Elvis Costello is back on the Sundance Channel for another season of ‘Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…‘ and to celebrate the new season IN*TANDEM Magazine is giving away a prize pack.
One winner will receive (1) “Spectacle: Elvis Costello With…” Season 1 on DVD (5-disc set), and a Sundance Prize Pack. Prize pack includes: T-shirt, tote bag, baseball cap, USB drive, notebook, and pen. The contest is open to U.S. residents only. Send us a @Twitter message or an email to contest contest [at] intandemmag.com with your favorite album of the year and you’ll be in the running to win. Winners will be selected on 12/23.
“Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” is taped in front of a live audience at Harlem’s world famous Apollo Theater in New York City and The Masonic Temple in Toronto, Canada. The show premiered on December 9th. Among the confirmed guests for the seven-part season are: Bono, The Edge, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Ron Sexsmith, Neko Case, Jesse Winchester, Ray LaMontagne, Nick Lowe, Levon Helm, Richard Thompson and Allen Toussaint. The schedule for Season Two of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with… ” is as follows:
12/23 @ 10PM - Levon Helm, Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson and Allen Toussaint
12/30 @ 6:00pm-10:00pm - “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…” marathon
01/06 @ 10:00pm - “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Elvis Costello”
01/13 @10:00pm - Lyle Lovett, Ray LaMontagne, and John Prine
01/20 @ 10:00pm - Bruce Springsteen (part 1)
01/27 @ 10:00pm - Bruce Springsteen (part 2)
Shunda K is quite passionate about her music and her life. This was evident when her band, Yo! Majesty, was featured in our 3rd issue in March of this year. During the following e-mail interview, Shunda enlightens us about her music, influences and the future of hip-hop.
IN*TANDEM: It’s been a while since we’ve chatted with you, what have you been up to in the past few months? Shunda K: I have so much going on, thank God. Well, back in June I dropped 2 mixtapes: The Best Eva Written…Outkast (where I used about 20 Outkast instros and created a project, which shows how faith in Jesus Christ can bring you out of anything) and Shunda K: Kollaborations (which features collaborations with various artists/producers I’ve worked with in the past 2 years or so). They both charted on the CMJ Hip Hop charts and that alone speaks for itself as far as where Shunda K stands in this industry…just know I’m standing!!! Aside from that, I’ve secured me a worldwide booking agent, where we’re gonna get this “Real Love Tour” kicked off in Australia, so world get ready, I told you I was coming!!! I”ll be releasing my first solo album as Shunda K on Fanatic/EMI early 2010, with plenty of singles out now for your listening pleasure. Oh, did I mention the mixtapes were free?! Yeah, they are at www.shundak.com. There are over 40 tracks available in addition to the Peaches mixtape, so yall eat it up!!!
Read the rest of the Q + A after the jump. Read more…
We have two pairs of tickets to Melissa Auf der Maur’s show at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn on 10/17 as part of Royal Flush Festival. Here’s what you have to do to win. To enter, simply send your name, contact details and the answer to contest@intandemmag.com. Subject line should read Melissa Auf Der Mar Giveaway. Two winners will be chosen on 10/16.
Question: What is the name of Melissa’s solo debut?
Drawing and Notification: Winners will be selected from all eligible entries in a random drawing. Winners will be notified by e-mail.
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For more information on the Royal Flush Festival, including the full lineup and schedule of events, please visit the official site. To catch-up on Auf der Maur news and tour dates, visit her site here.
The Rural Alberta Advantage (pictured left to right: Amy Cole, Nils Edenloff and Paul Banwatt)
The Toronto based Rural Alberta Advantage is a three-piece outfit comprising of singer-guitarist Nils Edenloff, multi-instrumentalist Amy Cole and drummer Paul Banwatt. Their music may strike as a lost post folk Neutral Milk Hotel album but listen carefully and you will find RAA’s unique and raucous sound born out of small town prairies and crushing despair. From their early DIY beginnings to their stellar live shows, Edenloff believe his bands formation might have been kismet, “I think at the very beginning we realize there was something special between the three of us playing together.” Signed to Conor Oberst’s Saddle Creek label, after their appearance at SXSW in Austin, Texas earlier this year, RAA is keen to be on your best of list.
IN*TANDEM chatted with Nils Edenloff as the band made its way to New York (see photos and videos of their 10/17 show at the Bowery Ballroom).
IN*TANDEM: Let’s start from the beginning how did RAA form? How long have you all known each other? How did you meet? Nils Edenloff: Well, Paul and Amy use to play in another band with a friend of mine. So that friend of mine, we went to high school in Alberta, and upon moving to Toronto he started a band with Paul and Amy. Throughout the course of them being in a band, the four of us was sort of hosting an open mic night in Toronto. It was a pretty depressing open mic night. We were all like no one would show up. After a while, this other friend of ours and Amy were sort of like “we’re kind of done with this. We need a break.” Then we were like “we like the bar tab they give us and we like playing music.” So we continued on with it. And that’s more or less how the band sort of got its first start I guess. Paul and I were tons getting material ready for an open mic night that no one would come to. I guess the whole idea from the band hasn’t strayed much from the original set up where there’s a lot of percussion and the guitar tries to fill out some of the sound as possible with some added distortions and stuff. I guess that’s really sort of how the band got started. That was a while a go that was back in 2005.
After we were doing open mic night, we played a couple of shows here and there. We’d have five people in the band. We’d have Paul and I so he was sort of a little loosey-goosey initially. It was about 2006 when Amy started playing with us and the three of us started working as sort of a unit. I guess really that’s how the band sort of started. After we played our first show together it felt special as a band.
IN*TANDEM: Let’s talk about your debut album Hometowns, how did the recording process come about? NE: We’ve been playing together for a while and a friend of ours introduced us to this producer from Toronto named Roger Leavens. He basically owns a studio during the day and at night he’ll sort of work his way to indie bands he enjoys. This friend of ours introduced us to Roger and we started recording the album. It was sort of a long process. We’d record in the evening when he had time. That would be one evening a week and sometimes it wasn’t every week. It was sort of a long drawn out process. In the end, there were good and bad points to it I guess. It was good because we had time to reflect on a lot of stuff. I guess at the same time it was bad because we had time to reflect on a lot of stuff. [laughs] You kind of drive yourself crazy obsessing over certain things but in the end we’re really happy with the way everything turned out.
Posted by Guest Collective on October 3rd | Label: Music, New Things
When Rufus Thomas was “Walking the Dog” in 1963, musician and outsider artist Daniel Johnston was busy “Walking the Cow” 20 years later.
In the ‘90s, a slew of Kurt Cobain photographs were taken of him wearing a shirt with the image from Johnston’s Hi, How Are You? album cover. Since then, Johnston’s two-track, bipolar, lo-fi, manic depressive songwriting has been the stuff of wanting-to-impress-your-friends-with-obscure-music-by-putting-a-song-on-a-mixtape dreams. Guilty.
But dreams are for sleeping. In 2005, Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary, “The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” premiered at Sundance and had many indie-band-shirt-wearing music junkies rethink their track lists.
Today, Johnston has teamed up with Dr. Fun Fun and Smashing Studios and created an iPhone game based off of Johnston’s froggy alien guy from the cover of the aforementioned album. The game is set to his original music and art and is, apparently, much like Frogger. Sorry, guys.
Last Friday the second of the monthly series It Came From Brooklyn showcased Brooklyn’s emerging musical and literary talents at the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright Rotunda. Eugene Mirman, who served as MC for the evening, featured materials from his new comedy album God Is a Twelve Year Old Boy With Aspergers (Subpop) throughout the night. Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances) read from Jane Eyre and screenwriter Hampton Fancher (Blade Runner, The Minus Man) decided read from Henry Miller.
I’m In You’s gritty post-rock orchestral affair started the event. This promising band has an EP available for download via their official site. The band will be the opening band for Julian Plenti this fall as they make their way to Seattle, Los Angeles and Europe (See tour details below).
Backed by a full band plus strings and horns Julian Plenti (aka Paul Banks of Interpol) played his very first live public performance in celebration of Julian Plenti is…Skyscraper. The string arrangements added an extra dimension and newfound depth to “Madrid Song,” “Only If You Run,” and “Skyscraper.” Most surprising was Julian Plenti’s cover of “Horse With No Name.” In the mix of the all-too-cool crowd last Friday night were Carrie Brownstein (NPR’s Monitor Mix, Sleater-Kinney) and Helena Christensen, who is currently dating Paul Banks.
More photos, videos and Julian Plenti tour date information after the jump. Read more…
