ALINA SIMONE ANNOUNCES NEW LP & BOOK
TWO NEW SONGS AVAILABLE ONLINE
SUMMER PERFORMANCES ALSO ANNOUNCED
Alina Simone announces the June release of her highly anticipated follow up to her critically acclaimed 2009 LP 'Everyone Is Crying Out To Me, Beware' with a brand new full length of original songs entitled 'Make Your Own Danger.' Perfectly artful and edgy, 'Make Your Own Danger' features the Ukrainian-born songstress at the forefront with voice and guitar backed a fantastic cast of musicians and exotic touches that include flute, autoharp, horns, Brazilian drumming and vocal loops. Steve Revitte (Beastie Boys, Black Dice, Liars) produced the album and two of the new songs are currently available online: album opener
"Beautiful Machine" can be heard on Alina's site here .
Head over to MTVHive.com to get a listen to another cool new song, "Glitterati," which features "a heavy dose of the auto-harp and cello to darken this song up proper."
'Make Your Own Danger' will be released next month as will the multi-talented Alina's new book "You Must Go And Win." After the Editor in Chief at esteemed publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux discovered her music on Pandora, he asked Alina to try her hand at penning a book. The results are Alina's very funny and on-point collection of must-read essays based on her journeys through the ever interesting world of indie rock. Bookslut called "You Must Go and Win" "the funniest essays I've read in years" and last week CBS Miami put the book in their "Best Beach Reads" list saying it is "an addictive collection of essays from brainy, critically acclaimed Russian-American songstress Alina Simone."
Alina was recently featured in the New York Times T Style Magazine which you can find here. Catch Alina in select cities this summer where she will be performing new songs from 'Make Your Own Danger' and reading from "You Must Go And Win."
ALINA SIMONE PERFORMANCES
6/4 – New York, NY @ End of Century, Abe’s Penny launch, 7:30 (175 Rivington)
6/8 – Brooklyn, NY @ WORD, Largehearted Lit, 7:30 w John Wesley Harding
6/9 – New York, NY @ Joe’s Pub *Release Show, 7pm, w guest Amanda Palmer
6/13 – San Francisco, CA @ Make Out Room, Rumpus event, 7pm
6/15 – Portland, OR @ Record Room, 7pm *reading and performance
6/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ LA Public Library, 7pm, w/ KCRW's Eric J. Lawrence
6/20 – Boston, MA @ Brookline Booksmith, 7pm
6/21 – Portland, ME @ Space Gallery
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