mallory’s Return Rates CB’s “Hero of the Zeros”
We second all of Mike Breen’s highlights of a pretty great decade for Music in Cincinnati, CityBeat’s Heros of the Zeros, but are especially glad Mike noticed the Return of mallory. We felt the same way, and jumped at the chance to release “Before it Grows…” on our imprint.
Thanks Mike! We think so too.
The Sundresses Sell Out!
No, silly, not that way. The good way: Thier debut, The Only Tourist In Town has officially sold out it’s initial pressing, leaving Barkinghaus as the only CD-based product for Cincy’s beloved Sundresses!
Not to worry: You can still get it digitally, on iTunes and Amazon. And The All Night Party‘s been fretting over the dwindling supply since our founding, so the inevitable reissue is on it’s way.
But in the meantime, stay tuned for brand new music from The Sundresses in 2009.
Pssst: Party in Cincinnati Magazine!
Posted by monika in The Party Line on December 8th, 2009
Cincinnati Magazine shows The All Night Party a little love, and spreads the ink around in this very nice little piece… Enjoy!
2009 CEAs Rock The Scene
No, I’m not talking about the slamming performances turned in by the likes of The Lions Rampant, You, You’re Awesome, Mark Utley & Magnolia Mountain, II Juicy, Small Time Crooks and Brian Olive. Nor is it unusual for Cincy’s stars to come out on CEA night: aside from hosts and presenters including Channel 12′s Jen Dalton, Jim Tarbell, Aaron Sharpe, Marvin Hawkins (we even saw freshly minted councilwoman, Laurie Quinlivan at the show!). Fans are used to hearing about things like the King Memorial and Herzog Studios plaque from folks like Elliot Ruther, and Brian Powers, with support of legendary King Records drummer Phillip Paul, Patti Collins, and Russell Driver. What no one expected was The Seedy Seed’s sweep – 3/3 in categories they were nominated!
What’s more, fresh, young bands slinging new sounds broke through this year. You, You’re Awesome, Bad Veins, and the aforementioned Seeds suggest a seismic shift to a modern sound. Cincy’s traditionally powerful Americana and Indie genres are merging with electronica and integrating technology in very human ways. The Seedy Seeds are the tip of that iceberg. But under the water line, bands like the J. Dorsey Blues Revival are redefining old genres with new tricks (in a town with a number of great blues bands, this category is always hard-fought). Jazz has found a new style and venue here, courtesy of the Northside Jazz Ensemble’s regular gig at the Northside Tavern (following a trend pioneered up the street, with the Comet Blue Grass All Stars‘ Bluegrass Sundays).
Lets not forget the nominees who didn’t win. When there are shifts this dramatic, it’s easy to miss change that didn’t happen. Mack West surely gave perennial champ, Dallas Moore, a run in the Country category. Wussy, The Sundresses, The Hiders, Jake Speed, and The Lions Rampant all pushed boundaries in their genres this year, as fan/voters faced an embarrassment of musical riches. For a town Cincinnati’s size it’s amazing to be able to field legitimate competitors in so many genres.
Without further ado, here are the fan’s picks for 2009:
2009 CEA Winners
Artist of the Year
Bad Veins
Album of the Year
The Seedy Seeds, Count the Days
New Artist of the Year
You, You’re Awesome
Alternative/Indie
The Seedy Seeds
Bluegrass
Rumpke Mountain Boys
Country
Dallas Moore
Experimental/Electronic
Chick Pimp, Coke Dealer at a Bar
Folk/Americana
The Tillers
Hip Hop
Eclipse
Jazz
Northside Jazz Ensemble
Metal/Hardcore
Beneath the Sky
R&B/Funk
Freekbass
Rock/Hard Rock
Buffalo Killers
Singer/Songwriter
Kim Taylor
World Music
The Pinstripes
Best Musical Ambassador for the City
Heartless Bastards
Best Live Act
The Seedy Seeds
MISSION OF BURMA STRIKE WOXY!
Posted by Dave in So Random, The Party Line on November 18th, 2009
OK, forgive me for being speechless. But something like a revelation is happening as I type: MISSION OF BURMA is rawking ANP partner Brian Niesz’ spanking new room at WOXY with the second live Lounge Act from the new digs in Austin (Royal Bangs did the first). What a way to break in a room!
While the first track was a little rough, things were dialed in for the second, and what’s coming through my tiny laptop speakers is blowing my mind (mix courtesy of Shellac’s Bob Weston). Enough raving! Go to WOXY and download this Lounge Act asap… it’s a keeper!
Very Extremely Dangerous Mastering
Shake It Record’s new series, Very Extremely Dangerous Singles gets plenty of love in this week’s CityBeat, courtesy of Steve Rosen. Honoring legendary Eddie Hinton, this series is truly unique, and we’re privileged to be involved. While our buddy Greg Dulli‘s contribution, Cover Me, arrived ready to go, we’ve been blessed with the good fortune to master the next two parts of the series!
We’re pleased to report that The Drive By Trucker’s Everybody Needs Love and Where’s Eddie? are two great sides, the latter being an original tribute track from the Truckers. Sweet! Wussy’s 300 Pounds of Hungry is a major departure for the band… hairy, experimental stuff, reminding me more of an early Ass Ponys jam than anything the band has done to date… maybe even closer to the band I first saw Chuck Cleaver in, The Lunch Buddies (or was Gomez first?). The B side, Breakfast in Bed is possibly the best Wussy song ever.
We truly can’t wait for the next installment… these are the records that make mastering fun!
What’s New: Coolness from The Party
Posted by Dave in Bands, The Party Line on November 3rd, 2009
If you caught mallory’s CD release party for “…before it grows“ at the Southgate House, you may have noticed something different about the merch table. Chances are, you saw a bunch of little tag cards attached to buttons, t-shirts, and just laying out by themselves. You didn’t see their first CD, the first hundred years – it’s sold out! That doesn’t mean you couldn’t buy it at the show, however. We re-released it as a downloadable product, delivered via those aforementioned tag cards. At the All Night Party, we call it “musicated merch”. Other artist services companies offer similar products, but we’re pretty sure ours are cooler (more on that in our next post!). The big idea is this – take band merchandise (t-shirt, button, sunglasses), and add a download code for music by the band, and then sell the item as one package deal. Presto, you have musicated merchandise.
mallory wasn’t the only band with musicated merch at the Southgate House that night. The Sundresses debuted their own musicated merch at The All Night Party’s showcase at MPMF last month. Fuck Yeah I’m With The Sundresses is a three-song sampler shaped like a conventioneers name tag… 
clever! Selling for just $2 and available only at shows, it was spotted all over downtown Cincinnati during MidPoint. The musicated tag has tracks from all three of The Sundresses official releases, The Only Tourist in Town, Barkinghaus, and a split Sundresses/4192 release.
The Sundresses introduced fans to their latest EP, Sundresses Motel via a motel doorknob card at the show on Friday night. Since Barkinghaus was 2008′s CEA winner for Album of the Year, The Sundresses were understandably anxious to release new material, and wanted to reintroduce some classic demo tracks. Their latest recording, a new song called “Larry Nixon” was captured on their recent Sandwich Tour in Asbury Park, NJ, and mixed by ANP’s own (and WOXY legend) Brian Niesz, and is included on the card.
People ask us all the time what exactly we do here at The All Night Party. While we often just say “we’re like a record label” we know that’s not quite right. The truth is we just make cool music products like this. Our passion is finding new, unique (hopefully interesting!) ways to deliver music, and connecting bands with fans.
Musicating merch is relatively new, and these packages might be interesting, but download cards aren’t exactly unique… Starbucks hands them out every day, after all! Still, we think our approach is special… standby for the next post to learn why and how.
Finally: Herzog Studios Gets Historic Marker!
CityBeat’s Mike Breen is reporting that the Herzog Studios Marker is a Go! This is exciting news… our friends at the Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation recently held a benefit to get this done, which we recorded at The Southgate House. It’s great to see it finally happening.
Herzog Studios, originally located across Race Street from WLW’s old studios, was one of the first independent studios around (most studios were connected with labels or radio in those days). While the benefit recalled it’s most famous sessions, with Hank Williams, many radio stars crossed Race to record other hits. Before King Records had their own place in Evanston they worked at Herzog!
The Herzog legacy survives to this day. Sound Images chief engineer, Jay Petach, was one of many Herzog alumni who went on to do great things. Today Jay’s an anchor of the recording community in Cincinnati. At the benefit concert, fans heard many of the songs made there performed by our scene’s finest artists. Our city’s influence didn’t start (or end!) with King. So it’s great to see our community finally honor this legendary institution.
mallory Drops Da Bomb on Friday 10/23 @ SGH
The wait’s over next Friday, October 23. mallory’s dropping their much-anticipated follow up CD at The Southgate House, appearing with fellow ANP artists, The Sundresses, and friends State Song, The Sleeping Sea, e.p. hall, Animal Circles, and Lifelike.
Call me excited, but I could no longer wait to start making noise about mallory’s new record, “…Before it Grows“, the first actual ANP CD since The Sundresses’ Barkinghaus. What can I say? We at The Party like sophomore releases from great bands, and this one’s been so long in the making we just couldn’t pass.
For the virgins out there: mallory’s debut, “The First Hundred Years” was released in 2003 as the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards’ Album of the Year. The band drew national media attention, and much label interest. But this new album was already gestating, and moving in a new direction. For most labels, that’s anathema – newly-signed artists are generally expected to deliver more of the same to their label, building on previous work. That’s not mallory! From their beginning, this band’s been all about pushing boundaries. So, …Before it Grows found a natural home with The All Night Party. We like pushing boundaries, so we jumped all over this 7 track gem, fully aware it doesn’t neatly fit into iTunes’ 11-track/album formula, or conventional distribution models.
Now you can finally hear what we’re so excited about! To our shock and awe, the band insisted on serving up higher quality mp3s for you to sample… mallory’s Mat Arnold broke it down for us, when we asked why they were wanted to give up a $1.29 sale (what iTunes and Amazon charge for “high res” files). ”It may not make difference to the average listener, but I find that people who really like us aren’t average listeners… not in a pretentious way – we understand our music can take some personal investment.” Having heard the whole record in full CD-quality glory, we agree. In fact, we decide it’s important enough to go one step farther, and deliver your demo at higher quality than either iTunes or Amazon offer – a 320K mp3! So for your listening pleasure, and without further ado… mallory’s pidgin from ”…Before it Grows” with better sound quality than money can buy for a download!
Stay tuned for more… I’m just excitable and couldn’t wait any longer!
-d-
Pharoahfest Wraps
For those who didn’t brave the fall chill (c’mon, it’s jacket weather!) it was a fun show. Eclipse warmed up the crowd with a set that really fit the spirit of the day. They also looked really cool, playing what was left of the sun down below the terminal…
After the sun had set, The Kentucky Struts returned to form, firing on all cylinders. It was great to see the full band (last time I saw them perform, it was just Todd and Adam unplugged)… very hot show. Sharp lookers, those Struts:
Themdresses shook it up a bit, with a couple new songs (they’re apparently writing a lot of stuff – in addition to the new track, Larry Nixon, on their new Sundresses Motel download card (an ANP merch-table only release you can only buy at the shows), they’ve been playing other new songs at shows lately, including the ANP showcase at MPMF. Tonight was no exception – they played a few new songs in their short, tight set.
Finally, Mia Carruthers and The Retros wrapped up the ANP sponsored Sphinx Session, playing a longer set than her MPMF appearance, for a very friendly crowd (SCPA students in the day-long talent portion of the event were there to support their alum as she anchored the pro stage).
We’ll post more photos later but I thought this last one was fun… we’re in some interesting company…
Thanks to InterAlliance and the Museum Center for letting us support this great event, by bringing some of Cincy’s best bands to the show. Thanks to Eclipse Movement, The Kentucky Struts, The Sundresses and Mia for bringing the rock.
