CLIENTS
Duraluxe is a 5-piece, Nashville based band, that together now, over a decade has woven together sounds from their many moves across the country. You’ll hear everything from a bit of shoegazing, commingled with an Athens, GA sound, to sunny California pop and introspective songwriting. They’re currently wrapping up their 4th record which will be released in fall of 2008.
For the past ten years Mock Orange have continued to produce some of the best, most interesting and intricate records the genre has to offer. The band has followed these records with relentless touring over three continents, performing alongside bands like Rogue Wave, Ted Leo, and Minus the Bear.
This summer Mock Orange will release its latest offering, Captain Love, on Wednesday Records. The album is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Mind Is Not Brain, which Alternative Press dubbed the “closest to a perfect album we’ve heard in a long time.”
Captain Love was recorded over the better part of last year in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Jeremy Ferguson (Be Your Own Pet, Josh Rouse). Punctuated by the engaging artwork of Kathleen Lolley (My Morning Jacket’s Z), the album picks up where Mind Is Not Brain left off and proves to be Mock Orange’s most ambitious and affecting release to date.
Sam Lowry is an artist that is perhaps best described as “dark americana”. With four albums out on Higher Step Records, including the brand new “Songs of My Enemy” (featuring members of Murder by Death, Early Day Miners and Duraluxe); Lowry is coming off a year of divorce driven drinking and quality song writing and is hitting the road once again. This past year found him on tour with Murder by Death, Appleseed Cast, Unwed Sailor, Lucero, Rocky Votolato and William Elliott Whitmore. Lowry is currently taking the summer off to write a new album, finish his first book (written, not read) and generally relax and enjoy his hometown and homeboys, homegirls and homedogs.
Tremendous Fucking is exactly what the name implies: an auditory onslaught that simultaneously inspires fear, euphoria, a slight burning sensation, and deep feelings of shame - the kind you feel the next morning when you’re scamming a ride home in the same short skirt you went out in the night before. Like bastard children of the Jesus Lizard and Black Flag, TF lives and breathes a breed of rocknroll that is largely extinct - the kind that actually rocks. With a live performance that leaves throats sore, fists clenched, and colons cleansed, Tremendous Fucking renders listeners utterly shell-shocked and speechless the next morning when the judge holds up an anatomically correct doll and asks “Now please show the court where the band touched you…”
Velcro Stars hail from Murfreesboro, home to great bands such as How I Became the Bomb, Self, and the Features. They continue a long tradition of great songwriting that evokes the sounds of Superchunk, Pavement and Weezer. Currently though, the band is holed up in Grand Palace Studios working on their third release that showcases a still playful, yet slightly older band, with sounds drawing from 60s psychedelic acts like the Zombies and Velvet Underground.
Athens based Wedge looks back to his formative years, growing up in small-town, Indiana listening to the Cocteau Twins, the Cure, Siouxie & the Banshees and growing up. Bands came and went, he left town. The culmination of all of this led “Heavensville” an epic album filled with sonic blips and lush, serene textures. Wedge is currently working on an EP to be released on Harmonium in late 2008.
“Gorgeous, melancholy electronica songs that traverse epic distances in even their smallest gestures. An emotionally affecting blend of organic and synthetic sounds.”
RollingStone.com