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| Location: | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Jul 8, 2008 (44 days back) |
About Me |
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| BOOKING: starslikefleas[add an @ symbol]yahoo.com
HERE. Stars Like Fleas is made of theoretical objects that are likely to be disproven down the road, but which will shine brightly until reading of their lack of predictive power and mathematical tenability in the latest journal. Note: CURRENTLY DE-VALUING IMMEDIACY, CONSENSUS, YIELD-CURVES, TUNES/HOOKS, YOUR PORTFOLIO OF NAMES, BACK TO NATURE, CULTURAL ESSENTIALISM, WHEATIES, JOGGING, CRITICAL MASS, KARMA, IMPORTANT PEOPLE, &C. THE KEN BURNS EFFECT was officially released on JUNE 3rd by Hometapes (distributed by Absolutely Kosher/Misra), and you can find it online and in many find independent record stores, but you will find it in most stores by June 17th, the ADA distribution street date.Sop the juice Add to My Profile | More VideosWe have been asked to add someSOME RECENT PRESSto our page. Here is your movie trailer. So you'll know.“A dreamy experimental-pop band that pushes against band-ness…[the] new record has an eerie power...an original and mysterious record” – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times““[Notable Release – 8/10] dreamy and calamitous…loaded with soft vocals, harsh noise, and an utterly unpredictable drift from gorgeously plaintive country-folk balladry to explosive outbursts of distortion and bludgeoning drums…deeply confounding…a journey worth taking” – Under The Radar“TOP TEN: both accessible as your average indie rock band and puzzling as the most abstract soundscapes…In the hands of some artists, a combination like this would spell disaster. Here, a perfect balance has been struck between conceptual electronics and emotionally weighted songwriting” – XLR8R“Your first listen to The Ken Burns Effect…is kind of like your first kiss. It’s hard to describe in a few words. You feel a little confused, a little elated, a little unsatisfied...The disorientation makes you giddy…The addictive, come-hither quality doesn’t fade away…you have heard other “experimental bands,” [but] this is a new kind of energy.” – Nylon Magazine“one of the year's most ambitious and daring records…Sometimes, I think The Ken Burns Effect deserves a 10.0. Sometimes, it feels like a 2.0. You might hate it. You might love it. But you need to hear it” – Pitchfork"When I first heard 'I Was Only Dancing' it moved me to tears...this really is a special piece of music. Song of the year so far" – MP3Hugger.com“...[a] stunningly beautiful ride, experimental passages blending seamlessly into welcoming billows of pure melody...The Ken Burns Effect makes me dream.” – Dusted Magazine“Here’s your new favorite band: their album is under an hour and it swallows universes whole” – Cokemachineglow"[full of] lushly-orchestrated pop epics... "I Was Only Dancing," is a precise audio replication of a cloudburst falling on parched earth, sandwiched between slices of warm sunlight. Bathe/bask in it and you'll see why it's already one of my favorites of the year" – 3hive"nothing short of astonishing...Moments of hushed meditative intensity erupt into howling storms of futility...Mahlerian in scope and sound" – SOUNDSECT“Stars Like Fleas is the best band in New York…one of those rarest of albums that completely defies any comparison... They take more risks than is probably advisable, and sometimes their shows flirt with disaster, but more often than not they create something utterly captivating and closer to a religious experience than I'm even comfortable with." – Yer Sweet Chimneys"When it comes to experimental music...Stars Like Fleas cement their spot at the top…a truly unique experience. The Ken Burns Effect grows on a listener like moss, and once it has its roots in you, you won’ t be able to shake it free” – Soundcheck Magazine“Is Stars Like Fleas a folk-pop band with experimental elements, or the reverse? If The Ken Burns Effect aims to make that question unanswerable, it’s a resounding success"– Time Out New York“Stars Like Fleas is the Broken Social Scene of Brooklyn…the arrangements are thick and rewarding, even in their weirdest states…a great album"– Impose Magazine“[live review] one of my favorite upcoming groups…by the end all eyes and ears were wide open"– Café Eclectica"The Ken Burns Effect… will not only defy characterization, but will probably be the big break for one of New York's most sublime and continuously undiscovered bands" – Paper Magazine“This Brooklyn collective of free-radical networkers…display an uncanny ability to splat together Flaming Lips pop, free-jazz blat, bluegrass, laptop noise, Talk Talk's moody Laughing Stock moves, harp runs, and shape-note singing. And that's just in five minutes."– Village Voice"As if being one of the most fascinating live bands in New York wasn't enough, Stars Like Fleas' The Ken Burns Effect takes the group's aesthetic-weird, wondrous, naïve, bewildering-and wrangled it into a full-length that finally does overdue justice to their immense promise…one of those rare records that you want to hear on headphones to uncover each nook and cranny of its myriad contours. It's a record that you want to live in." – Todd Burns (Editor - Stylus Magazine, Village Voice, eMusic)"a sprawling mix of folk, Americana, free improv…the band can transform a dingy room into something as gorgeous and sweeping as the Great Plains" – New York Press"Stars Like Fleas…soar purely on the power of emotion and angush…an artfully woven spiderweb of sound" – Treblezine"The Ken Burns Effect continues SLF’s astral trajectory…spare and intimate, but brimming with cacophony…excellent…Recommended!…" – Other Music"…moves in awe-inspiring slow motion…like the kind of music you dream; disjointed and choppy on the surface, but at the core all interconnected and beautiful…it’s exhausting." – Baeble Music Blog"a graceful album that has an assured stride and a strong sense of direction…an eye-opening experience"– The Line of Best Fit"Brooklyn doesn’t seem like the place for a band like Stars like Fleas. I picture the band constantly getting almost hit by cars after staring off at the top of a building or something a few blocks away…I picture it trying to catalog squirrels and subway rats, picking up everything its hands can hold from trashpiles, trying to bike to inwood, I picture it going canoeing in the Gowanus Canal and finding lost and dying seals, and maybe knowing what to do. <[i>note - this is shannon's favorite press quote!]" – Songs Save Lives |
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Music:Member Since: 2/10/2005Band Website: slf.praemedia.com Band Members: Dude, Stars Like Fleas ARE A BAND...not some guys and a bunch of pass-through contributors, take note, we are nothing without: Shannon Fields: too much to get into right now, Montgomery Knott:sings his words, Ryan Smith:piano, synthesizers, laptop, many other things, Ryan Sawyer: drums, percussion, Matt Lavelle: bass clarinet, flugelhorn, trumpet, cuica, Sam Amidon: fiddle, banjo, voice, Jon Natchez: reeds, brass, strings, keys, everything - no, really..., Gerald Menke, pedal steel, dobro resonator, guitars, Shelley Burgon: harp, laptop, baritone guitar, dulcimer, Tianna Kennedy: cello; Shayna Dulberger: bass; Laura Ortman: violin, musical saw, guitar; (also thanks to Trevor Dunn (bass) and Thomas Bartlett (piano, keys)and Charles Waters for periodic collaboration) p OLD PRESS KIT (UPDATE IN PROGRESS...slowly) HERE PRESS PHOTO HERE RECORD ONESHEET HERE Influences: "Ultimately, Coombs and Edwards abandon regulation and market forces as significant influences on accounting change in municipal corporations. Regulation cannot account for changes in municipal reporting practices because changes in regulation over the 100 year focal period were inconsequential...Important environmental factors include: the antecedent introduction of accounting change in private companies, the emergence of an accounting profession with avenues for transferring innovation from private companies to municipal corporations, the growth of municipal corporations fostering demand from internal management for new information for decision making purposes, and the desire of elected officials and appointed administrators to publicize the success of municipal corporations." As reviewed by Jean E. Harris Penn State University at Harrisburg, (c) Academy of Accounting Historians Jun 1996 Sounds Like: "Think about the technology of sports footwear… Before the Civil War, right and left feet weren't even differentiated in shoe manufacture. Now we have a shoe for every activity." Donna Harraway "That I am the only person in this century who has the right insight into the difficult science of colors, that is what I am rather proud of, and that is what gives me the feeling that I have outstripped many" Goethe "Recorded only, I have put my lips on pleas Would brandle adamantine heaven with ride and jar, did Prayer go disregarded: Forward-like, but however, and like favourable heaven heard these. "23. The Bugler’s First Communion", Gerard Manley Hopkins" "The Word today serves no one except to say to the grocer: give me a pound of lentils." Henri Chopin, 1967, "Why I am the author of sound poetry and free poetry" "If you were me. . ." the lad began. "But that can't be, my little man. "You must be I with verbs like were." He heaved a sigh. "If I were her. . ." Tom Disch, "Child’s Garden of Grammar" Record Label: Hometapes & Talitres & Praemedia & Hidden Hive Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Other) |
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FLEASWERK: Bowery in July, tourdates being posted |
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| Hi. The Fleas will be supporting Gang Gang Dance, who become more cramazing with every record (RAWAR is [superlative]) at Bowery Ballroom on July 26th, in NYC. We need your support, buy tickets in adv... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:40:00 PST |
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BBQ SUNDAY with Fleas, Aa, Vivian Girls, TK Webb, 1000 others |
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BBQ SUNDAY with Fleas,Aa, Vivian Girls, TK Webb, 1000 others
Todd has posted some "loose" timesSunday June 29th @ SOUTHERN TIP OF ROOSEVELT ISLAND:: (SUMMER)TIME UNAMPLIFIED ACOUSTIC BBQ:: an... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:36:00 PST |
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UNION HALL TONIGHT & BBQ ON SUNDAY |
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| &.thank you, truly and sincerely, sweet persons, for the support over the past few weeks. You're buying a whole lot of our records/mp3s, filling our shows full, eating our homemade pies and rhubarb c... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:12:00 PST |
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The Ken Burns Effect finally on iTunes (almost) and explic it as a semantically confused mother |
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| well almost. "Some Nettles" is apparently too long so you have to buy the whole record to get that one...or something....i understand nothing of these things. Length restrictions do not appl... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:38:00 PST |
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Instore at Sound Fix on 22nd (NOT the 21st!) |
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| hey, first of all, Stars Like Fleas is doing a little acoustic In-Store at 6pm on Sun the 22nd at Sound Fix Records in Williamsburg Brooklyn. This is NOT, as some places have listed, on the 21st! Plea... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:29:00 PST |
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touring planned and what "guest" means |
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| there are stuffs going on. We are planning some Canadian and US and other tour dates beginning as soon as August. If you want us to play, get in touch soon and offer piles...just loads...truly astrono... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:09:00 PST |
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The New York Times |
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| Stars Like Fleas has the lead review in today's New York Times by Ben Ratliff. It's in the Arts & Leisure section and has a family portrait of the Fleas circas 1872.
If your local stores are... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:09:00 PST |
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HARD vs. SOFT record releases and other nonsense |
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| Dear friends. I have learned many things today. All of them boring and tedious. But mainly that our record release date (allegedly today, June 3rd) can be seen in many ways. For example, while our rec... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:15:00 PST |
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XLR8R Top Ten, and Paper Thin Walls track review |
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| XLR8R Magazine - TOP 10
http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2008/05/top-10-atlas-sound-atmosph
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"The latest full-length from this Brooklyn-based outfit is an avant-jazz-meets-organic songwriting affair t... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Thu, 08 May 2008 05:11:00 PST |
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recent domestic bloggings |
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| "When I first heard 'I Was Only Dancing' it moved me to tears. Now I know I am prone to OTT effusiveness on an almost daily basis but this really is a special piece of music. Song of the year so far" ... Posted by Stars Like Fleas on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:40:00 PST |
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