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Check out the upcoming Casper & the Cookies / Everything, Now! Endless Recess Tour to support Casper’s new full length release, Modern Silence:
7/16 – Columbus, OH – Circus
7/17 – Youngstown, OH – Cedar’s Lounge
7/18 – Pittsburgh, PA – Brillobox
7/19 – Scranton, PA – The Bog
7/20 – Boston, MA – Middle East Club
7/21 – New York, NY – Cake Shop
7/22 – Brooklyn, NY – Bruar Falls
7/23 – Philadelphia, PA – Danger Danger Gallery
7/24 – Washington, DC – Solly’s
7/25 – Fredericksburg, VA – Eyeclops Gallery
7/26 – Baltimore, MD – Joe Squared
7/27 – Charlottesville, VA – Twisted Branch
7/29 – Athens, GA – Caledonia Lounge
7/30 – Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light
8/1 – Little Rock, AR – TBA
8/3 – St. Louis, MO – The Firebird
8/4 – Columbia, MO – Mojo’s
8/5 – Lawrence, KS – Replay Lounge
8/6 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
8/7 – Minneapolis, MN – Nomad World Pub
8/8 – Ames, IA – Ames Progressive
8/10 – Rock Island, IL – Daytotter
8/11 – Iowa City, IA – The Mill
8/13 – Madison, WI – The Frequency
8/14 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen
8/15 – Fort Wayne, IN – Bill’s City Grill
Modern Silence Pitchfork Review Here
Posted on 10 June '09 by Daniel, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Wow! Lot’s of new. Transpanther Group will welcome a few new / old friends to the group this month. Say hello to:
Lord of the Yum Yum
Casper & the Cookies (HHBTM Records)
Lucky Pineapple (Sonablast Records)
Marmoset (Secretly Canadian / Joyful Noise Recordings)
McKinley Moore, Manager/Agent for Lucky Pineapple will also be joining the Transpanther roster from Louisville, KY.
Ken brings years of experience in the arts and entertainment world of Louisville as well as a keen sense of all things weird. He currently moonlights as a glass artist / professor at the Glassworks Studio in Downtown Louisville. He will be hosting a series of summer rooftop concerts in downtown Louisville as well as a few interesting fine-art related events throughout the summer.
Drew Deboy, my original business partner / agent for Transpanther is also back on-board as co-agent for Lord of the Yum Yum.
Drew brings years of touring and management experience from his 5 year stint with Everything, Now!, as well as some new experience within the local public library system. Drew will primarily be working as the “All Ages / Family Events Coordination Chief Executive” position and will be handling all park district / library / family events and kids shows for Lord of the Yum Yum and other Transpanther artists.
Everything, Now! will be heading west throughout the majority of May supporting Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s and Telekinesis. Tour Dates:
5/7 – Columbus, OH – Circus
5/8 – Dekalb, IL – Otto’s
5/9 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
5/10 – Denver, CO – Hi Dive
5/11 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Ct.
5/12 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
5/14 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile Cafe
5/15 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
5/16 – San Fransisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
5/18 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
5/19 – Costa Mesa, CA – The Detroit Bar
5/20 – Pheonix, AZ – Rhythm Room
5/22 – Denton, TX – Hailey’s
5/23 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
5/24 – Little Rock, AR – TBA
5/26 – St. Louis, MO – The Firebird
Posted on 4 May '09 by Daniel, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Transpanther & ISC Present:
Drakkar Sauna w/ Dawes
Thursday, May 14th
Local’s Only
8:00 / 21+ / $8
Non Smoking
Drakkar Sauna – http://www.myspace.com/drakkansasauna
Dawes – http://www.myspace.com/dawestheband
If not the first, then surely the most common question we are asked is how
we came to name ourselves Drakkar Sauna. We want to tell you. We want
you to know, if only so that you’ll stop asking. It makes us feel vulnerable,
it makes us feel judged.
We thought it sounded like a palindrome. What it comes down to is we
didn’t have any scratch paper handy and our understanding of what a
palindrome is wasn’t accurate. But that’s what happened. ‘Drakkar’
sounded like a palindrome. So did ‘Sauna’. We thought that two
palindromes would make one bigger palindrome. Obviously, we were, in
part, mistaken. I hope now your curiosity is satisfied and you will not
think too poorly of us for our incomplete command of the language.
We live in Lawrence, Kansas and are fathers to three full-length
recordings, rover (04), drakkansasauna (05), & Jabraham Lincoln (06).
We have recorded, also, an ep, Hunger Overcame Us (04) and helped
produce a feature video, The Blood Feud (05), a work of fiction. We are, in
all things, supported by our union with Marriage Records. We have toured
the U.S.A. a few times. We have toured with Dark Meat and the Vomit
Lazers Family Galaxy, Split Lip Rayfield, The Impossible Shapes, Two
Gallants, Magnolia Electric Company and by ourselves.
Our names are Jeff Stolz and Wallace Cochran and we get along well.
Posted on 4 May '09 by Daniel, under Events. No Comments.
FREE SHOW!
And the Moneynotes
w/ The Orange Opera
Mon. May 11th
Local’s Only
2449 E. 56th St.
Indianapolis, IN
8:00 / 21+ / Free
NON SMOKING
Posted on 4 May '09 by Daniel, under Events. No Comments.
The Indianapolis glam protégés, Everthus the Deadbeats, will be taking their “Theatre of the Absurd” on a technicolor, mirror ball themed trek throughout the South East, Deep South and Midwest throughout the entire month of March!
Tour dates include SXSW Festival spots, jaunts with Asthmatic Kitty friend Jookabox and E6 / ex. Of Montreal popsters Casper & the Cookies, and even a Daytrotter session.
The mirror ball / prism theme represents the band’s fascination with light and color. Each tour date will be considered an opportunity to split their collective beam of light into a full spectrum of color and sound. Each costume and instrument will be completely and metaphysically reflective.
Our Deadbeats will also be unveiling several brand new songs and reworking songs from its most recent debut full-length effort with the Standard Recording Co. (brought you Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 US Presidencies, Marla Hansen, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s), John Kill and the Microscopic Lullaby.
Smoke n Mirrors Tour Dates:
3/6 – Tour Kickoff Party! – 6616 Ferguson (Broad Ripple)
3/10 – Bloomington, IN – The Bluebird (Trash Tuesday)
3/11 – Nashville, TN – The End w/ Darla Farmer
3/12 – Knoxville, TN – Pancake House w/ I Need Sleep
3/13 – Athens, GA – Rye Bar w/ Dark Meat
3/14 – Valdosta, GA – Vito’s Rock n Roll Pizzeria
3/15 – Panama City, FL – Gallery Above
3/16 – New Orleans, LA – Dragon’s Den
3/17 – Mobile, AL – Music Box
3/18 – Lafayette, LA – Blue Moon Saloon
3/19 – SXSW
3/20 – The Art Project – Standard Recording Showcase
3/21 – Back to the Future 4 Day Party (1:20pm Slot)
3/21 – Dallas, TX – The Cavern w/ Fishboy
3/23 – Little Rock, AR – ACAC
3/24 – Memphis, TN – Murphy’s
3/25 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird w/ Themselves
3/26 – KCMO – The Emerald w/ I Love You
3/27 – Lawrence, KS – Replay Lounge w/ I Love You
3/28 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews w/ Mad Happy
3/29 – Minneapolis, MN – Nomad World Pub
3/30 – Ames, IA – Ames Progressive
3/31 – Daytrotter Session
4/1 – Champaign, IL – Mike n Molly’s w/ Elsinore
4/2 – Madison, WI – The Frequency
4/3 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean w/ Yourself and the Air / EN!
4/4 – Milwaukee, WI – Stonefly Brewery w/ EN!
4/25 – Indianapolis, IN – Local’s Only – Spring Formal w/ Lord of the Yum Yum / The Delicious
Posted on 12 March '09 by Daniel, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
For a journalist in 2009, covering Indianapolis psych-pop quintet Everything, Now! is about as smart as offering drugs to a cop or buying second-hand uranium in the Middle East. Few, if any, noticed the November release of the band’s fifth full-length album Spatially Severed (technically their 71st, if one includes aliases and side projects). But the band has gotten their fair share of attention in the last year: some 1500 lawsuits have been filed against the band, most of which involve a large corporation suing the band as a unit or, in some cases, each individual member.
Considering Everything, Now!’s amazing knack for legal trouble, not to mention the current climate of the U.S. Justice System, I have chosen to write this article anonymously, although it is yet to be determined if any editor will be fearless enough to print it. Even mentioning certain brand names or persons has become grounds for litigation.
“Sprite, Dixie Cup, Serpentine brand Sanitary Swabs, and Do Right Man, the Christian comic book hero, all came after us before the album was even released,” claims Drew Deboy, current accountant and former keyboard player for E, N! “Not long after that it was Taco Bell, Nabisco, Phillip Morris, and all we did was mention those brands on stage.”
These are tough times for everybody, including indie rock musicians, but the corporations seem to be working harder than anyone to fight off the end-of-the-decade economic blues. Murray Shtibrick, Everything, Now!’s New York lawyer, thinks the worst is yet to come.
“Nobody is safe from the attacks of these vicious corporations,” he told me when he agreed to meet for an interview in a darkened Brooklyn alley. “I’ve tried to warn all my clients. You’d think using a copyrighted name in an artistic context would be permissible, but the laws are actually set up so that you can be sued at any time for any reason!”
In the words of Paul Simon, “Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland.”
“It’s revenge,” answers E,N! vocalist and primary songwriter Jon Rogers, born Ali Baba Robba, quite possibly an egomaniac, “We got involved in some shady activity, accidentally ran into some jokers named Paulson and Bernanke on a gay porn movie set, where we blackmailed them into giving us some bailout money. When companies started to find out about it, they got pissed. Of course they demonize us, we’ve got all the money they thought they were gonna get.”
“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Justin K Prim, the band’s current tambourinist and Idea Man, when asked why the lyrics on Spatially Severed contain so many brand names, “Like cosmic advertising, those names would already be out there, in space, so we just grab ‘em back, like the brand names are just different crayon colors or something for us to draw with.”
Speaking of crayons, Everything, Now! was sued by Crayola in October for describing their music as “Shocking Shrimp Electric Pink,” in a press release, a term which happens to be a registered trademark for a new Crayola color. The band is also being sued by Exavier Wardlaw for using the term “space gospel,” which Wardlaw claims to have invented three years ago, as evidenced on his album Jesus in Outer Space, from which several lines of lyrics on Everything, Now!’s Spatially Severed seem to have been blatantly lifted.
“So they basically steal all this dough from the government, from tax payers, from Wall Street,” professes engineer and Spatially Severed co-producer Tyler Watkins, famous for his work with Weezer and the Insane Clown Posse, “But they didn’t spend it at the studio like you’d expect. They paid me in beans and peyote buttons, and they spent $3 trillion to go on tour of the Moon! No one even lives on the Moon, how can they make any of that money back? Serves them right to get sued.”
Watkins claims that he desperately needs money to help fund a lawsuit in which a tampon company, Queensize Twin Air, is suing Watkins and his business partners for unlawfully using that name (registered by the tampon company in 1982) for their studio, at which Spatially Severed was recorded.
Later this month, the band will appear in court to defend themselves against allegations of a sexual nature from three major labels and six major-indie hybrid subsidiaries. Several band members and associates are laying low, adopting aliases, and wearing elaborate disguises until the trial. Others have gone “clean,” pursuing a righteous path to lessen the impact of whatever sentence may be headed their way at the end of the legal circus.
Everything, Now! drummer and licensed minister, the Reverend Sergeant Daniel Schepper is currently digging tunnels under the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border, for which he is willing to accept the consequences: if caught, he could face a mandatory four years at community college. Bassist and Spiritual Guide Eric Alexander is doing a continuous series of back flips in the air to see how long he can stay in lotus position while spinning. Guitarist and the band’s only native French speaker, David Pierre Carter, has been working on a documentary about a series of mysterious deaths involving a demon-possessed toilet.
“Ya know, it’s like the sixties man,” Carter tells me on the set of Murder Toilet, “Except it’s backwards and upside down. Because, did you know that Bob Dylan met aliens?”
Indeed.
Interested parties can find an extensive list of the lawsuits involving Everything, Now! at the band’s website, www.everythingnowmusic.com or their myspace page, www.myspace.com/everythingnow, where you can also purchase any of their albums or scope out their Moon Tour dates, Earth Tour dates, low-budget videos, and more.
-Speedboat Harvey
ASSOCIATIVE PRESS
Posted on 12 February '09 by Daniel, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Title: Spring Formal
w/ Everthus the Deadbeats
Location: Locals Only
Link out: Click here
Description: Spring Formal!
Saturday, April 25th
Locals Only
2449 E. 56th St.
9:00 / 21+ / $7 ADV / $10 DOS
NON SMOKING!
9:00 Doors
10:00 Exit Clov
11:00 Lord of the Yum Yum
12:00 Everthus the Deadbeats
w/ DJ Scott Matelic
Sponsored By:
NUVO Newsweely
Indie Band Collective
Transpanther Group
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2009-04-25
Posted on 12 February '09 by Daniel, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Title: A Lovely Concert
Location: Local\’s Only
Link out: Click here
Description: A Lovely Concert #2
Friday, March 27th
Local\’s Only
2449 E. 56th St.
9:00 / 21+ / $6 / Non Smoking
9:00 Lucky Pineapple
10:00 Amo Joy
11:00 Casper & the Cookies
12:00 Everything, Now!
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2009-03-27
Posted on 12 February '09 by Daniel, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Transpanther and the Delicious have now moved past first-base and have begun holding hands. On their debut album, The Delicious dissect their loves and combinine the goods, seeking to play joyous, spontaneous, spastic pop, free from over-thought composition and self-serious brooding. Ghettoblaster Magazine succinctly described the result: “The Delicious balance pop smarts and remarkable musicianship with a knack for unpredictable song structure and clever lyrics. All the right influences are intact (Pavement, Weezer, Neutral Milk Hotel), and the complex arrangements and time changes make things much more interesting than your run-of-the-mill power pop.”
Check out their Daytrotter session:
http://daytrotter.com/article/1452/the-delicious
The Delicious will also be touring in support of the release, beginning with an Indianapolis release show on January 22 at the Melody Inn.
Here are the tour dates:
January 29, 2009 – Bloomington, IN @ The Cinemat w/ The Subjects
January 31, 2009 – Carbondale, Il @ IMC w/ Secondary Modern
February 1, 2009 – Louisville, Ky @ Derby City Espresso
February 2, 2009 – Nashville, Tn @ Cafe Coco
February 3, 2009 – Chattanooga, Tn @ tba
February 4, 2009 – Memphis, Tn @ P & H Cafe
February 5, 2009 – Baton Rouge, La @ tba
February 6, 2009 – New Orleans, La @ tba
February 7, 2009 – Athens, Ga @ Secret Squirrel
February 8, 2009 – Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
February 10, 2009 – Boone, NC @ Crossroads – ASU Plemmons
February 11, 2009 – Richmond, Va @ The Camel
February 12, 2009 – Washington DC @ Solly’s
February 13, 2009 – Baltimore, MD @ tba
February 14, 2009 – Philadelphia, Pa @ tba
February 15, 2009 – Brooklyn, NY @ Southpaw
February 16, 2009 – NYC, New York @ Cake Shop
February 17, 2009 – New Haven, Ct @ Cafe Nine
February 19, 2009 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
February 20, 2009 – Jamestown, NY @ Mojo’s
February 21, 2009 – Cleveland, OH @ The Matinee
February 28, 2009 – Bloomington, IN @ The Cinemat w/ Amo Joy
March 27, 2009 – Bloomington, IN @ Bluebird w/ Ladybug Transistor
Posted on 26 January '09 by Daniel, under Uncategorized. No Comments.
Title: A Lovely Concert
Featuring Elsinore
Location: Local’s Only
Link out: Click here
Description: A Lovely Concert
Saturday, February 21st
Local’s Only
2449 E. 56th St.
21+ / 9:00 / $6
NON SMOKING!
10:00 John Kill
11:00 Elsinore
11:00 Win With Willard
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2009-02-21
Posted on 25 January '09 by Daniel, under Events. No Comments.
