The Village is Dead

Off of Brave Shores' brand new EP
Available October 28th

Brave Shores

Dancing Underwater

Album Cascades out Feb 5
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Stolen Jars - Waves

Limits of Desire

"Do Me Like That"

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written by: Christopher Glover, Anthony Rossomando, Benjamin Grubin & David Gross
produced by: Christopher Glover & Anthony Rossomando
mixed by: Christopher Glover & Andy Seltzer
mastered by: Joe LaPorta
artwork by: Baptiste Alchourroun

Lyrics:
Say you wanna get involved
Maybe you should tell your face
Cuz I don’t wanna take the fall
Every time you go insane

I can’t understand you when you talk like that
Waiting on something that’s never coming back
Looking for proof but proof’s that drug
You can never get enough of

Why you wanna play me like a chump?
Why don’t you go and play with someone else?
Why you wanna do me like that?
Why don’t you just tell me what you want?
You don’t have to play me like a chump
Why you wanna do me like that?

The photographs on your wall
Make you feel like you’re getting older
But freedom is not a loner
I’d even say it to you when I’m sober

How close can you get to the edge?
That’s the real measure of success
And you like playing Russian roulette
With five and a half bullets

____________________

Tour Dates:

April 5 - Austin, TX @ The Parish
April 7 - Zapopan Jalisco, Mexico @ Corona Capital Guadalajara Festival
April 12 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry #
April 13 - Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon #
April 14 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle #
April 18 - Washington DC @ Black Cat #
April 19 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom #
April 20 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #
April 21 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott #
April 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom +
April 28 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent +
May 1 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios +
May 2 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile +
June 21- June 24 - Rothbury, MI @ Electric Forest Festival
June 28 - July 1 - Rothbury, MI @ Electric Forest Festival

# with Mating Ritual
+ with Little Monarch

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Do Me Like That

 Housse De Racket made their name as musicians for hire in Paris. Victor and Pierre have previously worked with Phoenix, Air, The Teenagers, Chilly Gonzales and Benjamin Diamond (Stardust), either as session guys in the studio or live on stage.

• Forty Love, Housse De Racket's debut album was produced by Gonzales and Renaud Letang. They also produced Peaches, Feist, Jamie Lidell. It is a concept album about giving up a glittering career in tennis to win the love of a girl, by forming a band. Forty Love contains recent French Top 15 hit single, Oh Yeah!

• Oh Yeah! will be released in the UK as two digital EPs and a limited edition 7" featuring remixes by the new breed of production talent from across the World including Keenhouse (USA), Bestrack (France), Barretso (Chile), The Lowbrows (Japan) as well as more established names like Tonka (Germany) and Chilly Gonzales (Canada).

• Forty Love will be released in the UK in August 2010, and will come with a bonus remix album.

• First UK single, Synthétiseur was released on the renowned 50 Bones label, and became one of the most blogged tracks of 2009, even bigged up by Kanye West on his Universecity blog.

• Victor and Pierre are currently recording their second album in France. It's being produced by Philippe Zdar, whose production work includes Phoenix, The Rapture, Sebastien Tellier, Tiga and Cassius.

• So far, the press have warmly received Housse. Press quotes include...

“This French duo straddle the line between Vampire Weekend and Phoenix – which is a very good thing to straddle indeed” Music Week (UK)

“Daft Punk, Air and Phoenix have finally found their heirs” Les Echos (France)

“This is magnificent fun, ticking all my boxes like a robot doing a Census”
Drownedinsound (UK)

“A catchy and unconventional debut album with outstanding single Oh Yeah!”
Dazed & Confused (UK)

http://www.myspace.com/houssederacket
Released by: Kuskus
Release/catalogue number: HDREP 1
Release date: Jul 13, 2010 

Housse De Racket - Oh Yeah!

Our debut album "When It Was Now," is now available on iTunes- smarturl.it/atlas

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Tour Dates- http://atlasgenius.com/tour

About @AtlasGenius -
The members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius do things a little differently….They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. “We really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,” recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Genius’s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called “Trojans,” which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls.  Within an hour, “Trojans” was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide. 

“We had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,” says Keith. “We’d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didn’t really have anything to show for it.” But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered “Trojans” on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising “Trojans” as a song sure to “invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.” Checking the band’s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them. 

“We were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,” recalls Keith. “So we said, ‘There’s something going on here. Let’s get back to the music.’” The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.  

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, “Trojans” reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, “Trojans” was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. “Trojans” began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

“Knowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,” says Keith. “It was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.” Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision. 

“We’d never been to America before,” says Keith. “We flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like ‘How do we fit into all this?’” In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. “We felt a connection with them,” notes Keith. “Everyone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.”

The band’s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year.  Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.   

The debut captures Atlas Genius’s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering “Symptoms,” for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, “Back Seat” blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on “Trojans,” Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (“Take it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what we’ve been”) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

“It’s still surreal,” says Keith of all that’s happened over the past 18 months. “I think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,” he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) “But then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put ‘Trojans’ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We don’t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.”

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