Month: May 2015

CHRIS STAMEY EUPHORIA YEP ROC RELEASE JUNE 2, 2015 AND SHOW TONIGHT!

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Help Chris celebrate his new record with a show just booked this week at one of our favorite venues IOTA!

CHRIS STAMEY FINDS EUPHORIA ON NEW  STUDIO ALBUM

ESTEEMED SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST RETURNS TO SOUTHERN ALT-POP ON YEP ROC RECORDS RELEASE OUT JUNE 2, 2015

“INVISIBLE” PREMIERES AT BROOKLYN VEGAN

FALL TOUR TO BE ANNOUNCED!

“To me, euphoria lives inside an electric guitar. That’s a place I find freedom, passion, exhilaration: in the spaces between the notes, in the distance between the frets.” – Chris Stamey

Acclaimed North Carolina singer-songwriter, musician, and producer Chris Stamey, who is “a pivotal figure in the history of American alternative rock” (PopMatters) and someone who “remains ever the pop craftsman” (All Music), will release his first studio album in two years, Euphoria, June 2, 2015 on Yep Roc Records.

The album’s available for pre-order at  iTunes and Yep Roc with instant download of “Invisible,” which premiered today at Brooklyn Vegan.

Recorded at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium and his own Modern Recording with the help of Jeff Crawford, the 10-song set finds Stamey returning to his electric roots with an emotionally resonant set of rocking, melodically infectious, sonically bracing new tunes, with expansive arrangements incorporating horns alongside unexpected sonic textures.

“I found these songs inside the same dilapidated old Silvertone lipstick guitar that I’d written my first records on,” Stamey asserts.  “Maybe that’s why it sounds a bit like those records in some ways.” In addition to Stamey’s own memorable compositions, the album highlights includes the rousing opening track “Universe-sized Arms,” a previously unreleased Ryan Adams composition that Adams suggested he record.

Assembling some longtime friends from Chapel Hill’s fertile musical community, the album features Tony Stiglitz, F.J. Ventre, Wes Lachot, Matt McMichaels, Eric Marshall (Let’s Active), Django Haskins (The Old Ceremony) and longtime cohort Mitch Easter, as well as guests Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Pat Sansone (Wilco).

The follow-up to 2013’s widely acclaimed Lovesick Blues, and 2012’s dB’s reunion album Falling Off the Sky. Since 2010, Stamey has been the musical director and orchestrator for a series of all-star international concert performances of Big Star’s classic album Sister Lovers aka Third, with a rotating musical cast that includes Big Star’s Jody Stephens as well as members of the Posies, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, Wilco and Yo La Tengo.

Stamey has also produced and recorded a wide variety of artists at Modern Recording, the Chapel Hill studio that he’s operated for the past two decades, including the likes of Whiskeytown, Alejandro Escovedo, Flat Duo Jets, Le Tigre and Tift Merritt.

Tracklisting:

  1.     Universe-sized Arms
  2.     Where Does the Time Go?
  3.     Invisible
  4.     Make Up Your Mind
  5.     Euphoria
  6.     Awake in the World
  7.     Dear Valentine
  8.     When the Fever Breaks
  9.     You Are Beautiful
  10.     Rocketship

GOOD-BYE LIZELLE SHOWS THAT OLSON IS EAGER TO EXPLORE NEW MUSICAL HORIZONS…

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All Music Guide – Mark Deming

Between his work with the Jayhawks and his solo career, Mark Olson has shown the world that he’s a fine singer and a gifted songwriter who is not afraid to bare his soul and explore both the concrete and spiritual sides of his life. But with his third solo effort, Good-bye Lizelle, Olson reveals a new facet of his musical personality as he experiments with world music. Good-bye Lizelle was recorded while Olson and his primary accompanist and spouse Ingunn Ringvold traveled around the globe, dashing from America to Norway, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Armenia, and many points in between, as Olson and Ringvold laid down tracks with local musicians en route using Olson’s portable recording rig. “Say You Are the River” is Olson’s own version of a raga, and “Lizelle Djan,” “Running Circles,” “Which World Is Ours?,” and “Jesse in an Old World” all reflect the influences of modality and the circular melodic patterns that inform Indian music. Olson also works in more familiar forms on Good-bye Lizelle, and he shines bright on the spare and lovely “Cherry Thieves” and “Poison Oleander,” which most recalls the Jayhawks with its fuzzy lead guitar and the splendid harmonies between Olson and Ringvold. Good-bye Lizelle shows that in the wake of Olson’s short-lived reunion with the Jayhawks, he’s eager to explore new musical horizons while remaining a thoughtful and singular American songwriter.

THE DREAM SYNDICATE’S ICONIC DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES BACK IN PRINT WITH UNHEARD BONUS TRACKS FROM REHEARSAL COMING JUNE 16 ON OMNIVORE RECORDINGS

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After disbanding in 1989, the Dream Syndicate have come back together in the last few years for a handful of shows. Now, Omnivore Recordings has announced it will reissue the Paisley Underground leaders’ 1982 debut, Days of Wine and Roses, on June 16.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Dream Syndicate’s debut album, The Days of Wine and Roses, has long been considered the cornerstone album of L.A.’s early ’80s Paisley Underground scene, from which the band emerged. However, it was more influential than that: along with R.E.M.’s Murmur and the Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime, the release is often considered one of the cornerstone albums of ’80s indie-rock. In a way it is the missing link between the ’60s-influenced R.E.M. and the post-punk Minutemen. Later period bands such as the Pixies and Nirvana were formed out of the sonic ashes that the original Syndicate lineup left behind.

The remastered re-release will feature the album’s original nine tracks, plus six previously unreleased songs that will substitute the bonus tracks from Rhino Records’ 2001 reissue. The first two songs of the set, “Is It Rolling, Bob?” and “A Reason,” are early rehearsals of songs that were slated to appear on the band’s 1984 follow-up, Medicine Show, before the departure of Kendra Smith. “Still Holding On to You,” “Armed With an Empty Gun,” “Like Mary” and “Outside the Dream Syndicate” round out the newly minted, previously unheard songs. Check out the complete tracklist below.

The deluxe reissue will also feature brand-new liner notes from members of Rain Parade, Long Ryders, Green on Red, Divine Weeks and Sonic Youth. It will also boast notes from Rhino Records’ Gary Stewart and music journalists Chris Morris and Byron Coley.

Days of Wine and Roses was the Dream Syndicate’s last album with its original lineup: Smith, Steve Wynn, Karl Precoda and Dennis Duck. The band went on to release Medicine Show, 1986’s Out of the Grey and 1988’s Ghost Stories.

You can pre-order Days of Wine and Roses here.

Days of Wine and Roses 2015 Reissue Tracklist
1. “Tell Me When It’s Over”
2. “Definitely Clean”
3. “That’s What You Always Say”
4. “Then She Remembers”
5. “Halloween”
6. “When You Smile”
7. “Until Lately”
8. “Too Little, Too Late”
9. “The Days of Wine and Roses”

Bonus Tracks
10. “Is It Rolling, Bob?”
11. “A Reason”
12. “Still Holding On to You”
13. “Armed With an Empty Gun”
14. “Like Mary”
15. “Outside the Dream Syndicate”

Read More: Omnivore Will Reissue the Dream Syndicate’s Debut | http://diffuser.fm/the-dream-syndicate-days-of-wine-and-roses-reissue/?trackback=tsmclip