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Les Claypool’s “Four Foot Shack” Out Now

February 3, 2014 – 10:40 pm

Purchase on iTunes / Amazon / Official Store

 

 

How “deconstructed” can a group get? How about just one vocal, one bass, one guitar, and a basic beat supplied by stomping on a mini-tambourine-doohickey?  That’s exactly what everyone’s favorite storyteller/narrator, Les Claypool, is incorporating in his new band, Duo de Twang. While Les is still pulling double duty with the Primus lads, he has also found the time to unite with his old buddy, Bryan Kehoe, who fans will recognize from several past Claypool projects. But unlike Primus, DDT focuses more on the Americana/rootsy side of things – as heard throughout the band’s debut recording, Four Foot Shack.

As evidenced by DDT’s live shows and debut, Les and Bryan mostly mix traditional tunes, popular covers, and readings of Primus classics (all of which are usually barely recognizable when compared to the original versions).  Case in point, the inclusion of “Battle of New Orleans,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Man in the Box,” “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver,” and “Jerry Was A Race Car Driver” on DDT’s debut disc. “A lot of it is just stumbling across it,” explains Les about how a tune is selected to be twang-ified. “There are tons of songs that we’ve stumbled across, and these ones just happened to be the ones that stuck”  Les added, “The Twang project is me exploring a lot of stuff that I personally listen to…When all is said and done, it’s just a hell of a fun project for me right now.”

 

Four Foot Shack Track List

  1. Four Foot Shack  (Les Claypool)
  2. Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver  (Primus)
  3. Amos Moses (Jerry Reed)
  4. Red State Girl  (Les Claypool)
  5. The Bridge Came Tumblin’ Down  (Stompin’ Tom Connors)
  6. Boonville Stomp (Les Claypool)
  7. Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees)
  8. Rumble of the Diesel  (Les Claypool)
  9. Pipe Line (The Chantays)
  10. Buzzards of Greenhill (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  11. Hendershot (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  12. Man in the Box (Alice in Chains)
  13. D’s Diner (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  14. Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)
  15. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver  (Primus)

 

Tour Dates
2/26 – New York, NY – The Heath @ McKittrick
2/27 – New York, NY – The Heath @ McKittrick – SOLD OUT
2/28 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
3/1 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
3/3 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
3/4 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
3/6 – Kent, OH – The Kent Stage
3/7 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
3/8 – Indianpolis, IN – The Vogue
3/9 – St. Louis, MO – Plush
3/12-3/14 – Austin, TX – SXSW
3/11 – Fayettesville, AR – George’s Majestic Lounge
3/15 – New Orleans, LA – Howlin Wolf

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Hurray for the Riff Raff’s “Small Town Heroes” Streaming at NPR First Listen

February 3, 2014 – 5:21 pm

Click here to stream Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new album Small Town Heroes exclusively via NPR First Listen

 

Preorder on: iTunes/Amazon

Small Town Heroes, the upcoming album from New Orleans based Hurray for the Riff Raff, will be released February 11th on ATO Records. However, in the meantime you can now stream the full album in it’s entirety via NPR First Listen. The album finds frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra – who settled in New Orleans after leaving her native Bronx at age 17 – contemporizing the rich musical forms of the American South in the age of Trayvon Martin and Wendy Davis. NPR had high praise for the album, saying: “Pete Seeger made a life out of speaking musical truth to power, and Segarra is poised to do the same, with the added dimension of speaking truth to folk music itself.” Make sure to catch the band on tour this spring, dates below.

 

‘Small Town Heroes’ Track Listing:

01. Blue Ridge Mountain

02. Crash on the Highway

03. Good Time Blues (An Outlaw’s Lament)

04. End of the Line

05. The New SF Bay Blues

06. The Body Electric

07. No One Else

08. St. Roch Blues

09. Levon’s Dream

10. I Know It’s Wrong (But That’s Alright)

11. Small Town Heroes

12. Forever Is Just a Day

 

Hurray for the Riff Raff Tour Dates:

* w/ Shovels & Rope

2/14 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (Record Release Party)

2/21 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Mud & Water *

2/22 – Dallas, TX @ Trees *

2/23 – Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge *

2/25 – St Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Nightclub *

2/26 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom *

2/28 – Birmingham, AL @ WorkPlay Soundstage *

3/01 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *

3/02 – Chattanooga, TN @ Rhythm & Brews *

3/06 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *

3/07 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel

3/08 – Savannah, GA @ Savannah Stopover Music Festival

3/29 – New Orleans, LA @ Hogs For A Cause

4/02 – Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory

4/03 – New York, NY @ Lincoln Center “American Songbook”

4/04 – Philadelphia, PA @ XPN Live @ Noon

4/05 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair

4/08 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live

4/09 – Washington, DC @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue

4/10 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506

4/18 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern

4/19 – Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater

4/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

4/26 – Indio, CA @ Stagecoach Festival

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Jessica Lea Mayfield Joins ATO and Announces “Make My Head Sing”

February 1, 2014 – 4:11 pm

We’re super excited to add Jessica Lea Mayfield to the ATO family!  Jessica’s new album Make My Head sing will be available everywhere on vinyl, CD, and digitally on April 15th.

 

 

On Friday, Rolling Stone officially announced Make My Head Sing.  Read it here or below.

 

New song ‘Oblivious’ combines country vocals and loud amps

By John Luerssen
January 31, 2014 7:00 AM ET
On “Oblivious,” Jessica Lea Mayfield’s echo-laden bluegrass vocals mesh with scorching electric guitar lines to render remarkable results. The innovative, genre-bending number premieres here ahead of Make My Head Sing . . . , which will be released on April 15th on ATO Records.

 

“My guitar amps were so loud when we recorded this that it made me feel nauseous,” Mayfield tells Rolling Stone of the track. The album was co-produced by Mayfield and her bassist, collaborator and husband Jesse Newport.With the follow-up to 2011’s acclaimed Tell Me – which was produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and described here as “a disarming collision of stark country balladry, dynamic alternative rock and arty electronic pop” – Mayfield does just that.

Tracked at Nashville’s Club Roar Studio with drummer Matt Martin, the 10-song Make My Head Sing . . .  reflects the artist’s desire to simplify things. “Bands are so big these days – I wanted to get in the studio and make a rock record and hear real guitar tones and something heavy,” Mayfield says.

Details of Mayfield’s upcoming nationwide tour to support the album will be announced soon. Ahead of the LP’s release, she will make a one-off appearance supporting Tegan and Sara at Cleveland’s Masonic Auditorium on February 7th, followed by sets at SXSW in Austin in mid-March.

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Pre-Order Majestico’s ‘When Kingdom Come’ Exclusively at the ATO Record Club

February 1, 2014 – 3:56 pm

Majestico’s When Kingdom Come will be available on February 11th as a 12″ vinyl exclusively through The ATO Record Club Pre-Order Here.  You can also buy it digitally on March 4th. 

Majestico was born from the breath of a new America, a land at the end of reason, where dogma meets God. At the beginning, he found himself living in a bungalow behind the local zoo. Amid the sounds of monkeys and elephants, he began recording what would be his first record “Boundary Conditions”. It was released into that great void they call the Inter-Net and although it remains undiscovered by the outside world, it was received with much excitement among peers.

Majestico then moved to Little Biv Town and made a bed in the studio there. Attempts were made at new recordings but the project was plagued with technical problems, personal disputes, and money was scarce. But late that summer, there was a breakthrough. A show was planned to be held in the studio so Majestico gathered a band to perform. That night people poured into the room as a cloud of steam formed above. While he played, they danced. This was all new to him, and although recording had been stunted, a new vision was realized. He just wanted to rock.

Marked by this new freedom, Majestico continued to write songs and play everywhere that was cool- bars, clubs, houses, warehouses…wherever. This brought him to the doorstep of producer Andrija Tokic and Bomb Shelter Studios, where his friends the Alabama Shakes had recorded their album. This time, recording was a sinch. The music fell onto the tape and the album When Kingdom Come materialized. A new saga has been formed in Nashville, Tennessee and the future has no bounds.

Editor’s Note: Majestico is currently surfing your airwaves. He’s cruising a tram ride on the milky-way highway searching for the key to life, He’s totally cool, laid back, and humble. He doesn’t believe in slaughtering wheat or vegetables just to eat them. That’s wrong, but if you disagree he respects your opinion because freedom is the price we pay to get to blow stuff up with hand grenades and bazookas.

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J. Roddy and Shovels & Rope play “Boys Can Never Tell”

January 29, 2014 – 3:48 pm

J. Roddy Walston headed down south to Shovels & Rope’s backyard in Charleston, SC where they created this beautiful video of “Boys Can Never Tell”, from Essential Tremors. Rolling Stone premiered the video earlier this week, you can read more about it HERE.

 

Tour Dates

 

2/1 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center#

4/11 – 4/13 Indio, CA – Coachella, Weekend 1

4/18 – 4/20 – Indio, CA – Coachella, Weekend 2

4/21 – Tuscon, AZ – Rialto Theater%

4/22 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater%

4/24 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit%

4/25 – Houston, TX – House of Blues%

5/2 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater*%

5/4 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre*%

5/6 – New York, NY – Terminal 5*%

5/7 – New York, NY – Terminal 5*%

5/10 – Richmond, VA – The National*%

5/13 – Toronto, ON – Kool Haus*%

5/14 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom*%

5/15 – Saint Paul, MN – Myth Live Event Center*%

5/17 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre*%

5/18 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex*%

5/20 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater*%

 

# with Red Hot Chili Peppers, MS MR, New Politics

% with Cage the Elephant

* with Foals

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Stream Les Claypool’s New Album “Four Foot Shack”

January 29, 2014 – 2:31 pm

Click here to stream Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang’s new album Four Foot Shack exclusively on Rolling Stone

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Unlike Les Claypool’s work with Primus, his new project with old buddy Brian Kehoe, Duo de Twang, focuses more on the Americana/rootsy side of things – as is heard throughout the band’s debut recording Four Foot Shack, to be released via ATO Records on February 4th.

“This record represents what I personally listen to these days,” Claypool told Rolling Stone. “Guys like Johnny Horton, Jerry Reed and Vernon Dalhart are the soundscape of my world as I’m boiling up crab in the backyard or working on my old Chryslers, so the notion of ‘twangifying’ my tunes seemed like a damn good idea.” As evidenced by DDT’s live shows and debut, Les and Bryan mostly mix traditional tunes, popular covers, and readings of Primus classics (all of which are usually barely recognizable when compared to the original versions).

 

Four Foot Shack Track List

  1. Four Foot Shack  (Les Claypool)
  2. Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver  (Primus)
  3. Amos Moses (Jerry Reed)
  4. Red State Girl  (Les Claypool)
  5. The Bridge Came Tumblin’ Down  (Stompin’ Tom Connors)
  6. Boonville Stomp (Les Claypool)
  7. Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees)
  8. Rumble of the Diesel  (Les Claypool)
  9. Pipe Line (The Chantays)
  10. Buzzards of Greenhill (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  11. Hendershot (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  12. Man in the Box (Alice in Chains)
  13. D’s Diner (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  14. Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)
  15. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver  (Primus)

 

Tour Dates
2/26 – New York, NY – The Heath @ McKittrick
2/27 – New York, NY – The Heath @ McKittrick – SOLD OUT
2/28 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
3/1 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
3/3 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
3/4 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
3/6 – Kent, OH – The Kent Stage
3/7 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
3/8 – Indianpolis, IN – The Vogue
3/9 – St. Louis, MO – Plush
3/12-3/14 – Austin, TX – SXSW
3/11 – Fayettesville, AR – George’s Majestic Lounge
3/15 – New Orleans, LA – Howlin Wolf

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The Belle Brigade – Ashes

January 25, 2014 – 5:01 pm
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Rodrigo y Gabriela – The Soundmaker

January 25, 2014 – 4:55 pm
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SPIN Debuts Duo De Twang’s “Man in the Box”

January 23, 2014 – 1:44 pm

Alice in Chains’ “Man in the Box” is a staple of ‘90s hard rock that no musician has dared try to genre bend – until now. Featured on the upcoming album Four Foot Shack, Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang has created a rootsy, banjo-filled rendition of the track that completely turns the original version on its head. Listen + and read the article on SPIN HERE.

 

 Purchase Four Foot Shack on iTunes / Amazon / Official Site

 

Upon listening to Four Foot Shack you’ll quickly discover that Les and Bryan made it a point to keep things as live-sounding as humanly possible. “It was very live,” admits Les. “In fact, it was a little difficult, with all the bleed of the stomping and the bass and the vocals. Every now and again you can hear the studio refrigerator come on or the dog barking at something outside in the background. Once it was there, you had to kind of leave it.”

 

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Track List

  1. “Four Foot Shack” (Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang)
  2. “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver” (Primus)
  3. “Amos Moses” (Jerry Reed)
  4. “Red State Girl” (Les Claypool)
  5. “The Bridge Came Tumblin’ Down” (Stompin’ Tom Connors)
  6. “Boonville Stomp” (Les Claypool)
  7. “Stayin’ Alive” (Bee Gees)
  8. “Rumble of the Diesel” (Les Claypool)
  9. “Pipe Line” (The Chantays)
  10. “Buzzards of Green Hill” (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  11. “Hendershot” (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  12. “Man in the Box” (Alice in Chains)
  13. “D’s Diner” (Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade)
  14. “Battle of New Orleans” (Johnny Horton)
  15. “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” (Primus)

 

Tour Dates

2/27 – New York, NY – The Heath at McKittrick Hotel
2/28 – Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
3/1 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
3/3 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
3/4 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
3/6 – Kent, OH – The Kent Stage
3/7 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
3/8 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
3/12 – 3/14 – Austin, TX – SXSW

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ATO Releasing ‘Bob Dylan in the 80’s: Volume One’, Preorder Now

January 22, 2014 – 8:46 pm

ATO is pleased to be able to share the official announcement, via Rolling Stone,  of Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One with all of you. The album will be released March 25th, but you can preorder the album HERE.

 

The brainchild of producers Jesse Lauter (Elvis Perkins, The Low Anthem) and Sean O’Brien (Dawes, PAPA), the mission of Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One is to shed new light on a large cache of Bob Dylan songs that have long gone ignored, covering the period starting with 1980’s Saved and ending with 1990’s Under The Red Sky (including unreleased material — the “80s Basement Tapes” — and The Traveling Wilburys). Album contributors include: Built To Spill, Aaron Freeman of Ween & Slash, Glen Hansard, Reggie Watts, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Lucius, Langhorne Slim, Craig Finn Of The Hold Steady, Deer Tick, Dawn Landes, Blitzen Trapper, Carl Broemel Of My Morning Jacket, Elvis Perkins and more.

 

In the liner notes to this collection, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude) writes, “In the famously difficult art of going up against Dylan’s performance of his own material, a number of these reach the highest threshold. I hope Bob Dylan listens to this record, and plays it for his current touring band.”

 

Our friends at Rolling Stone are hosting the album announcement and have premiered the Built to Spill track “Jokerman”. You read more right HERE, and listen to and download the track below:

 

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TRACKLIST:

Langhorne Slim & The Law – Got My Mind Made Up

Built To Spill – Jokerman

Reggie Watts – Brownsville Girl (Reprise)

Craig Finn – Sweetheart Like You

Ivan & Alyosha – You Changed My Life

Deer Tick – Night After Night

Dawn Landes & Bonnie “Prince” Billie – Dark Eyes

Tea Leaf Green – Waiting To Get Beat

Aaron Freeman & Slash – Wiggle Wiggle

Elvis Perkins – Congratulations

Hannah Cohen – Covenant Woman

Marco Benevento – Every Grain of Sand

Yellowbirds – Series of Dreams

Blitzen Trapper – Unbelievable

Lucius – When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky

Glen Hansard – Pressing On

Carl Broemel – Death Is Not The End

 

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