DAYTROTTER session posted featuring new songs form La Strada's forthcoming lp 'New Home'

It's the sound of young Brooklyn group LA STRADA, a five-piece that utilizes accordions and strings in big, big, big arrangements and couples them with the kinds of winning lyrics that lead music journalists into calling such bands a bunch of learned gents with a bent on literate indie rock and roll

Upcoming Releases We Heart

Austin/Houston band HOLY FICTION, featuring former members of Pilot Drift, Hemyah and Winter Wallace, will be releasing their first full length entitled 'Hours From It'on Feb 23. As angular as it is rounded, lingering as it is succinct, effortless as it is strenuous, 'Hours From It' is overall a beautiful listen. Record Release show hits Warehouse Live in Houston Feb 20.

With the strength of their 'Old World Lies' EP propelling them forward, BRASSTRONAUT are set with their debut lp 'Mt Chimaera'to be released on Unfamiliar Records, also home to Japandroids. Check the tour page for US dates to catch the Canadian "Thelonius Monk and Radiohead” (WeLoveThat)

Way stoked to announce... Alumni of Red Red Meat and early Califone, Tim Hurley and Danni Iosello are back with the long-awaited SIN ROPAS lp,'Holy Broken,' their first release in five years! Recorded in the basement of their mountaintop log cabin, the couple offer their most lucid and evocative record yet. A US tour is tba around the Spring release on Shrug Records.

Inspired by a year of extensive tours and shows, and with the use of accordian, guitar, violin, bass, voice, drums, raw emotion and the guidance of producer Kyle "Slick" Johnson (Cymbals Eat Guitars, Modest Mouse), NYC superstars LA STRADA debut their 'New Home' LP this April. Catch their full force Daytrotter session Feb 7 and awesome live show Feb 12 @ Bell House Brooklyn.

UK sensation GLENN WOOL hits the US with his comedy album 'Let Your Hands Go' and a record release show at Hollywood Improv on Feb 16. The lethally funny Wool is currently performing throughout his native Canada on the Snowed In Tour.

If you have not yet subscribed to MARC MARON'S WTF podcast, you are missing out. Marc's insightful and hilarious exploration of the most philosophical question of our day, "WTF?", was named as the #3 iTunes podcast of 2009. For those in LA, you can be part of the live taping every month at UCB.

And with final edits being done on Season 2 of Delocated, the incredibly talented JON GLASER will be free from the editing room to do things like hang with pal PAUL RUDD. Join Jon and Paul "Bro'In Out" with Leo & Tony and more this Thurs February 4, 9PM @ 92YTribeca Mainstage, 200 Hudson Street NYC.

More awesome shows !!

REGGIE WATTS
2/11-2/14 – Boston, MA @ Disinformation in Boston
2/26 & 27 – Chicago, IL @ Lakeshore Theater
3/4-3/7 – Syracuse, NY @ Radio Play at Redhouse

EUGENE MIRMAN
2/3 – Los Angeles, CA @ Improv LA, 8pm – Eugene Mirman & Pretty Good Friends

GLENN WOOL
2/6 – Vancouver, BC @ Edgewater Casino, The Snowed in Comedy Tour
2/16 – LA, CA @ Improv *Record Release Show

MARC MARON
2/19 – LA, CA @ UCB, live WTF taping
3/4-6 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Palms
3/19 – LA, CA @ UCB, live WTF taping
3/25-27 – Bloomington, IN @ Funnybone
5/27-29 – Toronto, ON @ Yuks Yuks

TODD BARRY
2/5 & 2/6 – Arlington, VA @ Drafthouse Comedy Theater

2/14 - Valiumtime's Day @ Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn
with John Roberts, Adira Amram, Reggie Watts and Heloise Williams (of Heloise & The Savoir Faire)


X O X O

EUGENE MIRMAN & PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS
@ Hollywood Improv
Wednesday, Feb 3 at 8pm

Featuring Eugene Mirman, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Maria Bamford, Brendon Small, Andy Kindler and Larry Murphy

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New York City five piece LA STRADA - James Craft, Devon Press, Ted Lattis, Brady Miller, and Daniel Baer - are proud to announce the release of their anxiously-awaited full length debut 'New Home,' available this April on Ernest Jenning Record Co.

Recorded at Miner Street Studios in Philadelphia and The Buddy Project in Queens, and produced by Kyle "Slick" Johnson (Cymbals Eat Guitars, Modest Mouse, Fischerspooner), 'New Home' is a 13-track album inspired by everything from African pop to French pop, folk tunes to indie rock, Brooklyn life to travels abroad. La Strada's expansive pop channels lyrical wanderlust and raw emotion with voices, strings, accordian, guitars, horns and drums. As heard on 'New Home,' La Strada is one of the most exciting and unique-sounding outfits making music today.

Formed in early 2007, La Strada quickly made a name for itself with raucous, foot-stomping shows. Having built a solid fanbase in NY while sharing stages with Takka Takka, Sharon Van Etten, O'Death, Stars Like Fleas, and Clare and the Reasons, and having toured North America with the likes of Bowerbirds and Canada's Hey Rosetta! and Cuff the Duke, La Strada has lit up stages with their spectrum of musical color. A record release show in NYC will hit around the April 20 release date of 'New Home.' In the meantime, you can catch La Strada at the dates below, including SXSW, and in a brand new Daytrotter session posting February 7!


2/6 - New Haven, CT @ Rudys
2/12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Bell House w/Watson Twins
3/17 - Austin, TX @ Ernest Jenning SXSW Showcase

"One of the most promising bands in the city" - The L Magazine

"The best of the New York indie scene: interesting music made by talented people who have a point of view and a love for what they do." -The Huffington Post

'NEW HOME'
April 20, 2010 release date
Ernest Jenning Record Co

1. Go Forward
2. Julia
3. The Traveler
4. Wash On By
5. Baptism
6. My New Home
7. Where You Want To Go
8. There's Only Love
9. The Mountain Song
10. The Wedding Song
11. Shapes In The Sky
12. Mean That Much
13. Old Hill