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The Weisstronauts
Instrumental Rock for the 22nd Century
News:
The 'Nauts are now on Facebook. Visit us and become our friend.
Our super-groovy four-song EP
"Weisstronauts In Memphis" is available
almost-exclusively as a download from iTunes,
with a strictly limited (300 hand-numbered copies, rapidly
dissappearing) CD edition
available at Weisstronauts live shows as well as on our LISTEN/BUY
page and
CDBaby, while supplies last. This little gem was recorded entirely
live in historic Ardent
Studios (okay, there were a few subsequent overdubs...) during a
Memphis stop on our last summer tour. Knob-wizard and pal Jeff Powell
handled the recording (and told us some astonishing and hilarious
stories about working with the Allman Brothers and Big Star), while
mixing was done back at Pete's Verdant Studio in Vermont. For those of
you who have purchased this new EP
on iTunes and would like some sort of documentation/liner notes (iTunes
still
doesn't easily implement this), you can
download an informational sheet here.
"Instro-tainment,"
our fourth full length instrumental album is still VERY MUCH available.
And, really, it is our masterverk. Sessions at Verdant Studio
went swimmingly. A broader-than-ever sonic palette was employed (fake
strings? Moog synth? pseudo-operatic female vocals? Yes yes yes.) New
song highlights include Kenny Lafler's bossa nova "Caixa Dos Moluscos,"
George Hall's Eastern European-ska-flavored gem "Seven X's," Jeff
Norcross' party-themed "Get It Together," Kevin Quinn's epic farewell
to the surf genre "Surf's Down," and Pete Weiss' own farm-rock study
"Chicky." Part-time 'Nauts road bassist Doug Yule
(ex-Velvet Underground) made it to the sessions and contributed bass
and fiddle on a few of the new tunes, including a spontaneous
stomp-a-billy version of the Velvets' classic "What Goes On." Album out
now on Sool Recordings, purchasable with Paypal on our LISTEN/BUY
page.
Videos! We've created and posted a few
Weisstronauts videos on Youtube. At
last count, we're up to eight. This particular one
was "featured" on the Youtube homepage and has racked up 80,000
viewings! More coming soon... Enjoy!
Upcoming shows:
Thursday September 16, 2010
TT The Bears Cambridge MA With our pals Mars, Brownboot, and another band t.b.d. Weisstronauts go on second, probably around 10 or 10:30pm.
Thursday October 14, 2010
Rosebud Diner Somerville MA Part of an Otpor! music night. It is very likely this will be our "Halloween Gig" so look out!
Stay tuned for info/dates on our November tour...
Recent Press/Quotes:
"Wish I could play with you guys
more often than once in a lifetime. Definitely the most fun I've ever
had in a band."
-
Doug
Yule (ex-Velvet Underground) following the 2006 tour
"You guys were the best thing EVER!"
- Mitch
Easter,
artist (Let’s Active, Sneakers) & producer (REM, Velvet Crush, Game
Theory, Pavement) following a show at the Rock ‘n’ Bowl in New Orleans
"You guys are better than Maiden"
- Paul
Logus,
producer/engineer (P. Diddy, Pantera, Mary J. Blige, Notorious BIG, the
Barnies) stopping by the Rodeo Bar in NYC after an Iron Maiden concert
"You guys were totally way better than Maiden"
- Paul’s friend Sean (no, not Combs) in agreement
"If there’s such a thing as a forward-thinking surf band, Boston’s The
Weisstronauts are it. Avoiding the purism that makes so many
instrumental retro-fetishists seem redundant, The Weisstronauts combine
vintage surf and Nashville chicken-pickin’ with cartoon zaniness and
spaghetti Western intrigue. They often recall NRBQ’s offbeat musical
humor as much as Link Wray’s reverb-drenched Tarantino fodder."
- Jack Silverman, Nashville Scene
"Please do not disregard my mind-blowing experience caused by
your
music...The fact that the Weisstronauts didn't exist 25 years ago
should be considered an embarrassment to all musicians."
- Brendan
Curtis, co-owner/chef, Plough & Stars
The
wonderfully-monikered Mojo Flucke recently interviewed Pete for
Popdose. They chatted about the new album, the creative process, garage
rock, monkeys with fezes, etc. Check it out HERE.
There's a sweet review of the new album on Epinions HERE.
New England Music Scrapbook News interviewed Pete Weiss about the
Weisstronauts and Verdant Studio. Interview is HERE,
about a third down the page.
Pete Weiss was interviewed by C.C. DiGuardia in Northeast Performer
magazine and by John Clarkson in the U.K. webzine Pennyblackmusic.
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