Streetlight Manifesto have posted the details for a third show in April. It previously appeared on their site without details, but was pulled for unknown reasons. The show is on the 24th April at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ and is with Patent Pending.
The Pentimento Music Company have released for free download an MP3 of the song “Hell” from Streetlight Manifesto’s upcoming 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I.
Streetlight have posted a sample of their cover of “Hell” by the Squirrel Nut Zippers on YouTube.
The Vans Warped Tour announced several days ago that Streetlight Manifesto will again be part of their line-up this year, playing all three Florida dates and the Atlanta one (23rd July–26th July).
Streetlight Manifesto have finally revealed the track list and album art for their upcoming release 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I and put it up for pre-order on both vinyl and CD at The RISC Store. They also confirmed 16th March as the release date.
Track list:
They also claim to have tons more news regarding upcoming tours, more song samples, etc etc
to be posted in in the next few days.
While it’s far from 100% confirmed it seems like the track list for the first volume of 99 Songs of Revolution might now be known based on a partial leak.
This matches up with the list of included artists (Paul Simon, The Postal Service, NOFX, The Dead Milkmen, Bad Religion, Radiohead) from Victory Records’ latest newsletter
Victory Records have revealed a release date of 16th March for Streetlight Manifesto’s upcoming cover album 99 Songs of Revolution. While any news that comes from Victory rather than the band should always be taken with a pinch of salt, it seems likely that this is legitimate given the albums completed state. No word yet on album art, track listing, or the vinyl release Pentimento Music is supposed to be doing.
Streetlight Manifesto are booked to play a couple of shows in April, one on the 23rd at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY and the other on the 25th at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel in Providence RI. The support acts are Lionize and Aficianado. No word on whether or not there will be further shows.
As promised Streetlight Manifesto have uploaded clips of some songs from their upcoming 99 Songs of Revolution. There are six clips in total, and If you can guess what songs samples 5 and 6 are, you can have Chris Thatcher. As in, you know, you will legally own him. Seriously.
Clips: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
11.17.2009 | Still Alive, Still Kicking
Hello there everyone. Let’s jump straight into it, shall we?1) 99 SOR. We’re being buried with emails regarding the release date but we can’t announce one because we don’t know when it is. What we can say is this: some record labels (not naming names here, so it can’t be “libel”) are just plain horrendous. That’s pretty much all we can say for now. Seriously though, it’s a sad fact that the bullshit bands have to put up with from some labels isn’t worth the benefits (ha!) of being on said labels.
That being said, it looks like 99SOR: Volume One will be released on vinyl via the Pentimento Music Company long before it comes out on CD or digitally. Stay tuned for a release date for the vinyl. We’ll also be posting clips from the record in the next few days, along with artwork, since it is in fact finished and just sitting around (you have no idea how frustrating it is).
2) People are also asking when we’ll be hitting the road again. We have no tours planned as of this very minute but we are planning our 2010 now. More importantly, though, we will be heading into the studio soon (as is a particular electricity deficient collective..) and we don’t plan on touring until we have a few records to release.
3) The Risc Store just got a bunch of new items, Streetlight and otherwise. ‘Tis the season yada yada blah blah blah..
4) During our downtime, our resident tenor sax genius will be giving lessons. Straight from the Conti’s mouth:
Jim Conti will be offering saxophone lessons along with music theory tutoring/instruction in the Montgomery County, Maryland/NW D.C. area. Individual instruction for all levels on alto, tenor, or baritone. Lessons can include classical and/or jazz and improvisational instruction. Anyone interested can contact him (serious inquiries please) at jim_conti@live.com for more information.
Obviously we are very fond of our Jimmy, so no stalkers or creeps please.
That is all, see you at the next update, with soundclips!
Thanks to Mike for just e-mailing me to say that The Stitch Up’s second album Set Your Alarm is now available on the RISC Store.
Streetlight Manifesto have uploaded their second official music video to their YouTube account, and this time it’s for “Would You Be Impressed?”. The description with the video is definitely worth a read, and in case it “disappears” here it is in full:
This is Streetlight Manifesto’s second music video, this time for “Would You Be Impressed?” from the record “Somewhere In The Between”. It was animated by Jurjen Bosklopper
http://www.jurjenbosklopper.nl
The creation of this video was funded entirely by the band, after our label refused to help us make a second video for our record. Our record label forced YouTube to remove our last music video from our account by claiming that using our own recorded music was a “copyright violation”. If this video disappears from our account, we just want everyone to understand why. If you dig our band, or any band for that matter, make sure your support goes straight to the band and not to the companies that often times reap the benefits of the band’s success without actually ever helping the band. Thanks.
It it does disappear do not worry as the video will be preserved, both here and elsewhere.
Also interesting to note is that the video starts off with four logos flashing up: The RISC Group logo, the Pentimento Music logo, an unknown logo and the classic Streetlight Manifesto streetlamp. Hopefully this purpose of this logo will not remain a mystery for too long, but knowing who we are dealing with it’s more likely to be the opposite.
Streetlight Manifesto have updated their site with news that their planned South American tour in September has unfortunately had to be cancelled due to problems cause by swine flu, with plans to reschedule for 2010.
They also updated their upcoming shows for the “Last Tour of the Decade” (new dates on the shows page as usual) and revealed that as they are playing two back-to-back shows in NYC they will be playing both their albums from start to finish: Everything Goes Numb on Sunday 20th September at the Highline Ballroom and Somewhere in the Between on the Monday at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill. After this tour they will be taking a break, implied to be for recording.
Fearless Music have uploaded a third video of the set Streetlight Manifesto did for them, and this time the song is “Would You Be Impressed?”.
Though not officially announced (with the exception of one show) on the Streetlight Manifesto website yet, several dates have recently appeared for a small Streetlight tour in America and Canada during late September and early October of this year. The support listed for these dates are Outernational and Broadway Calls, the latter of which have most of the dates on their MySpace. All the currently known dates can of course be found on the Streetlight Manifesto shows page, and hopefully Streetlight will post an update about the tour soon.
Streetlight Manifesto have posted the dates for their upcoming South American tour on their website, though as of yet only one of them has a venue announced. The tour starts off with a show in Buenos Aires, Argentina before making four more stops in Brazil. The dates are of course also available on the Streetlight shows page.
Victory published its latest product catalogue recently that revealed that the Everything Goes Numb vinyl is going to be a double LP instead of a single LP as originally stated, as well as the fact that, as suspected, the Victory web store will have an exclusive colour.
Streetlight Manifesto have had to pull out of their show at the Ivory Blacks in Glasgow on 29th August for unknown reasons. Ticket refunds are available from the point of purchase.
Fearless Music have posted the second of their Streetlight Manifesto videos to their YouTube channel, and this time it’s “Somewhere in the Between”.
Streetlight Manifesto’s performance of “We Will Fall Together” from Fearless Music TV is now available on YouTube, and it’s a lot faster than the album version. In the update linking to the video Streetlight also say that their second song should be aired this weekend. The Fearless Music MySpace has a page detailing their airtimes and channels in different regions so you can check if you can watch/record it.
