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The Hold Steady To Release Heaven Is Whenever On Limited Edition Vinyl For Record Store Day 4 March 2010 in The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady To Release Heaven Is Whenever On Limited Edition Vinyl For Record Store Day
The Hold Steady will release a highly limited number of vinyl copies of their new album Heaven Is Whenever (Rough Trade / Vagrant Records) on April 17 as part of Record Store Day, complete with custom screen printed artwork. The extremely limited run of the album will only be available in independent record stores participating in Record Store Day. Heaven Is Whenever will officially be released on CD, vinyl and digitally on May 3rd.
The album was produced by Dean Baltulonis, who engineered the band’s Almost Killed Me and produced Separation Sunday. Singer Craig Finn says Heaven Is Whenever is about “embracing suffering and understanding its place in a joyful life. The lyrics speak a lot about struggle and reward.” Piano and keys take a backseat to guitar on the new record, which also gets production help from guitarist Tad Kubler.
The Hold Steady have added an appearance at Summer Fest in Milwaukee on July 1 to their touring schedule. Full list of confirmed tour dates are here.
Antony and the Johnsons talks about his new album plans on Stereogum 4 March 2010 in Antony and the Johnsons
As part of Stereogum’s Progress Report feature Antony Hegarty has spoken about his plans for his 4th album and wrapping up The Crying Light with two recent shows in Tokyo. Speaking of the Tokyo shows Antony said:
“We were invited to come to Tokyo and collaborate on an evening with Kazuo Ohno Studio. They were familiar with my work because I featured the images of Kazuo on my last two releases and had spoken so extensively in the press about his influence on me since my teens. I brought William [Basinski] and Johanna [Constantine] with me because they are so...
Rough Trade at SXSW! 3 March 2010 in news
As usual a few lucky people from Rough Trade are heading to the prestigious SXSW Texan music festival. This year we’re hosting a showcase on Wednesday March 17th of March at Emo’s JR (the inside room separate from the main outdoor venue).
Listen to all the bands that are playing on this widget, it’s embeddable so feel free to put it on your blog or website:
The first 200 people who attend will receive a RT gift bag with a fanzine and cassette tape. The fanzine has contributions from our showcasing bands. The A-Side of the cassette has songs from the widget. The B-side has a song chosen by each of our showcasing bands from our catalogue. For example, Warpaint have chosen Little Joy’s The Next Time Around for the B-side.
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Listen to the new Morning Benders album 'Big Echo' 2 March 2010 in The Morning Benders
The Morning Benders have a new album called BIG ECHO coming out next week on March 9th in the US.
For the next week leading up to the release we will be streaming BIG ECHO in its entirety on the widget below:
The band have put a lot of love into this album and we’d love for you to listen to it as it was intended to be heard, as an album, from start to finish. You’ll notice that the music player on our site can be shared and embedded, so please feel free to share it with your friends, put it on your blog, etc.
BIG ECHO is available March 9 on Vinyl, CD, and digitally. You can pre-order the album now through Insound (with an exclusive free 7” of non-album track “Go Grab A Stranger”), Amazon, or directly from the Beggars site. You will be able to download the album instantaneously from Itunes on March 9 (with a non-album bonus track called “Oh, Annie”).
Introducing WILDER 1 March 2010 in Wilder
WILDER are Bec (drums), Joe (bass), Jay (synths) and Sam (vox and guitar), named after 40s film noir legend Billy Wilder.
Think Friendly Fires, The Whip, The Rapture and The Gossip and add the digital squirm of Boy 8 Bit, some Talking Heads, some of Neu’s Kraut-groove, Captain Beefheart, the Velvets and some of that foxy art-school thing Roxy Music do and you get the idea. There’s even some Little Richard in there. At least that’s what people tell us.
They’ve toured with The Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas and played with the Maccabees and I Blame Coco. And that’s their story so far…
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To Succeed In Music... Posted by on 30 September 2009 in blog
When Rough Trade garage rock fave The Strange Boys came over here last month for their blistering UK tour, we of course hung out with the boys.
It’s interesting talking to a band about influences and all that into the night,
and as we did they got me into the late great fellow Texan…Townes Van Zandt.
Check out the TVZ documentary Be Here To Love Me to see why some people said that he was the greatest songwriter in the world here is a clip where Townes explains what a musician should do if he wants to suceed: