Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Leland Sundries photos by Emory Parker
Credit: Emory Parker
Credit: Emory Parker
Credit: Emory Parker
Thursday, June 9, 2016
MINI-DOC ON PETUNIA & THE VIPERS TRACES HIS PATH FROM HITCHHIKING BUSKER TO HOT SHOT BANDLEADER
NEW ALBUM ‘DEAD BIRD ON THE HIGHWAY’ EARNING ACCLAIM
Today, a new mini-documentary was released about Petunia, bandleader of Petunia & The Vipers, which touches on his yodeling, hearing early western music as a young punk music fan, performing on street corners and in subways to get his start, Jean Cocteau and the mystique of traveling, the effects of being adopted, the sacrifices touring musicians make, and his real name:
Here’s what we’re reading about new album ‘Dead Bird on the Highway’:
"Different than anything you've ever heard... not exactly something you come across every day."
– Christina Vinson, The Boot, May 10, 2016
"Strikingly original... timeless… avant-country.”
- Sarah Murphy, Exclaim, May 13, 2016
“Infectious and invigorating… some of the best goddamn yodeling you're ever going to hear.”
- Ryan J. Prado, Portland Mercury, May 19, 2016
"While listening to Petunia and the Vipers, it's easy to pick out a variety of influences- country, some twang, western swing, and the likes. But there's also more with a hint of rock and a dash of jazz. Is this starting to sound like a recipe of sorts? Sure... if David Lynch was the guy serving it all up." – Elmore, May 12, 2016
“Wonderfully weird.”
- Rob Cullivan, Portland Tribune, May 18, 2016
“Enigmatic… a star-studded who's who of the West Coast's roots scene… Petunia — a natty-suited gentleman with floppy hair — croons, yelps and yodels as the room starts spinning around, and things take a strange turn. His words start to burble into each other in a polyrhythmic, polysyllabic flood that upsets the straight-up flaming roots boogie of the backing band. The lyrics take off down some dark and twisted lane where no love song should ever go. Suddenly you've got a wilting begonia in your hair, and you're enmeshed in a song that sounds like Marty Robbins lost a fight with a Bossa Nova. And now what the — is that a kazoo stealing the solo spot from the pedal steel?”
- Orange County Weekly, May 25, 2016
“A dynamic whoop and holler that can drop from a boisterous crescendo to mousy whisper at a moment’s notice…. Fusing early country stylings with gypsy jazz, rockabilly, and surf. At the helm of this movement are Canadian firebrands Petunia and the Vipers… strange charisma.” Feature
- Tyrell Trimble, Daily Messenger (OR), May 25, 2016
Today, a new mini-documentary was released about Petunia, bandleader of Petunia & The Vipers, which touches on his yodeling, hearing early western music as a young punk music fan, performing on street corners and in subways to get his start, Jean Cocteau and the mystique of traveling, the effects of being adopted, the sacrifices touring musicians make, and his real name:
Here’s what we’re reading about new album ‘Dead Bird on the Highway’:
"Different than anything you've ever heard... not exactly something you come across every day."
– Christina Vinson, The Boot, May 10, 2016
"Strikingly original... timeless… avant-country.”
- Sarah Murphy, Exclaim, May 13, 2016
“Infectious and invigorating… some of the best goddamn yodeling you're ever going to hear.”
- Ryan J. Prado, Portland Mercury, May 19, 2016
"While listening to Petunia and the Vipers, it's easy to pick out a variety of influences- country, some twang, western swing, and the likes. But there's also more with a hint of rock and a dash of jazz. Is this starting to sound like a recipe of sorts? Sure... if David Lynch was the guy serving it all up." – Elmore, May 12, 2016
“Wonderfully weird.”
- Rob Cullivan, Portland Tribune, May 18, 2016
“Enigmatic… a star-studded who's who of the West Coast's roots scene… Petunia — a natty-suited gentleman with floppy hair — croons, yelps and yodels as the room starts spinning around, and things take a strange turn. His words start to burble into each other in a polyrhythmic, polysyllabic flood that upsets the straight-up flaming roots boogie of the backing band. The lyrics take off down some dark and twisted lane where no love song should ever go. Suddenly you've got a wilting begonia in your hair, and you're enmeshed in a song that sounds like Marty Robbins lost a fight with a Bossa Nova. And now what the — is that a kazoo stealing the solo spot from the pedal steel?”
- Orange County Weekly, May 25, 2016
“A dynamic whoop and holler that can drop from a boisterous crescendo to mousy whisper at a moment’s notice…. Fusing early country stylings with gypsy jazz, rockabilly, and surf. At the helm of this movement are Canadian firebrands Petunia and the Vipers… strange charisma.” Feature
- Tyrell Trimble, Daily Messenger (OR), May 25, 2016
Robert Finley artwork
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Leland Sundries photos by Nina Herzog
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Thursday, June 2, 2016
FRONTMAN PETUNIA OF PETUNIA & THE VIPERS BEGAN HIS MUSIC CAREER WITH SEVEN YEARS OF BUSKING AND DECADE OF HITCHHIKING, CARRIES LESSONS FORTH TO STAGE
NEW VIDEO FOR “CHAINED” FILMED IN MEXICO FROM NEW ALBUM ‘DEAD BIRD ON THE HIGHWAY’
PLAINS TORNADO LED HIM TO GIVE UP HITCHHIKING
Petunia & The Vipers emerged from Petunia’s career as a full-time busking musician and part-time poker player, performing on street corners and subway stations across both Canada and America for seven years, traveling by hitchhiking. He carries busking lessons with him on the stage in terms of his sense of being present in the moment when on stage as well as his vocal projection and thick skin.
Here’s the newly-released video for “Chained,” filmed in Mexico, from the new Petunia & The Vipers album ‘Dead Bird On The Highway.’ Petunia plays a love-struck busker.
Once a punk rocker in his adolescence, Petunia played mostly classic country repertoire by the likes of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, and Jimmie Rodgers. Ultimately, he gave up the life due to play stages and to encourage longevity within his career. He says, “One can't really get known on the street but onstage there's press publicity. The street is great but here today gone tomorrow.”
Also facilitating the end of his busking was stumbling on a car. He recalls, “I was hitch hiking from Saskatoon, SK to Dauphin, MN and I had already hitched through three thunderstorms that day and been on the road five hours already, so I was ready to get out of my ‘spot’ and make it to Dauphin Country Fest where I was going to be a guest in my friends' set [the D-Rangers] opening for Tanya Tucker. Two foreign firemen took me to a gas station on the outskirts of Churchbridge, SK. I got out and gazed at the highway ahead of me on the open prairie. Then turned to face the highway behind me where the rides come from. There weren't any in sight, only a long line of thin clouds rolling ever so slowly closer and closer. Above those, another row of clouds glued to the first row, right across the horizon as far as the eye could see. To my left the gas station and a car for sale for $400. As I watched the clouds creep closer in the silence of the sunny hot afternoon, I yelled over to the teenage gas attendant ‘if I'm still here in 10 minutes I’d like to buy that car.’ The wind was picking up 5 minutes later. I didn't know it at the time, but I was in for a little prairie tornado'n...” and one of his many stories continues…
PLAINS TORNADO LED HIM TO GIVE UP HITCHHIKING
Petunia & The Vipers emerged from Petunia’s career as a full-time busking musician and part-time poker player, performing on street corners and subway stations across both Canada and America for seven years, traveling by hitchhiking. He carries busking lessons with him on the stage in terms of his sense of being present in the moment when on stage as well as his vocal projection and thick skin.
Here’s the newly-released video for “Chained,” filmed in Mexico, from the new Petunia & The Vipers album ‘Dead Bird On The Highway.’ Petunia plays a love-struck busker.
Once a punk rocker in his adolescence, Petunia played mostly classic country repertoire by the likes of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, The Carter Family, and Jimmie Rodgers. Ultimately, he gave up the life due to play stages and to encourage longevity within his career. He says, “One can't really get known on the street but onstage there's press publicity. The street is great but here today gone tomorrow.”
Also facilitating the end of his busking was stumbling on a car. He recalls, “I was hitch hiking from Saskatoon, SK to Dauphin, MN and I had already hitched through three thunderstorms that day and been on the road five hours already, so I was ready to get out of my ‘spot’ and make it to Dauphin Country Fest where I was going to be a guest in my friends' set [the D-Rangers] opening for Tanya Tucker. Two foreign firemen took me to a gas station on the outskirts of Churchbridge, SK. I got out and gazed at the highway ahead of me on the open prairie. Then turned to face the highway behind me where the rides come from. There weren't any in sight, only a long line of thin clouds rolling ever so slowly closer and closer. Above those, another row of clouds glued to the first row, right across the horizon as far as the eye could see. To my left the gas station and a car for sale for $400. As I watched the clouds creep closer in the silence of the sunny hot afternoon, I yelled over to the teenage gas attendant ‘if I'm still here in 10 minutes I’d like to buy that car.’ The wind was picking up 5 minutes later. I didn't know it at the time, but I was in for a little prairie tornado'n...” and one of his many stories continues…
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
LELAND SUNDRIES PLOTS FULL BAND TOUR AMIDST RAVES FROM PASTE, AMERICAN SONGWRITER, UNCUT, MOJO
PRAISE FROM UNCUT, MOJO, PASTE, & BEYOND AS LP AS 1ST ALBUM ‘MUSIC FOR OUTCASTS’ OUT THIS WEEK ON L’ECHIQUIER / DÉCOR / WEINER RECORDS
Brooklyn indie/Americana/garage band Leland Sundries has traveled a
long road – through its frontman Nick Loss-Eaton’s open-heart surgery –
but that road will soon include 5,000 more miles in a van.
Alternately evoking comparisons to ‘Mermaid Avenue’ albums and The
Modern Lovers, the band has been spotlighted in MOJO, American
Songwriter, CMJ.com, Impose, Mix, Paste, Metro London, and Huffington
Post. UNCUT called ‘music for outcasts’ “heaps of wit and melody.”
Impose named it “superb.” NYC’s Little Water Radio opined, “It’s
great.” Pure Volume weighed in, “We were instantly hooked. In fact,
we're so impressed by the Brooklyn-natives to the point where we can't
begin to effusively begin to heap enough praise.”
The tour kicks off in the band’s Brooklyn backyard and other
highlights include two nights in Nashville, TN, a show in the Boston
area near Loss-Eaton’s hometown, and a slot at the Green River Festival
the same day as Dawes, Shovels & Rope, and Shakey Graves.
‘music for outcasts’ is out worldwide on Friday as a stream, download, CD, LP, and cassette.
Leland Sundries ‘music for outcasts’ Tour Dates:
June 15 - Brooklyn, NY – 603 @ Silent Barn (w/ the North Country)
June 17 - Norfolk, VA - 80/20 Burger Bar
June 18 - Charlottesville, VA - Ante Room
June 19 – Hillsborough, NC – Nash Street Tavern
June 20 - Raleigh, NC - Slim's (w/ The Antique Hearts)
June 21 - Valdosta, GA - Ashley Street Station
June 22 - New Orleans, LA - Saturn Bar (w/ The Lonely Lonely Knights, Rudy Stone)
June 23 - Austin, TX - Indian Roller (w/ Texas Never Whispers)
June 25 - Memphis, TN - Shangri-La Records
June 28-29 - Nashville, TN - The Family Wash
July 1 - St. Louis, MO – Gaslight Lounge
July 2 - Chicago, IL - The Township (w/ The Dirty Dirty Dollars)
July 5 - Rochester, NY - South Wedge Mission
July 6 - Somerville, MA - Once Lounge (w/ Ron Gallo, Julie Rhodes)
July 7 - Providence, RI - Dusk (w/ Andy Lampert)
July 9 - Greenfield, MA - Green River Festival (w/ Dawes, Shovels & Rope, Shakey Graves)
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