FREE TIME’S “I LOST AGAIN” MUSIC VIDEO & TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
Created by Charles Poekel and Maia Stern, Free Time’s latest video for ”I Lost Again” documents the cerebral elevator journey of the group’s leader, Dion Nania. The song is off their upcoming self titled debut LP. Check out the video below.. and remember, while travel is important, and seeing the world is vital; the longest, most poignent travel, takes place in the mind.
Free Time’s LP is out May 28th, you can pre-order a copy HERE! Check’m out live as they tour America for the first time!
6/9/2013 • Philadelphia, PA • Johnny Brenda’s
6/11/2013 • Detroit, MI • Garden Bowl
6/12/2013 • Chicago, IL • Empty Bottle
6/13/2013 • Cincinnati, OH • The Comet
6/15/2013 • Oxford, MS • Lamar Lounge
6/18/2013 • Columbia, SC • Conundrum
6/20/2013 • Raleigh, NC • King’s Baracade
6/21/2013 • Richmond, VA • Strange Matter
6/22/2013 • Washington, DC • Red Onion Records (In-Store)
6/22/2013 • Baltimore, MD • Golden West
6/21/2013 • Brooklyn, NY • Shea Stadium (Record Release Show)
Last September King Cyst released their debut LP, “Real Pussy”. In the following months the band made several live appearances, two of which were luckily recorded for eternal documentation and further listening pleasure.
The first set took place with the band opening UP’s CMJ showcase at Shea Stadium, BK on 10/20/12. Others included on the bill were Julian Lynch, Twerps, and Andrew Cedermark. The set was recorded by Shea Stadium’s Adam Reich
The second set was recorded by Samuel Franklin at Steve’s Loft in Greenpoint, BK on 11/17/12. Others included on the bill were Scott and Charlene’s Wedding, Ducktails, and Free Time.
You can grab a copy of King Cyst’s “Real Pussy” LP HERE!
“Esteemed ethnomusicologist and swell lo-fi bedroom rocker Julian Lynch, PhD, is set to head out on tour this summer with Montreal natives The Luyas. To help bring the unexpectedly expansive sound of Lines (his new album for Underwater Peoples) to life, The Luyas will serve as Lynch’s backing band, while Lynch will sit in with The Luyas during their set. The acts will alternate on a nightly basis to see who gets the sweet spot of not performing last as streams of people leave because, while they’re really enjoying the show, it’s just too damn late to be out on a school night.”
LISTEN TO “CANIS MAJOR,” NEW TRACK FROM ANDREW CEDERMARK
Following his 2010 effort, Moon Deluxe, the rock-and-roll musician Andrew Cedermark spent 2012 putting new songs to tape in an honest-to-goodness rock-and-roll recording studio. Ten of these songs make up his new album, Home Life, which is set in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, and which, loosely, is about growing up only to find that you didn’t have to, and the subsequent discovery that the process is irreversible.
“Canis Major” is the first single off Home Life, which will be released July 16th. Listen here:
“Former Titus Andronicus guitarist and University of Virginia graduate Andrew Cedermark doesn’t live in Charlottesville, VA anymore– he’s back in his native New Jersey. And yet, while “Canis Major” was one of the songs from his upcoming sophomore LP Home Life recorded in Kevin MacMahon’s New Paltz, NY studio (others were put to tape in the Garden State and the Old Dominion), it still can be heard as bearing the influence of his former home. Cedermark drawls deadpan, devastating lyrics of romantic unease (“oh how I love her with my cicada-shell heart”) in a way that recalls local hero David Berman, while the music itself evokes the way a lot of people remember a summer night in C-ville once they leave.
The appropriately homespun recording is so closely-mic’d, you can feel some kind of moisture on it, whether it’s the humidity or the condensation on a cold one meant to combat it. Likewise, the combination of shuffling country and shambling indie rock is comforting regardless of what mood you happen to be in– there’s beery bonhomie if you’re looking for it and enough open pace to play guitar as loud as you want if you’re not.”
Dummy Mag premiered this John Elliot (aka Outer Space) remix of La Big Vic’s “Nuclear Bomb,” off their new record, Cold War, which is available in the UP Store.
“A peaceful ascension to the stars is how John Elliott of the sadly defunct Emeralds re-imagines La Big Vic’s Nuclear Bomb. A cut from the Brooklyn trio’s recent album ‘Cold War’ (an album we are very fond of), Elliot’s version embodies his Outer Space solo name. It glints and gleams, hisses and burns, then – with a final metallic wink – drifts out of sight.” -Ruth Saxelby
FREE TIME ONE OF THE L MAGAZINE’S “8 BANDS TO HEAR”
Free Time met up with The L Magazine the other day to answer a few questions and take some photos.
“’I’m going to hold my horses, it’s not a race,’ Free Time frontman Dion Nania insists over unhurried guitars, drawing out the word ‘race’ for a good couple seconds as if to prove it to us… Or maybe to himself. Coming from a track titled ‘I Lost Again’ on his band’s self-titled debut (out May 28 via Underwater Peoples), the play on tempo and subverted ideas of victory speak to a sly self-deprecation that cuts the record’s face-value pleasantness…”
Sarah Kinlaw put together this fantastical vid for Julian Lynch’s “Gloves” off his Lines LP that’s out now and available in the UP Store. The vinyl will hit stores April 30th, so keep a look out.
Spin graciously premiered the video which you can catch below.
“Julian Lynch told SPIN back in December that much of the music intended for his just-released Lines LP ended up on the cutting-room floor. ‘I’ve never worked this long on a record,’ he said. ‘As soon as I finish recording one, I’ll usually give it to the label and then it’ll be on its way to being released. Whereas, with this one, most of it has been done for so long that I’ve had a while to sit on it and decide whether or not I like all the things on it as much as I thought I did. As it turns out, I’m going to throw away pretty huge chunks of it.’
“Thankfully, the Real Estate affiliate held onto the Phil Elverum-esque ‘Gloves,’ otherwise we wouldn’t have the track’s bizarre Sarah Kinlaw-directed video…”
Home Life to be released by Underwater Peoples Records on July 16
Following his 2010 effort, Moon Deluxe, the rock-and-roll musician Andrew Cedermark spent 2012 putting new songs to tape in an honest-to-goodness rock-and-roll recording studio. Ten of these songs make up his new album, Home Life, which is set in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, and which, loosely, is about growing up only to find that you didn’t have to, and the subsequent discovery that the process is irreversible.
Other irreversible processes discussed in the album include falling in love; losing friends while not making friends; and realizing that one is mired in a place where one does not belong. Like country and rap music, neither of which Home Life resembles, the album’s lyrical content is designed to reflect the likely concerns of its listeners.
The majority of Home Life was recorded by Kevin McMahon at Marcata in New Paltz, New York, with two separate bands: on half the songs Kevin Haney played drums and Jacob Wolf played bass guitar; on the other half Alex Tretiak played drums and Sarim Al-Rawi (of Liquor Store) played bass guitar. Jacob played all the keys and contributed many melodies, and Andrew wrote the songs and plays all other parts. “On Me” and “Come Back” were recorded at homes in Charlottesville, VA and New York City.
Andrew Cedermark’s live band, Andrew Cedermark Revue, consists of Alex Tretiak on drums, Jacob Wolf on bass, and Evan Brody on guitar.
Andrew Cedermark
Home Life
(Underwater Peoples)
Street Date: July 16, 2013
Track List:
1. On Me
2. Tiller of Lawn
3. Canis Major
4. Canis Minor
5. Heap of Trash
6. Train Window Man
7. At Home
8. Come Back
9. Memories, Ah!
10. Men In Jail
NEW ICE CHOIR VIDEO FOR “EVERYTHING IS SPOILT BY USE”
New video from Ice Choir for “Everything Is Spoilt By Use” the last track off their debut LP, Afar. The video was directed, edited and features vocals by, Caroline Polachek. It premiered on Dazed Digital and here is what they had to say:
“After duetting with Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek on his new song, ‘Everything Is Spoilt By Use’, NY artist Ice Choir aka Kurt Feldman (of Pains Of Being Pure Heart) has enlisted the multi-talented frontwoman to make the enticing video for the track taken from his debut album, ‘Afar’….” Taking its subject and title from the John Keats poem, “Fancy”, the new track sees dark and gothic accompanying visuals, featuring sartorial pieces from the likes of Dries Van Noten and custom dress designs inspired by Ice Choir’s influences of Japanese city-pop to early 90s video games.”
FREE TIME ANNOUNCE ALBUM, PREMIERE “NOTHIN BUT NICE”
Free Time formed in the summer of 2012 around Melbourne luminary Dion Nania (Panel of Judges), and includes Adrienne Humblet on bass, Jonah Maurer on guitar, and Michael Mimoun on drums. Their first LP is due May 28th, and you can catch a glimpse below with their lead single “Nothin But Nice.”
Filling out Nania’s jangly, sometimes heartbreaking pop, the band quickly recorded most of the self-titled LP the day before Dion flew home to mix it. He returned with fragments for new songs and the band finished the record in December 2012.
