FREE EP FROM HELADO NEGRO
October 19th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
Dear Friends. With all of last week's excitement we wanted to circle back and get in your ears the best way we know how – with music! And to that end we wanted to share with you Pasajero, Helado Negro's (a/k/a Roberto Carlos Lange) new EP, which is available for FREE download here! The album expands upon Helado Negro's musical palette and creates (in our opinion) a blissful affair of Latin textures coupled with Mr. Lange's patented delivery. We think it's pretty awesome and we hope you do too! In other news, Roberto will be performing a benefit show this Friday in support of Miami's Lotus House Women's Shelter. All proceeds will go directly to women and children in need so if you are hanging in southern Florida, swing by and show some love! Why? Because that's what it's all about.
DM STITH TO OPEN SUFJAN TOUR AND BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
October 10th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
Photo by Ben Tousley
NEW HALF-HANDED CLOUD ALBUM UP FOR PRE-ORDER
September 20th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
Photo by Denny Renshaw
Next week on the 28th we get to release Half-handed Cloud's brand new As Stowaways in Cabinets of Surf, We Live-out in Our Members a Kind of Rebirth. Frontman John Ringhofer works as a custodian in a church in Berkeley, California and that is precisely where he recorded the album. We can't say enough great things about this album, so instead we'll just say we think it's his best work yet, and that it's available for preorder now a couple of ways: CD ($10), LP ($14), Bandcamp MP3 ($8).
HHC is also going on a tour of the west coast. Dates here
Or just open your ears:
TOO MUCH FROM SUFJAN STEVENS [FREE MP3]
September 9th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
The internet is an amazing place, yes? We are able to transmit music quickly and efficiently in ways previously unheard of.
Here, for example, is "Too Much," the second track from Sufjan Stevens' The Age of Adz.
If you preorder the album now, you can get the entire album similarly transmitted in digital form two weeks early. Do that right here.
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND RELEASES MUSIC AND HUMAN BOY
September 8th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
Asthmatic Kitty is pleased to announce that Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond) has released two limited edition items. The first is a hand-numbered split 7” with the lovely and dynamic Dayna Kurtz. For the 7" each artist covers the other, Shara taking on Dayna’s “Postcards From Downtown”, and Dayna covering “Gone Away” from Bring Me The Workhorse. The 7” is on Kismet Records and you can stream the two tracks via their myspace page. You can purchase the two songs from itunes here and here.
The other release is a human boy. Constantine Jamesson Worden was born on 19 July 2010 at 10:58pm, healthy and happy to equally healthy and happy parents! Read all about it here. Fortunately this release is not for sale on itunes.
My Brightest Diamond will be performing in rock trio formation at some select shows in September and October. Click here for dates.
THE AGE OF ADZ, A NEW ALBUM FROM SUFJAN STEVENS
August 26th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
Last week we had the pleasure of releasing the All Delighted People EP (available for download for $5 and free stream right here). And the week before we announced a fall tour (tickets are still for sale here, but selling quickly).
And today, we are proud to announce the upcoming release of The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds), the first song-based full-length from Sufjan Stevens since 2005's Illinois. The Age of Adz will drop on October 12th (CD, MP3) with a double-LP following on November 9th.
For the next three weeks you can preorder the CD and LP and receive an MP3 download on September 28th, two weeks before the release date.
Preorder it all right here.
It’s much too soon to cast descriptive lots, but we can say the new album sounds nothing like the All Delighted EP (although it shares similar themes of love, loss, and the apocalypse). Nor is this new album built around any conceptual underpinning (no odes to states, astrology, or urban expressways).
We can say it shows an extensive use of electronics (banjos and acoustic guitars give way to drum machines and analog synthesizers), and an obsession with cosmic fantasies (space, heaven, aliens, love), to create an explicit pop-song extravaganza, augmented by heavy orchestration, and maybe even a few danceable moments. Enjoy Your Rabbit meets the BQE. But with songs. Verse, chorus, bridge, backbeat. Gated reverb. Space echo. Get your boogey on.
The “Adz” of the title loosely refers to the apocalyptic paintings of outsider artist Royal Robertson (1930-1997), whose work is used for the album cover, interior design, and as general inspiration for the tone of the album.
TRUMANS WATER RETURNS, TODAY [FREE MP3]
August 24th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
A NEW EP FROM SUFJAN STEVENS
August 20th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
ZACK BENT EXHIBITS NEW WORK
August 11th, 2010 , by Asthmatic Kitty
This Thursday our good friend, artist Zack Bent will present a new work at Vermillion Gallery in Seattle. Zack Bent’s new mixed-media installation, Fort Branch, continues the tradition of his previous series at Gallery 4Culture, Buffalo Trace, where he and his family collaborated as a tribe of scouts.
“In this series,” Zack says, “many of the works walk the line between play and catastrophe in the face of an unwieldy natural order. The exhibit is filled with a series of artifacts, including a full-scale dilapidated Lincoln Log cabin, drawing on the nearly 100-year-old toy designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son John during the Progressive Era. The toy’s early packaging described the contents as ‘interesting playthings typifying the spirit of America'. Also among the works are a mummy bag sarcophagus, a flag-burying kit and a selection of photographic documents and occurrences.”
The opening reception is tomorrow, August 12th, from 6-11PM and the show runs until September 4th. For more details go here.