May
Teen Getaway - Hits and Missives coming to This Is American Music 5/28/13.
cd, downloads, ear stuff…shop indie.
hear/stream “Spring Fever”
May
Songs off of This Is American Music’s 2013 releases…eat it, drink it, shop indie.
There’s more where this came from.
1. Ape of Dorado - Dorado
2. Oh Sista Oh - Dana Swimmer
3. Pilgrims - El Cantador
4. Family Home - Great Peacock
5. Underneath the Sun - Cosmonaut on Vacation
6. Spring Fever - Teen Getaway
tim snow (pictured)
May
Teen Getaway - Hits and Missives
5.28.13
May
Cosmonaut on Vacation entered Ol Elegante Studio today to record a live EP with Les Nuby III that will be released in the coming weeks on This Is American Music.
stream.buy.download Covac’s LET THE MOMENT LAND below -
May
We’ll be releasing Teen Getaway (Birmingham, AL) - Hits and Missives in the very near future. Street date announcement coming soon!
Teen Getaway is -
James P. Fahy
Spencer C. Shoults
Janet E. Simpson
L. Andrew Sizemore
Apr
![Cosmonaut on Vacation - Let the Moment Land
Cosmonaut on Vacation is space-pop a.k.a echo-ey and melodic rock-and-roll played loud and proud. Full stop.
So here’s the deal: this record is gonna sound a little different. Like the Dorado record earlier this year (and perhaps another record or two to come), this one is born from the wildly inventive, collaborative world of the Birmingham (yes, Alabama) Indie rock scene. In May 2011, Greg Slamen, formerly of Through the Sparks and Stateside, decided to start his own band and his own brand of spaced-out, psychedelic rock and roll. Influenced by the whimsy of the Kinks, attitude of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the swagger of Oasis and the melodic arrangements of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Slamen twisted seemingly simple chords into songs that ring fresh and inspired. He’s not trying to reinvent the wheel. He just wants to drive the goddamn thing until they fall off.
Like his Through The Sparks brethren, Slamen can be a studio rat. “I love recording, even if it’s stressful at times. I recorded a few tracks at [Les] Nuby’s (Vulture Whale) Ol’ Elegante [studio] and a few more at Jody Nelson’s (Through The Sparks / Dorado) Alamalibu, and a couple of the tracks — those electronic numbers — I did those on my laptop. [The recording process] was the fun part for sure. It’s the mixing and mastering that was excruciatingly but necessarily tedious.”
“Les Nuby was very supportive from the beginning when I told him about this idea that I wanted to make a solo record (of sorts!). He’s been a sounding board and encouraging voice throughout the process of getting this record together— everything from advice on the demos, to engineering some of the songs, to giving me feedback on the masters when I was done with the record. The same is true of Jody Nelson. And I should mention Shawn Avery. He’s got the ears and some wild ideas about production. He definitely had some influence on the way this thing sounded.” Slamen found inspiration in the feedback, and, as he puts it, “ decided to take my record a bit more seriously after that. Like pizza boxes, empty beer bottles, and lots of standing around in my underwear mixing and doing retakes instead of sleeping and spending time with friends and family. “
This attention gave forth a bizarre, crunchy, spacey throwback of a record – an album from the time when albums mattered. The sounds of a strange journey, as one might imagine if a mission-weary 1980s Cosmonaut took a much needed vacation in a Adriatic beach town. Come along – it is going to be fun.
buy - stream - download + cd = Shop Indie
<a href=”http://cosmonautonvacation.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-moment-land” data-mce-href=”http://cosmonautonvacation.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-moment-land”>Let the Moment Land by Cosmonaut On Vacation</a>](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a02f6a101e70bf9da00e9183cc916b72/tumblr_mlu72eHARC1r1w0lko1_500.jpg)
Cosmonaut on Vacation - Let the Moment Land
Cosmonaut on Vacation is space-pop a.k.a echo-ey and melodic rock-and-roll played loud and proud. Full stop.
So here’s the deal: this record is gonna sound a little different. Like the Dorado record earlier this year (and perhaps another record or two to come), this one is born from the wildly inventive, collaborative world of the Birmingham (yes, Alabama) Indie rock scene. In May 2011, Greg Slamen, formerly of Through the Sparks and Stateside, decided to start his own band and his own brand of spaced-out, psychedelic rock and roll. Influenced by the whimsy of the Kinks, attitude of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the swagger of Oasis and the melodic arrangements of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Slamen twisted seemingly simple chords into songs that ring fresh and inspired. He’s not trying to reinvent the wheel. He just wants to drive the goddamn thing until they fall off.
Like his Through The Sparks brethren, Slamen can be a studio rat. “I love recording, even if it’s stressful at times. I recorded a few tracks at [Les] Nuby’s (Vulture Whale) Ol’ Elegante [studio] and a few more at Jody Nelson’s (Through The Sparks / Dorado) Alamalibu, and a couple of the tracks — those electronic numbers — I did those on my laptop. [The recording process] was the fun part for sure. It’s the mixing and mastering that was excruciatingly but necessarily tedious.”
“Les Nuby was very supportive from the beginning when I told him about this idea that I wanted to make a solo record (of sorts!). He’s been a sounding board and encouraging voice throughout the process of getting this record together— everything from advice on the demos, to engineering some of the songs, to giving me feedback on the masters when I was done with the record. The same is true of Jody Nelson. And I should mention Shawn Avery. He’s got the ears and some wild ideas about production. He definitely had some influence on the way this thing sounded.” Slamen found inspiration in the feedback, and, as he puts it, “ decided to take my record a bit more seriously after that. Like pizza boxes, empty beer bottles, and lots of standing around in my underwear mixing and doing retakes instead of sleeping and spending time with friends and family. “
This attention gave forth a bizarre, crunchy, spacey throwback of a record – an album from the time when albums mattered. The sounds of a strange journey, as one might imagine if a mission-weary 1980s Cosmonaut took a much needed vacation in a Adriatic beach town. Come along – it is going to be fun.
buy - stream - download + cd = Shop Indie
Apr
Cosmonaut on Vacation - LET THE MOMENT LAND - out today via This Is American Music.
buy on cd w/ download: http://vibedeck.com/thisisamericanmusic/products/let-the-moment-land-cddownload
Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/let-the-moment-land/id636999490
$5 / name your price download
Apr
Cosmonaut on Vacation - Let the Moment Land arrives tomorrow - available everywhere - cds/downloads. This Is American Music.
tracklist:
1. Rundown at Sundown
2. Alright If We Fight
3. Dirty World
4. Float Song
5. The Little Things
6. We Could Use a High Horse
7. Hallo(w) Gallo(w)
8. Up to Me
9. Underneath The Sun
Apr
tuesday - athens - caledonia
via athens provisions
swim team - best pal dook - mississippi tight bros - kvids
Apr
The debut Cosmonaut on Vacation CD’s are in. Love the color Greg used. Out soon on This is American Music. #tiam #cd #record #birmingham #music
coming 4.23.13
Apr
MTV Hive premiers the new video from Dorado - “Temple of the Guiding Light”.
http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/04/03/dorado-temple-of-the-guiding-light-video/
In Dorado‘s new video for “Temple of the Guiding Light,” the Birmingham, Al. band captured some specific underpinnings of modern Southern living. “The video is supposed to mirror the spastic searchings of a maladjusted pilgrim of the urban South,” says Dorado principle Jody Nelson. “[The song] sits on the album as a transition point. We all have redneck cousins, and each of us is the redneck cousin to someone else up the chain. It comes up a lot in my writing … and the one who has it the most wrong is usually myself before my latest soon-to-be-sloughed-off epiphany.”
Dorado‘s new album Anger, Hunger, Love and the Fear of Death is out now onThis Is American Music.
check out Dorado’s Anger, Hunger, Love, and the Fear of Death - http://dorado1.bandcamp.com/
Apr
This guy, Cosmonaut Slamen of Cosmonaut On Vacation has a single and a b-side out. Trust us, it’s some rad-ass Alabama Quasi-Krautrock. It’s a thing…debut full-length LET THE MOMENT LAND drops on TIAM 4/23.
Download and or stream it below…or go the Itunes and Spotify route if you so chose.
Mar
Cosmonaut On Vacation - “Up To Me” single and B-side “Wild”.
Let The Moment Land full length coming to This Is American Music 4.23.13
Musicians:
Greg Slamen – vox, guitars, bass, organ, synths, drums
Zach Evans – backing vox on track 2
Karsten Propper – backing vox on track 2
Jason Hamric – backing vox and back-masking edit on track 2
Joseph Nelson – piano, lead electric guitar on track 1
James Brangle – lead organ on track 2
Engineers: Greg Slamen, Joseph Nelson
Recorded at Alamalibu, Birmingham, Ala.
Mixed and Mastered by Greg Slamen
Cover Design by Shawn Avery
Mar
Here’s the long lost Dorado CXCW video. Stay tuned, we’ll be trickling out all of those TIAM related CX videos here in the next week or so until we get caught up.
Dorado - Anger, Hunger, Love, and the Fear of Death
