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Tour Dates: O'Death

October 30 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY (w/ Hoots and Hellmouth, La Strada)
October 31 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
November 1 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
November 2 - T.T. The Bears - Cambridge, MA
November 3 - II Motore - Montreal, QUE Canada
November 4 - El Mocambo - Toronto, ONT Canada
November 5 - Mohawk Place - Buffalo, NY
November 6 - Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
November 7 - Space 101 - Bloomington, IN
November 8 - Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL
November 9 - Hideout - Chicago, IL
November 10 - 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
November 11 - The Picador - Iowa City, IA
November 12 - The Jackpot Saloon - Lawrence, KS
November 13 - Waiting Room - Omaha, NE
November 14 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
November 15 - Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT
November 17 - Media Club - Vancouver, BC Canada
November 18 - High Dive - Seattle, WA
November 19 - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR
November 20 - Jambalaya - Arcata, CA
November 21 - Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA
November 22 - Spaceland - Los Angeles, CA
November 23 - Casbah - San Diego, CA
November 24 - Modified Arts - Phoenix, AZ
November 26 - The Mohawk - Austin, TX
November 28 - Marquee - Tulsa, OK
November 29 - Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO
November 30 - Hi-Tone Café - Memphis, TN
December 2 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA
December 3 - Local 506 - Chapel Hill, NC
December 4 - Black Cat Backstage - Washington, DC
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O'DEATH LINKS

Official Website
O'Death on Myspace
O'Death on Imeem
Kemado Records

BONNAROO GIVEN "OUTSTANDING GREENER FESTIVAL" AWARD

Only Six Of 31 Festivals Throughout the World Receive This Top Award

A.C. Entertainment and Superfly Presents are very proud to announce that the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival for 2008 has been given the "Outstanding Greener Festival" award by the esteemed Awards Committee at agreenerfestival.com, the arbiter of all things green in the live music industry around the world. The "Outstanding Greener Festival" is the highest accolade one can receive, and was awarded to Bonnaroo this year along with only six other festivals globally. Thirty-one festivals are considered for the award. "We couldn't be more pleased to receive this award," said Bonnaroo's sustainability coordinator Laura Sohn. "We put a lot of work into reducing the impact the festival has on the environment and it's nice to be recognized." Since its inception, the Bonnaroo organizers have put into place large-scale greening initiatives and continue to take aggressive steps toward mitigating the event's environmental impact and raising awareness about green issues. By focusing on drastic carbon reduction at the festival and in the lives of its patrons, Bonnaroo continues its long time commitment to providing a first-rate entertainment experience while creating a community that cares for our planet. Clean energy initiatives, responsible product consumption, superior waste management, local sourcing and education programs are all part of the festival's aggressive environmental plan. Recognizing that green issues are of paramount importance to the organization, its patrons, and the world at large, Bonnaroo is proud to present an event that is not only a good time, but also an example of an environmentally sound gathering that helps our planet remain hospitable to life.

Tour Dates: Lovedrug

Catch Lovedrug on tour with Copeland:

 

October 27 - New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

October 29 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig

October 30 - Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge

October 31 - St. Paul, MN @ Station 4

November 1 - Omaha, NB @ Slowdown

November 2 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre

November 3 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theatre

November 5 - Boise, ID @ The Venue

November 6 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon

November 7 - Portland, OR @ Satyricon

November 8 - Orangevale, CA @ The Boardwalk

November 10 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s

November 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ The El Rey Theatre

November 12 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

November 14 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit

November 15 - Dallas, TX @ The Door

November 16 - Norman, OK @ Meacham Auditorium

November 18 - Nashville, TN @ Rocketown

November 19 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern

November 20 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade

November 21 - St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre

November 22 - Orlando, FL @ The Social

November 23 - Orlando, FL @ The Social

Video: Audrye Sessions "Turn Me Off"

Video: Audrye Sessions "Turn Me Off"

For more information about Audrye Sessions, please visit:

www.myspace.com/audryesessions
www.imeem.com/audryesessions

Tour Dates: The High Dials

10/10 – Seattle, WA @ Lo-Fi Performance Gallery
10/11 – Portland, OR @ East End
10/14 – Arcata, CA @ Big Pete’s
10/15 – Grass Valley, CA @ Rhythms Music Café
10/16 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe Place
10/17 – Sacramento, CA @ Old Ironsides
10/18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Hotel Utah Saloon
10/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland Lounge
10/20 – Denver, CO @ The Hi-Dive
11/5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool w/ Black Diamond Bay & Hilotrons
11/6 – Brooklyn, NY @ Southpaw w/ Black Diamond Bay & Hilotrons
11/7 – New York, NY @ TBD w/ Black Diamond Bay & Hilotrons
11/8 – New York, NY @ Piano’s w/ Black Diamond Bay & Hilotrons

Official Website: http://www.thehighdials.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thehighdials

Tour Dates: Wilderness

Wilderness, the unconventional rock band from Baltimore, Maryland, will embark on a tour of the U.S. in November, in support of the release of their third full-length album "(k)no(w)here" (out on Jagjaguwar in the CD, LP and digital formats in the U.S. and throughout the world on Nov. 4.; UK release date of Nov. 3).

The music of Wilderness was acclaimed from the start. Their debut self-titled album (released July 5, 2005) garnered wide and special praise. Pitchfork called Wilderness "a shift back to the cerebral end of the rock spectrum", and designated their debut record with the prestigious Best New Music tag. Skyscraper sagely remarked on how the band's relatively low profile since then is actually a special boon: "Wilderness is creating their own music, taking advantage of their relative isolation to create a Walden in the wilds of today's music." Following up with an equally impressive second album called "Vessel States" (April 11, 2006) and shortly thereafter with the "Living Through / Part Ways" 7-inch (August 22, 2006), Wilderness have been consistent and prolific creators of music that is every bit for the soul as it is for the body and the mind.

Almost two years after their previous works, their newest album "(k)no(w)here" was inspired from a collaboration with renowned visual artist Charles Long, which was exhibited at the Whitney Museum's Biennial celebration earlier this year. The individual parts of "(k)no(w)here" weave in and out of each other, showing how the album was originally conceived as one large piece.

 All dates on the upcoming tour will be supported by Boston's San Serac.

TOUR DATES:

11/19 New York, NY @ Cake Shop

11/23 Pittsburgh, PA @ Brillobox

11/24 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern

11/25 Chicago, IL @ Schubas

11/26 Bloomington, IN @ Jake's

11/29 Asheville, NC @ Harvest Records

11/30 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl

12/1 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree

12/3 Houston, TX @ The Mink

12/4 Austin, TX @ Emo's

Download - BM Linx

Download - BM Linx

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BM LINX

BLACK ENTERTAINMENT OUT NOV 11TH 2008 (craze factory)

www.myspace.com/bmlinx

www.bmlinx.com

Video: Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele "Oh, Paris!"

Video: Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele "Oh, Paris!"

Jackson, Mississippi native Dent May grew up singing in local church groups, acting in school plays, and performing at nursing home gigs with a recorder choir.  In high school, he wrote synthy power-pop with his band The Rockwells while recording erotically charged novelty tracks with friends on the side.  After three unsuccessful semesters at NYU's film school, May moved to North Mississippi where he helped found the Cats Purring arts collective and formed a country-rock band called Cowboy Maloney's Electric City.  In late 2007, inspired by Serge Gainsbourg and Lee Hazlewood, he began performing as Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele and released a digital EP of cheeky lo-fi tunes, A Brush With Velvet.  The title is a reference to The Partridge Family, episodes of which May obsessively collected and organized on VHS tapes as a teen.  His debut album, The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, was recorded with Rusty Santos in May's home, a double-wide trailer in Taylor, Mississippi (population: 300).  He continues to perform with Cowboy Maloney's Electric City, and recently began recording dance music under the moniker Dent Sweat.

Profile: Holy Hail

Are you keeping up with the debates?  Like some politics in your pop music? Well Holy Hail are chiming in with their debut album opener, Elemental:

I’m aching. Elemental
Set for tracks to be guided yet hostile
The sun and the moon have conspired against me
My only true recess – pursuing insanity

Save my mama and save my place
Junior cries just to save his face
To being, been seeing. Heathens,
In my place of being

Fortress of the soul to brood
That old cheap sunset – solitude.
In the cave of my home rooms the truth
That old cheap sunset – solitude.

We took our cues from the high almighty
By that I mean the colonel man
He gave us ten commandments
Fighting wars in a desert land
My mind’s made up, I want to get out (2x)

Be my. Tell my. Show my. Send my people back (4x)

Dear Betty, did I take your true and sweet lone heart?
To the sea, my decree, that takes me from my liberty?
Did I spell my deeds in sorrow sand?
To kill and sleep and learn the land?
To soak in bloody cloaks
That shakes and takes and aches the folks?

Simple son of the mother gun
The air our share of breeze and sun
Encased my stain in sleeted sleep on streets of rain and slick and sleet
Too shy to die and weep at feet of horses brave and sick of meat
Retrograde degrade the salt of wounded knee,  the march to halt
The fault of hell, my fine decline. So languid, not aware of time.

More album lyrics here: http://www.kaninerecords.com/promos/hh_lyrics2.pdf

In between touring Europe, first with New Young Pony Club then with Bonde Do Role, and gigging in Mexico, Holy Hail made their debut album, “Independent Pleasure Club,” to be released November 11th, 2008 on Kanine Records.
 
Fusing pop, hip-hop, new wave, and electro with an occasional country twang, Holy Hail creates one rollicking dance party.  But don’t mistake them for your average dance band: a good portion of these tracks is strewn with political undertones.  The album opener tackles the Iraq war and at album close, the south’s big catastrophe Hurricane Katrina. In the middle, references are made to the environment, wire tapping, and the American-Indian genocide. It’s not heavy handed; most unsuspecting audiences dance completely unaware of the politically charged lyrical content. Mixing in tracks with more lighthearted themes like Las Vegas and NYC, Holy Hail’s always-upbeat dance-rock covers both the promises of America, as well as its sprawling dark side.

myspace.com/holyhail

Video: Ed Laurie "I See No End"

Video: Ed Laurie "I See No End"

ED LAURIE LINKS

Official Website
Ed Laurie on Imeem
Ed Laurie on Myspace
Dangerbird Records