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Back to Austin: SXSW 2012
We are excited to announce that Aloud is returning to the SXSW festival in Austin. The band will be performing at Boston to Austin on Saturday, March 17 at The 512 Bar. “BOS2AUS” is put together by the good folks at DigBoston and sponsored by Converse. Last year’s party was a spectacular success and was mentioned in Time magazine’s 10 Acts That Rocked SXSW.
This year, there will be two stages and features other emerging talent from the Boston area such as OldJack, The Wandas, You Can Be A Wesley, Pretty & Nice, Camden, Bad Rabbits, Moe Pope & the Quills, Aunt Martha, and Lake Street Dive.
Aloud will be touring to and from Austin while debuting new material written by songwriting partners/singers/guitarists Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain. Already confirmed are March 9 at Barley’s in Knoxville and March 21 at the Grape Room in Philadelphia.
For more information, visit www.allthingsAloud.com.
Friday, March 9; Knoxville, TN
Barley’s Taproom
200 East Jackson Ave.
w/ Plainclothes Tracy
Saturday, March 17; Austin, TX
Boston to Austin (SXSW Party)
Presented by DigBoston / Sponsored by Converse
The 512 Bar
408 E. 6th St.
Noon – 5PM
w/ OldJack, The Wandas, You Can Be A Wesley, Pretty & Nice, Camden, Bad Rabbits, Moe Pope & the Quills, Aunt Martha, Lake Street Dive
Wednesday, March 21; Philadelphia, PA
The Grape Room
105 Grape St.
w/ TBA
![LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus [free download]](http://lemonmerchantrecords.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/lmr-no1.jpg?w=90&h=70&crop=1 "LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus [free download]")
LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus [free download]
Happy new year, friends. We hope your 2012 is off to a fresh start. Up here in Boston we’re suffering through the usual intense chill that happens around this time of year. (8°F this morning without the wind chill, kiddos.) However, at least we haven’t had to shovel an ounce of snow; it’s the little things that count, eh?
But enough of my meteorological banality. There’s business to take care of and news to be dispensed.
We’re very pleased to announce Get on the Bus, a sampler featuring tunes from The Wandas, Aloud, When Particles Collide, and The Bynars. All four bands perform next month at upstart Somerville, Mass. venue Radio on Saturday, February 18. Cover for the 21+ show is only $5.
Get on the Bus may be downloaded here for free, so share it with your friends and invite them to come down to the show!
Saturday, February 18 — 9pm
Radio
379 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA (map)
featuring The Wandas, Aloud, When Particles Collide, and The Bynars
21+ | $5 | Facebook event page
Download LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus
Aloud featured on "The Gratitude Tracks"
The folks at Vend.Love.Win have put together a compilation of acts who participated in the Gratitude Tour this past September.
Two songs from Aloud’s latest release, Exile, top off the 17 track compilation (“Counterfeit Star” and “Darkest Days”).
Other artists on the compilation include Zak Smith, Under the Elephant, Emily Brooke, Rollie, Marmalakes, GABE, and What Moves.
Head over to the Vend.Love.Win music store on Facebook to download ‘em all for free!
Tour diary
Photo: Jess Hodge
This month’s issue of Peformer Magazine is out! The print edition of the June issue features the long-awaited Tour Diary feature on Aloud and the Exile U.S. tour, as well as a blurb from Henry summarizing the whole experience.
Eighty-three shows and seven months later, the result has been one of the most amazing experiences of both our careers and our lives. … Mark Twain once wrote, ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,’ and after four months of traveling the nation’s highways, I can certify that the old man was damn right.
The magazine culled photos from various photographers on the Exile tour. The diary features photos from Stephanie Hastings of A to Zed Photography and Jess Hodge.
Print editions of Performer Magazine are available for free all over the country, and may also be downloaded as a pdf: http://www.performermag.com/pdf/Performer_Magazine_June_2011.pdf#page=48
For more photos from Aloud’s months-long trek across the nation by some other wonderful and talented photographers, visit Aloud’s blog: http://www.allthingsaloud.com/2011/06/performer-magazine-tour-diary/
New storefront + Exile on vinyl
As part of the general site re-vamp, we’ll be creating a Lemon Merchant storefront soon. Thusly, we present the question to you, dear reader: apart from music, what kinds of items would you like to see in the store? Shirts? Hoodies? Coffee mugs? Back scratchers?
Leave us a comment or shoot an e-mail over to info@lemonmerchantrecords.com (we promise it’ll get through… that little problem’s been nipped in the bud).
In other news, there has been serious discussion of releasing Aloud’s latest record Exile on vinyl. Having Exile available in this format has been a goal of the band since they began working on it way back in 2009. Aloud is soliciting feedback during this process and would like you to join in on the conversation.
Read all about it in one of their recent blog posts, Vinyl Siding: http://www.allthingsaloud.com/2011/05/vinyl-siding/
Press for “Exile in the Night” music video
Just released last week, Aloud’s music video for “Exile in the Night”—the second single and title track off Exile—has already received some press! Read below the jump for snippets, and click on the links for the full write-ups.
The music video was animated and directed by Chris March, who also directed Aloud’s music video for “Old Soldier” (which featured live-action yet no less animated folks from the Boston music community).
If you haven’t seen the video for “Exile in the Night” yet, click here to watch it!
Exile: “An album that builds, breathes, and surprises”
Aloud’s third full length album, Exile, has racked up two more positive reviews this week in Baltimore and St. Louis:
“I can say confidently that it will be one of the records I reach for when I’m craving a dose of indie rock. This puts them squarely in another camp: those artists who can build a loyal cult following. Exile may require some close listening, but the reward is outstanding depth and complexity.”
— Driftwood Magazine, Baltimore
“Favoring introspection over rock, lyricism over bombast, the new (and better) production retreats from the space Aloud used to occupy. It is lush but reserved. The album patiently navigates moody and desperate waters, cresting opportunistically on songs like ‘Counterfeit Star’…. The Aloud of Exile is no less engaging than before; the evacuated space doesn’t create distance from the band, but instead invites you to join in the dialogue. Expect Aloud to be as up-close as ever, but even more intimate.”
— Eleven Magazine, St. Louis
Aloud will be performing in St. Louis at Off Broadway on February 23rd. Tickets may be purchased here through TicketWeb.
Aloud’s “Exile” US tour resumes Saturday
After over two months of touring and a triumphant homecoming show in Boston, Aloud will return to the road this Saturday for the second leg of the Exile national tour. This leg, which includes a stop at SXSW, crosses the country again for another two months.
After releasing Exile, Aloud’s critically-acclaimed new album, the band kicked off their first coast-to-coast tour at the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC last October. On the first leg alone, the band headed west through Chicago and Denver, up the coast to Portland and down through Los Angeles and San Diego before touring back east through the Southwest, Texas, and the deep South.
A festive union
A review of last week’s album release show for Exile is featured in this week’s edition of the Boston Phoenix.
Michael Marotta caught up with Aloud’s Henry Beguiristain and Jen de la Osa immediately after their “harmonious-yet-boisterous” set at Church to talk about the recent successful Kickstarter campaign, the upcoming national tour, and the months of couch surfing that await the band.
The performance had a spirited, carnival-like atmosphere, with Beguiristain at one point jumping on a pool table across the room to shout lyrics back at the stage through a megaphone. Aloud’s harmonious-yet-boisterous psychedelic pop-rock sound was often augmented by the ambient strings of the Exile Orchestra. And an unplugged, off-stage, Beatles-medley jamboree-like sing-along with the band surrounded by the crowd closed out their set as the lights came up.
Read the rest on the Boston Phoenix site: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/109019-aloud-er-than-bombs/
Don’t forget, next week (Tuesday, October 5th) is Aloud’s listening party for Exile at Enormous Room in Cambridge, which is also doubling as the video release for the first single “Old Soldier”. Henry will be DJing throughout the night with Exile producer Daniel Nicholas Daskivich. Cover is a low $3. Kickstarter backers and their guests get in free!
