UK Tour TBA

June 30th, 2010 — 9:20am

Front Page Music Video Feature: The National Student

Video feature: One For The People & at AAA Music

Red Hot Velvet UK Review

“Music this well produced, this respectful of its influences yet different from them, and this optimistic belongs nestled in vinyl collections somewhere between The Beach Boys and The Coral…”

SOUNDS LIKE: The catchier moments of The Magic Numbers and it’s hard to escape the Beck vibe.

YOU’LL LIKE THIS IF: You don’t mind having to listen to Beyonce’s I AM Sasha Fierce fifteen times before finding his splendid track. Tricky name, great song.

-Ruth Franciszka Wallbank

[Note: For the record: only one of AM's songs have been featured on MTV's The Hills.]

AMAZON FEATURES AM

June 30th, 2010 — 8:37am

Future Sons & Daughters is featured on Amazon.  Get the free live EP at www.amsounds.com

AM featured on Amazon France (1)

AM On The Radio

June 29th, 2010 — 8:40am

KAFM Grand Junction Playlist

The Morning Muse (Variety)  With The Storm Boy

Mon Jun 28th 2010 6.00am–9.00am

Special thank you to Casey for sending this playlist in with “Self Preservation” being played at KAFM. If you see AM’s music being played on a radio station, please send us the playlist.

5:59am

Hammock “Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow” from City In The Dust On My Window Buy it!

6:02am

My Brightest Diamond “Gone Away” from Bring Me the Workhorse CD ALBUM (2006) Buy it!

6:07am

The Swell Season “Fantasy Man” from Strict Joy CD ALBUM (Epitaph 2009) Buy it!

6:12am

Ane Brun “My Lover Will Go” from A Temporary Dive CD ALBUM (2005) Buy it!

6:19am

Alexi Murdoch “Crinian Wood” from Away We Go CD ALBUM (Nettwerk sonymusic.com/ 2009) Buy it!

6:25am

Yo La Tengo “Gentle Hour” from Dark Was the Night (4AD 4ad.com/ 2009) Buy it!

6:31am

Tim Williams “Bills (Carriage House Session)” from Merchant Heart – EP CD EP (Dovecote Records 2007) Buy it!

6:33am

Son Volt “Ipecac” from Okemah and the Melody of Riot CD ALBUM (Legacy 2005) Buy it!

6:39am

Pieta Brown “Wishes Falling Through the Rain” from One and All CD ALBUM (Red House www.redhouserecords.com 2010) N Buy it!

6:42am

Blitzen Trapper “Below the Hurricane” from Destroyer of the Void (Sub Pop 2010) N Buy it!

6:48am

The Theater Fire “Ne’er Too Late” from The Theater Fire (Christmas Mountain Records 2004) Buy it!

6:51am

Angus and Julia Stone “On The Road” from Down the Way (Nettwerk sonymusic.com/ 2010) N Buy it!

6:59am

Viva Voce “Lesson No. 1” from The Heat Can Melt Your Brain CD ALBUM (Amore!Phonics www.mintyfresh.com 2004) Buy it!

7:02am

AM “Self Preservation” from Future Sons & Daughters CD ALBUM (Filter US Recordings 2010) Buy it!

7:05am

Tift Merritt “Paper Cut” from See You On the Moon CD ALBUM (Fantasy 2010) N Buy it!

7:08am

The Watson Twins “Harpeth River” from Talking to You, Talking to Me CD ALBUM (Vanguard 2009) Buy it!

7:15am

Iron and Wine “Fever Dream” from Our Endless Numbered Days CD ALBUM (Sub Pop Records www.subpop.com/ 2004) Buy it!

7:19am

Meg Hutchinson “Gatekeeper” from the living side CD ALBUM (Red House www.redhouserecords.com 2010) Buy it!

7:24am

Ana Egge “Wastin’ Time (Ron Sexsmith)” from Lazy Days CD ALBUM (Grace/Parkingsong 2007) Buy it!

7:27am

The Weepies “Somebody Loved” from Happiness CD ALBUM (The Weepies 2004) Buy it!

7:33am

O+S “You And Your Sister” from Sing Me To Sleep – Indie Lullabies N Buy it!

7:36am

Lisa Hannigan “Lillie” from Sea Sew (ATO Records/Red 2009) Buy it!

7:40am

Andrew Bird “The Twistable Turnable Man Returns” from Twistable Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute To The Songs of Shel Silverstein N Buy it!

7:43am

The Choir “Yellow-Haired Monkeys” from Free Flying Soul (Benson 1996) Buy it!

7:47am

Sun Kil Moon “Like the River” from April CD ALBUM (Caldo Verde www.4ad.com/ 2008) Buy it!

7:51am

Seventy Sevens “Flowers In the Sand” from Late CD ALBUM (2000) Buy it!

7:55am

Peter Bradley Adams “I Won’t” from Traces CD ALBUM (Sarathan 2009) Buy it!

7:59am

Jakob Dylan “Down On Our Own Shield” from Women And Country (Sony 2010) Buy it!

8:03am

Doug Burr “And When We Awake” from O Ye Devastator CD ALBUM (Velvet Blue Music 2010) Buy it!

8:11am

Cowboy Junkies “Cicadas” from Renmin Park (Latent 2010) N Buy it!

8:16am

Hammock “Breathturn” from Chasing After Shadows… Living With The Ghosts CD ALBUM (2010) Buy it!

8:25am

Kris Delmhorst “Birds of Belfast” from shotgun singer CD ALBUM (Signature Sounds Signature Sounds 2008) Buy it!

8:30am

Monk “Womb Of God” from Quiver Buy it!

8:36am

Emmylou Harris “Where Will I Be” from Wrecking Ball CD ALBUM (Asylum 1995) Buy it!

8:48am

Rose Melberg “Things That We Do” from Homemade Ship CD ALBUM (K Records 2010) Buy it!

8:52am

Damien Jurado “Rachel & Cali” from Saint Bartlett Buy it!

8:55am

The Pines “Don’t Let Me Go” from sparrows in the bell CD ALBUM (Red House www.redhouserecords.com 2007) Buy it!

8:59am

Delta Spirit “Devil Knows Your Dead” from History from Below (Rounder 2010) N Buy it!

FEATURED ON DEEZER FRANCE

June 29th, 2010 — 8:36am

Future Sons & Daughters is featured on Deezer.  Get the free live EP at www.amsounds.com

AM featured on Deezer France

iTunes France Love

June 28th, 2010 — 8:34am

Future Sons & Daughters featured on iTunes in France. Get the free live album on www.amsounds.com

AM on iTunes France- Rock

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June 28th, 2010 — 4:47am

How many things are there which I do not want.

~Socrates

Featured on iTunes France

June 27th, 2010 — 8:33am

Future Sons & Daughters featured on iTunes in France. Get the free live album on www.amsounds.com

AM on iTunes France- Rock

FREE MP3′s

June 26th, 2010 — 4:33pm

FREE!  Live EP at www.amsounds.com

Get a free mp3 every month when you sign up for the mailing list.

http://amsounds.com/mailing-list/

one of my favorites

June 26th, 2010 — 11:44am

QUOBUZ Feature France

June 26th, 2010 — 8:28am

Future Sons & Daughters featured on Quobuz in France. Get the free live album on www.amsounds.com

AM jusqu-au coup de soleil

Le Toute dernier album d’AM, est un heureux, melange de styles msuicaux qui rappellent tant le Tropicalisme, line la suite.

AM on Quobuz

NME UK

June 25th, 2010 — 10:07am

UK NEWS:
AM’s “Self Preservation” music video has been added to NME TV and the  NME Radar playlist is featuring AM’s new single. Reviews in Q Magazine and Artrocker are confirmed for August along with Rough Trade’s Album Of The Month Club. Single comes out in the UK on June 26th.

France

June 25th, 2010 — 8:26am

Future Sons & Daughters featured on Virgin Mega in France. Get the free live album on www.amsounds.com

AM Featured on Virginmega France

June 26- UK Single

June 24th, 2010 — 12:28pm

On June 26th, 2010, AM’s single “Self Preservation” comes out in the UK. Featured on Mewbox and IhouseU.

A lot of musicians pay lip service to having a plethora of far-flung musical influences, but then you listen to their music and it sounds like they’ve done their best to avoid them at any cost. Citing artists as diverse as Jorge Ben, Brian Wilson, Sergio Mendes, and Curtis Mayfield, AM’s first UK album -‘Future Sons & Daughters’ – truly delivers on the sum of its parts.

www.amsounds.com

I HOUSE U- Feature

MEWBOX

Red Cross Video

June 24th, 2010 — 6:48am

Volunteer, Donate, Give. AM’s song featured on the home page of www.redcross.org

RED CROSS VIDEO
Artist: AM
Song: Old Song

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June 21st, 2010 — 12:46pm

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.

~Michael Harrington

UK Release August 30

June 18th, 2010 — 11:27am

Future Sons & Daughters will be released in the UK on August 30th, 2010.

Thanks for all the emails regarding hearing “Self Preservation” played on John Kennedy’s XFM. Check out the XFM playlist here:

http://www.xfm.co.uk/onair/djs/john-kennedy

X-Posure Playlist

Thursday 17th June 2010

  1. Artists In Residence: Connan Mockasin
    One Night Stand: We Are Knuckle Dragger
    X-Posure Live Sets: Shy Child / Losers / Villa Nah
    X-Posure Hot One: Grovesnor ‘Dan’ (Lo)
    X-Posure Big One: Janelle Monae ‘Tightrope’ (Atlantic)

    10-11pm
    The X-Certs ‘Slackerpop’ (Xtra Mile)
    Frightened Rabbit ‘Living In Colour’ (Fat Cat)
    Funeral Party ‘New York City Moves To The Sound Of LA’ (RCA)
    Kele ‘Tenderoni’ (Wichita)
    Everything Everything ‘Schoolin’ (Dekker & Johan Remix)’ (Geffen)
    X-Posure Hot One: Grovesnor ‘Dan’ (Lo)
    One Night Stand, Session Track: We Are Knuckle Dragger ‘ME’
    One Night Stand: Phone Interview w/ Aran of We Are Knuckle Dragger
    One Night Stand, Session Track: We Are Knuckle Dragger ‘Explanations With Connotations’
    Pulled Apart By Horses ‘Yeah Buddy’ (Transgressive)
    Patch William ‘The Last Bus’ (Hubris)
    Tim And Sam’s Tim & The Sam Band With Tim & Sam ‘Finders Keepers’ (Full Of Joy)
    Arcade Fire ‘We Used To Wait’ (Mercury)

    11pm-Midnight (Deep)
    Turbo Fruits ‘Get Up Get On Down’ (Ark)
    Acoustic Ladyland ‘Sport Mode’ (Strong & Wrong)
    We Are Scientists ‘Goal! England’ (www.goalengland.co.uk)
    Male Bonding ‘Weird Feelings’ (Sub Pop)
    Donaeo ‘I’m Fly (John Kennedy Dubplate)’ ()
    Pigbag ‘Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag (Brand New Pigbag Remix Radio Edit)’ ()
    One Night Stand, Session Track: We Are Knuckle Dragger ‘Steel Toe Capped Sandal’
    Lower Than Atlantis ‘Far Q’ (A Wolf At Your Door)
    Artists In Residence, Session Track: Connan Mockasin ‘It’s Choade My Dear’
    X-Posure Live Set: Shy Child – recorded at X-Posure Live 10/5/10 @ The Barfly, London

    Midnight-1am (Deeper!)
    X-Posure Big One: Janelle Monae ‘Tightrope’ (Atlantic)
    X-Posure Live Set: Losers ‘Flush / Theme From Losers / Fashion / ? / ?’ – recorded at X-Posure Live 10/5/10
    @ The Barfly, London
    Peggy Sue ‘Yo Mama’ (Wichita)
    X-Posure Live Set: Villa Nah ‘Running On / Envelope / Remains Of Love / Ways To Be’ -
    recorded at X-Posure Live 10/5/10 @ The Barfly, London

    1-2am (Deeper Still!)
    Standard Fare ‘Dancing’ (Melodic/Thee SPC)
    Plan B ‘Prayin’ (Breakage RMX)’ ()
    Primary 1 ‘Princess (Isa Machine Revolution)’ (Warner Bros)
    AM ‘Self Preservation’ (Naim)
    Walls ‘Hang Four’ (Kompakt)
    The Chemical Brothers ‘Dissolve’ (Parlophone/Freestyle Dust)
    The Robot Heart ‘Raining Stones’ (Bleeding Heart)
    Charlie Calleja ‘Anything Goes’ ()
    The 2:54 ‘Creeping’ (www.myspace.com/thetwofiftyfour)
    Korrallreven ‘The Truest Faith’ ()
    Psychobuildings ‘No Man’s Land’ ()
    Weedys ‘Stuck In The…’ ()

France Photos

June 18th, 2010 — 7:13am

Most of the photos we took while touring France with AIR will be posted here www.facebook.com/am .

If you have any tour photos, videos, reviews you’ve seen or your own, please post at www.facebook.com/am and Flickr and send them our way info@amsounds.com .

Special thank you to Maud in Toulouse. Le Bikini was a fantastic venue and Herve the owner was a genius. Here is Maud’s review. Check out her blog too:  http://www.rawinvestigations.com/reviews/airreven.php

Toulouse, France Live Show Review, Venue “Le Bikini”: “The night started with the support artist, the singer-songwriter AM which was good enough to make me wait for AIR patiently. His songs were sweet and soft, and kind of sounded “scandinavian” to my ears. It can’t be a bad thing, eh? So there he was on stage, which two other guys, including a drummer with fantastic hair. He was playing guitar and ukulele with great ease. He made quite an impression on me, so much that I decided to try to interview him after the gig.” – Raw Investigations

Photos from the show are here:

http://www.rawinvestigations.com/photos/air.html

Main Stage Voodoo Fest

June 17th, 2010 — 3:37pm

Halloween in New Orleans is one of the best times to be in the city.  AM is playing the main stage at Voodoo Festival this year.  Check out the lineup below October 29, 30, 31.

Photo: AM on stage in Toulouse, France.

Ozzy Osbourne/Muse/Weezer/MGMT/Drake/Metric/Hot Chip/Interpol/Paul Van Dyk/Deadmau5/Street Sweeper Social Club/Paul Oakenfold/Jakob Dylan and Three Legs/Eagles of Death Metal/Cage the Elephant/Minus the Bear/AM/Janelle Monae/Eli “Paperboy” Reed/Galactic with Guests/Jonsi/The Airborne Toxic Event/Innerpartysystem/Die Antwoord/Ferry Corsten/Buckwheat Zydeco…

Florence and the Machine/Afrojack/Raphael Saadiq/Rival Sons/Afrojack/Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue/Rebirth Brass Band/Preservation Hall Jazz Band/Crookers/ Stanton Moore Trio with Anders Osborne and Robert Walter/Voice of the Wetlands All Stars featuring Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville, George Porter Jr., Waylon Thibodeaux, Big Chief Bourdeaux, Johnny Vidacovich, and Johnny Sansone…

Soul Rebels Brass Band/Theresa Anderson/Basin Street Records Revue featuring Kermit Ruffins, Dr. Michael White and Jeremy Davenport/George Porter Jr. & Runnin’ Pardners/Toubab Krewe/Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen/Treme Brass Band with Uncle Lionel Batiste/Cedric Burnside & Lightnin Malcolm/Big Sam’s Funky Nation/The New Orleans Bingo! Show with special guests/The Happy Talk Band/Fleur De Tease Burlesque Revue/Rotary Downs/DJ Soul Sister/Paul Sanchez/Quintron & Miss Pussycat…

Honey Island Swamp Band with guest Gal Holiday/Rosie Ledet/Fatter Than Albert/Leo Jackson and the Melody Makers/Fitz & The Tantrums/Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights/Shannon McNally/Creole String Beans/Feufollet/Alvin Youngblood Hart/Locos Por Juana/Cedric and malcolm/Flow Tribe/Consortium of Genius/Luke Winslow-King./Noisician Coalition/DJ Quickie Mart/The Vettes/Debauche/Helen Gillet/The Local Skank/MC Sweet Tea, Rival Sons.

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June 14th, 2010 — 8:46am

Anything simple always interests me.

~David Hockney

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June 7th, 2010 — 5:43pm

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~Leonardo DaVinci