New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be performing a solo, acoustic set at KatManDu (Route 29, 50 Riverview Executive Park) in Trenton, NJ, on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. He will be taking the stage shortly after 9 p.m.
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be performing with his backing band at The Saint (601 Main St.) in Asbury Park, N.J., on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. He will be going on at around 8 p.m. as an opening act for Colie Brice & Friends.
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be performing a solo, acoustic set at Triumph Brewing Company (aka Triumph Brew Pub) at 117 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. He will be taking the stage shortly after 9 p.m. The performance is part of the weekly Triumph Live Unplugged series.
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
New Jersey singer-songwriter Christian Beach will be doing a solo, acoustic show as part of this year’s Wave Gathering Festival in Asbury Park, NJ. He will be taking the stage at The Brickwall Tavern Annex (522 Cookman Ave.) at 10:15 p.m. (and I may be joining him on accordion for a couple of songs).
Spread the word with the web graphic below, or download it as a PDF for printing out as a flyer to post where you can.
About a week ago, I finished working on some web graphics and flyers to promote some upcoming shows by my good friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach. Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to post them here or on MySpace so they haven’t been put to good promotional use yet.
Well, I am hoping to rectify that with the following posts.
– BK
The Baskervilles are a Harlem, N.Y.-based pop act that I first discovered some time ago through Pandora. I just found out that the Baskervilles have a new CD, “Twilight,” coming out June 3, 2008, on Secret Crush Records…and you can listen to the entire CD by visiting their Web site.
Here is an excerpt from their bio:
Harlem-based indie rock quartet, Baskervilles, are no strangers to 60s pop and 70s Sire new wave and it’s evident on their newest album, Twilight, produced by the legendary Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Pavement, Birds of Avalon). And though Baskervilles draw on the past for some inspiration, their songs are infused with buoyant and modern pop sensibilities. The result is one of the finer strains of music likely to brush its melodic tentacles across your eardrums this year. The band consists of Rob Keith (vocals, guitar), Stephanie Finucane (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Chirstoph Gerozissis (bass) and Craig Van Orsdale (percussion, vocals)…
…Drawing on classic pop influences, Twilight is an album for fans of proto-punk bands like Talking Heads, Roxy Music, and Blondie as well as contemporary acts such as Belle & Sebastian, Apples In Stereo, and the Shins. There’s no denying that Baskervilles and Twilight are here and now.
I haven’t listened to the entire CD yet, but I do love the sound of the Baskervilles. This band released its first CD in 2004 and put out an EP a year later, so they have been around for a while. Hopefully, “Twilight” will bring the Baskervilles to a much wider audience.
Here is a free MP3 of “Caught in a Crosswalk” that you may also listen to below. Enjoy!
Above is a video Mike Doughty shot for the song “Fort Hood” from his latest CD, “Golden Delicious.”
The song, which borrows its chorus from the musical “Hair,” is named after the base in Texas that has suffered the most casualties during the war in Iraq. On his blog, Mike Doughty asked fans to post the video wherever they could…
Bex Schwartz directed this video for “Fort Hood.” We made it together, without the record company, because we wanted to get a message out there, about young people whose bodies and minds are still being damaged in Iraq.
Actually, by posting it here, and making it available on YouTube, and embeddable, we’re bumming the record company out. They liked it when we showed it to them, and wanted to coordinate a whole marketing and radio campaign about it. We were going to wait, and let them do their thing, but I watched the primary last night, and hearing Obama and Hillary snark at each other while this terrible nightmare is still going on, I realized I didn’t want to wait.
It’s up at AOL Spinner right now, and soon will be on Stereogum; we’d be humbled and grateful if you guys put it on your profiles; we’d like to get our message out. Thank you.
Thank you, Mike!
Hello, all! This is just a quick post to say that I have just returned from a brief vacation in Texas. My girlfriend and I spent an extended weekend in the San Antonio and Austin areas. We were able to take in some of Fiesta, which began last weekend in San Antonio and runs through April 27. Also, we were able to spend a day in Austin, where we went on a tour of the Texas State Capitol, watched hundreds of thousands of bats fly out — a nightly ritual — from their summer home under the Congress Street Bridge, and saw Mike Doughty’s Band at Antone’s on 5th Street.
I’ll have some photos and videos from the trip on the ol’ blog for you at some point in the near future.
However, now that I am back in New Jersey, I would also like to share some news about my good friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach. Christian is playing the Writers in Raritan Showcase tonight at DeCicco’s (10 Anderson St., Raritan, NJ 08869, Map). He will be taking the stage around 9:25 p.m.
But that’s not all! Christian has a bevy of shows coming up over the next few weeks. Here is a listing:
May 3, 2008
Twisted Tree Cafe
609 Cookman Ave
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
9:15 p.m.
May 16, 2008
Klee’s Bar & Grill (Seaside Music Festival)
101 Boulevard
Seaside Heights, NJ 08751
9:00 p.m.
June 18, 2008
Triumph Brewing Co.
“Unplugged Acoustic”
117 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19106
9:15 p.m.
Please visit www.myspace.com/christianbeach for more information.
Finally, here is video of Christian and his ad-hoc backing band performing David Bowie’s “Five Years” at the Main Man Records Showcase/Record Release Party for “Hero: The Main Man Records Tribute to David Bowie” held at The Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ, on March 28, 2008 (because of potential setup problems with the 1970s Yamaha organ Christian usually brings to the gigs, I instead played a cheesy organ sound on my Alesis QS 6.1 synthesizer for this show). Enjoy!
So I just realized the fun that is YouTube playlists…yeah, I know…a little late for a geek like me to figure that out. Anyway, here is a playlist of every performance by my friend, singer-songwriter Christian Beach, that can be found on YouTube. Enjoy!
Oppenheimer has a new CD, “Take the Whole Mid-Range and Boost It,” coming out soon. Below is the video for “Look Up” from the upcoming disc. Great stuff from the two boys from Belfast! Enjoy!
Brian Kelley 