The Posies

Last week in Brooklyn, the Posies performed on the inaugural episode of Rabid in the Kennel, a new radio series hosted by Jack Rabid (of the Big Takeover on Break Thru Radio.

You can view a slideshow of photos from the session (shot by Giuliana Ciampoli) here or on Flickr.

Thursday, June 18th @ Littlefield, in Brooklyn NY. 8pm / $10. Tickets are available here.

From Ken’s myspace blog:

I will play a solo show at Littlefield on Thursday June 18. This show just came about as a result of demand after my show with Robyn Hitchcock at the Bell House last week. So…please come!

8pm. I will play a LOOOOOONG time.

Jon will once again be playing solo opening for Fountains of Wayne, this time in the Midwest US.

7/7 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
7/8 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
7/10 Chicago, IL – Park West
7/11 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall

Great review of Jon Auer/FOW from their Seattle show 1/14/09 here.

Find DreamingViola’s Jon Auer/FOW tour video from Jan ‘09 at the bottom of this post.

Jon will also be playing two shows in the Northwest with Shawn Smith of Brad, Satchel, & Pigeonhed fame and Lorelei.

6/25 Seattle, WA – Crocodile Café
6/26 Bremerton, WA – Winterland

• New shows added this week:

  7/16 – Ken Stringfellow DJs Arola Nights @ Arola Restaurant @ Hotel Arts. Barcelona, SPAIN
  10/28 – Ken Stringfellow @ Club Castro, Skopje, MACEDONIA

• Ken has joined Twitter – follow his updates @KenStringfellow.
• Magnet asks artists to name their favorite American power pop songs, and Chris Walla (of Death Cab for Cutie) chose “Solar Sister.” Here’s what he had to say:
  

  It’s their finest moment, the perfect balance of bombastic, tricky cheapness and vocal creme fraische. I can’t understand half the words, but it doesn’t seem to matter that much. I learned more about singing harmonies with this record in my car than I did in three years of choir.

• Also in Magnet: ‘Frosting On The Beater’ makes their list of Top 15 American Power-Pop Albums, and they’ve republished a 2002 article on the subject of power pop, with comments from Ken.
• Press for next weekend’s shows in NY: The New Yorker & Ken is interviewed by the Brooklyn blog 24/Seven.
• Not Lame and American Songwriter review ‘Smoking Kills’.
• Lastly – Ken is playing with The Sad Knights in Lauzerte, France tonight, and the show will be streamed online at La Grosse Tambouille, 23h France time.

The Posies will be playing “Frosting On The Beater” at the Taste of Randolph Street Festival June 20th in Chicago (5:30pm – 6:45pm), and they’ll also be at Charlotte Pop Fest in Charlotte, NC on September 24th.

Advance tickets for Charlotte Pop Fest are available here. (Please note they are only allowing 100 advance tickets for the Posies’ show… so get them soon.)

Big Star news:
+ Rhino confirms a box set is in the works.
- Scarlett Johansson is covering “I Am The Cosmos” on her next record.

On the topic of Big Star, Bud Scoppa posted a never-published article from 2000 last week on his blog. It comes highly recommended – you’ll see that in the comments, Jody Stephens calls it “one of the best pieces [he's] ever seen about the band.”

Here’s a snippet on the Posies:

Says Jody Stephens, who handpicked the Posies to fill in the holes for the reunited Big Star: “Frosting on the Beater does to me what all my favorite albums do: They surprise me with a sense of wonder much like the kids in ET must have felt when all their bikes took to the air.”

Click on the logo to do directly to their page.

follow @thedisciplines

And if you haven’t already, check out:

follow @jonauer

follow @theposies

RadarStereo have uploaded photos from Ken’s show in Quito, Ecuador last week. Click here to view the full set.

Ken is the guest editor of Magnet’s blog this week. His column is called “Ken Stringfellow’s Foreign Correspondence” and in it, he’s exploring the “cultural highlights” of France and Norway.

Links to his posts thus far:
Intro
Le Motel
Katzenjammer
Caché
Blood And Guts Eating

Jon will be playing a show on 4/1/09 at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle, WA with John Wesley Harding and comedian Eugene Mirman (from “Flight of the Conchords”) as well as John Roderick (of the Long Winters), Thee Sgt.Major III, and writer/novelist Sherman Alexie.

For more info go here to Jon’s Myspace posting.

Ken’s tour of South America is coming to an end next week; here are the remaining dates:

APRIL 2, 2009
KS @ El Aguijon, Quito ECUADOR supporting Mama Vudu

APRIL 4, 2009
KS @ Hard Rock Cafe, Bogota COLOMBIA

APRIL 7, 2009
KS does DiSCiPLiNES Live on Rock & Pop Radio Argentina, noon Buenos Aires time
KS does YOURS FOR THE TAKiNG live on Un Mundo Perfecto TV, 23.30 Buenos Aires time

APRIL 9, 2009
KS @ La Trastienda, Buenos Aires ARGENTINA supporting The Super Ratones

APRIL 11, 2009
KS @ Lindolfo, Montevideo URUGUAY

Other shows on the horizon:

APRIL 16, 2009
KS @ The Delancey, New York NY – FREE!

MAY 21, 2009
THE DiSCiPLiNES @ Kägelbanan @ Södra Teatern, Stockholm SWEDEN

May 26, 2009
THE DiSCiPLiNES @ Heart of Gold Showcase @ Primavera Sound Festival @ Apolo, Barcelona SPAIN