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
Wooden Wand (full band) on We Have Signal - Alabama Public Television
ft. : wand, l ron dorado, hickox, j-simp-temp, davis
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
Dorado kinda ruled at South Sounds Music Festival this weekend…
Anger, Hunger, Love, and the Fear of Death -
cd+dl - http://vibedeck.com/thisisamericanmusic/products/anger-hunger-love-and-the-fear-of-death-cd-download
Apr
Safe travels to those mystic Wooden Wand beings as they embark on their month long tour in Euro-land with their Pink Floyd roadcases.
Wand, Dorado, Sister Cutter, Hickox, and Davis.
dates: http://www.woodenwand.org/#!tour
photo credits/permission granted: janet, avery.
Apr
#Dorado Anger, Hunger, Love and the Fear of Death @LRonDorado #southsounds #TIAMrevolution (at Busaba’s Thai Cuisine)
Apr
South Sounds Music Fest - Mobile, AL 4/12 - 4/14
official schedule: http://southsounds.joltpro.com/schedule/
TIAM folks’ happenings this weekend —
4/12
7:15 - Tedo Stone @ Callaghans
8:15 - Dorado @ Alchemy Tavern
11:15 - Heath Underwood of El Cantador @ Haberdasher
4/13
3:00 - Great Peacock @ Cathedral Square in Downtown Mobile
7:15 - Great Peacock @ Callaghans
9:00 - Pollies @ Malaga Inn
11:15 - El Cantador @ Alabama Music Box
12:15 - Pollies @ Alabama Music Box
4/14
El Cantador @ Cathedral Square in Downtown Mobile
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/
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
Mar
Wooden Wand East Coast Tour
Cast and Crew : James Jackson Toth, Janet Simpson Templin, David Hickox, Jody Nelson, Brad Davis
3.7 Columbus, OH Double Happiness
3.8 Cleveland, OH Happy Dog
3.9 Harrisburg, PA The MakeSpace
3.10 Brooklyn, NY Union Pool w/ Steve Gunn
3.11 Turner Falls, MA The Rendezvous
3.12 Washington, D.C. 9th and Beats
3.13 Baltimore, MD Metro Gallery
Feb
recorded at the bham mt. radio studios @ workplay - 1/27/13
on the audiovore program hosted by lee shook
w/
corey flegel - this is american music
jody nelson - dorado / through the sparks
mark beasley - GT / whaler
greg slamen - cosmonaut on vacation
and more…
playlist -
1. These City Lights Shine - Glossary
2. Stars Fell- Lauderdale
3. Gimmie Back- 13ghosts
4. Slowburner- The District Attorneys
5. Something New- The Pollies
6. River Above- Bohannons
7. Ape of Dorado- Dorado
8. Flaming Youth- Elliot McPherson/Dexateens
9. If Heaven/Sweet Crimes- El Cantador
10. Oh Sista Oh- Dana Swimmer
11. Spring Fever- Teen Getaway
12. Take Me To The Mountain- Great Peacock
13. At a Bar Near the End of the World- Dorado
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photo by shawn avery
Jan
#dorado #rightnow @birminghammountainradio (at WorkPlay)
Jan
DORADO. Wrong blues. Bad art. “Get ready for this. It’s like Zevon’s ghost and Nick Cave knife-fighting over which track on Pet Sounds they prefer to worship the dark lord to.” - Chris Porter
Alamalibu is sometimes reported to be a recording studio, but it is more accurately-described as a mystical nook out back behind the dimensional door. That is, if it even exists at all. But, if it does, it is the kind of place where Birmingham, Alabama’s resident mad genius / sonic impresario Jody Nelson can guide a merry band of musical cohorts to places most have never heard – and make us wonder why they were so hard to find. Nelson, the scion of the should-be-legendary band Through The Sparks. gathered a group of his TTS collaborators and other Birmingham musicians (including TiAM sister Helen Gassenheimer) for a magical ride through the alternate universe of Alamalibu and brought forth a gloriously weird vision of American rock music. Freed from the bounds of propriety, linear thought, conventional wisdom, fear of failure, microeconomic theory, psychological stability, and a rumored restraining order (as yet unconfirmed), Dorado grabbed hold of the exhilarating, libertine desire to just play the living hell out of a whole bunch of majestic, provocative, oddly complimentary pieces of rock music without a second thought of how things are done by those in search of a radio hit or a commercial jingle. There had been discussions for a while about working on a project with TiAM, and a desire to do something, well, different - and the two impulses seemed to fit together perfectly.
Or, in the alternative universe of Dorado, things may not be at all as they appear. Maybe some friends got together and just wanted to play some music, with a few different folks than the regular band, and some new songs that had come to life as off-kilter troubadour pieces but which showed promise of blooming into something very, very different. To have fun with it. To go for it. Damn the torpedoes. Channeling this impulse, Nelson says, “I wanted this record to be narrative but without a setting, like Quetzocoatl on his way to work at an office park. It’s all modern myth and pseudo science.” But if you mistook such a carefree approach for a deliberate effort to create the most arresting album of literate skronky beautiful art-rock you’re likely to hear in 2013, well, it would be an understandable mistake. This is the way of Dorado – the result does not necessarily have to flow from the intention.
Some things just won’t do in a pinch. Sometimes the muse wants to dance, all night long. Dick Cheney at the end of a snuff film. The threat of rain. Applebee’s. Tattoos of Bible verses. Whatever it takes, you know, to keep your brains off of the wall.
Musicians: Joe D. Nelson, Shawn Avery, Greg Slamen, James Brangle, Jason Taylor, Helen Gassenheimer, Gary Wheat, Thomas Mimikakis
Production: Joe D. Nelson — Mastering: Jason Hamric — Art/Design: Joe D. Nelson / Shawn Avery
Recorded at Alamalibu in Birmingham, Alabama
