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CRAYON FIELDS www.myspace.com/thecrayonfields Australian euphoric pop quartet Crayon Fields are heading off to the US in October for their first proper American tour, after a brief trip to SXSW, LA and New York in March. This time the band are really hitting the road, playing up and down both coasts as well as stopping in New York for CMJ. For all these shows, they’ll be playing songs from their two much-loved albums All the Pleasures Of the World and Animal Bells, as well as a swag of new material. They’ve also made a US tour EP available on Bandcamp (crayonfieldsforever.bandcamp.com), with previously vinyl-only B-side How Loved You Are, a live version of Pleasures track Graceless, a remix of All the Pleasures Of the World by Dan Block, and a surprise - a sultry cover of the Roxette classic It Must Have Been Love. Some praise from Crayon Fields’ March USA sojourn: “They were fantastic, and can really pull off the lush, late ‘60s baroque pop sound of their new album” - Brooklyn Vegan “A lush, swooning-inducing, summery set that stunned those in attendance” - KEXP “Lush, literate, room warming presence” - Crawdaddy “One of our favorite discoveries from SXSW” - Hype Machine Radio SHOWS Oct 11 Soda Bar, San Diego (with Heavy Hawaii and Scruffles) Oct 12 Muddy Waters, Santa Barbara Oct 14 Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco (with Magic Bullets and Old Fashioned Way) Oct 16 Northern, Olympia (with Karl Blau and Generifus) Oct 17 Mississippi Studios, Portland (with Karl Blau and Archeology) Oct 18 Tractor Tavern, Seattle (with Karl Blau and Exohxo) Oct 21 CMJ College Day, (Sounds Australia “2 For the Show”case), NYU @ 1pm Oct 21 Glasslands Gallery, New York - Chapter Music/Underwater Peoples CMJ showcase (with Air Waves, Andrew Cedermark, La Big Vic, Fabulous Diamonds and Guy Blackman) Oct 22 Rockwood Music Hall, New York - The Windish Agency CMJ showcase (with Apache Beat, Sun Airway, First Aid Kit and Lower Dens) Oct 22 Public Assembly , New York - FILTER Magazine and Øya Festival CMJ Kick off Party 2010 Oct 24 Black Cat Backstage, Washington DC (with Family Portrait) Oct 26 The Fire, Philadelphia (with Air Waves) Oct 27 TT The Bears, Boston (with Air Waves and Reports) Oct 29 Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles @ 8pm DARREN HANLON www.darrenhanlon.com This year Sydney based Darren Hanlon will make his debut appearance at CMJ to showcase his new album I Will Love You At All (YEP ROC). Written in a variety of exotic locations from Paris to Coonabarabran, Australia and recorded at Portland, Oregon’s famed Type Foundry studio, I Will Love You At All speaks a language born of wanderlust.
The record, recorded by Adam Selzer (M Ward, She & Him, The Decemberists), features Rachel Blumberg (Bright Eyes, M Ward, She & Him, The Decemberists) on drums, as well as long-time Portland-based collaborator Cory Gray (Carcrashlander, Norfolk and Western) on keys, was created away from Hanlon’s native home, and was partially written in the studio - a departure for the artist. Reinforcing the album’s sweet nature are more of Portland’s finest - dual female vocalists Shelley Short and Alia Farah. With an EP, four studio albums, and a CD collection’s worth of B-sides and rarities to his name, Darren has built a loyal Australian fan base, but will be new to many in the ‘States. Hanlon has toured with Billy Bragg, Violent Femmes, and Evan Dando, and completed five tours at home and abroad with his friends The Magnetic Fields. Darren is also responsible for bringing Jeffrey Lewis, David Dondero and Jens Lekman to Australia for their first visits in support of his own sold out shows. As always, Darren’s eye for life’s smaller details are played out with charm and joyful abandon on I Will Love You At All. From the light-fingered bounce of ‘Butterfly Bones’ to the evocative and plaintive ‘Modern History’, these songs mainline to the heart. There’s Darren’s first stab at an epic - ‘House’ clocks in at 7.39 minutes - and his most down-home country shuffle yet, ‘If Only My Heart Were Made Of Stone’, followed by the haunting closer of ‘What Can We Say?’. This full-length is Hanlon creating at his most relaxed, with a more heightened folk sensibility-they are tales of being, as Hanlon puts it, “cut adrift from the world.” They are songs about houses he’s lived in, his hometown, memories both crisp and faded, all created on the other side of the globe. At each intimate turn, I Will Love You At All is an album rich with the open spirit in which it was created. “Hanlon revels in the mundane with the childish exuberance of Jonathan Richman.” - Marc Hogan, Pitchfork “The man who inspires “I wish I could have said that” syndrome.” - Bronwyn Thompson, Rolling Stone SHOWS Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 22 Oct 22 Bowery Electric - CMJ Festival, Yep Roc Party @ 7:50pm (With Lawrance Arabia, John Grant, Heidi Spencer and more... ) Bowery Electric - CMJ Festival, Red Eye Day Party @ 12pm Pianos (Lower East Side) - CMJ Festival - Planetary Group Party @ 3pm Union Hall - CMJ Festival @ 8pm (Opening for The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (Featuring Sean Lennon) with Laura Gibson) FABULOUS DIAMONDS www.myspace.com/fabulousdiamonds After wowing the world with their sensual hypno-jam second album Fabulous Diamonds II, Melbourne duo Fabulous Diamonds are taking off for a Stateswide trek with another two piece, NYC lo-fi love- rock duo Pigeons. Drummer/vocalist Nisa Venerosa and keyboardist Jarrod Zlatic have been playing together for more than five years now, and their musical bond has grown deep and expansive, but not exactly harmonious. They make music full of lulling repetition, but there’s always an undercurrent of friction that propels the songs forward. Released in Australia by Chapter Music, with a vinyl version emerging on Philadelphia label Siltbreeze, Fabulous Diamonds II at least put a stop to the band’s habit of posting bad reviews on their Myspace, because the international flood of reviews were embarrassingly positive.
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