Check out the latest single “At Home” from Andrew Cedermark’s upcoming sophomore LP “Home Life”.
 

 
The track premiered on Pitchfork yesterday… here’s what writer Laura Snapes had to say:
 
“You can’t go home again, as the saying goes, but on “At Home”, Andrew Cedermark attempts to get back to the kind of life he had post-college living in Charlottesville, VA. He fails, of course– his genuine aim to recapture “the spoiled nectar of youth” is trumped by his soured adult nature– but the former Titus Andronicus guitarist’s gorgeous lyrical knack transports you for four minutes. His longing is infectious: “We suburban basement boys kumbayaed so drunkenly/Before packing like stock to the auction in sedans from 1990… Next day’s rainy waking to the smell of the Nabisco factory/And oh, how our cups were running over with just about everything.”
“At Home” bowls along with the kind of triumphant, ragged riff familiar to Japandroids and Bruce Springsteen, though Cedermark’s vocal is the antithesis of anthemic, a mumble veering between incoherence and unexpected yelp. Where he truly hits that Springsteen sweet spot, though, is in the song’s kicker. “Light shifts, factory closes, everything’s shuttered, town is empty/And then something mounts in your gut, a kind sickness for want of need.” Cedermark fondly remembers times of irreverence and irresponsibility, road trips with the Wrens blasting loud; but his ear for local history bigger than his own recognises how the town’s losing its industry irrevocably affected its character. “At Home” might end on a dejected note lyrically, but Cedermark’s guitar crunches out with defiant pride.”
 
Andrew and the band will be hitting the road in July playing dates around the East Coast and Midwest. Check out the dates below for a show near your and make sure not to miss it!
 
5/24 – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
7/11 – Brooklyn, NY – Shea Stadium *
7/12 – Baltimore, MD – Golden West
7/13 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
7/14 – Chicago, IL – The Burlington
7/16 – Nashville, TN – High Watt
7/17 – Oxford, MS – Lamar Lounge
7/18 – Athens, GA – Flicker
7/19 – Raleigh, NC – King’s Barcade
7/20 – Charlottesville, VA – Tea Bazaar
 
* Album release show w/ Liquor Store, Little Big League
 
You can pre-order your copy of “Home Life” at the UP Store

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Free Time’s self-titled debut LP is due to drop next week, but you can listen to it all now over on Pitchfork Advance.
 
Free Time formed in the summer of 2012 around Melbourne luminary songwriter Dion Nania (Panel of Judges). After moving to the US, he began writing new songs hoping to get a band together, eventually enlisting the support of Adrienne Humblet on bass, Jonah Maurer on guitar, and Michael Mimoun on drums.
 
Filling out Nania’s jangly, sometimes heartbreaking pop, the band quickly recorded most of their first 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 of last year.
 
Free Time’s debut LP will be available online next Tuesday, May 28, and they’ll be hitting the road shortly thereafter to support (see dates below). In the mean time you can preorder your copy in the UP Store and expect it on your doorstep shortly.
 
FREE TIME U.S. TOUR:
 
June 9 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
June 10 – Pittsburgh, PA – Garfield Artworks
June 11- Detroit, MI – Garden Bowl *
June 12 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
June 13 – Cincinnati, OH – The Comet
June 14 – Nashville, TN – The Basement
June 15 – Oxford, MS – Lamar Lounge
June 16 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
June 17 – Charleston, SC – The Royal American
June 18 – Columbia, SC – Conundrum
June 20 – Raleigh, NC – King’s Barcade +
June 21 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
June 22 – Washington, DC – Red Onion (Day show)
June 22 – Baltimore, MD – Golden West
June 23 – Brooklyn, NY – Shea Stadium

* w/ Ketamines
+ w/ Owen
 

 

Free Time – I Lost Again from Chocolate Bobka on Vimeo.

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!

Via Tiny Mix Tapes‘ Ryan Detwiler:
 
“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.”
 
Read more here, dates below…
 
06.04.13 – Montreal, QC – PLANT
06.05.13 – Boston, MA – Great Scott
06.07.13 – Kingston, NY – BSP Lounge
06.09.13 – Manhattan, NY – Mercury Lounge
06.10.13 – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
06.11.13 – Washington, DC – Paperhaus
06.12.13 – Baltimore, MD – Golden West
06.13.13 – Brooklyn, NY – 285 Kent/Northside Fest ^^
06.20.13 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
 
^^ Twin Sister, Ava Luna, Lushlife
 
Snag your copy of Lines here!
 

 

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:
 

 
Pitchfork‘s Ian Cohen had the following to say:
 
“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 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…”

Check out the feature to read a short interview.
 

 
Preorder Free Time’s self-titled debut here.

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 – Gloves from Sarah Kinlaw on Vimeo.

 
“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…”