Archive for the tag "canasta"

• Earworm: “Show Me” by the Cover Girls. Infected on BART, leaking out from someone’s headphones. Who would listen to *that* song, that loud? #
• Today is a great day to be living in California. :-) #
• Loved three songs on Last.fm:
  • Alexander Moore – Neglected Woman
  • Espers – Black Is the Color
  • Canasta – Busride (DJ STV SLV’s Crank Dat Busride Mix, feat. Pop It Off Boyz) - free MP3!
  • Roxanne Shante - My Groove Gets Better
• Biz Markie and Roxanne Shante - Live in NYC 1986
• Roxanne Shante - Live On Stage

Canasta: We Were Set Up © 2005 (self-released) Preview the album on their audio page
Order here

I sang backups on the song “Just a Star”.

Heads up, music lovers! Canasta is a great Chicago chamber pop sexy-tet who just got tagged by Songs:Illinois. They’re good pals of mine; they put out an EP last year, and their first album We Were Set Up is coming out in November. It can be pre-ordered now via their website. I did background vocals on the song "Just a Star", and will be attempting to recreate those harmonies at their CD release party at Subterranean on Friday Nov. 18th. (My release party is the next day, you should go to that too!)

The band Canasta at the Beat Kitchen on Saturday night

Eric took this pic today (=yesterday), of me and John Cunningham from the band Canasta… I guess this is a good opportunity to plug the fact that I sang some backup vocals for a song that’ll be on their new record We Were Set Up, coming out in October.  They’re playing on the 20th at the Beat Kitchen and doing CMJ this year as well, so catch ‘em whenever you can, they’re very good.

Daytime show: Chicago Pop Renaissance Party
Held from 1pm to 6pm at MOMOs Club
Upstairs above Katz’s at 618 W. 6th St., Austin, TX 78701

My band: Via Nuon (guitar), Ryan Hembrey (bass), Jason Toth (drums)

Lineup:
1:10 pm - 1:50 pm  Head of Femur
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm  Manishevitz
2:50 pm - 3:20 pm  Edith Frost
3:30 pm - 4:10 pm  Canasta
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm  Grizzly Bear
5:10 pm - 5:50 pm  Scotland Yard Gospel Choir

I went with Eric Ziegenhagen last night to see Canasta at the Ice Factory.  They’re really good, I guess you’d call it "chamber pop".  Their fiddle player Elizabeth is playing with Eric tonight at his show at the Beat Kitchen and I’ll be doing harmonies on a few songs too.  Yay!!  I love Eric’s songs and I love singing harmonies, so I’m psyched he’s lettin’ me horn in on that.  :-)