We love You’re My Density and they have played a couple shows for us. Now a new album is on the horizon and we are super excited!!! You can stream it now at http://youremydensity.bandcamp.com. It is a ton of fun and I know you will get hooked. Great stuff! The CD should be available at ear x-tacy in early October. Enjoy.
So my brother over at We Listen for You and The Pass are at it again and have another great music video for our enjoyment. This time it is part of a WLFY contest. See the details below. BSSB makes a number of appearances in the video in our acting debut!
A few weeks ago the up and coming Louisville electro pop band The Pass told me their idea to create a found footage or unofficial video for each of their songs to act as way for people to stream their new album BURST (out Sept 21st). Instead of going on myspace and streaming the album, you would go to youtube and be able to watch eleven videos and hear the entire album (see the first track video stream HERE).
I immediately told them I wanted to take a crazy dream I had and put it into moving images. The dream consisted of me showing up at a crazy party to find that all the people are life like takes on the names of music blogs. As you know, there are a lot of clever names for music blogs and the goal of the video was to transform the name of music blogs into human/prop representations. An example of this would be the music blog “I Guess I’m Floating”…you would see a guy floating and then shrug with indifference.
To make this even more fun, I’m holding a contest to see who can identify the most music blog/music site references. We managed to reference over thirty sites. To prevent people from listing every blog they know, if you guess a blog that isn’t featured in the video you get –1 points….one right you get +1. The person with the most points win. E-mail to answers to guesstheblogs@gmail.com. Please don’t use the comment box to guess…they will not count.
The winner will receive a 50 dollar gift certificate to Insound and a cd copy of The Pass debut BURST. If someone manages to get a perfect score, I might throw in something extra. This was a lot of fun to make and I hope you have as much fun watching what has to be one of the craziest house parties ever.
HERE IS THE VIDEO:
We are super excited about this show. We’ve been fans of Maps & Atlases for a while and they were a draw in their own regard, but adding Cults to the bill makes this a must see show. They won us over with their epic single “Go Outside” and we have been begging for more ever since. The “Go Outside” 7″ is sold out, so if you find it (or want to sell it), give us a shout ASAP!!! We are waiting with baited breath for the full length. Check out “Go Outside” below. (After, check out our buddy Brian Healey a/k/a brainbheat’s remix of “Go Outside). We also included a Maps & Atlases track just in case you have been living under a rock. Enjoy and make the trip to the Southgate House with us on August 18th. It’s my dad’s birthday, so I hope he doesn’t mind (or wants to go to the show)!
MP3s:
TOUR DATES:
Sat 07/17/10 Bottom of the Hill San Francisco CA w/Maps & Atlases
Mon 07/19/10 Howie & Sons Pizza & Beer Parlor Visalia CA w/Maps & Atlases
Tue 07/20/10 Muddy Waters Santa Barbara CA w/Maps & Atlases
Wed 07/21/10 Casbah San Diego CA w/Maps & Atlases
Thu 07/22/10 Bootleg Theater Los Angeles CA w/Maps & Atlases
Fri 07/23/10 Club Congress Tucson AZ w/Maps & Atlases
Sun 07/25/10 The Loft Dallas TX w/Maps & Atlases
Mon 07/26/10 Emos Austin TX w/Maps & Atlases
Tue 07/27/10 Mango’s Houston TX w/Maps & Atlases
Thu 08/05/10 The Blind Pig Ann Arbor MI w/Maps & Atlases
Fri 08/06/10 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights OH w/Maps & Atlases
Sat 08/07/10 Legendary Horseshoe Tavern Toronto ON w/Maps & Atlases
Sun 08/08/10 Casa Del Popolo Montreal PQ w/Maps & Atlases
Tue 08/10/10 SPACE Portland ME w/Maps & Atlases
Wed 08/11/10 Middle East Upstairs Cambridge MA w/Maps & Atlases
Thu 08/12/10 Mercury Lounge New York NY w/Maps & Atlases
Fri 08/13/10 Knitting Factory – Brooklyn Brooklyn NY w/Maps & Atlases
Sat 08/14/10 Kung Fu Necktie Philadelphia PA w/Maps & Atlases
Sun 08/15/10 Black Cat Backstage Washington DC w/Maps & Atlases
Tue 08/17/10 Brillobox Pittsburgh PA w/Maps & Atlases
Wed 08/18/10 Southgate House Newport KY w/Maps & Atlases
Cheyenne Marie Mize has a new album out now, Before Lately, and we are huge fans of it. She has shared the stage with Arnett Hollow, Ben Sollee, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Jim James, Maiden Radio, and Thomas A. Minor & The Picket Line, but now she takes the stage front and center. All seven songs are original compositions and she plays all the instruments. She recorded it with Daniel Kiely at In Room One Studio in Louisville, mixed with Duane Lundy at Shangri-la Studio in Lexington, and mastered with Kevin Ratterman at The Funeral Home Studio in Louisville. While she still needs to embrace the leader-of-the-pack mentality in her performance, her talent is unmatched. She has played with the best, now it is just a wait until she realizes that she is the best.
Seredren Wells and Maiden Radio assisted in the performance and even played a few of their own songs. That is a compliment to their own work and talent and Mize’s selflessness in sharing her spotlight, if you will, during the in-store performance.
If you missed it, you can see Cheyenne play at Glassworks of Friday (June 4th). (check out the flyer below for all of the details).
We have been waiting for Louisville’s Cabin to put out a new record ever since we fell in love with their last EP (“I Was Here EP”). They announced a new album back in November, but its release was pushed back. Well, wait no longer. Cabin has a new album out now, Among the Rectangles and Changeable Parts (you can pick it up now at ear x-tacy). They have a few of the new songs on their myspace page and a music video for one of those songs, “Among the Rectangles” (below). The new album includes my two favorite tracks from the “I Was Here” EP, “I Was Here” and “Musical Seats”. and they pick up where they left off with the EP and produced 8 more fantastic tracks.
Cabin is a quartet with each band member feeding off of the talent of the rest. While the vocals of frontman, Noah Hewett-Ball, is the first to jump out, you can’t help but to take notice of Sarah Welder on the Keys/Violin. To me, it is the magic ingredient that makes Cabin great. She is to Cabin what Padma Newsome (of The Clogs) is to The National. Billy Lease on bass and Dave Chale on drums round out the band and keep the album’s heart pumping light and fast. The drums on “I Was Here” steal the show, leading toward a crashing crescendo, then pulling back.
Cabin mixes it up, blending electric, acoustic, orchestral, synth, dance, folk, blues, pop and sometimes throwing in some Tears for Fears’esque 80s feel (just check out their old cover of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World“). Take “Pundits of Rhetoric.” The song starts off acoustic with folk driven lyrics from Hewett-Ball and Welder, then goes electric with a heavy bass line to finish strong.
What you end up with is a beautiful album that feels light, but fills the room with volume. Every part of every song commands attention. It’s a rollercoaster, but that is what I like. I’ll harp back to The National again. While their sounds are different, the song structures are similar. Just when you ease into a song, they keep building and layering. Call it good storytelling, good songwriting, or whatever, but it works. Perhaps that is why they are one of my favorite Louisville bands, or better, one of my favorite bands.
There will be a CD Release show for the new album at Headliner’s on June 18th!
Track List:
June 11- WFPK Live Lunch (Louisville, KY)
June 18- CD Release Show – Headliner’s (Louisville, KY)
Cabin is…
: Vocals.Keys.Guitar :
Noah Hewett-Ball
: Violin.Keys.Vocals :
Sarah Welder
: Drums :
Dave Chale
: Bass.Guitar :
Billy Lease
JOSEPHINE FOSTER (from Colorado, on Fire Records)
CATHERINE IRWIN (from Louisville, member of FREAKWATER)
STATE CHAMPION (from Louisville/Southern Indiana, on Sophomore Lounge Records)
Friday, May 7th
at SKULL ALLEY
1017 E. Broadway
8 PM, ALL AGES!
$8 in advance, $10 day of show
Tickets available at ear X-tacy or online here: http://skullalley.indieticket.com.
Over the course of just a few years, Colorado native JOSEPHINE FOSTER has captivated audiences & critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry as one half of Born Heller, fiery psych rock gestalt with her rock outfit The Supposed to the voice of an outsider folk siren. The one constant is the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice & the bravery of an iconoclastic spirit. “You might call Ms. Foster’s eerie warbling old-fashioned, except that is evokes a scrambled past that exists only in her own vision: mountain songs that never were, spaced-out hybrids that never will be.” —New York Times.
CATHERINE IRWIN has called Louisville, Kentucky home, or at least her home base, all her life. She began performing by playing guitar in punk bands “and not caring a bit about country music,” she says. Still, the seed for her band Freakwater was inside her: “Most of the country music I heard on radio, I hated. But I loved the Carter Family, the way they would approach songs about death and dying or being saved and rejoicing the same way. That kind of music seems to age better. I can’t see myself playing punk anymore, but this kind of music I can see playing the rest of my life” (Chicago Tribune). Her songs are just packed with sapience, despondency, and wry wit, though you don’t have to look past “Louisville Lip” or “Dirty Little Snowman” to see she’s one of America’s greatest living songwriters. Even so, she remains humble, even self-depreciating: “If I had a master plan, it’d be trying to get people used to the idea of frumpy middle-aged losers singing music” (Boston Phoenix). She will be joined at this show by fantastic Louisville guitarist Michael O’Bannon, formerly of Blinders, Antman, and current member of 1069.
STATE CHAMPION started in 2006 as a moniker for the early acoustic experiments of Ryan Davis. It has since evolved into a rock n’ roll band with a Chevy van and a vinyl record. Having created a sound that is a product of its upbringing, with Sweetheart of the Rodeo on the radio, Bleach idle in the tape deck, and a Smog song stuck in its head, Davis & Co. drive through forty minutes of sincerely howled, sloppily executed, stripped down garage-country on their full-length debut, Stale Champagne (released this year on Sophomore Lounge Records). “The band is an under-the-radar phenomenon in the making, the classic style of quality band that Louisville overlooks… The tone is just right for this type of subtle rock. A bit earnest, a bit funny, a bit smart.” – Joseph Lord, Velocity Weekly.
Check out the Facebook invite here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109505479085276
We are big fans of rooftop shows at Glassworks and this one looks like a real treat. Louisville is for lovers is releasing albums from The Mack and Saredren Wells. The Saredren Wells debut ”Memories are hunting horns” vinyl LP w/download coupon is available now for pre-order at louisvilleisforlovers.com (limited edition of 500. $10 +s&h). The Mack “Lazy Bones” LP (seven studio recordings and 9 live tracks from the Louisville is for lovers 2008 showcase) is available for digital download for only $6.99 on May 11th.
Tix are just $5 bucks. No reason to pass this up.
James Apollo (Seattle, Washington) and his band are coming to Louisville, Kentucky on May 7th to promote their upcoming LP ‘Til Your Feet Bleed, out in June 2010.
James Apollo- “How Hard (A Heart of Gold Can Be)“off ‘Til Your Feet Bleed
About James Apollo:
“A high plains drifter on the dark side of tumbleweed roots rock ” – El Paso Scene Weekly
James Apollo is a master of melancholy, his smoky voice haunting each front-porch tale Relix
Americana in the truest sense The Times
a haunting set of western-folk… Apollo’s gravelly vocals, steeped in a dusty haze of melancholy, evoke the expanse of the west and the lonely open road. KEXP
with the grumbling jazz stylings of Tom Waits, Apollo brings to mind cactus flowers, Ennio Morricone and William Faulkner. TimeOut New York
Hailing from Libertyville, Arkansas, but yet to fully establish where home really is, James Apollo is one of life’s romantic journeymen. Rolling up the Mississippi before he could register his first emotion, it is a life drawn out upon a well-worn map that informs ‘Til You Feet Bleed’, which will be released in June in the US and UK Apollo’s dusty vistas are ensconced in a weary, whisky-toned knowing. Life hasn’t been tough, but relentless to this lost western soul. Leaving home at 16, Apollo settled on the long road west, and when his money and land began to run out, he took to a docked boat in San Francisco simply to put a rusty roof over his head, “I’d write these songs about beauty and sadness and love and loss, but what did I know? I was captain of a sinking ship.” – James Apollo
Tour Schedule:
Wednesday, May 5th @ Natasha’s Bistro (112 Esplanade, Lexington, KY 40507) with The Rainjunkies, 9PM start $6
Thursday, May 6th @ The Southgate House Juney’s Lounge (24 East Third St. Newport, KY 41071); Also at Southgate House Ballroom: Frightened Rabbit, 9PM start
Friday, May 7th @ The Delmont Room at Vernon (1575 Story Avenue) with Butch Rice and eremy•JIrvin. 8PM start, $7
Saturday May 8th @ the Sweatshop (2218 S Sawyer Chicago IL 60623) with Elam Abraham Blackman and Ghastly Menace. 8PM start, $7
My brother over at WeListenForYou.com directed a music video for Louisville’s The Pass. The song is “Colors” from their 2010 EP of the same name which is available HERE. Their EP has been getting a lot of buzz and our friends at Pretty Much Amazing called their song “Crosswalk Stereo” one of the best so far in 2010 (edging out The National’s “Bloodbuzz Ohio” by a couple spots). You can download “Crosswalk Stereo” at the link above. Anyway, here is the much anticipated video that is going around now. Enjoy.
During the height of touring on their “Old Wounds” album, YOUNG WIDOWS was invited to play an on-air show at the WMUC radio station in Maryland. A handful of people were present to witness them deliver the goods, and the college kids at the 88.1 FM station recorded the live transmission. Robotic Empire (traveling with the band) promptly swooped in, stole the lone copy of the session, had it professionally mastered, and this is the end result: A killer live LP capturing a powerful trio in their prime element. Comes on heavyweight 180 gram vinyl, limited to 500 copies.
We are excited to announce our new joint release with Rinehart Records, Saredren Wells debut LP “Memories Are Hunting Horns” due out May 11th! This limited edition of 500 vinyl LP comes with a 4 postcard set and a coupon for a free Download, and can be pre-ordered right here right now! listen to the title track here.
To Celebrate this release, Saredren Wells is holding an in-store performance at Ear X-tacy Records this Saturday March 27th at 2 pm. to help get people out to support Ear X-Tacy, we are giving away a sampler CD with 2 songs from the new LP FREE, and all back issues of LOUISVILLE IS FOR LOVERS compilations will be only $7.99 the entire day! so please come out and hear Saredren Wells, and complete your collection of LOUISVILLE IS FOR LOVERS!
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang
The Wonder Show of the World
LP/CD
To Be Released
3/23/10
Catalog #
DC2012 / PR45
LP- $14.00
Compact Disc- $12.00
Play, Guitar, Play (non-LP Preview, 3:41)
Touring in support of their upcoming release Dear Companion, Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore will be performing at The Brown Theatre on Friday, February 26 at 8:30 p.m. This show was originally scheduled at The Bomhard Theater, but had to be moved due to demand for tickets. This means that even more people can come out and see a great show. I got the chance to see Ben and Daniel last year at Kentucky Center and it was one of my favourite shows of 2009, so this one is not to be missed. Tickets are on sale now for $25 and are available at The Kentucky Center box office, www.kentuckycenter.org or by phone (502) 584-7777, (800) 775-7777 or TTY (502) 562-0730. If you already had tickets for the Bomhard Theater show, the box office will call to re-seat you in The Brown Theatre. Don’t forget to check out Sollee and Moore’s new album Dear Companion, it hits shelves Feb. 16 on Sub Pop.
Check out their song Something, Somewhere, Sometime
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore- Something, Somewhere, Sometime
The Pomegranates are an amazing band from Cincy that has played Louisville a number of times. With each year, they get bigger and bigger and now their debut album, Everything is Alive, is going to be released on vinyl. It is going to be limited to 500 (100 black, 200 green, 200 red).
YOUNG WIDOWS Settle Down City LP Reissue on Auxiliary Records. Out of print for over two years, YOUNG WIDOWS debut album is now available again on 12″ LP. All copies on various mixed colored vinyl.
