To prepare you for their brand new album, We The Kings will be the new Artist Of The Week! Make sure not to miss anything.
Tue Dec 1 2009 (w/ Weezer) - Chicago IL - Aragon Ballroom
Wed Dec 2 2009 (WRXP Show w/ Manchester Orchestra and Phoenix) - New York NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
Thu Dec 3 2009 (w/ Weezer) - Milwaukee WI - Eagles Ballroom
Sat Dec 5 2009 (w/ Weezer) - Toronto ONT - Air Canada Centre
Mon Dec 7 2009 (w/ Weezer) - Boston MA - Agganis Arena
Wed Dec 9 2009 (w/ Weezer) - Fairfax VA - George Mason University
Thu Dec 10 2009 (w/ Weezer) - Selinsgrove PA - Susquehanna University
Fri Feb 5 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Seattle WA - The Showbox SODO
Sat Feb 6 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Portland OR - Roseland
Sun Feb 7 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Spokane WA - Knitting Factory
Tue Feb 9 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Salt Lake City UT - In The Venue
Thu Feb 11 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Sacramento CA - Sacramento State University
Fri Feb 12 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Las Vegas NV - House of Blues
Tue Feb 16 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - San Antonio TX - The White Rabbit
Wed Feb 17 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Dallas TX - House of Blues
Fri Feb 19 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedara) - Kansas City MO - The Beaumont Club
Sat Feb 20 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Minneapolis MN - First Avenue
Wed Feb 24 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Indianapolis IN - Egyptian Room
Fri Mar 5 2010 (w/ Fun & Vedera) - Norfolk VA - The Norva
Artist Of The Week - Wednesday: “Swim” // Jack’s Mannequin
Jack's Mannequin - Swim (Music Box)
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Artist Of The Week - Tuesday: “Swim (Music Box)” // Jack’s Mannequin
Jack's Mannequin - Crashin'
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Artist Of The Week: “Crashin’” // Jack’s Mannequin
With Something Corporate on break, McMahon looked to bring the best of his songs together into a concept album exploring his alienating return to the hometown he left to pursue his music, and the dissolution of a long, meaningful relationship because of it. He brought his signature piano and distinctive tenor to the project, with vocals, bass, and guitar offered by friend, collaborator, and Something Corporate producer Jim Wirt. McMahon and Wirt produced the album, which also features Bobby (Raw) Anderson on guitar, and Patrick Warren (Fiona Apple, Macy Gray, Jon Brion) with organ, strings and arrangements. Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee supplied live drums to complement samples by C.J. Eiriksson, who also served as the album’s engineer.
Inspired by such theme albums as the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, Everything In Transit weaves an autobiographical tale reflected in the storybook written into its liner notes. It begins with the laid-back, bohemian California mood of “Holiday From Real,” with McMahon coming home and feeling like a visitor in his own world.
Jack’s Mannequin will be the new Artist Of The Week.
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Twenty years ago, if somebody told the record label heads of music that the industry would look like it does today, they would not believe it. We live in a world of music where having a good voice is not needed anymore, auto-tune can fix that. We live in a world of music where the younger generations surround themselves with bands that put no meaning behind their words that so many people could one day hear. But by no means is the world of music we live in hopeless.
Every Atlas, a two-manned band from California is led by two sixteen year old boys who know nothing except to love and to make music. The music you would expect Every Atlas to make due to their age might be extremely raw and talentless, but that’s not the case. Their debut album, The Ghosts Of Everyone, which was released via iTunes on November 3rd, is truly a masterpiece. The opening track, “In All It’s Glory,” immediately starts with a lively feeling filled with beautiful guitar parts and lyrics that make you stop and thing. Influenced by Right Away, Great Captain, Kevin Devine and more, Alex and Dustin of Every Atlas immediately show that the key to making excellent music is not relevant to age and experience. The album continues with one of my favorite songs. “Like Wind And Waves” begins with chilling vocals that last throughout the whole track. The song metaphors the relationship of a sailboat, a captain, and a sailor, which can do no other but make you think about the relationship the listener draws with his or her family. It’s a common theme throughout the record, a relationship between two people, at such a young age Every Atlas has no issue grasping the larger issues in a common person’s life and putting them into a deep, meaningful song.
I’ve been smoking seven packs a day/just to shake these fears away/just to keep my bones in place/I’ve been drinking fire from our bed/just to stop this all again/just to end this all instead. “All Hands On Deck!” is perhaps the most chilling track on the album, only behind the album’s closing track. Throughout “On Deck!” you can hear the emotion pouring out of the vocals, I replayed my leaving several times/to find solace in goodbye/I am long gone…
The last three songs on The Ghosts Of Everyone are perhaps the best. In “Figurehead,” Dustin shows of the strength of his writing ability by once again drawing a comparison to a captain, a sailor, and a family. The most peculiar part of the track is the addition of a sound bite in the closing seconds. There’s a minimum crew requirement. What’s the minimum crew? One I suppose. The meaning behind what was placed on the album itself is enough to stand on it’s own. Throughout the album there’s a trinity of three songs, “It Gives, It Takes Parts 1, 2, & 3”. The final of them, though only two-minute’s long is a perfect transition in to the albums closer. Don’t know what to believe or feel/is any of this real. If that is not soul wrenching enough, Every Atlas made sure their last song, “Ghost Story,” which happens to be a near nine minute epic, leaves your head spinning with thought. Spilled your heart upon the deck/so were your expectations met?/the hole is rotting to it’s core/the anchor rests but knows no more/do you compare it to yourself?/a compass lost among the swells/Annabelle no. Every Atlas made “Ghost Story” into a conclusion. Drawing not only the theme of a sailor and a family to an end, but bringing the tale of Annabelle, a name commonly referred to throughout the album, as perhaps the reason behind the pain and suffering, to an end.
Mixed and mastered by Wait! Rewind That Productions, The Ghosts Of Everyone sounds more polished and complete than certain bands do throughout their whole career. Alex and Dustin, the geniuses behind Every Atlas, poured their heart into their work, and it deserves to be heard. There is no auto-tune, there is just soul.
****.5/*****
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Artist Of The Week: “It Gives, It Takes Part 3” // Every Atlas // The Ghosts Of Everyone
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Artist Of The Week - Tuesday: “Patchwork” // Every Atlas // The Ghosts Of Everyone
Every Atlas was started by Alex Periera in 2008 as an outlet for love, pain, and creativity. He was recently joined by Dustin Andrews, both of whom came from the now disband alternative rock group Waking Constance. “I began writing songs for an EP I wanted to do by myself that never really got finished; then me and Dustin got to writing together. Things just kind of come naturally when we write, and I knew he’d be a perfect fit when building this into a band.” In the month of November, Every Atlas released their first album, The Ghosts Of Everyone.
Every Atlas will be this week’s Artist Of The Week. Stay tuned, there is genius behind this two-man band.
Self-described nerds, they’d still be working just as hard on their music whether they were playing for an audience of 5 thousand, or an audience of 5. “The more you try to please everybody, the less you end up pleasing anybody,” says Patrick Vaughn Stump, Fall Out Boy lead singer and guitarist. Stump, perhaps the least flappable band member save for vegan drummer Andy Hurley, becomes agitated when people take the reward of music more seriously than the art. “If you gave me 3 million dollars to spend,” Stump says, “I’d find 3 million dollars worth of musical equipment to buy.”
The success of their mega hit album From Under the Cork Tree hasn’t been taken for granted. Instead of resting on their laurels, Fall Out Boy has opted to go immediately back to work in spite of a hectic tour schedule by releasing their next album, Infinity on High. “If you have the songs there, why not record them?” says Wentz. The group’s prolific nature can best be summed by Stump, who enthusiastically proclaimed, “fuck down time,” when asked if he’d like a break from the busy schedule.
