Mistletone

Mistletone proudly presents the return of San Francisco DIY-psych-pop maestro, Kelley Stoltz, touring nationally in February.

Kelley’s tour coincides with the release of his brilliant new Sub Pop album Circular Sounds, due February 4 and released locally by Stomp.

For his third Australian tour, Kelley is being reunited with his trusty Aussie touring band: Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring), Mark Nelson (The Stabs), Kjirsten Robb (Hired Guns) and Julian Wu (Melbourne music Identity).

KELLEY STOLTZ “CIRCULAR SOUNDS” TOUR DATES 2008:

Fri Feb 1 Wellington, NZ – Mighty Mighty
Sat Feb 2 Auckland, NZ – Dogs Bollix
Fri Feb 8 Adelaide – Jive w/- Ross McLennan + special guest (tickets from Moshtix)
Sat Feb 9 Melbourne – Corner Hotel w/- Ross McLennan + special guest (tickets from the venue)
Sun Feb 10 Castlemaine – Theatre Royal w/- The Breadmakers, Sime Nugent + more (tickets from the venue)
Thu Feb 14 Byron Bay – Great Northern Hotel w/- James Cruikshank (tickets from Byron Bay Entertainment)
Fri Feb 15 Brisbane – Troubadour w/- Ross McLennan + special guest (tickets from Oztix)
Sat Feb 16 Sydney – Annandale w/- Richard In Your Mind + Ross McLennan (tickets from the venue)

ALL ABOUT KELLEY Kelley Stoltz grew up in Michigan and moved to New York in his early 20s, where he served as an intern with Jeff Buckley’s management company, working as a fan-mail sorter. In the late 1990s he relocated to San Francisco and began his own musical career.

He recorded his first album The Past Was Faster in 1999, released on Telegraph Records. Stoltz self-released his second album Antique Glow in 2001. The original release was 200 vinyl LPs in hand-painted sleeves; later the album gained wider distribution when it was released by Jack Pine Social Club in the US, TKTK in the UK and Raoul Records/Corduroy in Australia. His next project, Crockodials, was a track by track cover of Echo and The Bunnymen’s Crocodiles album recorded on his 8-track tape recorder.

In late 2003, Stoltz toured Australia for the first time and recorded a 4 track direct to disc EP at Corduroy Records. In 2004 Mojo magazine gave Antique Glow a four (out of five) star review and featured an article on Stoltz in their Mojo Rising column.

In 2005, Stoltz signed to Sub Pop and released The Sun Comes Through EP. He also toured Europe in April and Australia for a second time in Dec 2005-January 2006. His first full length release for Sub Pop, Below the Branches, was released in February 2006.

Below the Branches was the first record in music industry history to be packaged with the Green-e logo, promoting the use of renewable energy. Stoltz tracked his electricity use and with the help of the Green-e program, offset the all the electricity used to record his record with green tags from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. In Kelley’s words: “Using renewable energy to offset the electricity I needed to power my guitar amps and my recording machines was a simple and effective way for me to do something about my impact on the environment. Green-e certifies that I am buying 100 percent renewable energy. Hopefully, people will see their logo; check into what they do, and make renewable energy a part of their lives, too.”

Most recently Stoltz has been touring with The Raconteurs, playing Lollapalooza in Chicago and touring extensively in the UK. He has also made his debut as a producer, working in the studio with San Francisco bands The Passionistas, The Moore Brothers, Bart Davenport and Colossal Yes.

Kelley Stoltz official website

Kelley Myspace

From Pitchfork: Kelley Stoltz Serves Up Sounds for Sub Pop

Kelley Stoltz is on a roll. The San Francisco-based home-recording craftsman shared an album just last year, his third overall and first full-length for Sub Pop, Below the Branches. Now he’s got another one primed to blow up in early 2008, and a tour popping off right now.

Circular Sounds is set to arrive February 5 via Sub Pop, packing 14 more examples of that signature Stoltz sunshine onto one thin plastic disc. As Stoltz describes it, he’s no longer “lo-fi”, having embraced what he calls a “mid-hi” aesthetic on the new offering.

“I work in a second-hand record store and that’s made me more of a hi-fi advocate,” Stoltz explained via press release. “It’s hard for me to listen to stuff that was recorded on a cassette player nowadays. By the last record I was mid-fi. I think I’m mid-hi now!”

Get mid-hi yourself and catch Stoltz on tour overseas now, playing quite a few shows with Two Gallants and labelmates Blitzen Trapper and hawking copies of his just-released “Your Reverie” / “Owl Service” 7″ on Sub Pop.

Circular Sounds:

01 Everything Begins
02 Tintinnabulation
03 The Birmingham Eccentric
04 Gardenia
05 Mother Nature
06 To Speak to the Girl
07 Put My Troubles to Sleep
08 When You Forget
09 Your Reverie
10 I Nearly Lost My Mind
11 Something More
12 Reflecting
13 Morning Sun
14 You Alone