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“The Day You Accept Jesus Back
Into Your Heart is the Day I’ll Quit
Smoking”

From the Land of Bears, Ice and Rock

Say-Rah Records

Director: Micah Satterthwaite

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Almost three years have passed since the critical acclaim of Denison Witmer’s 2005 release Are You A Dreamer? on Militia Group Records. You may be wondering: What has he been doing with all of his time? When is he going to record another album?

Militia Group Records has your answers:

In the last few years, Denison Witmer has toured both the US and Europe four times, sharing the stage with the likes of Anathallo, Billy Bragg, Iron and Wine, Joanna Newsom, Low, Page France, Rainer Maria, Rosie Thomas, Sondre Leche, Sufjan Stevens, and Militia Group label-mates Lovedrug and Copeland.

In early 2006, Denison joined his friends Rosie Thomas and Sufjan Stevens to record and co-produce Rosie’s latest LP These Friends of Mine (Sing-A-Long/Nettwerk).

October 2006 brought with it the 10^th anniversary of Denison’s debut album, Safe Away. Militia Group Records re-released Safe Away as a double disc, repackaging it with new artwork and including the bonus EP Are You A Sleeper?.

On November 4, 2006, Denison celebrated his thirtieth birthday by launching a charity website, happybirthdaydenison.com. The website, which features over thirty free songs, raises money for the non-profit organizations Partners In Health and Musicians on Call.

In March 2007, Denison Witmer fulfilled a lifetime dream, buying his first home in Philadelphia, PA. After seven months and many trips to the local hardware store, Denison completely rehabbed his house and built his first dedicated home studio.

Since the beginning of this year, Denison has been making demos and writing new songs in preparation for his seventh album. He is scheduled record this spring in Seattle, WA with producer and friend Blake Wescott (Pedro the Lion, Damien Jurado, The Posies). The album will feature many familiar faces, including Rosie Thomas and James McAlister (Denison’s Are You A Dreamer?, Sufjan Stevens’ Illinoise). Recording will begin at London Bridge Studios and end at Studio Litho (owned by Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam).

Please visit Denison’s website, www.denisonwitmer.com, for recording updates.

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The Indie Review
By Sean Duregger
February 27, 2008

Artist: Ride Your Bike
Album: Bad News From the Bar
Label: Deep Elm Records

Rating:

On rare occasions, an album sneaks up on you like a crazed ninja and knocks you over the head with crazy musical nunchucks. Ride Your Bike’s Bad News From the Bar is the musical ninja I speak of. I knew nothing at all going into reviewing this album. All I knew was a smidgen of a song I had heard online. By the time I was through with my first listen, I knew I had just listened to something special.

Ride Your Bike is a project headed up by Mike Getches, who penned an imaginary screenplay to provide the back drop for Bad News From the Bar. This method of writing takes the listener through the album in a natural and involving way. We come to know characters and get wrapped up a story that could play itself out on screen. Bad News From the Bar follows two childhood friends, Elliot and Lillian, as they grow apart during a time of war.

Once you realize that this album is actually the companion to a well thought out story, you really invest in the songs and lyrics. This is an album that warrants numerous re-visits, but each song can be enjoyed on it’s own merit. This is an album that flows from song to song exceptionally well, with numerous indie pop hooks and sing along choruses. I really like the diversity Deep Elm Records has been showing in 2007, and am looking forward to see what happens in 2008.

With Bad News From the Bar, Ride Your Bike have given us a complex and diverse album that goes down easy. It is an album that gets better with each listen and will be stuck in your CD player or iPod for weeks, if not months.

Stand Out Tracks:

“Sticks and Stones”

“This Car is Hot as Hell”

“Sense of Things”

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With his new live album Leavin’ the Game on Luckie Street, Butch Walker and his management team are letting you decide if you want to pay for it or not. It is offered as a free download, or you can purchase is for a LOW price of $5.99. This is a 2 disc set (23 songs) and the live recording is impeccable.

Go to www.therecordindustryisfucked.com and please drop the cash for the album. It’s great to see artists willing to take a chance and try new business models. This goes to show all you up and coming bands . . . do you really need a record label to get your music out there? Instead of spinning your wheels trying to get signed, just get your music out there! It’s a great time for the DIY band. Get your music to the masses, bust your ass with your live show, tour like crazy. The rest will fall into place.

Basically, the record business is fucked, but not for bands. Only for themselves. It’s the most exciting, positive time for music, as rockandroll and indie have gone completely back underground.

 

It’s exciting, and to see artists be able to release albums whenever they want, for whatever they want, and not have to fear sending in their cover art, only to have the art dep airbrush off the singers mustache (in fear of not selling to a certain demographic of fucking statistic) is wonderful.

 

Essentially, everything they have or haven’t done in the past, I will purposefully do the opposite . . . and probably make my first paycheck for once.

 

Viva la freedom from cubicle music! [Butch Walker, www.butchwalker.com]

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RED LEADER RECORDS CMJ Showcase
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* Oct 20 @ Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
* featuring Polar Bear Club, Dear Tonight, The New Dress, Nakatomi Plaza, Scream Hello and Fire When Ready

Red Leader Records Showcase
October 20 @ Bowery Poetry Club - 5:30pm

A ridiculously amazing showcase for Red Leader featuring some of the label’s most amazing bands.

Polar Bear Club - 9:20pm
Nakatomi Plaza - 8:40pm
Dear Tonight - 8:00pm
Scream Hello - 7:30pm
The New Dress - 6:40pm
Fire When Ready - 6:00pm

$10 or Free with CMJ badge

LOOK MEXICO Show
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* Oct 18 @ Puck Building - Day Stage, 295 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012, 12pm
* with Wild Light, Eagle*Seagull

The Look Mexico kids will also be playing tomorrow, October 18th on the Day Stage at the Puck Building. High Noon. Be there.

Look Mexico are at the beginning of yet another tour (it never stops, really) in support of This Is Animal Music which finds the band traveling up and down the East Coast. They’ll eventually end up at FEST 6 in Gainesville and you can expect more Nov / Dec dates with Chase Pagan!

Look Mexico TOUR
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OCT 18 - New York @ CMJ / Day Stage - Puck Building
OCT 19 - Greenwood, DE @ The Wood Stage
OCT 21 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Blend w/ Mowgli
OCT 22 - Roanoke, VA @ Martin’s w/ The Wading Girl
OCT 23 - Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn w/ Georgie James, Le Loup
OCT 24 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Beta Bar w/ Summerbirds in the Cellar
OCT 26 - Orlando, FL @ The Back Booth w/ Summerbirds in the Cellar
OCT 27 - Gainesville, FL @ FEST 6 / Market Street Pub w/ Bridge and Tunnel, Fake Problems, Gaslight Anthem, Lumuria
NOV 02 - Merritt Island, FL @ Pizza Di Rock w/ One Small Step For Landmines

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Music By: Medicated Kisses. After the Tragedy.A Silent Fiction. The Bride Wore Black. Alaska and Me. Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer. We Are the Arsenal. Attica! Attica!. Rediscover.

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