LA STRADA EXCLUSIVE ON HEY BROOKLYN!

Daniel and James are two of the members of La Strada, a band that had a hard time describing their sound as strictly “indie” although that’s probably the closet definition that fits. They say they are “an energetic rock/pop with strings, accordion, guitars, drums, whistles, circus animals, puppeteers, loud voices, etc.” That fits, too.

You can catch them at the Bell House in Brooklyn on May 29, and heads up to local musicians: they are looking for a second violinist “that can shred” to join them.

Highlights of Hey Brooklyn! interview and performance include hearing about their unusual writing process, and the story of how they found Faten Kanaan, the artist that painted their album artwork. It is a totally New York City tale that takes place the most unique of New York City spaces: the subway.

Their self titled EP is available now, as well as their new full-length album New Home.

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LA STRADA "WASH ON BY" VIDEO PREMIERE !

To celebrate their hugely successful Record Release Tour of the East Coast and Canada in support of their heralded debut lp 'NEW HOME,' Brooklyn's LA STRADA are premiering the first video for standout track "WASH ON BY."  Directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Becker, we find the six exhuberant young gents in a David Lynch-ian world of a long-forgotten resort haunted by a shovel carrying lady and an empty drive-in where an on-screen femme fatale is seen and then flickers out leaving everyone wondering whether her influence was real or imagined. La Strada shot the video in 8 different locations, all an hour or two north of New York City, over the course of two days – with a bare-bones crew of 6.

Be sure to take note of La Strada's upcoming shows and visit Ernest Jenning Record Co for more on the best band in Brooklyn!

La Strada on Tour:
5/29 - Brooklyn, NY @ Bell House
6/12 - Montreal, QC @ The Green Room
6/15 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
6/16 - Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah
6/18 - Toronto, ON @ Drake Hotel, NXNE Showcase
6/20 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
6/21 - Williamsport, PA @ Bullfrog Brewery


““Wash On By”, off the new record, is sure to rock your summer socks off” - Homo-neurotic.com

“We already can't wait for them to come back!” - HaveFaithInWorthlessKnowledge.com

“This one comes highly recommended” - Montpelier Times Argus

"It's a polished run of sentiment that sounds as if it's over the moon, sweeping milk-ily across the roaming heavens with heaves and hums of sparkling trails of kisses." - Daytrotter.com

“You've just got to listen to the infectious "Wash on By," the textured with sunlight (and horns) "My New Home," the kaleidoscopic "Starling" and the could-have-been-on-the-"Juno"-soundtrack "Loved You All Along."” - Portland Press Herald

“Imagine Jeff Mangum leading a bombastic version of the Bowerbirds or Andrew Bird fronting The Arcade Fire and you'll land in the neighborhood of La Strada. Whether framing autumnal tales with woozy accordion and delicate string swoops or using violin and cello to push spirited rock songs until they explode into gang vocals” - Indy Week

LA STRADA STREAM NEW LP, GIVEAWAY SONG, ANNOUNCE TOUR!

'New Home' Album Stream at Spinner.com


"My New Home" Single for Free Download

Available today at Ernest Jenning Record Co.

Brooklyn six piece LA STRADA release their awesome debut full length 'New Home' today and kick off an East Coast Record Release Tour! The Kyle "Slick" Johnson (Cymbals Eat Guitars, Rogue Wave) produced 'New Home' follows up La Strada's outstanding self-titled EP, injecting their old world/new world sound with the passion, energy and fun of their heralded live shows. Album single "Wash On By" is available for free download and a companion video for the song will be released next week. The first album single "My New Home" is available for free download at Magnet, where you can also vote for 'New Home' for most-anticipated release! La Strada also recorded an exclusive Breakthru Radio session which you check out HERE

After touring their way to and from SXSW where they blazed through Austin with a string of rousing shows, the gents of La Strada will be hitting stages all spring in support of 'New Home' starting tonight in DC!

LA STRADA RECORD RELEASE TOUR!
4/20 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
4/21 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
4/23 – New Orleans, LA @ Café Prytania
4/25 – Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone
4/26 – Williamsport, PA @ Bullfrog Brewery
4/27 – Charlottesville, VA @ Twisted Branch
4/28 – Norfolk, VA @ 37th & Zen
4/29 – New Haven, CT @ Rudy’s *Vinyl Release Show
4/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory *Record Release Show w/Cuff the Duke
5/1 – Portland, ME @ Space Gallery
5/5 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
5/6 – Montpelier, VT @ The Black Door
5/7 – Winooski, VT @ The Monkey House
5/8 - Wakefield, QC @ Black Sheep Inn
5/10 - Montreal, QC @ Green Room
6/15 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern

"A modern-day roving gypsy band" - Magnet

“foot-stomping live shows” – New York Post

“orchestral pop at its finest” – Album of the Week, QRO Mag

“Their live shows, featuring all six musicians, drive and swell with enthusiasm. They command attention with thick harmonies; the spectacle of five singers lost in the melody is not to be underestimated.” – The Yale Herald

MP3 At 3PM: La Strada at Magnet Mag !

Head over to Magnet Magazine to grab the La Strada album download debut single "My New Home" from their forthcoming 'New Home' LP!

Upcoming shows:

3/14 – Carrboro, NC @ The Station
3/16 – New Orleans, LA @ Café Prytania
3/17 – Austin, TX @ WAVE, Ernest Jenning SXSW Showcase, 11pm
3/18 – Austin, TX @ Spider House, *BrooklynVegan Day Party, 12noon
3/18 – Austin, TX @ Dominican Joe, *Supply & Demand show, 5pm
3/19 – Austin, TX @ 89 Rainey, 12:45pm
3/20 – Austin, TX @ HomeSlice, La Strada are the house band, 12:30, 1:15 and 2pm
3/21 – New Orleans, LA @ Café Prytania
3/23 – Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charles
4/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory *Record Release Show w/Cuff the Duke
5/1 – Portland, ME @ Space Gallery
5/5 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
5/6 – Montpelier, VT @ The Black Door

Right On! PR at SXSW

Can't wait to see everyone back here in Austin! Give me a shout, see you at the shows!

BRASSTRONAUT
Thurs March 18 - Sled Island Party at The Compound , 12:50pm (1300 E 4th St)
Thurs March 18 - The Hyatt Regency Bar - 7pm
Fri March 19 - Sheraton Austin Lobby, 7pm
Sat March 20 - Pop Montreal Showcase, Club Paradise, 8pm (401 East 6th at Trinity)

LA STRADA
Wed March 17 - Wave, Ernest Jenning Showcase, 11pm (408 East 6th Street)
Thurs March 18 - Spider House, 12noon *BrooklynVegan Day Party (500 West 29th Street)
Thurs March 18 - Dominican Joe, 5pm *Supply & Demand show (515 S. Congress @ Riverside)
Fri March 19 - 89 Rainey, 12:45
Sat March 20 - HomeSlice, La Strada are the house band, playing sets at 12:30, 1:15 and 2pm

OLA PODRIDA
Wed March 17 – The Ghost Room *No Words/Daybowwow Party, 12:30pm
Thurs March 18 – The Side Bar *Nail Distro Party, 1:30pm
Fri March 19 – Waterloo Records Instore, 4pm
Sat March 20 – St Davids Bethal Hall, *Western Vinyl Showcase, midnight (301 E 8th St)

THE COAST
Wed March 17 – Lamberts, 11pm

ALINA SIMONE
Wed March 17 - Ale House, 11 pm
Sat March 20 - BookPeople / LargeHeartedBoy Showcase

DIGNAN
Tues March 16 - Pure Volume House time TBD
Wed March 17 - Rumbler Lounge @ Peckerheads, 402 E. 6th Street, 1:30
Wed March 17 - Official Showcase Habana Calle 6, 709 East 6th Street, 9pm
Sat March 20 Stem and Leaf SXSW Birthday Party Rainey Manor 90 IH-35 South (behind Lustre Pearl) 5:50 PM

WALLPAPER
Thurs March 18 – Beauty Bar *Bay Area Takeover, 5pm
Thurs March 18 – Vice-Lose Control, 8pm
Thurs March 18 – Pure Volume House, *Feed The Beat, midnight
Fri March 19 – The Music Gym, midnight
Sat March 20 – Beauty Bar *AM Only Showcase, 8pm

EUGENE MIRMAN
Tues March 16 – Host of SXSW Film Awards

TODD BARRY
Wed March 17 – Esther’s Follies, 10:40pm
Thurs March 18 – Comedy Death Ray at United States Art Authority, 9:30 (2908 Fruth St)
Fri March 19 – Esther’s Follies, 12:15am

LA STRADA DAYTROTTER SESSION NOW UP

DAYTROTTER session posted featuring new songs form La Strada's forthcoming lp 'New Home'

It's the sound of young Brooklyn group LA STRADA, a five-piece that utilizes accordions and strings in big, big, big arrangements and couples them with the kinds of winning lyrics that lead music journalists into calling such bands a bunch of learned gents with a bent on literate indie rock and roll

Right On! PR February News

Upcoming Releases We Heart

Austin/Houston band HOLY FICTION, featuring former members of Pilot Drift, Hemyah and Winter Wallace, will be releasing their first full length entitled 'Hours From It'on Feb 23. As angular as it is rounded, lingering as it is succinct, effortless as it is strenuous, 'Hours From It' is overall a beautiful listen. Record Release show hits Warehouse Live in Houston Feb 20.

With the strength of their 'Old World Lies' EP propelling them forward, BRASSTRONAUT are set with their debut lp 'Mt Chimaera'to be released on Unfamiliar Records, also home to Japandroids. Check the tour page for US dates to catch the Canadian "Thelonius Monk and Radiohead” (WeLoveThat)

Way stoked to announce... Alumni of Red Red Meat and early Califone, Tim Hurley and Danni Iosello are back with the long-awaited SIN ROPAS lp,'Holy Broken,' their first release in five years! Recorded in the basement of their mountaintop log cabin, the couple offer their most lucid and evocative record yet. A US tour is tba around the Spring release on Shrug Records.

Inspired by a year of extensive tours and shows, and with the use of accordian, guitar, violin, bass, voice, drums, raw emotion and the guidance of producer Kyle "Slick" Johnson (Cymbals Eat Guitars, Modest Mouse), NYC superstars LA STRADA debut their 'New Home' LP this April. Catch their full force Daytrotter session Feb 7 and awesome live show Feb 12 @ Bell House Brooklyn.

UK sensation GLENN WOOL hits the US with his comedy album 'Let Your Hands Go' and a record release show at Hollywood Improv on Feb 16. The lethally funny Wool is currently performing throughout his native Canada on the Snowed In Tour.

If you have not yet subscribed to MARC MARON'S WTF podcast, you are missing out. Marc's insightful and hilarious exploration of the most philosophical question of our day, "WTF?", was named as the #3 iTunes podcast of 2009. For those in LA, you can be part of the live taping every month at UCB.

And with final edits being done on Season 2 of Delocated, the incredibly talented JON GLASER will be free from the editing room to do things like hang with pal PAUL RUDD. Join Jon and Paul "Bro'In Out" with Leo & Tony and more this Thurs February 4, 9PM @ 92YTribeca Mainstage, 200 Hudson Street NYC.

More awesome shows !!

REGGIE WATTS
2/11-2/14 – Boston, MA @ Disinformation in Boston
2/26 & 27 – Chicago, IL @ Lakeshore Theater
3/4-3/7 – Syracuse, NY @ Radio Play at Redhouse

EUGENE MIRMAN
2/3 – Los Angeles, CA @ Improv LA, 8pm – Eugene Mirman & Pretty Good Friends

GLENN WOOL
2/6 – Vancouver, BC @ Edgewater Casino, The Snowed in Comedy Tour
2/16 – LA, CA @ Improv *Record Release Show

MARC MARON
2/19 – LA, CA @ UCB, live WTF taping
3/4-6 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Palms
3/19 – LA, CA @ UCB, live WTF taping
3/25-27 – Bloomington, IN @ Funnybone
5/27-29 – Toronto, ON @ Yuks Yuks

TODD BARRY
2/5 & 2/6 – Arlington, VA @ Drafthouse Comedy Theater

2/14 - Valiumtime's Day @ Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn
with John Roberts, Adira Amram, Reggie Watts and Heloise Williams (of Heloise & The Savoir Faire)


X O X O

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