Seriously. Here’s some video of his performance from Thursday at M Bar. He did the new chapters (13-22) and will continue doing it live with upcoming performances in NYC at the People’s Improve Theater (PIT) from Oct 12-14.
This is the finale: Chapter 22 (spoiler alert!) How the heck does he remember this stuff???
Just wanted to let everyone know that Libby Lavella will be performing live with her amazing band on October 4th at Tangier. Following her performance of songs from her upcoming album, Sometime In Morning will be Jonny Rodgers from New Haven, CT’s Mighty Purple. Jonny will be playing material from his solo albums, as well as some classic tunes that I’ll be requesting as I’ve known Jonny for 10 years and can attest that Libby and Jon will be two of the most talented vocalists/musicians playing in Los Angeles this Thursday.
Canada’s original troubadour, Bob Wiseman (of Blue Rodeo, Hidden Cameras fame) is currently touring the European continent with none other than fellow Canadian, Fiest! After his stint with Feist ends, Bob will continue to travel the foreign soils on his own, in search of supreme enlightenment and concession stand profits!
Bob Wiseman Tour Dates:
September 2007
Berlin - Sunday 30th @ Admiral’s palast with FEIST
Bristol - Friday 28th @ Trinity Arts Centre with FEIST
Glasgow - Wednesday 26th @ Oran Mor with FEIST
Dublin - Tuesday 25th @ Tripod with FEIST
London - Monday 24th @ Shepards Bush Empire> with FEIST
Nottingham - Sunday 23rd @ Social with FEIST
Amsterdam - Saturday 21st @ milkweg with FEIST
Windsor - Saturday 1st @ the phog lounge solo
October 2007
Copenhagen - Monday 1st @ Vega with FEIST
Stokholm - Tuesday 2nd @ Cirkus with FEIST
Hamburg - Thursday 4th @ CCH Saal 2 with FEIST
Cologne - Friday 5th @ E-Werk with FEIST
Munich - Saturday 6th @ Georg-Elser Halle with FEIST
Bari - Monday 8th @ tba solo
Barletta - Tuesday 9th @ tba solo
Cosenza - Wednesday 10th @ tba solo
Frosinone - Thursday 11th @ cantina mediterraneo solo
Arezzo - Friday 12th @ tba solo
Udine - Saturday 13th @ zoo solo
Ferrara - Sunday 14th @ zuni solo
Bologna - Monday 15th @ tba solo
Geneva - Tuesday 16th @ Grand Casino with FEIST
Vienna - Thursday 18th @ sesto senso solo
Innsbruck - Friday 19th @ tba solo
If you head on over to Amplifier Magazine and click on their Amp3 player, you’re going to find that Motion Turns It On are featured on the Select Playlist with their song, “Rima” off the EP Rima. This is quite an accomplishment for the band. That’s not all, though! MTIO will also be taking over Pseudosix’s position as Amplifier’s Amplified feature artist in just a few days, so keep posted. They’ll be featuring downloads, photos, a CD review and feature story on the band.
Fred Mills / Harp Magazine
September 5, 2007
With her new studio album The Surface and the Shine set to drop in October, Shalini (a/k/a Shalini Chatteree) will also be doing a string of concert dates with her band. The record will be released by Electric Devil/125 Records, which also brought us the recent Dynamico by Mitch Easter—who, not so coincidentally, is also Shalini’s husband, producer and bandmember.
Shalini’s last album, 2004’s Metal Corner, notched solid critical commentary, ranging from “a power-pop platter deluxe” (HARP) to “hooks bigger than the Strokes’ egos” (Aversion) to “a coy yet impressively sweet vocalist, a mix of the deadpan and the Spectoresque girlie” (Mojo). Meanwhile, in the upcoming issue of HARP we single out TSATS’s “winsome femme vocals and soaring harmonies to the mélange of brash, crashing chords to the pulse-quickening rhythmic surges and luminous keyboard flourishes,” and you know we wouldn’t steer you wrong.
Shalini’s been around since the early ‘90s when she fronted San Francisco’s Vinyl Devotion. After meeting Easter, who was producing a record for the band, she eventually moved to North Carolina and married the legendary producer/Let’s Active alumnus, and the two have been recording and touring together ever since. On the new album, in addition to her hubby she’s joined by Eric Marshall (Let’s Active), Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush) and Jane Francis (Velvet), but it’s still her show all the way.
I’m really pleased to announce that MoRisen Records has joined the 1-Up PR roster. With them comes Charlotte, NC’s The Houstons, which I’m very excited about. They have a new album coming out on MoRisen Records called Still and it’s absolutely beautiful. I’ll also be keeping you abreast of MoRisen news, like their CMJ showcases and when their bands go on tour, like The Sammies, Elevator Action and The Alternative Champs.
Welcome to the brand new site design for 1-Up PR. I used to have a hand-made HTML site, which was fine and dandy, but I was getting sick of hand coding every single update… so, now I’ve transitioned it over to a WordPress site. I used to not like WordPress pages posing as actual websites, but I’m totally over it. It’s so easy to add a new page when I bring on a new client or post a news item if I have something good to report, so why not embrace the technology, right?
I’ll be adding new information on an almost daily basis, including any press for my roster. Speaking of my roster… see the next post.
