April 2011
2 posts
Tom Schraeder signs Publishing Deal/Featured...
Tom Schraeder has signed with Angry Mob Publishing (Los Angeles, CA) and is also their featured artist. Here is a brief excerpt about Angry Mob:
Founded in 2011, Angry Mob is a forward-thinking indie music publishing and licensing company that maintains one of the most eclectic modern music catalogs in the industry tailored to film, television, advertising and interactive game production....
http://feministing.com/2011/04/04/why-having-fun-is... →
March 2011
4 posts
SXSW - Thao and friends
Friday March 18 12:30 PM
Thao saying hi and signing CDs
SXSW Bookstore
Friday March 18 2:00 PM
Thao on a SXSW panel
Musicians Bringing Musicians Home: New Orleans After Katrina
Room 16B Austin Convention Center
Friday March 18 3:45 PM
Girls Rock Camp Austin SXSW day party
1600 E. 6th street
Austin, TX 78702
Friday March 18 5:50 PM
Homeslice Pizza Day Party
1415 S....
Tom Schraeder SXSW Shows
WEDNESDAY 16th Paradise - 401 E 6th - Corner of 6th and Trinity (upstairs) THURSDAY 17th Township at Teddy’s - 2004 Willow (Backyard Theater) THURSDAY 17th South by South Congress at Botticelli’s FRIDAY 18th Graham and Friends – Mean Eyed Cat – 1621 W 5th St
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/internation... →
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
Sean Flinn performing “Flightless Bird” in Portland, OR for the Manchester, England blog MCR Sceneswipe!
October 2010
3 posts
Sean Flinn & The Royal We Release "Write Me A...
Sean Flinn and his backing band, The Royal We, released his debut LP, Write Me A Novel, on October 19th. The album is currently streaming on MSN music and Spinner.com!
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/15
Tom Schraeder To Headline CMJ Showcase, Tour Dates...
Tom Schraeder will be starting out a string of dates by headlining a CMJ showcase at the Local 269 club in New York City. A number of one offs and tour legs with Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s, James Bowers and Ezza Rose will follow. Here are the current dates. More dates are to be announced:
OCT 22. NY, NY. CMJ FEST., The Local 269
NOV. 5. NORMAN, OK. @ Opolis Productions.**
NOV...
Garrison Keillor writes about Hadestown →
It was on this day in 1600 that the opera Euridice was first performed, at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. It is the oldest surviving opera.
Euridice was performed for the wedding celebrations of Henry IV of France and Maria de’ Medici. It was written by Jacopo Peri, a beloved composer and singer. He had already written Dafne a few years earlier, which is considered to be the first opera,...
August 2010
1 post
new Portland Cello Project video
July 2010
3 posts
Hadestown named amongst top 50 albums of the year... →
Thao announces new booking agent, new booking... →
Billions Welcomes Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
We are pleased to announce that Thao with the Get Down Stay Down has joined the Billions roster. Since their formation in 2003, the band has played with Rilo Kiley and Xiu Xiu, and collaborated with Andrew Bird and Portland Cello Project. Their 2009 release, Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars) earned praise from critics as diverse as Spin...
June 2010
3 posts
Slim Moon named Museum Manager for the Black Dot...
Hello T, David and I want to include you in The Black Dot Political Museum of Political Art. Inclusion, along with all other aspects of the project at this point, is being invented as it occurs. Right now, our home base is FaceBook, where I would add a photo album — a selection of your work with captions and links back to your site. I would write a feature on you to post with a bio and...
May 2010
4 posts
Dianna Agron (Glee) Directed Video For Thao Debuts...
———————————————————————————————-The new video from Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, “Body”, directed by Dianna Agron (Quinn Fabray from Fox’s “Glee”) will debut today exclusively at Oxfam America’s website. ...
click here for Anais Mitchell interview on... →
Interview: Anais Mitchell
words by Hanna Rose | photo by Alicia J. RoseFEATURES | HEATHER | MAY 25, 2010 AT 12:23 AM
Every now and then, artists will get one of those ideas — the kinds of ideas we like to refer to as “concepts.” When these floating, surreal concepts are integrated into the music world, they often intersect the line that separates genius and madness.
Enter Anais Mitchell to...
April 2010
4 posts
Mirah and Thao to Tour Together
Photo by Sarah Cass
Earlier this year, indie singer-songwritersMirah and Thao Nguyen teamed up for a collaborative set at the Noise Pop festival in San Francisco. It went so well, that the pair are taking the show on the road this summer, calling themselves Thao andMirah With The Most of All. A press release about the tour states, ”Thao andMirah mix and...
Mirah and Thao to tour together →
Anais Mitchell on the radio talking about... →
March 2010
8 posts
Click here for the NPR "Weekend Edition" spot... →
An Evening with Neko Case w/special guest Anais Mitchell to benefit Catamount Arts
Capping an exceptionally successful 2009, which includes the first Grammy nominations of her career for her album ‘Middle Cyclone’ (Anti- Records), Neko Case will be performing a show Friday, March 12th at Fuller Hall in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to benefit the Catamount Arts Center. All proceeds from the...
click here for Allmusic's review of Hadestown →
“Artfully conceived, articulated, and produced, Hadestown raises Mitchell’s creative bar exponentially: there isn’t anything else remotely like it.”
March 6 1:00–7:00 p.m. the Echoplex
Tickets: http://826lachickensinlove.eventbrite.com
This one-day all ages MINI MUSIC FESTIVAL features
The Submarines Summer Darling The Pity Party and special guests Dianna Agron from GLEE and Thao Nguyen!
Also: Get in the mood with punk rock hairdos from The Hive Hair Shop, rocker accessories from local LA designers, burgers from Grill ‘Em All Food Truck,...
Thao is playing LA on Saturday at a Benefit for... →
February 2010
3 posts
CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT MARCH 12 BENEFIT THAT... →
CLICK HERE TO READ AN EXCELLENT BREAKDOWN OF... →
Anais at Rice Fest, click here. →
January 2010
3 posts
click here to read what Wears The Trousers had to... →
On January 12, 2010, at 4:53pm local time, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, approximately 10 miles from Port-au-Prince. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people are feared dead, as the capital city has been devastated. You can help. Make a donation to one of these incredible and long-standing organizations in Haiti. They have distributed staff in country now, but most importantly,...
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
14 posts
Quotes
“A songwriter of startling clarity and depth, equally skilled at turning a melody or lyrical phrase into what you didn’t know you needed until you heard it… fearlessly emotive…like Dylan, Cohen, and Welch, Mitchell weaves her stories into an effortlessly beautiful and cohesive tapestry with the skill of an artisan’s carpenter, showing no seams.” - ACOUSTIC GUITAR
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