announcements! new record label! new album! midwestern tour NEXT WEEK!
there is so much to say.
I am bad at blogging. I admit that I am pretty bad at blogging. I find this hilarious, since I used to be an avid live-journal-er in "my youth", but these days I pretty much put off doing the things that I "have to do" in life for as long as I can (related: I finally have health insurance!) & so it does not surprise me that I've been procrastinating intensely about all of these announcements. I will announce them in chronological order!
firstly, PAPER BOATS.
the recording process for this album was amazing. As I wrote in September, all of my friends who are great (Emily Hope Price, Joe Arnold, Guy Capecelatro III, my sister Rachel Vogelzang, & new friend Marc McElroy) came out & played, sang, and clapped along on the songs. It sounds incredible. INCREDIBLE! I'm so grateful for the guidance and help of my dear friends and collaborators, and I'm so excited for folks to hear this record. Djim Reynolds, amazing-amazingest-person, engineered & mixed the whole thing. We spent most of our days in the Electric Cave in Portsmouth NH, which is part of the old Button Factory, which is quite quaint. I spent a bunch of nights sleeping in the studio on an air mattress, waking up in the morning, grabbing a bagel, & continuing onwards. There was a lot of late-night peeing out in the bushes near the train tracks. There was also a lot of eating at the Friendly Toast, visiting Nahcotta, coffeeing at Cafe Killim, walking out by the water, visiting my Massachusetts family, song workshopping, internet-ing, and late-night-walks to the convenience store for water & sugary things. It was a little over 2 weeks all in all, & I cannot be prouder of this record.
Which brings us to the physical representation of the music, which brings us to,
secondly, SLOTHTROP.
I've been talking "the biz" with the folks at Slothtrop Music here in Madison for about a year now, ever since I moved here. Over that year they were very helpful with ideas for local venues to play, tour strategies, people that I should befriend, songs I should cover, etc. When I arrived back to the beginning of Midwestern Winter on October 1st, I sent the mixes of the new record over to my Slothtrop friends for their listening pleasure, and they got about as excited as I was over the new songs, asking if I was interested in their help with releasing the record.
And so! Thus is the story of how I "got signed".
Slothtrop has been completely awesome in this whole process. We're putting out a single in February which I'll bring on my tour with Annie Palmer (more on at the next section), and there will even be a SEVEN-INCH RECORD. I'm giddy with excitement. The songs will include four thrilling gems: a totally sweet sing-along from Paper Boats, my ridiculous Lady Gaga banjo cover, an otherwise unreleased B-side from Paper Boats, and my silly internet song. After the single release, the full record meets the world on April 13th! I can't wait. Some of the tracks (both single & full-length) are up streaming on my facebook & myspace pages. Please take a listen! There is so much sing-along-goodness! & so much banjo! The record will be available IN STORES, on iTunes or your other favorite digital distributor, and pretty much in any other form one can imagine on April 13th, 2010. I'm sure I'll be promoting it loudly when the time comes around.
Until then, I'll be on tour, which brings us to,
thirdly, FEBRUARY MIDWEST TOUR!
Next week I'll be hitting the road with megababe Annie Palmer of Ypsilanti, MI, and we will be banjo-killing & heart-breaking it UP all over the Midwest. Check out the dates below to see if we're coming to your town! All street addresses & further show details are available HERE!
thu feb 4th
Beloit, WI
CHaus, 10PM
fri feb 5th
Eau Claire, WI
The Cabin, 8PM
w/ Feathe
sat feb 6th
Milwaukee, WI
Private House Show
mon feb 8th
Dubuque, IA
BlackBloom Theater - Streaming Live!
tues feb 9th
Iowa City, IA
The Mill, 9PM
wed feb 10th
Moline, IL
Tommy's, 9PM
thu feb 11th
St. Louis, MO
The Map Room, 7PM
fri feb 12th
Urbana, IL
The Red Herring, 7PM
w/ Angie Heaton & Morgan Orion
sat feb 13th
Bloomington, IN
The Bishop, 7PM
sun feb 14th
Columbus, OH
Potluck at Mark's House, 7PM
mon feb 15th
Pittsburgh, PA
Howler's, 9PM
w/ Emily Rodgers & Lohio
tues feb 16th
Athens, OH
Bruce Manor, 8PM
wed feb 17th
Ann Arbor, MI
The Spare House, 8PM
thu feb 18th
Lansing, MI
House Show
fri feb 19th
Goshen, IN
Constant Spring
w/ Emily Rodgers & Lohio
sat feb 20th
Madison, WI
Project Lodge
w/ Emily Rodgers & Lohio
sun feb 21
Chicago, IL
Uncommon Ground - Devon
w/ Emily Rodgers
fourthly, the MADISON SONGWRITERS GUILD
Last week I took place in the Madison Songwriters Guild's monthly Song Showdown, & won "Song of the Month" with the song "Guilt"! I'll be playing that song & possibly a few more TOMORROW, FRIDAY MORNING at 8AM CST on WORT here in Madison. I'm sure I will be pounding coffee & hoping that I can play the guitar that early in the morning. You can listen from wherever you may be here on the interweb: http://www.wort-fm.org/listen.php
I also will be performing at the MSG's Songwriters in the Round on February 24th!
wed feb 24
The Brink Lounge, 630PM
Madison, WI
fifthly, ALL OVER THE INTERNET
The last few months brought some interesting internet-age. Two particularly awesome things:
You can find an interview that I did with the awesome fellas at Assault in Chicago HERE.
I also did a Lady Gaga cover after a little too much wine and the responses are stellar. HERE!
sixthly, IN CLOSING
(Edit: I wrote this on Tuesday afternoon but it's almost all still true.) It's pretty cold here. Four degrees! I'm about to go print tour posters, start sending them out to clubs, and maybe even do some press emails. Productivity, ahoy! I wore a skirt today hoping that blue skies meant a slight temperature swell, but there was no such luck and instead I'm a bit shivery, here at my favorite coffeeshop's drafty window. In exactly one month I will turn 25, I am currently in "negotiations" about a hypothetical tour in the Southwestern USofA with my inspiring friend Emily Hope Price, and there are chicken & dumplings for dinner. Life is so, so good, people! Even without Conan. This will still be a great year.
lots of love,
A.
I am bad at blogging. I admit that I am pretty bad at blogging. I find this hilarious, since I used to be an avid live-journal-er in "my youth", but these days I pretty much put off doing the things that I "have to do" in life for as long as I can (related: I finally have health insurance!) & so it does not surprise me that I've been procrastinating intensely about all of these announcements. I will announce them in chronological order!
firstly, PAPER BOATS.
the recording process for this album was amazing. As I wrote in September, all of my friends who are great (Emily Hope Price, Joe Arnold, Guy Capecelatro III, my sister Rachel Vogelzang, & new friend Marc McElroy) came out & played, sang, and clapped along on the songs. It sounds incredible. INCREDIBLE! I'm so grateful for the guidance and help of my dear friends and collaborators, and I'm so excited for folks to hear this record. Djim Reynolds, amazing-amazingest-person, engineered & mixed the whole thing. We spent most of our days in the Electric Cave in Portsmouth NH, which is part of the old Button Factory, which is quite quaint. I spent a bunch of nights sleeping in the studio on an air mattress, waking up in the morning, grabbing a bagel, & continuing onwards. There was a lot of late-night peeing out in the bushes near the train tracks. There was also a lot of eating at the Friendly Toast, visiting Nahcotta, coffeeing at Cafe Killim, walking out by the water, visiting my Massachusetts family, song workshopping, internet-ing, and late-night-walks to the convenience store for water & sugary things. It was a little over 2 weeks all in all, & I cannot be prouder of this record.
Which brings us to the physical representation of the music, which brings us to,
secondly, SLOTHTROP.
I've been talking "the biz" with the folks at Slothtrop Music here in Madison for about a year now, ever since I moved here. Over that year they were very helpful with ideas for local venues to play, tour strategies, people that I should befriend, songs I should cover, etc. When I arrived back to the beginning of Midwestern Winter on October 1st, I sent the mixes of the new record over to my Slothtrop friends for their listening pleasure, and they got about as excited as I was over the new songs, asking if I was interested in their help with releasing the record.
And so! Thus is the story of how I "got signed".
Slothtrop has been completely awesome in this whole process. We're putting out a single in February which I'll bring on my tour with Annie Palmer (more on at the next section), and there will even be a SEVEN-INCH RECORD. I'm giddy with excitement. The songs will include four thrilling gems: a totally sweet sing-along from Paper Boats, my ridiculous Lady Gaga banjo cover, an otherwise unreleased B-side from Paper Boats, and my silly internet song. After the single release, the full record meets the world on April 13th! I can't wait. Some of the tracks (both single & full-length) are up streaming on my facebook & myspace pages. Please take a listen! There is so much sing-along-goodness! & so much banjo! The record will be available IN STORES, on iTunes or your other favorite digital distributor, and pretty much in any other form one can imagine on April 13th, 2010. I'm sure I'll be promoting it loudly when the time comes around.
Until then, I'll be on tour, which brings us to,
thirdly, FEBRUARY MIDWEST TOUR!
Next week I'll be hitting the road with megababe Annie Palmer of Ypsilanti, MI, and we will be banjo-killing & heart-breaking it UP all over the Midwest. Check out the dates below to see if we're coming to your town! All street addresses & further show details are available HERE!
Beloit, WI
CHaus, 10PM
fri feb 5th
Eau Claire, WI
The Cabin, 8PM
w/ Feathe
sat feb 6th
Milwaukee, WI
Private House Show
mon feb 8th
Dubuque, IA
BlackBloom Theater - Streaming Live!
tues feb 9th
Iowa City, IA
The Mill, 9PM
wed feb 10th
Moline, IL
Tommy's, 9PM
thu feb 11th
St. Louis, MO
The Map Room, 7PM
fri feb 12th
Urbana, IL
The Red Herring, 7PM
w/ Angie Heaton & Morgan Orion
sat feb 13th
Bloomington, IN
The Bishop, 7PM
sun feb 14th
Columbus, OH
Potluck at Mark's House, 7PM
mon feb 15th
Pittsburgh, PA
Howler's, 9PM
w/ Emily Rodgers & Lohio
tues feb 16th
Athens, OH
Bruce Manor, 8PM
wed feb 17th
Ann Arbor, MI
The Spare House, 8PM
thu feb 18th
Lansing, MI
House Show
fri feb 19th
Goshen, IN
Constant Spring
w/ Emily Rodgers & Lohio
sat feb 20th
Madison, WI
Project Lodge
w/ Emily Rodgers & Lohio
sun feb 21
Chicago, IL
Uncommon Ground - Devon
w/ Emily Rodgers
fourthly, the MADISON SONGWRITERS GUILD
Last week I took place in the Madison Songwriters Guild's monthly Song Showdown, & won "Song of the Month" with the song "Guilt"! I'll be playing that song & possibly a few more TOMORROW, FRIDAY MORNING at 8AM CST on WORT here in Madison. I'm sure I will be pounding coffee & hoping that I can play the guitar that early in the morning. You can listen from wherever you may be here on the interweb: http://www.wort-fm.org/listen.php
I also will be performing at the MSG's Songwriters in the Round on February 24th!
wed feb 24
The Brink Lounge, 630PM
Madison, WI
fifthly, ALL OVER THE INTERNET
The last few months brought some interesting internet-age. Two particularly awesome things:
You can find an interview that I did with the awesome fellas at Assault in Chicago HERE.
I also did a Lady Gaga cover after a little too much wine and the responses are stellar. HERE!
sixthly, IN CLOSING
(Edit: I wrote this on Tuesday afternoon but it's almost all still true.) It's pretty cold here. Four degrees! I'm about to go print tour posters, start sending them out to clubs, and maybe even do some press emails. Productivity, ahoy! I wore a skirt today hoping that blue skies meant a slight temperature swell, but there was no such luck and instead I'm a bit shivery, here at my favorite coffeeshop's drafty window. In exactly one month I will turn 25, I am currently in "negotiations" about a hypothetical tour in the Southwestern USofA with my inspiring friend Emily Hope Price, and there are chicken & dumplings for dinner. Life is so, so good, people! Even without Conan. This will still be a great year.
lots of love,
A.
ps: this awesome album artwork was done by ashley goldberg!
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