Backseat Sandbar

Former The Microphones frontman Phil Elverum, is coming to Louisville as Mount Eerie alongside the brilliant Tara Jane O’Neil and No Kids. We’d already mentioned that Mount Eerie was coming to Lexington’s Red Mile on Oct. 22, the one year anniversary of their Louisville show at Skull Alley.  Well, if an hour was to far for you to drive to see  this show, you have another show Thursday, November 5th at Skull Alley.  Tickets are $8 bucks.  Starts at 8pm.

Mount Eerie – Voice in Headphones
Tara Jane Oneil – Untitled
No Kids – For Halloween

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We posted about this back in August, but here is a word from TJO and her tour schedule:

From TJO:

hello people
autumn tour of the eastern US is happening.
the record came out in may, and now i am touring it.
come over, pass it on….

*tjo art sale in a box- ill bring some drawings and prints to sell on this tour. cheap and good looking.

all shows all ages. all shows with no kids and mount eerie. ill be playing guitar in mount eerie as well as the TJO set with phil on drums and other guest stars on the east coast.

Tour Schedule

Thurs. Oct. 22nd- Lexington, KY- Red Mile Round Barn, 1200 Red Mile Rd., doors 8:30
Oct. 23rd- Charlottesville, VA- UVA Chapel, 214 McCormick Rd., 8pm doors, $10
Sat. Oct. 24th- Philadelphia, PA- Haverford College
Sun. Oct. 25th- Philadelphia, PA- 1st Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut Street (22nd and Chestnut Sts) $10
Mon. Oct. 26th- Hamden, CT- the Space, 295 Treadwell St., doors at 7pm, $10
Tues. Oct. 27th- Palmer, Mass.- Diamond Junction Bowling Lanes, 1446 N. Main St., 8pm, $9
Weds. Oct. 28th- Boston, Mass.- Mass Art, Pozen Center, 621 Huntington Ave., 7:30 pm, $10
Thurs. Oct. 29th- Hamilton, NY- Colgate U., Donovan’s Pub
Fri. Oct. 30th- outer Philadelphia, PA- Swarthmore College, Olde Club
Sat. Oct. 31st- Brooklyn, NY- Market Hotel, 1142 Myrtle Ave. (@ Broadway), Bushwick- show at 8pm (TJO NOISE SET with Liturgy and Malkuth ) presented by Todd P and Show No Mercy
Sun. Nov. 1st- New York, NY- ordless Music- Le Poisson Rouge
Mon. Nov. 2nd- Harrisburg, PA- Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 North Third St.- $7- doors at 6:30, show at 7PM
Tues. Nov. 3rd- Pittsburgh, PA- Garfield Art Works, 4931 Penn Ave., 8pm doors, $8
Weds. Nov. 4th- Cincinnati, OH- Art Damage Lodge, 4120 Hamilton Ave., $7
Thurs. Nov. 5th- Louisville, KY- Skull Alley, 1017 E. Broadway, $8, doors at 8pm
Fri. Nov. 6th- Bloomington, IN- Banneker Community Center, 930 W. 7th St., 9:30, $8
Sat. Nov. 7th- Madison, WI- tba
Sun. Nov. 8th- Chicago, IL- Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N. Broadway, $10, doors at 6pm, show at 7

Owen Ashworth of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is taking requests for his Fall tour starting later this week, which includes the Halloween show at the Pour Haus with No Kids & Pomegranates. To make the request, send an email HERE with “Louisville” & the name of the song you’d like to hear in the subject line.  Sorry, but requests are limited to CFTPA songs, so no requesting “Freebird” please…Ashworth says it will give him the chance to practice the song a couple of times first so he doesn’t forget the words or anything.  Who knew the artists who inspire us to sing along doesn’t always know the words themselves…

Not that he won’t play it, but to be sure…I know what I’m requesting…

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Young Shields
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Backseat Sandbar is bringing you the sickest place to be for Halloween night.  We’ve got Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, No Kids & Pomegranates all performing at Pour Haus on one night & it only costs $8 to get in the door.  Indie bands at this level rarely put Louisville on their list of places to visit, but that’s all changing.  This show is going to be incredible…

In case you don’t already know, CFTPA is the moniker of Owen Ashworth whose music is characterized by electronically produced beats, cheap keyboards, and slow, frank lyrics, while the appearance is that of an explosion of improbably hooked up keyboards, pedals and an array of other instruments, but…and this is hugely refreshing…no computer in sight. Many comparisons were made to the Postal Service after the release of 2006′s Etiquette, but with a little more feeling behind it. Every song tells a story of human emotion and often, human frailty. Listen up & you’ll begin to understand why people that like CFTPA absolutely love CFTPA…and you might just fall in love as well.

No Kids are supporting CFTPA for the tour. Nick Krgovich, formerly of P:ano, crafts a hybrid of indie pop, electro and R&B. Like CFTPA, No Kids are known for their storytelling as well, and their Come Into My House tells the story the elaborate and decadent lives of New Englanders so if you dig the stories told by Vampire Weekend or F. Scott Fitzgerald, then you’re going to love these guys. Make sure you show up by 10 o’clock to catch them, as they’ll be going on first.

Lastly, the Pomegranates who recently performed at Forecastle 2008 & put on an incredible show for one of the larger crowds of the daytime shows will be closing out the night. Pomegranates play a perfect blend of summer indie pop that is likely to warm up the room despite the chilling fall air. The Pomegranates have hit the scene in a big way in the last year with the release of Everything is Alive, which has been praised by seemingly every music blogger out there, as well as being Spin’s Artist of the Day, playing multiple festivals including Monolith, and recording a Daytrotter session. Rumor has it that the material for their next release is already written and that it has been slipping into a few sets.

No Kids kick the evening off around 10, followed by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone at 11 and Pomegranates at midnight.  Admission is only $8, so I expect a packed house…

Also, we hope everyone comes in costume, but don’t worry – it’s the same price either way…

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Seattle Wash
No Kids – The Beaches All Closed
Pomegranates – Thunder Meadow