Here are two new Salon Style songs:

“Monarch Juice”

“Fairy Princess”

Salon Style will perform THIS Friday, July 31st at Valentine’s in Albany, NY as a part of the release performance for Scientific Maps‘ new Galvanic Wizardry EP. Also performing is long-lost friend Greg Adams in the band Swimclub, now residing in Brooklyn, NY.

In other Salon Style news, WEXT will host an interview with Gaven to air Thursday, July 30th and Sunday, August 2nd at 9pm and 11am respectively. Tune into WEXT for more information.

Here’s what Martha has to say about I lived in Brooklyn too: Summer 2007:

I wrote the songs for this little collection while living in The Big City for the summer of 2007 (mostly, 1 1/2 tunes were older); you know, the main city you hear about sometimes. The songs are all more or less about that whole thing, if you know what I mean. Then the songs were recorded in one big streaming gesture on The Four Track, all by my/herself, with the exception of Frank playing the drums on the “You’re So Pretty” out-tro, about 4 months later. Frank absolutely did not set up any mics for me, so yeah. Then times were busy, and it took a while to mix, which I also did all by myself. Take that, Equipment. These songs are about the usual stuff, love and fear and loneliness and capitalism. Please to enjoy. Love, me.

Tracklist:
1. Platform
2. Private Jet
3. You’re So Pretty
4. VCR
5. Nowhere
6. You’ll Move

Download (.zip file – 31MB – 320kbps mp3s)
Martha Kronholm – I lived in Brooklyn too: Summer 2007

If you enjoy this, please tell a friend.

Princess Mabel’s Listen Quick (cuz I don’t know much) is available in the Collar City Records Store.

First, the CD release party for Magic is scheduled for Friday, April 24th at Bread & Jam in Cohoes, NY! Owner Sal Prizio will be obtaining a beer/wine license especially for the night and Sean is putting together a one-time only band to recreate some of the nuances and sounds on the album. This will be a very special evening and we will be announcing more details as the date draws nearer.

Continuing along with sharing different parts of Magic, we are glad to share with you a demo version of the song “Jonathan“. The studio version of it streamed last week at Sean’s MySpace page, being replaced with the next two songs in the track order (“Old Black Dodge” and “Wet”) for the next week. If you didn’t get a chance to hear “Jonathan” in it’s deluxe-recorded form, here is Sean’s first draft of the song and a short explanation about what you’ll hear…

This was the very first recording of the song laid down on my micro Boss BR 4-track. I had just finished writing the song which took about an hour (usually never that easy for me). It’s pretty long and on the count of it being a first draft, there are lyrics at the end that were ultimately edited out of the studio version.

Sean Rowe // – Jonathan (demo)

Finally, we would like to thank our friends at WEXT for naming Magic “CD Spotlight of the Month” for the month of April! Here’s a sketch of when the station will be playing songs off of the album –>

Starting Tuesday morning (3/31) with Dave Michaels and in the afternoon with Chris Wienk, you’ll hear each of the songs with special intros done by Sean and Troy Pohl (formerly of The Kamikaze Hearts and the recording engineer, musician, and producer of the record). Each Tuesday until 4/14, we’ll have the tracks at 7a, 8a, and 4p. On 4/14, it’ll also be in the 5p hour to get all ten songs in! Then on 4/21, the release date, be listening for a track each hour!

Thanks WEXT!

If you enjoy hearing Sean’s songs on the air, or streaming through your computer let them know that you love the support that they’re giving him. Better yet, show your support by becoming a member if you are so moved…

Here are two exclusive MP3s from Salon Style.

“One Eye on the Moon”

“Regolith”

If you enjoy these songs, please feel free to pass them along to a friend or post them on your web-journal!

This is the first in a series of new, free recordings from Collar City Records. Stay tuned for much more…

Here are two free MP3s from Ben Karis-Nix’s We Are Giants Now EP. Constructed with sampled sounds from Ben’s home in the woods,

“Explosions Underground”

“Giants”

If you enjoy these songs, please feel free to pass them along to a friend or post them on your web-journal!

The We Are Giants Now EP is available in the Collar City Records store.

Here is a free MP3 from Princess Mabel’s Listen Quick (‘cuz I don’t know much) album.

“Apples Burning”

If you enjoy this song, please feel free to pass it along to a friend or post it on your web-journal!

Listen Quick (‘cuz I don’t know much) is available in the Collar City Records store.

Here are two free MP3s from Ike Snopes’ Reshaping a Dream album. Meticulously recorded by DJ Miller in upstate NY, the album is beguiling and masterful.

“In a Vision Hidden”

“Stood His Ground”

If you enjoy these songs, please feel free to pass them along to a friend or post them on your web-journal!

Reshaping a Dream is available in the Collar City Records store.

Here are two free MP3s from Matthew Loiacono’s Kentucky album. Every sound on this album was made by a voice, a hand clap and a mandolin.

“Infinitely Red” (lyrics)

“Only Memory” (lyrics)

If you enjoy these songs, please feel free to pass them along to a friend or post them on your web-journal!

Kentucky is available in the Collar City Records store.

Here are two free MP3s from The Kamikaze Hearts’ Oneida Road album. Fretted over for four years by five fine gentlemen, this album is the band’s best work yet.

“Ash Wednesday”

“No One Called You a Failure”

If you enjoy these songs, please feel free to pass them along to a friend or post them on your web-journal!

Oneida Road is available in the Collar City Records store.

Here are two free MP3s from Mitch Elrod & CountrySoulHouse’s Roadhouse Nature album.

“Real Country Dark”

“Way Back Down”

If you enjoy this song, please feel free to pass it along to a friend or post it on your web-journal!

Roadhouse Nature is available in the Collar City Records store.