Margaret Stutt AKA Pezzettino with a quick video blog on the status of her upcoming LP, Lub Dub. Keep up to date with Margaret by following her blog.
Sixty Years War is proud to present a brand new four band split record called, FOUR: Volume One. This record includes the work of four different bands/artists hailing from all over the country.
Facing Winter, from West Chicago, Illinois. Longsleeves, from San Diego, California. Nathan Kalish, from Grand Rapids, Michigan and our own, Chris Darby with his band, Them Damn Kids, from Chicago, Illinois.
You can download the album for FREE at the following places:
http://sixtyyearswar.bandcamp.com/
http://cllct.com/release/fourvolumeone
Check out Lee Miles’ new website, up and running as of today. Tour dates will be posted shortly…
Mid Morning High from Lee Miles’ upcoming EP “OPEN YOUR GRIEVOUS HEART”
Songwriter Festival
Loud Loop did a write up on Chris Darby’s Songwriter Festival being held in Chicago this week. For those of you in the area, today is the first day of the festival. Don’t miss it!
Wooden Satellites at The Brass Rail in Fort Wayne, IN on July 2nd.
Open Your Grievous Heart
Open Your Grievous Heart has shipped for pressing!
You can preview it right now on Myspace…
Pre-order ($7) your copy via PAYPAL today!
Pre-ordered copies will be shipped out first.
In a genre where sincerity often blurs into maudlin self-pity, Darby’s straight-forward, but life tempered optimism is refreshing and compelling.
A New Band A Day
Longsleeves; Collect-this, Collect-that, Collect to Win!
Today, June 21st, Longsleeves is the featured band on A New Band A Day, a great UK based music blog that, true to its name, features a new band or artist every day. Not only did they mention Longsleeves, they also talk a little bit about the power of collectives in modern music and art. It’s a very gracious article, here’s what they had to say about Elderberry:
By dragging together such desperate sounds – glossy, pearly synth noises, hissing, compressed snares, the sound of a 1980′s home computer loading from a tape, Longsleeves are not only light years ahead of the majority but also the best and most persuasive argument for the collective system yet. Great. (continue reading…)
Remember Elderberry is completely FREE to download and you can get it here.
Poster Shop
We’re very pleased to announce that Sixty Years War has opened a poster shop where you can purchase prints from shows of our artists.
www.etsy.com/shop/sixtyyearswar
The first two prints we have for sale were designed by James Musselman of Longsleeves. These posters will also be available at the shows for which they were created for anyone interested in buying them in person.
As a note, we’d like to mention that the profits from these works go directly to the artist, just the same as records sold in the shop. So go now! Pick up a print!
Chris Darby's Songwriter Night covered on Gapers Block
For the last few years, Phyllis’ has been the venue of choice for Chris Darby’s bimonthly songwriter showcase, which began in his Logan Square apartment in 2004. Although Darby is leaving Chicago in mid-July for a ten month tour across the country, there’ll be an encore for his songwriter series: a three day Songwriter Festival at Phyllis’ Musical Inn, which takes place on July 7, 9, and 10.
Two hundred years ago, people would make instruments using whatever they had available to them. These were working-class people, using the tools around them to make music. We’re doing that in a modern sense.
Photos of Lee Miles and The Illegitimate Sons opening for The Buffalo Killers at The Brass Rail in Fort Wayne can be found at our Facebook page! All photos by Drew Allegre.
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