December 30 | The Cake Shop | New York, NY
January 26 | Castaways | Ithaca, NY (w/ Rubblebucket)
January 27 | Higher Ground | Burlington, VT (w/ Rubblebucket)
January 28 | Bowery Ballroom | New York, NY (w/ Rubblebucket) SUPERHUMAN HAPPINESS | The Physical EP
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GARAGE A TROIS To Play Five Shows In Colorado This December
featuring Skerik, Marco Benevento, Mike Dillon & Stanton Moore
“Garage A Trois skew grittier and more psychedelic with the current lineup, combining heavy-riff distortion with a rough-and-tumble funk delirium.” – The New York Times
“Insolently awesome since 1999, the instrumental quartet Garage a Trois consists of the hair-raising saxophonist Skerik, whiplash keyboardist Marco Benevento, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, and vibraphone-whacking percussionist Mike Dillon; brutal yet meticulously deranged blast of raw, jazz-rock power.” - Village Voice
Garage A Trois, a post rock/freak jazz entity comprised of Seattle-based saxophonics master Skerik, Brooklyn sound-sculptor/keysman Marco Benevento, Texas-born punk rock vibraphone hero Mike Dillon and New Orleans funky drummer/beat scientist Stanton Moore, have announced five shows in Colorado this December. The run starts in Telluride, stops in Breckenridge, Ft. Collins and Boulder, and concludes in Denver. While in Boulder, the band plans to drop into Immersive Studios to record a limited edition 7-inch for release on Record Store Day in 2012.
The Colorado tour is part of a year long surge behind Garage A Trois‘ latest critically lauded album Always Be Happy, But Stay Evilout now on The Royal Potato Family. Utne Reader wrote of the record: “there’s a head-clearing vigor to this music, as if the weirdos among us might be onto something after all,” while Relix declared: “the album’s title perfectly encapsulates the vibe of the band: the music is fun, energetic and hopeful, but there’s a darkness to it that begs listeners to stay on their toes.”
Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil is the follow up to Garage A Trois’ 2009 release, Power Patriot (the band’s debut with Benevento replacing original member Charlie Hunter). In the words of Stanton Moore, “the band set out to capture the highly flammable, rock-driven, avant pop album we all knew we were capable of making.” Recorded at Studio In The Country in Bogalusa, LA (where albums by The Neville Brothers, Stevie Wonder and The Wild Magnolias have been cut) with engineer/producer Randall Dunn (Cave Singers, Black Mountain, Sun City Girls), it’s the finest representation yet of the band’s sinewy, fourth-dimensional, polychromatic songwriting.
Upcoming Colorado Tour Dates are:
December 13 | The Llama | Telluride, CO {tickets}
December 14 | Three 20 South | Breckenridge, CO {tickets}
December 15 | Aggie Theater | Ft. Collins, CO {tickets}
December 16 | Fox Theater | Boulder, CO {tickets}
December 17 | Cervantes | Denver, CO {tickets}
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Garage A Trois latest album Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil
is available now on LP, CD & MP3
“Part hippie jam band, part space-rock psychedelic freakout, part late-night jazz club skronk session, Garage a Trois is ultimately just the sound of four extremely talented musicians enjoying the hell out of one another’s considerable chops. Swampy, almost lo-fi jams like ‘Resentment Incubator’ put the ‘Garage’ part of the equation front and center, but they’re talented enough to let texture and restraint lead the way, too, as on the mesmerizingly moody ‘Baby Mama Drama.’” – METROMIX
“…slinky (‘Resentment Incubator’), polyrhythmic (‘Earl Harvin’), accessible (‘Earl Harvin’ again), raw (‘The Drum Department’), cosmic (‘Shooting Breaks’), and ever so eerie (‘Swellage’). Recorded by engineer/producer Randall Dunn (Secret Chiefs 3, Sunn O))), Earth), it closes with an unexpected cover of John Carpenter’s ‘Assault on Precinct 13,’ a rendition that sonically embodies the album’s title.” – ALARM MAGAZINE
“Garage a Trois has crafted an album destined to go down as one of the best instrumental releases of the last couple decades. That may sound a tad hyperbolic, but Always Be Happy but Stay Evil showcases the extraordinary range of four musicians at the top of their respective games.” – GLIDE MAGAZINE
December 1 | UCSD The Loft | San Diego, CA(Advance Tickets)
December 2 | The Mint | Los Angeles, CA (Advance Tickets)
December 3 | Party at The Compound | Oakland, CA
December 4 | The Independent | San Francisco, CA (Advance Tickets)
December 6 | Moe’s Alley | Santa Cruz, CA (Advance Tickets)
December 7 | HumBrews | Arcata, CA (Advance Tickets)
December 8 | Sam Bond’s | Eugene, OR
December 9 | Doug Fir Lounge | Portland, OR (Advance Tickets)
December 10 | Skylark Club & Cafe | Seattle, WA (Advance Tickets)
December 29 | Highline Ballroom | New York, NY (Advance Tickets)
Grayson Capps heads out on the road this month in support of his critically acclaimed new album, The Lost Cause Minstrels available now on LP & CD here | On MP3 here
Also catch Grayson with a cameo and two songs in the new Sony Pictures Film, Straw Dogs.
“With a voice recalling Steve Earle and Delbert McClinton, rolled together with a fifth of cheap scotch, Capps is a natural treasure in the making.” – Maverick Magazine UK
“With ‘The Lost Cause Minstrels,’ Capps joins the Drive-By Truckers on the short list of artists who can tell a serious story while evoking the thrills of vintage Southern rock.” – Sound & Vision Magazine
“With Minstrels, Capps has finally made a classic album.” – American Songwriter Magazine
“The New Orleans-steeped literary roots rocker hasn’t gone countrypolitan: he’s just taken his down-home game to a new level, and illuminated his vocal gifts in the process.” – Relix Magazine
“The album has just about everything a Grayson Capps fan could want: Memorable characters, a handful of swampy hard-rocking numbers, a range of moods that makes full use of Capps’ ability to voice naked emotion, even a touch of Mardi Gras.” – Mobile Press Register
“The Lost Cause Minstrels takes all of Capps’ strengths, hones them to a razored point, and trains them on the listener in a wily collection of songs that reflect pathos, passion, and earned wisdom.” – All Music Guide
“‘The Lost Cause Minstrels’ should be the record that introduces Capps to the world, at least those that are paying attention, cause it’s his watershed moment…definitely top 5 record of the year as we stand at almost the midway point of 2011.” – Captain’s Dead
“These 12 songs on ‘The Lost Cause Minstrels’ verify Grayson Capps as one of the country’s finest songwriters.” – Swampland
“The Lost Cause Minstrels is the kind of record I can see myself continuing to listen to years from now.” – Berkeley Place
“Definitely an album that will feature on the end of year best of lists for roots music fans – file under essential listening.” – Beat Surrender
“A man who can write a slow song, call it ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and get away it, knows what he is doing.” – Here Comes The Flood
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey‘s new album The Race Riot Suite is in stores now. Order LP or CD direct from RPF here | Download MP3s from iTunes and get four exclusive bonus tracks here Grandfather’s Gun by jfjo Watch JFJO perform “Black Wall Street” from The Race Riot Suite
Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra celebrates the release of MTO Plays SLY, a tribute to the music of Sly & The Family Stone, at 92Y Tribeca on Friday, October 14. Advance tickets are on sale here. MTO Plays SLY is now available for pre-order on LP and CD. Any orders received before street date on [...]
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The Dead Kenny Gs (featuring Skerik, Brad Houser and Mike Dillon) head out for ten dates supporting Primus at the end of May. The band will also headline a run of shows on the West Coast in July. The Dead Kenny Gs brand new, critically acclaimed album, Operation Long Leash, is out now on Royal [...]
ROYAL POTATO FAMILY @ NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2011 Monday, May 2 730pm | WWOZ Piano Night featuring Marco Benevento @ House Of Blues Tuesday, May 3 7pm | Grayson Capps (Solo Acoustic) @ Chickie Wah Wah’s 10pm | Skerik’s Saucefest @ Hi Ho Lounge Wednesday, May 4 3pm | Garage A Trois [...]
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