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.
Streetlight Manifesto have announced that they are going to tour South America for the first time in September of this year. The only confirmed country so far is Brazil, but there are apparently one or two more countries on the cards, details of which will be released in “the next few weeks”.
After having their copy of their video for “We Will Fall Together” removed from YouTube a while ago for… peculiar reasons, Streetlight Manifesto have now uploaded it to hdfest.com, where it is streamable at a much better quality (even better than vimeo’s “HD” version). Additionally, it is also available for download, this time as a full 720p HD file. For some peculiar reason both the streaming and the download versions have a near minute long quiet opening shot of the moon instead of the usual few second it lasts, but it is otherwise great quality.
Victory Records are finally pressing Streetlight Manifesto’s Everything Goes Numb on vinyl, as revealed by Vinyl Collective yesterday. The standard press will be on red and Vinyl Collective have an exclusive white pressing which is out of 500. In addition they are running a competition giving everyone who buys a copy a chance to win a test press.
It also seems likely that there will be a third pressing, perhaps exclusive to the Victory web store, as there was with Somewhere in the Between, with the obvious choice of colour being black as it is the third colour used for the artwork.
The vinyl is expected to be released sometime in July, though given the delays the SitB pressings experienced it’s probably best not be too expectant.
This is slightly old now but Streetlight Manifesto are confirmed to be playing both the Reading and Leeds festivals this year. They will be playing on the Lock Up stage, in Reading on the Friday (28th August) and in Leeds on the Sunday. They will also be playing a gig at the Glasgow Ivory Blacks on the intervening Saturday.
Streetlight Manifesto have updated their site with the dates of the last few US headline shows they are doing before they embark on the Warped tour. In regards to the current, nearly over, European tour they explained that, due to a personal matter, trumpet player Matt Stewart had to return home, so they have been playing with a short-notice replacement and their song repertoire is, as a consequence, somewhat limited.
Additionally, they had this to say about 99SoR:
As for 99 Songs, sit tight a tiny bit longer. The record is out of our hands now, in terms of recording, so we’re all waiting at this point. We’ll be posting a track list on the site very soon.
The Streetlight Manifesto site was updated today with news that they will be wrapping up recording and mixing the first part of 99 Songs of Revolution within the next few weeks, and that it will be available (in some form) sometime before the Warped Tour starts. A track listing and additional release info should be forthcoming. In addition Streetlight found some time to record a performance and interview for Fearless TV, and promise to inform us of its air date, so hopefully someone will be able to record and upload it for those of us unable to watch it.
