019: Cleveland, OH @ Wade Oval Wednesday's

08/15/2019: White Plains, NY @ City Center Summer Concerts

08/16/2019: Athens, NY @ Athens Riverfront Concert Series

08/17/2019: Concord, NH @ Bank of NH Stage at Capitol Center for the Arts

08/18/2019: Westport, CT @ Levitt Pavilion Westport

08/20/2019: Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right

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The Rad Trads | On Tour | Fall 2019

09/19/2019: Hendersonville, NC @ Rhythm & Brews

09/21/2019: Roanoke, VA @ Jefferson Center Black Box

09/27/2019: Roseland, VA @ Devils Backbone Hoopla

10/18/2019: Anchorage, AK @ Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

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The Rad Trads | Sessions

“You’re gonna love these guys.” — Rick McNulty, KUTX 98.9 (Austin)

The Rad Trads recently performed sessions for Paste, Jam in the Van, and Austin’s NPR-affiliate KUTX 98.9. Watch at the links below and click for a Q&A and preview of the band’s upcoming session for DittyTV, shot in Memphis, and premiering this Sunday at 9PM EST / 8PM CST.

[VIDEO]: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/06/the-rad-trads-full-session.html

[VIDEO]: https://jaminthevan.com/band/the-rad-trads

[VIDEO]: https://www.vuhaus.com/videos/the-rad-trads-good-luck-unto-ya-kutx-sxsw-pop-up-session

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[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-07FKwkfXo

See the music video for “My Place” by The Rad Trads at BTRtoday or the link above.

“Looking like they’re L-I-V-I-N at an Ikea no doubt took oodles of clever camerawork and a lot of effort outrunning suspicious store employees. We can’t imagine the Brooklyn quintet broke a sweat, though. The conservatory-trained instrumentalists who created the scruffy and lived-in groove underlying “My Place” can handle a little retail incognito.” – BTRtoday

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The Rad Trads

On Tap

Out Now

(Hornblow Recordings)

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01. Good Luck Unto Ya (VIDEO)

02. Manhattan Bridge Serenade

03. Key Club

04. My Place (VIDEO)

05. Thumbtack (VIDEO)

06. Sarge’s Boogaloo

07. Vada Via

08. Little Pie Blues

09. Wishing Well (VIDEO)

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About | The Rad Trads

The gentlemen comprising the Brooklyn-based five-piece The Rad Trads distinguish themselves in ways few bands can. Already drawing lines around the block at home, the globe-trotting group’s (they have performed on four continents and in 16 countries) singular take on rock n roll mixes punk rock energy, horn drenched soul, and jazz precision, all with a lighthearted but sincere delivery. It’s a sound and show that is gaining steam world over as The Rad Trads continue to tour in support of On Tap, out now from Hornblow Recordings. Listen to On Tap here.

Challenging but humorous, at times The Rad Trads bring to mind Springsteen and his “Big Man” Clarence Clemons, Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks-era vocal style, and Wilco’s epic guitar breakdowns. All of this sonic goodness is only upstaged by the fact that the guys in The Rad Trads manage to exist as five distinct songwriters and singers in a band that still sounds powerfully egoless, familial, and cohesive. And none of them even planned on being vocalists!

On Tap by The Rad Trads is out now from Hornblow Recordings. Members of The Rad Trads are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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The Rad Trads | Links

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Minneapolis-based songwriter Ryan Traster’s new REM-influenced single “Lost in a Sound” is The Current’s “Song of the Day.”

Artist’s new cosmic-country LP “Choses Obscures” arrives July 19^th; Traster plays a record release at St. Paul’s Turf Club July 6^th.

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Ryan Traster as photographed by Kimberly Traster

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Ryan Traster | Live

07/06/2019: Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club (Record Release Show) (Tickets)

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Ryan Traster | “Lost in a Sound”

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/RyanTraster-LostInASound

The latest single from Ryan Traster’s upcoming new album Choses Obscures is “Lost in a Sound,” named a “Song of the Day” by Minnesota Public Radio station The Current and recently premiered via music discovery website Austin Town Hall, which asks, “You ever press play on a track and immediately feel like you’re home; you immediately get that feeling of maximum comfort?”

Traster explains, “I was really deep in a Big Star, REM, Let’s Active phase when I put this one together. The song is a look at the cyclical nature of chasing the muse. Whether that be art or love, it can have the ability to act as both the source and savior. I think it’s important to let it consume you but also to not let it become too cruel to the soul.”

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Ryan Traster

Choses Obscures

(Slow Start Records)

July 19^th, 2019

Track Listing:

01. Old World Present Tense

02. New Again (STREAM | MP3)

03. How Dark It's Been

04. Lost in a Sound (STREAM | MP3)

05. Libra

06. Endless Summer Blues (STREAM | MP3)

07. Kansas

08. Busy Mind Lazy Mouth

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Ryan Traster | In The Press

“Catchy, classic folk-rock tunes.” — 89.3 The Current (Minnesota Public Radio)

“A folk-country gem teeming with wanderlust and impeccable vocals.” — Vita.mn

“Cuts straight to the chase, brushes cheeks with brashness, and makes no apologies.” — City Pages (Minneapolis)

“Evokes comparisons to Grant Lee Phillips or Josh Ritter.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune

“An extremely impressive slice of Americana.” — My Old Kentucky Blog

“Warm, folk-influenced pop that’s likely to appeal to Jayhawks fans.” — St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Ryan Traster | About

The upcoming new album by Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Ryan Traster (July 19^th, Slow Start Records) features that warm, worn-in vibe of an album that’s been in your cool parents record collection since you were a kid. Eventually, it gets passed down to you to take along into “the real world” and is there when you need to be reminded of being a kid again.

It’s that gem of a find in a milk crate of vinyl at the local tag sale on a Sunday afternoon. The kind of album that becomes an all-time favorite, only discovered there by the person who knows what they’re looking for and has the time to dig for it.

Choses Obscures (the title translates from French as “obscure things,” and implies a “dark energy”) is both of those things, and that implied darkness provides a subtle mask that contrasts and deepens the sunny images above.

When Traster throws curve balls with lyrics of places and times that don’t abide the most famed of singer-songwriter eras (the kind that even the album’s cover art evokes), things get real.

It comes as a jaw-dropping surprise to hear Jesus and Mary Chain name-dropped on “Endless Summer Blues” when Traster sings, “We were living in Echo Park / I was smoking dope in the backyard / You were listening to all those Mary Chain records / We had the endless summer blues.”

According to Traster, the album’s cosmic-country, straight outta Laurel Canyon feel is heavily influenced by Skip Spence, Bert Jansch, and Judee Sill, all of whom passed before their time. That “beyond the grave” murkiness pervades Traster’s lyrics in a profound way, even down to that JAMC reference.

Choses Obscures is “born from the subconscious in troubled times, both personally and globally,” Traster explains.

“I wrote a good chunk of this record while traveling the east coast, following a few years of international touring,” he says. “I ended up in Nashville, going to dive bars alone, and hanging out in a dingy bedroom.”

After that long world-wide stretch on stage, Traster was actually unable to perform when he got to Nashville, as he had sustained a vocal cord injury on the road.

“My focus was solely on crafting the best material I could with the plan to record it when I regained full health,” he says.

It was a dark period for Traster, but he managed to find inspiration while working at Nashville’s world famous Ryman Auditorium, where “listening to old timer’s tales, and being submerged in song, helped me create what I believe is my best material to date.”

Choses Obscures, the second full-length album by Ryan Traster, arrives July 19^th from Slow Start Records. Ryan Traster is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Ryan Traster | Links

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Reno, Nevada-based noisy shoegaze-pop trio BLUNDERBUSST returns from five-year hiatus with dreamy new “Monarch of the Mountain,” arriving Aug. 9th

Slow Start Records to issue six-song EP as double 7-inch. “Imagine if Aimee Mann decided to pick up Adam Franklin (of Swervedriver)’s guitar,” says Ghettoblaster.

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BLUNDERBUSST (L-R): Jen Scaffidi, Carson Cessna, Carolyn Gates. Photo credit: Chris Carnel.

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BLUNDERBUSST | “Monarch of the Mountain”

“Imagine if Aimee Mann decided to pick up Adam Franklin (of Swervedriver)’s guitar. Couple that with clever songwriting that digs much deeper and one will already be able to imagine the sound.” Click to hear “Monarch of the Mountain” by BLUNDERBUSST at Ghettoblaster Magazine or at the links below.

[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/BLUNDERBUSST-MonarchOfTheMountain

[MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/blunderbusst/blunderbusst-monarchofthemountain.mp3

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BLUNDERBUSST | On Tour

07/13/2019: Reno, NV @ Foxy Olive

07/24/2019: Boise, ID @ The Olympic (Jen Scaffidi solo)

07/25/2019: Ashland, OR @ Johnny B's (Jen Scaffidi solo)

07/26/2019: Seattle, WA @ Tim's Tavern (Jen Scaffidi solo)

07/28/2019: Red Bluff, CA @ Downtown Ale House (Jen Scaffidi solo)

07/29/2019: Reno, NV @ Recycled Records

08/02/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ Cinema Bar

08/03/2019: Oakland, CA @ Octopus Literary Salon

08/09/2019: Reno, NV @ Park Place

08/16/2019: Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial (Jen Scaffidi solo)

08/17/2019: Virginia City, NV @ Canvas Cafe (Jen Scaffidi solo)

09/05/2019: San Francisco, CA @ El Rio

09/14/2019: Salem, OR @ Space Concert Club

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BLUNDERBUSST

“Monarch of the Mountain” EP

(Slow Start Records)

Aug. 9th, 2019

Track Listing:

01. James Alex Chilton

02. Monarch of the Mountain (STREAM | MP3)

03. Two to Grow Small

04. Wicked

05. You Get One

06. In Plain Sight

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BLUNDERBUSST | About

The 15-year career of the noisy, Reno, Nevada-based shoegaze-pop band BLUNDERBUSST has included more time off than on.

The group sticks to an edict of not only letting the songs be what they want, but also when they want. Essentially, BLUNDERBUSST makes music when the time is right, and that time has arrived again as the band, consisting of songwriter Jen Scaffidi (vocals, guitar), Carolyn Gates (drums), and Carson Cessna (guitars/synths), returns from a five-year hiatus with a new EP this summer, to be issued as a four-sided double 7-inch by San Antonio-based Slow Start Records.

“This phase of the band started as, ‘Hey guys, I wrote a few new songs,’” Scaffidi explains. “I wondered what it would be like to get in the room with the band and play them. And I thought we should probably play them in front of people before we went into the studio.”

Scaffidi continues, “Being in rooms with our friends playing music again felt like such a gift, like a small oasis of community in an increasingly hostile world. We felt so lucky to still be part of Reno’s incredibly active and vibrant music scene after such a long break.”

Suddenly BLUNDERBUSST was a band again.

“With ‘Monarch of the Mountain,’ we wanted to make something beautiful, something that might be more than just ‘Here’s our new EP,’ something we could give to our friends and the community that nurtured and embraced us, the people who made us what we are.”

The EP is the keepsake that the band intended.

“Monarch of the Mountain” sounds like the artists on the playlists that Scaffidi and Cessna made to inspire them during its creation (Aimee Mann, Neko Case, Brandi Carlile) meeting the trio’s stated influences (My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Swervedriver) head on. Picture a singer‐songwriter strumming an acoustic guitar and then breaking it over your head at the end of the set. Scaffidi translates this description of physical pain into cathartic, sometimes unsettlingly candid lyrics.

“Go now, write it down, because I’ve seen the end and it comes too soon,” she sings on “Monarch of the Mountain,” the EP’s title track and first single, recently premiered via Ghettoblaster Magazine, and now streaming everywhere.

“Monarch of the Mountain,” the latest EP by BLUNDERBUSST arrives on Aug. 9^th from Slow Start Records. Members of BLUNDERBUSST are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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BLUNDERBUSST | Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : INSTAGRAM : SLOW START RECORDS

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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact

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