Seattle Weekly: "People Eating People Delivers A Fearless Performance, With Nouela Johnston's Emotions Laid Bare"
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 2:20pm


Amazing review of People Eating People's performance at Bumbershoot last monday! From Paige Richmond at Seattle Weekly:

Who: People Eating People
When: 12:30 p.m.
Where: EMP Sky Church

When People Eating People performs live, Nouela Johnston (the woman behind the band) pounds the shit out of her keyboard. Banging away at the lowest keys--creating these deep, heavy rhythms on songs like "All the Hospitals" and "I Hate All My Friends"-- and singing in her sweet but angry voice, Johnston seems completely confident. She's clearly talented and artistically smart: her live band doesn't even have a guitar player, relying instead on bass and drums to compliment her keys, which are always front and center. Throw in those semi-growling vocals, and Nouela Johnston seems like she's totally sure of herself in every way.

But there was one song during her Sky Church performance that truly demonstrated how raw and deep Johnston's emotions run, and it spoke to the insecurity she might feel. She sent her band off stage when she performed "For Now," playing the ragtime-influenced song alone on her keyboard (the same way it appears on her self-titled album. The first few lyrics--"None ever is gonna know that/ everything that I do/ is solely to impress you"--hinted insecurity and self doubt. It's a theme in many of People Eating People's songs, but it was laid bare when Johnston belted out "One day/ I'll make/ I'll make you love me" to a crowded room of fans. For Johnston to let those insecurities be seen, especially as a young female musician, well, that's beyond confident; it's fucking fearless. And it's why her songs are so powerful.


Wow & Flutter share the lead single from Equilibrio, our 10/19!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 2:15pm


Please download and share "Scars" from the upcoming Wow & Flutter album. Equilibrio! hits stores via the stellar Mt. Fuji Records on October 19!


Archeology share their muse: Neil Young
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 2:13pm



ALEXIS GIDEON PREMIERES VIDEO MUSICS II: SUN WU-KONG TOMORROW
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 9:44am

We couldn't be more honored to work with the amazing Alexis Gideon, whose video opera premieres tomorrow at Disjecta in Portland, OR. The Portland Mercury's Ned Lannamann put it wonderfully this morning:

"THERE ISN'T ANYONE doing anything remotely like Alexis Gideon. The songwriter/guitarist has just completed his second multimedia-animated-hiphop-film-opera, Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong, and it's an absolutely mind-boggling piece of work. A retelling of the 16th century Chinese epic novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, Gideon has crammed 1,500 pages of narrative into 65 minutes of brilliant animation and music..." Check out the rest of the article HERE!



Jared Mees & the Grown Children hit the road & share a new song!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 1:39pm


Jared Mees & the Grown Children hit the road later this month for a tour of the Western states... Give us a sneak preview of their next record with "Cockleburrs & Hay"

Tour Dates:
09.23.10 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
09.24.10 - Ashland, OR @ Alex's
09.25.10 - Mendocino, CA @ Caspar Inn
09.26.10 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
09.27.10 - Oakland, CA @ TBA
09.28.10 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Muddy Waters
09.29.10 - Fullerton, CA @ UC Fullerton (noon show)
09.29.10 - Palm Springs, CA @ Ace Hotel
09.30.10 - San Diego, CA @ Fluxx

10.01.10 - Long Beach, CA @ El Dorado
10.02.10 - Pasadena, CA @ Old Town Pub
10.03.10 - Chico, CA @ Cafe Flo
10.04.10 - Eugene, CA @ TBA
10.07.10 - Moscow, ID @ John's Alley
10.08.10 - Kennewick, WA @ Red Room
10.09.10 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux



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