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John Brodeur - October Solo Tour
Website: http://www.johnbrodeur.com JOHN BRODEUR unveils new solo EP: Nothing is Permanent Contact: Mr. Duck Records (518) 229-9251, johnbrodeur.com 09.05.05 Songwriter John Brodeur is set to release his first collection of solo recordings in nearly five years. The six-song Nothing is Permanent EP (due Nov. 1 on Mr. Duck Records) was recorded entirely in Brodeur’s Albany, NY apartment. The music revisits the eclectic pop restlessness of Brodeur’s debut (Tiger Pop) and the Mix Tape EP (his 2003 recording with the Suggestions), while showing off a firmer grasp on both the subtleties of the craft and the larger-than-life possibilities of recording. Many of the album’s tracks were cut in single, uninterrupted takes, to capture the urgency of live performance (as best as possible on a digital multi-track machine) and align the tracks with the real-time motion of the outside world (listen closely for the panting of two greyhounds, neighborhood chatter, and the occasional siren’s wail). The results are both grand and intimate, infused with Brodeur’s try-anything-once energy and a sure songwriting voice. “These recordings represent a new beginning of sorts,” says Brodeur. “[The album is] a return to the ‘try anything’ mindset that made Tiger Pop interesting. And I’m DIYing it, bitches. Except for all the fancy stuff.” John Brodeur will be touring throughout the fall to promote the release of Nothing is Permanent. Details may change; follow progress at www.johnbrodeur.com and www.myspace.com/thesuggestions. FALL TOUR DATES: Fri 9/9 – Joe’s Pub, NYC (opening for David Poe) Sat 9/10 – Abbey Lounge (pub), Somerville, Mass. Sat 10/8 – YMCA, Saratoga, NY (benefit show) Mon 10/10 – Knitting Factory (old office), NYC Tue 10/11 – Union College Yellow House, Schenectady, NY Wed 10/12 – Café Nine, New Haven, CT Thu 10/13 – Blackstone, Cumberland, RI Fri 10/14 – Abbey Lounge (pub), Somerville, Mass. Sat 10/15 (matinee) – All Asia, Cambridge, Mass. Sat 10/15 – Alphabet Lounge, NYC Sun 10/16 – Shadow Lounge, Pittsburgh, PA Mon 10/17 – Andyman’s Treehouse, Columbus, OH Tue 10/18 – Jackson Avenue Coffee, Charleston, IL Wed 10/19 – Uncommon Ground, Chicago, IL Thu 10/20 – Hexagon Bar, Minneapolis, MN Fri 10/21 – Bremen Café, Milwaukee, WI Sat 10/22 – Wilbert’s, Cleveland, OH (opening for Howling Diablos) Sun 10/23 – Corktown Tavern, Detroit, MI Fri 11/4 – Pontiac Grille, Philadelphia, PA (International Pop Overthrow festival) Sat 11/5 – Lark Tavern, Albany, NY (release party for Nothing is Permanent) * * * BIO: John Brodeur has been writing songs since he was an infant. You probably wouldn’t want to hear much of that early material—it’s mostly post-modern free-jazz discotheque stuff, and hasn’t aged particularly well, but he did what he could working with a severely limited palette (pots and pans, wooden spoons, coffee cans, and such.) The years have been kind: He’s developed into a fine craftsman of modern pop music, and an all-around musical athlete, having tackled guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and saxophone, on both his own albums and others’. Needless to say, both his parents and his fans are very proud. After spending the latter half of the 1990s with various failed power-pop outfits (The Explosives, Kid Dynamo, and Norman), John decided to go it alone—almost completely—for his self-released debut CD, Tiger Pop. The record is a result of a solid year locked in engineer John Delehanty’s Scarlet East Studios (then conveniently located in the basement of Ma and Pa Delehanty’s Latham home). On Tiger Pop, John played everything, save for a few hand-claps, gang vocals, and kitten’s purrs (courtesy of feline friends Moby and Lucinda, an auspicious debut by the sensational singing duo). “Infected (So in Love with You),” the brisk, brash album opener, “just jumps out of the speakers” (Swizzle-Stick.com), while “Dying For Me” and “Sucker” showed that John could do the one-man rock band thing as well as any Jason Falkner or Lenny Kravitz around. (He earned more than his share of comparisons to the former, and considers the latter’s Let Love Rule album essential to his own musical development). Meanwhile, the more introspective fare (“It Goes Away,” “Selfish”) proved John to be much more than just another power-pop throwback. Waves of critical praise rolled in; initial pressings of the album evaporated; Budokan sold out (not really). Having not learned from past experiences, John assembled a new band to take on the task of fleshing out his songs in a live setting. The group, comprising Keith Hosmer (guitar), Jason Schultz (drums), and Ryan Battle (bass), was christened John Brodeur and the Suggestions. They hit the road, played tons of shows, and promptly got back into the studio. As 2003 came in, Battle exited, Hosmer moved to bass, the “John Brodeur and” was dropped from the group’s name, and the Mix Tape EP was released. The recordings, intended as a loosely bound collection of singles rather than a full-fledged album, were critically well-received—especially the Weezerific “Be True” and John’s stirring rendition of George Harrison’s “Art of Dying” (originally released as part of a Harrison tribute CD on Jealousy Records). Thanks to an extensive promotional campaign, Mix Tape charted in the top 200 of the CMJ radio airplay charts, and made big dents at national specialty radio (#12 single & #15 album at FMQB; #18 at U.N.C.L.E.; #19 at H.I.T.S.; Smoking Section at A.F.R.O.) and satellite radio (Heavy Hitter at XM). Jennifer Layton of Indie-music.com went so far as to say “Mix Tape offers a foregone conclusion that The Suggestions will be major label clients before too long.” Unfortunately, the bubble burst; band members went separate ways; John wrote an entire album about not feeling very good in general. Now, as the recently recorded Get Through—the first full-length Suggestions album, and the proper follow-up to Mix Tape—searches for a label home, John is quietly releasing the Nothing Is Permanent EP on his Mr. Duck Records label. The disc, recorded entirely in his Albany apartment, demonstrates the strengths of both John’s solo performances (in the form of a revamped “Easier,” first heard on Tiger Pop) and his unique studio vision (on the new “Movie Of The Week” and the de facto title track “Old Wounds”). He is also beginning work on two other new records: the Suggestions’ Feel and his own Slow Horses. Much like certain previous projects, both albums are being conceived and recorded (almost) entirely solo. Nothing Is Permanent will be released on Nov. 1, following a fall solo tour which takes John from New England to the Midwest. For more information on John Brodeur / the Suggestions, visit www.johnbrodeur.com. With and without the Suggestions, John has shared stages with Fountains of Wayne, Gavin Degraw, They Might Be Giants, Pernice Brothers, the Churchills, dada, Vertical Horizon, Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers, Bleu, The Figgs, Angie Aparo, Paranoid Social Club, As Fast As, The Damnwells, O.A.R., Graham Colton, the Malarkies, Drums and Tuba, Richard Buckner, Jim Boggia, Sloan, Elk City, Wes McDonough (SR-71), the Trouble Dolls, Varnaline, and Laguardia. He has had the honor of opening sold-out shows for David Poe (Joe’s Pub, NYC), Freedy Johnston (Makor, NYC), and Mike Viola/Candy Butchers (Lizard Lounge, Boston).
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