ITUNES AK SALE
October 21st, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
To celebrate the release of All Things Will Unwind from My Brightest Diamond, we've put sixteen AK records on sale on iTunes for just $7.99, including MBD (of course), Sufjan Stevens, Welcome Wagon, Shannon Stephens, Liz Janes, Julianna Barwick, and more. View all the titles here.
FILMMAKER OF MAKE CURATING ROYAL ROBERTSON SHOW
October 20th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
This Friday night in New York City at White Columns gallery, Scott Ogden is curating a show entitled NO PROUD BASTARDS, an in-depth consideration of work by Louisiana artist Prophet Royal Robertson (1931-1997). Robertson’s art is an integral part of the MAKE documentary film, which Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn created over the course of many years. Royal Robertson’s art also served as inspiration for Sufjan Stevens’ The Age of Adz.
You can read more or purchase MAKE on DVD here.
NEW ALBUM FROM MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND OUT NOW, NEW VIDEO
October 18th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
It’s always a happy day at Asthmatic Kitty when we ship out a new record, and today is no exception. All Things Will Unwind is now out, and it is easily our favorite My Brightest Diamond record yet. The album is full of surprises; loose but articulate, catchy but challenging. Every detail, from handbells to costume design to every note trill, is straight from the soul of frontwoman Shara Worden, and it shows in each little corner of every song. It’s stacked with collaborations too, including DM Stith and the prolific yMusic. We hope you like it as much as we do!
Buy the album on iTunes at a limited time sale price for $7.99 right here.
You can also find the CD or LP at your local record store, or order it from our humble mail-order website by clicking here. We also have new Detroit-made MBD t-shirts that include an MP3 download for sale right here.
There’s also a new video! Longtime MBD collaborator Murat Eyuboglu shot the above for “We Added It Up,” which includes dance choreography by Jennifer McQuiston Lott. Watch above, or here.
My Brightest Diamond, “We Added It Up” by My Brightest Diamond
BE BRAVE T-SHIRT FROM MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND BENEFITS LOVE146
October 14th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
Shara, who lives in Detroit, worked with a “hyper-local” screen-printer not far from her house named InkInBloom to design and print a shirt based on this song. You see the result above; a beautiful incorporation of one of the masks from the project and the lyrics.
All of the profits from the sale of these shirts go to Love146, a non-profit organization working to end child sex slavery and exploitation.
Of the shirts Shara says, “"Be Brave, dear one. Be ye changed or be undone. Millions of people are reported to be enslaved, most of whom are in commercial sex industries. 1.2 million are children. Since I have several friends who are working with non-profits to raise awareness of this reality, and try to help prevent human trafficking, I decided this was a small thing I could do to help. I’ve known the founders of Love146 for 10 years and I trust them. I believe in their work. So I thought for starters, I could make a tee shirt, a little prayer, a hopeful wish for those people who are trapped, to trust that change will come. "
You can buy men and womens’ shirts from InkInBloom’s website for $24 by clicking here.
WEAR A DIAMOND: MBD RELEASES STITH-DESIGNED, DETROIT-PRINTED T-SHIRTS
October 12th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
We'll speak it plainly: these are terrific t-shirts, and My Brightest Diamond through and through. Longtime MBD collaborator David Stith designed the shirts, while Detroit-based Inkinbloom screen-printed them from their own home using non-polluting and biodegradable inks and emulsions.
For the womens' shirt, they printed on the Berry colored Bella B8101 (click here for info and sizing chart). The mens' they printed on a Lieutenant Green American Apparel shirt (here for those details and sizing chart).
Purchase the t-shirt and a full MP3 download of My Brightest Diamond's All Things Will Unwind for $20. MP3 delivered via email on October 18th, 2011. Click here to buy.
MBD TO UNVEIL UNWIND AT RELEASE PARTY FRIDAY NIGHT IN BROOKLYN, NY
October 11th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
My Brightest Diamond’s new album, All Things Will Unwind, is out in Europe (buy it on iTunes here), and NPR is streaming the album over at their First Listen section here.
MBD?S UNWIND STREAMING ON NPR?S FIRST LISTEN
October 10th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
The third album from My Brightest Diamond, All Things Will Unwind, comes out in the US next Tuesday the 18th (and is already out in the EU). But NPR is graciously hosting a stream of the entire album right here.
If you’re hankering for something more visual, you can watch La Blogothèque’s lovely videos right here, or some mini-documentaries directed by Murat Eyuboglu over here.
You can preorder All Things Will Unwind on iTunes here, or CD/LP here.
NEW MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND ON LA BLOGTHEQUE
October 10th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
One of our absolute favorite music websites ever in the history of internetting, La Blogothèque, did what they do best and posted some amazing footage of My Brightest Diamond. No one does this better than La Blogothèque! You can view one of the videos above, or all three here (Version française).
DM STITH KETCHUP
October 8th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
DM Stith is also opening for My Brightest Diamond’s release party at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY on Friday October 18th. You should go! Details here.
In other news from the Stith front, Daytrotter posted a lovely session (as they are inclined to do), which includes an amazing rendition of “Pigs.” Daytrotter wordcraft Sean Moeller writes that DM Stith “seems like a believer and a dreamer and there might not be anything much better than being a combination of those two things.” Listen and read here.
And lest you think David has been making music 16 hours a day, you should check out yMusic’s new Kickstart-ed album Beautiful Mechanical. Not only does it sound wonderful (and include a composition from Shara Worden), but it sports cover art designed by David. Listen and see here.
If you need more Stith news – and of course you do – check out his shiny new Tumblr (which is like a blog but without an “e,” an increasingly unnecessary vowel) right ovr hr: ihaveitallfiguredout.tumblr.com.
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND TO TOUR THE EU
October 6th, 2011 , by Asthmatic Kitty
Photo by Denny Renshaw
We’re on the edge of our seats over here at AK HQ because next Monday we’ll be releasing All Things Will Unwind in the European Union (on Tuesday, October 18th for the US). It will be quite a treat!
Here’s another treat for you all across the pond: you can expect a My Brightest Diamond show in your neighborhood in November! MBD will start in London with a full ensemble, then travel to Rome, Milan, Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Ekko, Leuven, and close out in Paris (where else!). Details on that tour are here.
If you’d like to know more about the forthcoming Unwind album, you can do no better than watching these videos directed by Murat Eyuboglu right here. You can preorder the album on iTunes by clicking here, or preorder the CD/LP over here.