Will Maclean’s new album. Matisse meets Malevich. Now playing on Radio Luxotone.
-
Ice Cream Mission to Mars
-
Luxotone Radio’s new logo
Radio Luxotone’s new Logo, courtesy of some pixellated prompting from the good people at itunes radio.
-
Dive Into the End of the World
Robin O’Brien’s new album, Dive Into the End of the World (Luxotone 708), is available at CDbaby.com and iTunes. Tracks can be previewed or purchased for download here or at luxotone.bandcamp.com.
Special thanks to the many musicians and friends who contributed to this record. Especially, Kevin Salem, Jocelyne Lanois, Nikos Eliot, Marcus Giamatti, Chris Harford, Anthony Presti and Brooklyn artist Velveeta Heartbreak (gallerymjb.com) who freed us from the chains of graphical irony.
If you’d like a review copy, contact me at george ( ) luxotone.com.
Now, bend your knees, lean forward, and jump….
-
Bandcamp Mobile
The amazing people at Bandcamp have created mobile versions of their pages. So besides the Luxotone page they host, you can now listen to luxotone album tracks on your phone, download free tracks, etc. Just go to luxotone.bandcamp.com on your mobile browser. -
The Lavender Soundtrack
Rhapsody, an upcoming release from director Marc Bessenger (Bite Marks) features Robin O’Brien’s “Lavender Sky” (from The Empty Bowl) in its new trailer. When completed, the film will feature additional music by O’Brien and other Luxotone artists. -
It’s the end of the world and it sounds fine.
Robin O’Brien’s upcoming album, Dive into the End of the World, is smoldering and about to explode. Robin’s friends Kevin Salem (Dumptruck, Freedy Johnston, Mercury Rev, Rachel Yamagata) and Jocelyne Lanois (Martha and the Muffins, Ani DiFranco, Sarah McLachlan) have contributed guitar and bass tracks that sound–what else?–apocalyptic. Creation meets destruction, in the key of G. Release date TBA, but hopefully before, you know…
-
Bo Digg responds to “the Donovan situation”
Those of you who have discovered Bo Digg through his recent Luxotone releases will know that Bo has a long-standing relationship (of sorts) to Donovan, the Scottish folk singer with whom Bo Digg is frequently confused. You have to admit there’s a certain likeness there (compare this vintage pic of the Scottish troubador with the cover of Bo’s ‘come-back’ greatest hits cassette from the 90′s). The problem is so serious, Bo says, that his career fizzled after “Jonathan Mortimer Canary” only because Donovan’s disastrous album Cosmic Wheels rubbed off on him. Suddenly in 1973 nobody returned his phone calls, and his audience dropped off drastically (except for a handful of kids who kept calling out for Bo to sing “Intergalactic Laxative”). They’d say, “Bo Digg? Isn’t he the guy that Robert Christgau said had ‘a head full of nothing‘?”Wrong. Wrongwrongwrong (as Bo likes to say). In fact he’s weathered the Donovan situation pretty well for some twenty years or more now. But with news that Donovan will be Mellow Yellowing his way to Cleveland and the Rock Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year, Bo has apparently had enough. His publicist sent us this press release:
DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD:
Rocker Bo Digg was to hold a press conference from his Double-Wide in the San Fernando Valley yesterday afternoon.. No one showed, so he rescheduled it for this morning, from the stockroom at the 7-11 where he works. No one attended. Mr. Digg released a statement via the web:
‘I have no comment, at this time, on Mr. Donivin’s “induction” into the R and R Hall–due to the ongoing litigation cases against Mr. Donivin, and others, still pending, relating to lyrics, copyrights and of course issues of image likeness.
However I will say that I am not bitter, but there is no way I can accept any invitation to speak in his honor at this or any future event concerning Donivin, or concerning the Rock Hall itself as long as this kind of oversight goes on and the real heroes of rock are overlooked and forced to pawn their guitars and work in retail making slurpees and such.
Peace. Love. Send cash,
Bo Digg.
Bo Digg is not alone on this one. Even people who have no idea who Bo Digg is, or the small but important part he played in music history, are weighing in against the induction of Donovan. Now if Bo can only get the attention of the secretive (and so-called) “nominating committee,” perhaps the Rock Hall can restore some of its lost credibility by recognizing Bo’s contributions. If they’re so smitten with “Intergalactic Laxative,” maybe they need to remember Bo’s own foray (before “Space Oddity,” mind you) into the space-exploration-meets-the-electric-guitar, such as his 1969 single “Apollo Infinity.”
I mean, they didn’t call it a “stratocaster” for nothing, right?
This single mysteriously got sucked into the black hole at the center of the music business, too. And of course it didn’t help that the French EMI affiiliate that pressed the single misspelled Bo’s name.
-
Daggerzine reviews Slopes of Distant Hills
Daggerzine writes, “SLOPES OF DISTANT HILLS- S/T- LUXOTONE- This “band” is the work of one, guy, Andrew Maurer, armed with his voice, acoustic guitar and a keyboard he creates 11 musical nuggets. It’s really easy to like as most of it is pleasant and melodic. I like it and think you might too. www.luxotone.com”.
In fact, we do like it. -
Goosebumps
It’s halloween and I just noticed a review of Robin O’Brien’s first Luxotone EP, FORE, on Amazon.com. It says, “How often do you hear a singer that can inspire goosebumps?” Must be spooky good.
Last week’s review of Robin’s The Empty Bowl called it “haunting”. Hmmm.
-
The Empty Bowl “Haunting and Uplifting”
Scotland’s music magazine Is This Music? is becoming a fan of Robin O’Brien. Jonathan Muirhead notes that “even by O’Brien’s previous standards, this is an intensely romantic piece of work.” “O’Brien’s voice peaks and soars in all the right places, carrying you with it on a journey of love, hope, pain and discovery, to which we can all, somehow, relate.”Read the full review here.