SUPERCHUNK

LTD EDITION 7" + FIRST UK SHOW IN 10 YEARS + ROUGH TRADE INSTORE

The new SUPERCHUNK single 'LEARNED TO SURF' is from the album 'Majesty Shredding' - album out now on One Four Seven Records

THE GUARDIAN - 5 stars *****  - One of the most flat-out enjoyable rock records in a long time

NME - 8/10 - An unassumingly great record that exists solely to celebrate the pleasures of making a gigantic, melodious racket

MOJO - 4 stars **** - Eleven astoundingly catchy, adrenalised twin-guitar anthems. Most aptly titled album of the year

'LEARNED TO SURF'

(OFS018)

Limited Edition 7" Vinyl Single  - only 500 copies worldwide - released exclusively by One Four Seven Records

BUY IT HERE for only £2.99 (ships Nov 28)

Release date - December 5th 2011

a: Learned To Surf - LISTEN HERE

b: Sunny Brixton*

    Bad Influence**

*exclusive - specially recorded new Superchunk song

** Neon Christ cover

One Four Seven Records

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SUPERCHUNK LIVE:

NOV 29th - ROUGH TRADE WEST - Instore

DEC 1st - LONDON SCALA (support from Let's Wrestle)  - TICKETS

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Superchunk returned last year with their first new album in almost ten years and those ten years have allowed them to create without a doubt the best record of their career. Majesty Shredding telescopes two decades into 41 indelible, action-packed minutes. It is the sound of youthful exuberance fine-tuned with grown-up confidence.  Superchunk as always strike a unique and effortless balance between melody and force, craft and spontaneity, the energy of youth and the wisdom of experience.

In a year when indie-rock has had a major resurgence with the likes of Surfer Blood, et al, and Les Savy Fav have regularly been covering the band's classic "Precision Auto" at the end of their sets, it makes sense that Superchunk have returned to claim their rightful position at the forefront of thoughtful, intelligent independent rock music.

They have intermittently played shows in the US  since 2001 and released a handful of singles and EPs when time allowed.  Each member has been thoroughly busy - not least Mac and Laura who have been busy running one of the biggest US independent labels operating today, MERGE RECORDS, putting out the likes of Arcade Fire, Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel etc. 

vanessa.cotton@triadpublicity.co.uk

AMANDA APPLEWOOD - Debut Album + New Single

AMANDA APPLEWOOD

‘I Love Boys’

Debut Album released September 12th 2011

'Pretend We're In Love'

Single released September 5th

Listen to songs from Amanda's album here:

www.amandaapplewood.com

‘I Love Boys’ is the debut album from Amanda Applewood

Up until now, Amanda Applewood has been best known as the keyboardist, recorder player and cake thrower with indie-pop favourites The Boy Least Likely To. While she was sitting on the tour bus to Cardiff one afternoon, she realised that she had written enough songs for her own album. She hijacked the band’s studio, and began recording the very next day.

DRUGSTORE - New Album! + New Video! + New Single! + Gigs!

 DRUGSTORE - 'Standing Still' mini video from Triad Publicity on Vimeo.

www.drugstoremusic.co.uk                      
www.rocketgirl.co.uk

Drugstore’s new single ‘Standing Still’ was conceived during a frosty weekend at the Drugstore cave. Written on a fan-donated guitar, with a poncho-wearing Isabel Monteiro under a mad-prophet guise, reminding us that in the end, it all fades to dust.

The song was recorded during the ‘Anatomy’ album sessions - another freezing day, this time on Platts Eyot, a remote island on the Western fringes of the river Thames - with a bottle of cheap brandy for warmth and inspiration.

 
‘STANDING STILL’

New Single released SEPTEMBER 26TH

(rgirl82 cd + download)

From the new album, ‘ANATOMY’ released SEPTEMBER 5TH 2011

[CD & Transparent Vinyl LP with bonus track and free download (rgirl79 / rgirl79LP)]


Isabel Monteiro has a story to tell you....

LIA ICES - UK shows + Green Man + Love Is Won video + Lia soundtracks 'So You Think You Can Dance' !

LIA ICES
UK Shows
+ Green Man Festival
+ New Video - 'Love Is Won'

+ 'So You Think You Can Dance'  !!
www.liaices.com

Jagjaguwar recording artist LIA ICES returns to the UK for a handful of shows this month - as Special Guest to The Low Anthem and The Cave Singers, plus a performance at this year's Green Man Festival (dates below)

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE - New Album + UK Tour

UK TOUR MAY 2011: 17th - LONDON Bush Hall 18th - BRISTOL Cooler 19th - OXFORD Jericho 20th - LIVERPOOL Sound City         21st - GLASGOW Stag & Dagger  23rd - MANCHESTER Deaf Institute 24th - NOTTINGHAM Bodega THE   RURAL   ALBERTA   ADVANTAGE NEW ALBUM  'DEPARTING'  MAY 2ND UK TOUR MAY 2011 WATCH/SHARE/EMBED THE VIDEO FOR 'STAMP HERE  THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE are included in a recent GUARDIAN feature:  'FROM ELEPHANT 6 TO DEERHUNTER: THE US'S NEW PSYCHEDELIA' Read it HERE Praise for The Rural Alberta Advantage’s debut, ‘Hometowns’: NME – 9/10  Awesome Clash – ‘Hometowns’ is one of the best debuts of the year Uncut – The RAA’s narratives are as expansive as the prairie where singer-songwriter Nils Edenloff grew up, but they’re also full of resonant, intimate detail. Clattering tearaway percussion lends his rustic pop a crucial urgency Signed to Saddle Creek (home to Bright Eyes, Cursive, Azure Ray et al), The Rural Alberta Advantage write percussive folk songs about hometowns and heartbreak.

MARTIN CREED - Thinking / Not Thinking

 

 MARTIN CREED

THINKING / NOT THINKING

(Telephone Records) 

Watch/Share/Embed the video HERE

Digital Single & Video - Jan 24^th  /  Special Edition Double Disc set – Feb 28^th 

Live:  March 2nd – CAFÉ OTO, London E8 (Tickets £10 adv  www.ticketweb.co.uk)

      ‘like something between Steve Reich and The Ramones’ - The Guardian

THINKING / NOT THINKING is a new single by the Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed.

Written by Creed and performed by Creed and his band, it is accompanied by a video written and directed by the artist.

Each of Creed’s artworks are numbered, his most famous being Work #227, The Lights Going On And Off. In line with his other artworks, the video for THINKING / NOT THINKING is Work #1090

Creed’s music featured recently in a ballet he both wrote and choreographed which ran at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe where it was awarded the Herald Angel Prize.

Creed’s other musical works include pieces for orchestra (Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 2008) and string quartet, for bells (commissioned to be part of the Olympics 2012), as well as the hugely popular singing lift that is now permanently installed at the Royal Festival Hall.

THINKING / NOT THINKING will be released both digitally (January 24^th) and as a special edition double disc set, which includes a CD, DVD and signed photographic artwork (available February 28^th from www.martincreed.com)

The release of the single coincides with Creed’s forthcoming show, Mothers, at the new Hauser & Wirth space in Savile Row, London (opens 21st January 2011)

Recent gigs include Latitude, the ICA, Palais de Tokyo, Belfast Festival and Art Basel Miami Beach.  Martin Creed will play CAFÉ OTO on March 2nd to mark the release of THINKING / NOT THINKING. There will be a special showing of Creed's ‘Sick Film’ beforehand.

www.martincreed.com

 

BUFFALO TOM - New Album + UK Shows

BUFFALO TOM

 ‘SKINS’

  [ScrawnyRecords CD/DOWNLOAD SCR - 00001]

  Album Released: March 7th 2011   /    UK Shows March/April 2011 

  Listen/Share/Embed FREE Download of 'Arise, Watch'  - Click HERE

 www.buffalotom.com

Album Tracklisting:

Arise, Watch  /  She's Not Your Thing  /  Down  /  Don't Forget Me  /  Guilty Girls  /  Miss Barren Brooks  /  Paper Knife  /  Here I Come  /  Lost Weekend  /  The Hawks and The Sparrows  /  The Big Light  /  The Kids Just Sleep  /  Out Of The Dark

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Buffalo Tom return with their eighth studio album, Skins, on March 7th 2011. Produced by the band in their hometown of Boston, Massachusetts and mixed by long-time collaborators Paul Q.Kolderie (who produced the band's breakthrough third album, 1992's Let Me Come Over) and Tom Polce, Skins is the follow up to 2007's Three Easy Pieces which brought Buffalo Tom back ino the spotlight after a nine-year hiatus.

The new album features guest Tanya Donnelly of Belly, Breeders and Throwing Muses fame singing on the song Don't Forget Me. Besides the standard CD, a deluxe edition will be available with demos and b-sides, as well as a vinyl version with a download card featuring the additional songs.

Buffalo Tom have fans in high places - before Jon Stewart hosted the president and other famous people on the set of The Daily Show, he had a late night syndicated talk show called The Jon Stewart Show.  On his final show, he asked his favourite band to play.  That band was Buffalo Tom.  They’re still Jon Stewart’s favorite band, and he’s currently the most trusted man in America.  They’ve had song titles turned into feature films such as Taillights Fade and were featured guests on the Claire Danes series My So-Called Life.

Writer/actor Mike O'Malley, whose star has recently risen higher as a result of his work as Burt Hummel on Glee, loves the band so much that he wrote in praise of Buffalo Tom and their new album. Here he writes of the moment he discovered the band when they released 1994's Big Red Letter Day:

"Here were men like me making music about things that mattered - how we navigate our lives amidst the messes we get handed and the messes we've made - and they were doing it with an authentic sound that had heft, texture and drive.   They did what we want our rock and roll to do - distill potent observations about life and disguise any sentimentality - eliminate it - by backing up the observations with guitars and drums.

"And for those who fell for the Buffalo Tom of Taillights Fade, Soda Jerk, Tree House and Summer, this document exists, in part to proclaim that Buffalo Tom's new album Skins is worthy of your attention. It has all the things that Buffalo Tom does well.    Songs about situations and subjects that the average human can relate to - with all the gravity you'd expect from a band that still has something to say.  Throughout Skins, Buffalo Tom is unafraid to go deeper than the surface layer, and they spend much of this record bringing forth warnings, laments and admonishments."

"Buffalo Tom makes music I drive to, run to, think to, drink to.  I listen to them for inspiration, for the way they turn their phrases and for the songs I’m still trying to figure out…my favourite band, Buffalo Tom."