David Berkeley’s DAYTROTTER session is now live on the site.
“He deals with the tales of men struggling to figure out what it all means out there in the cold, cruel world, and where it all fits… The songs on Strange Light, while mostly downtrodden and beat up, are affirming and full of something much more than just mild intrigue.”
- Sean Moeller, Daytrotter
Read more from Rob Higgins of Dearly Beloved at BLURT-ONLINE
A soulful singer of wry, original songs, Ethan Lipton delivers tales of misfortunate everymen in deft, lyrical packages. Popmatters calls Lipton, “A sardonic voice that offers an unlikely kind of comfort against the vagaries of everyday life.”
The songs of Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra are steeped in American traditions of yore (jazz, blues, country, lounge), but his subjects are thoroughly modern (internet romance, racism, pets, police). It all adds up to a hilariously cockeyed view of an odd, disjointed age as Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra release their sophomore studio album HONKER on June 29, 2010.
Lipton is joined by his incomparable “Orchestra” of Eben Levy (guitar), Ian Riggs (upright bass) & Vito Dieterle (sax), a trio that’s now been with him for over five years. Matt Berninger (The National) also appears on Ethan’s forthcoming studio release on the track “When You Die” and joined Lipton onstage when the band opened for The National at The Bell House in March. Also on the track is Cynthia Hopkins from Gloria Deluxe and the students of Dryden Middle School.
Check out free downloads of “When You Die” and “You Were Right + It’s Ok” from our friends at The Late Greats here.
Later next month, the NYC band for the NYC community will be doing a full CD RELEASE WEEK of shows in to celebrate their upcoming release HONKER.
HONKER CD RELEASE WEEK PERFORMANCES:
June 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Barbès (8:00pm, two sets)
June 29 – New York, NY – The Living Room (7:00pm, two sets)
June 30 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall (8:00pm, two sets)
July 1 – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall (8:00pm, two sets)
Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra release their sophomore studio album HONKER on June 29, 2010.
Enjoy a free download of “Move On” from Toronto outfit Dearly Beloved courtesy of the great folks at fuseTV. The track is from their recently released U.S. debut Make It Bleed.
New York, NY – Brooklyn’s THE ART OF SHOOTING released their full-length debut Traveling Show last week and now offer the first video from the album with “JAPANESE.” The dreamy cut is a third-person omniscient narrative of one’s self-imposed prisons that seem easy to escape to others, yet are horribly crippling from within.
Directed by Brooklyn filmmaker Scott Clemens, who’s worked with Scout Niblett and Patrick Bower & the World Without Magic, “Japanese” shows the protagonist engulfing herself in a cocoon of string until a friend easily breaks away the barriers she created within herself.
Free download of “Japanese” courtesy of Under The Radar Magazine
Tomorrow (Fri, May 7th,) The Art Of Shooting will be hosting a “Japanese” video release party and album listening party at Fort Useless in Bushwick. TAOS will perform acoustic along with special performances from Quilty and Caitlin Cannon Eddins, performing their own material as well as covering tunes from The Art Of Shooting’s recent release Traveling Show. Fort Useless is at 36 Ditmars Street in Brooklyn, one block from the Myrtle Avenue/Broadway stop on the JMZ trains
The quartet will then head south for a bit before returning to Brooklyn for hometown performances Wednesday, May 19 @ Glasslands Gallery with Spanish Prisoners and Friday, May 21 @ Union Hall with Visqueen and Luff.
Art of Shooting’s Traveling Show recently received a 3 star review from Venus Zine
“On Traveling Show, the debut album from Brooklyn’s the Art of Shooting, the best moments come in the form of shoegaze-y songs like ‘One Minute Love Song’ (which is actually three minutes and twelve seconds). But don’t be fooled by the shoegaze label; this is a band that knows how to turn up the guitars and rock.”
- Erin Lyndal Martin, Venus Zine
Traveling Show buy links:
AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Show/dp/B003F0KBUQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1273110491&sr=8-6
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/traveling-show/id365774003
The Art Of Shooting Tour Dates:
Sat, May 8 – Dewey Beach, DE – The Rusty Rudder (Dewey Beach Chickfest)
Sun, May 9 – Arlington, VA – Galaxy Hut
Wed, May 19 – Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands Gallery (Whatever Blog Party w/ Spanish Prisoners)
Fri, May 21 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall (w/ Visqueen & Luff)
Sat, June 12 – Portland, ME – Bayside Bowl
Sun, June 27 – Brooklyn, NY – Public Assembly (Tijuana Gift Shop & Engine Room Recordings Northside Fest Showcase)
Hungary’s THE MOOG are still on tour through May… catch them in your city!
THE MOOG U.S. TOUR DATES:
MAY 6 – Las Cruces, NM – Equinox
MAY 7- Austin, TX – Club Deville
MAY 9 – Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn
MAY 10 – Greenville, NC – The Tipsy Teapot
MAY 11 – Washington, DC – The Red & The Black
MAY 12 – Philadelphia, PA – M-Room
MAY 13 – New York, NY – Studio at Webster Hall
MAY 14 – Erie, PA – The Crooked I
MAY 15 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland
MAY 18 – Akron, OH – Musica
MAY 19 – St. Louis, MO – Cicero’s
MAY 20 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theater
MAY 21 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
New York, NY – What smells like special and sounds like awesome?
Dubbed ‘Best Lounge Act of 2009’ by New York Magazine, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra play a brand of uncategorizable folk/jazz/country/lounge- lizardry that’s drawn comparisons to the music of Leon Redbone, They Might Be Giants, Randy Newman and Tom Waits. They release their sophomore studio album HONKER on June 29, 2010.
With melancholy wit and a cockeyed worldview, sepia-toned singer-songwriter Lipton and band-mates Eben Levy (guitar), Ian Riggs (bass) and Vito Dieterle (sax) deliver songs steeped in irreverent sincerity, soul and 50’s Memphis groove.
Featuring guest vocals from Matt Berninger of THE NATIONAL, HONKER was funded entirely by fans around the world through funding platform Kickstarter, and continues Lipton’s unique gift of conveying thoughts and emotions most don’t want to admit.
Time Out NY affirms, “It’s always enjoyable when a singer-songwriter throws some humor into his misery; Ethan Lipton keeps it light with songs you can laugh along to, even though they’re mostly about tension, loss and alienation.”
“I’m worried about how the soul is doing, mine and other peoples,” acknowledges Ethan. “I’m worried about what the world is doing to the soul, how it’s giving the soul a hard time. And I’m trying to give the soul a little comfort, a pat on the back, a reason to laugh at itself, or even just a clearer picture–a more compassionate explanation–of why, no matter how hard it tries, it’s never going to win.”
A fixture of the Downtown scene, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra earned critical acclaim with their 2007 debut studio album MR. SOFTY, which was a staple on Vin Scelsa’s WFUV radio show. The fervent quartet has been featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition, sold out Joe’s Pub and performed at such magnanimous locales as the Prospect Park Bandshell (Celebrate Brooklyn), Bryant Park and the Camden Opera House. The band also contributed a memorable cover of “Corner Soul” to the Clash tribute album THE SANDINISTA PROJECT and performed five songs in The Shift, a feature film starring Portia De Rossi.
“We’re here to represent the half-empties of the world,” declares Ethan Lipton of his band, now entering its fifth year as a quartet. “We know there’s some good news buried in all the bad, and we’re trying to dig it out and get it to the people who need it—on finger sandwiches of delight, if possible.”
“Hilarious, twisted, sophisticated, schleppy and sad all at once…
songs that take the mundane of life and twist it.”
- NPR’s Weekend Edition
“Tender, wise and occasionally hostile, Ethan’s like the tipsy uncle at the family reunion who spills the shameful family secrets—it’s uncomfortable but hilarious, and everyone feels better once the truth is out.”
- The New York Times Fall Preview (quote from Matt Berninger)
“With his earnest brown suits, mournful eyes, and neat mustache, Ethan Lipton looks less like a silken-throated lounge lizard than he does a beaten-down ad salesman—an ordinary Joe singing gentle songs about everyday life.”
- New York Magazine
“Big of schnozz, thick of moustache and dulcet of voice,
Mr. Lipton croons unlikely urban haikus and wry ballads.”
- New York Observer
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