tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93323922008-07-22T21:34:56.089-07:00Darthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15744453055547210620noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9332392.post-55000467647158181042008-07-22T19:32:00.001-07:002008-07-22T19:32:16.695-07:00testDarthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15744453055547210620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9332392.post-7998187540380548302008-04-30T01:05:00.000-07:002008-04-30T01:06:21.557-07:00<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XZ-GV8SNM1s&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XZ-GV8SNM1s&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Adam Gnadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9332392.post-62159450463874032412008-01-08T01:26:00.000-08:002008-01-08T09:40:38.696-08:00<b><a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=15627462&blogID=335179223">NEWS.</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/gnade">MYSPACE.</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/gnade">ORDER CDS.</a> <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=15627462&blogID=323675884">RECENT PRESS.</a><P><br /><a href="http://www.adamgnade.com/uploaded_images/adamgnade-700958.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.adamgnade.com/uploaded_images/adamgnade-700953.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><P><br />BIO</b><br />"Talking-songs" is Adam Gnade's (guh-nah-dee) attempt to write music that sounds "how America feels." Based around prose writing (not poetry or spoken word) he brings in elements of noise, country, mountain music, and work songs. His albums and stories (his first novel is out this Valentine's Day <a href="http://books.dutchmoney.com/">Dutchmoney Books</a>) intersect, sharing characters, creating a "universe of lives and backstories." In the past two years since he began doing this full-time, he's toured the US and UK twice (alongside friends Youthmovies, Jonquil, Eugene McGuinness, Blanket, and House of Brothers) and released records on Drowned in Sound Recordings, Loud + Clear, BelowPDX, DeathBombArc, Native Kin, Bad Drone, and Try Harder Records. Live, sometimes it's Adam with a banjo or five-string acoustic guitar standing in the middle of the crowd; sometimes full band (including regular collaborator Thaddeus Christian.) This fall saw the release of <i><a href="http://tryharderrecords.com/">Honey Slides</a></I>, a collaboration with Youthmovies on the Try Harder label and the limited-edition double-CD, <I>Palaces/Whidbey Island</I>. A vinyl version of <I>Palaces/Whidbey Island</I> will be released in early 2008 by Bad Drone Media. <br /><br /><I>Palaces'</I> songs are creaky, deconstructed, abandoned-sounding Americana; catatonic silence meets boozy violent celebration and rattling, ghostly field hollers. Finger-plucked banjo sounds out alongside mutilated piano, craggy vocals, space-clearing bells, swampy (modified 5-string) guitar, and tape/noise/hiss collages, all played by Adam. Written on tour in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and on Amelia Island, and recorded in Portland, Oregon, <I>Palaces</I> runs through its five tracks in shambled, rickety warmth. <br /><br />The <I>Whidbey Island</I> side was recorded in a house on the cliffside of Washington State’s Whidbey Island with David and Thaddeus Christian. As damaged and noisy as the <I>Palaces</I> side is, <I>Whidbey Island</I> is clean and roomy with mellow fingerpicked acoustic guitar, Puget sound field recordings, doomy acoustic bass, and cascading mandolin. Lyrics follow a chilly, pastoral narrative about frost, pioneers, backseat visions, war, and folk remedies. West coast burnout vibe meets Southern Gothic death-folk. <I>Whidbey Island</I> is part one of Adam's 'island trilogy,' which will continue with the limited-edition EP <I>Become an Island</I> in late 2008." " Email duke@adamgnade.com to order. <br /><br />Adam Gnade and Youthmovies' <i>Honey Slides</I> EP was written on tour in England last year, improv'd during drunken collaborative sets, and recorded on a chilly, grey day at Oxfordshire's Warehouse Studios while a bottle of murky port was passed around the room. A full-on culture clash, the music is like an American marching band playing a British rave. Thumping micro-house morphs into a psychedelic brass band while landscapes of android ghost beats emerge from luminous pools of ambient noise. The vocals shout and proclaim in surreal tones like the spooky hollers of a Southern Baptist preacher inside a swampland chapel. Ideas and images cycle back, flashing brief visions of haunted wilderness, rising seas, decadent youth, faith healers, urban decay, and midnight carnivals in torch-lit clearings. A new animal born to two mothers, an engaging, weird, dancy, absorbing, freaked-out electronic pop tapestry.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.adamgnade.com/uploaded_images/Picture-006-797147.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.adamgnade.com/uploaded_images/Picture-006-797142.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />TOUR<br />UK TOUR 2007<br />With Youthmovies and Jonquil<br />Sep 23 Truck Fest, Oxfordshire <br />Sep 25 REVOLUTION Harrogate <br />Sep 26 SOCIAL Nottingham <br />Sep 27 THE VENUE Preston <br />Sep 28 JOHN TAYLOR’S HOUSE Coventry <br />Sep 29 THE BOILEROOM Guildford <br />With Georgie Pringle<br />Sep 29 NOTTING HILL ARTS CENTER London <br />With Youthmovies and Jonquil<br />Oct 2 HULL ADELPHI Hull<br />Oct 4 CABARET VOLTAIRE Edinburgh <br />Oct 5 BARFLY Glasgow <br />Oct 6 CANTEEN ARTS CENTRE BarroW <br />Oct 7 BRICKYARD Carlisle CANCELED <br />With Youthmovies and House of Brothers <br />Oct 9 QUEEN CHARLOTTE Norwich <br />Oct 10 THE GRADUATE Cambridge <br />Oct 11 NEW SLANG Kingston <br />With Youthmovies and Eugene McGuinness<br />Oct 12 THE FORUM Tunbridge Wells <br />Oct 15 WHITE HORSE High Wycombe <br />Oct 16 LUMINAIRE London <br />Oct 17 FIREBUG Leicester <br />Oct 18 NIGHT AND DAY Manchester <br />Oct 19 BRAINWASH FESTIVAL Leeds <br />Oct 20 KOROVA Liverpool<br />With Youthmovies and Blanket <br />Oct 22 WEST END CENTRE Aldershot <br />Oct 23 LOUISIANA Bristol <br />Oct 24 HUB Plymouth <br />Oct 25 RAILWAY Winchester <br />Oct 26 Hope Brighton <br />Oct 27 ZODIAC/CARLING ACADEMY Oxford<br /><br />2008<br />With Castanets and Whip<br />Jan 16 SOMEDAY LOUNGE Portland<br /><br />RECENT PAST DATES<br />Portland 9/21/06 Doug Fir w/The Kingdom, Castanets<br />Portland 9/17/06 Rotture w/Ah Holly Fam'ly<br />Portland 10/22/06 Ash Street Saloon w/Ohioan<br />Portland 10/30 w/ Ecstatic Sunshine, Make Believe<br />Hertford, UK 11/10 Marquee w/Youthmovies, Blood Red Shoes, Cats and Cats and Cats<br />Liverpool, UK 11/11 Evol w/Youthmovies<br />Manchester, UK 11/12 Night & Day w/Youthmovies<br />Nottingham, UK 11/13 Stealth w/Youthmovies<br />London, UK 11/14 93 Feet East w/Youthmovies<br />Hull, UK 11/15 Adephi w/Youthmovies<br />Leeds, UK 11/16 Brudenell Social Club w/Youthmovies, Blood Red Shoes<br />London, UK 11/18 Notting Hill Arts Club w/ The Monroe Transfer, Viking Moses, Drowned in Sound DJs<br />Oxford, UK 11/18 Zodiac w/Youthmovies, Blood Red Shoes<br />Portland 11/22 Rotture w/Ohioan, Argumentix, LKN<br />Portland 12/1 Lewis & Clark College w/Point Juncture WA, Bright Red Paper<br />Portland 1/6/07 Holocene w/Baumen, Ficken and Sparks, Hello Damascus<br />Portland 3/3/07 Towne Lounge w/Pseudosix, Hello Damascus, Jeff Harms<br />Portland 3/14/07 Tube w/Bark Hide and Horn, Ohioan, DJ Sputnik<br />Pittsburgh, Penn 4/11/07 Romeo House<br />Buffalo, NY 4/12/07 Warehouse show w/Jax Deluca, Nick Gordon<br />4/13/07 NYC Lit Lounge w/Samarium, Wolf and Wayside, Master/Slave<br />4/15/07 Brooklyn, NY Lucky Cat Lounge w/Brownbird Rudy Relic, Roletta Flynn<br />4/17/07 Providence, RI w/Jacob Berenedes<br />4/29/07 Greenville, NC Spazzatorium w/Elston Gunn, Hot John Stockton<br />5/3/07 Shreveport, LA Jackrabbit Lounge w/Cartright, Songbird and Spruce<br />5/5/07 Abilene, TX w/Listen Listen, Walrus Brothers<br />5/6/07 San Angelo, TX w/Kismet, O Scarlet<br />5/11/07 San Diego, CA Tower Bar w/Silverbird, Skull Control DJs<br />5/12/07 San Diego, CA Black Box w/Barfer, Modern Rifles, Shea Statton<br />5/15/07 San Jose, CA Johnny V's<br />5/17/07 Arcata, CA Das Gast Haus w/The Finches, The Bushes, At Night, Spellchck and Keystrokes, Tiger Saw<br />5/18/07 Salem, OR Cafe Noir w/Abracadaver<br />5/19/07 Portland, OR Vendetta w/Nire, Bark Hide and Horn<br />6/8/07 Portland, OR Towne Lounge w/Young Galaxy, StarfuckerAdam Gnadenoreply@blogger.com