Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray to Play Brooklyn Show on 4/27

  Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray
Saturday, April 27
Red Hook Bait and Tackle
320 Van Brunt St
Brooklyn, NY
9PM
Free

Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray released their We're From Here album September 2012.

Ben Rector to Play The Bowery Ballroom, 4/25

  Ben Rector
Alpha Rev
Thursday, April 25
The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey St
New York, NY
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $18 advance / $20 day of show
16+
Singer-songwriter Ben Rector has a new album coming out in July.

Q & A with Josh Rigal of Little Brother Eli

Earlier this year, some fellas from the UK caught my ear.  I took an instant liking to their sound which is a warm mix of blues, soul and rock. They are, Little Brother Eli.

The band has been working on an EP that we'll be able to hear on April 25. Naturally, I wanted to know more about the band so, I sent some questions over and Josh Rigal from the band sent over some answers. This is the result of our ‘e-chat’.

Quirky NY Chick (QNYC): Tell us a little about yourself. How did the band come together?

Josh Rigal (JR): Me and Alex (Grew), other than being best friends, had played together for years in our old band before it broke up in 2010. We met up in April of 2012, we were just hanging out, playing bits of music and ended up writing a song called Mary. From then it just took off for us, more and more songs just started flowing organically.

After we had written all this material we decided to get a band together - consisting of the talented Linus Taylor and Adam Stowe on guitars and Benji Page on drums (with myself on bass and Alex on vocals).

Trixie Whitley to Play Glasslands on 4/26

 

Trixie Whitley
Mother Feather, Dumpster Hunter
Friday, April 26
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
8:30PM
Tickets: $12
21+

Trixie Whitley released her latest album, Fourth Corner, January 2013.

Maya Vik to Play Series of NY Shows

Norwegian singer/bassist Maya Vik is slated to perform five shows in New York starting this week.  Check out the dates below.  To whet your appetite, scroll down and have a look at the video for "Bummer Gun".

4/24 – NordAmerica @ Tammany Hall – Manhattan, NY
4/25 – Public Assembly – Brooklyn, NY
4/28 – Pianos – Manhattan, NY
4/29 – Trash Bar – Brooklyn, NY
4/30 – Fontana's – Manhattan, NY

Vik recently released both a Mixtape, On It (Kapow!), and an EP for the U.S. via Oslo Records. A collection of singles and remixes from her two solo albums, tracks feature musical assists from such heavyweights as Morgan Phalen (vocalist for Justice and Diamond Nights) and Block Beattaz (who have produced for such artists as Freddie Gibbs and Mike Posner). 

Caught My Ear: Hannah & Maggie

 

Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to listening to things ... work, life and stuff are time consuming.  So, I often tuck things aside to listen to later which I generally do.  At times, things get buried and I happen across it again usually while looking for something else I've tucked away.  I happened upon Hannah and Maggie in my "listen to later" file.  I finally listened and guess what?  I like what I heard.  Their harmonies are sharp and crystal clear; the vocals are very pretty.  They released an album, Muscle & Bone last year.  The tour video below features the track "Burlington, VT" from the album.  My pick for album highlight is "Curfew".

Around New York ... April 21 - April 27, 2013

Upcoming Shows in the New York area ...

Kimberly Nichole at Rockwood Music Hall 4/23

April 21 -- Vulture Shit / Clean Girls / Old Monk / Low Fat Getting High at The Bowery Electric
April 21 -- Bourbon & Lace Burlesque at Parkside Lounge
April 23 -- Kimberly Nichole at Rockwood Music Hall
April 23 -- O'Death / Hungry March Band at (le) poisson rouge
April 23 -- Laura Cortese at Rockwood Music Hall
April 24 -- Lelia Broussard, Bess Rogers & Hannah Winkler: In The Round at Rockwood Music Hall
April 24 -- Tesla Boy / HITS / Teams / Future of the Party at The Studio at Webster Hall
April 24 -- Hockey / Monogold / Black Light Dinner Party at Pianos
April 25 -- Kaki King at Mercury Lounge
April 25 -- Ben Rector / Alpha Rev at The Bowery Ballroom
April 25 -- Twin Tigers / Honduras / The Teen Age at Glasslands
April 25 -- Papertwin / Camp Ground / Kodacrome / Kiss Slash / Crooked Smile at Cameo Gallery
April 25 -- Pre War / Plates of Cake / Dead Stars at Union Pool
April 26 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. / Tunde Olaniran at Music Hall of Williamsburg
April 26 -- Leroy Justice at Stage 48
April 26 -- Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 / Peter Buck at Webster Hall
April 26 -- Wasablanca at The Bell House
April 26 -- Trixie Whitley / Mother Feather / Dumpster Hunter at Glasslands
April 26 -- Lazyeyes / What It Means / Speck Mountain at Cameo Gallery
April 26 -- Isadora / TJ Kong and The Atomic Bomb / Nightdogs at Union Pool
April 26 -- The Young Things / Crazy & The Brains at Knitting Factory
April 27 -- Billy Bragg at The Town Hall
April 27 -- David Lynch Dune Burlesque Hosted By Francine at Parkside Lounge
April 27 -- The Old Fashions / Matt Sucich / Badocaster at Union Pool

Mission South Release New Album and Video

 

DC based band Mission South released their delightful album, Migration Vol. 2 last week.  I'm really digging this release.  The record shines with a soulful groove that wraps itself around you like an old friend.  The highlights are ... the whole EP!  There's not one song on this effort that I don't like. 

They recently released a terrific video for the track "Peaches".  Check it out below.

Paul McCartney To Reissue Wings Over America & Rockshow

Paul McCartney announced last week that Wings' live album from 1976, Wings Over America, will be re-released May 27.  Also being released, for the first time on DVD, the live concert film Rockshow.  I might have, most likely, yeah I did, squeal a tiny bit upon hearing the news.  These are the releases I've been wanting since the first of the Archive Collection was rolled out a few years ago.  Out of all of McCartney's work, Wings Over America is probably the album I listen to most.  I'll be emptying my piggy bank for this folks.

Wings Over America will be released as a Deluxe Box Set, a two disc Standard Edition and a three disc Vinyl Edition.  As with the previous archive collections, the deluxe edition is full of goodies.  What's in the massive box set?  For starters, of course you get the Wings Over America album, re-mastered at Abby Road plus a live CD recorded at San Francisco's Cow Palace and a DVD containing the 75 minute TV special Wings Over The World.  I may or may not admit to having non-legitimate copies of the last two items at some point...so, I may or may not need to say 'sorry Macca!'

Oh, but wait, that's not all.  There are four books included too.  There's the 110 page commemorative Tour Book, the leatherette-bound Tour Itinerary, Look! a book of Linda McCartney photos featuring Wings on the road and lastly, The Ocean View a book of drawings and sketches capturing the band on tour by Humphrey Ocean.  The Tour Itinerary book alone contains a mountain of stuff or as the promotional material calls it, 'extravagant memorabilia' ... an appropriate description.

On June 10, Rockshow will be released by Eagle Rock on both DVD and Blu-ray.  I'm excited to finally have this on DVD; my VHS edition had to be put to rest.  The footage was shot on tour in 1976 in Seattle.

It was originally released on Betamax (later on laserdisc) but it’s only now that the complete full length concert is being made available fully restored from the original 35mm film and with restored & remastered sound, including a 5.1 mix for the first time.

‘Rockshow’ Theatrical Release

And then third, but by no means least, Eagle Rock has partnered with distributors Specticast who are releasing the film theatrically worldwide for a ‘one night only’ event on May 15th (see here for more details: www.rockshowonscreen.com) – meaning the film will be shown in more than 500 cinemas across the world!

The theatrical release features an exclusive introduction with Paul McCartney, but there will also be an exclusive VIP premiere screening of ‘Rockshow’, with Paul in attendance and introducing the film, at BAFTA on 15 May 2013.

Leroy Justice to Release New Record and Play Stage 48

  Leroy Justice
Friday, April 26
Stage 48
605 West 48th Street
New York, NY
7:30 PM
Tickets: $12
16+

Leroy Justice will release their new album, Above The Weather, on April 23 via Elm City Music.