HAPPY RECORD STORE DAY!!! To celebrate RSD 2015 we’re giving away a FREE vinyl 7 inch single if you sign up for our mailing list! Enter your info for a vinyl single surprise: http://smarturl.it/RSD-Promo
Also be sure to support your local record store and ask them if they have any copies of Aero Flynn’s debut album on CLEAR or BLACK vinyl!
Catch Aero Flynn on tour this month in the UK opening for Ben Howard on his SOLD OUT run of arena shows. Tour dates available here: http://aeroflynn.org/tour.html
Be sure to order Aero Flynn’s debut album available on all digital stores and on limited edition CLEAR vinyl at your local record store (available in UK via our friends at Memphis Industries):
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Its that time of year again, when we migrate to Austin for SXSW; a week of music, micheladas, and BBQ. My favorite part of SXSW is when we return home to Brooklyn the worst of winter is usually over. SXSW marks spring’s arrival (it was only in the 40s when I went to the airport today at 6am – getting warmer!).
We have three bands, from three different countries, playing SXSW this year. Be sure to catch Brooklyn’s Fort Lean, Canada’s In-Flight Safety, and Belfast’s indie pop darlings GO WOLF at SXSW this year. And swing by our annual FREE day party on Wednesday @ Sidebar to see a killer free show (flyer/details below). Banners this year is made possible by our friends at Rhythm Superfoods, Chameleon Cold Brew, DO512, and Shapiro Bernstein Music Publishing. Shout out to all of them for supporting independent music and rock n’ roll!
FORT LEAN SXSW SCHEDULE:
Wednesday March 18- 3:30pm: Banners Party (The Side Bar, 602 E 7th St)
Wednesday March 18- 10pm: The Majestic (The Majestic, 419 E 6th St) ***OFFICIAL***
Thursday March 19th- 1am: ICM Showcase (Icenhausers 83 Rainey St, Austin, TX 78701)
Friday March 20- NOON: GQ x Jam in the Van (session)
Friday March 20- 2pm:BirdDog SXSW Rager @ The Pizza Loft (301 Chicon St (at 3rd)///Free/No badge//All ages))
Saturday March 21- 1pm: Music Is For Listeners Radio Party (1900 Manner Road)
IN-FLIGHT SAFETY SXSW SCHEDULE:
Tue March 17 – 10:35 pm – Red 7, 611 E 7th St
Wed March 18 – 12 noon – Acoustic Set – CIMA Stand, Convention Centre
Wed March 18 – 2:30 pm – Sidebar, 602 E 7th St // Banners Presents
Thu March 19 12 noon – La Barbecue, 902 E Cesar Chavez St // The Yard Presents
Thu March 19 5pm – The Dizzy Rooster, 306 E. 6th Street
Sat March 21 – 11pm – Friends, 208 E 6th St // HPX Presents
GO WOLF SXSW SCHEDULE:
MONDAY MARCH 16th – The British Music Embassy – Latitude 30 512 San Jacinto Blvd – 10pm
TUESDAY MARCH 17th – School House Pub – 2207 Manor Road – 7pm
THURSDAY MARCH 19th – Gig on A boat – Hyatt Regency Boat Dock 208 Barton Springs Road – 10.45am
THURSDAY MARCH 19th – Fado’s Irish Pub – 214 W 4th Street – 7pm
THURSDAY MARCH 19th – Maggie Mae’s Gibson room – 512 Trinity Street – 11pm
FRIDAY MARCH 20 – The British Music Embassy Latitude 30 512 San Jacinto Blvd – 2pm
Listen to “Quiet Day” On Stereogum
SXSW 2015 Dates:
Wednesday March 18- 3:30pm: Banners Party (The Side Bar, 602 E 7th St)
Wednesday March 18- 10pm: The Majestic (The Majestic, 419 E 6th St) ***OFFICIAL***
Thursday March 19th- 1am: ICM Showcase (Icenhausers 83 Rainey St, Austin, TX 78701)
Friday March 20- NOON: GQ x Jam in the Van (session)
Friday March 20- 2pm:BirdDog SXSW Rager @ The Pizza Loft (301 Chicon St (at 3rd) Free//All ages))
Saturday March 21- 1pm: Music Is For Listeners Radio Party (1900 Manner Road)
Somewhere between fact and fiction sits a place called Fort Lean. It doesn’t show on a subway map, and your cabbie won’t know how to get there, but on those adventurous nights when you’ve traded in your plans for a roll of the dice, that’s when you can find it.
The five gentlemen who bring the Fort to life met a decade ago at the famously freewheeling site of institutional discovery called Wesleyan University. Jake, Sam and Zach formed a band on the first day of class and were joined a few years later by Keenan and Will. The “P.C.U.” school’s hyper-social climate and bevy of battling bands set the tone for the real world beyond its progressive quad. After graduating, the group’s members relocated to New York to start fresh, playing music in other outfits and holding down jobs. A few years later the quintet reconvened as Fort Lean.
Fort Lean projects itself into the vague physical space suggested by its name. Here they have forged an identity and established roles that sidestep the hierarchy of traditional bands. Jake, on bass, is the visionary technician; Zach, on guitar, is the big-picture conceptualizer; Sam is that rare drummer with compositional knack; Keenan, the singer, is the guiding soul of the group; Will, on keys, is the finisher, the closer, the icing. But while these roles do exist, it’s never quite clear who is doing what.
“It’s a warped normalcy,” says Keenan. “There are elements in our music that you might think you’ve heard before but they translate to something different when the parts come together.” Layers of sound interweave, blending the familiar and unfamiliar. In their words, it’s like a bootleg vacation, the idea of an escape that is compromised or somehow undercut; a kid on holiday with his parents, free but for the hotel walls.
Fort Lean released two early EPs, earning glowing reviews in The New York Times and shows with HAIM, Future Islands, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Now comes Quiet Day, the debut LP on Ooh La La Records. The album is a collision of moods and tones, approachable and ambitious but delivered with a sideways subtlety. The collective songwriting is cohesive yet contains the disparate perspectives of its five writers. This is versatile stuff, appropriate for a crowd at a party or for the introspective headphoner.
“What we’re trying to explore sonically is something true to life, where there are moments of pleasure and peace that coexist with moments of surprise and chaos, ” says Zach. “It’s aspirational,” says Keenan. “We’re trying to build a world.”
Welcome to Fort Lean.
AERO FLYNN RELEASES NEW SINGLE “CRISP”
SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM FEATURED ON TODAY’S
BROADCAST OF NPR “MORNING EDITION”
AERO FLYNN OUT MARCH 10TH ON OOH LA LA RECORDS
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON AND ITUNES NOW
Aero Flynn has released “Crisp” via SoundCloud, the latest song to be unveiled from the forthcoming self-titled debut album. The project of Minneapolis based musician Josh Scott, Aero Flynn was also featured on today’s broadcast of NPR “Morning Edition” as they explored his roots in Eau Claire, WI, and the genesis behind the new album. An album “quickly shaping up to be one of 2015′s sleeper greats” according to Stereogum. Learn more about Aero Flynn on “Morning Edition” here.
Aero Flynn is out March 10th via Ooh La La Records, but is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon.
Stream “Crisp” on SoundCloud
Watch “Dk/Pi” performed live in studio on YouTube
“‘Dk/Pi’ starts with an unassuming little twinkle. But then it sears, smokes and eventually explodes, revealing the full capabilities of Scott’s wandering mind. It helps that his band maintains a tight grasp on his expansive creative vision.” – NPR
Produced by Aero Flynn (aka Josh Scott) and Justin Vernon, the upcoming self-titled debut is an album that many who have known Scott have been quietly and anxiously hoping would come to pass for over a decade. Scott’s good friend Christopher Porterfield of Field Report tells the story better than most, relating a time in the early early aughts in Eau Claire, Wisconsin when the music scene was fervently anticipating the inevitable success of a promising band named Amateur Love.
Amateur Love shared members (Brad and Phil Cook and Brian Moen) with Vernon’s DeYarmond Edison, and as Porterfield relates, the former “were the better band and everyone knew it. The songs were better. The ideas were grander. The subject matter weirder. The narrators more honest and articulate. The frontman more compelling.” Just as things were starting to take off however, Scott abruptly disbanded the group and moved to Chicago. He watched from a distance as a wave of attention and success that washed over the tight knit scene he was once a part of while he in turn battled depression and developed a mysterious autoimmune disease that will require he undergo a kidney transplant in a few years time.
Yet even in the face of those headwinds, and perhaps on account of them, Scott eventually began writing and recording what would become Aero Flynn’s deeply personal self-titled debut. An incredible cast of musicians lent their talents to the process, including Mike Noyce, Sean Carey, Matt Sweeney, Rob Moose, Adam Hurlburt, CJ Camerieri, and Ben Lester. Recording went incredibly well, and over the course of a year an album many had spent over a decade waiting for was finally finished.
aeroflynn.org
Upcoming Tour Dates:
April 03 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry
April 04 – Eau Claire, WI – House of Rock
July 17 – Eau Claire, WI Eaux Claires Festival
July 18 – Eau Claire, WI Eaux Claires Festival
Join us Saturday, February 21st at Rough Trade NYC in Brooklyn, NY for Fort Lean + NGHBRS and openers The Henry Millers. Show starts at 9pm. Be there or be █.
I’m thrilled to welcome Josh Scott and his new band, Aero Flynn, to the Ooh La La Records family. Everything you need to know about this incredible new artist and release can be found here: http://aeroflynn.org/.
Yours truly,
Theo Aronson
Coverage from COS and Stereogum on first day:
It’s true, all vinyl and other Ooh La La products are on extended SALE right now for the holidays. It might be too late to get those CD stocking stuffers or snag some vinyl for under the tree/menorah, but its NEVER TOO LATE to add some great records to your collection. Or give a belated gift to your step brother. Head over to the Ooh La La store now and treat yourself to some new tunes for the beginning of the year!
Earlier this year I met a young dude from London named Harvey Tatsu Jones with an interesting story and wild taste in music. He is from Japan, lived in Santiago for 8 years, and is now based in London. Talk about world traveller! We got to talking and found we had similar taste in music. I would now introduce you to his label: ENDEMIKA
We’ve decided to collaborate on some playlists and share each other’s music across the pond. I’ve picked some personal favorites from his catalog and created a playlist on SoundCloud to showcase the awesome production and Harvey’s amazing taste. Check out the tunes and and let me know what you think by re-sharing, favoriting, and commenting on the playlist.
-Theo
