Ten Years of Fenway Recordings: Three Shows in Three Cities over Three Months

Fenway Recordings is celebrating its Tenth Anniversary this year with a three-part series of shows that will span three cities over three months.  Beginning Sunday, August 21st, Part 1 will be at the legendary Beachcomber in Wellfleet, MA on Cape Cod’s National Seashore.  Then, Part 2 will take place on Saturday, September 24th at Casa Del Popolo in Montreal during that city’s annual music festival, PopMontreal -- also celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.  And finally, Part 3 will be on Wednesday, October 20th at The Studio at Webster Hall in New York City during the annual CMJ Music Marathon.

 

TEN YEARS OF FENWAY RECORDINGS: PART 1

Presented by Boston’s Weekly Dig

The Beachcomber, Wellfleet MA

August 21st, 2011

Featuring: Bodega Girls, Faces on Film, Joywave

Doors at 9PM / Tickets

TEN YEARS OF FENWAY RECORDINGS: PART 2

Presented with Arts & Crafts at PopMontreal

Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, QC

September 24th, 2011

Featuring: The Static Jacks, Faces on Film, Joywave & more TBA

TEN YEARS OF FENWAY RECORDINGS: PART 3

The Studio at Webster Hall, New York City

Wednesday, October 20th, 2011

Featuring: The Static Jacks, Faces on Film & more TBA

 

About the Bands:

Electro-rock party starters Bodega Girls are two-time Boston Music Award winners (Electronic Act of the Year, 2010 + 2011) and 2011 recipients of the Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll award for Best Live Act.  The band, whose song “She’s Into Black Guys” was featured on HBO’s Entourage, host COOL RANCH, one of Boston’s most successful monthly dance nights and are regular fixtures on Boston’s DJ and remix circuit.  Their raucus, beat-driven music and super high-energy live show have taken them from Boston to New York to LA, and have earned them spots opening for such acts as Miike Snow, MNDR, Das Racist, Neon Indian and Les Savy Fav.

 

Boston’s Faces on Film, whose second full-length album, Some Weather, was digitally re-released on July 19th by Nice Music Group, (Ed Harcourt, Idlewild) is fresh off a successful two-week tour with dream-folk songstress Marissa Nadler.  The project of singer/songwriter Mike Fiore, Faces on Film has been the recipient of consistent praise ever since the release of his debut album, The Troubles, in 2008.  Of Some Weather, the Boston Globe’s Jonathan Perry noted that “With his poetically opaque eye and a penchant for vocal reverb rivaled only by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Neko Case, and those dudes from Band of Horses, Fiore – a.k.a. Faces on Film – again casts his gaze in some divine directions.”  Featuring Fiore’s hauntingly beautiful melodies and unique instrumentation, Faces on Film earned the Boston Phoenix’ award for Best Singer/Songwriter in 2009 and a spotlight by NPR’s “Second Stage,” who said Fiore’s music showcases “both the epic and the intimate.”

 

The Rochester, NY based electro-rock outfit, Joywave.  Adept at writing instantly catchy, hook-laden songs, the band digitally released its 77777 Mixtape earlier this year, featuring their own original lyrics over totally reworked samples from artists including LCD Soundsystem, Miike Snow, Beach House and others.  The track “Betelgeuse” from the Mixtape had a consistent presence on the indie music blog ranking site hypem.com, reaching #3 on that site’s “popular” chart.  Following up on the Mixtape, Joywave also just released “Ridge/Traveling at the Speed of Light,” a 7” single available now on limited edition white vinyl.  Joywave will stop in NYC for two shows leading up to their performance at The Beachcomber.

 

New Jersey’s The Static Jacks are set to release their debut full-length album, If You’re Young, August 30th on Fearless Records.  Garnering early praise, the record has earned the band comparisons to some of their biggest influences, including The Strokes, The Cribs and The Cure.  Alternative Press, which gave If You’re Young 4 out of 5 stars, remarked at how the album’s “dozen tracks crackle with energy of post-millenial British rock, (think the Rakes or the Libertines), and the hook-lined swoon of late-80s British post wave.”  The review goes on to describe “Nervier tracks, (“My Parents Lied,” ”Defend Rosie”) where the guitars slash and the rhythms race come off better, balancing a terse pulse with their creamier, sweeping impulses.”  The Jacks have been busy on the road in 2011, playing their hard-driving, anthemic songs to audiences across the US.  After completing a tour supporting White Denim earlier in the summer, the Static Jacks played several dates with Manchester Orchestra before making their festival debut at the inaugural Escape to New York Festival on August 5th.  They also made an appearance at the US Open of Surfing event in California’s Huntington Beach and supported electronic chillwave artist Active Child at Bardot in LA.  Next up on the Jacks’ schedule will be a fifteen-date US tour supporting The Wombats.

 

Toronto-based Arts & Crafts is an independent artist services company whose roster includes such amazing acts as Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, and Ra Ra Riot.  Fenway Recordings is thrilled to be presenting Ten Years of Fenway Recordings: Part 2 with Arts & Crafts at PopMontreal, which happens to also be celebrating its Tenth Anniversary this year.  Full lineup information for this show at the fantastic Casa Del Popolo will be announced soon.

 

For more information on Fenway Recordings, visit our Website, Facebook Page or Twitter Profile.

 

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SAVES THE DAY Announce Fal Co-Headline Tour with BAYSIDE

SAVES THE DAY will be heading out on a US co-headlining tour with Bayside this fall.  Special guests I Am The Avalanche and Transit will join. A limited number of pre-sale tickets will be available beginning tomorrow, August 12 at 12 noon, local time.  Check Saves The Day's TOUR DATES page at that time to purchase yours.

Of the tour, lead singer Chris Conley said, "We are thrilled to be touring this fall with our good friends in Bayside...We'll be playing a bunch of new songs in support of our new album, Daybreak, as well as all the old songs you're dying to hear."

More info to come.

SAVES THE DAY/BAYSIDE FALL CO-HEADLINE TOUR DATES

OCTOBER:

Thu 6 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero

Fri 7 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero

Sat 8 Boston, MA Royale

Sun 9 Boston, MA Royale

Tue 11 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues

Wed 12 Detroit, MI Majestic

Thu 13 Chicago, IL House Of Blues

Fri 14 Milwaukee, WI Rave

Sat 15 Sauget IL Pop's

Sun 16 Lincoln NE Bourbon Theatre

Tue 18 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall

Wed 19 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue

Fri 21 Seattle, WA El Corazon

Sat 22 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater

Sun 23 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

Tue 25 Pomona,CA Glass House

Wed 26 W Hollywood, CA House Of Blues

Thu 27 San Diego, CA House Of Blues

Fri 28 Las Vegas, NV House Of Blues

Sat 29 Tucson, AZ The Rock

Sun 30 Albuquerque NM Sunshine Theater

NOVEMBER:

Tue 1 Dallas, TX Trees

Wed 2 Austin, TX Emo's

Thu 3 Houston, TX Warehouse Studio

Fri 4 Pensacola FL Vinyl Music Hall

Sat 5 Atlanta, GA Masquerade

Sun 6 Orlando, FL House Of Blues

Tue 8 Ft Lauderdale, FL Revolution

Wed 9 St Petersburg, FL State Theatre

Thu 10 Charleston,SC Music Farm

Fri 11 Carrboro NC Cat's Cradle

Sat 12 Norfolk VA Norva

Sun 13 Towson, MD Recher Theater

 

MGMT Curate LateNightTales Compilation

MGMT has teamed up with LateNightTales to create a compilation of music featuring tracks from artists such as the Velvet Underground, Felt, Suicide, Spacemen 3, and Disco Inferno. The compilation, which will be released on October 3,  also features an exclusive MGMT track: The band's cover of the Bauhaus song  "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything." Below, check out the compilation's tracklisting.

01 Disco Inferno: "Can't See Through It" 02 The Great Society: "Love You Girl" 03 Suicide: "Cheree" 04 Television Personalities: "Stop and Smell the Roses" 05 The Velvet Underground: "Ocean" 06 Felt: "Red Indians" 07 Julian Cope: "Laughing Boy" 08 Durutti Column: "For Belgium Friends" 09 Charlie Feathers: "Mound of Clay" 10 Mark Fry: "For Wilde" 11 MGMT: "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" (Bauhaus Cover) 12 Cheval Sombre: "Troubled Mind" 13 Dave Bixby: "Drug Song" 14 The Jacobites: "Hearts Are Like Flowers" 15 The Chills: "Pink Frost" 16 Martin Rev: "Sparks" 17 The Wake: "Melancholy Man" 18 Spacemen 3: "Lord Can You Hear Me?" 19 Pauline Anna Strom: "Morning Splendor" 20 Paul Morley: "Lost for Words Part 2"

Pre-order the album and find out more here.

 

Free MGMT, Mission of Burma, and Static Jacks' Concerts this Weekend!

Don't forget to check out FREE concerts by MGMT, Mission of Burma, and The Static Jacks this weekend as Fenway goes coast-to-coast! First, MGMT takes the stage by the ocean at the 2011 Nike US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach, CA on Saturday, August 6th. The concert is part of Nike’s self-proclaimed “Surfing Music Lineup,” including artists Jimmy Eat World, Surfer Blood, The Sounds, and Dead Country with MGMT headlining. MGMT will play at 4:30 pm at the conclusion of the day’s surfing competition. The concert is free and open to the general public. More information can be found at Nike’s official site.

3,000 miles away, Mission of Burma is slated to appear Sunday, August 7th at 3:00 pm at the Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club along the East River in lower Manhattan. Presented in association with the Seaport Music Festival on Pier 17 and the RiverRocks Series on Pier 54, the free concert and will take place on Beekman’s 200-ton sandy beach overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge. The show is limited to 1,100 people so get there early when doors open at 11:30 am. The beach is limited to audience members 21+ only and further details can be found here.

Finally, rounding out the weekend, The Static Jacks will play a free show at The Echo Club on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles on Monday, August 8th. The show starts at 8:30 pm and features performances from Active Child, Touche, and Sleeping Bags. Open only to those 21+, check out the official site for full show information.

 

 

IVY release new single "Fascinated" and host remix contest for "Distant Lights" and "Lost In The Sun"

IVY's new single "Fascinated", from upcoming album All Hours, is available for download by heading to iTunes. In addition, IVY has teamed up with Big Shot Magazine to challenge your remixing skills with two more All Hours tracks. Head over to BigShotMag.com and submit your remix of “Distant Lights” and “Lost In The Sun” for your chance to win a signed copy of IVY's upcoming release and have your remixes posted on the band’s social properties. Contest ends August 5!

BlackBook discusses the new IVY album

After tossing off so many near-perfect pop songs during the ‘90s (and a few last decade), Chelsea-based trio Ivy is finally back. Side projects have kept members Adam Schlesinger, Dominique Durand, and Andy Chase busy, but their album All Hours, set for a September release, represents the band’s first new material in five years. Said Durand earlier this month from Los Angeles, “We’ve all been very busy.” Read the full text here.

Saves The Day Announce Fall UK/EU Tour With Yellowcard

Saves The Day are excited to announce that they will be heading to the UK and Europe this fall for a tour with Yellowcard. The tour will include four co-headlining dates in the UK which follow Saves The Day's April show at London's Electric Ballroom, and will be the band's first full UK tour in over 7 years. Information on dates and venues below.  Tickets will go on sale to the public this Friday at 9AM GMT/5AM EST.  Stay tuned for info on more dates to come in the next few weeks.

:: Tour Dates :: Nov. 28th :: Glasgow Garage, Scotland UK Nov. 29th :: Birmingham HMV Institute, Birmingham UK Nov. 30th :: Manchester Academy 2, Manchester UK Dec. 1st :: London HMV Forum, London UK Dec. 3rd :: Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands Dec. 13th :: Trix Club, Antwerp Belgium Dec. 16th :: La (2), Barcelona Spain Dec. 17th :: Caracol, Spain

Magic! Magic Roses will join MGMT in CA for two shows

Magic! Magic Roses will be joining MGMT in Pozo, CA on August 7th and Big Sur, CA on August 10th.

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