http://www.yeproc.com The latest news about Yeproc artists, releases and events. en-us Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss IT@yeproc.com http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5034 Like long, blissfully lost college drinking buddies who keep reappearing on your doorstep, the Fleshtones are back for another round. On their 19th album, they stick with the formula they basically... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5034 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5030 This album was going to change the world, its rocking power pop and savagely smart lyrics saving a generation from the torpor of 1978's one-hit disco flashes and smotheringly produced corporate rock.... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5030 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5029 Peter Zaremba sounds like he might be pinching himself as he speaks on the phone from his Brooklyn home about The Fleshtones' new CD, Take a Good Look. There's a gleeful curiosity in the... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5029 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5028 Good writing is ruthless. By that measure, Bell X1's Paul Noonan is a mean God. When eying the pores on his skin, he compares them to the exploding volcano at Pompeii. When viewing a woman who has... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5028 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5027 Ireland has produced many musical acts that have had success in the US, including U2 and Sinead O'Connor (See map at far right). Now Bell X1, one of the most popular bands on the Emerald Isle, is... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5027 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5026 The most blasphemous thing about Nick Lowe's 1978 debut solo album was not its original British title. It was the subtext running through his classic-pop and American-roots pastiches on that LP and... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5026 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5024 Peter Case will appear on WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour Webcast on February 25th in real time video. Also listen to the show on XM 15 The Village Wed 12 Midnight EST (9PM Pacific) & Sun 6PM EST (3PM... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5024 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5023 Peter Case will be on Mountain Stage, February 24. Listen to the show at the link below or on XM Ch. 133 on Saturdays 4-6pm. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5023 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5019 Check out a sneak preview of Jim Lauderdale's upcoming release, Honey Songs, at CMT.com. Click the link below to join the listening party! Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5019 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5018 Nick Lowe's 1978 solo debut album, Jesus of Cool, is one of the great lost pop records of the last 30 years. It spent most of the CD era as an out-of-print rarity, despite being briefly reissued by... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5018 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5017 On the cover of his solo debut album Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe is pictured in six rock & roll get-ups -- hippie, folkie, greasy rock & roller, new wave hipster -- giving the not-so-subtle implication... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5017 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5016 Jesus of Cool has been sadly out of print for years, and Yep Roc's reissue is impeccable. The complex digipak fold-out is beautiful, and Will Birch's liner notes do a great job of explaining the... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5016 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5015 Given its equal measure of quantity and quality, this revisited version of Wild Wood not only ranks as one of the most lavish reissues in recent memory, but one of the most satisfying as well.... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5015 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5012 Wild Wood has stood up as a very fine record - it flows like few LPs do these days. This deluxe edition includes the original album, magically produced by Brendan Lynch, who makes sure Steve White's... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5012 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5011 If you've ever climbed into a cold metal car and felt the wheels ka-chunk into motion, that feeling, all those feelings - the motion and sound and sight of the countryside appearing and disappearing... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5011 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5009 As for the bonus material, while a "deluxe" reissue demands its inclusion, much of it is disposable here. Given the sonic perfection of the album's final form, listening to "demo" versions of most of... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5009 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5006 Heavy Trash will appear on the February 23rd episode of Mark Lamarr's Gods Jukebox show on BBC Radio 2. You can stream the show online at the link below. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5006 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5005 Click below to watch a FilterTV interview of Heloise & the Savoir Faire. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5005 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5007 A blues traveler arrives... Given Doyle Bramhall's rocky path, the real News is that he and his music are alive. Just a few mood-setting grooves into drummer-singer-songwriter Doyle Bramhall's... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=5007 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4998 With the reissue of Nick Lowe's Jesus Of Cool, David Dye and World Cafe will pay tribute to Lowe's long-standing career with an hour long tribute to Lowe's music. Lowe has visited World Cafe numerous... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4998 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4997 The lead singer of this San Francisco band was born a Prophet. "Hell, if I was going to pick my name, I wouldn't have picked Prophet, that's for sure," Chuck Prophet says of his surname. "As for the... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4997 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4999 ohn answers questions from the knowthemusicbiz.com community members in the WWJDD? blog. A Question from Scott in Maine Hi John, First off I'm a huge fan of X, and your solo albums/CD's.... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4999 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4994 Catch Chuck Prophet's performance of "Freckle Song" on Last Call with Carson Daly, this Thursday night (or Friday morning if you're working the graveyard shift) at 1:35am. Check the link below for... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4994 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4993 Liam's no snotty punk, but there is also a welcome looseness to songs such as "Better To Be", "Lead Balloon", "This Place is Killing Me", and even the lopsided ballad "Wide Awake On the Voyage Home"... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4993 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4992 I love garage rock. But I hate garage rock revivals, even though I firmly believe that the genre is vibrant enough to be revived every five years or so. With the exception of The White Stripes, every... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4992 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4990 New York's electro-rock outfit Heloise & the Savoir Faire will release their new album Trash, Rats and Microphones on April 29 via Simian Records (Elijah Wood's new label and joint-venture with Yep... Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4990 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4989 I'll Be Lightning can at times sound like Liam is a chip off the old block, in a good way, and other times he conjures up Elliott Smith, if Smith had a sunnier approach to things that is. Throughout... Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4989 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4988 Watch Jim Lauderdale & The Dream Players February 18th performance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4988 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4985 Robyn Hitchcock will appear on the 200th episode of Later with Jools Holland - along with Radiohead, Dionne Warwick, Mary J. Blige, Cat Power, at Feist. Check it out Friday, February 1st at 11:35pm... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4985 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4986 Open call for bands to join the congregation On February 19, 2008 Yep Roc will reissue Nick Lowe's legendary debut album as the Jesus of Cool: 30th Anniversary Edition complete with the original... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4986 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4987 The Beginning... 1977 - First music video, "Soul City" (appears in the Museum of Modern Art) Watch Peter Zaremba: That was shot in 1977 at the School of Visual Arts by an artist, M. Henry... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4987 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4983 Bell X1 will appear on Celtic Corner with Larry Kirwan on Sirius satellite radio (Disorder Channel #70) February 2 between 10 am - 1 pm EST and again on February 5 between 10 am - 1 pm EST. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4983 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4982 Bell X1 will appear on XMU (Channel #43) Friday, February 1 at 10pm EST and will encore on Sunday, February 3 at noon EST. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4982 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4981 Click the link below to listen to Bell X1's World Cafe Session from Thursday, February 26th. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4981 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4979 In a sense, this is a concept record where the concept found us after the fact. It wasn't an affected storyline or message that we heavy-handedly shoehorned into an album, but rather it became a... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4979 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4976 Ken Tucker reviewed of the Fleshtones' Take a Good Look on NPR's Fresh Air. To listen online visit the link below. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4976 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4977 "...dynamics, melodies, and real vision" - The Onion On April 15, Yep Roc Records will release Little Rock, AR's American Princes new full length album Other People. Their 2006 critically... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4977 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4973 Thinking man's rocker Chuck Prophet rolls into the Continental Club Friday with Alejandro Escovedo, and I caught up with him Monday night as the van was traveling down I-10 near Fort Stockton, on its... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4973 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4971 Jason Ringenberg will be featured live and interviewed by Robbie Fulks on his Secret Country show XM Radio Channel 12 (X Country). It will air Monday Jan 28 at 11.00am ET, Thursday Jan 31 at 7.00 pm... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4971 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4970 The fact that local heroes the Fleshtones are still around after more than three decades of hard knocks and bad choices is pretty impressive. The fact that they're currently making some of the best... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4970 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4969 The Fleshtones' Peter Zaremba will be filling in for Kid Leo on SIRIUS Underground Garage (Channel #25) on Monday, February 18th in support of the new Fleshtones release Take A Good Look! The Kid... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4969 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4965 On his solo debut, Neil Finn's son churns out lithe, dreamy little numbers, sometimes echoing his father’s winsome tenor voice and melodic savvy. The younger Finn may not yet match his dad's... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4965 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4964 No one is credited as producer of the Fleshtones' 19th album. The credit reads "recorded and mixed" in studios in Detroit and the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and while it's just a footnote in the... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4964 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4963 The Fleshtones appear in on NPR's newest news and culture magazine show, The Bryant Park Project, on their New Music Tuesday roundup. Listen to the piece at the link below - The Fleshtones... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4963 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4961 Irishmen We'd Gladly Kiss Damien Rice used to be the lead singer of Bell X1, but drummer Paul Noonan took over, and now they're the biggest thing in Ireland since U2. Flock is their hook-filled US... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4961 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4962 Jason Ringenberg is still best known for his 15 minutes of almost fame with the trail-blazing cowpunk band Jason & the Scorchers even though for close to ten years his solo career has been his first... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4962 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4955 I rarely regurgitate press releases I receive in the mail. The bulk of them I delete without opening, the rest I check out of curiosity and reject. But it's a rare instance when the stars align for a... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4955 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4954 Liam Finn, the son of singer-songwriter Neil Finn, wanted to go low-tech for his first solo recording, I'll Be Lightning, out next week. He played most of the instruments himself, and recorded it on... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4954 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4956 Cranked-up, stripped-down garage rock whizzing by across 12 tracks in just over half an hour? Yup, same old Fleshtones; you either know and love them or have decided at this late date to pass on to... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4956 http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4951 Fresh off New Magnetic Wonder, which Rolling Stone named one of the Top 50 Albums of 2007 and about which SPIN Magazine said, "New Magnetic Wonder couldn't be brighter if it had been performed on the... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:55:18 EST http://www.yeproc.com/news.php?articleId=4951