Author: Chad

February 28, 2011 In Laura Gibson

Laura Gibson Tours w/ Portland Cello Project, Tweets, Gets Published.

This Just in from Laura Gibson:

I am heading into the deep Northern winter country on tour with the Portland Cello Project (who have gotten a good bit of attention recently for a fantastic Kanye West cover). They are amazing! I will not be playing the cello (I am just a poser) but I will be joining their set for some songs, and doing a set of my own songs, accompanied by a few of the players. If you live in any of these places, please come out and say hello. We will do our best to warm your spirits.

3/1 – Minneapolis – Cedar Cultural Center
3/3 – River Falls, Wisconsin – University of Wisconson, River Falls
3/4 – Madison, Wisconson – High Noon Saloon
3/5 – Chicago – The Hide Out
3/5 – Clive, IA – The Bombay Bicycle Club
3/8 – Salt Lake City – The State Room

 

Follow Laura on Twitter @lgsingsthehits.

 

Lastly an essay Laura wrote is bing published in The Los Angeles Review! You can find the Los Angeles Review at fine Independent book stores, or online.

February 27, 2011 In Hosannas

Hosannas Tours Wesern States, hits SXSW, preps free EP

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Hosannas is on tour forever. This time winding their way to Austin and back. They have an EP in the works that will land soon for the nice price of FREE.  Quality stuff too.  Here’s a teaser for that EP, titled Thug Life Nicole:

Hosannas-Walrus by dangervillage

3/1–Portland @ Bunk Bar (free show!)
3/2–Eugene @ Tectonic Jelly Warehouse
3/4–Oakland @ The Uptown Nightclub
3/5–San Jose @ The Gingerbread House
3/6–San Francisco @ Hemlock
3/7–Santa Barbara @ Muddy Waters
3/9–San Diego @ Soda Bar
3/10-Las Vegas @ Neon Reverb Music Festival
3/11-Pheonix @ Trunkspace
3/12-Alburquerque @ Winnings Coffee
3/13-Denton @ 35 Conferette
3/14-Grapevine, TX @ Pause
3/15-Austin, TX (SXSW) @ Carousel Lounge
SXSW!
3/18-Dallas @ City Tavern
3/19-Tulsa @ Soundpony
3/20-Wichita @ Kirby’s Beer Store
3/21-Denver @ Hi-Dive
3/22-Salt Lake City @ Kilby Court
3/23-Garden City @ VAC

February 14, 2011 In Esperanza Spalding

Congratulations To Esperanza Spalding & The Decemberists!

It’s been an interesting, triumphant, and breathtaking year for HUSH alumnus:

On January 26th The Decemberists reached #1 on the venerable Billboard 200 Album Chart with The King Is Dead (as well as several other number ones in other chart categories).

Last night Esperanza Spalding, who released her first recordings for HUSH as a member of the trio Noise For Pretend (within a month of The Decemberists debut of the same year), was voted by 13,000 peers in the Recording Industry to win The Best New Artist Grammy.

If in 2002 you would have told me that the acts I ‘signed’ would go on to top the Billboard charts and win a prestigious Grammy within ten years do you suppose I would have believed you?

I dug up these photos (remember digital camera technology was still far from mainstream… let alone the iTunes store did not yet exist) so the quality is atrocious, but they are vestigal proof that these musicians started by playing half-empty rooms to their friends.

It’s really inspiring.  These are talented, hard-working, beautiful people and I’m honored to have played a really, very small part in their path to success.

-Chad Crouch.

February 8, 2011 In Nick Jaina

Nick Jaina – Best of Sleeping On The Covers FREE

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Selected from a body of work playing court musician to Kickstarter patrons, these covers gather the best of the off-the-cuff sessions. Nick says: “I played all the instruments and recorded it all myself at my friend Lee Howard’s studio, so I hope you’ll pardon the occasional shuffling sounds in between songs or some hot instruments that clip a bit.”

Get it in the HUSHshop

01 – Everybody’s Talkin
02 – That Summer Feeling
03 – Fields of Gold
04 – Revelator
05 – Cloudbusting
06 – May You Never Be Alone
07 – Trainwreck
08 – I Lost You
09 – Killing Moon
10 – Human Nature
11 – Cupid/ Mexican Blue
12 – Into My Arms
13 – Me and the Devil

January 31, 2011 In Hosannas

Hosannas Tour The West

From Hosannas:

We miss you California.  And we miss texas, and las vegas and colorado and utah (maybe most of all), and oklahoma and arizona we miss you too.
and so, we are coming to hang out with you and your sunshine.
play some music for you after the sun sets.

3/1–Portland @ Bunk Bar (free show!)
3/2–Eugene @ Tectonic Jelly Warehouse
3/4–Oakland @ The Uptown Nightclub (also a show at UC Berkley earlier in the day…)
3/6–San Francisco @ Hemlock
3/7–Santa Barbara @ Muddy Waters
3/8–Los Angeles @ The Smell
3/9–San Diego @ Soda Bar
3/10-Las Vegas @ Neon Reverb Music Festival
3/11-Pheonix @ Trunkspace
3/12-Alburquerque @ Winnings Coffee
3/13-Denton @ 35 Conferette
SXSW!
3/18-Dallas @ City Tavern
3/19-Tulsa @ Soundpony
3/20-Wichita @ Kirby’s Beer Store
3/21-Denver @ Hi-Dive
3/22-Salt Lake City @ Kilby Court
3/23-Garden City @ VAC

January 12, 2011 In Laura Gibson

Laura Gibson Embarks on Tour

(leaving her writing trailer behind…)

From lauragibsonmusic.com

In October, I traveled to New York and played a show with Sean Lennon’s new project with Charlotte Kemp Muhl called “The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger”.   I was endeared to Sean and Charlotte and their songs, and I am excited to be touring with them this month. I’ll be previewing (perhaps stumbling through) songs from my new record. Sean Ogilvie will be accompanying me on various instruments. The dates are listed below: (**indicates that the shows where we are supporting The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, all other shows we’ll be headlining). Many of the shows are close to selling out, so I recommend purchasing tickets soon:

Looking forward to seeing some old friends, and meeting new ones!

xo lg

January 14 – Slow Train Music, Salt Lake City, UT (VIP show – contact Slowtrain for details)
January 15 – Triple Nickel – Colorado Springs, CO (with the Changing Colors)
January 16 – Hi Dive – Denver, CO (with Hello Kavita and the Maykit)
January 17 – House Show – Lubbock, TX
January 18 – Dan’s Silverleaf – Denton, TX**
January 19 – Cactus Cafe – Austin, TX**
January 20 – Padre’s – Marfa, TX** (Trevor Reichman is also on this bill)
January 21 – Club Congress – Tucson, AZ**
January 22 – Pappy and Harriet’s – Pioneertown (Joshua Tree), CA**
January 23 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA**
January 25 – Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco, CA**
January 26 – Luigi’s – Sacramento, CA
January 28 – The Woods – Portland, OR**
January 29 – Crocodile Cafe – Seattle, WA**

December 16, 2010 In Run On Sentence

Run On Sentence: CSM, Hippo For Christmas

Over at runonsentencemusic.com. Dustin Hamman is concocting his own home brew of crowd funding, and rather than attempt to summarize, we’ll turn it over to him:

Howdy friends.

I make a lot of recordings. They are usually quite different than what you get when you buy a Run On Sentence album. They may be recordings of me just playing guitar and singing, there may be 14 layers of vocals two organs and a drum, i might rock out on my midi guitar and make some silliness, i might play a song i’ve crafted, i may make one up as i go, i may cover someone else’s tune, and i might even cover one of my own… it’s hard to say really. The point is that i make them, and i’d like to share some of them with you.

That’s why i’ve decided to start a CSM. It stands for Community Supported Music.
For a donation of $10 – $25 you will receive, via email, 12-20 MP3 recordings in 2011. One a month guaranteed, plus 8 others mixed in if i get 40 or more people to support the project.

If you are interested in supporting this project simply click this button


In the “purpose” field, type CSM plus the email address you would like your music sent to and make your donation. If you’d prefer, you can also send a check, payable to Dustin Hamman, to:
Dustin Hamman
6 Lyle-Snowden Rd.
Lyle, WA 98635

Most, importantly, it would greatly improve the success of this project if you could help spread the word with anyone you think might be interested. You could even sign someone up as a holiday gift!

Still not convinced? Here’s my rendition of the Holiday Classic, I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas as a sample of the joy you could receive throughout the year.

Thanks for your support,
-dustin hamman