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New Videos from Neon Indian and Woodsman!
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
New Neon Indian Video - Sleep Paralysist available on Green Label Sound.
New Woodsman Video - When Morning Comes. On tour now!
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Exposure: Peter Gabriel/Neon Indian
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
From Stereogum:
I became a Peter Gabriel fan(atic) after seeing “Digging In The Dirt” on VH1 in the dog days of ‘92. That September, prior to the release of Us (i.e., Peter’s followup to one of the greatest albums of all time) Peter participated in “An Intimate Conversation About Us” for Westwood One, discussing and previewing clips from the album. I stayed up late to tape it off WDRE. I was enamored.
Back in the ’90s, people like me (music nerds) would go to a record store to buy albums the day they were released. Two weeks before Us came out, I entered freshman year of high school. I didn’t yet have a driver’s license so I asked my mom to take me to Record World in Manhasset on 9/29/92. Us was the first album I bought on the day of its release.
Flash forward to last Monday 4/26/10. It’s 11:20AM and I’m standing in the rain outside Other Music, waiting for them to open the store so I can buy Scratch My Back on vinyl. I thought it would be a nice prop for a video piece Peter Gabriel had agreed to do with Stereogum that afternoon.
My vision was that Stereogum would film Peter having an “exchange of ideas” with a like-minded young artist, much in the spirit of Scratch My Back and its forthcoming companion I’ll Scratch Yours. I heard that Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo was also a PG fan, and he agreed to participate. Late last month, Alan, Amrit, and I met for tacos to talk Fairlight CMI, Frippertronics, WOMAD, WITNESS, ApeNet, Real World, gated reverb, etc. We then breathed Security for a week.
We were to meet Peter at a studio space in midtown where his 50-piece orchestra was rehearsing for this week’s Radio City gigs. My friends Sam and Ari handled logistics for the production, bringing a crew of three to handle cameras, lights, sound. Everyone worked for free.
At 1PM, a half hour early, Peter rolled into our makeshift interview room, no handlers, no publicist. I introduced him to Alan, breaking the ice by pointing out that my friends bought me Xplora1 for my 15th birthday, whereas Alan was too young to know what a CD-ROM is.
Amrit moderated their talk because (A) I suck at interviews, and (B) Amrit is much more handsome.
Peter and Alan hit it off immediately. They spoke for over an hour, and Peter Gabriel could not have been more gracious or forthcoming.
I hope you enjoy this video, it was a passion project for me and a dream realized to all involved. (Peter now has Psychic Chasms on CD, vinyl, and MP3.) In a nod to Scratch we’ve titled this video Exposure with the expectation that it’ll be the first in a series.
Amrit and I will be attending Peter’s show at Radio City tonight. It will be my first time seeing him live since Woodstock ‘94 (where yes, I rode The Mindblender). There will be a special guest joining Peter tonight so if you’re going, don’t leave early. To our LA readers, the New Blood American tour concludes Friday at Hollywood Bowl on Friday.
If somehow you missed our breathless coverage of Scratch My Back/I’ll Scratch Yours, check out the archives.
Thanks to our camera crew (Sam Carroll, Ari Issler, Colleen Hennessy, Ron Beach, Josh Isaac), to Peter’s team (Harvey Schwartz, Gary Trew, Nate Auerbach), to Alan Palomo, and to Peter Gabriel, still my hero.
Tags: Bon Iver, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Neil Young, neon indian, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, stereogum Arcade Fire, Thom Yorke, Win Butler
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Neon Indian announces Summer tour, gets remixed by BRAHMS
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Tour includes two dates w/ Massive Attack, Bonnaroo, First Fridays show in LA, Sasquatch, and more!
Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, the 21-year-old synth-wizard who first created waves as VEGA. After writing a batch of off-the-cuff recordings that weren’t quite right as VEGA songs, Palomo released them as Neon Indian and what started as a careless outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the VEGA mold has since gone on to define a genre. His critically acclaimed début album Psychic Chasms, which was released in October 2009, has been featured in SPIN, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal and FADER among others. In Feb. 2010 he made his late night TV debut with a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. “Sleep Paralysist,” the recent single for Green Label Sound was written by Neon Indian lead-man Alan Palomo; the track was recorded and produced in collaboration with Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn at Taylor’s elusive musical dungeon, Terrible Studios. Here, Neon Indian is remixed by new outfit BRAHMS, which features Eric Lodwick, Drew Robinson, and Cale Parks.
05/12 New York, NY Terminal 5 *
05/13 Boston, MA House of Blues *
05/29 Calgary, AB Hi Fi Club
05/31 George, WA Sasquatch
06/02 San Diego, CA Casbah
06/03 Costa Mesa, CA Detroit Bar
06/04 Los Angeles, CA Natural History Museum / First Fridays #
06/05 Corvalis, OR Flat Tall Music Festival
06/07 Austin, TX Emo’s
06/09 Atlanta, GA The Earl
06/10 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
06/11 Cincinnati, OH Fountain Square
06/12 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox
06/13 Baltimore, MD Sonar
06/17 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
06/19 Denver, CO Westword Music Showcase
07/17 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
* = w/ Massive Attack
# = w/ Peanut Butter Wolf
Tags: Bonnaroo, BRAHMS, Massive Attack, neon indian, Sasquatch, Summer tour
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Neon Indian drops new single “Sleep Paralysist” via Green Label Sound Co-produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, the 21-year-old synth-wizard who first created waves as VEGA. After writing a batch of off-the-cuff recordings that weren’t quite right as VEGA songs, Palomo released them as Neon Indian and what started as a careless outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the VEGA mold has since gone on to define a genre. His critically acclaimed début album Psychic Chasms, which was released in October 2009, has been featured in SPIN, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal and FADER among others. In Feb. 2010 he made his late night TV debut with a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. “Sleep Paralysist” was written by Neon Indian lead-man Alan Palomo; the track was recorded and produced in collaboration with Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn at Taylor’s elusive musical dungeon, Terrible Studios. This is Neon Indian’s first new offering since the release of Psychic Chasms.
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Neon Indian Receives “Best New Music” on Pitchfork, OUT TODAY!
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Today marks the CD and digital release (vinyl available October 27th) of Neon Indian’s debut release Psychic Chasms available now at the Lefse Store along with most other places CDs are sold.
They also received some Pitchfork love by being honored with their coveted ‘Best New Music’ award (read the review HERE), as well as an amazing video review on ABC World News’s feature ‘New Music Mondays’ (view it HERE).
For those of you who want more than just to hear the new album, they embark on a world tour this week beginning in Florida, wandering their way back across the states, including multiple festival stops, a weekend jaunt to Mexico, across the pond to Europe, and finally to the land down under. Click the ‘Shows’ tab for the full route.
Tags: abc world news, best new music, neon indian, new music mondays, pitchfork, psychic chasms
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Psychic Chasms Available for Pre-Order
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Neon Indian’s debut release Psychic Chasms is now available for pre-order from our good friends at Insound. As a bonus if you pre-order the vinyl format, you’ll get the full album in mp3 format on September 28th. That’s a whole month before the vinyl street date! Click below to order your copy today!
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Lefse Records Compilation
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Hear ye, hear ye! It is time now for us to present you with a gift. We weighed many options in deciding what to give, but the only obvious gift was one that keeps on giving. Click the link below to download your FREE copy of the Lefse Records Compilation, highlighting all of our current artists (and hopeful upcoming ones!) in 18 stellar tracks. Click “continue reading” below the tracklist for our notes and a little bit of background for each of these hand-selected gems.
Download Lefse Records Compilation
Tracklist
1. My Summer As A Salvation Soldier - “activismV2″
2. A Grave With No Name - “Open Water”
3. The Silent League - “Here’s a Star” {Neon Indian remix}
4. Emily Neveu - “Swallowing a Swallow”
5. Friend - “What Is It”
6. Calico Horse - “Ivory”
7. The Traditionist - “Three Legged Dog”
8. Giant Ears - “Fake Hotel”
9. Julian Lynch - “Two Babes in the Woods”
10. Julian Lynch - “Onward Flour”
11. Boddicker - “Your Smart”
12. My Summer As A Salvation Soldier - “Monuments”
13. Tape Deck Mountain - “In the Dirt”
14. Neon Indian - “Should Have Taken Acid With You”
15. Cuckoo Chaos - “Slowly Counting Down to Nothing”
16. Phaseone - “Marty & Sonietta”
17. Phaseone - “(Only) Reprise”
18. Sunnybrook - “Willow Whale”
Tags: a grave with no name, boddicker, calico horse, compilation, cuckoo chaos, friend, giant ears, julian lynch, lefse, my summer as a salvation soldier, neon indian, phaseone, sunnybrook, tape deck mountain
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Neon Indian Announces Debut Full Length
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo. Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, Dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. Forged after a hazy winter gathering in Texas, this initial batch of tracks were the result of field recordings, record samples, a collection of bizarre synth sounds. Soliciting the visual acrobatics of Video artist Alicia Scardetta, this project is setting out to be a multimedia maelstrom. Orbiting around the themes of drug induced heartbreak, weary afternoons, and lost chances, this music provides a lush soundtrack to the deadbeat exploits of teenage ennui . Neon Indian’s bedroom ballads have already forged the upcoming Psychic Chasms, set for release this summer. They’ve been compared to New Order, Future Bible Heroes, and most recently said to sound like a saw-wave cutting a Doobie Brother’s song in half. Expect much racket to be had from this fresh faced crew.
Psychic Chasms (October 13, 2009) Tracklist:
1. (AM)
2. Deadbeat Summer
3. Laughing Gas
4. Terminally Chill
5. (If I knew, I’d tell you)
6. 6669 (i dont know if you know)
7. Should have taken acid with you
8. Mind, Drips
9. Psychic Chasms
10. Local Joke
11. Ephemeral Artery
12. 7000 (reprise)
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Neon Indian @ Monolith
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Along with numerous other amazing acts, Monolith announced Neon Indian will be gracing the stage at Red Rocks this summer. Other acts we’re pumped on that are playing include: The Thermals, Passion Pit, The Walkmen, Method Man & Redman, M. Ward, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Girl Talk, and many many more. Check out the Monolith site for daily lineup updates.
Tags: girl talk, m. ward, method man, monolith, neon indian, pains of being pure at heart, passion pit, redman, thermals, walkmen
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