02.01.12 LOST IN THE TREES ANNOUNCE US, CANADA & UK TOUR DATES
Lost in the Trees will hit the road this Spring
in support of their upcoming A Church That Fits Our Needs LP, travelling all over the United States and dipping into Canada and the UK. All dates with new Fleet Foxes side project, Poor Moon, except
for UK dates, which include Jeff Mangum's All Tomorrow's Parties festival with The Magnetic Fields, Joanna Newsom and many more!
Check the dates below for your nearest show:
03-09 Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow's Parties
03-12 London, UK - The Lexington
03-16 Austin, TX - Antone's (SXSW)
03-20 La Jolla, CA - The Loft @ UCSD
03-22 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
03-23 San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
03-24 Arcata, CA - Arcata Playhouse
03-25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
03-27 Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
03-28 Boise, ID - Neurolux
03-29 Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room
03-30 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
03-31 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown
04-02 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Centre
04-03 Chicago, IL - Schubas
04-04 Evanston, IL - Space
04-05 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
04-06 Toronto, ON - Drake Hotel
04-07 Montreal, QC - Il Motore
04-09 Burlington, VT - Burlington City Arts Center
04-10 Portland, ME - Space
04-11 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
04-13 Boston, MA - Boston Museum Of Fine Arts
04-14 Washington, DC - The Black Cat
MP3: Lost in the Trees - Red [from the A Church That Fits Our Needs LP]
01.26.12 LIVE! FROM TREKKY HOUSE II: MIDTOWN DICKENS
We continue our LIVE! From Trekky House video series today with a performance by Midtown Dickens.
The band chose to play on the Blue Bird school bus at Trekky House, wanting to be outside but taking shelter from the rainy day. They play a stripped down version of "Only Brother", the first single from their upcoming Home. The album will
be out April 3 on Trekky Records. Special thanks to guest cameraman D. L. Anderson.
MP3: Midtown Dickens - Only Brother [from the Home LP]
01.20.12 TREKKY RECORDS PRESENTS: AMALGAM, A MIXTAPE COMPILATION
Introducing: Trekky Records.
These are our friends, our sisters and brothers, our collaborators and advisers.
This is our future as well as our past.
These songs are an amalgamation of everything we've worked on for nearly 10 years, supporting each other as artists and picking
up new friends along the way. Like the mixtapes you've received from friends and kindred spirits in the past, we hope Amalgam will
introduce you to some new music that may come to shape your life, as it has shaped ours.
To celebrate the release of the tape, we'll be hosting a release show at Nightlight in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 2, 2012. Butterflies,
Phil Cook & His Feat, Vibrant Green and a very special surprise guest band will perform, and it'll be your first chance to get your hands on Amalgam. Hope to see you there!
01.18.12 PHIL COOK CONTRIBUTES NEW SONG TO HYMN COMPILATION
Phil Cook contributes a song to the upcoming Hymns From The Gathering Church compilation, a collection
of traditional hymns performed by various North Carolina musicians. Phil's track is a rendition of "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms", a popular hymn composed in 1887 by Elisha Hoffman and Anthony Showalter. You can listen to and buy the track here.
If that's not enough Phil Cook for you, you can still order Phil Cook and His Feat's critically acclaimed 2011 album, Hungry Mother Blues from the Trekky Records Online Store.
01.18.12 MIDTOWN DICKENS RELEASE FIRST SINGLE FROM HOME
Midtown Dickens' have released the first single from their upcoming Home LP,
a gorgeous folk song called "Only Brother". The song explores reincarnation, god and place, inspired by the story of an animal psychic traveling back in time to heal a wolf's broken leg. Intertwining
acoustic guitars, slide mandolin, and an unlikely clarinet solo fill out the composition, Midtown Dickens' most striking statement to date. Shuffle Magazine is debuting the track today.
Home will be released in Trekky's signature LP+CD+MP3 package on April 3, 2012.
Watch a teaser trailer of Midtown Dickens in the studio:
01.11.12 LOST IN THE TREES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, NPR DEBUTS NEW SINGLE
It gives us great honor to share with you the details of Lost In The Trees' newest statement, a devastating and beautiful album titled A Church That Fits Our Needs, to be released by ANTI- and Trekky Records on March 20, 2012.
It is a work of vaulting ambition, a cathedral built on loss and transformation. Visit NPR's All Songs Considered to hear "Red", the stunning first single.
In the summer of 2009, Ari Picker lost his mother, an artist in her own right, when she took her own life. Picker set about transforming the events into a musical tribute, composing and writing with his mother’s picture above his desk: the same picture that will now grace the album’s cover.
“I wanted to give her a space, in the music, to be, and to become all the things she didn’t get a chance to be when she was alive,” Picker says.
As on 2010's All Alone In An Empty House, Picker has again surrounded himself with musicians who bring his vision to life with verve and sensitivity. A special contribution comes in the vocals of Emma Nadeau, whose soaring, wordless melodies counter Picker’s ecstatic vocals throughout. Recorded and produced by Picker in North Carolina, the album was mixed by the legendary Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck), bringing out the lush tones of the orchestrations in their full grandeur.
Stay tuned for much more from Lost in th Trees in the coming weeks, and for now enjoy listening to "Red".
12.13.11 MIDTOWN DICKENS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, HOME
Trekky Records is proud to announce the release of Midtown Dickens' third album, Home, the band's most stunning and accomplished work to date. Durham, North Carolina's Midtown Dickens have never sounded more bold or graceful than they do across these 11 gorgeous meditations on the themes of home (both literal and abstract), family (blood and chosen) and space (within us and about us). Home is the sound of journey and motion; the pulling apart and coming together we experience as we search for our place in the world.
Home is also Midtown Dickens' most collaborative release, expanding the core duo of songwriters/vocalists Kym Register and Catherine Edgerton to include multi-instrumentalists Will Hackney and Jonathan Henderson. Recorded between tours in a near-constant year of traveling (including jaunts with kindred-spirits The Mountain Goats, Megafaun, and Lost in the Trees) the album reveals a band moving effortlessly as one. This unity brings focus and warmth to Edgerton and Register's dark folk compositions.
Home was recorded by long-time collaborator Scott Solter (Spoon, St. Vincent, The Mountain Goats) at his studio in Monroe, North Carolina. The remote location afforded Midtown Dickens the time and space to delve into the most adventurous, experimental, and focused sessions of the band's career. At first listen, it is clear that Home marks a dramatic shift in Midtown Dickens' sonic world. While still anchored by acoustic, folk instrumentation (banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar, upright bass), the album also wields layers of overdriven bowed cymbals, musical saws drowning in reverb and walls-of-sound that push acoustic instruments to places they've never been before. Yet the band never allows the noise to obscure the soul of the song, and without out a doubt these are the most realized and lucid songs Register and Edgerton have ever written, modern standards. Home evokes the stunning colors of Carolina tobacco fields and Appalachian mountain ranges, re-imagined and re-contextualized in a way that is undeniably Midtown Dickens.
Trekky will release Home, in our signature LP+CD+MP3 format on February 28, 2012.
Tracklist:
1. Home All Ways
2. Elephant
3. No More Reason (To Pine)
4. Only Brother
5. Apple Tree
6. Resting
7. Crocodile Mile
8. Walk, Don't You Run
9. Volcanoes (Covered In Snow)
10. Cross My Heart
11. This Is My Home
Watch a teaser trailer of Midtown Dickens in the studio:
12.01.11 WHEN YOU AWAKE PREMIERES BRICE RANDALL BICKFORD MUSIC VIDEO + FREE MP3
The good folks over at When You Awake are premiering the new Brice Randall Bickford music video, a visual interpretation of "On The Caesura Of Paying Attention",
the second single from Bickford's dense and rewarding self-titled album. The video is directed by visual artist Leon Godwin, and places a particular focus on
Bickford's greatest strength: his lyrics. Click here to see the video, as well as download a free MP3 of "On The Caesura Of Paying Attention".
Brice Randall Bickford's self-titled album is out now in our signature 3-part package, complete with LP, CD and MP3 download. Order here.
11.30.11 MP3: THE TREKKY YULETIDE ORCHESTRA - "IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER"
As the temperature drops and holiday spirits rise, you may find yourself in the mood for some seasonal music. Not to worry, The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra has you covered! Composed of members of
Lost in the Trees, Midtown Dickens, Butterflies and Embarrassing Fruits, the collective orchestra has been bringing holiday cheer to the masses for 5 years. As our early gift to you, please enjoy this free MP3 of
The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra's "In The Bleak Midwinter". Probably the most somber cut from the Orchestra's A New Old Fashioned Christmas, the classic hymn will get you in that nostalgic, wintery mood that comes
each snowy season. A New Old Fashioned Christmas is on sale now for only $8 in the Trekky Records Online Store, as a part of our Winter Sale. Right click below to download "In The Bleak Midwinter" for free!
MP3: The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra - In The Bleak Midwinter [from the A New Old Fashioned Christmas LP]
11.28.11 WEEKLY DEALS IN TREKKY RECORDS' WINTER SALE!
11.21.11 TREKKY RECORDS COLLECTIVE JOINS TOGETHER FOR TRK @ ARTSCENTER
In September of 2009, members of the Trekky Records Collective joined together to perform various sets at Milltown in Carrboro, NC. A mix of rare solo performances, cross-band collaborations and spontaneous sing-a-longs, the evening went down in Trekky History as a night to remember. As the label moves into its 10th year, now with more family members than ever, the collective will once again join together to share songs, perform ill-advised covers and celebrate music in the Triangle.
11.07.11 BUTTERFLIES PERFORM UNDERNEATH A GIANT MILITARY PARACHUTE
In May of 2011, Josh Kimbrough, Joe Norkus and Bobby Britt were set to move out of their house and on to greater things. But before they left, they wanted to have one last house show in their communal space. Somehow they agreed upon buying a giant military parachute, and having the bands play beneath. What resulted was a strange and special night, promoted online with the hashtag "#justchuteme".
Butterflies, Embarrassing Fruits and Rainbow Nerd all performed. Here's Butterflies performing "Tired Pose".
Butterflies will open for The Sea and Cake this Friday at Local 506 in Chapel Hill. You can get tickets here.
10.24.11 NEW SONGS FROM MIDTOWN DICKENS, BUTTERFLIES, DANIEL HART ON COMPILATION
Our friends over at Special Passenger Records have put together a very special compilation featuring new music from Midtown Dickens, Butterflies and Daniel Hart, among many others. Each band
was asked to compose and record a new song relating to their hometowns for a compilation called Feels Like Coming Home. The comp is out now, and can be ordered, downloaded and listened to here. Now the team
behind the comp is traveling the country, creating a documentary about those very hometowns featured in the songs. We're very happy to have so many of our artists involved in the project.
06.13.11 MIDTOWN DICKENS TOUR WITH THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, JOIN TREKKY RECORDS
We're excited to officially announce that we'll be joining forces with Durham folk group Midtown Dickens, releasing their upcoming third album and continuing a musical journey that began three years ago.
We admired Midtown Dickens from afar for a while before Trekky Records' Will Hackney spontaneously joined the band for a benefit show in Durham, NC. That inviting and communal nature is why we love working with the band, and why we're excited
to be a part of their next chapter. The untitled new album, a follow-up to the band's 2009 self-released Lanterns, is currently being recorded by acclaimed producer Scott Solter (The Mountain Goats, Superchunk, Spoon) and will be released in early 2012.
In the meantime, fellow Durhamite John Darnielle has invited Midtown Dickens to join The Mountain Goats on a string of West Coast dates. Parties below:
06-16 Seattle, WA - The Showbox
06-17 Vancouver, CA - The Biltmore
06-18 Portland, OR - Aladdin
06-20 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
06-21 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
06-23 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey
06-24 Santa Barbara, CA - Soho
Midtown Dickens Home
Only Brother
Out 04.03.12!
Lost in the Trees A Church That Fits Our Needs
Red
