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March 9 pre-orders posted 2/8/2010
Hey there! Head on over to our shop and be the first to pre-order our fantastic March 9 releases from Coconuts and Burning Star Core . It's quite a pairing (some may say a perfect pairing).
Papercuts Theater has been years in the making, a penultimate statement of sorts, a collage of 66 live recordings spanning 2003 to present, edited and assembled by C. Spencer Yeh and featuring frequent Burning Star Core collaborators: Trevor Tremaine, Mike Shiflet, Robert Beatty, Lambsbread and more. The 2xLP comes packaged in a classic "tip-on" (ie. highest quality) gatefold jacket and includes an mp3 version of the album. The CD ain't too shabby either, packaged in a custom die-cut digipak. Both were designed by Paul Romano.
Coconuts is a fantastic debut album, which you can read about below. Seriously ugly shit (on the surface at least). Like Burning Star Core, the vinyl comes with an mp3 version of the album.
Buy them both!!
Coconuts + No Quarter posted 2/4/2010
We are excited to be releasing the debut album by New York City band Coconuts on March 9. Coconuts formed in a tiny Lower East Side apartment building occupied by Australians Tim Evans and Jordan Redaelli. The duo recruited drummer Daniel Mitha and began performing live making the trip to SXSW last March where they played an epic, drunken show alongside Endless Boogie and Kurt Vile . They recording their debut with Mike Fellows shortly after. Listen to the mp3 below:
Silver Lights
Doug Paisley live on WNYU posted 12/4/2009
Doug Paisley will be performing live on WNYU this Friday December 4th at 5pm. You can listen live here:
WNYU
Headdress live on KVRX posted 11/17/2009
Headdress entered the studio this past winter and recorded their fantastic album Lunes , then went as quiet as the desert wind. Well, this Sunday they will perform live in the studio of KVRX 91.7(Austin). We\\\'re looking forward to it!
Sunday Nov 22nd
Headdress live on KVRX
91.7 fm (in the greater Austin area) or online: http://www.kvrx.org/locallive
Circle EU dates posted 11/11/2009
Great news! Circle will awake from a long hibernation to play some European shows with Isis. Dates below. And if you have yet to check out their film Saturnus Reality head on over to our shop and pick it up:
11/28 - Incrivel Almadense - Lisbon, Portugal
11/29 - Teatro Sa Da Bandeira - Porto, Portugal
11/30 - Sinsal Festival - Marco, Spain
12/1 - Rock Star Live - Bilbao, Spain
12/2 - BT59 - Bordeaux, France
12/3 - Trabendo - Paris, France
12/4 - Substage - Karisruhe, Germany
12/5 - Trix - Antwerp, Belgium
12/6 - Vera - Groningen, Netherlands
12/7 - Postbahnhof - Berlin, Germany
Doug Paisley live posted 10/31/2009
Doug Paisley will be playing three early December shows along the east coast corridor:
Dec 3rd - Phila, PA - Johnny Brendas
w/ Espers & Azita
Dec 4th - NY, NY - Drom
w/ Espers & Azita
Dec 5th - Brooklyn, NY - Bell House
w/ Espers & Azita
Paul Romano art opening posted 10/9/2009
Our good friend (and frequent No Quarter artist) Paul Romano will open his first ever solo exhibition in Philadelphia on Saturday October 10th. Paul is without a doubt the most talented person we know. So make plans for a trip to Philly and support a great artist:
Paul Romano | workhardened
solo exhibition
October 10th - November 10
The Toothless Cat gallery
1050 N. Hancock St | Suites 86/88 | Philadelphia PA 19123
Opening reception: October 10th, 2009 2pm - 10pm
Bi-Coastal Boogie posted 10/1/2009
Endless Boogie will be making their first trip to the west coast performing five (soon to be memorable) shows. Sure, its not enough but take what you can get, bro:
10/14 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre (w/ Yo La Tengo)
10/15 - Los Angeles, CA - Avalon (w/ Yo La Tengo)
10/16 - San Diego, CA - Soma (w/ Yo La Tengo)
10/17 - Santa Cruz, CA - Rio Theater (w/ Yo La Tengo)
10/18 - San Francisco, CA - Knockout Bar
Also, before they leave town they have one NY show scheduled:
10/9 - Mercury Lounge w/ Pierced Arrows
No Quarter CMJ 2009 posted 10/1/2009
The cold weather is coming quick in the northeast which signifies a few things: new tv shows (which we do not care about), playoff baseball (which we do care about) and CMJ! Here are two events No Quarter has planned for this years festival (and at the same venue... convenient!)
Tuesday October 20th
Social Registry and No Quarter present
8pm - Zs
9pm - Coconuts
10pm - Wildlife
11pm - The Psychic Paramount
12am - Sian Alice Group
at The Knitting Factory (new location)
361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn
Thursday October 22nd
8pm - Suzannah Johannes
at The Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn
Doug Paisley gets a rave review posted 10/1/2009
SF Weeklys music editor Jennifer Maerz had this to say about his recent San Francisco performance:
Canadian songwriter Doug Paisley learned at an early age to dress in layers. At least thats what he told us last night from the stage at Rickshaw Stop, as he peeled off his jacket only to reveal more layers of long sleeved, cold-weather clothing below. In person, he was covered in plenty of fabric. But he was also kinda naked.
Not naked enough for us to see his pasty Toronto skin, but naked in the bare songs he sketched out for us with only an acoustic guitar to help carry the heavy emotional weights he was lifting. He had warned us he was gonna get down to his metaphorical skivvies that night. This came after he asked the crowd--the small dozen or so of us gathered, typically for a tiny show, way in the back of the room by the bar--which set list did we want to hear? Our choices were the tried and true or the wild card. Of course wild sounded more fun, so Paisley went with that, mixing what he called songs that are three-quarters baked with banter of the same quality.
Paisleys the kind of songwriter where even his half-baked ideas blow the delicate coffee-shop-circuit variety of sensitive guitar slingers off the stage. His vocals give all of his pronouncements (which mostly focus on love) an old soul quality, his delivery weathered like the best old country singers, who in a few words evoke that been-there, lost-that feeling.
Even Paisleys humor had a warm, well-worn vibe. He joked about his Canadian talk show idea, which would be called Well, Whatever and would involve him starting to discuss his opinions on American politics before changing course, with the title of the show as his excuse.
But the real thrust of the show came from Paisleys acoustic sketches, which involved rhetorical questions about how to keep love going, or, in the case of a Stanley Brothers cover, the way a city can make you sad for part of your life long gone. (Paisley said San Francisco had that effect on him, making him mourn something he went through since the last time he played here). The songs came off his new, self-titled CD, which opens with a gorgeously sad number, What About Us? Last night, the piano ballad came sans keys, but Paisley still pulled off well the stunning lament about ending up alone.
Musically, Paisley comes off somewhere between Nick Drake and the Band, so even his most openly wounded sentiments keep an edge, housed somewhere between his complex guitar playing and the layers of toughness and tenderness being shed in his voice.
The set ended too early, and the room was too quiet--especially given Paisleys comfortable banter charming the few of us there in club. (The guy is new to Hamms beer, we learned, and apparently is now quiet a fan). But the way he breaks down relationships into their barest emotional strands stayed with his fans long after he put his jacket back on and took off back into the night.
Bands in Vans posted 8/25/2009
Hello! Fall (apparently) is a great time to tour. Check out these upcoming live events. More to come soon:
DOUG PAISLEY
9/21 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
9/22 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place
9/23 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop
9/24 - Chico, CA - Cafe Coda
9/25 - Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library
9/26 - Santa Monica, CA - McCabe\\\'s Guitar Shop
9/27 - San Diego, CA - Che Cafe
ENDLESS BOOGIE
9/15 - New York, NY - Studio at Webster Hall
9/17 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club (w/ Yo La Tengo)
9/18 - Durham, NC - Carolina Theatre (w/ Yo La Tengo)
9/19 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse (w/ Yo La Tengo)
9/21 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel (w/ Yo La Tengo)
9/22 - Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre (w/ Yo La Tengo)
9/23 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall (w/ Yo La Tengo)
9/24 - Louisville, KY - The Swan Dive
9/25 - Chicago, IL - The Hideout (w/ Extra Golden)
9/26 - The Hideout (w/Extra Golden)
THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT
9/10 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool (w/ White Hills)
Final mp3 posted 7/31/2009
The expanded version of Reading All The Right Signals Wrong is now available to order in the webstore. Here is the debut mp3 from the album:
"Wrong Signal (alt. mix)"
Final CD release posted 7/16/2009
August 18th will see the CD release of Final Reading All The Right Signals Wrong . This version will feature 4 bonus tracks not featured on the LP (released this past February, and still available) and come in a beautiful gatefold jacket.
Doug Paisley on the radio posted 7/8/2009
Doug Paisley performed and answered some questions on Viva Radio while in NYC a few weeks back. The session is archived on their site. Check it out HERE
The Psychic Paramount live in NYC posted 6/17/2009
The Psychic Paramount, fresh of a successful UK/EU tour, played a mindblowing show at Santos Party House here in New York last week. Check out this great video: