To some, it felt like a week ago, others 10 years, but either way, The CMJ Marathon comes back to New York this week, and the Solid PR roster is representing hard! We're wasting no time either, as the fun begins TONIGHT when The World/Inferno Friendship Society hold hostage the Syndicate Party @ REBEL (251 W. 30th Btwn 7th and 8th). Oh yes.
Solid PR @ CMJ!
TONIGHT! Monday, October 15th
THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY
11pm @ Rebel (251 W. 30th Btwn 7th and 8th)
w/ We Are Scientists and DJ's Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, Freddy Cricien of Madball w/ special appearances from members of Coheed and Cambria and Dethklok!
The World/Inferno Friendship Society are supporting their critically acclaimed new album "Addicted to Bad Ideas" (Chunksaah) and an upcoming US tour w/ Against Me! Tonight will prove to be a very special, and unforgettable one-off engagement. We never really know what to expect ;)
Tuesday, October 16th
TEAM ROBESPIERRE
11pm @ The Silent Barn (915 Wycoff, Brooklyn)
w/ Dan Deacon, DD/MM/YY, Juiceboxxx, and The Deathset
Team Robespierre flips the f*ck out, and so do their fans. Prepare yourself as the band celebrates the upcoming, debut full-length for IMPOSE Records. Bring your helmets!
Wednesday, October 17th
MOON & MOON / THE BLACK SWANS / LEWIS & CLARKE / STRAND OF OAKS / DRAGON TURTLE
(La Société Expéditionnaire Showcase)
8pm @ Union Pool in Brooklyn (484 Union Ave)
This will unquestionably be a night to remember, and the most creative event of the entire CMJ Marathon. Friends will be present, and minds will be blown. Click here to learn more.
EYEBALL RECORDS SHOWCASE
9pm @ Fontana's in NYC (105 Eldridge)
w/ The Stiletto Formal, New Atlantic, Search/Rescue (members of Gatsby's American Dream and Acceptance), and The Casting Out (ex-Boy Sets Fire)
Get to Fontana's to see the newest members of the Eyeball roster and say you were among the first to witness the sickest and most fun new bands around. New Atlantic blow the roof off as they celebrate their new album "The Streets, The Sounds, And The Love" - one of the fastest selling records in the label's history - and upcoming tour w/ The Spill Canvas, and The Casting Out (ex Boy Sets Fire) and Search/Rescue demonstrate their slick new tunes for a stoked NYC crowd.
FATAL FLYING GUILLOTEENS
3pm @ Sound Fix Records w/ The Big Sleep
Fatal Flying Guilloteens killed it @ Les Savy Fav's Record Release show in Brooklyn last month, and now prepare to unleash their new album, "Quantum Fucking," out tomorrow on French Kiss Records. This could be the greatest thing to happen to a lunch break possibly ever.
O'DEATH
3pm @ White Rabbit New York, NY (Gothamist / WOXY Party)
and 8pm @ The Slipper Room New York, NY (Orchard Party / Invite Only)
TEAM ROBESPIERRE
12:45pm @ Piano's: Brooklyn Vegan Day Party w/ Celebration, The Meat Puppets, The DeathSet
and 10pm @ The Knitting Factory: OhMyRockness vs. Oya festival showcase w/ We Are Wolves, Ida Maria, Monomen, Golden City
YAKUZA
12am Midnight @ Trash Bar in Brooklyn (256 Grand St)
Watch Yakuza destroy as they play their ONLY EAST COAST APPEARANCES all year.
Thursday, October 18th
RONEN KAUFFMAN
Speaks on the Lit Rock Panel w/ Michael Azzerad
10am @ NYU Kimmel Center, room 905/907
Talking about his acclaimed new book, "New Brunswick, NJ, Goodbye" (Hopeless / Sub City) as well as a host of other issues, Ronen Kauffman (Author, Teacher, Podcaster, Activist) will enlighten us w/ his myriad of interesting discussions and topics. Listen to Ronen's podcast, Issue Oriented, HERE!
LEWIS & CLARKE / THE BLACK SWANS / O'DEATH / MARIEE SIOUX
(Solid PR / La Société Expéditionnaire / Skyscraper Magazine Party)
8pm @ Sound Fix Records in Brooklyn
SHOOTING SPIRES
@ The Cake-Shop in New York
Cardboard Records Showcase w/ Flying, Big Bear, Gowns, and more!
FATAL FLYING GUILLOTEENS
9:30pm @ Piano's (158 Ludlow)
French Kiss Records Showcase w/ The Big Sleep and Cut Off Your Hands
YAKUZA
8pm @ Rock Star Bar in Brooklyn (349 kent ave @ south street under the williamsburg bridge)
Friday, October 19th
FATAL FLYING GUILLOTEENS
1pm @ R Bar in Brooklyn, NY w/ Islands, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Black Kids, and Other Passengers
4pm @ Galapagos in Brooklyn, NY w/ Jay Reatard, Foreign Born, A Place To Bury Strangers, Holy Hail and more
O'DEATH
3:45pm @ United States of Americana Panel
12 Midnight @ Union Pool in Brooklyn Ernest Jenning Showcase w/ Takka Takka, The Black Hollies, and more!
Yeah! New York's fastest growing label, Ernest Jenning, presents a boot stomping, frenzied evening, featuring the best and brightest on their imprint. O'Death's appalachian-punk , The Black Hollies' super-psyche rock, and Takka Takka's freak-pop round out this evening of Brooklyn's greatest up coming talent
Saturday, October 20th
JESU
6pm @ The Blender / Grammercy Theater in New York (127 E 23rd St)
w/ Torche and Fog
Prepare yourself as Justin Broadrick of Godflesh / Napalm Death / Jesu fame returns to New York in support of their pelthora of new records from this year, most recently their Lifeline EP out next week on Hydra Head. Special guests Torche and Fog join the bill to make for a truly pummeling evening.
O'DEATH
5pm @ The Yard in Brooklyn (400 Carroll St between Bond and Nevins) w/ Old Time Relijun
Announces CMJ Insanity * Team Robespierre w/ Dan Deacon, Meat Puppets, and more!
IMPOSE @ CMJ
Tuesday, Oct 16th at Silent Barn
IMPOSE CMJ Party
Oct. 16th @ Silent Barn
Brooklyn, NY
w/ Dan Deacon
The DeathSet
Team Robespierre
Juice Boxxx
DD/MM/YY
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Plays Impose, Brooklyn Vegan, and Oh My Rockness Showcases!
And the fun doesn’t stop at the IMPOSE party. Watch as Team Robespierre try to wake up the following morning in time to play the Brooklyn Vegan day show at 12:45 and then head over to the Knitting Factory for the OhMyRockness vs. Oya Festival in an American/Norwegian showdown.
TEAM ROBESPIERRE @CMJ
Tuesday, Oct. 16th @ Silent Barn: IMPOSE party w/Dan Deacon, The DeathSet, Juiceboxxx, DD/MM/YY
Wednesday, Oct 17th @ Pianos (12:45pm): Brooklyn Vegan Day Party w/ Celebration, The Meat Puppets, The DeathSet
Wednesday, Oct 17th @ The Knitting Factory: OhMyRockness vs. Oya festival showcase w/ We Are Wolves, Ida Maria, Monomen, Golden City
Watch Team Robespierre get chased by cops in Canada HERE
Stream “88th Precinct” HERE
Watch video of “Solid Gold” from the DVD called "2007: A Dance Oddessey" by Torsten Meyer featuring Lightning Bolt, Dan Deacon, Japanther, Juiceboxxx, and Best Fwends
For more information, visit:
www.imposemagazine.com
www.myspace.com/teamrobespierre
Announces CMJ Showcase and Party!
Eclectic Pennsylvania based label co-op, La Société Expéditionnaire, has announced the curating of their first ever CMJ Marathon events! Read below to learn more:
Wednesday, October 17th @ Union Pool in Brooklyn, NY
(Official La Société Showcase)
MOON & MOON
Reflections of timeless struggle, self-fulfilling prophecy and age-old triumph, with flashes of modern affectation. A fluid and evolving seven-act performance/musical theater piece, an epic tale of angst, hunger, tragedy, failure, and ultimately, hope.
Moon and Moon is built around the core structure of Will, Jay, Lou, Joe, Stephen and Jordan, and the band's debut album out in March 2008 features guest appearances by Devendra Banhart, Gibby Haynes, Eve Miller (Lewis & Clarke, Rachel's), Stephonik Youth and Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes)
Download the track Act II HERE
THE BLACK SWANS
The Black Swans make music steeped in folk, country, and blues, avoiding genre and categorization, albeit the ones known as "good" or "real-deal". The band's new album Change! is the aptly titled new album to be released by La Société Expéditionnaire, November 6th, 2007. A dozen slow burning songs dealing with the reconciliation and reconstruction of the spirit and self. As in the past, The Black Swans feature the broken broodings of songwriter/singer/guitarist Jerry DeCicca, and the classical, Appalachian swoop of Noel Sayre’s violin. The artwork was provided by members Arc, a community developmental art workshop. To fund the finishing touches, DeCicca supplemented his Abe Lincoln balloon-animal children's party gig (aka Doctor Silverfoot) and took a job for 3 months as an afternoon DJ at a strip club.
Download the track Shake HERE
LEWIS & CLARKE
(solo set)
Just off a US tour w/ Brighton sensation Bat For Lashes, Lewis & Clarke is a slow-burning ember that has been gently blowing minds for some time now. It is the nom de plur of Lou Rogai and current collaborators Eve Miller and Russell Higbee (also of contemporary groups Rachel's and Man Man, respectively). The moniker has been described as metaphor for journey on many levels, including musical, spiritual, and physical. The name is also a reference to the fellowship and correspondence between C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke. Rogai is credited as a composer/musician/songwriter as well as founder of La Société Expéditionnaire, an artist-based cooperative record label dedicated to exposing the wild and/or fragile music of colleagues. Rogai also regularly collaborates with Strand of Oaks and Moon & Moon.
Download the track Before it Breaks You HERE
STRAND OF OAKS
A Hoosier transplanted to the coal highlands of Northeast Pennsylvania, Timothy Showalter has nested in fertile musical soil. Taking cues from luminaries such as Nebraska-Era Bruce Springsteen and a burgeoning Neil Young, Showalter extends a musical gesture and searches to find modesty in the midst of confusion, addressing insecurities and settling existential debt with a simple and beautiful delivery. The personification of a midwestern Grandfather's advice, his songs smack with hard truth and poignant severity, and are at times raw and uncomfortable.
Listen to their UK radio broadcast HERE
DRAGON TURTLE
Ambient winter calypso space-folk from PA / Brooklyn
Watch the video for Light the Lamps HERE
also!
Thursday, October 18th @ Sound Fix Records in Brooklyn
The La-Soc / Skyscraper / Solid PR Party
featuring
LEWIS & CLARKE * THE BLACK SWANS * O'DEATH * MARIEE SIOUX
For more information, visit:
www.la-soc.com
Announce New 7" featuring Pixies Tribute * CMJ Appearances * European Tour!
Photo by Jacob Blickenstaff
"The New York band O'Death draws from the bluntness and spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the menace of punk and the rowdy theatrically of Tom Waits, jumbling sacred and profane." - The New York Times
"Vocalist Greg Jamie, who howls like Neil Young and hollers like Tom Waits, exudes an odd dignity and a restless intensity, and the band never lets up, from the hillbilly stomp of "Allie Mae Reynolds" to the banjos and brass of "Busted Old Church" to the high lonesome thunder of "Only Daughter." - Spin
"If they had punk during the American Civil War, this is what the youth of the Confederate Army would be listening to" - NME
Watch O'DEATH on VICE TV!
In celebration of O'DEATH's upcoming CMJ appearances (See dates below), the band has announced a new 7" out October 30th digitally (November 6th physically) on Ernest Jenning!
Side A - Low Tide
Side B - I Think I'm Fine
(* digital version includes Pixies' cover "Nimrod's Son" - 7" version includes freee download passcode for this song)
Five guys, maybe three shirts between them, take to the stage. There’s a banjo, a fiddle, a drum set littered with gas cans, chains, and broken cymbals. Then they all start howling, stomping; it’s an anachronistic jug band party in a junkyard with sing-along hooks and weathered vocals from another time. Their fans, an ever-expanding congregation, sing along and follow the band with an almost religious fervor, and as vocalist Greg Jamie’s eyes roll back into his head there’s a sense that something almost sinisterly spiritual has overtaken everyone in the room. This is the world of O’Death.
Originally formed in 2003 while the members attended SUNY Purchase, the band – with Jamie on guitar and vocals, Gabe Darling on banjo, David Rogers-Berry on drums, Jesse Newman on bass, and Bob Pycior on fiddle – self-released their first album in 2004. They quickly took to the task of stirring up a wholly original scene of NY musicians with their reverently twisted take on Americana filtered through a wealth of musical influences as divergent as Bill Monroe, Dock Boggs, Neil Young, The Microphones, and The Misfits via a series of shows at the now defunct Apocalypse Lounge
As they gathered the songs for their second LP, Head Home, the band perfected their mesmerizing and riotous stage presence and took to turning their share of heads across the country, playing over 100 shows in 2006, and gracing the stage alongside acts including Battles, Dr. Dog, Art Brut, Les Savy Fav, Man Man, and Deerhunter.
With the re-release of Head Home (out now on Ernest Jenning Record Co.), the critically acclaimed NY act has created a perfect companion to their spellbinding live show. Part southern gothic spiritual, part moonshine fueled hoedown, these recordings, now presented with new mixes done by the band and Billy Pavone are a timeless addition to the canon of weird old America.
O’Death will be heading out this summer and fall to promote the record in the US and Europe (with City Slang handling the European release). It’s an infectious sound coming your way; unique and wonderfully raw, but with the ability to drop the jaws of even the most jaded music fanatic and leave them testifying to it’s unique power.
"The live O'Death show is where it's at." - Pitchforkmedia.com
O'Death Live!
CMJ!
Wed Oct 17 2007 3pm @ White Rabbit New York, NY (Gothamist / WOXY Party)
Wed Oct 17 2007 8pm @ The Slipper Room New York, NY (Orchard Party / Invite Only)
Thu Oct 18 2007 8pm @ Sound Fix Cafe Brooklyn, NY w/ The Black Swans and Lewis & Clarke (presented by Skyscraper Magazine, La Société Expéditionnaire, and Solid PR)
Fri Oct 19 2007 3:45pm @ United States of Americana Panel
Fri Oct 19 2007 12 midnight @ Union Pool Brooklyn, NY w/ Takka Takka, The Black Hollies, and more! (Official Ernest Jenning Record Co. CMJ Showcase)
Sat Oct 20 2007 5pm @ The Yard Brooklyn, NY w/ Old Time Relijun, White Magic, and more!
European Tour!
Oct 25 2007 Crane Lane Theatre Cork
Oct 26 2007 Whelans Dublin
Oct 27 2007 De Barras Cork
Oct 29 2007 The Yorkshire House Lancaster
Oct 30 2007 The Admiral Glasgow
Oct 31 2007 Head of Steam New Castle
Nov 1 2007 The Luminarie London
Nov 3 2007 Epic Norwich
Nov 4 2007 Cactus Brugge
Nov 5 2007 Bitterzoet Amsterdam
Nov 7 2007 Tsunami Cologne
Nov 8 2007 Westwerk Hamburg
Nov 9 2007 Debasser Malmö
Nov 10 2007 Sticky Fingers Gothenburg
Nov 11 2007 Debasser Stockholm
Nov 12 2007 Garage Oslo
Nov 14 2007 MUZ Club Nürnberg
Nov 15 2007 Westgermany Berlin
Nov 16 2007 Besser Leben Leipzig
Nov 17 2007 Orangehouse München
Nov 19 2007 Clandestino Faenza
Nov 20 2007 Nero Su Bianco Cesena
Nov 22 2007 Velvet Underground Castiglion Fiorentina
Nov 23 2007 Circolo Arci Dude Soliera
Nov 24 2007 Bloom Mezzago (Milano)
Nov 26 2007 La Fleche D’or Paris
* click here to check out the new Ernest Jenning site, offering "All The World" for download!
"Head Home" Tracklist
1. Down to Rest
2. Adelita
3. Allie Mae Reynolds
4. The Crab Apple Switch
5. O Lee O
6. Busted Old Church
7. Travelin Man
8. Face Mask
9. Only Daughter
10. Ground Stump
11. Rickey Fence Teeth
12. All The World
13. Jesus Look Down
14. Nathaniel
15. Gas Can Row
Click to watch the video for "Down To Rest!"
For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/odeath
www.ernestjenning.com
