Mike Doughty’s new album, Golden Delicious, is in stores today!
“27 Jennifers” Streaming Audio:
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Mike Doughty’s Band Confirms Tour
Supporting New Album Golden Delicious
“27 Jennifers” Single Top 10 at AAA Radio
Bonus Busking EP Available at CIMS Stores
Doughty’s “Virtual Tour” & DJ Side Project
Mike Doughty’s Band will embark on a six-week North American headlining tour in March, supporting Doughty’s new album Golden Delicious. Kicking off March 12 in Northampton, Mass., the tour continues across the United States and Canada before wrapping in late April. Led by Doughty on vocals and guitars, the band also includes John Kirby (Black Eyed Peas) on keyboards, Pete McNeal (Cake, Jem, Gary Jules) on drums and Andrew “Scrap” Livingston on bass. See reverse for a complete list of dates.
Golden Delicious is released by ATO Records today, February 19. The first single from the album, “27 Jennifers,” is currently in the top 10 at AAA radio, according to MediaBase. In early reviews, Relix called it a “ripe and fruitful album,” and Paste said, “those with a taste for his off-kilter sensibility will find his latest delicious indeed.”
Copies of Golden Delicious purchased at participating Coalition of Independent Music Stores retailers will receive a free EP called Busking, featuring five tracks recorded live as Doughty played in a New York City subway station last year, with the help of producer Pat DIllett. (Doughty made $3.10 from generous passersby.) For a list of CIMS stores nationwide, see www.cimsmusic.com.
This week, coinciding with the release of Golden Delicious, video footage of exclusive Mike Doughty acoustic performances will be posted on a variety of music websites, billed as the “Virtual Tour.” Doughty and Livingston performed songs from the new album for Stereogum.com, My Old Kentucky Blog, Paste Magazine’s website, Seattlest.com and SF Station. The Virtual Tour will continue with other online outlets after the album’s release.
Doughty has also begun a DJ side project under the stage name Mikey Dough, composing electronic dance music and performing at clubs in New York and elsewhere. The next Mikey Dough show will be at the Knitting Factory in New York on February 22.
“Dubious Luxury” with DJ Mikey Dough
(Mike Doughty DJ gig)
Feb 22 New York NY The Knitting Factory (Old Office)
Mike Doughty’s Band
2008 Tour Dates
March 12 Northampton MA Pearl Street
March 13 Rochester NY German House
March 14 Montreal QC Saints Montreal
March 15 Toronto ON Mod Club Theatre
March 16 Ann Arbor MI Blind Pig
March 18 Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom
March 19 Indianapolis IN Music Mill
March 20 Chicago IL Vic Theatre
March 21 Milwaukee WI Turner Hall Tavern
March 22 Minneapolis MN First Avenue
March 23 Minneapolis MN First Avenue
March 25 Omaha NE The Slowdown
March 26 Kansas City MO Beaumont Club
March 27 St. Louis MO The Gargoyle
March 28 Nashville TN Exit/In
March 29 Atlanta GA Variety Playhouse
March 30 Asheville NC The Orange Peel
March 31 Carrboro NC Cat’s Cradle
April 2 Charlottesville VA Satellite Ballroom
April 3 Lancaster PA Chameleon Club
April 4 New York NY Highline Ballroom
April 5 Washington DC 9:30 Club
April 8 New Haven CT Toad’s Place
April 9 Somerville MA Somerville Theater
April 10 Brooklyn NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
April 11 Philadelphia PA The Fillmore at TLA
April 12 Troy NY Revolution Hall
April 13 Millvale PA Mr. Small’s
April 15 Newport KY Southgate House
April 16 Memphis TN New Daisy Theatre
April 18 Dallas TX Granada Theater
April 19 Spring TX Texas Crawfish Festival
April 20 Austin TX Antone’s
April 22 Santa Fe NM Santa Fe Brewing Company
April 23 Boulder CO Fox Theatre
April 24 Salt Lake City UT Urban Lounge
April 26 Portland OR Wonder Ballroom
April 27 Seattle WA (venue t.b.a.)
April 29 San Francisco CA The Fillmore
April 30 Los Angeles CA El Rey Theater
Official Site:
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/mikedoug
Mike’s Blog:
http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog
Purchase Golden Delicious:
http://www.amazon.com/dp
Track Listing:
1. Fort Hood
2. I Just Want The Girl In The Blue Dress To Keep On Dancing
3. Put It Down
4. More Bacon Than The Pan Can Handle
5. 27 Jennifers
6. I Wrote A Song About Your Car
7. I Got The Drop On You
8. Wednesday (Contra La Puerta)
9. Like A Luminous Girl
10. Nectarine (Part One)
11. Navigating By The Stars At Night
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WatchMojo NewsletterXL Recordings is proud to announce the release of Be Your Own Pet’s CD, Get Awkward, in stores March 18th!! Also check out Be Your Own Pet on tour with The Raveonettes (tour dates below). Check out the streams and tour dates below…
First single, “The Kelly Affair” audio streams:
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http://umrg.edgeboss.net/wmedia/umrg/577-be_your_own_pet/token/thekellyaffair/05_the_kelly_affair_1000.asx
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http://umrg.edgeboss.net/qtime/umrg/577-be_your_own_pet/token/thekellyaffair/05_the_kelly_affair_1000k.mov
“Food Fight,” teaser video:
http://umrg.edgeboss.net/qtime/umrg/_outbound/food_fight_link.mov
Get Awkward is the sophomore full-length from Nashville foursome Be Your Own Pet. Making it presented new challenges for Jonas, Jemina, Nathan, and John, and yielded some surprises. The songs remain fast and loud, totally wired and tantalizingly brief. Applying the dubious word “mature” is open for heated debate – string arrangements and soppy ballads are blessedly absent – but the music definitely reflects a sharp increase in experience.
“I was nervous, because it was our first second record,” confides guitarist Jonas Stein. Stop squirming – that syntax does make sense. “Before we recorded our first album, we’d had those songs for God knows how long, before we’d gotten attention from anyone but ourselves.” (Since 2003, to be precise.) And following that gestation period, the ditties featured on their self-titled debut and assorted EPs and singles enjoyed months of refinement on the road. “After all that, it was like, ‘Okay, time to write a new record… starting from scratch.’ It was the first time we’d ever done anything like that.”
“The first time we were recording was scary,” singer Jemina Pearl recalls of making Be Your Own Pet. The band was reluctant to tamper with proven formulae. Dead set against it, actually. “Try a slow song? No way. That’s not what we do!” This is where the aforementioned experience creeps in. “You realize, doing other things doesn’t make you less true to yourself,” she concedes. “So this time, we were trying to mix it up, have more variety, rather than just attack-attack-attack, the whole way through.”
Adds Nathan: “We knew what sounds we wanted to make with our instruments more easily, and could have more interesting parts, and more interaction.”
Consequently, now there are shifts in tempo and dynamics: the rolling backbeat of “Becky,” the abrupt time changes that punctuate “Twisted Nerve.” You also get nihilism with pepperoni and extra cheese (”Black Hole”), and a stadium chant that unravels into white noise cacophony (”The Beast Within”). “There are songs you can listen to that make your heart feel a little soft,” says Jonas, “and others that make you want to break something.” Or, in the case of “Zombie Graveyard Party,” eat some brains.
Why the change in attitude? “When you’re younger, you have this specific idea of punk,” observes Jemina – who celebrated her 20th birthday recording “Super Soaked,” shrieking about her reluctance to grow up. “If you don’t do this, or look like that, then you’re not punk.” Screw that. The Stooges featured sax improvisation. The Ramones sang love songs. There are no rules. “But sometimes you forget that, because you’re trying to fit into the mold you think you’re supposed to,” she admits. “This time, we broke out and did what came more naturally.”
Although the writing process was fundamentally the same, i.e. completely off-the-cuff, there were a few structural changes. For one, the installation of John Eatherly on drums – which was only kinda-sorta new, since he and bassist Nathan Vasquez already played together in another band. And Jemina assumed responsibility for the majority of the lyrics. It was she who picked up on the head-shaking, pill-popping, freak out groove of “The Kelly Affair” and grafted on a narrative lifted from one of her favorite movies, Russ Meyer’s decadent 1970 debacle Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Likewise, she took all-too-typical feelings of adolescent alienation and betrayal, stuck them under the broiler, and pulled out the murderous revenge fantasy “Becky.”
Working once again with producer and Redd Kross veteran Steve McDonald, the quartet savored the recording experience more on the second pass; overdubs and screaming matches were in shorter supply. “Being in the studio really magnified the songs, so you could see and hear details a lot closer,” admits John. Not that they hunched over the mixing desk like tech nerds all day; in between takes, Nathan and Jemina still made time for bike rides.
As for the title…”We called it Get Awkward for a reason,” concludes Nathan. “There has been some definite awkwardness in learning what being in a band is about.” Graduating from basement parties to touring with Arctic Monkeys, or dividing press time between homemade fanzines, Rolling Stone, and a bazillion blogs. Where the music is concerned, though, any growing pains have only served Be Your Own Pet well. That first third album can’t come fast enough.
Get Awkward Preferred Retail Link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013LL0CC/unimotrecunir-20
Be Your Own Pet Official Site:
http://www.beyourownpet.net
Be Your Own Pet Tour Dates:
2/21/2008 Hoboken NJ Maxwell’s
2/29/2008 San Diego CA The Casbah w/ The Raveonettes
3/1/2008 Pomona CA Glasshouse w/ The Raveonettes
3/2/2008 Costa Mesa CA The Detroit Bar w/ The Raveonettes
3/4/2008 Los Angeles CA El Ray Theatre w/ The Raveonettes
3/5/2008 San Francisco CA The Independent w/ The Raveonettes
3/7/2008 Portland OR Doug Fir Lounge w/ The Raveonettes
3/9/2008 Seattle WA Neumos w/ The Raveonettes
I can’t resist featuring “Flashing Lights” as this weeks Video of the Week. This clip first started popping up online a few days ago and it only seemed like a “portion” of the video that itself was cryptic and bizarre. The clip is directed by non other than Spike Jonze (West also has a co-directing credit) and stars a beautiful half naked woman, a bound and gagged Kanye and a violent bludgeoning among other things. Also, as mentioned it ends rather abruptly and about a minute before the recorded album version of the song leading many to believe there’s a missing ending. All this and I haven’t even mentioned how great the song is! A dark and dramatic song with a synth line and sample that you won’t soon be getting out of your head… Well done to both Jonze and West for crafting an intriguing and cinematic video that more than does the song justice. Check it out:
The psychedelic sound of The Black Hollies can now be heard for the next three months in Dell’s latest commercial. Originally a 7”-only track, the Dell-adored “Tell Me What You Want,” will now be available as a bonus track on their upcoming March 11th release Casting Shadows. Not only can you catch the sounds of The Black Hollies in the nationwide TV ads, but they have also announced more tour dates and leaked a second track, “Bruised Tangerines,” from the follow up to their critically-admired debut, Crimson Reflections.
The Black Hollies’ sophomore effort brings more psychadelia to a sound that Rolling Stone believed “…would bring a smile to Brian Jones’ face”. Watch the Dell ad, or listening to “Bruised Tangerines,” and you’ll likely be smiling too.
Watch Dell’s new TV ad featuring The Black Hollies’ “Tell Me What You Want”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD9dA-MY_MY
Download and Share “Bruised Tangerines” From Casting Shadows
In Hollies tour news, more dates have been added in support of their sophomore release:
02-15 Brooklyn, NY Magnetic Field - Record Release!
02-16 New York, NY Midway w/ Lyres
02-17 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s - Record Release 2!
02-22 Baltimore, MD The Talking Head
02-29 New Haven, CT Cafe Nine
03-01 Somerville, MA Abbey Lounge
03-02 Philadelphia, PA The Fire
03-03 Charlotte, NC The Tremont Music Hall
03-04 Norfolk, VA The Boot
03-05 Chattanooga, TN JJ’s Bohemia
03-06 Nashville, TN Springwater
03-07 New Orleans, LA Saturn Bar
03-08 Dallas, TX Club Dada
03-09 Houston, TX RudyardÕs
03-10 Ft. Worth, TX Lola’s
03-12- 03-16 Austin, TX SXSW
03-18 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
03-19 St. Paul, MN Turf Club
03-20 Chicago, IL TBA
03-21 Detroit, MI Lager House
03-22 Cleveland, OH TBA
04-04 Brooklyn, NY Luna Lounge w/ Steve Wynn And The Miracle 3
What the Press is saying about The Black Hollies:
“A mash up of British Invasion blues, guitar heroics and psychedelia that would bring a smile to Brian Jones’ face” - Rolling Stone
“The Black Hollies are not throw-backs; rather they’ve traced these musical pedigrees to their source, and are now fostering a natural evolution of those soulful sounds - what should have happened - had the 80’s not.” - The Deli Magazine
“The best band currently making the rounds in NYC” – The L
‘Casting Shadows’ Track List:
01 Whispers Beneath The Willows
02 Paisley Pattern Ground
03 Under A Winter’s Spell
04 The Autumn Chateau
05 Hamilton Park Ballerina
06 Bruised Tangerines
07 That Little Girl
08 If You Won’t Let Go
09 Running Through My Mind
10 Patient Sparrow
www.myspace.com/theblackhollies
www.deadflowers66.com
www.ernestjenning.com
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