Tuesday, July 27, 2004 There's a new review up for The Trouble with Sweeney : Fishtown Briefcase at rollingstone.com. Check it out. Artwork is nearly complete for the forthcoming Bosque Brown : Sings Mara Lee Miller album. This will be out to stores in autumn 2004. :::scott::: Posted by Scott @ 10:48 AM CST Thursday, July 22, 2004 Test pressings arrived today for the Ester Drang one-sided LP. Yes, this thing does exist and it will be ready in about 2 weeks or so now. The test pressings for Wovenhand also arrived and this is due to be released to stores on 2 November. Denison is out on the West Coast getting ready to do some dates with Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom (Drag City): Sat July 24 : Los Angeles, CA. Troubadour. Sun July 25 : Sacramento, CA. Old Ironsides. Wed July 28 : Seattle, WA. Neumo’s. Thurs July 29 : Portland, OR. Dante's. Sat July 31 : San Francisco, CA. Great American Music Hall. also with Half-Handed Cloud Denison will be selling the new pressing of Philadelphia Songs which includes a video for "24 Turned 25" and two bonus tracks that appear on the European version of the release. Joey Sweeney will be on tour shortly: Fri Aug 6: Five Spot, Philadelphia, w/ Shai from Capitol Years and Chris Leo (The Lapse). Sat Aug 7: The Corner at Middle East, Cambridge MA w/ Pleasant Grove. Sun Aug 8: Pianos, NYC w/ Pleasant Grove. Mon Aug 9: The Elevens, Northampton MA w/ Pleasant Grove. Tues Aug 10: Galapagos, Brooklyn NY w/ Pleasant Grove. Mon Aug 23: Tritone, Phila w/ Jim Guthrie (Royal City, mems. of The Hidden Cameras) Additionally, The Trouble with Sweeney will be playing a few dates: Thu Aug 12: The Five Spot, Phila w/ Pleasant Grove Fri Aug 13: Lebowskifest, Knitting Factory NYC Thu Sept 16: The Khyber, Phila w/ The Bigger Lovers The Trouble will also be going on tour in October. :::scott::: Posted by Scott @ 09:00 PM CST Tuesday, July 20, 2004 The Trouble with Sweeney : Fishtown Briefcase jumped up 83 spots to #100 on the CMJ top 200 list. It was the #1 mover for the week. Listen to this new release on your favorite local CMJ station. I've been listening to the new Low box set, A Lifetime of Temporary Relief, today. It'sa bunch of B sides, 7" songs, and outtakes. Some of the covers are pretty amazing. It's 3cds and a double-sided DVD. I haven't gotten to the DVD yet. These will be available from the online store as soon as I add it... :::scott::: Posted by Scott @ 05:18 PM CST Friday, July 16, 2004 A new website is up for Reels of White Softly Flow. See you at the cd release party tonight for The River Bends at The Fire, 5th and Girard, in Philadelphia. Plans are underway for an Unwed Sailor/Questions in Dialect tour mostly in the Southern US for September, details to come soon. Johnathon is on the road with Decahedron, catch them when they come to a town near you. :::scott::: Posted by Scott @ 12:22 AM CST Thursday, July 8, 2004 The Trouble with Sweeney is going to play Lebowski Fest at the Knitting Factory in NYC on 13 August. Be there. I'm back from the midwestern road trip with Reels of White Softly Flow. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us play, especially those who waited so patiently during the sound system troubles. We ended up making some limited edition cds and hand-silk-screened t-shirts that will be available in the online store shortly if you didn't get a chance to buy anything. It's not a pre-requisite to be a fan or anything. I also got the opportunity to stop by Secretly Canadian headquarters in Bloomington. Unwed Sailor books and LPs, Saxon Shore LPs, and Six Parts Seven LPs are now in safe hands ready for their 17 August retail date. On the way back, I got to see my parents and grandma and we all went to get a breaded tenderloin for lunch, a midwestern treat that doesn't exist in Philadelphia and something I never thought I'd miss. Last night, Scott and I went to see Control Room, the documentary about the Al Jazeera news channel. The film itself was fairly intellectual and seemed to give a pretty open and unbiased view behind the scenes. What's interesting is that Al Jazeera is the main source of news in the Arab world, the most popular station among all Arabs. While often discredited by the US, their importance does remain. There are times where their bias does seem prominent and other times where the bias seems nearly non-existent. The documentary also includes other news stations covering the Iraq war from US Central Command in Qatar, the media headquarters prior to occupation. It's interesting to see how different facts are presented by the military and how the news is covered by the various American and European networks in contrast to Al Jazeera, as well as giving a greater understanding about the Arab perspective of the events of the Iraqi war. Conservative or liberal, I highly recommend seeing Control Room to better understand this perspective and this media force in the Arab world. :::scott::: Posted by Scott @ 10:01 AM CST [ Archives ]