Alessi's Ark "Money" Video

Alessi's Ark "Money" Video

Produced and Directed by: Kristina Carucci (www.kristinacarucci.com)

Starring and Choreographed by: Lexy Hulme

Jake Bellows To Play San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Jake Bellows To Play San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Fall Tour Dates With Tim Kasher Announced

Debut Solo Album New Ocean Out Now On Saddle Creek 

   

"The 11-track LP features previously shared stunners "I Know You" and "All Right Now", and also makes way for "left turns into drunk-in-the-sun bossa nova, blue-eyed-soul ruptured by fuzz guitar, [and] love songs that are not necessarily ballads" - SPIN"He's approachable and humble, but engage the guy in a little conversation and you will soon realize that he's not quite on the same plane as the rest of us - in the best way a
singer-songwriter can be." - Filter

"His best work since Neva Dinova's 2008 high watermark, You May Already be Dreaming." - Paste

Listen: "I Know You" via SoundCloud 
Listen: "All Right Now" via SoundCloud
Watch: "I Know You" via YouTube

Jake Bellows's fall tour kicks off this Friday with a stop at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Jake Bellows will play at noon the festival's Rooster Stage which was curated by Conor Oberst and will include performances by The Felice Brothers, The Evans, First Aid Kit and more. On Monday, Jake Bellows will play a free in-store at Los Angeles' Origami Vinyl before hitting the road later this month with labelmate Tim Kasher. Jake Bellows is touring in support of his critically acclaimed debut solo album New Ocean is out now on Saddle Creek and limited edition cassette through Majestic Litter. 

Jake Bellows had quit music. Or so he thought.

  

After fronting Neva Dinova for more than 15 years, which included five full-lengths, a split EP, and countless tours, he packed up his dog and moved from his native Omaha to his girlfriend's hometown of Los Angeles. Two days before he left he recorded 18 demos with musician and engineer Ben Brodin at his insistence. Once in L.A., Bellows got a job installing sliding-glass doors and sold his Les Paul to buy a Datsun pick-up truck.

Though he had no plans to form a new band, he played the occasional solo show, performed with Whispertown, and continued to write songs. In early 2011, an invitation arrived from Omaha's Film Streams Theater for Jake's old friend Ryan Fox also living on the West Coast, to perform an original live film-score. Fox enlisted Bellows and Brodin to collaborate and the trio began to compose and discuss improvisational ideas over long-distance. Since they were all going to be in Omaha and had a long history of playing in each other's bands, Brodin and Fox nudged Bellows into booking studio time to record some of his dormant songs.

Fox and Bellows drove from LA to Omaha that November. They entered ARC Studios for a feverish recording session, arranging and writing parts on the fly with an impromptu band including Heath Koontz, Todd Fink, Whispertown bandmate Morgan Nagler and other old friends. Committing quickly to intuitive arrangements the band recorded 17 tracks in a little more than a week. They worked remotely on the record throughout that winter and spring, adding overdubs in basements and bedrooms across western North America.

The new music is underpinned by philosophical conviction and shaped by an interest in physics, cosmology and mythology. Bellows returned to music with a renewed sense of the intrinsic value of art and its ability to express the commonality of human experience. His debut full-length, New Ocean, offers a mix tape of different kinds of songs hanging out on one record - love songs that are not necessarily ballads despite their introspective gauziness, with left turns into drunk-in-the-sun bossa nova and blue-eyed-soul ruptured by fuzz guitar. Bellows believes that songs change the fabric of the universe through the very frequencies they emit. As such, the record attempts to create the world he wants to see instead of reflect the world that is.

Jake Bellows Tour Dates

10.04 - San Francisco, CA @ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (12pm at the Rooster Stage) 

10.07 - Los Angeles, CA @ Origami Vinyl (7pm free in-store) 

10.15 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop *

10.16 - Santa Cruz @ The Crepe Place *

10.17 - Santa Ana @ Constellation Room *

10.18 - Los Angeles, CA @ the Echo *

10.19 - Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar & Billards *

10.21 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *

* w/ Tim Kasher

For more info, please visit:

http://jakebellows.com/

http://saddle-creek.com/

Noah and the Whale @ House of Blues anaheim

All photos by Rachel Robinson.

Noah and the Whale is performing at anaheim House of Blues tonight, Wednesday Oct 2nd 2013..

Stream Parquet Courts' New EP

STREAM PARQUET COURTS' NEW EP, "TALLY ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU BROKE", OUT 10/8 ON WHAT'S YOUR RUPTURE?

RADIO STATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY GIVE LISTENERS AN EARLY TASTE THIS WEEK

RECORD RELEASE SHOW AT MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG TONIGHT!

  

Parquet Courts' new EP, "Tally All The Things That You Broke," is officially out next week (Oct 8th on What's Your Rupture?). As in, for sale in record stores, available for purchase online, gettin' hocked at pawnshops, being pirated online, gettin' added to mixtapes, and being played for newborn babies, ya know, to improve their ever-developing brains. Well, far be it from us to allow all the consumers to enter the marketplace uninformed. That's why we're sharing the entire new EP with audiences early. I KNOW, I KNOW, you're thinking "are you INSANE? Just GIVING it away like that? It's NEVER been done BEFORE." First off, stop inflecting your sentences with all caps, it's annoying and inappropriate. Also, we're pretty sure a few folks have done this in the past. Well, maybe not exactly like this. Today, the EP is streaming in full on www.parkayquarts.com, but earlier this week, five marquee American radio stations premiered the record on the airwaves. KEXP in Seattle,WXRT in Chicago, CD102.5 in Columbus, KVRX in Austin, and WXPN in Philadelphia all played the entire EP on Monday and Tuesday. Now we're gettin' into uncharted waters, so permission to freak out granted.

STREAM "TALLY ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU BROKE" - http://parkayquarts.com

Also, don't forget that any record is, or at least should be, a righteous representation of the live band, and Parquet Courts pride themselves as a hard working one, first and foremost. So with that said, Parquet Courts' record release show is TONIGHT at Music Hall of Williamsburg. This is their biggest hometown headlining date, and they're pulling out all the non-existent stops for this one. Be prepared to hear stuff off their instant classic, Light Up Gold, tracks off the new EP, and even new songs slated for the next LP. Stops, OUT; leaving everything on the field; IN. After that, the boys take off for two weekends at the Austin City Limits festival before waving "ta-ta" to the US for a month and crossing the ocean for more dates abroad. So for us Americans, the time is now; the show is tonight; the band is Parquet Courts.

PARQUET COURTS DATES:

Wed. Oct. 2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg w/ The Beets, The Yuppies, Future Punx

Sat. Oct. 5 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival (Barton Springs Stage)

Sat. Oct. 12 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival (Barton Springs Stage)

Listen to "You've Got Me Wonderin' Now" here - http://snd.sc/14k32yS

Download hi-res images and album art here: http://pitchperfectpr.com/a_pc.html

Pre-Order "Tally All The Things That You Broke" here: http://bit.ly/14OgfWR

Listen to Light Up Gold here: http://dulltools.bandcamp.com/album/light-up-gold

BRIANNA LEA PRUETT'S GYPSY BELLS

BRIANNA LEA PRUETT'S GYPSY BELLS OUT TODAY VIA CANYON RECORDS

PASTE PREMIERES GYPSY BELLS ALBUM STREAM

"Brianna Lea Pruett's sweet vocals and vivid lyrics are continuing to garner more attention in anticipation of the forthcoming release of Gypsy Bells" - PASTE

Gypsy Bells available in all formats and streaming at iTunes | Amazon | Spotify | SoundCloud

Today, Canyon Records releases the "breathtaking folk" and "quiet bucolic beauty" of Brianna Lea Pruett's stunning collection of songs that form her debut Gypsy Bells. Paste Magazine continues to champion Pruett by premiering the entirety of Gypsy Bells yesterday saying "Brianna Lea Pruett has captivated us with her sweet vocals and rustic lyrics."

Gypsy Bells is as informed by Pruett's Cherokee and Choctaw heritage as it is her parent's vinyl collection, with influences ranging from Leonard Cohen and Emmylou Harris to Pruett's personal discoveries of Mazzy Star and Neko Case. Gypsy Bells cuts to the quick within the simplicity and poignant themes across the range of the album seeming juxtaposed to the richness of Pruett's Native American heritage and her California folk traditions.

"Your songs sound just like mine" - Daniel Johnston

Much of Brianna's Gypsy Bells, particularly "It's All Right" comes in the form of self-examination and life in the moment... "We can write our own life story, we get to choose ourselves, our integrity, our responses, our passions, our vices. It's definitely a freedom song," says Pruett. "Dream this life with me. What's the best thing we can dream together? Who are you in the dream? That's what this song is about. Dream something you like."

The Limiñanas To Release Costa Blanca Nov. 19

THE LIMIÑANAS TO RELEASE COSTA BLANCA NOVEMBER 19TH ON TROUBLE IN MIND

STREAM/SHARE THE LIMIÑANAS' "MY BLACK SABBATH"

http://snd.sc/17oAvga

 

The Limiñanas, the brainchild of French duo Lio and Marie Limiñana, are back on Trouble In Mind with their third album, Costa Blanca, out November 19th! Once again, recorded at their home in the south of France by Lio himself, Costa Blanca pushes the envelope of their signature Franc-o-phonic sound -- the coloeur café cool of Gainsbourg, the hypnotic drone of VU-era Cale, and the spiky fuzz of Davie Allan. This time around the band incorporate avant-classical and experimental sonic elements, lacing the tunes with a dramatic flair of French New Wave soundtracks and the percussive accents found in Morricone's work in Il Gruppo. Melodic "jump-cuts," sonic echoes of previous tunes and future melodies, appear and disappear throughout the course of this album (and The Limiñanas' entire oeuvre). Thematically, Costa Blanca is an insular record, with subjects that reference Lio's youth growing up in Spain in the 1970's near the Mediterranean Sea and nostalgic odes to the music, films, girls, books and cars that shaped his world.

STREAM/SHARE THE LIMIÑANAS' "MY BLACK SABBATH" -

http://snd.sc/17oAvga

"Marie and Lio Limiñana are making something new with the echoes of France's artistic past. . . Marie's airy vocals add that retro element to the modern soundscape, which even features glimmers of Mediterranean melodies. The driving bassline also has a throwback vibe, but its place within the production and combination with the rest of the instrumentation gives it a twenty-first-century flavor. The Limiñanas know how to make established styles sound new again." - Ad Hoc

Costa Blanca Tracklist:

01. Je me souviens comme si j'y étais

02. My black Sabbath

03. Alicante

04. Votre coté yéyé m'emmerde

05. Cold Was The Ground

06. i miei occhi sono i tuoi occhi

07. La Mercedes de couleur gris métallisé

08. Rosas

09. Barrio Chino

10. BB

11. La mélancolie

12. La Mediterranée

13. Liverpool (Album version feat. MU)

The Limiñanas online:

www.troubleinmindrecs.com/bands/liminanas.html

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Liminanas/102702773110733

www.theliminanas.bandcamp.com/

www.pitchperfectpr.com/a_lim.html

Sebadoh performs in New York on November 1st

 

Sebadoh's first LP in 14 years, Defend Yourself, is out now on Joyful Noise Recordings and is streaming in its entirety at Bandcamp!

Fans can catch them live at the Bowery Ballroom on November 1st.

WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT DEFEND YOURSELF:

"Even as Barlow offers up clear-eyed postmortems of a wrecked marriage, Defend Yourself exudes the live-wire energy of a vital band brought back from the brink." NPR

"A private project became a public one, and this is its legitimate new chapter."
The New York Times

"...great, gritty new songs and refreshing upgrades to their idiosyncratic aesthetic." Exclaim!

"Fuck yeah, we still need indie-rock bands!" SPIN

"So, yeah, it’s not surprising that a band has changed after 14 years without a record, but the changes here, the subtlety of them, are bracing and make Defend Yourself not just a welcome return, but a shot in the arm for the band, the listeners, and indie rock at large." Pop Matters

"...his muse hasn’t run out of ways to torture him yet." Pitchfork

"That a band can successfully experiment after such an extended break is a testament to their self-preservation." FILTER

"Luckily for everyone - from the peach-fuzz hipsters who claim to have witnessed the original incarnation of the band in the flesh, to those who actually did - Defend Yourself is virtually filler-less, unlike so many filler-hiding-behind-one-good-song returns." MAGNET

"It harks back to the classic sounds of Sebadoh - tender Barlow ballads, balls to the wall Loewenstein rockers - essentially the yin and yang that endeared the band to so many fans throughout the 90's, with the artistic growth you'd expect from a band 14 years removed from their last album." Under The Radar

"A band maintaining the same sound after 14 years is not usually a positive. With Sebadoh, it's a gift." eMusic

TOUR DATES:

 

NOV. 1 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

NOV. 2 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's

NOV. 3 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat

NOV. 4 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair

NOV. 5 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore

NOV. 7 - Hamilton, ON @ Casbah

NOV. 8 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern

NOV. 9 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

NOV. 10 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern

NOV. 11 - St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club

NOV. 13 - Indianapolis, IN @ Radio Radio

NOV. 14 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement

NOV. 15 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe

 

 

Indie rock pioneers Sebadoh have announced the release of their first new LP in 14 years, entitled “Defend Yourself.” The longtime project of Lou Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, and Bob D'Amico, will release their new full-length album on September 17th via Joyful Noise Recordings (in North America) and Domino Records (in UK / Europe).