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Coreweekly & Madison.com presents
Awesome Car Funmaker
Lorenzo’s Music
Cococoma
at the High Noon Saloon in Madison
9:00 pm / $no cover
Someone just emailed me a link to a local Madison site that said this:
<blockquote>I’ve been communicating with a great band out of Toronto called The Ghost is Dancing. One of their members asked me what the Madison music scene was like. I sent him a rather lengthy response that really got me thinking. Here I sit often struggling to find something original to write about and I live in one of the most vibrant music communities in the country. You know the cartoons where the guy steps on a rake and it up and smacks him in the face? That’s how I feel right now. Why am I not writing about Madison bands? So, from here on out I am going to make a greater attempt to profile a new Madison act at least once a week. There is at least 400 of them, so I shouldn’t have a problem. To start things off here is just a selection of five songs from an eclectic mix of different Madison genres.
Charlemagne :: August Evenings
From the self-titled 2003 album
Website: http://www.beholdcharlemagne.com
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/charlefuckingmagne
Lorenzo’s Music :: I’m Doing Fine
From the 2005 album Solamente Tres Palabras
Website: http://www.lorenzosmusic.com/
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/lorenzosmusic
The Buffali :: Yer Late
From their 2005 album Kerfuffle No. 10
Website: http://www.buffali.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thebuffali
German Art Students :: Civil War Re-Enactor
From their 2005 album Name Droppers
Website: http://www.thegermanartstudents.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thegermanartstudents
el guante :: collateral Damage
Website: http://www.guante.net/
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/elguante
</blockquote>So thanks to calistan for listing us as one of his five top Madison bands among these other great artists.
The folks over at music.podshow.com have a rewind show called PodShow Music Rewind, where some of their hosts choose a weekly barrage of music for you to listen to. And this week, Big Mike from the Extra Super Action Show featured our song “Too Late Now” from our new album.
Meanwhile, over at the Two Men With Foreskin Podcast, one of them fell down some stairs and they recorded what happened in the emergency room and decided to play our song “Down The Stairway” when it was over.
Last.Fm is a great site to find music. You download the free personal radio player, type in the name or names of bands you like and not only will it play them but it will play music that it thinks you might like based on those choices. But the best part is if you don’t like a song you can skip to the next one. It also Gives you a journal page to write about bands, music etc.
All of our albums are available on last.fm and just recently we received a review from a last.fm listener.
<blockquote>The phrase that comes to mind when listening to this band is “Intelligent Design.” An increasingly bluesy flavor began to color the songwriting and arrangements, especially on the party’n’booze anthem “Drinkin’ By Myself.” Airy mysticism was present on “Make it Clean” and “One More One.”“I’ve Got The Next Round” and “Hot Water Avalanche” struck effective balances between the rock arrangements and the narrative reach of the lyrics. I would highly recommend all three albums because I find it difficult to narrow one down as a favorite.
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gadabout</blockquote>
Isthmus and www.thedailypage.com present
THE MADISON MUSIC PROJECT LIVE
AT THE BARRYMORE
with
The Gomers, Natty Nation and The Selfish Gene
at the Barrymore Theater in Madison, WI
$5.00
7:30 pm
Submit a photo of the band from the show. Send it to lorenzosmusic.tmray@tamw.com by email or your cell phone and it will be loaded into our gallery in under 24 hours.
We were the “featured artist of the week” on WJJO FM in Madison.
On it Mark did a phone interview with host Kurt Baron talking about some songs from our album “Solamente Tres Palabras” including:
“I’m Doing Fine”,
“Drinkin’ By Myself“
and “Over and Over”.
Listen to the interview
If you’re in the Madison area head on down to the Orpheum Theatre and see the movie nbt - Never Been Thawed.
Why am I telling you this? Well, not only is it a funny movie featuring avid frozen entree enthusiast’s, a metal band turned Christian rock to cash in and the pro life coffee shop they play at. But our very own bass player Chris Boeger is in it as Wade, the referee for a rousing game of highway alphabet.
So if you get a chance go and see it. And if your not in the Madison area maybe you could find it with your favorite P2P program. Not that we would condone such a thing ;)
Here’s a review of our album in this weeks Isthmus Magazine.
Lorenzo's MusicSolamente Tres Palabras
Thanks to their taste for stumbling, off-kilter song structures and vocalist Tom Ray’s barroom rasp, Lorenzo’s Music will always draw comparisons to Tom Waits. That’s not such a bad thing, but it does sell them a bit short. While many of the tunes on Solamente Tres Palabras take their lead from the fractured updates of German cabaret music that reinvigorated Waits’ career, Lorenzo’s Music also embrace a sweeter form of pop-rock that’s all about lonely water-gazers and bruised swains dreaming of a better world.
The ironical lead track, "I’m Doing Fine," is a case in point. It may prickle with low-down signifiers, but Ray’s whiskey-soaked crooning, Mark Whitcomb’s distorted guitar and Scott Beardsley’s clanking percussion don’t obscure the fact that the song’s once-wayward protagonist searches for normalcy and completeness, not the debauchery of his past. The discombobulated surfer ballad "You Were Blonde" may mock romance, but its Beach Boys-inspired melody suggests that Ray’s bleary-eyed barfly really does long for more than a meaningless assignation beneath a burned-out streetlight.
Which isn’t to say that you’re apt to choose Solamente Tres Palabras for background music when cracking open a bottle of Dom with your honey and settling in for a night of romance. Most of the time, it’s not that sweet. Then again, neither is love.
Reviewed by Tom Laskin
