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Comment by LRY! ADMIN on January 18, 2011 at 2:25am -
THE DEARS ANNOUNCE TOUR!
NEW ALBUM, DEGENERATION STREET, OUT FEBRUARY 15th
VIDEO FOR FIRST TRACK OMEGA DOG NOW ONLINE
Known for a commanding live show that established this Montreal rock band as a unique and powerful presence, The Dears will embark on a national headlining tour in support of their upcoming album, "Degeneration Street," out February 15th on Dangerbird Records. Beginning March 4th in Victoria, British Columbia, the band will bring their new collection of mesmerizing orchestral rock and deeply evocative pop to the stage, a place that has connected the group to a legion of adoring fans and critics around the world. Along the way, The Dears will appear at this year's SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX. Los Angeles indie rock band Eulogies will head out as main support.
Meticulously crafted first track "Omega Dog," which is now available on iTunes, encapsulates The Dears' neo-romantic songwriting and acts as a calling card for "Degeneration Street" as a whole: ranging from electrifying pop, to full-on primal screams; grinding guitar solos, to soulful baroque.
An hommage to one of their first videos, "End of A Hollywood Bedtimes Story," the video for "Omega Dog" was shot and lit simply with handheld devices on the late night streets of Montreal by the band and director Sinbad Richardson (Think About Life, Plants And Animals, Stars.) Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaRFS8ceKf0
A welcome return to form and for fans of the operatic hysteria of past albums "No Cities Left" and "Gang Of Losers," "Degeneration Street's" grandiosity and cathartic signature sound was produced by Tony Hoffer (Phoenix, Belle and Sebastian).
TOUR DATES (more dates to be announced shortly):
With Eulogies
March 4th Sugar Victoria, BC
March 5th The Venue Vancouver, BC
March 7th Crocodile Café Seattle, WA
March 9th Slim's San Francisco, CA
March 10th The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA
March 17th SXSW Austin, TX
March 18th Dangerbird Records Showcase Austin, TX
March 19th SXSW Austin, TX
March 20th SXSW Austin, TX
On Sale Dates & Purchase Links:
Victoria (on sale January 14th):
http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelect...
Vancouver (on sale January 14th):
http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1100462A9552869C?artistid=891539&a...
Seattle (on sale January 15th):
http://thecrocodile.com/index.html?page=calendar&event=5875479
San Francisco (on sale January 16th):
http://www.slimstickets.com/events/137620/The-Dears
Los Angeles (on sale January 14th):
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/26167/tfly
www.thedears.org
www.facebook.com/TheDears
www.myspace.com/thedears
http://twitter.com/thedears
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Comment by LRY! ADMIN on February 21, 2010 at 8:02pm
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February 23rd Tuesday
Alkaline Trio This Addiction
All Time High Friends In High Places
Dan Black
David Broza Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt
Michelle Branch Everything Comes And Goes
Brian Jonestwon Massacre Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
Cassidy Problem Is Back
Fan Death A Coin For The Well [EP]
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love
DJ Khaled Victory
Fan Death A Coin For The Well EP
Fang Island Fang Island
Free Energy Stuck on Nothing
Jaga Jazzist One Armed Bandit
K-OS Yes!
Lifehouse Smoke & Mirrors
Daniel Merriweather Love & War
Holly Miranda The Magician's Private Library
Kidz In The Hall Land Of Make Believe
N.A.M.B. BMAN
The New Loud Can't Stop Not Knowing [EP]
Joanna Newsom Have One On Me
Past Lives Tapestry Of Webs
Phantom Communique The Wolf And The Sheep
Quasi American Gong
The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme
The Rocket Summer Of Men And Angels
Shout Out Louds Work
The Streets Computers And Blues
Butch Walker I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
Xiu Xiu Dear God, I Hate Myself
Rocky Votolato True Devotion
March 2nd Tuesday
Benjy Davis Project Lost Souls Like Us
Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back
Groove Armada Black Light
Jamie Cullum The Pursuit
Jamie Foxx Body
Little Boots Hands
Natalie Merchant Leave Your Sleep
Mumford & Sons Sigh No More
Rogue Wave Permalight
Sharam Jay In My Blood
These New Puritans Hidden
Josh Wolf ( of WHY?) Jet Lag
March 9th Tuesday
Acrassicauda Only The Dead See The End Of The War
Alberta Cross Broken Side Of Time
Before Their Eyes Untouchable
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat The Devil's Tattoo
Broken Bells [The Shins' James Mercer and Danger Mouse project] Broken Bells
Frightened Rabbit The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
Gorillaz Plastic Beach
Liars Sisterworld
Monica Still Standing
The Morning Benders Big Echo
Numero Group Good God! Born Again Funk
Pavement Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement
Josh Rouse El Turista
Standard Fare The Novelle Beat
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks
Titus Andronicus The Monitor
March 16th Tuesday
Chamillionaire Songs Grom The Heart
Close Your Eyes
Drive By Truckers The Big To-Do
Tom McRae The Alphabet of Hurricanes
Ludacris Battle Of The Sexes
Nas And Damien Marley Distant Relatives
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights [Live]
The Whigs In The Dark
Peter Wolf Midnight Souvenirs
March 23rd Tuesday
Autechre (Deluxe Edition) Oversteps
Justin Bieber My World Part 2
Jonsi Birgisson [of Sigur Ros] Go
Cam'ron The U.N. - Gunz N' Butta
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
Goldfrapp Head First
Jane Krakowski Live At Feinstein's At The Regency
Love Is All Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
Neon Trees Habits
Redman Reggie Noble 9 1/2
Bettie Serveert Pharmacy of Love
She & Him Volume Two
Social Code Rock 'N' Roll
Quadron self-titled
Woodhands Remorsecapade
March 30th Tuesday
Angus & Julia Stone Down The Way
autoKratz Animal
Erykah Badu New Amerykah, Part II: Return Of The Ankh
Barenaked Ladies All In Good Time
Black Francis (aka Frank Black) NonStopErotik
Blues Explosion Dirty Shirt Rock N' Roll: The First Ten Years
The Cinematic Orchestra (DJ Mix) Late Night Tales
The Revere The Great City [digital release]
Trina Amazin'
Blues Explosion Dirty Shirt Rock N' Roll: The First Ten Years
Drake Thank Me later
Alan Jackson Freight Train
Bettie Serveert Pharmacy of Love
Usher Raymond vs. Raymond
Wu-Tang The Wu-Massacre
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BREAKING NEWS! by Alternative Press
FEATURE: Barry Johnson of Joyce Manor is “Violent Inside” on new album
For JOYCE MANOR, expectations are at an all-time high. The band's 2011 debut garnered a ton of critical and fan praise for its raw, real pop-punk sound, and was the catalyst for the band's move to Asian Man Records for their new album, Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired. Due out Apr. 17, OATIWSGT is a nine-song, thirteen minute romp where no breaths are taken and no ideas are rehashed. Joyce Manor take quite a few calculated risks in these new songs, but as you'll read below, aren't worried about alienating fans.
AP chatted with guitarist/vocalist Barry Johnson about the new record, the trials and hiccups writing and recording it, and why they threw a cover of "Video Killed The Radio Star" right in the middle of it. The first single from OATIWSGT, "Violent Inside," is streaming below as well.
Interview: Bryne Yancey
Let’s talk about “Violent Inside” first. What’s it about? What was the experience like recording it?
“Violent Inside” I’d just say is about always feeling angry. It’s like, growing up as a punk kid, things bother you that don’t bother other people. You can’t just check out at the grocery store without being disgusted by magazines and movies and the way the person in front of you is behaving, the cashier—everything bothers you and makes you feel angry and want to act out violently. Of course you never do, but just, you know—that. I have certain friends who feel that way as well and we’ve felt that way since we were kids and still feel that way now. It’s like—here’s a song about that. It’s about people who always feel angry. It’s also about the people who don’t.
Your description of it almost reminds me of that Michael Douglas movie Falling Down where he’s just angry at everybody and just starts killing people for no apparent reason.
Or Larry David [of Curb Your Enthusiasm], where people are like “let it go” and he can’t let things go. [Laughs.] I guess “Violent Inside” just sounds better than “Frustrated Inside.” I think it’s kind of cool how it’s such an angry song [lyrically] in this big, head-bobbing, power-pop salad called “Violent Inside.” It’s nothing like the title inside would suggest.
Yeah, exactly.
Lyrically, it’s in there. The outrage is in there, but it’s just kind of in there in this creamy pop song.
What was up with that pre-order on Tuesday? That went a little crazy.
Pretty cool, huh? It just destroyed Asian Man. The label that made me want to be in a band and the kids love him. I would say it got me into punk, but that’s totally not true because it got me into ska. I was like, “I don’t know about all this punk, but man, this ska—this Bruce Lee Band record is killer.” [Laughs.] But yeah, it’s really, really cool how many people wanted to pre-order it. There’s no exclusive color or anything, which is weird, too.
Yeah, it’s just three colors—500 of each.
Yeah, so it’s really cool that people wanted to buy it. Maybe Asian Man’s servers are not that good and it could have been maybe 30 people that were trying to order it. [Laughs.] It’s flattering, but I don’t know. Maybe people just wanted to get an Alkaline Trio patch, too.
So I have to ask you about the cover song—“Video Killed The Radio Star”—on this record. It’s right in the middle of the record. It really stands out. What made you want to cover that song? What made you want to put it on the record, and in that position?
It’s funny; when the band first started, it was just me and Chase—a two-piece acoustic band. That was one of the first songs we did. I had, like, one song written and said, “You know what we should cover? ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ because that’s the best song ever.” There’s actually a demo recording of us of the best song ever. We really, really like that song.
And it’s not some statement about technology and progress and how the more we move forward the more we leave behind—none of that. Absolutely none of that. Not that I’ve never felt that way, but that’s just so corny if that’s what we’re getting at. It’s just a killer song. We were just like, “Let’s kind of make it kind of a skate-punk thing.” It didn’t end up as skate-punk as I wanted it to be. I wanted it to be like a ‘90s punk cover of Lagwagon doing “Brown Eyed Girl” or every fucking ‘90s jam where they covered a song from the ‘80s and made it, like, you know, circle-pit drums and everything else. We tried to do something like that, but it ended up being a little more tasteful than we hoped. It’s still funny, the people saying “How dare you cover this great song so poorly and throw it in the middle of your album,” but that was such a good spot for it. It just hits super hard right in the middle.
One of the reasons I asked is that there’s definitely been some negative rumblings already about this album being only nine songs and one of them being a cover.
People were like “What’s up with that album cover, dude?” and saying I should’ve waited a year to write more songs. It’s like, “Holy shit, you haven’t even heard the record yet. Calm down.” I know you don’t want to like it, that’s fine. It’s hilarious. They haven’t even heard any of it, but they’re like, “How dare these guys.” [Laughs.] With how our first record went over, it was fully inevitable. We’re playing pop-punk. It’s not that rare to—everyone loves a pop-punk band, you know? I kind of saw that coming and I’m glad that all four of us were like, “Oh shit! It’s going to be embarrassing to like our band in about a year.” I knew that was coming. That’s great—that’s fucking awesome. I love it. And there are these dudes that think they are so cool and they can just go onto the next flavor of the month. Whatever punk band they’re gonna get into. It’s cool; I like the backlash. It’s nice there’s something you can count on in this world.
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