NICK LOSS-EATON MEDIA AT AMERICANAFEST: KEVIN GORDON, MELANIE BRULÉE, DANNY SCHMIDT, DOM FLEMONS, LELAND SUNDRIES

Dom Flemons - Thursday, September 13 - 2-3pm - The Westin, Vanderbilt III

‘Black Cowboys’ (Smithsonian Folkways) has garnered spotlights in Wide Open Country, Cowboys & Indians Magazine, Washington City Paper, American Blues Scene, and American Songwriter. In a performance/chat NPR’s Ann Powers said, “The work Dom Flemons is doing on the West is flat-out revolutionary. Take the time to listen to him talk about 'Black Cowboys.'"

Dom Flemons - Thursday, September 13 - 8:30pm-9:15pm - the Station Inn

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin - Thursday, September 13 - 7:30pm-8pm - Radio Café - Green Room Music Source East Nashville Party

Schmidt has won a Kerrville New Folk award and was named to the Chicago Tribune's 50 Most Significant Songwriters in the Last 50 Years. "Standard Deviation" is the first single from his 2019 album of the same title, which will marks 10 albums and 20 years as a recording artist. His hometown Austin Chronicle said, "Danny Schmidt is spoken of in reverent tones." Q called his art "beautifully crafted, lonesome pines music and complex beguiling words." As fellow songwriter Jeffrey Foucault put it: "Everything about the man is gentle, except for his capacity for insight, which is crushing." He recently released the single “Standard Deviation,” which was posted to Wide Open Country and played on an episode of Welcome To Night Vale and will be played on an episode of Star Talk (with Neil deGrasse Tyson).

Kevin Gordon – Friday, September 14 - 5:30-7 - City Winery Lounge in round w/ Paul Burch and Becky Warren, presented by 30A Songwriters Festival

"Brilliance… Mesmerizing... Gordon delivers another album that comes as close to sonic poetry as anything from any musician who hasn’t already won a Nobel Prize for literature... earthy, literary music... visceral, electric blues-based vibe."

- Scott Stroud, Associated Press, July 27, 2018

“Terrific… Another keeper… He’s one of America’s finest, most literary and talented musicians… it’s the way Gordon crafts his words to reflect reality without cliché that helps the music resonate long after the last note has faded.”

- Hal Horowitz, American Songwriter, July 23, 2018

"'Tilt and Shine' may be the best rock ’n’ roll album anyone will release this year in Davidson County and its environs... impressive achievement."

- Edd Hurt, Nashville Scene, July 26, 2018

"I'm struck by his mastery... Nobody in this town is better."

- Ted Drozdowski, Premier Guitar, September, 2018

"Saint on a Chain" music video

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin - Friday, September 14 at 5:35-6:05 - Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge - 5th Annual Wild Ponies Happy Hour

Melanie Brulée – Friday, September 14 - 6:10-6:35pm - 12th & Porter - Folk Alliance’s Finest Folk

Melanie Brulée – a powerful new Americana voice – will release ‘Fires, Floods & Things We Leave Behind’ on October 19. Inspired by a road trip from Nashville to Las Vegas along Route 66, the music unfolds in widescreen, western textures influenced by Enio Morricone and Quentin Tarantino soundtracks. Her single “I’ll Get Over You” is out now and has already been added to Spotify’s official Down Home Country and Renegade Folk playlists (shareable YouTube link).

Melanie Brulée – Saturday, September 15 - 12:45-1:15pm - InDo Nashville - Canadian Blast

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin - Saturday, September 15 - 1-1:30pm - Michael Weintrob Photography Studio - Campfire Propaganda AMA Day Party

Leland Sundries - Saturday, Sept 15 – 4-4:45pm – Tennessee Brew Works – Finely Tuned Showcase

+ We completed a Paste Magazine session that streamed live via Facebook and YouTube and is archived on the Paste site.

+ We opened the May 18 Low Cut Connie show at Bowery Ballroom in NYC.

+ We will be releasing the single “If You’re Gonna Drive, I’m Gonna Drink” backed with a punk/Americana version of a traditional cowboy song on September 21 followed by a northeast tour. Click to hear both.

Kevin Gordon – Saturday, Sept 15 – 8-9:30pm – Tennessee Brew Works – Finely Tuned Showcase

Kevin Gordon - Sunday, September 16 – 6-6:45pm - The Compound – Sunday Morning Coming Down

Leland Sundries

LELAND SUNDRIES: NEW INDIE POP SINGLE; PASTE SESSION; BOWERY BALLROOM DEBUT; SILENT BARN & GREENPOINT GALLERY SHOWS

The NYC rock & roll/Americana band Leland Sundries is busy in early 2018:

 

+ We completed a Paste Magazine session that streamed live via Facebook and YouTube and is archived on the Paste site: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/03/leland-sundries-full-session.html

+ We were added to the May 18 Low Cut Connie show at Bowery Ballroom, our Bowery Ballroom debut.

+ We released a new indie pop single “Reminiscence Over Diner Spoons."

+ We are also playing shows tonight at Greenpoint Gallery and April 22 at Silent Barn.

+ We’ll be touring and recording in April.

Leland Sundries 2017 photos

Credits for all: Sara Feigin, click images for high res

Leland Sundries at Folk Alliance

Brooklyn's own @lelandsundries carrying the torch into the midnight hour at @folkalliance pic.twitter.com/T4AG6ldSgN

— American Songwriter (@AmerSongwriter) February 16, 2017

Midnight – First-Timers II (725) 11pm – LilFest I (727)

Thursday: 10:30pm – 3rd Coast Music Presenters: Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus (627) in the round w/ Spook Handy and Geoff Himes 1:30am – LilFest I (727) 2:45am – Green Room Music Source (656)

Friday: 2:30am – Access Film Music ORANGE (754)

Saturday 3pm – LilFest II (728)

“GENIUS” (NOISEY) LELAND SUNDRIES SIGNS PUBLISHING AGREEMENT WITH MOTHER WEST MUSIC

Indie/Americana/garage band Leland Sundries, which made a splash this year with its full-length debut ‘music for outcasts,’ has signed a publishing deal with fellow Brooklynites Mother West Music. Leland Sundries’ ‘music for outcasts’ (L'Echiquier/Decor/Weiner Records) earned numerous spotlights as well as airplay from KEXP, WFUV, WFMU, and beyond:

“A-… genius.”
- Robert Christgau, NOISEY, July 22, 2016. Full review: https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/robert-christgau-expert-witness-leland-sundries

“Heaps of wit and melody… Beautiful rambling storytelling that flirts with pop and sounds a little like Silver Jews.”
- Peter Watts, UNCUT, April, 2016

“Scrappy yet ingenuous rock poetry.”
- MOJO, March, 2016

“Loss-Eaton and company avoid predictability… upturned middle finger that resides at the center of their sound. Ultimately ‘Music for Outcasts’ finds truth in its title… Those prone to coloring outside the lines will have cause to give a decided nod of approval.”
- Lee Zimmerman, Relix, October/November issue

"One of the more exciting roots-based bands to be unleashed in quite a while... This fellow knows his geography now. Both out in the rolling hills and inside his own heart and soul... One minute Leland Sundries has you weeping in your beer over the cowboy lament, 'Keys in The Boot,' the next they’re rocking as righteously as The New York Dolls-inspired 'Bad Hair Day.' Throw in the radiant Power Pop of 'Apocalypse Love Song,' and you’ll see there isn’t a genre they haven’t mastered. These guys have only one rule about the music they play: it has to sound authentic and cool. Which, a good damn portion of the time, it does."
- Peter Gerstenzang, American Songwriter, May 6, 2016

“Awesomeness.”
- Justin Cober-Lake, Pop Matters, June 2, 2016

“Fine character-building.”
- Eric Davidson, CMJ, April 18, 2016

"A killer record... The record has devoured my subconscious... creative wordplay... Witty and left of center, juxtapose from the norm, some fresh and fun genre-bending rock-n-roll...Loss-Eaton is a songwriter’s songwriter, languid stories and never short on style... A tried and true summer soundtrack for yours truly, simply a record you can’t grow not fond of. Each track a small ride to a cool destination."
-Scott Zuppardo, No Depression, August 9, 2016

“Superb.”
- Sjimon Gompers, Impose, March 11, 2016

“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.”
- Pure Volume, June 1, 2016

“Life affirming… Leland Sundries’ debut album and first European release shows a ton of promise and is a very enjoyable listen.  It will certainly appeal to fans of bands like Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman as well as fans of bands like Whiskeytown and Starsailor.”
- Alan Ewart, Louder Than War (UK), February 16, 2016

“Leland Sundries match crackling garage rock with a near bubblegum love of melody. The band's sound sits somewhere between Pavement and The Archies, with a dose of Jonathan Richman's off kilter wit thrown in for good measure.”
- Robin Murray, Clash Music (UK), January 19, 2016

Brooklyn-based Mother West has grown from a small indie label and recording studio to a full-service boutique music catalog, offering music licensing for film and television, publicity and promotions, customized distribution, online sales, music production and artist management. With an impressive roster under it's belt, Mother West continues to work with an array of artists in various capacities, including Motopony, Mother Feather, The Magnetic Fields, Aloud, The Bones of J.R Jones, Peppina, Kris Gruen, Cold Blood Club and many others.

Originally founded by musicians Charles Newman and Paul Casanova, Mother West was named after the sign on the deli downstairs from their studio and was created to release their debut record Noreally Thanks from their band PLEASE in 1994. This led to a cut on the platinum selling Empire Records Soundtrack on A&M Records and the company's first foray into placing music into films.  Since then, and under the helm of Newman, the company continues to grow it's catalog and develop it's community of artists.

2016 marks a new partnership with Los Angeles-based publisher Defend Music, who will be representing the publishing interest of the Mother West catalog in North America, with Kobalt Publishing representing the catalog globally.

Leland Sundries "Studebaker" music video

“FOLK-ROCK AWESOMENESS” (POP MATTERS) LELAND SUNDRIES WRAPS TOUR WITH MERCURY LOUNGE HEADLINING SHOW, IMPOSE MAG “AWESOME” VIDEO PREMIERE, GREEN RIVER FEST SET

Following the release of its debut full-length ‘music for outcasts’ (L’Echiquier / Décor / Weiner) and the wrapping up of a national tour that saw the band play everything from a DIY July 4 party in a parking garage to a record store, a church to an outdoor bar stage, Leland Sundries has premiered its new video for “Studebaker” at Impose Mag.

 

The band will perform tomorrow at Green River Festival in western Massachusetts, the same day as Dawes, Shovels & Rope, and Shakey Graves. Mercury Lounge will host a headlining show on Monday on a bill with Ron Gallo.

 

Pop Matters is streaming the entire album, comparing it to Pavement and calling it “folk-rock awesomeness… memorable."

 

Spotlights have also run in American Songwriter, Paste, Flavorpill, Pure Volume, UNCUT, MOJO, and spins at WFUV, KCRW, and KEXP. In a Q&A, CMJ praised its “fine character building.”

 

Cincinnati.com called Leland Sundries “folk rock from a weird, loose-limbed, garage-rock point of view.”

 

The Memphis Commercial Appeal called ‘music for outcasts’ “literate, tuneful character sketches, songs rooted not just in his own hard-living lifestyle but also in the people he met on the road... establishing the band as worthy successors to such durable acts as Son Volt, Clem Snide and Deer Tick.”

Leland Sundries photos by Emory Parker

 Credit: Emory Parker

  Credit: Emory Parker

 Credit: Emory Parker

Leland Sundries photos by Nina Herzog

Click for high res. Must use credit for all reprints, please.

Credit: Nina Herzog

Credit: Nina Herzog

Credit: Nina Herzog

LELAND SUNDRIES PLOTS FULL BAND TOUR AMIDST RAVES FROM PASTE, AMERICAN SONGWRITER, UNCUT, MOJO

PRAISE FROM UNCUT, MOJO, PASTE, & BEYOND AS LP AS 1^ST 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)

Leland Sundries "Maps of the West" music video

Directed by Peter Gerstenzang
Starring Nick Loss-Eaton and Katharine Marion

EARLY UK PRAISE BUOYS LELAND SUNDRIES’ DEBUT ALBUM ‘MUSIC FOR OUTCASTS’ (JUNE 3 / L’ECHIQUIER/WEINER RECORDS)

BROOKLYN BAND ADDED TO GREEN RIVER FESTIVAL JULY 10

Leland Sundries’ debut full-length album ‘music for outcasts,’ out June 3 on L’Echiquier Records/Weiner Records, has earned raves in the UK, where it is already out. The Brooklyn band has also been added to the Green River Festival playing July 10, the same day as Tedeschi Trucks Band, North Mississippi All Stars, and Margo Price. Here’s what the UK press has said:

“Heaps of wit and melody… Beautiful rambling storytelling that flirts with pop and sounds a little like Silver Jews.”
- Peter Watts, UNCUT, April, 2016

“Scrappy yet ingenuous rock poetry.”
- MOJO, March, 2016

“Life affirming… Leland Sundries’ debut album and first European release shows a ton of promise and is a very enjoyable listen.  It will certainly appeal to fans of bands like Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman as well as fans of bands like Whiskeytown and Starsailor.”
- Alan Ewart, Louder Than War, February 16, 2016

“All eleven tracks show glimpses of a future master musical storyteller just starting out. It’ll be exciting to see where Loss-Eaton – and Leland Sundries – go next.”
- Paul Heatley, Rock N Reel, April, 2016

“Leland Sundries match crackling garage rock with a near bubblegum love of melody. The band's sound sits somewhere between Pavement and The Archies, with a dose of Jonathan Richman's off kilter wit thrown in for good measure.”
- Robin Murray, Clash Music, January 19, 2016

“Cool… Notes of Lou Reed and the Modern Lovers.”
- Metro London, December 12, 2015

“Oddball storytelling.”
- The Beat Juice, November, 23, 2015

“Excellent.”
- Mad Mackeral, November 25, 2015

LELAND SUNDRIES TOUR DATES

Wed, May 18 - Brooklyn, NY - Gateway
Fri, June 17 - Norfolk, VA - 80/20 Burger Bar
Sat, June 18 - Charlottesville, VA - Ante Room
Wed, June 29 - Nashville, TN - The Family Wash
Thu, July 7 - Providence, RI - Dusk
Sun, July 10 - Greenfield, MA - Green River Fest

Leland Sundries "Apocalypse Love Song" video

Leland Sundries - Apocalypse Love Song (Music Video) from Christopher Partellow on Vimeo.

Leland Sundries clips

Paste Magazine session (March 2, 2018)

Magnet profile, issue 133



American Songwriter feature (May 6, 2016)


Louder Than War video premiere (May 2, 2016)

CMJ track premiere (April 18, 2016)

Impose Mag track premiere (March 11, 2016)

Paste Magazine track premiere (December 28, 2015)

Clash Music video premiere (January 19, 2016)

Mix Magazine feature (February 12, 2016)

UNCUT review (March, 2016 issue):

The Beat Juice track premiere (UK) (November 23, 2015)

MOJO album review (March, 2016 issue):

Metro (London) December 12, 2015 track review:

Blurt single review (December 16, 2015)

Flavorpill live pick (October 5, 2015)

Baeble track premiere (March 5, 2012)

Daytrotter session (October 24, 2012)

NY Times live pick (November 4, 2010)

LELAND SUNDRIES DEBUT ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON CASSETTE VIA BURGER RECORDS SUBSIDIARY WEINER

Out now in the UK and seeing June 3 release in the US, Leland Sundries’ indie-garage debut album ‘music for outcasts’ will see a worldwide cassette release on Weiner Records, a subsidiary of Burger Records. ‘music for outcasts’ has already earned praise from Louder Than War, UNCUT, MOJO, and airplay from BBC 6 in the UK and Paste and Mix Mag thus far in the US.

Profiled in the NY Times, California-based psych/garage rock label Burger Records’ cassette releases include Jenny Lewis, Shannon and the Clams, Habibi, Kim Fowley, King Tuff, Sarah Bethe Nelson, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Hunx and His Punx, The Orwells, White Fang, Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, and La Luz.

TAJ MAHAL’S BUSTED OLD GUITAR FINDS ITS WAY TO BROOKLYN INDIE/AMERICANA/GARAGE BAND LELAND SUNDRIES’ DEBUT ALBUM ‘MUSIC FOR OUTCASTS’

PASTE PREMIERES “STUDEBAKER” SINGLE

Of the guitars used on Brooklyn band Leland Sundries’ new album ‘Music For Outcasts' (May, 2016 / L'Echiquier Records) one stands out: an inexpensive 1990s Sebring hollowbody guitar made in Korea. What’s special about it? Its former owner: Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner Taj Mahal. Bandleader Nick Loss-Eaton recalls, “We were on tour in North Carolina and I was hanging out with my friends at the Music Maker Relief Foundation headquarters outside of Durham. Tim Duffy – the head of the organization – was selling some gear. I asked if he had any hollowbodies and he pulled out this one and handed it to me on the spot, saying that Taj had given it to him and that he’d give it to me. I did a double take and said, ‘Taj Taj?!’ Strumming it, the electric guitar had a warm, natural tone, even unplugged.”

Paste Magazine premiered the band’s indie rock single “Studebaker,” which has drawn comparisons to The War on Drugs.

Loss-Eaton had been involved with the Music Maker Relief Foundation – a non-profit organization dedicated to recording and helping elderly, traditional, southern musicians – for many years: putting on two benefit concerts for the organization in New York, helping with publicity, donating money, and getting to know some of the elderly artists personally such as Boo Hanks, Whistlin’ Britches, and Ironing Board Sam.

Nick continues, “The guitar was pretty busted when Tim gave it to me, with broken electronics and some rust. I had it fixed up with a pair of GFS P90 pickups, some new hardware, and new amp-style knobs for volume and tone.” It has since been used in concert at shows opening for Todd Snider and Spirit Family Reunion. “We only used it on a couple of songs on the new album but it just shined,” the bandleader recalls.

Largely a rock and roll album, ‘Music For Outcasts’ also boasts wonderful songwriting and Americana music; it has been compared to ‘Mermaid Avenue.’ “Keys in the Boot” is a country waltz inspired by a phrase overheard while on tour in west Texas; “Freckle Blues” is a noir/blues written in NYC during Hurricane Irene; “Maps of the West” captures the optimism of a new relationship atop a driving train beat; and “The Tide (Love Letter In Scrimshaw)” tells the story of the end of that coupling as the tale of one left behind as the other takes an overseas voyage.

Taj had bought a pair of these because he loved the tone and the vibe, despite being inexpensive, Korean-made guitars; reportedly, he still has the other one.

Leland Sundries - Studebaker embeddable track

Leland Sundries "Radiator Sabotage" single

NICK LOSS-EATON MEDIA AT CMJ 2015: PINEY GIR, LELAND SUNDRIES

Wednesday - 1:20pm – Leland Sundries - Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1 – Baby Robot Media / Dangerbird Party (acoustic set)

Leland Sundries – This Brooklyn band (which I happen to lead) is putting the finishing touches on its debut full-length, combining Americana, indie rock, and garage rock sounds.

"Scrappy" - The New York Times

“Excellent.” -The iTunes StoreFlavorpill CMJ preview: http://flavorpill.com/nyc/article/partner-post/listen-cmj-tracks-from-leland-sundries

Saturday – 2:45pm – Piney Gir – Leftfield – Baby Robot Media / American Diamond Recordings / Nick Loss-Eaton Media Party: https://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?id=394383504089693&ref=br_tf

UK by way of Kansas indie pop artist Piney Gir will release a new Halloween EP followed by a January full-length album. NPR Weekend Edition profiled her in 2012: http://www.npr.org/2012/11/24/165674676/piney-gir-from-the-muppets-to-geronimo

Praise for 2012 album ‘Geronimo’:

"Pop gems." – Philadelphia Inquirer

"Piney Gir performs a brand of upbeat indie-pop sure to delight fans of the Vivian Girls and Best Coast." – Pop Matters

"A bit Shangri-Las, a bit Vivian Girls, and a bit Jenny Lewis." – Blurt Magazine

Saturday – 5:45pm – Leland Sundries – Leftfield – Baby Robot Media / American Diamond Recordings / Nick Loss-Eaton Media Party (electric set): https://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?id=394383504089693&ref=br_tf

Saturday – 10pm – Leland Sundries – Hank’s Saloon – Pick Up the Change: Alt-Country Showcase (electric set)