4 posts tagged “leerone”
If you were a teen during the 80s, it was hard to not fall in love with some of his movies, including Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Pretty in Pink. When I was talking about (500) Days of Summer, I almost reference Hughes' undeniable influences on the movie and soundtrack, but I did not want to make that assumption since I haven't seen the movie.
Not really much to add to the news, but apparently he was visiting families in Manhattan and suffered a heart attack during a morning walk.
As you know, I am a huge fan of popular culture, and I did grow up and fondly remember these movies. Some of them, in particular the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, introduced me to a world of alternative music.
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8/29 Montreal, Metropolis
8/30 Toronto, V Fest
9/1-2 New York NY, Hammerstein
9/3 Washington DC, Constitution Hall
9/5 Boston MA, HOB
9/6 Atlantic City NJ, House of Blues
9/9 Miami FL, Fillmore
9/10 Tampa FL, Tampa Bay PAC
9/11 Orlando FL, HOB
9/12 Atlanta GA, Chastain
9/14 Chicago IL, Chicago Theater
9/15 Milwaukee WI, Pabst Ballroom
9/16 Minneapolis MN, State Theater
9/19 Vancouver, Vancouver Centre of the Perf Arts
9/20 Seattle WA, Moore
9/22-23 San Francisco CA, Warfield
9/24 Los Angeles CA, Greek
9/26 Las Vegas NV, Joint
Getting people to check out your music is pretty sweet, and the other 110,000 people seems to think so too! Oh, also just in time as he's just announced his word tour:
09.02.09 – Lyric Theatre – Oxford, MS *
09.03.09 – The Sky Bar – Auburn, AL *
09.04.09 – Athens Arena – Bogart, GA *
09.05.09 – Belly Up – Aspen, CO @
09.12.09 – Trinumeral Festival – Horseshoe, NC
09.18.09 – Symbiosis Gathering – Groveland, CA
09.21.09 – Bama Theatre – Tuscaloosa, AL
09.23.09 – Rhythm & Brews – Chattanooga, TN
09.26.09 – Diesel – Wilmington, NC
10.02.09 – Aggie Theatre – Ft. Collins, CO
10.03.09 – Odgen Theatre – Denver, CO +
10.12.09 – Belly Up Tavern – Solana Beach, CA R
10.14.09 – Key Club – West Hollywood, CA R
10.15.09 – The Independent – San Francisco – CA R
10.16.09 – Nocturnum – Eureka, CA #R
10.17.09 – Nectar Lounge – Seattle, WA #R
10.18.09 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR #R
10.21.09 – The Varsity Theater – Minneapolis, MN X
10.22.09 – Miramar Theatre – Milwaukee, WI X
10.23.09 – Park West – Chicago, IL D
10.24.09 – Majestic Theatre – Madison, WI D
10.25.09 – Bluebird Nightclub – Bloomington, IN D
10.27.09 – Headliners Music Hall – Louisville, KY D
10.28.09 – Exit/In – Nashville, TN D
10.29.09 – The Valarium – Knoxville, TN D
10.30.09 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC D
10.31.09 – Ann Street Shed – Charleston, SC
11.03.09 – Crowbar – Tampa, FL A
11.04.09 – The White Room – Miami, FL A
11.05.09 – Engine Room – Tallahassee, FL A
11.07.09 – House of Blues – New Orleans, LA A
11.10.09 – Granada Theater – Dallas, TX A
11.11.09 – La Zona Rosa – Austin, TX A GA
11.12.09 – George’s Majestic Lounge – Fayetteville, AR G
11.13.09 – Newby’s – Memphis, TN G
11.14.09 – The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA G
11.17.09 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC G
11.18.09 – 9:30 Club – Washington DC G
11.19.09 – Fillmore NY @ Irving Plaza – New York, NY G
11.20.09 – The Note – West Chester, PA G
11.21.09 – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA G
* w/ Emancipator
@ w/ Savoy
+ w/ Lifesavas
R w/ DJ Rootz
# w/ Chicharones
X w/ Prepschool
D w/ Dark Party
A w/ Alex B
G w/ Gramatik
That's all for this week, for an unfiltered look at the latest music news, check out news.weheartmusic.com. Interested in seeing what albums we're reviewing next? Go under "albums" and you're all set.
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With songs like these, it urged me to listen to her two previous EPs, In This Life, On This Road and Hail to the Queen. They sound a little more raw and stripped down compared to Imaginary Biographies. Hail to the Queen is just her and her piano, whereas In This Life, On This Road features other instruments accompanying her piano and beautiful voice. A song that stood out while listening to these EPs was "All Is Well" from In This Life, On This Road. It's a simple song about her naivety as a child. She believed her life would be like Snow White, but as she grew older, that dream faded away and seemed intangible. Leerone is a great musician whose releases I look forward to, especially with her choice of subject matter in her songs and amazing musical compositions.
Happy New Year to everyone! Here's to another year of sharing music with everyone who visits the site with open ears. I'm glad that WHM has a variety of contributors, all with their own personal musical interests. I'm looking forward to 2009 for some new releases.
Links: Official Website | Leerone's Blog | MySpace | MySpace (Extra Songs) | Facebook | Fussy Music
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Tour Dates
09/10/08 Boston Music Festival - Ned Devine’s Boston, Massachusetts
Discography
09/20/08 Atlantis Music Festival @ Smith’s Olde Bar (Atlanta Room) Atlanta, Georgia 10/02/08 Spike Hill Brooklyn, New York 10/05/08 Rockwood Music Hall NYC
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 Set List ♥ Arcadia, Minneapolis (09/04/08) |
The Acadia sits across the 400 Bar, but you wouldn't know it was called the Acadia as the signage reads "RIVERSIDE". I've seen this place from the outside through its numerous large windows and looking in at the band on stage.
I don't know how often these "Diverse Emerging Music Organization" (DEMO) shows goes on, but they seem to operate on donations and benefits local artists. I caught the last few songs of Backstories, a full band and all nicely dressed. I don't really know the band's back stories (haha), I'll bet they get that a lot. They have some songs available for download on their myspace.
Eli Ratner said it was his first time playing (I thought he meant his first gig ever), but I guess he meant at the Acadia. He seems really comfortable on stage with his acoustic guitar. It would seem, according to his myspace, that he's normally a duo with Peter VonDeLinde.
It's clear that the real star is Leerone, who earlier in the day appeared in St Paul's Station 4. The report I got was that her keyboard "got messed up" and she ended up renting a full Yamaha keyboard.
Her set was understandably short, lasting no more than 45 minutes, and included a "made up" a cappella song that's not written on the set list.
Highlight of the show seems to be the announcer calling her "Leeroni" and "Leerona".
PS, more details later, including pictures and art.
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I can't believe September is already here.
Appearing tomorrow at the Temple Bar is Love Psychedelico, who we've previously mentioned a few times on W♥M.
It's too insane, this band sold out the 14,201 seated Nippon Budokan in Japan - several times, I might add - and the lucky people in Los Angeles gets to see them in an intimate setting.
Find out more details about the gig on our news.w♥m and their official (US) and myspace.
Also, tomorrow I'm supposed to be around for a free show at the Acadia Cafe to see singer/songwriter Leerone. I believe earlier tomorrow she will also be at Station 4 in St Paul for the "Concert for Change Festival". The republican convention happening in St Paul is just coincidental.
You can find details of her other appearances on her website or the 'space.
One last announcement: many of you probably don't know that I am a closet comic book fan. I am the creator of the almost-ten years george-perez.com and I got the announcement that Perez was involved in an auction to help save and preserve "the Superman House". It's all over the news, but I thought I'd mention it here as I feel strongly about it. You can read all about it on ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com
By the way, the most interesting item in the auction is a hand-written draft of Neil Gaiman's upcoming book. It's currently at $530, way above my budget.
In actual W♥M news: the podcast is going strong!! Stronger than ever.
I'm pleased to announce the re-appearance of former W♥M writer Valley Girl on this Sunday's podcast. Now that I've embarrassed her, I can guarantee another awesome dudecast.
Also, I have just added radioexile.com to news.weheartmusic.com. If you have a blog and/or website and would like to be on our link roll, just send me an email.
OH! Also, as a favor, I 'investigated' wordpress using a free version via weheartmusic.blogsome.com. I spent a lot of time looking its codes and I can tell you that if you ever want to customize your WP blog, you will need to really understand how CSS works. CSS have really replaced the original html, in my opinion. It's very flexible and it's also easier to understand.
My first impression is that it's half-manual and half-automatic. WYSIWYG doesn't always work, even with some of the best plugins... and if you really want to do make splashy posts, you still need to hand-code things (much like how I compose all my posts prior to putting it on vox).
I also like the ability to create users and "comment approvals". There's a lot of cool stuff, but you know, for new users, I would have to recommend them to check out vox and sites.google.com. I'm not afraid to admit that WP is too complicated.
OH2! Watch my crappy video! The music at the end is by Dylan Champagne, which I will be reviewing soon-ish.
UPDATE 9/4/08 8:40pm: People have complained about the vox search - I will admit it's not the best (I think it doesn't index anything older than 6 months). So starting today, you will see a box on the very low/right of the sidebar. The search also search W♥M News and Press Release, as well as any future websites in the WHM family. I have tested out IE and Firefox and even Chrome, but if you are having issues, please let me know.
Also, as a special bonus, is a drop-down menu of current writers. Clicking on a name will take you to their articles. If you're still active, send me a note and I will add your name to the list.
UPDATE 9/6/08 8:53am:
How to add Google Custom Search to your blog
1. Create a Custom Search via google.com/coop.
This will be great if you have multiple blogs and/or websites.
Unfortunately that also means duplicate results if you cross-post same
articles.
2. Copy and paste this code into your blog's main page. On vox, the sidebar width is only 150pixels, so you may have to change the "size" to less than 15. Change "Search" to "Go" if you want to shorten the submit box - however this box is not necessary (the return/enter key should work just as well).
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<form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="[YOURCUSTOMGOOGLECODE]">
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8">
<input type="text" name="q" size="40">
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search">
How to emb audio on your blog
One of the nice thing about vox, is that it allows anyone to emb media on any website that allows embedding.
Click on any
audio and there is an option for "emb", which admittedly DEFAULTS to
autoplay=true. You must change this to false.
If you're not too crazy about the 500 pixels (too large), you can change all "500" to "320" or "200". There is a small hack for 150 pixels, but you must "wi" in place of "pi" after 150 for the image and it will work. This probably won't mean a whole lot to any of you unless you start using the embed feature on your blog.
Another hack you might want to check out is to just place the
"mediaURL" to your own MP3. Have fun and ask me if you're still having
trouble setting up any of these for your blogs.
I have added our latest podcast on the sidebar, just click on the play button and it will automatically play.
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