Pattern25.com has two tracks from Jon’s forthcoming solo album Songs For The Year Of Our Demise up for download, and they are streaming at his official Myspace as well.
This shot of the cover is at Pattern25, with a release date of May 2nd in the US.
Ken Stringfellow is the Swiss Army Knife of power pop. It was his first band, the Posies, that splashed him all over the hearts and minds of fans and bands alike. Soon thereafter we saw Ken on keyboard, guitar, and bass as a touring member of Big Star, the Minus Five, and R.E.M. Most recently, the Posies have released ‘Every Kind of Light’, and Big Star had Ken in the studio for ‘In Space’. We were thrilled to get such a thoughtul list from such a busy guy.
During the week of October 31st, STUDIO BRUSSEL will be giving away 100 tickets for the Posies live at the Macaroni Studio on November 9th. There will be an ad playing on the radio this week, and you can enter online at Studio Brussel’s website to win tickets as well.
The Posies are being featured on Mania TV today as their artist of the day. The interview (taped earlier this month in Denver CO) will be running just after 2pm and again just after 8pm (Eastern standard time) today on their homepage.
The interview will be re-run in the 3pm hour on Saturday & Sunday, and will be archived on their site next week.
The 2nd leg of the Posies’ European tour begins today in Bielefeld, Germany, as the first of five dates opening for Teenage Fanclub. You can see the rest of the dates for the tour here.
To mark this, here is a Posies interview/feature in the German edition of Rolling Stone.
Twenty Questions
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with the Posies.
The dB’s: “Black and White” (1981) from Stands for Decibels (IRS) and Flamin’ Groovies: “I Can’t Hide” (1976) from Shake Some Action (Sire)
Ken Stringfellow: [as dB’s play] Is this the song we left off Failure? [laughs] Is that the dB’s?
Jon Auer: It could be Mitch Easter– or Don Dixon–produced. It definitely has the Mitch Easter sound of the early R.E.M. recordings.
Stringfellow: [dB’s drummer] Will Rigby wanted to be in the Posies. [Flamin’ Groovies begins] Is that the Brian Jonestown Massacre? [laughs]
Comfort isn’t often a term used in discussing rock music. It’s supposed to be rowdy, provocative and rebellious. Rock wears boots, not slippers. The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, The Clash—their best work is hardly music you’d listen to while relaxing by the fire.
Without a certain level of comfort, though, it’s hard to make music in the first place—something The Posies discovered while recording their latest album.
– NOW magazine, Toronto
– Metro Times, Detroit
– Sailor Jerry, review & photos from a show last week
– MusicOMH, Philadelphia show review
– Worcester Telegram interview
Also, theposies.net will be doing a Q&A with drummer Darius Minwalla about a week from now – you can post your questions for him in this thread in the forum, or if you don’t want to register, e-mail taylord@theposies.net or post as a reply to this update.
The Posies’ video for “Conversations” can now be viewed online here at Rykodisc’s website.
Here is the latest update on upcoming in-store performances & radio apperances:
SEPTEMBER 27, 2005 – TUESDAY – SHOW DAY PHILLY
7PM AKA MUSIC
27 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, 19106
SEPTEMBER 28, 2005 WEDNESDAY – SHOW DAY HOBOKEN
2:30PM WFMU
Jersey City, NJ 07303
http://www.wfmu.org/
8PM TUNES
225 Washington Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
SEPTEMBER 29, 2005 – THURSDAY – SHOW DAY NEW YORK
7PM NYCD
173 West 81st Street (between Amsterdam & Columbus)
New York, NY 10024
SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 – FRIDAY – SHOW DAY NORTHAMPTON
5PM B-SIDE RECORDS
273 Main Street Northampton, MA 01060
Visit Filter Magazine to register to win one of 5 copies of the new Big Star album. Contest ends on October 17th.