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The nominations for the Madison Area Music Awards were announced this past weekend and our single “Roulette” was nominated for Alternative song of the year!
We’ve recently been featured on an Italian based internet radio website Reset Radio, along with a great article about the band by the sites owner Marco!
This is what he had to say about our two recently released singles:
"Just Had To Let You Know": features a country guitar mantra and a wave pattern in the verses and breaks out in the chorus. The text is cryptic emphasizing the inability to decide what you really want in life despite everything.
- "Roulette" the song plays with Jimi Hendrix's initial approach and then throws himself on the Modest Mouse preparing an unusual chorus when Tom jumps from right to left just as the ball of the roulette at the casino in the text that is a sad metaphor for the case and that in turn serves to give a name to the 'inability to control our lives.
The article is in italian but if you aren’t able to read that you can check out the english translated version here.
Fri. Feb 11, 2011 The Monos, Uncle Eddie, Lorenzo's Music, and Stephanie Rearick at High Noon Saloon
“Local Love Fest”
The Monos
Uncle Eddie
Lorenzo’s Music
Stephanie Rearick
10:00PM / $7 cover / 21 and up
at the High Noon Saloon
701 E Washington Ave # 101
From The A.V. Club Madison
The Monos, Uncle Eddie, Lorenzo’s Music, and Stephanie Rearick at High Noon Saloon | Music | Events | The A.V. Club Madison:
"Considering lead guitarist Mark Whitcomb co-owns local studio DNA Music Labs, it’s surprising that his band Lorenzo’s Music would just give its music away online. But it’s the obvious care and time put into its recordings, like 2008’s Bazar, that makes all the points of inspiration pop in the band’s music, like the unhinged blues riffs of The White Stripes, saxophone scronk of Morphine, and glass-shard-gargling growl of Tom Waits. All of these come together wonderfully on venomous tracks like “Indian Summer,” and the new sea shanty swing of recently released single “Just Had To Let You Know.” "
Here is our new single Roulette
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Soul Shaker with Lorenzo’s Music
at the High Noon Saloon
701 E Washington Ave # 101
The Germany based company OGVIT launched their new book reader program, OGVIT Book and use our song “It Could Be You” as the music to promote it.
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Surprising i know. But here’s a little story about how our last album cover was inspired by a liquor store sign from Las Vegas, Nevada (it’s not as exciting as it sounds).
Mark and I were putting the finishing touches on the album that is now our BAZAR release. We wanted something that was like a bright neon corner of nowhere sign. So we went to Flickr and put in our keywords. Turns out Roadsidepictures, a guy that I already follow had the best stuff.
One of his pics in his signs set was of a liquor store called “Charleston Bazar”.
We liked that it was the same concept as our Solamente Tres Palabras album cover but a different take on it. The Solamente cover was a lone street light poking out in a blue natural gradient sky. This picture was a neon light at night doing what it does– burning it’s message in the dark, offering a promise of who knows what’ll happen tonight.
I drew up a version of it with our name in the sign to make it look like a neon sign but it never panned out just right. So I made a really gritty version of it and screen printed it to look like one of those old punk rock flyers where they would just draw and paste words on a page.
Except unlike those old flyers, ours was 3 colored.
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