Also, the band is selling USB wristbands AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT WARPED TOUR(hits Detroit this coming weekend) which will allow fans to pre-order their Universal Republic debut. The $15.00 wristband includes 4 exclusive tracks, remixes and alternate versions of material from both old & new albums. Songs include: “Breaking (Alternate Acoustic Remix)," "Hello Alone (Remix)," "Unwinding Cable Car (Remix)” and “Feel Good Drag (Remix).” Anberlin will also send out surprise content to fans who buy the wristband via email once they register online after purchase. The wristband will also contain a link in which the purchaser can redeem a unique pin number that will enable fans to enter their email address and receive a full album download of New Surrender on street date (September 30th).
Jessie Baylin’s highly anticipated major label debut, Firesight, was released June 24 on Verve Forecast. The Boston Globe calls the L.A.-based songstress, “impressive…powerful… engaging…” while Nylon magazine describes her as “…a vision to behold…she channels the unbridled energy of a boiling tea-kettle.”
"I stopped thinking in terms of traditional songwriting. I worked on shapes, forms, and textures, scents and colors. Elements which are more earthy and organic inspired me."
- Theresa Andersson
Melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre; these are the traditional building blocks of pop music. Yet although you will find them in abundance on Hummingbird, Go!, the new album by Swedish born Theresa Andersson set to be released on September 2, 2008, hardly sounds like conventional pop. That's because the New Orleans singer-songwriter chose to approach her craft from different perspectives before she even began composing. Playing every instrument on the album with the help of a loop pedal, she took elements from her life and surroundings - her Swedish upbringing, New Orleans home, the locusts in her garden, the soda pop bottles in her kitchen - to create the uniquely beautiful tracks on Hummingbird, Go!.
Joseph Arthur's fourth and final EP, FOREIGN GIRLS, is out now. All four EPs -- Could We Survive, Crazy Rain, Vagabond Skies and now Foreign Girls - are really a double album-in-disguise, hailed by the Boston Globe as, "charming folk-rock to lo-fi bedroom pop to spacey orchestral maneuvers in the dark - often within the span of a single EP." The EP series is a prelude to Temporary People, the second LP by Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts (September 30 / Lonely Astronaut Records.)
“It’s almost like the '50s again when it was all about singles,” says Joseph. “I’ve always liked the EP because it has a looseness to it. I think songs work best off of each other.”
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“It’s almost like the '50s again when it was all about singles,” says Joseph. “I’ve always liked the EP because it has a looseness to it. I think songs work best off of each other.”
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Her album, This Storm, is a strikingly confident second album from singer, guitarist, and songwriter Sonya Kitchell, is an immediate and visceral album. Though Kitchell touches on serious issues such as war, loss, and solitude on tracks like "Soldier's Lament," "Robin in the Snow," and "Walk Away," there is a fresh sophisticated yet playful attitude and sound on “Here To There” and “Every Drop”. At times one can barely believe it’s the same artist!
Among the many recent highlights, perhaps the most unexpected development has been the ongoing creative partnership between Kitchell and jazz legend Herbie Hancock. The two have performed together extensively, both on tour (one joint tour is wrapped and another is slated to kick off this summer) and on television, including a breakout performance on the acclaimed "Live From Abby Road." They also collaborated on a bonus track for 2007's Album of the Year Grammy recipient, the Hancock-helmed Joni Mitchell tribute The Joni Letters.
Sonya Kitchell’s new album, This Storm, is scheduled for release this fall as part of a joint venture between Decca/Universal and Velour Music Group.
Matt Keating’s music is often labeled Americana, but it is in fact inspired by a broad range of influences; traditional country, old school punk and classic songwriters. He has established a distinctive sound that splits the difference between folk-rock and power pop, and favored words and music over angst and posture.
For his latest release, Keating has chosen to perform some much-needed resuscitation on the lost art of the album by unleashing a double-disc, 23-song album (out July 8 on Kealon Records.) It’s exactly the kind of implausible, foolishly romantic, unabashedly retrograde quest that deserves a title like QUIXOTIC.
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Among the many recent highlights, perhaps the most unexpected development has been the ongoing creative partnership between Kitchell and jazz legend Herbie Hancock. The two have performed together extensively, both on tour (one joint tour is wrapped and another is slated to kick off this summer) and on television, including a breakout performance on the acclaimed "Live From Abby Road." They also collaborated on a bonus track for 2007's Album of the Year Grammy recipient, the Hancock-helmed Joni Mitchell tribute The Joni Letters.
Sonya Kitchell’s new album, This Storm, is scheduled for release this fall as part of a joint venture between Decca/Universal and Velour Music Group.
Matt Keating’s music is often labeled Americana, but it is in fact inspired by a broad range of influences; traditional country, old school punk and classic songwriters. He has established a distinctive sound that splits the difference between folk-rock and power pop, and favored words and music over angst and posture.
For his latest release, Keating has chosen to perform some much-needed resuscitation on the lost art of the album by unleashing a double-disc, 23-song album (out July 8 on Kealon Records.) It’s exactly the kind of implausible, foolishly romantic, unabashedly retrograde quest that deserves a title like QUIXOTIC.
DOWNLOAD "ST. CLOUD" FROM QUIXOTIC