AMAZON UK

25.08.2010
10:37

AM’s new album comes out in the UK August 30 digitally and September 6 in record stores. Planning US and UK tours for November.

Support the album now on Amazon:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Sons-Daughters-Bonus-Tracks/dp/B003UAW91K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1279040010&sr=8-1-spell

AM IN THE UK

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Album Of The Week- Rough Trade

16.08.2010
09:00

AM’s new album “Future Sons & Daughters” is Album Of The Week at Rough Trade in the UK.

AM’s ‘Future Sons & Daughters’ is a moody and inspired album that touches on all of the New Orleans-musician’s favourite styles from baroque chamber pieces to mid-tempo country rockers. in that sense, such tracks as the atmospheric phil spector-ish number ‘the other side,’ the lead single ‘grand opinion,’ and the mellow country-rock anthem ‘fortunate family tree’ deliver on AM’s knack for quirky ’60s pop-inspired songs. similarly, the duet with Angela Correa, ‘it’s been so long,’ is pleasantly reminiscent of the classic lee hazlewood / nancy sinatra pairings. fans of introspective, classicist pop with more than a bit of wit and charm should find much to enjoy on ‘Future Sons & Daughters’.

http://www.roughtrade.com/

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Starbucks & iTunes

11.08.2010
09:13

Free! Starbucks is giving away a free itunes download card of AM’s song “It’s Been So Long” from the album Future Sons & Daughters.

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KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic

06.08.2010
10:54

AM guests on friend Shawn Lee’s KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic performance on August 25, 2010 with DJ Jason Bentley. Shawn Lee has a new album called “Into The Wind” (Ubiquity) which is a collaboration with Bei Bei. Check it out.

Watch AM’s own KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic performance here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fx8_Zow1q8

“Local favorite AM adds a Brazilian twist to the expertly-crafted songs on his new album, Future Sons & Daughters.”- KCRW, 89.9 Los Angeles

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AM Interview on Musique Plus

21.07.2010
10:57

Watch AM’s interview on French Canadian Musique Plus TV where he talks about touring with AIR and also Charlotte Gainsbourg.

http://www.musiqueplus.com/objectif-coulisses/videos/rencontre-avec-la-premiere-partie-de-charlotte-gainsbourg

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What They Say

02.07.2010
09:14

Artist: AM

Album: Future Sons & Daughters

By J. Poet, Crawdaddy

There’s a Portuguese word that perfectly fits the music of AM: Saudade.

There’s no word in English that means exactly the same thing, but saudade is a feeling most romantic souls are aware of; an emotional state that can only be expressed by a long, unwieldy English definition. In English vernacular, you might say saudade is an aching desire to recapture a feeling that no longer exists, or probably never existed, a yearning for a better, happier, more content time—probably in the past, but possibly in a future everyone knows we may never attain. Bossa Nova, fado, and Cape Verdean mourna are all heavy with saudade, as is the music AM and his band on Future Sons & Daughters.

AM has touted his love of Brazilian music, and there is, in fact, an instrumental track on Future Sons & Daughters named Jorge Ben, after the Tropicalia guitarist, singer, and composer. But like all of the music on the album, “Jorge Ben” is anything but straightforward. There’s no samba, or bossa, or even Brazilian reggae there. It’s a Memphis soul groove halfway between soul and funk, accented by Jesse Nason’s sci-fi organ and AM’s guitar teasing out sounds that bounce between spaghetti Western twang and rhythmic R&B chord clusters. Tropicalia was inspired in part by American soul music, but that’s about the only connection between the title and the propulsive rhythm that AM and his band lay down. This oblique approach is evident on the album’s 10 songs as well. The tunes all inhabit a vague emotional space that’s suggested rather than spelled out. Take “It’s Been So Long”, a duet with the feathery voiced Angela Correa, for example. AM sings, “Who’s right, who’s wrong / It doesn’t matter, ” with a resigned tone that lets you know it matters very much, even as he struggles with his confused emotions. The reverb on his vocals adds a dark Serge Gainsbourg-ish feel to the track.

The melancholy of “Darker Days” suggests a hybrid of Philly soul and Motown, with AM’s falsetto adding a touch of blue-eyed soul to the chorus, while “When the Dust Settles” floats through a haze of late ’60s psychedelia. The song starts quietly, with voice and organ creating a delicious tension, and then the chorus kicks in with clanging electric guitar. After the bridge, the guitar grows to fill an immense sonic space and AM’s vocals float off with the keys providing spacey, Theremin-like textures. AM’s phrasing here has its own inimitable pace. He breaks up his melodic lines in unexpected places, adding unexpected touches of tension and release to the music. The lyrics are poetic but vague, hinting at loss, longing, and a belief in a better tomorrow that will probably never come.

Other winners include “The Other Side”, a breezy confection that combines ukulele, spaghetti Western guitar, ’60s girl group handclaps, and rippling piano arpeggios to paint the picture of an uncertain love affair; “Leavenworth”, a simple, folky ballad, which may or may not be about being in an emotional prison, highlighted by glockenspiel, chiming electric piano, and a big thrumming bass guitar; and “A Complete Unknown”, a spunky rocker that has hints of funk and Latin music in its rhythm, without ever settling into either groove.

AM has obviously immersed himself in the sounds of the ’60s and ’70s, but he doesn’t write songs that are obvious knock offs or slavish echoes of pop hits past. His mellow tenor, and the ingenious arrangements of his band may suggest the past, but it’s the past of a soul drunk on saudade. These tunes are pure pop for now people, to plagiarize a phrase.

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Red Cross Video

24.06.2010
06:48

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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UK Release August 30

18.06.2010
11:27

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…’ ()

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Touring: Samba De Uma Nota

01.06.2010
12:57

Video of the power trio (AM, Chris Lovejoy, Brett Bixby) performing Samba De Uma Nota

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Touring With AIR in June

26.05.2010
07:44

What this means is we are touring with AIR in France and the album is debuting through the lovely French company Believe. Can’t wait.

Air en tournée :

Jeudi 10 juin : Le Bikini/Toulouse
Vendredi 11 juin : Théâtre de la Mer/Sète
Samedi 12 juin : Le Pasino/Aix en Provence
Dimanche 13 juin : Le Transbordeur/Lyon

Les premières parties de cette tournée seront assurées par l’américain AM. Natif de la Nouvelle-Orléans, AM s’est installé à Los Angeles pour enregistrer Future Sons & Daughters, produit par Charles Newman (The Magnetic Fields 69 Lovesongs/ Realism), un album combinant mélodies psychédéliques, tropicalisme brésilien et British Invasion. Cet album sera disponible sur iTunes dès le 8 juin prochain via Believe Digital.

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Brooklyn Vegan Features “Self Preservation”

25.04.2010
12:13

AM’s video for “Self Presrvation” featured at Brooklyn Vegan: http://bit.ly/b9WAIv

Relaxing in Brooklyn for the next 3 days.  Show tonight at Webster Hall– last show of the tour with Charlotte Gainsbourg. Thank you for all the support I have gotten on tour with AIR and Charlotte Gainsbourg, next month I’ll be touring with Josh Rouse. Let me know if you plan on coming.

Make friends on Twitter

www.twitter.com/amsounds

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FREE LIVE EP + MP3′s

24.04.2010
08:42
FREE! AM’s Future Sons & Daughters Live EP- get it now. More May tour dates to be announced next week.
Vinyl lover?  Help get Future Sons & Daughters pressed on vinyl- signed and numbered available here:  http://bit.ly/cOrrvc

AM is currently touring the US with more dates in France and also the UK this summer.

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Seattle Show Sold Out

01.04.2010
12:01

Seattle show is now sold out. We urge you to get your tickets now.  If you are interested in getting Future Sons & Daughters on vinyl, signed and numbered and shipped to you directly click here: http://bit.ly/cOrrvc

New album, Future Sons & Daughters available on iTunes Feb.  10, 2010.

AM SPRING TOUR 2010

April 11                       Vancouver, B.C.            Vogue Theatre*

April 12                       Victoria, B.C.                        Alix Goolden Hall*

April 14                       Seattle, Wash.                        Crocodile Café* SOLD OUT

April 15                       Los Angeles, CA            The Greek Theatre ##

April 17                       San Francisco, Calif.            Palace of Fine Arts*

April 21                       Chicago, Ill.                        Park West*

April 23                       Montreal, QC                        Olympia* SOLD OUT

April 24                       Montreal, QC                        Olympia*

April 25                       New York, N.Y.            Webster Hall*

JUNE DATES TBA

June 2                                    New Jersey

June 3                                    Philadelphia, PA

June 4                                    Washington DC

June 5                                    Richmond, VA

June 7                                    Greenville, SC

June 10                                    New Orleans, LA

* with Charlotte Gainsbourg

## with Caetano Veloso

# with Josh Rouse

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Luxury Wafers Live Session

22.03.2010
14:22

http://bit.ly/amluxwafers

Check out AM and the band performing live on Luxury Wafers.

AM – Self Preservation – Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo.

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AM Tour Blog On Spinner.com

20.03.2010
19:59

Was invited by Spinner.com to blog our way through this March tour on Spinner.com. First blog is up, so check it out here: http://www.spinner.com/2010/03/16/road-report-am-hits-the-road-with-air/

AM‘s distinctive melodic swagger is so impressive that it convinced French electro-pop duo Air to take the multi-instrumentalist out on their North American tour. Now AM is spreading his global sound around the country in support of his sophomore album Future Sons & Daughters.’

The New Orleans native will be checking in with personal notes and photos all along his 12-date run with Air. In his first Road Report, AM talks about kicking off the tour in Miami
and how it was the first time he and his band had ever performed in the Sunshine State.

We left Los Angeles for Miami on Friday morning March 12th, 2010. The first show was at The Fillmore right in the center of Miami Beach. This was my first time playing in Miami, or anywhere in Florida for that matter, and the show was great. Too bad I had to spend the day looking around for a guitar since mine was broken in travel. Hope to get something cool from eBay along this tour route.

Our goal of consuming some Cuban food was not reached, but that’s the touring life — only time for so many things. We’re off to Orlando and then to Atlanta in the next couple of days. It’s great to be back in the south.

Check out the photos on the blog link above.

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9:30 Club Washington DC

19.03.2010
19:00

AM performing “The Other Side” on his one and only ukeulele at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC.

Catch AM on tour with AIR in March and on tour with Charlotte Gainsbourg in April.
Tickets are on sale for AM at The Greek Theater with Caetano Veloso.

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Sundance Film Festival ASCAP Music Lounge

19.03.2010
13:58

Check it out at www.amsounds.com/news

AM interview and the song Grand Opinion performed live at the Sundance Film Festival

Future Sons & Daughters CD at your local record store, Best Buy, and now at AM’s official store

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KCRW Presents Caetano Veloso w/ AM

18.03.2010
10:28

AM opening a very special show at The Greek Theater  in Los Angeles on April 15th with Caetano Veloso. Get your tickets before they sell out.

http://www.greektheatrela.com/events/event_details.asp?id=1749

CAETANO VELOSO
“Caetano Veloso is one of the greatest songwriters of the century: a master melodist, a lyricist who merges surreal imagery with a sense of history and a sense of humor, a singer whose voice radiates tenderness and supple swing and a musician who connects to traditional music, pop and jazz from all over.”
—The New York Times

Caetano Veloso will open the award-winning Greek Theatre’s 2010 season on Thursday, April 15 with AM opening.

Caetano Veloso is among the most influential and beloved artists to emerge from Brazil. Known there since the 1960’s, Veloso has made more than thirty recordings to date and has developed a strong international following. Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, in 1942, Caetano Veloso began his professional musical career in 1965 in Sao Paulo. In his first compositions he drew on the bossa novas of Joao Gilberto, but rapidly began to develop his own distinctive style. Absorbing musical and aesthetic ideas from sources as diverse as The Beatles, concrete poetry, the French Dadaists and the Brazilian modernist poets of the 1920s, Caetano, together with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, his sister Maria Bethania, and a number of other poets and intellectuals, founded a movement called Tropicalismo. By experimenting with new sounds and words, adding electric guitars to their bands and utilizing the imagery of modern poetry, Caetano became a musical revolutionary.

Although Tropicalismo set the tone for Caetano’s career, his music has evolved greatly over the years. Incorporating elements of rock, reggae, fado, tango, samba canao, baiao and rap– with lyrics containing some of the best poetry in a musical tradition rich in verse– Caetano’s music is sometimes traditional, sometimes contemporary, often hybrid. At once an astute social commentator and balladeer of highly emotive love songs, Caetano is one of the most respected poets in the Portuguese language. Indeed he is one of only a handful of artists who has resolved how to be musically modern and still undeniably Brazilian.

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MTV DEBUT: Self Preservation

11.03.2010
07:16

AM’s new Self Preservation music video shot on HD by director Blake West will make its MTV debut on the hit show Subterranean on Tuesday Night/ Wednesday morning, March 16th at 2 am E.S.T.  (NYC Time) 11pm P.S.T. (Calfiornia Time)

Support AM’s new record– buy it in record stores or in his official store here: www.amsounds.com/music

http://www.mtv.com/shows/subterranean/series.jhtml

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NYC & LA Sold Out

09.03.2010
18:20

Urge you to get your tickets. Tour starts this Saturday in Miami. NYC is sold out.  Win free tickets to select shows when you sign up for the mailing list here: www.amsounds.com/mailing-list

March 13, 2010 Filmore supporting AIR Miami, Florida

March 14, 2010 Hard Rock Live supporting AIR Orlando, Florida

March 15, 2010 Centerstage supporting AIR Atlanta, GA

March 17, 2010 9:30 supporting AIR DC

March 18, 2010 Electric Factory supporting AIR Philadelphia, PA

March 19, 2010 Terminal 5 supporting AIR New York, NY ** SOLD OUT**

March 20, 2010 Berkeley Performing Arts Center supporting AIR Boston, MA

March 22, 2010 Metropolis supporting AIR Montreal, Canada

March 23, 2010 Phoenix Concert Theater supporting AIR Toronto, Canada

March 24, 2010 Riviera Theater supporting AIR Chicago, IL

March 26, 2010 Fox Theatre supporting AIR Oakland, CA

March 27, 2010 4th & B supporting AIR San Diego, CA

March 28, 2010 Walt Disney Music Hall supporting AIR LA, CA ***SOLD OUT***

March 30, 2010 Sainte Rock  Hermosa Beach, CA

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