FEBRUARY 20, 2011
Welcome to the Year of Tenth Life.
It's gonna be hard to wait until May 10th to have ya'll sneak a peek so stay tuned. We will post a couple of tunes a little further down the line. Maybe as a sign of spring? In the meantime, here is a link to a YouTube channel where you can see and hear 2 songs from the record live-style and the version of the Star Spangled Banner that I recorded as well.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Antietamnyc
Stay tuned to the Antietam channel at YouTube for more video soon.
The word is getting out on Double Star, TK's new Thrill Jockey release with Rick Rizzo. TK could not be more pleased than to have it called both a rock and a country record! Here are links to a couple of swell reviews and to the Thrill Jockey site where you can read a manifesto and hear a tune. Please also consider supporting our friends at Other Music and Saki Store by picking it up. 500 copies on vinyl or digital download. Included with the vinyl is a download card for the digital tracks as well as the bonus EP, Noisy Attic, with 3 improvised cuts by Rizzo, Key and Tim Harris.
http://www.adequacy.net/2011/02/rick-rizzo-tara-key-double-star-eleventh-dream-day-riot-now/
http://www.buzzinmusicblog.co.uk/rick-rizzo-and-tara-key-release-new-album-double-star/3939#more-3939
http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=10038
Last but not least--I thought I was just going to see Mofungo. Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric and YLT one Hanukkah night and I ended up on stage for several tunes: Barnaby, Hardly Working-Styles Of the Times and Stockholm Syndrome! NYC Taper has a download of the set available here: http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=4487
Photo by Liz Clayton
OCTOBER 25, 2010
This has been an incredibly busy summer and fall for the Antietam 3. We have been working hard on finishing our record (title TBA) at Seaside Lounge with Josh Clark at the helm once again.
What does it sound like? I'd say some words I would use would be: taut, terse, fervent, insistent, punchy. Tim's bass, in my humble opinion, is singing on this one. Absolutely percolating. And Madell is nailing it to the wall. TK guitar--JC has tuned it in so brilliantly that the crackle is leaping out of the fire pit onto tape. Can you tell I'm excited?
I was asked by WNYC's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen to participate in their series American Icons. This episode was about Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock performance. I spoke with producer David Krasnow about Jimi and his influence on me, about the performance itself, and then I jammed my own version of the Star-Spangled Banner for the program. I was later encouraged to create a video performance of the piece for the WNYC American Icons site and I was excited to do so.
So, the program will run on November 18th and will be streamed at WNYC's site, along with my video. My mother tells me that from the time I was an infant up to about 2 years old, I would never let her go to sleep until, as we rocked in the rocker together, I would see the American Flag on TV and hear the National Anthem. My movie is my tribute to analog TV's sign-off protocol. (Remember a time before all-night infomercials...?) I will be posting a link to the video soon. Here is a link to the program page:
http://www.studio360.org/2010/nov/19/jimi-hendrixs-star-spangled-banner/
So, yours truly TK and Rick Rizzo have finished our record!
It is called Double Star and it is due on Thrill Jockey Records near the end of February. We had an awesome mixing weekend at the Seaside Headquarters and Josh Clark supplied some monster drums to many of the tracks. Also appearing on the record are Tim and Peter Walsh. There are 10 tracks on the vinyl/digital download only release, plus, on the digital front, an additional 3 tracks called "Noisy Attic" which were real time transmissions from Rizzo, Key and Harris. More soon when Thrill Jockey releases more details.
Antietam also rode again this year to raise funds for MS. It's never too late to make a donation. An alarming number of friends and family have had their lives touched in a direct or indirect way by MS, so I figure while I have the privilege of good health the least I can do is ride 30 miles for the cause.
