NY TIMES PREVIEWS MARIE/LEPANTO'S 'TENKILLER,' OUT TODAY ON BIG LEGAL MESS

WILL JOHNSON/JUSTIN PETER KINKEL-SCHUSTER PROJECT HITS ROAD SUPPORTING PEDRO THE LION IN FEB AS NYC SHOW, LIVING ROOM TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL

AMERICAN SONGWRITER, BITTER SOUTHERNER RAVE

Marie/Lepanto - the collaboration between Centro-Matic's Will Johnson and Water Liars' Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster - has a new indie/folk Big Legal Mess album 'Tenkiller' out today, which the New York Times previewed: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/arts/music/playlist-cardi-b-migos-charli-xcx-sugarland.html

The two explore literate southern themes and spare, desolate sounds that lead to cinematic grandeur in their incredible music. Here's the track "High Desert" (OK to share): https://soundcloud.com/big-legal-mess/marielepanto-high-desert

American Songwriter gave the set 4 stars, calling it "moving... mesmerizing... unique and enticing."

The Bitter Southerner said, "A pairing made in Southern indie rock heaven… 'Tenkiller' finds their two voices shadowing one another, with Johnson's battered vocals and Kinkel-Schuster's wavering tenor complementing one another… the perfect record for a long-drive on a two-lane."

The duo will tour supporting Pedro the Lion in February and have newly announced a NYC show as well as a living room tour in April.

MARIE/LEPANTO TOUR DATES:

February 8 - St Louis, MO - Old Rock House*
February 9 - Kansas City, MO - Record Bar*
February 10 - Tulsa, OK - The Vanguard*
February 11 - Fayetteville, AR - living room show
February 12 - Dallas, TX - Trees*
February 13 - Austin, TX - Mohawk*
February 14 - Houston, TX - Rockefeller's*
February 15 - Baton Rouge, LA - living room show
February 16 - New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jack's*
February 17 - Birmingham, AL - Saturn*
February 18 - Gainesville, FL - High Dive*
February 19 - Orlando, FL - The Social*
February 21 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle*
February 22 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West*
February 23 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In*
April 5 - Springfield MO - living room show
April 6 - Omaha NE - living room show
April 7 - Sioux Falls - living room show
April 8 - Minneapolis - Turf Club
April 9 - Madison - living room show
April 10 - Milwaukee - living room show
April 12 -  Chicago - Schuba's
April 13 - Detroit - living room show
April 14 - Toronto - living room show
April 16 - Boston - living room show
April 17 - NYC - Mercury Lounge
April 18 - Philadelphia PA - Johnny Brenda's
April 20 - Baltimore - living room show
April 22 - Asheville NC - living room show
April 23 - Athens GA - living room show
April 24 - Waverly AL - Standard Deluxe
April 25 - Mobile AL - Satori Coffee House
April 26 - Oxford, MS - living room show
April 27 - Little Rock AR - living room show

KRISTIN ANDREASSEN CONFIRMS FULL SCHEDULE OF RADIO TAPINGS AND SESSIONS BEFORE RELEASE OF ‘GONDOLIER’ AS TOUR LAUNCHES

A month and a half before the release of ‘Gondolier,’ Kristin Andreassen has a full slate of radio sessions and taping, both local and nationally syndicated. She is also announcing a series of tour dates, both headlining and supporting. ‘Gondolier’ features Aoife O’Donovan and Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) and combines her trad-folk background with her indie rock sensibility, which she earns by singing backup onstage for Lucius and on record for Sufjan Stevens. CMT Edge has called ‘Gondolier’ a “delicate beauty.”

Kristin Andreassen Early Radio Activity:

1/8   New York, NY- WFUV: studio session

1/12 Saranac Lake NY- Folk Alley:  studio Session

1/14 Baltimore, MD- WRNR Voices of the Bay    

1/18 Morgantown, WV- Mountain Stage taping

1/19 Lexington, KY- Woodsongs taping

1/20 Knoxville, TN- WDVX Blue Plate Special

1/21 Nashville, TN- Music City Roots

1/23 Louisville, TN-WFPK Live Lunch

Kristin Andreassen Tour Dates:

1/13 New York, NY - Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1

1/14 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Street House Concerts

1/15 Washington, D.C. – House Concert

1/16 Raleigh, NC Duke Energy - Center/Fletcher Theater (w/ Aoife O’Donovan)

1/31 Olivebridge, NY - The Winter Hoot

3/3   Northampton, MA - The Parlor Room

3/4   Cambridge, MA - Club Passim

3/7   Katonah, NY - Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts

3/10 New York, NY - Joe's Pub

KRISTIN MUELLER TO PLAY ALBUM RELEASE SHOW AT JALOPY MARCH 6

SOPHOMORE ALBUM 'DESERTS & LONG TRAILS' (FEB 25 / EASTERN SPURS RECORDS), MADE WITH MEMBERS OF THE YELLOWBIRDS & MERCURY REV

An eye-opening talent, Kristin Mueller will play an album release show March 6 at Jalopy for her new indie folk/indie rock album 'Deserts & Long Trails,' made in NYC with members of the Yellowbirds, Mercury Rev, and the bands of Beth Orton, The Lone Bellow, Trixie Whitley, and Jim O'Rourke. The album will be released February 25 on Eastern Spurs Records.

Black Book has premiered the first track, the scorching "What Are You Waiting For," calling it "a sunny slice of guitar pop that is more powerful than it initially lets on."

C. Gibbs will open the show. Billboard has said of him, "Rarely you hear songs that are this deep, this profound." Mueller opened a European tour for Gibbs in fall of 2013 and is drummer in his band Lucinda Black Bear.

WHO: Headliner Kristin Mueller w/ opener C. Gibbs
WHAT: Album release show for 'Deserts & Long Trails'
WHERE: Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street Brooklyn, NY
WHEN: March 6, 2014, time TBA
TICKETS: TBA

Kristin Mueller bio

"Mueller's fabulous songs vibe Cowboy Junkies and Calexico - with a beautiful voice she invokes intimacy and elegance. Dig that banjo."- VillageVoice

"There is real promise here. The songs take their sweet old time to unfurl under Mueller's steady vocals." - Time Out NY

"Mueller is a linguist on the kit. Creative, emotive and skillful - NYC staple." Tom Tom Magazine

Kristin Mueller is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter based in the Brooklyn/NYC area who plays her guitar upside down. Known for her stylistic drumming, she has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia as well as the Middle East, supporting bands and artists such as Lucinda Black Bear, Jeffrey Lewis, the Caulfield Sisters, Fulton Lights, Cynthia Hopkins, Christy & Emily, Mary McBride and Michael Hearst among many others. Her newest solo album Deserts and Long Trails marks the second record composed by Mueller featuring new and long time collaborations with Karen Waltuch (Viola: Jim O'Rourke, Beth Orten, Wilco), Brian Kantor (Drums: Nina Pierson, the Yellowbirds) Jay Foote (Bass: Lone Bellow, Trixie Whitely) Jay Russo (Guitar: Hopewell, Mercury Rev) and many more.  Together with Mueller's producer Damon Whittemore they crafted an intricate and beautifully layered collection of spectral songs that are both sensuous and nostalgic, sorrowful and loudly playful - resulting in a diverse, cinematic and meandering journey of dynamic unconvering. The albums hinges on Mueller's exploration of the quiet intimate weight of time and it's ever passing - it is inspired by this inescapable permanence and by the alternate influences of the many characters and collaborators Mueller has known.

Mueller's song "Finding a woman" from Ports of Call (2006)  was featured in the Sundance award winning film, 'What Alice Found'.

 

Previous credits:

Year          Album                        Artist                              Credit

2014        Deserts & Long Trails Kristin Mueller                writer/composer/guitar/bass/keys/drums/banjo

2013        Holte                           Patricia Thornley            drummer

2012        Tic-Tac-Toe                 Christy and Emily           drummer

2011        Hurricane                    Anton Sword                   drummer

2010        Knives                         Lucinda Black Bear        drummer

2009        Success of Failure      Cynthia Hopkins             drummer

2009        City of Oblivion           Anton Sword                   drummer

2008        Must Don't Whip Um   Cynthia Hopkins             drummer

2007        Divine Candy              Caulfield Sisters              drummer

2007        Capo My Heart            Lucinda Black Bear        drummer

2006        Ports of Call single      Kristin Mueller                writer/composer/guitar/banjo/drums

2005        Accidental Nostalgia   Cynthia Hopkins             drummer

2004        Say it with Fire            Caulfield Sisters             drummer

2003        French Hotel               Hidden Driveways           drummer