Mistletone

Hello people. Here is all the latest news in Mistletone land.

We’re super excited about the arrival of Kelley Stoltz next week! Kelley and his gun Aussie band are playing a string of shows that are going to be outta sight. Australia is the first country to experience Kelley’s brilliant new album Circular Sounds (out Monday on Sub Pop/Stomp) in a live setting.

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 + Birth Glow (tickets from Moshtix)
RRR Presents: Sat Feb 9 Melbourne – Corner Hotel w/- The Lucksmiths + Ross McLennan (tickets from the venue)
RRR Presents: Sun Feb 10 Castlemaine – Theatre Royal w/- Lisa Miller, The Breadmakers, Sime Nugent + local supports (tickets from the venue) (starts 3pm, Kelley onstage 8pm)
Wed Feb 13 Melbourne instore (solo) – TITLE Store, 183 Gertrude St, Fitzroy from 6pm (free entry, all ages)
Thu Feb 14 Byron Bay – Great Northern Hotel w/- James Cruikshank + Andrew Kidman & the Brown Birds (tickets from Oztix)
Fri Feb 15 Brisbane – Troubadour w/- Ross McLennan + The John Steel Singers (tickets from Oztix)
2SER Presents: Sat Feb 16 Sydney – Annandale w/- Richard In Your Mind + Ross McLennan (tickets from Red Eye Records, Mistletone online store or the venue)

*** JUST ADDED! ***
Kelley Stoltz farewell show!
Sun Feb 17 Melbourne – The Tote w/- The Smallgoods + The UV Race + Ships Piano + DJs + BBQ. Tickets $20 at the door. Doors open 5.30pm be early!

DAN DEACON-DAN DEACON-DAN DEACON-DAN DEACON
– remember the name! He’s coming to Australia next month for the first time and it’s going to be rad! Dan is the founder of Wham City, a utopian art and music collective based in Baltimore, and frontrunner of the Future Shock genre emerging from Baltimore’s growing underground music scene. His shows will be the most fun you’ll have this year, Dan is a star – don’t miss this!

DAN DEACON AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
FBi Presents: Fri Feb 22 – Sydney: Oxford Arts Factory w/- Catcall + Always + DJs Sleater Brockman & Master Celebrator. Tickets $19 +BF from Moshtix.
Sat Feb 23– Melbourne: Evelyn Hotel w/- Catcall + Barrage + DJ Sleater Brockman. Tickets $19 +BF from Moshtix, Polyester (387 Brunswick St, Fitzroy and 288 Flinders Lane, City), TITLE (183 Gertrude St, Fitzroy), the Evelyn bottle shop and Mistletone website
Sun Feb 24 – Melbourne: Laneway Festival SOLD OUT!
Wed Feb 27 – Perth Festival: Beck’s Music Box
Thu Feb 28 – Adelaide: Rocket Bar w/- Skeletons + Hit The Jackpot. Tickets $15 +BF from Oztix.
Fri Feb 29 – Brisbane: Troubadour w/- Joel Saunders + Dot.AY. Tickets $19 + BF from Oztix.
Sat Mar 1– Brisbane: Laneway Festival SOLD OUT!
Sun March 2 – Sydney: Laneway Festival SOLD OUT!

EVANGELICALS are a bunch of whackers from Norman Oklahoma and Mistletone is as proud as punch to have just released their second album – “The Evening Descends”. Expect tales of religion and revivalism, plus insanity, drugs, black-outs, zombies, good and evil, car crashes, love, and a mental institution called Bellawood. Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts, The Evening Descends is one hell of a ride. Read what Pitchfork had to say in its 8.3 rated review and then mail order the new Evangelicals album and receive their debut So Gone for nix!
FBi Album of the Week next week!

Mistletone is releasing the extraordinary new Beach House album called Devotion. Beach House have developed their craft exponentially since their self-titled debut (Mistletone, 2007). This time, the recording is crisper; the songs are fuller. This is a band that is taking the pop duo format to the limit. The organs, slide guitars and reverb are still there, but Beach House lay out some new sounds for their newest offering. While on their debut critics made comparisons to early 1990s dream popsters like Mazzy Star, Galaxie 500 and Slowdive, on Devotion listeners will also hear the band’s longtime admiration for 1960s Motown and country folk. Devotion also features Beach House’s first cover: Daniel Johnston’s Some Things Last a Long Time. It is beautiful!

Sympathy For The New World is the new album from Melbourne’s home recording pop pundit Ross McLennan. This stunning new record charts McLennan’s dizzying artistic progress following his post-Snout solo debut Hits From The Brittle Building, and will delight his many fans as well as turning a new generation of listeners on to his twisted pop precocity.Written and recorded entirely in his home studio in the quietude of an inner-north Melbourne suburb, Sympathy for the New World is an accomplished production. A dozen finely crafted songs open up labyrinthine worlds of meaning, association and possibilities with every listen. McLennan’s quizzical and playful lyrical and melodic smarts place him firmly in the league of other such idiosyncratic musical brains as Todd Rundgren, Kurt Wagner (Lambchop), or Stephen Malkmus – another artist who has arguably done more weighty and intriguing work after breaking up his band and retreating to his home studio.

The beginning of March will also see the release of Alegranza, the amazing debut by Barcelona-based artist El Guincho. Alegranza is a mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicália, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats and exotica production. It’s like a mixture between Panda Bear’s “Person Pitch” and a lost tropicalia record. Awesome!!!!

Mid March will see the release of the new self titled Kes Band album and it’s absolutely amazing. Recorded by James Cecil of Architecture in Helsinki fame in his Super Melody World studio, Kes Band is a stupendous leap forward from “The Grey Goose Wing”, with the same adventurous spirit but with a more concise and accessible pop sensibility. Kes Band will launch Kes Band in April.

You can listen/download tracks from Dan Deacon, Evangelicals, Beach House, Ross McLennan, Kes Band and El Guincho from our Myspace or here on our website by clicking on the artist of your choice on the left hand menu.

That’s it for us. Enjoy what’s left of the summer and we hope to see you at a show!

x ash&sophie