After one week on store shelves, Dimension Mix is taking the ears and hearts of Americans by storm. Dimension Mix is currently sitting at #48 on the CMJ Top 200, a nice courtside #21 on the Media Guide/CMJ Indie Top 100, and on the ever impenetrable commercial charts, a remarkable #30.
With such nice returns after only one week on the open market, you would expect us to be satisfied, right? Wrong. Not while there’s still a good fight to be fought. All proceeds from Dimension Mix sales go to Autism related charities (such as Cure Autism Now), and that’s why we’re determined to blabber on and on about the record ‘til our hands, feet, eyes, ears, noses and throats go numb. Wanna help? Call and request your favorite Dimension Mix track from your local radio station. A list of request line phone numbers is right here.
If someone you know hasn’t gotten their hands on a Dimension Mix CD yet, but is in need of a little love, send ‘em the Dimension Mix e-card. It makes a heck of digital bandage, replete with photos, music teasers and a 30 second interview with Producer Ross Harris.
If that someone needs more than a little love, go ahead and give them the Dimension Mix CD. You can find it at your local indie retailer, Tower Records, Borders, Best Buy and our online store.
Look over there, it’s an Eenie Meenie band. And another one. And another.
So many Eenie Meenie artists are on the road this time of year, it’s impossible to tell you which ones to look out for. For a complete list of tour dates, check out our shows page. Or browse our quick guide, to help you match your tastes with the correct touring band:
Do you live on the West coast? Are you a sucker for saccharin melodies, Go-bots, go-go girls, and dance parties?
Catch PINE*am this week before they return to Japan.
Would you still be able to stand up after an evening of swilling beer with a pack of Hell’s Angels? Is your record collection a cross-section of everything from Steppenwolf to the Cars to Pinback?
Oranger will be in a town near you, along with the Posies and Deathray Davies (on select dates).
Do you live in California? Do you, like most Californians, believe that summer is a year-long affair that only just begins to hit its stride around Labor Day?
Blue-Eyed Son is taking his road show to all his favorite California haunts.
If you had to draw a chart describing a rock show, shouldn’t aspects like fun and chaos register proportionately with one another? Come to think of it, wouldn’t it be better if fun and chaos registered somewhere completely off the chart?
Troubled Hubble will be blowing through town for another round of rock, shenanigans and ballyhoo.
What if everything you felt about mid 90s indie rock, everything you ever heard about classic rock, and everything you ever hoped for in the future of rock disappeared in a ball of smoke? Where would you turn for guidance then?
Hockey Night will remind you why you turn the radio on in the first place, throughout September.
Internet kill the video star
Finally Ladies and Gentleman, you can view brand-spanking new music videos from PINE*am, Oranger, and Troubled Hubble on our downloads page. Let Eenie Meenie provide you with a little bit of virus-free computer fun. One can never be too careful these days.
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Good Music for a Good Cause – Dimension Mix is proof that the good guy always wins in the end
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Troubled Hubble ambushes crowd after unsuspecting crowd
Friday, July 1st, 2005There are only a few weeks left of Troubled Hubble’s rampage across the country. Putting the ‘scorched’ back into scorched-earth policy, these fellas are a musical tornado, earthquake, and volcanic eruption all in one, having left trails of destruction on stages across the nation. Upcoming West coast dates with Maximo Park are not to be missed. Check out the remaining show dates. Now, before it’s too late.
PINE*anime this August
We told you they’d return. We failed to mention that they could be found at anime conventions. In addition to a nice itinerary of club shows this August, PINE*am will be performing live at Otakonin Baltimore and Pacific Media Expo in Long Beach, CA. A friend of anime is a friend of PINE*am. Bring a sharpie and get ready to stand in the long but worthwhile autograph line. PS: PINE*am has a DVD trailer featured in this issue’s Newtype USA.
Looks like Blue-Eyed Son will be crashing at PINE*am’s pad
About the same time PINE*am is charming the socks off U.S. audiences, Drew will have Japanese audiences swooning to his California tunes. Drew will be on tour to support his Japanese release of “West of Lincoln.” The highlight of the tour will be Summersonic in Tokyo and Osaka, where Drew will play with the likes of Oasis, Kasabian, Bloc Party, The Arcade Fire, The Roots, M.I.A., and Nine Inch Nails, on the fittingly named “Beach Stage.”
You bring the fireworks this weekend; Seksu Roba will bring the soundtrack
Seksu Roba will be performing at Club Loaded / The Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco tonight and Nuemo’s in Seattle tomorrow. Wherever these two turn up, a dance party is sure to follow. Usher in the nation’s 229th birthday with your groove on.
July is the month for Eenie Meenie to kick down some newfangled music technology
First we put a flat disc of wax-like material on a lathe-like machine. Recorded music is then etched with a recording stylus onto the wax. Next, an exact opposite of this etched wax (similar to a negative of a photograph) is burned onto acetate (the “acetate” is more accurately a lacquer covered with a layer of cellulose nitrate). Against this more durable acetate, vinyl copies nearly identical to the original wax imprint are pressed. These “records” are then packed into neat sleeves with slick artwork and sent off to stores. Some records will have Hockey Night recordings on them. Some will be bright, luscious, hot red numbers with Troubled Hubble recordings on them. And some 7” diameter ones will have the Bedroom Walls on them.
That’s right. Vinyl collectors have a new reason to celebrate—Eenie Meenie’s whole new crop of vinyl includes the collectable red Troubled Hubble “Making Beds In A Burning House” LP, as well as the forthcoming Hockey Night “Keep Guessin’” LP and the Bedroom Walls “Do the buildings and cops make you smile?” 7” single.
Heavy hitters on deck for the months to come…
Dimension Mix – August 23:
You’ve heard us harpin’ on and on about the Dimension Mix. A bunch of Dimension 5 Records covers by a bunch of bands that everyone considers their favorites. Seriously, the line-up on this disc is out of this world. And for every disc you buy, a portion of the proceeds goes towards finding a cure for Autism. What more can you ask for? The Dimension Mix will be out August 23.
Oranger – September 20:
Oranger is slated to release “New Comes and Goes,” a sure-to-be critically acclaimed follow up to the 2003 release, “Shutdown the Sun.” On the new record, Oranger exchanges its characteristic soft rock sound—a la Air Supply and the Neville Brothers—for some good, clean, frolicking fun. Standout tracks include ‘Crooked in the Weird of the Catacombs’ and ‘Crones,’ not that it means anything to you since you can’t get the record yet…but you’ll be able to soon.
KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED:
Friday, June 17th, 2005Space Needle, yesterday’s stylized forecast of tomorrow
More than a decade ago, Space Needle released the critically lauded “Voyager.” An experiment in music making that resembled oodles and noodles of psych-fuzz ricocheting and rolling about on a gym floor chock-full of primitive tape loops, “Voyager” was one of those records that people-in-the-know touted as “way ahead of its time.”
Two years after the release of “Voyager,” Space Needlers Jud Ehrbar and Jeff Gatland were joined by Varnaline front, rear and side-man, Anders Parker. Parker brought the band strong name recognition, formidable ax-wielding expertise, a keen knowledge of carpentry and astro-physics, and a third set of test tubes and Bunsen burners for the band’s musical journey. “The Moray Eels Eat the Space Needle” was released in 1997, and again, fans and critics praised the band’s uncanny ability to see into the future—to tell musical fortunes.
And, like all things, that was that.
Until now. Time is just now beginning to match pace with Space Needle’s past creations. If you haven’t heard them yet, stay tuned—you will.
Hockey Night
What does Hockey Night have going for it? Musical comparisons to such market-tested standard bearers as Bruce Springsteen, Thin Lizzy and Journey. Residence in the beautiful and sometimes cold Northern town of Minneapolis. Successful panning, mining and creative reinterpretation of 90s independent rock. So successful that the word derivative usually gets its lousy head beat by such commendable words as inventive and inspired.
Hockey Night will also have its forthcoming “Keep Guessin’” released on vinyl by Eenie Meenie. The more we know, the more we’ll tell you.
Dimension Mix provides a fitting soundtrack to the fifth dimension
If, as science fiction will have us believe, the fifth dimension is indeed the dimension of radio waves, Dimension Mix is undoubtedly the zany broadcast that said waves are sending out. Eenie Meenie’s Dimension Mix compilation features today’s most groundbreaking artists performing covers of the exploratory and pioneering electro/children’s records of the 1960s originally recorded by Bruce Haack, Esther Nelson and the Dimension 5 label.
Whereas we here in the third dimension conduct our business to such background sounds as barking dogs, buses coughing and moaning, and cell phones, oh so many cell phones ringing, the fifth dimension floats along nicely to the rhythm and sound of today’auteurs taking their stab at the sounds of yesteryear’s most prophetic musical inventeers. The Dimension Mix will be on compact discs, iTunes and radio waves, come August 23, 2005.
AND WHILE YOU’RE OUT, YOU MIGHT WANT TO GO SEE:
Troubled Hubble
How do you not want to go see a band that calls its van the Jules Verne? Despite a thrown belt in New Jersey, the JV is back in action and slinging the band westward as we speak. Do take the time to see Troubled Hubble live. West coast dates are with Maximo Park and there’s a good chance you’ll never have another such intimate engagement with either band again. Mid-sized clubs and the Jules Verne today. Arenas and private jets tomorrow.
Show details.
Seksu Roba and PINE*am
There will be more Seksu Roba in July, more PINE*am in August. Check out our shows page so that you can begin planning your Summer vacation accordingly.
The Eenie Meenie cast performs live! In order of appearance:
Monday, June 6th, 2005Troubled Hubble is bringing its rough and tumble brand of hyperdrive to folks all over the United States this June and July. The steamroller tour is already in progress, including shows with the Wrens and Maximo Park, from Newcastle, England! Red, white and blue-blooded Americans all over are clamoring for a shot at this sensational live show. Here are the dates. The power’s in your hands now.
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again—Troubled Hubble’s new “Making Beds In A Burning House” will be available on red vinyl on July 26th! That’s RED as in Red Dawn, the first-ever PG-13 rated movie. VINYL as in the perfect material for a summer pair of underpants. What more could you ask for?
Irving will be unleashing their fists of fury at the Troubadour on June 16. alaska! and The Green & Yellow TV will be opening the evening to round out this fabulous all-star LA showdown. Get there early, place your bets, and hang onto your seats as the five Irvings release a whole new load of pop heroics. Irving will be playing a host of new, unreleased songs. You cannot buy recordings of these gems—the only way to hear them is to attend.
Telegraphs from Berlin are dotting and dashing off like nobody’s business these days. Apparently, Irving is receiving lots of l-o-v-e from a radio free Europe. Hobby Deluxe in Germany has released “L-O-V-E” on its “pop you 4” compilation. If you live overseas and prefer good airwaves to bad, call your favorite radio station and request Irving.
The NHL may be LOCKED-out this season, but that won’t put an end to the Hockey Night
With dueling guitars a la the Allman Brothers and Thin Lizzy, and double drummers a la the Grateful Dead and early Genesis, Hockey Night is going to require a lot more than mere labor disputes to keep it out of the rock rink. These Minneapolis natives carve the kinds of songs that skate back and forth from the whimsy of obvious influences (Pavement), to the valiance of unlikely heroes (Boston, Journey). Not since the heyday of Rush has the great white North hocked the kind of rock that can both cause a grown man to cry and ignite a bench-clearing brawl. And this July, Eenie Meenie is happy to be releasing Hockey Night’s “Keep Guessin’” on vinyl. Stay tuned for more details.
PINE*am will be back on the East coast—will you?
Apparently, fans didn’t get enough of PINE*am, and, to be perfectly honest, PINE*am didn’t get enough of you. Due to the overwhelming fan response last month, these three lovable cyber-composers of electro-pop will be back to rock the North American stage. Check our shows pagefor tentative August tour dates.
You can hear PINE*am’s “Pull The Rabbit Ears” online at myspace.com and very own iTunessite. We must warn you that one listen leads to two leads to ten leads to one-hundred. Proceed with caution.
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