MEET JOEY SWEENEY

First mp3 off the Long Hair LP/CD/CA.
Produced by Aaron Luis Levinson.

Joey Sweeney: voc/piano/soundprism
Jared Styles: bass
Charlie Hall: drums
Lushlife: synth
Lily Cope: bkg voc
Laura Frangiosa: bkg voc

Out fall 2013 on La Société Expéditionnaire/BITBY.
For more: joeysweeney.tumblr.com
Twitter: @sweeneyjojo

Kate Moss Hologram

From the LP Long Hair, available wherever fine LPs and streams are sold.



Records & Coffee

Today, we announce the release of Long Hair, Joey Sweeney's debut record for La Société Expéditionnaire, in collaboration with BITBY Records & Tapes. Long Hair is a Laurel Canyon-inflected singer/songwriter record for sure, but it's also a party of unlikely collaborators: Grammy award-winning salsa/tropical producer Aaron 'Luis' Levinson mans the controls, and mindbending rapper/producer Lushlife (aka Raj Haldar) penned string arrangements for the string trio that appears on the record. Long Hair drops on October 29, 2013.

About Joey Sweeney: 
Joey Sweeney has been writing songs and prose since he was a teenager in the 1980s. Over the years, he has fronted the groups The Barnabys and The Trouble With Sweeney, as well as recording and performing as a solo artist. Meanwhile, he's also written for a wide array of publications, including Salon.com, Philadelphia Weekly, the Philadelphia Inquirer and his daily perch, Philebrity.com, the cityblog he established in 2004 after a decade-long run as a rock critic.

His songs and records have received widespread critical acclaim over the years; of his last record with The Trouble With Sweeney, Fishtown Briefcase, Pitchfork said:

"[Sweeney] mixes autobiography and fiction against the group's 70s-inflected indie pop, resourceful- and unabashed- enough to digress into an E Street interlude or an AM-rock guitar coda." - Pitchfork.com

He's also garnered curse and praise as a writer of prose, having won the "AAN Award for Music Criticism" and appeared in Best Music Writing 2002.

From 2004 through 2010, Sweeney mostly shied from performing and recording, focusing instead on his role as Publisher & Editor of the website Philebrity.com. In 2011, however, Sweeney stepped back into his old role of singer/songwriter, this time fronting the rock band Arctic Splash. Joey Sweeney Your Life Is Calling compiles the best of everything before the Splash.

In early 2013, Sweeney went on to record Long Hair; he is also currently working on a novel and other prose projects.


Joey Sweeney online:
joeysweeney.tumblr.com/
www.facebook.com/veryrealjoeysweeney
@joeysweeney
la-soc.com/joeysweeney.html

When You Say My Name

"Head On (Hold On To Your Heart)"
Written by Honus Honus
Original version appears on Man Man's On Oni Pond LP (Anti-)

Cover photo: Michael Bixler

For more Joey Sweeney tunes, follow on Soundcloud!
Or check out the new LP, Long Hair, on iTunes, Spotify, etc.
Vinyl LP available here: https://squareup.com/market/bitby/long-hair-joey-sweeney-full-length-album

Head On (Hold On To Your Heart)

From the Long Hair LP.
Available on vinyl here: http://bitby.tv/shop/joey-sweeney-long-hair/

Hold My Breath For Thee

Arctic Splash feat. Joey Sweeney - Black Ice

Hey rock 'n' roll DJ in the middle of the day
I rolled a spliff during my coffee break and then I got paid
Now I'm cleaning out my desk
By mid-afternoon I'll be painting the town
What was important to me then?
It ain't important now

Well I'm used to it now but it wasn't always this way
I had a wife, I had a home, I was oh-so-steady
But you get older, you know and some things, they tend to break down
What was important to me then?
It ain't important now

It ain't important now
It ain't important now
Man I got other things to worry about
It ain't important now

Tick-tock can't you drown out that beautiful girl
I have vacated the graces of the good people of the world
And I'm afraid if I stop now
They'd find it was just the chemicals keepin' me alive
Oh don't you talk to me about addicted
Everybody's just addicted to getting by

It ain't important now
It ain't important now
Man I got other things to worry about
It ain't important now

Hey rock 'n' roll DJ it's still me here on the line
Don't let nothing get in the way of a pretty good time
I had a mantra once, you see
But now I push this gospel plow
What was important to me then?
It ain't important now.

[Photo courtesy O Miami Poetry Festival: http://www.omiami.org]

It Ain't Important Now (Acoustic Demo)

Joey Sweeney has been writing songs and prose since the 1980s. Over the years, he has fronted the groups The Barnabys and The Trouble With Sweeney, as well as recording and performing as a solo artist. Meanwhile, he’s also written for a wide array of publications, including Salon.com, Philadelphia Weekly, the Philadelphia Inquirer and his daily perch, Philebrity.com, the cityblog he established in 2004 after a decade-long run as a rock critic. 

His songs and records have received widespread critical acclaim over the years; of his last record with The Trouble With Sweeney, Fishtown Briefcase, Pitchfork said “[Sweeney] mixes autobiography and fiction against the group’s 70s-inflected indie pop, resourceful— and unabashed— enough to digress into an E Street interlude or an AM-rock guitar coda.” He’s also garnered curse and praise as a writer of prose, having won the AAN Award for Music Criticism and appeared in Best Music Writing 2002.

From 2004 through 2010, Sweeney mostly shied from performing and recording, focusing instead on his role as Publisher & Editor of the website Philebrity.com. In 2011, however, Sweeney stepped back into his old role of singer/songwriter, this time fronting the rock band Arctic Splash. Joey Sweeney Your Life Is Calling compiles the best of everything before the Splash. 

In early 2013, Sweeney went on to record Long Hair, with Grammy award-winning producer Aaron ‘Luis’ Levinson, Lushlife aka Raj Haldar, and others. His current outfit, Joey Sweeney & The Neon Grease are presently in the midst of a run of singles inspired by neon, and grease.