SOLO ALBUM HERALDED BY ROLLING STONE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, ESQUIRE AND BEYOND
SPOTIFY FEATURES “I NEVER (REPRISE)” ON THE PULSE OF AMERICANA PLAYLIST
For Joe Fletcher, 2014 has seen a rapid ascent into the top ranks of the
Americana music world, with a debut at 69 on the Billboard Heatseekers
Chart today; packed sets at Americana Fest and Way Over Yonder
(presented by Newport Folk); upcoming opening slots for The Devil Makes
Three; and raves for his new solo album ‘You’ve Got The Wrong Man.’
Spotify has featured “I Never (Reprise),” which premiered at Paste
Magazine, on its Pulse of Americana playlist.
“Must-see… [His] songs… wind and roll with steep changes, always ending
with a birds-eye view that suddenly organizes it all into one delicate
vision. The Rhode Islander-turned-Nashvillian's words flow more like
folk poetry than verse-chorus status quo, picking on a honky-tonk spirit
with a Tom Waits heart.”
- Marissa Moss, Rolling Stone, September 17, 2014
"Gritty... a bracing breath of fresh air.”
- Miles Raymer, Entertainment Weekly, October 3, 2014, full album stream
"Joe Fletcher is a natural storyteller... It's the lyrics that get you,
the complexities of which are sometimes hidden by the musical styling.
They paint the sort of deep portraits of American life many songwriters
allude to but which few accomplish. There's darkness down there, but
with it humor and, absolutely, a damn good time."
- James Joiner, Esquire, August 28, 2014
“Wildly imaginative… charmingly raw”
– Jon Freeman, Country Weekly, October 13, 2014
“A diamond in the rough.”
- Hal Horowitz, American Songwriter, October 7, 2014
“This band’s namesake gave up his day job as an English teacher to make
music, and he goes to the head of the class with his latest release.”
- June Wulff, The Boston Globe, September 1, 2014
“Sounds a bit like pre-electric Dylan.”
- Bob Strauss, LA Daily News, September 22, 2014
“Awesome… [his] best yet.”
- Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, September 22, 2014
“Such a special record… Fletcher’s storytelling skills have never been
better, and the characters in his songs are thoroughly developed and oh
so dark.”
- Maeri Ferguson, Glide Magazine, September 25, 2014
Tour dates are here.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
THE SOUNDTRACK OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY, 2014
MOJO, NPR MUSIC, THE INDEPENDENT, THE GUARDIAN, WNYC, BOSTON GLOBE, & Q MAG ALL HAIL RELEASE OF THE GLOAMING, OUT FEB 25 ON CD ON BRASSLAND
The Gloaming – a new group compromised of Martin Hayes (violin, fiddle), Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman (piano), Iarla O'Lionaird (vocals), Dennis Cahill (guitar) and Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh (hardanger fiddle) – has earned incredible notices with its debut, self-titled album, out now via digital download and February 25 on CD from Brassland. It debuted at #1 on the iTunes World Music chart and at #2 on Billboard's World Music chart and promises to be the soundtrack of St. Patrick's Day, 2014. Here's what we're reading:
"In short, this is the rare album that might well transform the syntax of a whole style… sheer beauty."
- Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Music
"I already have to save room on my top ten list for 2014 for this next record… it is really terrific… There is something haunted and twilit about this album, very beautiful…"
- John Schaefer, WNYC New Sounds
"*****… Brilliant… a thrillingly original magic."
- Colin Irwin, MOJO
"*****… The Gloaming are a five-piece ensemble eliding Irish folk music with the contemporary New York art-music scene. The upshot is a rather ECM-ish well of open space irrigated by a flow of motifs, textures, tempos and, more abstractly, romantic yearnings." – Simmy Richman, The Independent (UK)
"Exquisite… Bravely contemporary… [They] have created a distinctive style of their own." - Robin Denselow, The Guardian (UK)
"The Gloaming is a wonderful mix of soulful and passionate talents who have created their own genre."
- Peter Gabriel
"Enormously rewarding."
- Andy Fyfe, Q Magazine
"*****… Brilliantly innovative and executed with masterly conviction… An astonishing marriage of the old and the new in music as modern as it is ancient, as epic as it is intimate."
-Michael Quinn, Songlines
"*****…Exceptional… Remarkable [and] unique… [Paints on] a wider, more expansive canvas."
– Peter Quinn, The Arts Desk
"Masterful."
– Michael Andor Brodeur, The Boston Globe
"A milestone… This debut album lives up to the loftiest of expectations. The wonderfully virtuosic music is rooted in an ancient Irish tradition, no doubt about that, but there's an experimental flavour to the compositions that makes the album such an intriguing, arresting listen."
- John Meagher, Irish Independent
"*****… This is contemporary music making at its very best: unself-conscious, freewheeling and yet deeply thoughtful, revealing layer upon layer with each listening… The Gloaming revel in wide open vistas and endless space. It’s as if each member has hankered after the company of players, all coming from distinctly different places, their knapsacks brimful of salty ideas, colourful whims and a fearless appetite for mining seams previously unexplored. With almost 60 minutes of free-flowing music to draw from, the listener is privy to a wide palette, defined more by shape and mood than tethered by genre."
-Sibhan Long, Irish Times
"Certain to become a landmark album."
- Colm O Hare, Hot Press
The Gloaming – a new group compromised of Martin Hayes (violin, fiddle), Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman (piano), Iarla O'Lionaird (vocals), Dennis Cahill (guitar) and Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh (hardanger fiddle) – has earned incredible notices with its debut, self-titled album, out now via digital download and February 25 on CD from Brassland. It debuted at #1 on the iTunes World Music chart and at #2 on Billboard's World Music chart and promises to be the soundtrack of St. Patrick's Day, 2014. Here's what we're reading:
"In short, this is the rare album that might well transform the syntax of a whole style… sheer beauty."
- Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Music
"I already have to save room on my top ten list for 2014 for this next record… it is really terrific… There is something haunted and twilit about this album, very beautiful…"
- John Schaefer, WNYC New Sounds
"*****… Brilliant… a thrillingly original magic."
- Colin Irwin, MOJO
"*****… The Gloaming are a five-piece ensemble eliding Irish folk music with the contemporary New York art-music scene. The upshot is a rather ECM-ish well of open space irrigated by a flow of motifs, textures, tempos and, more abstractly, romantic yearnings." – Simmy Richman, The Independent (UK)
"Exquisite… Bravely contemporary… [They] have created a distinctive style of their own." - Robin Denselow, The Guardian (UK)
"The Gloaming is a wonderful mix of soulful and passionate talents who have created their own genre."
- Peter Gabriel
"Enormously rewarding."
- Andy Fyfe, Q Magazine
"*****… Brilliantly innovative and executed with masterly conviction… An astonishing marriage of the old and the new in music as modern as it is ancient, as epic as it is intimate."
-Michael Quinn, Songlines
"*****…Exceptional… Remarkable [and] unique… [Paints on] a wider, more expansive canvas."
– Peter Quinn, The Arts Desk
"Masterful."
– Michael Andor Brodeur, The Boston Globe
"A milestone… This debut album lives up to the loftiest of expectations. The wonderfully virtuosic music is rooted in an ancient Irish tradition, no doubt about that, but there's an experimental flavour to the compositions that makes the album such an intriguing, arresting listen."
- John Meagher, Irish Independent
"*****… This is contemporary music making at its very best: unself-conscious, freewheeling and yet deeply thoughtful, revealing layer upon layer with each listening… The Gloaming revel in wide open vistas and endless space. It’s as if each member has hankered after the company of players, all coming from distinctly different places, their knapsacks brimful of salty ideas, colourful whims and a fearless appetite for mining seams previously unexplored. With almost 60 minutes of free-flowing music to draw from, the listener is privy to a wide palette, defined more by shape and mood than tethered by genre."
-Sibhan Long, Irish Times
"Certain to become a landmark album."
- Colm O Hare, Hot Press
Friday, February 1, 2013
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN MAKES BEST SHOWING ON BILLBOARD TOP 200 CHART SINCE 1989
'LA COSTA PERDIDA' (429 RECORDS) DEBUTS AT #3 ON HEATSEEKERS CHART, #1 ALTERNATIVE NEW ARTIST ALBUM
WEST COAST TOUR LEG SET FOR FEB.
Camper Van Beethoven's 'La Costa Perdida' (429 Records) debuted at #174 on the Billboard Top 200, #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and #1 on the Alternative New Artist Album chart this week, the band's highest showing since 1989. MTV Hive did a Q&A with David Lowery.
Great reviews have come in since last week:
"'La Costa Perdida?' Maybe we are all lost here. But David Lowery and his Camper cohorts, after all these years, find it a very rich place in which to be lost, or be one of the lost."
– Steve Hochman, NPR California Report, January 25-27, 2013
"Lowery and company still know their way around a smart pop song or two."
– Mark Lore, Paste Magazine, January 22, 2013
"Focused and strikingly sincere California pop."
-- Annie Zaleski, eMusic, January 8, 2013
"'La Costa Perdida'… has all the complexity and amusing bafflement that the band has been known for… it skillfully puts together all the elements that make CVB so indescribably great."
– Ted Chase, QRO Mag, January 21, 2013
"When the Campers get cranking, they're a wonder to behold."
– Lee Zimmerman, Blurt, Jan. 22, 2013
Other journalists focused on the band's legacy, on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary this year. Paste said, "Those first five studio albums—released in the four-year span prior to CVB’s decade-long hiatus—are damn-near spotless." Philadelphia Inquirer said, "Even if 1989's tune 'Sweethearts' sounds like something out of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, remember that CVB made it in 1989, before Jeff Tweedy was even in Uncle Tupelo, much less Wilco."
CVB Tour dates:
Thu Feb 14 - Burnsville PAC - Minneapolis MN (w/ Cracker)
Sat Feb 16 - Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco CA
Sun Feb 17 - Hopmonk - Novato, Novato, CA
Mon Feb 18 - Odd Fellows Hall - Davis CA
Thurs Feb 21 – Hollywood, CA – House of Blues (w/ Leftover Salmon)
Fri Feb 22 - Tractor Tavern - Seattle WA
Sat Feb 23 - Mississippi Studios - Portland OR
WEST COAST TOUR LEG SET FOR FEB.
Camper Van Beethoven's 'La Costa Perdida' (429 Records) debuted at #174 on the Billboard Top 200, #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and #1 on the Alternative New Artist Album chart this week, the band's highest showing since 1989. MTV Hive did a Q&A with David Lowery.
Great reviews have come in since last week:
"'La Costa Perdida?' Maybe we are all lost here. But David Lowery and his Camper cohorts, after all these years, find it a very rich place in which to be lost, or be one of the lost."
– Steve Hochman, NPR California Report, January 25-27, 2013
"Lowery and company still know their way around a smart pop song or two."
– Mark Lore, Paste Magazine, January 22, 2013
"Focused and strikingly sincere California pop."
-- Annie Zaleski, eMusic, January 8, 2013
"'La Costa Perdida'… has all the complexity and amusing bafflement that the band has been known for… it skillfully puts together all the elements that make CVB so indescribably great."
– Ted Chase, QRO Mag, January 21, 2013
"When the Campers get cranking, they're a wonder to behold."
– Lee Zimmerman, Blurt, Jan. 22, 2013
Other journalists focused on the band's legacy, on the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary this year. Paste said, "Those first five studio albums—released in the four-year span prior to CVB’s decade-long hiatus—are damn-near spotless." Philadelphia Inquirer said, "Even if 1989's tune 'Sweethearts' sounds like something out of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, remember that CVB made it in 1989, before Jeff Tweedy was even in Uncle Tupelo, much less Wilco."
CVB Tour dates:
Thu Feb 14 - Burnsville PAC - Minneapolis MN (w/ Cracker)
Sat Feb 16 - Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco CA
Sun Feb 17 - Hopmonk - Novato, Novato, CA
Mon Feb 18 - Odd Fellows Hall - Davis CA
Thurs Feb 21 – Hollywood, CA – House of Blues (w/ Leftover Salmon)
Fri Feb 22 - Tractor Tavern - Seattle WA
Sat Feb 23 - Mississippi Studios - Portland OR
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
DESCENDED FROM FOUR GENERATIONS OF ALBERTAN RANCHERS AND HAILED BY NPR, CORB LUND TO PERFORM AT THE MINT OCT. 11
Corb Lund – the songwriter descended from four generations of Albertan
ranchers who used to play metal and punk music – will play Los Angeles'
The Mint October 11. Goth girls to survivalists, bovines to bibles,
antique pistols to vintage motorcycles: Lund’s songcraft covers it all.
Amid raves from NPR, NY Times, UNCUT and others, Corb scored a personal best with a #13 debut on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and a #60 debut on the Billboard Indie Chart for his "breakthrough" (Washington Post) album 'Cabin Fever.' The album also debuted at #1 on Billboard's Canadian Top 200 albums chart. NPR said, "Impressive... great songs... Lund finds glory in tough work, spotting characters most people would overlook, and celebrating them with colorful sketches... Corb Lund's ironic humor and keen sense of American culture is similar to Hayes Carll."
Most recently, CMT.comhttp://www.cmt.com/videos/corb-lund/835168/september.jhtml just posted his new music video.
WHO: New West artist Corb Lund
WHAT: LA performance
WHEN: 9pm, October 11, 2012
WHERE: The Mint, 6010 West Pico Blvd, LA, 323.954.9400
TICKETS: $8 in advance; $10 at the door via The Mint box office
Amid raves from NPR, NY Times, UNCUT and others, Corb scored a personal best with a #13 debut on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and a #60 debut on the Billboard Indie Chart for his "breakthrough" (Washington Post) album 'Cabin Fever.' The album also debuted at #1 on Billboard's Canadian Top 200 albums chart. NPR said, "Impressive... great songs... Lund finds glory in tough work, spotting characters most people would overlook, and celebrating them with colorful sketches... Corb Lund's ironic humor and keen sense of American culture is similar to Hayes Carll."
Most recently, CMT.comhttp://www.cmt.com/videos/corb-lund/835168/september.jhtml just posted his new music video.
WHO: New West artist Corb Lund
WHAT: LA performance
WHEN: 9pm, October 11, 2012
WHERE: The Mint, 6010 West Pico Blvd, LA, 323.954.9400
TICKETS: $8 in advance; $10 at the door via The Mint box office
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
CORB LUND SCORES PERSONAL BEST #13 HEATSEEKERS & #60 INDIE BILLBOARD CHART DEBUTS FOR "BREAKTHROUGH" (WASHINGTON POST) 'CABIN FEVER' ON NEW WEST RECORDS
Amid raves from NPR, NY Times, UNCUT and others, Corb Lund
scored a personal best with a #13 debut on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and
a #60 debut on the Billboard Indie Chart for his "breakthrough"
(Washington Post) album 'Cabin Fever.' The album also debuted at #1 on
Billboard's Canadian Top 200 albums chart.
Here's the poignant video for the song
"September": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFvwqgjC7As
NPR All Things Considered's Meredith Ochs raved about the
"impressive" album of "great songs," saying, "Lund
finds glory in tough work, spotting characters most people would overlook, and
celebrating them with colorful sketches… Corb Lund's ironic humor and keen
sense of American culture is similar to Hayes Carll": http://n.pr/N6gbmr
Meanwhile, NY Times' Nate Chinen called it "an album of
pithy mischief and roguish charm": http://nyti.ms/QYpWu3
UNCUT gave the album nine out of ten stars, raving, "This
is another terrific chapter in what's become a rich catalouge of orthodox
country."
In the Washington Post, Allison Stewart wrote, "Lund is
a revelation, laconic and scary smart, with a devil’s eye for details."
Additionally, Corb Lund and his longtime band The Hurtin’
Albertans will be showcasing at The Mercy Lounge at 10pm on September 12, 2012
at the Americana Music Awards and Conference. Complete upcoming tour dates are
listed below.
Aug. 10 – Dawson County Fair – Glendive, MT
Sept. 12 – Mercy Lounge – Nashville, TN
Sept. 21 – Firehouse Saloon - Houston, TX
Sept. 26 – The Blue Light – Lubbock, TX
Sept. 27 – Mercury Lounge - Tulsa, OK
Sept. 28 – Love And War In Texas - Plano, TX
Sept. 29 – Cattlelacs Chainsaw Art Gallery – Manchaca, TX
Oct. 01 – Bar SS – Laporte, CO
Oct. 02 – Bar SS – Laporte, CO
Oct. 03 – The Soiled Dove Underground – Denver, CO
Oct. 04 – Oskar Blues – Lyons, CO
Oct. 05 – Turn Of The Century Saloon – Montrose, CO
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