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The Technicolors

SDMT 2013 Playlist 1

Produced by: ¡MAYDAY!  with Ralfy “FAFA” Valencia and Danny “Keys” Perez
Album: Something Else, on sale July 30
Label: Strange Music
Purchase 'Something Else' on iTunes - http://bit.ly/16LZmIB

Tech N9ne - 'Fragile' feat. Kendrick Lamar, ¡MAYDAY! and Kendall Morgan

Take you down

"The Horseman" from the Beautiful View's 2012 release "life is beautiful"

The Beautiful View - The Horseman

It was just a funny karaoke challenge with some friends, sorry to all the people who thought it was a free upload of a title they could hear on youtube and everywhere on the web... Probably i should have modified the title sooner, to be more accurate. At least, some people could release their deepest direspect until i did. Also, i couldn't put it in private, in order to all my friends to access the file easily. Same for all my other songs : casual karaoke challenges.

Creep - Radiohead (just a casual karaoke challenge)

From "Torey's Distraction".

I was lucky enough to do the soundtrack to a documentary film entitled "Torey's Distraction". www.toreysdistraction.com

released digitally on Aug 28, 2012.

Tracklisting

01 - Torey's Distraction 
02 - An Explanation 
03 - Leaving Florida 
04 - Play With Me 
05 - Complications 
06 - A Day in the Life 
07 -Going Under 
08 - Distraction Days 
09 - Pinky's Storage 
10 - Baby Saige 
11 - Cowgirl 
12 - A Look Back 
13 - Celebration

A Look Back

From the new album Heartthrob, available now on iTunes! bit.ly/XOkqI6

Closer

15 Step

Mergence just made their first record called "Those Vibrant Young People Are Dead" and you are one of the lucky ones who got to hear it before anyone else.

09 At the Salt

Daniel Norman - Vocals, Guitar
Mike Nissen - Lead Guitar
Eric McCann - Bass, Keyboards
Joseph August Luisi - Drums, Percussion

All songs by Daniel Norman and A House for Lions
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Tom Biller
Recorded at The Hangar Studios and Baby Possum Studio
Mastered by Dave Cooley
Design by Mike Nissen

www.ahouseforlions.com
www.facebook.com/ahouseforlions

lyrics:

i'm gonna test my will 
i'm gonna put things right 
you don't wanna wait for me 

i'm not gonna stop until 
the artist can pay his bills 
you don't wanna wait for me 

but somehow in the night 
oh the feeling's always right on time 
but you don't wanna wait for me 

i've got a new idea 
i'm gonna set it down 
i just wanna say my piece 

a gathering in the field 
a search through the lost and found 
i just wanna be released 

but somehow in the night 
oh the feeling's always right on time 
but you don't wanna wait for me

(You Don't Wanna) Wait For Me

From the debut Maxi Single. Out on 2.12.13 via PCM + Boombox recordings | Mom + Pop

Something Better

Sweet Time

Divide

Hollywood

Noah

Where Will We Go

Wicked Game

The Technicolors are a musically sophisticated young rock band hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, who blend grand gestures of rock-n-roll with the swagger of brit rock and the songwriting prowess of greats such as Roy Orbison, Noel Gallagher and George Harrison. Their ambitious debut album Listener Deluxe is set for release on November 13, 2012 on Bay Area indie label, Tallest Man Records. 

The album was produced by 22-year-old lead singer, Brennan Smiley. Smiley grew up playing on records his father produced and had plans to move to Nashville to join the elite as a session musician, but fate had a different plan. Listener was recorded over a span of ten days in January at a new studio in Phoenix called Studio at the Farm. Fresh off the road, The Technicolors had found a new energy and were anxious to make their debut album with a solidifIed lineup of Mike "Nico" Nicolette (bass), Mikey Fanizza (guitar) an Kevin Prociw (drums) and Brennan (guitars and vocals). A Rock n Roll band from the desert. 

"The first record was not meant to be a band record," states Smiley. "I had recorded it before the band had really formed. I was getting ready to promote it and had no band, so I called some buddies to come play with me. After that first show together, everything clicked and that's when it all really began."

The Technicolors spent 2011 hitting it hard, tirelessly touring the nation and finding their sound as a band. With driving electric guitar riffs and a flair for the dramatic, the band started gaining a reputation of being loud...in a good way.

"We would show up to these tiny bars with a lot of gear and get really loud. We love big songs," says Smiley.

Soon they were selling out small clubs in their hometown of Phoenix and packing out shows at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles and their showcase at SXSW was over capacity as a group of fans was forced to watch from outside the venue. 

Citing influences like Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, and the Travelling Wilburys, The Technicolors focused on creating a dynamic album of expansive songs that can be musically complex and artistic and still reach a vast amount of people. Listener weaves ambient electric guitar beds with searing solos punctuated with Smiley's ernest vocals reminiscent of Oasis and Wolfmother. 

"Even though we focus on keeping our musical integrity, we don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We wanted to create an album that mirrored the dynamics of our live shows."

The result is a mature collection of effervescent rock songs that echo late night summer drives as a young vagabond who doesn't focus on the destination rather choosing to enjoy the journey at hand.

"Touring needs to be a lifestyle if you're going to keep up in this business", says Smiley. "And during the time that we're not touring, we'll be making records. It's just the minimum of what's expected this day and age, and we wouldn't have it any other way."