The Band Mom, your favorite boutique college radio promotion company, is thrilled to announce its first-ever CMJ showcase! It’s a free show in Brooklyn this afternoon (Saturday, 10/22/11) with a great lineup and a dangerous drink special. Come on by!!

(designed by Tyrel Stendahl, a designer for the Cheezburger Network [LOLcats, Failblog!] by day and Terrordactyl by the rest of the time!!)

Here’s the facebook invite. Here’s some more stuff about it!!

FREE (no badges, RSVP, or cover charge required!!)

DRINK SPECIAL: $3 Maker’s Mark all day!!!

21+ (sorry babies!)

Union Hall is located at 702 Union Street near the corner of 5th ave, in Park Slope Brooklyn. Take the R train to the Union stop, or it’s a short cab ride or one train transfer from Williamsburg (to the R from the G or the L – I’ll be happy to give more detailed directions to out-of-towners upon request – jenn [at] thebandmom.com)

there are 2 great comedy shows in a row following this showcase at Union Hall, so stick around!

info on artists!

12:45 SOFT PUNCH:

Soft Punch is the brand new solo project by Ryan Little of Tereu Tereu, from Washington DC. Ryan is also a great music journalist in DC and an all-around solid dude. His description of the music is “Intimate, queer vibrations.” I think this might be his first show as Soft Punch? Come be a part of history!

1:30 MIGHTY MOON:

Jay Giampietro (Daylight’s for the birds) and Leah Evans make sweet, sun-soaked acoustic pop with faint hints of foreboding as Mighty Moon. Their debut EP “Breezes” was recorded at Black Dirt Studios and has been called “like Chairlift on a hilltop or George Harrison on a date” by Gill Mills of New Music Matters.

2:15 BRIGHT BROWN:

Bright Brown, led by Alex Nahas, plays Pink Floyd-influenced psychedelia with an organic/folk sensibility. As they put it, “Bittersweet layers and textures abound, and beautifully crafted songs exist at the core.” They’ve currently got a Pledge Music campaign going to release their latest album on vinyl (check it from that fb link!)

3:00 PRAIRIE EMPIRE:

Brittain Ashford makes beautiful celebratory folk music with her band, Prairie Empire. I met her in Brooklyn through recent client/current friend Shenandoah Davis, then promptly ran into her in Portland two weeks later and found out that she knows a bunch of my other friends as well, like the next artist on the roster! The world is a tiny place and it is filled with beautiful people.

3:45 MELAENA CADIZ:

Melaena Cadiz is one of the sweetest, most good-hearted and genuinely and effortlessly creative spirits I know. Her music has a country twang and a broken heart. When I did a radio campaign with her in June 2010 her album reached #1 on Earshot’s Folk/Roots/Blues chart, and it deserved it.

4:30 GIRLS IN TROUBLE:

Girls In Trouble is a labor of love spearheaded by Alicia Jo Rabins, violinist, lyricist, and Torah scholar extraordinaire, and also includes Aaron Hartman of Old Time Relijun. This band owns a big chunk of my heart. The music is a totally arresting indie-folk/art-pop song cycle about the complicated lives of women in Torah. Or more simply, a series of songs about what it feels like to be alive.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

Hey you! So, here’s a thing: you may have noticed that somehow, the last 3 adds I’ve had this summer/fall have all been from the same magical land: Seattle. That’s kind of a coincidence, but on the other hand it’s not really a coincidence at all, because I love Seattle so much. Also I met Tennis Pro through the Terrordactyls and I met Shenandoah Davis through a friend who I met through the Terrordactyls, so really what this comes down to is the Terrordactyls rule my life I guess.

In any event, these three records are doing SO GREAT! Ever since hitting #11 Most Added on CMJ’s Top 20 adds, Tennis Pro has been tearing up the charts. They’ve hit a CMJ chart every week since we started this thing, so far peaking just over halfway up the big’n at #96. They’ve also showed up a couple of times on the Mediaguide Self-Released Select charts that I get in a weekly email, which seems like a big deal? And they ALSO picked up a totally rad review from Seattle’s Three Imaginary Girls, who had this to say:

Honestly, where previous (third) album Are You There, God? It’s Me Tennis Pro perfectly sort-of evoked the dark, down edges of the ’00s (indie feeling creepy about the good times being almost gone), the band has brought a whole new barefoot, mock the cops before you get the pepper spray, antagonistic playfulness recalling their balls-hanging-beneath-the-dress live shows. The trio is a briskly playing, siren-winding shit-hot blur of sweet power pop and post-psyche on this fifteen track creature of joy. There’s still some serious messages here beneath the messing-your-mind-up hilarity (the clap-dazed and Gary Glitter-crunchy “Clothing Optional Christian Barbecue,” the vividly visceral “Song Detergents”), but every other track is a straight ahead MAKE THIS A TOP TEN HIT Fountains Of Wayne and Weezer first LP-type hit. My first pick: “Make You Think You Want Me,” which I think I hear on a thousand radio stations with a true clue right now.

Hint hint, radio!!!!

The Terrordactyls are also totally killing it! After jumping on #8 Most Added, they’re leaping their way up the Top 200 chart, this last week landing at its highest point so far at #87. WOO!! If I remember correctly, their 2007 self-titled album reached #67 on that same chart, so the goal is to beat that one. I think we can do it!!

I saw Michael Cadiz (of the Terrordactyls) play the Terrordactyls song “Come Home” during his sister Melaena Cadiz (of my previous work)’s last set during her residency at the Ace Hotel a couple weeks ago. It was awesome!! It was the first time I’d seen Michael perform, outside of band practices and recording sessions I’d snooped on and weird karaoke nights, for about 3 years. Worth the wait.

Their cousin Joseph Keckler (also of my previous work) also jumped onstage to join them right after that. It was a magical family night! I think these three should probably just form their own band and call it a day. Joseph didn’t stand there with his eyes closed that whole time, I promise, but that is how he was when I took this picture:

PLUS ALSO, things are going swimmingly with Shenandoah Davis, your favorite new lovely warblevoiced ladysinger. Last week she busted effortlessly onto the scene at #14 Most Added on CMJ. In fact, she also recently did a Daytrotter session that turned out absolutely perfectly, as Daytrotter sessions are wont to do:

Aaaand she’s out NOW on a massive national tour! If you live basically anywhere in the United States now is your chance to see her, and if you are at a radio station basically anywhere in the United States now is your chance to have her in for an instudio or an interview or whatever (hit me up about that!): Shenandoah Davis fall 2011 tour dates:

8/14 – PORTLAND, OR @ The Old Church (with Harlowe and the Great North Woods, Ezza Rose and Ben Meyercord) http://www.facebook.com/ev​ent.php?eid=22273547777180​3

8/15 – EUGENE, OR @ SONG (with Betty and the Boy)

http://www.facebook.com/ev​ent.php?eid=25534976115757​9

8/16 – CORVALLIS, OR @ The Troubadour (with Eric Nordby)

8/17 – COTTAGE GROVE, OR @ Axe & Fiddle (with Broken Spoke)

8/18 – ARCATA, CA @ The Green House (message for address)

8/19 – REDDING, CA @ Maxwell’s (with Jupiter)

www.maxwellseatery.com/

8/20 – CHICO, CA @ outdoor festival (afternoon)

8/20 – DAVIS, CA @ Sophia’s Thai Kitchen (with Yesway and Bright Archer)

http://sophiasthaikitchen.​com/live_events.cfm

8/21 – DAVIS, CA @ Armadillo Records In-Store (4 pm)

8/21 – GRASS VALLEY, CA @ The Tin House (with Yesway and Foxtail)

http://www.facebook.com/ev​ent.php?eid=22445606426792​3

8/23 – BERKELEY, CA @ Caffe Trieste (with Yesway)

8/24 – FOLSOM, CA @ Folsom State Prison (with Yesway)

8/24 – SACRAMENTO, CA @ Marilyn’s On K (with Yesway and Eric Nordby)

http://www.facebook.com/ev​ent.php?eid=27082149293230​4

8/25 – FOLSOM, CA @ Folsom State Prison (with Yesway)

8/25 – OAKLAND, CA @ Mama Buzz Cafe (with Yesway and Hello Mtn)

http://www.mamabuzzcafe.co​m/

8/26 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ Viracocha (with Yesway and Tiny Home)

8/27 – NEVADA CITY, CA @ Nevada City Bizarre (1-3 PM w/ Yeswway)

8/27- FOLSOM, CA @ House Show (with Yesway, message for address)

8/28 – SUNNYVALE, CA @ Golan House (with Yesway)

8/31 – SANTA CRUZ @ The Crepe Place (with Yesway and Matador)

–september—————​—————–

9/2 – MONTEREY, CA @ Alternative Cafe (with Dakota Belle Wit)

9/3 – SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA @ tba (with Eliza Rickman) ** HELP

9/4 – SANTA BARBARA, CA @ tba (with Eliza Rickman) ** HELP

9/5 – SAN DIEGO, CA @ Park Gallery (with Eliza Rickman)

9/6 – LOS ANGELES, CA @ Hotel Cafe (with Eliza Rickman)

9/7 – LAS VEGAS, NV @ Beat Cafe (with Eliza Rickman)

9/8 – PROVO, UT @ Velour (with The Mighty Sequoia and Adam Klopp)

9/9 – FORT COLLINS, CO @ KRFC (on-air @ noon)

9/9 – FORT COLLINS, CO @ Everyday Joe’s (with Ian Cooke)

9/10 – DENVER, CO @ Mercury Cafe (with Spirits of the Red City)

9/11 – BOULDER, CO @ Caffe Sole (with Golden Ghost)

9/13 – LINCOLN, NE @ Clawfoot House (with Meaner Pencil)

9/14 – AMES, IA @ tba

9/15 – FAIRFIELD, IA @ The Beauty Shop

9/16 – ROCK ISLAND, IL @ Rozz Tox

9/17 – BELOIT, WI @ C-haus

9/18 – MILWAUKEE, WI @ Mad Planet (with John Muther)

9/20 – EVANSTON, IL @ WNUR in-studio (on-air @ 5:30)

9/20 – CHICAGO, IL @ The Spaceship (message for address)

9/21- CHICAGO, IL @ The Whistler (w/ The Minneapolis Henrys)

9/22 – ST. LOUIS, MO @ Pops Blue Moon

9/23 – FARMINGTON, MO @ The Vault

9/24 – COLUMBIA, MO @ Blue Fugue

9/25 – BLOOMINGTON, IN @ The Bishop

9/26 – CINCINNATI, OH @ tba (with Boyfriend)

9/27 – COLUMBUS, OH @ Spoonful Records (with Bad Heart Bull)

9/28 – COLUMBUS, OH @ Brothers Drake Meadery (with Time & Temperature)

9/29 – PITTSBURGH, PA @ Carnegie Mellon U.

9/30 – PITTSBURGH, PA @ tba

–rocktober—————​—————–

10/1 – BUFFALO, NY @ The Vault

10/2 – ITHACA, NY @ Delilah’s

10/3 – SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY @ tba

10/5 – PHILADELPHIA, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

10/6 – NEW YORK, NY @ tba

10/7 – PROVIDENCE, RI @ AS220 (with Prairie Empire)

10/8 – NORTH ADAMS, MA @ Union & Field Presents (with Prairie Empire)

10/9 – BOSTON, MA @ the Sock Hop (with Prairie Empire)

10/10 – PORTLAND, ME @ tba (with Prairie Empire)

10/12 – NEW YORK, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall

10/13 – NEW HAVEN, CT @ tba (with Cabinet of Natural Curiosities)

10/14 – NORTHAMPTON, MA @ tba **(Help, please!)

10/15-17 – BOSTON AREA tba ***(HELP, please!)

10/18 – BURLINGTON, VT @ Taz Michaels Show on The Radiator

10/19 – HANOVER, NH @ Dartmouth College

10/20 – BELFAST, ME @ tba

10/21 – BIDDEFORD, ME @ the Oak and the Ax

10/22 – BURLINGTON, VT @ the Skinny Pancake (with John Craigie)

10/23 – MONTREAL @ tba

10/26 – BRATTLEBORO, VT @ tba

10/27 – HUDSON, NY @ tba

10/28 – BROOKLYN, NY @ Pete’s Candy Store

10/30 – WASHINGTON, DC @ tba **(HELP!)

–november—————-​—————-

11/1 – BALTIMORE, MD @ Cyclops Books

11/2 – NORFOLK, VA @ tba *** (HELP, please!)

11/3 – DURHAM, NC @ the Pinhook

11/4 – ASHEVILLE, NC @ the LAB

11/5 – ATHENS, GA @ tba ** HELP!!!

11/6 – ATLANTA, GA @ tba

11/8 – TUSCALOOSA, AL @ Green Bar

11/9-10 NEW ORLEANS, LA @ tba

11/11 – BATON ROUGE, LA/ HOUSTON, TX @ tba

11/12 – AUSTIN, TX @ Saxon Pub (with Jack Wilson and the Blue Hit)

11/15 – DALLAS, TX @ tba

11/16 – DENTON, TX @ tba ***HELP!!!

11/17 – NORMAN, OK @ Opolis (with Penny Hill)

11/18 – ALBUQUERQUE, NM @ Gold House

11/19 – SANTA FE, NM @ tba (with World History, Real Live Tigers)

11/20 – LAS CRUCES, NM @ tba

11/22 – TUCSON, AZ @ tba

11/23 – PHOENIX, AZ @ Yellow Canary

11/25 – LOS ANGELES, CA @ tba

11/26 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ tba

–december?!————–​——————

12/1 – PORTLAND, OR @ tba

12/2 – TACOMA, WA @ tba

12/3 – SEATTLE, WA @ tba

PHEW! I told you it was long. Here is a link with more info about that. GO SEE HER!! If you live in any of those ‘TBA’/'Help!’ places let me know if you’d like to help out! And have her in your studio if you work at a radio station!!

ALSO, I’ve spent at least a week at a time in and around Seattle every year since 2008, making the trip I have planned for the 17^th-26^th of this month Year 4 of my annual pilgrimage. Last year I did a bunch of totally sweet Band Mom-related stuff, like visited a buncha sweetheart radio stations. One of my favorite things to do is to make music directors pose awkwardly at their desks as though they are talking to me on the phone so I can picture them like that forever. Exhibits A, B, and C:

KAOS (at Evergreen College in Olympia):

And also Rainy Dawg Radio (at UW in Seattle):

Aaaaand also KEXP (also UW-affiliated, through more loosely, in Seattle). Chris Mak is not a music director but he is totally a volunteer there:

Looking forward to repeats and new faces this year. I LOVE YOU SEATTLE!!!

Oh MAN!!! I can’t believe this time has finally come. I’ve basically been waiting to do this for the last three years. Yes: before The Band Mom was even officially a radio promotion company, I was waiting to promote the next Terrordactyls record. Here are some reasons why the Terrordactyls are so special to me: in March 2008 they let me join them on their tour, which was one of the best things I’ve ever done. Tyrel designed my Band Mom logo (check it out at the top of the page!) and the guys were the first to call me their “band mom” when I made them a tour book that had a different quote from The Adventures of Pete & Pete on every page. Also Tyrel totally just helped me out with my website redesign…poke around, looks pretty snazzy doesn’t it? Yes it does. The Terrordactyls are high on the lists both of my best friends and my favorite bands, and I can’t believe they continue to allow me to be in their lives.

Anyway. I can’t WAIT for the whole world to hear this Terrordactyls album. You should read the bio below, because it is basically a list of facts that don’t seem like they could possibly all be true, but they are, every word, I’ve seen most of it happen with my own two eyes.

THE TERRORDACTYLS

RAGE MOUNTAIN

Self-Released

The Terrordactyls are Tyrel Stendahl and Michael Cadiz. They met in high school in 1999 and formed the band in 2001, with a lineup that once also included members who would go on to become The Pharmacy. They’ve released albums, 7″s and EPs on Seattle’s Don’t Stop Believin’ and Austria’s Seayou Records; they’ve toured the US and Europe, made a stop-motion animation video for a duet they recorded with Kimya Dawson (Moldy Peaches, Juno soundtrack) that got over 200,000 views on Youtube, landed a sponsorship with Kazoobie Kazoos, and had songs featured in the MTV show My Life As Liz.

Rage Mountain was recorded beginning in 2009 in a cabin by a creek and in a practice studio above the record store where Tyrel worked on Vashon Island, Washington. All of the guitar solos were recorded on a Squire Strat that’s owned by Tyrel’s boss at the music store and which was signed by K.D. Lang. Tyrel’s boss doesn’t know this. Vashon is a small island in the Puget Sound. You have to take a ferry to get there and it’s full of magic and pine trees. Sometimes there are even orca whales. To complete the Seattleite stereotype, besides being in a band, wearing plaid and listening to Nirvana, these days Tyrel works for an internet company and Michael is a barista.

There are already two music videos for the track “Overlapping Circles”. One is about burning Christmas trees on a summer day; the other one is by friend Will Janowitz, an actor. He’s been on The Sopranos and also Mad Men. Plus there’s the “Stars” video, which was made by Kori Valz, an animator who has worked on the preschool-age TV show The Wonder Pets, and it is full of penises.

Besides tales of pain and insecurity disguised as sweet melancholic folk ballads, and stories about cats orchestrated with kazoos and toy pianos, Rage Mountain features a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Down In It”. Michael was a huge NIN fan in middle school, and both Terrordactyls contend that Pretty Hate Machine is an AMAZING album.

Following the recording of this album, Kellen Rack, a bicycle and fantasy novel enthusiast, became the band’s full-time drummer. The now-trio is already hard at work recording Rage Mountain II: Return to Rage Mountain.

RIYL: Kimya Dawson, Paul Baribeau, Jeffrey Lewis, pwrfl power, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Start With: 4, 8, 15, 6, 12, 10 FCC: 2, 3, 14 [CLEAN EDITS AVAILABLE], 9 [NO CLEAN EDIT]

Track 9 happens to be my favorite on the whole disc, the only one with swears that doesn’t have an edit, so if you happen to have the kind of radio situation where it doesn’t matter what words are in the tracks you play, spin the s**t out of that thing!!!

Contact me for a download link! Downloads available both of the full album and of the clean edits! I’ve also got a secret extra download of a couple clean edits with completely ridiculous sounds instead of just blanks for the swears, if you’re into that sort of stuff.

The world is a magical place!!! The Terrordactyls help. ADD THIS RECORD!!!

http://terrordactyls.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-terrordactyls/27184283711

http://terrordactyls.bandcamp.com/

My third add of 2011 is here!

For longtime Band Mom loyalists, these guys will already be familiar to you: their first full-length was my second Band Mom project ever back in 2009. It did really well, including getting tons of play on WOXY (RIP WOXY :( ) – and now it’s two years later and the band’s lineup has gone through some serious changes, and their lyrical themes have gotten a little darker, but their music is still totally recognizable from that first album. As I pointed out in 2009, they make a really interesting combination of music that fuses catchy indie pop with their DC post-punk heritage. You haven’t heard much like it before. Plus their name is an allusion to TS Eliot’s The Waste Land…the English major in me rejoices!

This is a 3-song EP that is NOT a leading up to a full-length anytime soon, so don’t wait: play this today! Radio stations, my hard copies were VERY limited, but if you didn’t get one then check your email or contact me for a download link! It’s worth it!!

TEREU TEREU

NW EP

Self-Released

They began in Fredericksburg, VA in 2006 as a noisy two-piece. Over time, the band expanded in scope and adopted the moniker Tereu Tereu; in 2007, they released a split with The Light Footwork, and in 2009 they released their debut album, All That Keeps Us Together. The band toured up and down the mid-Atlantic and played with bands like The Dismemberment Plan, Ra Ra Riot, Foals, Jukebox the Ghost, Georgie James, Birdmonster, Maritime, The Good Life, and Pomegranates.

In late 2009, Tereu Tereu moved to DC, shifted members and shifted sounds. Now a three-piece, they play disjointed pop music, mixing elements of DC post-punk with melodies influenced by Taureg desert music. They run ear-pleasing hooks through oddball time signatures and punctuate their songs with feedback-laden freak outs. The continuing evolution of the band has brought more focus and darker undercurrents to the music, lyrically grappling with queer suicides and friends lost to cancer. It’s a heavier moment for a pop-centric trio, but it’s their most ambitious to date.

This 3-track EP serves as a re-introduction for this newest incarnation of Tereu Tereu; it is a standalone release rather than a lead-in to a full-length, and its official release comes in a limited-edition hand-stenciled package.

“both powerful and slightly unnerving”- My Old Kentucky Blog

RIYL: Dismemberment Plan, Phoenix, Q and Not U, Ra Ra Riot, Spoon

Start With: 1, 2 FCC 3 (radio edit available!!)

Contact me for a download link!

yes!!!

http://www.myspace.com/tereutereu

http://tereutereu.com/

http://twitter.com/tereutereu

http://tereutereu.bandcamp.com/

HEY, you guys!! Do you remember around this time last year, when I had this crazy add that was a compilation of songs inspired by a novel written by author/comedian/actor/filmmaker/professional punsmith/overall incredible dude DC Pierson? Well HOLD ONTO YOUR PANTS, because it’s not over! There’s a volume two!!

You should definitely read through my superlong post from last year with an insane amount of information about the inception of this project, and then come back here. You could also start with this short bio:

DC Pierson is the author of the ALEX-award-winning novel “The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Never Had To,” which is published by Anchor/Vintage.  He’s also a member of the popular Internet comedy group DERRICK Comedy, whose sketch videos have been viewed over 150 million times online.  Their first feature film “Mystery Team” premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and is available on DVD from Lionsgate.  He’s commemorating the first anniversary of his book’s release with the second volume of “Songs For ‘The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep And Never Had To,’” a free mix of original songs by amazing artists.  The first volume of the mix is available at DC’s website.

DC Pierson is available for interviews on the phone, or in person in the Los Angeles area!

This version of the mixtape includes artists Good Luck (a perfect band from Bloomington, Indiana fronted by Matty Pop Chart), Alicia Jo Rabins of the continually-inspiring Band Mom band Girls In Trouble, my honeys The Terrordactyls, USF (formerly Universal Studios Florida and also formerly including the music director from Rainy Dawg Radio in Seattle, a super legit chillwave band that Pitchfork seems to have a thing for and of whom The Seattle Times also recently published a mind-blowing photo and some nice words), Portland band Granada, and Melissa Lusk who you might also recognize from her really great song on the first mixtape. Yes!!

This one is a download only, and you can find that download here in a post with some more info on DC’s site, or here zipped up with other info from me like a press onesheet, a tracklist and a photo for all your radioing needs.

Add it now!! For CMJ purposes, this is Various Artists – Songs for “The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep…” Vol. 2. And the record label is Fifty People’s Favorite Thing, which is a made-up label invented by DC. No booklegging.

Feel free to contact me to set up an interview with DC or to tell me how great you think this whole thing is!!

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