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LA STRADA ANNOUNCE LP RELEASE, SHOWS, DAYTROTTER SESSION
New York City five piece LA STRADA - James Craft, Devon Press, Ted Lattis, Brady Miller, and Daniel Baer - are proud to announce the release of their anxiously-awaited full length debut 'New Home,' available this April on Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Recorded at Miner Street Studios in Philadelphia and The Buddy Project in Queens, and produced by Kyle "Slick" Johnson (Cymbals Eat Guitars, Modest Mouse, Fischerspooner), 'New Home' is a 13-track album inspired by everything from African pop to French pop, folk tunes to indie rock, Brooklyn life to travels abroad. La Strada's expansive pop channels lyrical wanderlust and raw emotion with voices, strings, accordian, guitars, horns and drums. As heard on 'New Home,' La Strada is one of the most exciting and unique-sounding outfits making music today.
Formed in early 2007, La Strada quickly made a name for itself with raucous, foot-stomping shows. Having built a solid fanbase in NY while sharing stages with Takka Takka, Sharon Van Etten, O'Death, Stars Like Fleas, and Clare and the Reasons, and having toured North America with the likes of Bowerbirds and Canada's Hey Rosetta! and Cuff the Duke, La Strada has lit up stages with their spectrum of musical color. A record release show in NYC will hit around the April 20 release date of 'New Home.' In the meantime, you can catch La Strada at the dates below, including SXSW, and in a brand new Daytrotter session posting February 7!
2/6 - New Haven, CT @ Rudys
2/12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Bell House w/Watson Twins
3/17 - Austin, TX @ Ernest Jenning SXSW Showcase
"One of the most promising bands in the city" - The L Magazine
"The best of the New York indie scene: interesting music made by talented people who have a point of view and a love for what they do." -The Huffington Post
'NEW HOME'
April 20, 2010 release date
Ernest Jenning Record Co
1. Go Forward
2. Julia
3. The Traveler
4. Wash On By
5. Baptism
6. My New Home
7. Where You Want To Go
8. There's Only Love
9. The Mountain Song
10. The Wedding Song
11. Shapes In The Sky
12. Mean That Much
13. Old Hill
BRASSTRONAUT ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF DEBUT LP 'MOUNT CHIMAERA' on UNFAMILIAR RECORDS
Debut full-length album Mt. Chimaera from Brasstronaut set for U.S. release March 23, 2010 on Unfamiliar Records (Japandroids, No Gold, Makeout Videotape)
Mt. Chimaera, the debut album of Vancouver band Brasstronaut can be envisioned as the mythological beast of its title. This record skillfully unifies genres as various as pop, electronica, klezmer, and jazz, just as the chimaera is composed of parts from a lion, goat and serpent. And they both breathe fire.
Recorded at The Banff Centre, in the Rocky Mountains, and mixed/produced in home studios in Vancouver, Oberlin, Ohio, and New York, Mt. Chimaera is the first full-length release by Brasstronaut's definitive six-piece line-up. Fronted by vocalist and keyboardist Edo Van Breemen, this roster is fluent in trumpet, lap steel, flugelhorn, and the seldom-heard EWI (a breath-controlled synthesizer). But don't be mistaken, Mt. Chimaera is a pop album, just one brewed with the most astonishing ingredients. This delicate balance is attained with the kind of grace that make Grizzly Bear and Radiohead at once avant garde and universal.
Album opener "Slow Knots" is the perfect summary of Brasstronaut's boundary-crossing vision. Horns tempt the melody toward total chaos but are restrained by an upbeat, finely-honed pop rhythm. Meanwhile, Van Breemen self-deprecates: "Do you really think that I betrayed you?/Honey don't you know that I'm too dumb for that?" Likewise, single "Lo-Hi Hopes" changes tempos and switches movements, while still possessing all the pace and hook of a Spoon anthem.
Elsewhere, "Six Toes" has a bounding sea-shanty rhythm and playful keyboard melody reminiscent of fellow Canadians Sunset Rubdown, but Van Breemen's lyrics keep the song out of that group's lofty fantasies and firmly planted in the real world: "We met in Crab Park, on that cold, and that snowy, December day." The orchestral sweep of closer "Insects," and the swelling horns of "Hearts Trompet" reflect the grand ambitions of this Vancouver band. Coming off an acclaimed spot at the 2009 Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavik, Brasstronaut is preparing for a North American tour in support of Mt. Chimaera. This includes the much-anticipated appearance at South By Southwest. Altogether, 2010 promises big things for Brasstronaut. Now is the time to get a hold of this new and startling beast.
Check tour dates and stream brand new album track "Slow Knots" here
THE SNOWED IN COMEDY TOUR !
What happens when 4 top international headlining comedians join forces to go snowboarding during the day and do comedy shows at night? THE SNOWED IN COMEDY TOUR! Kicking off with a sold out show in Whistler, the very funny GLENN WOOL, CRAIG CAMPBELL, DAN QUINN AND ED BYRNE will be performing shows at some of the best venues western Canada has to offer through February 6. They also hope for much pow-pow along the way.
Jan 12th Whistler, BC
Jan 14, Penticton, Bc
Jan 15 Kamloops, BC
Jan 16 Prince George, BC
Jan 18, Banff, Ab
Jan 19 Invermere, BC
Jan 22 Grande Prairie
Jan 23 Red Deer
Jan 28 Nelson, BC
Jan 29 Kelowna, BC
Jan 30 Vernon, BC
Feb 6, Vancouver, BC
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