4/20 Is Known As International Pot Smoking Day & That Is Based On 4:20 Being The Time Of The Day Where Stoners Light Their Joints, I Am Actually Interested In Seeing Why That Particular Time Is Attributed To Smoking Marijuana, But There Are A Couple Of Other Landmarks That Are Attributed To The Date, One Being Hitler’s Birthday & The Ying To The Yang Or The Good Vs. Evil Counterpart Being Record Store Day Which The Great Music Stores In The World Celebrate Great Music & The Art Of Vinyl Where All The Badass Bands Release Special Editions Of Albums, Limited Edition Vinyl, Awesome + Sassy Versions For Collectors & The Best In My Opinion: New Songs, Splits Or Collaborations Between Great Bands Recorded & Created Specifically For April 20th AKA Record Store Day. There Are Some Very Cool Releases Coming Out On Saturday, 4/20, But The Highlight For Me Is:
MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, GROUPLOVE, AND FRIGHTENED RABBIT TEAMING UP FOR
RECORD STORE DAY
You Can Always Count On Andy Hull To Hook It Up With Amazing Music & Not Only With The Extremely Underrated Manchester Orchestra, But Also In His Side Project, Right Away, Great Captain! Which Had His Last Album, “The Church Of The Good Thief,” The 3rd Release In A Trilogy That Finds Hull In A Concept World Where He Is A Sailor Out At Sea In A Fictional World That Even Has A Map Comparable & Reminiscent Of The Detailed, 14th Century Map Used To Show The World That The Wizards, Hobbits & Bizarre Creatures Including Walking + Talking Trees In The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. This Map Is The Cover Of The Debut Album & First Part Of The “Right Away, Great Captain!” Trilogy, The Beautiful, Detailed & Brutally Honest “The Bitter End.” There Is So Much Going On In These “Right Away, Great Captain!” Trilogy & There Is No Way To Truly Describe How Amazing This Project Is. One Critic Compared “The Church Of The Good Thief,” Which Followed “The Eventually Home” & “The Bitter End” As “A 21st Century Ernest Hemingway” & while that may seem absolutely insane to anyone who knows what Hemingway accomplished as a writer, I can say as a HUGE Ernest Hemingway Fan, that the review was not far off.. What Andy Hull did with these 3 Albums is nothing short of astonishing & to call the project extremely ambitious would be a massive understatement. The music & songwriting is absolutely beautiful & for the most part, it is just Andy Hull & his trusty Acoustic Guitar, but the true brilliance is in the lyrics and the pictures that he paints to help create a world that seems as real as the painful reality of the crazy world we live in where yesterday’s Boston Marathon Bombing seems like just another day in America where an 8 year old innocent little boy lost his life shortly after running down to kiss his father at the finish line of the 27 Mile Race & his sister lost her leg in the same explosion, there is also the 15 year old girl who took her life because the 3 boys from her school not only drugged & raped her, but they took pictures & videotaped the rape as if they were out hunting deer & continued to bully, taunt & haunt her for the following week at school & showed the pictures to classmates which led to her calling her mom crying & saying “I can’t do this anymore!” and than taking her life later on in the evening. So, I am losing track here, but to bring it back around, Andy Hull is one of the true artists who are the epitome & pure definition of the word prolific.
I would say that Chino Moreno & Andy Hull are the best American Vocalists & Frontmen in just their main bands, The Deftones & Manchester Orchestra, but Chino Moreno is in the badass Crosses + Team Sleep & This Summer, The First Album From Palms, Another Side Project With Isis ~ Andy Hull, on the other hand, is in Manchester Orchestra, Right Away, Great Captain! & Bad Books & for record store day, he decided to call his favorite 2 bands at the moment: Grouplove & Frightened Rabbit and they are among my favorite new bands as well only topped by Local Natives & Other Lives who are not only my 2 favorite new bands, but probably the best bands to come out in
the last decade as well.
New collaborations to be featured on special 12-inch single April 20th
Canvasback/Atlantic recording artists Grouplove and Frightened Rabbit have both teamed up with Manchester Orchestra to release a very special 12-inch single for Record Store Day. The release, which features the Manchester Orchestra/Grouplove collaboration “Make It To Me” and the Manchester Orchestra/Frightened Rabbit collaboration “Architect,” will be available Saturday, April 20th at participating independent record stores.
“We wanted to release some sort of 12-inch for Record Store Day, but we had no idea how it would come about, or with whom we could trick into doing it with us,” said Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull. “I sent a text to the first two bands we wanted to work with and they said yes. Being friends with both Grouplove and Frightened Rabbit, we decided instead of doing a split, we’d make it a full on collaboration.”
“This is our way of putting some Manchester Love on some Group Orchestra,” added Grouplove’s Hannah Hooper, who helped design the release’s artwork. Manchester Orchestra’s Chris Freeman also contributed to the artwork.
“Andy Hull’s solo album ‘Church Of The Great Thief’ was pretty much my favourite record of 2012, so when the opportunity arose for us to write a song together I jumped at the chance,” said Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison. “Strangely, we’ve never met, but via a string of emails and texts we managed to complete ‘Architect.’ I’m really proud of it.”
For “Make It To Me,” Manchester Orchestra sent Grouplove a “bare bones rock-ditty, which Grouplove transformed into an electronic explosion of funky grooves,” explained Hull.
For “Architect,” both Hull and Frightened Rabbit lead singer/guitarist Scott Hutchison began talking about the song, and over time, sent voice memos back and forth before landing on its final version. “I couldn’t be happier with the end result and it certainly won’t be the last time we collaborate with either band,” said Hull.
Upcoming 2013 Shows:
Manchester Orchestra:
April 25th – West Hollywood, CA – The House of Blues
June 21st – Chicago, IL – Subterranean (SOLD OUT)
June 22nd – Chicago, IL – Green Music Fest (North Stage)
Bad Books:
May 4th – Tampa,FL – Funshine Music Festival (Pavilion Stage)
May 5th – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont
May 6th – Hamden, CT – The Space
May 7th – Portland, ME – State Theatre
May 8th – Albany, NY – Bayou Cafe
May 9th – Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
May 10th – Rochester, NY – Main Street Armory
June 30th – Nashville, TN – 3rd and Lindsley
July 12th – New York, NY – Webster Hall
For more information visit:
http://www.themanchesterorchestra.com
http://www.grouplovemusic.com
http://www.frightenedrabbit.com
http://www.recordstoreday.com
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