Rock and Roll Hotel
Description: Newsletters for members.
 
Date Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2011
Newsletter Subject: Just Announced: Twin Shadow, Rasputina + more!
Newsletter Content:
Just Announced:
Twin Shadow - Wednesday September 7
Rasputina - Monday October 31




Thursday June 16

People Under the Stairs
Los Angeles based People Under The Stairs, Double K (Michael Turner) and Thes One (Christopher Portugal) are the most successful fully independent hip hop duo in the history of Hip-Hop. Since their initial full length release in 1998, People Under The Stairs have performed more than a thousand sold out shows, festivals and world tours spanning 6 continents and 40 countries.

with special guest:
Count Bass D
8pm




Friday June 17

Kingsley Flood

Coming out of Boston, Kingsley Flood knows “Americana” music isn’t a cliché world of cabins, hollers and ’shine—but songs about ordinary people’s challenges set to tunes that resonate.  Meshing the personal and the political with a fiery sound (call it “city-country”), Kingsley Flood draws as much from Woody Guthrie and the Band as it does Joe Strummer and the Replacements.

with special guests:
Ugly Purple Sweater
The Future Laureates

830pm




Saturday June 18
The Naked And Famous

“Young Blood” went on to platinum sales in New Zealand and by March 2011 was also certified Gold in Australia. The song won the group the prestigious APRA Silver Scroll songwriting award in New Zealand for 2010 and in early 2011 the international accolades began to follow as the The Naked And Famous collected the Philip Hall Radar Award at the Shockwaves NME awards in London. Previous winners of this fresh talent award from NME have been Drums, Glasvegas and The Big Pink.

with special guest:
Young Empires




Monday June 20

Chad VanGaalen
While VanGaalen's three previous records were made in a cramped basement studio, a move to a larger recording room offered space to develop and refine his sound. Fresh from producing the critically-lauded Public Strain album by Women, VanGaalen decided to avoid the comfort of working on previous ground, and apply some of the recording techniques and sonic ideas that emerged from those sessions. For the first time, multi-tracked and often overdriven guitar is the instrument at the center of the songs, which are often Spartan and free of the melodic details that embellished previous albums. With this focus on guitar, combined with a beloved vintage tape machine determining the sound, VanGaalen moved towards a leaner, no-frills approach-one that more closely resembles the music that influenced him as a teenager, while continuing the arc laid out in his previous work.
with special guest
Nat Baldwin



Tuesday June 21
White Denim
White Denim (now a four-piece) have never been less than terrific, but as they move further from the garage and embrace their real love – early ’70s Americana – they defy all probability. This time it’s a fondness for the wiggy jam-band sound of Lowell George’s Little Feat that’s channelled through wiry post-hardcore and the triumphant yet finickity bits of post-rock. It’s a breathless fusion played at dumbfounding speed and gives rise to a sound we’ll call math-boogie. - NME
with special guests:
Mazes
The Static Jacks