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Friday, March 19
ASCAP Presents… Quiet On The
Set
at Stubb's (801 Red River Street)
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Indoor Stage:
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Outdoor Stage
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David
Berkeley
To describe the music of David Berkeley,
imagine a road trip in Nick Drake's
old car, give Ryan Adams a seat,
Grant Lee Phillips is there, maybe
Beck has the wheel and Joni Mitchell
is giving directions. The music
they'd listen to would be pretty
close to the music of this young,
charismatic singer from Georgia.
His voice is warm like a tumbler
of bourbon. He believes in the lyrics
he writes, and he sings them from
the marrow of his bones. Rollingstone.com
calls Berkeley "a double fantasy
of Nick Drake and Donovan."
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Adrienne
Pierce
When Adrienne Pierce played at Lilith
Fair in 1999 she had only been playing,
singing and writing songs for two
years. Three years later she released
her first CD on her own label, Insectgirl
Records. Produced in Vancouver by
Sean Ashby (Jack Tripper, Sarah
McLachlan) and mixed by Roger Swan
(Swollen Members) Small Fires has
already produced a plethora of rave
reviews and has been nominated for
Best Independent Album and Best
Modern Rock Record for 2002 by The
Georgia Straight and Just Plain
Folks, respectively.
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Johnathan
Rice
There is an unspoken rule in families
like Johnathan Rice's, and it's
the case in most Scottish and Irish
households as well: everyone can
sing or play. Johnathan picked up
the guitar when he was quite young,
and later when he was older began
singing and writing music by himself
and in bands. Educated from listening
to the Beatles, Neil Young, Joni
Mitchell, Radiohead, The Ramones,
The Clash and Elliott Smith on vinyl,
Johnathan released a six-song EP,
Heart and Mind, on a D.C.-based
indie label Grantham Dispatch. |
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Ian
Love
Ian Love is the frontman for Cardia,
a New York-based supergroup that
also includes Andy Action of 2 Skinnee
J's, St. John Scott IV of Shudder
to Think and former Verve Pipe bass
player Brad VanderArk. Ian is also
the guitarist in another well-known
New York band called Rival Schools. |
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Patrick
Park
Patrick Park, whose musically rich
and thematically eloquent debut
album, Loneliness Knows My Name,
is released on Park's own imprint,
Downward Road Recordings, through
Hollywood Records, is one sensitive
singer-songwriter who's perfectly
capable of knocking you on your
ass—though only as a last
resort. Park's songs, wrote David
Simutis in New Times Los Angeles,
"come straight from the heart—without
stopping to check in the mirror
for blemishes." He has opened
shows for the likes of Richard Buckner,
Gomez and Alfie, while Beth Orton
handpicked Park as the supporting
act on her 2002 U.S. tour. |
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Metric
Metric's measures are decidedly
cubist: eternal, multi-layered portraits
of instantaneous moments, the luminous
blur of street life rendered as
a freeze-tableaux, daily rituals
portrayed in a fantastical light.
This is music born out of sly, considered
observation instead of gratuitous
introspection -- which makes it
refreshingly anomalous in an era
when so much popular music fudges
the line between self-absorption
and self-parody. Through their eight-year
creative partnership, singer/synth
specialist Emily Haines and guitarist
James Shaw have never settled long
enough to be defined by any city,
scene or style. Toronto made them
friends, Montreal turned them into
soulmates, London brought them songs,
Brooklyn made them a band and, finally,
their current tenure in L.A. has
resulted in their debut album, Old
World Underground, Where Are You
Now?, produced by Michael Andrews
(Elgin Park, Brendan Benson, DJ
Greyboy, Donnie Darko) on Everloving
Records. |
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Snow
Patrol
Growing up in Northern Ireland,
singer Gary Lightbody formed a band
with college mate Mark McClelland,
later adding drummer Johnny Quinn.
Before long they were the darlings
of an effervescent Scottish music
scene with the likes of Belle &
Sebastian and Travis showing up
at their gigs. Two albums followed.
The first 'Songs For Polar Bears',
got a glowing review in NME, who
referenced The Breeders, Radiohead
and Lou Barlow, while its follow-up,
'When It's All Over We Still Have
To Clear up', while getting equal
acclaim, left Snow Patrol feeling
like they wanted something more.
Final Straw is the band's third
album, already gaining much buzz
from music lovers and industry alike.
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Broken
Social Scene
Broken Social Scene emerged as an
extension of friendship between
K.C. Accidental's Kevin Drew and
Brendan Canning, formerly of By
Divine Right. The band spent several
years playing and rehearsing in
and around their native Toronto
before the release of their 2001
debut, Feel Good Lost. The band
introduced an evolving roster of
players, and gradually became a
creative collective. Broken Social
Scene was officially comprised of
11 members upon the release of their
sophomore album, You Forgot It in
People. The album was a guitar-driven,
heavily-orchestrated offering, which
earned the band a large fan base
in addition to critical and commercial
success. |
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How's
Your News?
We promise you've never seen a band
like this. This group of adults
with
mental and physical disabilities
ranging from Downs Syndrome to Cerebral
Palsy, write and perform uninhibited,
joyful, unpretentious, funny,
rockin' music. These are the stars
of the acclaimed film, "How's
Your
News?" (debuted SXSW '01). |
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The
Polyphonic Spree
Comprising of up to 27 band members,
that include schoolteachers, hospital
workers and set designers among
their ranks, the Polyphonic Spree,
the self-styled "choral symphonic
pop group" coalesced in just
three weeks after founder Tim DeLaughter
was booked as support on a tour
with friends Grandaddy. The Polyphonic
Spree features a 10-piece choir,
brass section, a classical harp
and woodwind alongside more conventional
instruments. Their joyous, devotional
music is curiously resonant of the
cult 70s recordings by the Langley
Schools Music Project or the Muppets,
if Kermit, Miss Piggy, et al. suffix
their recordings with La Monte Young-inspired
lengthy drones. |
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