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Hi everyone,
We're so excited to give you the first listen to "Parted Ways" from our upcoming album "Arrow." The album is coming out February 14th on Partisan Records, and we'll have pre-order packages up shortly at our website.
Click here to download "Parted Ways" and please share with your friends: Share on Facebook / Share on Twitter.
We've also booked a month of tour dates in February & March. Tickets are going on sale this weekend and we hope you can come out!
Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter for up-to-the-minute news, videos, ticket links, and more over the coming months.
12/9 - Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry's (18+)
12/10 - Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box
2/7 - Little Rock, AR @ Juanitas
2/8 - St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
2/9 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
2/10 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
2/11 - Madison, WI @ High Noon
2/13 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners
2/14 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
2/16 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement
2/17 - Cincinnati, OH @ 20th Century
2/18 - Indianapolis, IN @ Radio Radio
2/19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
2/20 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
2/23 - Boston, MA @ Middle East (Downstairs)
2/24 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
2/25 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
2/27 - Baltimore, MD @ Otto Bar
2/29 - Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
3/1 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Cat's Cradle
3/2 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
3/3 - Nashville, TN @ The Mercy Lounge
3/6 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree
3/8 - Fayetteville, AR @ George's Majestic
3/9 - Fort Worth, TX @ Lola's
3/10 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
Thank you,
Jesse, Mark, Dave, and Erika
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The latest studio album from Heartless Bastards. Produced by Jim Eno(Spoon), Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album is marked as ever by singer/guitarist/songwriter Erika Wennerstrom’s remarkable voice – brimming with confidence – and at turns primal and pleading, heartfelt and heroic. Arrow stands as a powerhouse new beginning for the Heartless Bastards
Track Title
1. Marathon (6:10)
2. Parted Ways (4:57)
3. Go to Have Rock and Roll (3:53)
4. Only For You (5:11)
5. Simple Feeling (4:34)
6. Skin and Bone (3:59)
7. The Arrow and the Beast (6:31)
8. Late In the Night (3:59)
9. Low Low Low (5:02)
10. Down In the Canyon (7:35)
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Listen the the new single here:
http://www.radiomilwaukee.org/playlist/artists/heartless-bastards/parted-ways
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRS8D4l_gjA&feature=youtu.be
Hello World,
It's hard to know where to begin. We've spent a good deal of the last several months in a recording studio. Recording. The results and all that surrounds them are introduced to you below.
NEW ALBUM: BE THE VOID
That's right! You start with 7 guys in a room staring at one another and then 5 months later you've got yourself a record. We love and are proud to share it with you.
So today you can hear the first song from BE THE VOID. It's called That Old Black Hole. We made a video to memorialize a rodential friend lost in record making battle and you can see that here.
BE THE VOID PREORDER: NOW
If you give That Old Black Hole a listen and you like what you hear there's some more news for you.
You can go to the dog site and preorder the album right now. Some people like to do this just to get it out of the way, they don't want to carry the burden of having to remember to buy the album on February 7th, they just want to know that it's done. They can rest assured that on February 7th they'll wake up and there will be a link to download BE THE VOID in your electronic mailbox. If you decide to preorder the album you can also ask that it be shipped to your door on the medium of your choice. If you live close enough and he's awake, Zach will personally come to your door and hand you the album. In the more likely event that he's not awake you will receive the album via postal service (you'll also get a link to download it should you choose a CD or 12”). If you’re quick (and you care) we’re going to sign the first 500 recordings we sell regardless of where that transaction takes place.
Inspired by the late Billy Mays, there's more. If you decide to take this step, this preorder step, you will also get 3 new tracks for free, immediately. Like when you preorder the record you'll get an email with a link to 3 new songs. What songs you ask? That Old Black Hole and Warrior Man (both from BE THE VOID) and Control Yourself. (If you're keeping score at home Warrior Man and Control Yourself also combine to make the recently released Warrior Man 7"). Our record label calls this "instant gratification" and insists that in these times of short attention spans, music thievery and World of Warcraft the consumer (that's you) will require an incentive of great proportion delivered at light speed. I guess we'll see.
NOW: ON TOUR (ways to save money)
In celebration of this new album, this BE THE VOID, we'll be hitting the road for some rock shows. All (by all we mean most) dates for the BE THE VOID tour are below. Our Fan Presale begins Wednesday November 30 (that's tomorrow) at noon local time. Public on sale for all shows begins Friday December 2nd at noon local time. Head to the dog site for more presale info. As a matter of convenience and to exercise our technological muscle you'll have the option to purchase BE THE VOID and whatever tickets you desire all at one time, thus simplifying your existential dilemma.
A word on this fan presale and how you can save a little bit of money. When we put these tours together we pay a lot of attention to how much it costs you. As you've no doubt noticed, when you buy a ticket the ticketing company will often charge a bunch of money on top of the ticket price for the privilege of buying a ticket. We don't have a whole lot of control over what that fee is but the fan presale is one way we do. We get a limited number of tickets and we're allowed to sell these tickets through any vendor we want. We’ve chosen a vendor whose ticket surcharges are significantly less. Fan presale tickets are available via the links below or at the Dr. Dog Facebook page while supplies last.
We’re excited for everyone to hear this album, and looking forward to seeing you when we’re in town. 'Til then!
Love
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Tour Dates
2/1/12 Columbus, OH
2/4/12 Salt Lake City, UT
2/10/12 Hollywood, CA
2/14/12 Seattle, WA
2/19/12 Cincinnati, OH
3/3/12 Nashville, TN
3/9/12 Austin, TX
Stubb's Waller Creek Ampitheater
3/15/12 Asheville, NC
3/22/12 Boston, MA
3/25/12 Philadelphia, PA
2/2/12 Lawrence, KS
2/6/12 Phoenix, AZ
2/11/12 San Francisco, CA
2/17/12 Minneapolis, MN
3/1/12 Millvale, PA
3/4/12 Atlanta, GA
3/10/12 Houston, TX
3/16/12 Washington, DC
3/23/12 New York, NY
2/3/12 Boulder, CO
2/7/12 Solana Beach, CA
2/13/12 Portland, OR
2/18/12 Chicago, IL
3/2/12 Louisville, KY
3/5/12 Birmingham, AL
3/11/12 Dallas, TX
3/17/12 Baltimore, MD
3/24/12 Philadelphia, PA
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I don't know how many fans there are on here, but I thought I'd create a thread for their upcoming album.
Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album – the Austin, Texas-based band’s first release with Partisan Records – is marked as ever by singer/guitarist/songwriter Erika Wennerstrom’s remarkable voice, at turns primal and pleading, heartfelt and heroic. Songs like “Parted Ways” and the searing “Low Low Low” expertly capture the Bastards’ multi-dimensional rock in all its strength and spirit. Following upon the difficult introspection of 2009’s acclaimed third album, The Mountain, Arrow stands as a powerhouse new beginning for the Heartless Bastards.“The Mountain was me going through some things after being in a relationship for nine years,” Wennerstrom says. “This album is kind of like me being comfortable again.”
Arrow serves as the recorded debut of the Heartless Bastards’ current iteration, their latest and greatest line-up since Wennerstrom first convened the band back in 2003. Drummer Dave Colvin and bassist Jesse Ebagh – both of whom played on the Bastards’ first-ever demo recordings – returned to the fold in order to play live behind The Mountain. Soon after embarking on tour, Wennerstrom decided to put more meat on the band’s raw bones by enlisting guitarist Mark Nathan, who had ostensibly come aboard to handle the live sound.
“I wanted to add another guitar,” Wennerstrom says, “so I asked Mark, ‘What do you think of joining the band?’ and he was into it. I’ve always planned on being a four-piece, but it just takes a while to find somebody that you feel you click with. I’d rather have it be stripped down than just have somebody there for the sake of having them there.”
The expanded line-up brought additional color and dynamism to the Heartless Bastards’ already colorfully dynamic rock ‘n’ roll. With their sound honed to a razor’s edge by night after night of playing live, the Heartless Bastards were soon ready to record for posterity. But having spent so much of the past year on tour, Wennerstrom knew she needed some downtime in order to turn her musical ideas into fully-fledged songs. In Fall 2010, she embarked on the first of what would be several solo road trips designed to clear the cobwebs and help focus her songwriting. Wennerstrom visited friends and family in Ohio, hung out at All Tomorrow’s Parties in the Catskills, spent alone time in Arkansas, a lake cabin in the Allegheny Mountains and at a ranch in West Texas.
“It was really nice,” she says. “I didn’t feel like I was getting much done, but I realized that a lot of that experience ended up being reflected in the songs. I didn’t get a lot of the writing done right then, on that trip, but I feel like getting out there really helped me later on.”
2011 saw the Heartless Bastards hitting the highway once more, taking the opportunity to road-test Wennerstrom’s new songs on a bare-bones “acoustic” tour as well on a series of dates supporting Drive-By Truckers. The band set to work on Arrow just two short days after their return to Austin, a revved-up, well-oiled rock ‘n’ roll machine.
“We just went right in,” Wennerstrom says. “There’s a definite sound that comes from a band that’s been on the road and I really feel like it’s translated on the album.”
The band spent the next month with producer Jim Eno at his Public Hi-Fi home studio. Eno – known far and wide as the drummer in Spoon – guided the Bastards through the recording process, helping them to infuse their myriad influences and ambitions into the songs.
“Jim was really great to work with,” Wennerstrom says. “He asked me what kind of approach I wanted to take towards each song and we’d take it in that direction. It was like, what were you thinking for each song, as far as inspiration?”
Arrow showcases the depth and breath of the band’s indelible sound, with songs like “Got To Have Rock and Roll” and “Down In The Canyon” lighting upon spaghetti western film scores, Seventies soul, psychedelia, funk, blues, glam, and mudhole-stomping hard rock. Two years of nearly non-stop touring resulted in an astonishing musical telepathy among the Heartless Bastards, with all four players intuitively able to craft Wennerstrom’s songs into maximum form.
“I’m so in synch with this band,” she says. “Songs seem to go where I want them to go and it doesn’t take a whole lot of time. Even though I’m not very communicative, they know me well enough and get it.”
Kicking off with the widescreen vision of “Marathon,” the album is more wholly fleshed than anything in the Bastards’ prior oeuvre, while simultaneously securing the band in all their straight-on, unadorned majesty. Arrow is the glorious sound of a four-piece rock ‘n’ roll outfit in full flight, with little outside accompaniment bar conga player Matthew “Sweet Lou” Holmes’s performance on the evocative “Skin and Bone.”
“It’s a pretty stripped-down album in a lot of ways,” Wennerstrom says. “There’s really not a lot added to these tracks, they’re really mostly live takes. We talked about adding things, but when we listened back, we thought, ‘I don’t know if this really needs more.’”
With Arrow complete, the Heartless Bastards are now itching to get back out there. Inveterate road warriors, the band is at their electrifying best while on stage, making deep connections with both their audience and their music.
“It can be hard at times,” Wennerstrom says, “but I love it. I love playing on stage. It’s that hour and a half, that time that we’re up there, that I love most. There’s a lot of sitting around, trying to find things to fill in the time, but then we finally start to play, it’s so worth it and rewarding.”
Arrow sees the Heartless Bastards doing what all great bands do – furthering their artistic scope with each successive effort. With its impressive range and undeniable vigor, the album flies straight, honest and true, the finest distillation yet of this extraordinary rock ‘n’ roll band’s fiery, unforgettable sound.
“I feel like this is the strongest record I’ve ever done,” Wennerstrom says. “I feel like playing with these guys, us all being so connected, really helped make it so fully realized. I’m really, really happy with it.”
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Release Date: February 7, 2012
Track List:
01. Lonesome
02. That Old Black Hole
03. These Days
04. How Long Must I Wait
05. Get Away
06. Do The Trick
07. Vampire
08. Heavy Light
09. Big Girl
10. Over Here, Over There
11. Warrior Man
12. Turning The Century
Dr. Dog Be The VoidBeloved Philadelphia band Dr. Dog are poised to release a staggering burst of vital rock ‘n’ roll with their new record Be The Void. The album hits stores this February 7th via Anti-Records and is the raucous follow up to the group’s critically lauded Shame, Shame.
While the band’s previous records boasted meticulously crafted symphonic pop, this time around the band turns up the guitars and delivers a truly great cathartic rock ‘n’ roll album played with near reckless abandon and passion.
With the addition of new drummer Eric Slick and electronics-percussionist-guitarist Dmitri Manos, the band entered the studio (Meth Beach) with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and confidence, tracking the songs live to perfectly capture the rough and tumble energy of their renowned live show.
“We would just get in the pocket and go with it because it sounded great,” bassist-vocalist Toby Leaman explains. “There wasn’t this endless deliberating. We just went with our gut feelings on things.”
“It was reminiscent of when we were starting out and were these fearless weirdoes in a basement, so confident and reckless and bold,” guitarist-vocalist Scott McMicken adds. “It was really liberating.”
The songs on Be The Void flawlessly combine Dr. Dog’s adventuresome and expansive arrangements with a far leaner and meaner primal sound. The beats are harder, the guitars louder and edged with a warm distortion. “Guitars stopped being problematic and started becoming very exciting to us,” McMicken explains.
From the rollicking re-imagined blues of the disc’s title track to the searing guitars of “Vampire,” the frenetic punk urgency of “Over Here Over There” and the beautifully fuzzed out rock of “Warrior Man,” Dr. Dog’s Be The Void is a truly great rock ‘n’ roll record and the unmistakable sound of a band whose moment has arrived.
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Dr. Dog spent the entire summer holed up at Meth Beach, the band’s recording studio, hard at work on the upcoming release Be The Void (slated for February 7, 2012 on Anti-).
According to McMicken, the combination of recording again on the band’s home turf with increased emphasis on live takes, as well as the input from the band’s newest additions breathed new life into Dr. Dog’s music.
“They both bring so much new ideas and energy to the band,” he said. "It was very, very different, and I think the record reflects it. A lot less layering and manipulating. It was real refreshing, because you didn’t have to labor over things too much. You let the things that were working call the shots.
“We just had a lot of fun. We just kind of closed the doors and had the essence of what works with Dr. Dog, which is close-to-home, no outside forces—a lot of people who know each other well and love doing this,” said McMicken. “It was a real thrill, and hopefully the record will reflect that. All the songs are real live-ready material and are a lot easier to translate to a live show.”
At the end of the day, McMicken and his mates are still thrilled to be making music for a living. While several national television appearances, opening slots for bands like Wilco and The Ranconteurs and prime slots at some of the country’s biggest music festivals have been proof positive of the band’s growing popularity, Dr. Dog members are just happy to be making a living writing and recording their original music.
“It’s a working man’s band for lack of a better term,” said McMicken. “We don’t have jobs, and we have all these great opportunities. We get to make albums and tour.”
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1. Tom Waits- Bad As Me
2. Wilco - The Whole Love
3. Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers - Teenage and Torture
4. Mister Heavenly - Out of Love
5. Man Man - Life Fantastic
6. Deer Tick - Divine Providence
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Interview with Scott.
Live Buzz: Dr. Dog announced a new album coming soon. What can you tell us about it?SM: It’s coming out in February. I’m really excited about it, we had a lot of fun. We made it ourselves in our studio. We got some new cool stuff to do that with and it’s faster and dirtier than anything. Talking about something from before, we kind of chased after our live sound more. I think we even got a little bit closer with this one and it’s just supposed to be a real fun album to listen to. I really like listening to it. And it’s faster.
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Yeah, but it should leak sometime on January!
I'm really looking forward to this release. Toby said their main influence for the album was The Clash's Sandinista!
RIP Hubert.
your most anticipated releases of 2012
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Heartless Bastards - Arrow
Dr. Dog - Be the Void