THE WELCOME WAGON TO PLAY AT FOUNT OF MERCY BENEFIT

December 4th, 2009 , by


Christmas looms! Singer, songwriter, and Brooklyn resident Sarah Lentz is organizing her sixth annual Christmas Benefit Concert. This year the concert benefits Fount of Mercy, an organization that takes funds and puts them right in the hands of African organizations that care for orphans and children. 
And The Welcome Wagon will be among the many playing, alongside Tom Conlon, Susan Enan, Kelley McRae, Sarah Fullen Gregory, The Gregory Brothers, Bearden Coleman, Lee Kizer, Jas Knight, Kevin Gosa, Carey Wallace, Adam Browne and Kyle Olsen.
Suggested donation is $10, more if you can. The concert is this Saturday, December 5 at 7pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New York City. Details are on the Facebook Event page here.

NEW FILM PROJECT FROM JONATHAN DUECK ON KICKSTARTER

December 3rd, 2009 , by

Jonathan Dueck is a good friend of us here at Asthmatic Kitty. We are first and foremost big fans of his work. Most recently he helped bring Hermas Zopoula to our attention, but he’s been doing art and video work for us for a while, as well as a frequent contributor to our Sidebar.
For the last four years Dueck has been creating work that involves “scratch animation” set to music from collaborators Chad VanGaalen, Son Lux, and our own I Heart Lung. The result is nothing short of amazing. And: he’s pretty much done with the 20 film project – the only thing that’s missing is production and distribution.
And that’s where Kickstarter comes in. Used with great success by Chris Schlarb, Kickstarter is a rather terrific way to “crowdsource” financial support for a project. Jonathan is halfway to his $2,600 goal but has only a few weeks left. 
We hope that you’ll at least run by his Kickstarter page, check out the videos, and consider contributing to his project. Pledges of course aren’t just charity – there are benefits too (like actually getting the project in-hand!). You can read an interview on the Kickstarter blog here. Otherwise: read, view, and support Jonathan’s project here. Thanks for doing so!

PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE FROM RUN RABBIT RUN ARTIST JESSICA DESSNER

November 24th, 2009 , by

Do kimono dragons eat grapes? Yes, as evidenced above in Jessica Dessner’s “Year of the Dragon.” If you need more tangible evidence, you’re in luck, as Jessica has teamed up with Iconoclast (who has worked formerly with the likes of Spike Jonze, Larry Clark, Shepherd Fairey, Harmony Korine, Raymond Pettibon and David Ellis) to provide the prints to the public at large.
You will also of course remember Jessica not only from her amazing work on Sufjan Stevens and Osso’s Run Rabbit Run, but also from the album artwork on Welcome to the Welcome Wagon.
The prints are 12×12 and are signed and numbered in editions of just 20 each. They employ pigment print with printed cardboard record sleeve – which means super saturated, fancy pants paper. As in: gorgeous. You can view and buy here.

SHARE A VERY SUFJAN XMAS!

November 24th, 2009 , by

Photo by Denny Renshaw

We’re not the kind to usually leapfrog to Christmas goose before we’ve turked our turkey. Still, what with shipping time, Friday being the first Christmas music day of the year, etc et al, we thought we’d let you know a few things about Sufjan Stevens’ wonderful Songs for Christmas.

We’ve dusted off our Christmas site for the season. It’s at xmas.asthmatickitty.com.There, you can stream the entire 5-CD boxset for free until Christmas day, play a videogame designed by up and coming animation superstar Tom DesLongchamp, download ringtones (now for iPhone!), watch videos, and download ornaments. The site is just like last year’s, but now with more tradition!

And we know some of you are thinking of giving Sufjan’s Songs for Christmas boxset to friends. We’d like to help! For the next few weeks you can buy one for just $15 (it’s normally $19), two for $25, or 3 for $30 (each additional boxset is just $10) – plus shipping & handling. Simply add the boxset to your cart by clicking here, change to appropriate quantity level, and away you go, merrily enjoying Christmas!

RAFA TORO CREATES NEW JOOKABOX VID

November 21st, 2009 , by


From Dead Zone Boys by Jookabox. Director, design, and animation:
Rafa Toro

NEW EP FROM DM STITH, T-SHIRT WITH MP3

November 17th, 2009 , by

DM Stith released his debut full length, Heavy Ghost, at the beginning of the year. Since then he’s been busy – not the least of which is putting together nearly an album’s worth of new material for a series of EPs. 
Eventually, there’ll be three. For now, two; the newest (appropriately in time, unless you’re Canadian) is Thanksgiving Moon. The EP includes the song that won our hearts, but also a rendition of “Pigs” by Bloomington, Indiana’s Jefferson Street Marching Band. On the EP, Stith also covers David Bryne, while Rafter, Dayna Kurtz, and Michna remix Stith. You can buy it exclusively on iTunes for just under $7 by clicking here.

And if wearing Stith-related material is more your thing, we have you covered (so to speak). DM Stith (who moonlights as a graphic designer) put together a rather nice smoke-colored American Apparel shirt based on the Heavy Ghost album cover. Did we say Stith has been making EPs? He’s so prolific, this t-shirt includes an exclusive digital down of Collarbells, a three-track-in-one 20 minute EP. You can buy it here.

“Pigs (feat. Jefferson St. Band)” (Download)

TO FILL, A HALF-HANDED CLOUD VIDEO

November 16th, 2009 , by


From Cut Me Down & Count My Rings. Edited by: Brandon Buckner, original footage: John Ringhofer and friends, animation by John Ringhofer.

HALF-HANDED CLOUD TOURING; NEW CD OUT NOW [FREE MP3]

November 15th, 2009 , by

Photo by Brandon Buckner
This week we were the lucky ones to have released Cut Me Down & Count My Rings, a 46-song compilation of singles, rarities, and b-sides. Putting this many songs together was not easy! If you have already collected all these in one place then you are either John Ringhofer himself, or a very dedicated Half-handed Cloud fan (thanks for being one!). It has a selection of fine Christmas songs at the end, plus collaborations with Sufjan Stevens and a 7-part cover of WHY? songs. You can buy the CD for $10 here or the in-house-sold MP3 version for $8 by clicking here.
Or, if you happen to be in Denver tonight, Salt Lake on Monday, Davis CA on Tuesday, or next Sunday in San Francisco, you can buy them from HHC himself. If you are at all those locations, you are either John Ringhofer or a very dedicated Half-handed Cloud fan! Details on those tourdates here.

“Once, Twice, Seven Times a Werewolf” Cut Me Down & Count My Rings (Download)

#WTDTW (WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND)

November 13th, 2009 , by

Via our Twitter account, what to do this weekend:
Fri: Half-handed Cloud @ Heaven Gallery #Chicago, Cryptacize @ Majestic Theater – Madison, @Jookabox @ Duke Coffeehouse – Durham
Sat: Half-handed Cloud @ Bridgeport Church – Kansas City, @HeladoNegro @ Savannah College of A&D, Cryptacize @ Turf Club – #StPaul, @Jookabox @ Go Bar #Athens
Sun: HHC @ T-House #Denver.

Details here.

DEAD ZONE BOYS FROM JOOKABOX NOW AWAKE

November 6th, 2009 , by

The above video, which at once evokes the Halloween spirit but also transcends it, is from the brand new album Dead Zone Boys. Jookabox has let it loose on the world today. You can buy the CD for $10 by clicking here, or the LP for $14 here. Did we say the corresponding t-shirt glows in the dark? It does.

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