Ecstatic Peace!

Two amazing new releases for sale now:

Violent Soho "Violent Soho CD"

Viv Albertine "Flesh CD"

Catch Awesome Color tonight and every other night this spring. Here's the first leg of their nationwide tour in support of their upcoming release "MASSA HYPNOS" all of which are with TYVEK.

Mar 5 Cafe 9 New Haven, CT
Mar 6 Purchase   Purchase, New York
Mar 7 Market Brooklyn, New York
Mar 8 Otto bar  Baltimore, Maryland
Mar 9 Local 506 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Mar 10 529 Club Atlanta, Georgia
Mar 11 Circle Bar  New Orleans, Louisiana
Mar 12 The Ten Eleven San Antonio, Texas
Mar 13 NRMAL Festival     Monterrey, Nuevo León
Mar 14 TBA - Help need show in Mexico 
Mar 15 TBA - Help need show in Mexico  
Mar 16 Simon SezMcAllen, Texas
Mar 17 SXSW     Austin, Texas
Mar 18 SXSW     Austin, Texas
Mar 19 SXSW - Ecstatic Peace! Showcase @ Red 7 Patio    
Mar 20 SXSW     Austin, Texas
Mar 21 SaucedOklahoma City, Oklahoma
Mar 22 Vino’s Brew Pub Little Rock, Arkansas
Mar 23 Little Hamilton Collective Nashville, Tennessee
Mar 24 Al’s Bar Lexington, Kentucky
Mar 25 Art Damage Lodge Cincinnati, Ohio
Mar 26 Woodchuck’s Toledo, Ohio
Mar 27 CAID  Detroit, Michigan

Viv Albertine "Flesh" CD
Out March 9

Ecstatic Peace is stoked to release the new CD "Flesh" by Viv Albertine next week. Check out this great interview with Viv to catch up on where she's at these days.

Some great reviews are popping in the UK already...

Violent Soho has an album out in less than 2 weeks. In the meantime, Check out this um.. uh.. behind the scenes look at the band out on the best coast...

 Also, go Tweet for a free download...

and dig this art:

Friday 2/12 @ Unitarian Meetinghouse 121 N. Pleasant St., Amherst, MA
8pm $10

Michael Chapman
Glenn Jones
PG Six

 Krefting says:

Michael Chapman cut his teeth in the late 60s in the folk clubs of London and Cornwall along with such luminaries as John Martyn and Roy Harper. His music is beautiful and pained. He even released a Deram LP in '77 entitled The Man Who Hated Mornings, and for that alone he should be forever revered. His last couple of Valley appearances have been astonishing, to be sure. Read a recent interview here: http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11332

Glenn Jones came to prominence as a member of the legendary Boston ensemble Cul de Sac. In the early 00's he began to share his solo acoustic music with the world, and the results have been breathtaking to behold. He is a sweetheart and a scholar and the thought of his gorgeous string work resounding throughout the Meetinghouse already has me rubbing my hands together in anticipation.

PG Six is the stage name of Pat Gubler, one of the nicest guys with whom one could ever hope to share a bottle of Bushmills. He is also a hugely accomplished guitarist, songwriter, and harpist. He was a founding member of the much-loved Tower Recordings, and has since blossomed as a remarkable solo artist in his own right, with recordings available on Amish, Drag City, and more. 

Pretty critical American Tapes update:

GIGS CENTRAL WARNING WARNING: GIGS EVERYWHERE IN YR ZONE GIGS

This Saturday: Feb 13
Khoury & Hall & Olson
Jason Lescalleet
Aaron Dilloway
2739 Edwin Hamtramck 8pm

REGRESSION & SPYKES
Feb 18th Thurdsay: Brussells
Feb 19th Friday: Antwerp
Feb 20th Saturday: Paris

Basket Lisa's Bday Party!!!! Feb 27th Sat
@ Basket Lisa's- Detroit
Dead Machines
Hive Mind
Regression

Wolf Eyes Spring Break Ripper Slasher
March 4th Thursday: Oberlin with Dilloway & Nautical Almanac
March 5th Friday: Columbus Skylab w/TBA
March 6th Saturday: Cinncinnatti Art Damage with Sissy Spacek, Gerrit, et al
March 7th Sunday: Lexington KY VOID skate shop insane skate destroyer party  with TBA

Hush Arbors are playing some great shows in February...

UPDATE: Thanks to Bob for pointing out an issue with our cart. These are all set to purchase now!

Totally stoked to distro these (4) LPs from the EP family:

 
Spectre Folk "Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo" LP

 
Noise Nomads "To Live As Jackals" LP

 
Charalambides "Three-Lane Blacktop" LP

 
Little Claw "Human Taste" LP

Brooklyn is on FIE YA

Friday January 29th
Coco 66 Brooklyn NY 66 Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St.

Death Unit
Northampton Wools
Spykes
Regression
Dog Lady

and ALSO(thanks Nace!)..

 Friday 1/29 @ Issue Project Room, 232 3rd St Brooklyn 8 pm

Steve Gunn+John Trusckinski
Spectre Folk
Tom Carter
Bill Nace

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Whoa, Saturday January 30th 2010 at FLORISTREE in Baltimore

Northampton Wools (Bill Nace, Thurston Moore)
Death Unit (Carlos Giffoni, Chris Corsano, Brian Sullivan, Trevor
Tremaine)
Nautical Almanac (Carly Ptak, Twig Harper, ???)
Regression (Nate Young)
Spykes (John Olson)
Dog Lady (?? Michigan Mysterios)

doors 9pm
admission $5 before 9:30
$10 after 9:30

MV & EE "Barn Nova LP"!

The Entrance Band are featured on VanityFair.com in celebration of MLK day. Check 'em out live this month and next:

 JAN
19 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
21 - Dallas, TX - The Cavern
22 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
23 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
25 - Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge
26 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
27 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
28 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
30 - Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory
31 - Cambridge, MA - TT The Bears

FEB
1 - Buffalo, NY - Soundlab
2 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
3 - Columbus, OH - The Summit
4 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
5 - Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
6 - Lawrence, KS - Jackpot
8 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
9 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
11 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
12 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
13 - Eugene, OR - Sam Bond’s Garage
14 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
16 - Santa Cruz, CA Brookdale Lodge
17 - Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters
18 - Lompoc, CA - The Wicked Shamrock
19 - Palm Springs, CA - JDee’s Landing
20 - Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theatre

Sunburned's second collaboration with Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) is now on sale and shootin outta da door!

 
Sunburned A LP

RIP JAY REATARD

Jemina Pearl on tour for a month!

Jan 13 2010     Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jan 14 2010     Atlanta, Georgia
Jan 16 2010     Little Rock, Arkansas
Jan 18 2010     Houston, Texas
Jan 19 2010     Austin, Texas
Jan 22 2010     Echo Park, California
Jan 23 2010     Los Angeles, California
Jan 25 2010     San Diego, California
Jan 26 2010     Pomoma, California
Jan 27 2010     San Fransisco, California
Jan 29 2010     Portland, Oregon
Jan 30 2010     Seattle, Washington
Jan 31 2010     Vancouver, British Columbia
Feb 2 2010         Fargo, North Dakota
Feb 4 2010         Minneapolis, Minnesota
Feb 6 2010         Chicago, Illinois
Feb 8 2010         St. Louis, Missouri
Feb 9 2010         Columbus, Ohio
Feb 10 2010     Cleveland, Ohio
Feb 12 2010     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feb 13 2010     Williamsburg, New York

The Entrance Band and Derek Stanton from Awesome Color will both be performing at the Ron Asheton Tribute Show at the Roxy tomorrow night. Tons of other great players- should be a special night.

Glass Rock "Tall Firs Meet Soft Location"

A masterful piece of work....understated and iconic. – Artrocker

Beautiful people have great-looking children, right? So when New York folk-rockers Tall Firs and Detroit psychedelic popsters Soft Location got together for a weeklong musical shag-fest, the results were never in doubt...A seriously slinky piece of lounge rock, with Kathy Leisen’s languorous vocal hinting at all sorts of guiltless pleasures – AU

Music for late nights and bad behavior . . . Glass Rock are truly living in the moment. – Clash

Four stars and a place in December’s top ten - Uncut

Nuff Said!

Thanks to everyone that participated in this year's Live Music Poll. The polls are now closed!

 Check out this sweet video axion of THE ENTRANCE BAND on Fuel TV...

1) The ongoing 2009 Live Performance Poll is now posted and will continue to grow as submissions pile in.

2) If you haven't made your submission yet, please do so by going here.

3) Thanks to everyone that has taken advantage of our inzane winter sale. Don't feel like your taking advantage of us cause we're askin for it. I mean 18 CDs for $100? Signed Thurston book with a few CDs(Yeah, we throw in the flaherty,nace,moore cd too) for $25? Both Artist series decks for $100(only 6 Tyfus boards left)?!?  Udder madness all for the love of the game.