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LAST PERSON EP Now Available on iTunes!
Today, the Last Person EP is available on iTunes (and March 23rd it will be available everywhere digitally.) It is made up of 5 alternate versions of songs from Transmitter Failure:
-Secrets
-Last Person
-Led to the Sea
-Start + Stop
-Dissolve
The first four tracks were recorded by Dan Romer and performed by Dan, Chris Kuffner, Elliot Jacobson, Ronen Ben Codor, and me live in Dan's basement in Brooklyn.
Dissolve (the Lovely Light re-think) was arranged and recorded by Saul Simon-MacWilliams at the Lovely Light, also in Brooklyn, and performed by Saul and me.
Dope cover art by Gail Marowitz.
Thanks a ton to Spinner.com for this sweet Listening Party feature.
Buy it on iTunes:
Tour Polaroids for March US & UK Tours
Hey friends. I’m planning to shoot some more Polaroids while I’m on tour this March! For those of you who don’t know the drill but want to know the drill or just like drills in general, it’s like this:
I shoot 3.25” x 4.25” Polaroids using a 440 Land Camera. The photographs can be reserved for $20. When I get home from tour, I’ll mail you a photo of my choosing plus a hand-written card containing information like where the shot was taken, what was going on at the time, and any other pertinent details I can think of.
This time around I’ll be shooting both black + white and color photos!!
(No promises - the color film is so finicky but I’m going to try my best)
(por ejemplo):
Dan Romer in Brooklyn and a cat in Asbury Park.
A diner near my hometown in NJ and Tyler Strickland in the green room at Reggie's in Chicago.
Spring Tour Dates!
With Bess Rogers:
3.01.10 Columbia, SC @ The White Mule
Spring Break Forever Tour 2010 with Bess Rogers and Allison Weiss:
3.03.10 Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge
3.04.10 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
3.05.10 Charlotte, NC @ The Evening Muse
3.06.10 Chapel Hill, NC @ The Local 506
3.07.10 Richmond, VA @ The Camel
3.08.10 Arlington, VA @ IOTA
3.09.10 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
3.10.10 Allston, MA @ Great Scott
3.11.10 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall
3.12.10 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
3.13.10 Columbus, OH @ The Basement
3.14.10 Nashville, TN @ 3rd & Lindsley
Supporting Motion City Soundtrack in the UK:
3.23.10 Leeds, UK @ The Cockpit
3.24.10 Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy
3.26.10 London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
3.27.10 Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 at Manchester University
3.28.10 Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy 2
3.30.10 Glasgow, UK @ Oran Mor
Headlining in the UK:
4.1.10 London, UK @ Monto Water Rats
New album "Transmitter Failure" available everywhere!
Greetings, my marmosets.
This day has been a long time coming, but here it is, and here we are with it. Today is the day upon which the physical, touchable, lickable manifestation of my new album, "Transmitter Failure," becomes available to the general public. You can buy it, now-times, HERE!
Now that that's out of the way, let me tell you everything.
Fourteen months ago, I moved into Dan Romer's home so we could work together more or less every day on making the record. Dan is a producer, songwriter, destroyer of worlds, and my brother/bff. In addition to producing, arranging, and engineering the record, Dan played many an instrument and sang many a vocal, as well as co-writing some of the songs with me. Bess Rogers, Osei Essed (The Woes), and Justin Pierre (Motion City Soundtrack) also participated in the writing of songs.
We wanted to make a record that would be a bit bouncier, a bit more fun to play live. But don't worry, the songs are still full of girl-feelings.
We enlisted the usual suspects (Bess Rogers, Chris Kuffner, Adam Christgau) to play the meat of the album's music. We were also lucky enough to snag the string section from Broadway's Spring Awakening (R.I.P.) via our dreamboat cellist friend, Ben Kalb. Saul (The Age of Rockets) and Meredith (Gregory & the Hawk) loaned us some beautiful choirs of "ahhs." What I'm saying is it was a team effort.
Now, I realize that some of you bought the album early/digitally through the great folks at Amie St. This was a great thing of you to do, and thank you kindly! You helped me. You helped kids who need surgery but can't afford it. But!! Please know!! The packaging of the album, created by Gail Marowitz (genius) and Ed Sherman (other genius), is stunning and beautiful and has everything to do with the music. I know it's terribly dinosaur-like of me to trumpet the benefit of a possessing a physical copy of an album, but I feel terribly strongly that the package is part of the experience in this case.
SO!! All that having been said, it is my honor and privilege to music-ify you in the small way of which I'm capable. Thank you so much for reading this, listening, caring about music. I hope you like what we've made.
Your humble servant,
Jenny Owen Youngs
For further reading/stimulation on/about my comrades, please visit their webspaces:
Dan Romer
Bess Rogers
Chris Kuffner
Adam Christgau
Ryan Freeland
Gail Marowitz
Ed Sherman
The Woes
Motion City Soundtrack
For further ME ME ME ME ME please visit my webspaces:
Official Website
MySpace
Facebook
Tumblr
Twitter
My shiny new blog
hey kids,
in an attempt to provide you with updates during this tumultuous time of european touring and recording of new records, i've started a blog, where i'll be posting tour and recording videos as well as other random stuff.
it's here:
http://jennyowenyoungs.tumblr.com
oxox
j