Bar/None News: Human Switchboard

HUMAN SWITCHBOARD 2011-10-23
Who's Landing in My Hangar (1977 - 84) will be released on October 24th. Included in the CD is a download card containing an additional 19 tracks bringing the anthology to a whopping 40 tracks in all!

Click here for a review of the anthology in Dusted.

Click here for a review of the anthology in HITS Daily Double.

Artists on Tour

The Front Bottoms

News

The Front Bottoms New album TALON OF THE HAWK out May 21st! New tour dates announced, click on the 'shows' tab for more info. read more

The dB's live performance on Mountain Stage and World Cafe available for download! Tune in to NPR and check it out! read more

THE FEELIES Tickets now on sale for The Feelies. Go to SHOWS link for more info. read more

EMPEROR X Emperor X back catalog now available through all digital outlets read more

Human Switchboard - anthology out Oct. 24th. Dusted and Hits Daily Double review. read more

The Feelies - Here Before out April 12, 2011. Free track at Pitchfork. Rick Moody interview. Egyptian Reggae video up at Pitchfork. Chicago Tribune & Chicago Sun Times, BrooklynVegan, Rolling Stone, Spinner.com, Paste articles & reviews. read more

Hot Lava - Lavalogy released 10/7/08. Band of the month at VenusZine. Q&A at Viva Indie Rock. read more

Brute Force - Spinner, Examiner, and Dirty Impound articles. read more

Starling Electric Clouded Staircase re-released on Bar/None, 8/19. Relix and Wall Street Journal reviews. Recent press, MetroMix Detroit Q&A, Fire Note, Detroit Free Press, Ann Arbor.com read more

Hotel Lights Girl Graffiti out August 16th. read more

Shannon McArdle's Summer of the Whore interviews/articles in Ink 19, Village Voice, Time Out, Paper Thin Walls, Red Alert, PopMatters and Uncensored Interview. read more

Oppenheimer - Rockville, CA, Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson, Look Up video now up from their sophomore release Take the Whole Midrange and Boost It, WOXY, new U.S. tour dates with They Might Be Giants, Fuji Film commercial, Ugly Betty, recent press and video for Saturday Looks Bad To Me. read more

Emperor X - aka C.R. Matheny new record for Bar/None out October 4th. Full album stream at AOL/Spinner, Jersey Journal article, Salon's Underrated Albums of 2011. read more

The Slip - "Even Rats" now on Rock Band, MTV Live, Spinner, Daytrotter, & Vanity Fair. read more

The Individuals - NPR's Song of the Day! Paper Thin Walls, My Old Kentucky Blog reviews Fields/Aquamarine, live radio performance on WFMU. Village Voice piece. read more

Birdie Busch - Yellow Bird Project interview, TV coverage in Philly, her cover of Wild Mountain Honey, and an archived interview/performance from World Cafe/NPR. read more

Luka Bloom - Eleven Songs out March 10th. World Cafe interview. Video for "Don't Be Afraid..." Listen to the album now, right here. read more

Architecture in Helsinki - Souvenirs used in new Sprint commercial, We Died, They Remixed, They're (almost) Gone and videos for Do The Whirlwind, It'5!, and Wishbone over in the Media section. read more

Langley Schools Music Project inspiring the soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are, item in The Onion, interview with Hans Fenger archived on NPR. VH1 3-part documentary. read more

Greg Camp - formerly of Smash Mouth, released his solo debut on Sept 9th. AOL Listening Party. San Jose Mercury News, Instrumental Analysis articles. read more

Standard Fare - debut album out now. Spinner, Fire Note, Brooklyn Vegan review and free MP3. Videos for Philadelphia, Dancing and Vaya Vaya Mexico. read more

Freedy Johnston - Rain on the City out now! World Cafe broadcast. Freedy Johnston on his part-time Madisonian status (video). NY Magazine. SonicBoomers review. No Depression review. LA Times. Pitchfork. Lonely Penny video live at Vintage Vinyl. Download a free track from the album here! Video for "The Kind of Love We're In". read more

Jack Skuller - 7" single/digital out April 20th. Video for "Love is a Drum". NY Post article. Live on FoxTV NY. Consequence of Sound Review. read more

El Ten Eleven's music and PRI's Studio 360 episode on Helvetica read more

Ralph's World - new album All Around Ralph's World out now. Lad of Nod Nodcast, Central Park Summerstage, WGN-TV, Q&A at ChicagoNow, XM Radio Contest! read more

Michael Hearst - Songs for Ice Cream Trucks available now through Bar/None, coverage in Wired, ABC News, NBC's Today Show, Terry Gross interview, NYT article, WNYC/Soundcheck, NPR's All Songs Considered and more. read more

Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey hERE aND nOW out June 9th. Mountain Stage airing. Live acoustic set on WFMU. The reptile-brain activator. Review and Q&A with Holsapple in the Lehigh Valley Morning Call. Q&A in Magnet and From the Desk of Holsapple & Stamey articles. Blurt, Country Weekly & Spin reviews. read more

The Spinto Band - Daytrotter sessions, live concert on Baeble Music, NPR's Morning Edition, World Cafe interview from March 2006, and music videos up in Media. read more

Sharp Things - A Moveable Feast out now, Lounge Act on WOXY, reviews in Spin, Jersey Beat, killer New Haven Advocate review, show preview in The Deli, live on WBZC, live videos up in Media read more

Esquivel - Space Age Bachelor Pad Music back up for sale in our store. read more

Of Montreal - Bar/None Alumni read more

Richard Barone - Magnet Q&A, Blurt review/feature. Tourdates in U.S. and U.K.; Appearing at SXSW in Austin; Numerous Top-ten lists for 2010, Free download of "Gravity's Pull" read more

Burnside Project - videos up in Media. read more

Petra Haden - "Let Your Love Flow" Prius commercial, archived interview on World Cafe from WXPN, live video up at YouTube, "Don't Stop Believin'" read more

Evan Dando video for Stop My Head read more

Mosquitos archived interview on NPR and videos up in the Media section read more

Puffy AmiYumi tracks up at Imeem.com read more

Yo La Tengo archive video for The Summer now available for viewing! read more

Phillips and Driver - David Driver sings the songs of Scott Walker @ Joe's Pub in the Park read more

Lullaby for the Working Class archive video for Hypnotist now up! read more

Embarrassment videos up at YouTube read more

American Song-Poem archived feature on NPR and a PBS special read more

Drink Me archived interview on NPR and the long lost video of Ines read more

Hannah Marcus archived interview on WNYC's Spinning On Air read more

Kathy McCarty tracks and videos up at Imeem. read more

Rage to Live - video unearthed for "Enough is Never Enough" read more

Brian Dewan video for Jimmy Carter Says Yes! read more

The Scene Is Now tracks up at Imeem.com read more

The Front Bottoms - On NPR and WXPN. The Free at Noon concert series on The World Cafe stage will welcome The Front Bottoms on January 6th! read more

Tindersticks video now up in our Media section. read more

Hot off the Say Anything/Kevin Devine tour, The Front Bottoms Join The Menzingers for a handful of Dates! read more

Vinicius Cantuaria archived interview on NPR read more

BEST OF 2012 Bar/None Records Friends and Family Best of 2012 read more

Swimming Pool Qs archived review in the Village Voice read more

Eszter Balint archived interview on NPR's Weekend Edition read more