We are at the House of Blues San Diego tonight and tomorrow night.  Tell us where we should be eating while here and in every city along this tour route. Shawn is a vegetarian (vegan) and we will appreciate all the recommendations we can get on this tour.  Post them on facebook www.facebook.com/amandshawnlee .

As you know the new AM & Shawn Lee album Celestial Electric came out yesterday.

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Listen and buy: http://amsounds.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-electric

09/06 Lou’s Records In-store Encinitas, CA

09/07 San Diego, CA House of Blues* http://bit.ly/slamsd1

09/08 Live on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic Los Angeles, CA

09/08 San Diego, CA House of Blues* http://bit.ly/slamsd

09/09 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theater* http://bit.ly/slamgreek

09/10 Las Vegas, NV Cosmopolitan* http://bit.ly/slamvegas

09/13 Live on KEXP Seattle, WA

09/13 Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern# http://bit.ly/slamseattle

09/14 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios# http://bit.ly/slamportland

09/16 Oakland, CA Fox Theater* http://bit.ly/slamoakland

09/19 Boston, Mass Middle East # http://tktwb.tw/slamboston

09/20 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie http://ticketf.ly/slamphilly

09/21 Washington, DC Black Cat^ http://bit.ly/slamdc

09/22 Mercury Lounge, NYC, NY^ http://bit.ly/slamnyc

09/24 Lovin’ Cup, Rochester NY#  http://tktwb.tw/slamrochester

09/28 Audio Absinthe Presents: Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA$ http://ticketf.ly/slamla

# = AM & Shawn Lee headlining shows

* = w/ Thievery Cooperation

^ = co-headlining with Fool’s Gold

$ = w/ Wax Poetics’ Adrian Younge Presents Venice Dawn Opening

Album Review: “Each song pulls me in, making it hard to skip a song.”-**** Austin Town Hall

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We will be playing live on KEXP in Seattle on September 13 at 9am and that same night at Sunset Tavern.

“I loved it, I hated it, and I had to hear it again. By then it was too late, as I had fallen for the twosome’s tropicalia-infused version of dance-pop ..sounds the most like a sunny day in São Paulo. … it recalls so many acts I enjoy, like Kraftwerk, the Beta Band, Air, Phoenix, and Juana Molina…”- Seattle’s Lineout The Stranger, Katherine Fennessy

http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/08/03/summer-breeze-am-and-shawn-lees-celestial-electric

“Their new album, Celestial Electric, was a bi-nation love affair in its making. They have traded beat skeletons via email and have taken time, Lee in London and AM in Los Angeles, to flesh them out into fat and lively golems…”  – Magnetic Magazine

Interview here: http://magneticmag.com/2011/07/am-shawn-lee-and-me/

Second part here:

http://magneticmag.com/2011/07/dj-am-shawn-lee-parte-the-seconde-shawn-lee-doeth-returneth/

Routing a tour with Shawn Lee and we need your help to know where in the world we should go. In exchange for this morsel of info we give you a free MP3 of the new song DARK INTO LIGHT before it is even available. Enjoy.

Free mp3- http://www.pledgemusic.com/widgets/959

MUSIC MADE IN CYBERSPACE

Be the first to hear AM and Shawn Lee’s yet untitled album as they unveil their new music at a SXSW Pre-show on March 7th at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, and at SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 18th.

Free! Listen and download  mp3 of “Dark Into Light” now at www.amsounds.com/2011/02/new-music-am-shawn-lee/

The collaboration between AM and Shawn Lee started after AM heard Lee’s Music and Rhythm album on the radio in Los Angeles (KJazz’s Miles Perlich and also KCRW). After reaching out to Lee via a now defunct social networking site that is best left unnamed, the two became quick friends sharing a similar love for vintage grooves and ‘60s and ‘70s soundtrack music.

The two decided to record together after AM played guitar on a few of Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra shows (including KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic”) in the summer of 2010.  Lee, armed with a four-track and other vintage tape machines in his London studio, started sending AM drum and percussion beats in December 2010. In Los Angeles, AM responded by writing and recording songs over the grooves, adding guitars, Casio synths, vocals and occasional bass and emailing the tracks back to Lee in London.

Lee then added more instrumentation such as bass, keys, guitars, glockenspiel and other assorted instruments and mixed the tunes. The LA to London cyber collaboration results in a completely unique brand of “electro-soul”.  Over the past few months fans could see their back and forth notes often written on Facebook.  This new project sees the duo propel each other into their best work yet. AM’s honeyed vocals ride a driving percussion section straight into walls of shimmering guitars and glassy keyboards pulling elements as disparate as Gary Numan, Jorge Ben, and Ariel Pink into 3:54 of perfect future pop. Tweet it. Like it. #coolnewshite

Limited Edition, gold colored, 12″ of “Dark Into Light” available on record store day April 16th.

Dark Into Light

AM & Shawn Lee

AM & Shawn Lee: WXW Show
Monday, March 7, 2011 @ 9:45 pm
Hotel Cafe
1623 1/2 Cahuenga Blvd
Hollywood CA 90028

AM and Shawn Lee performing at SXSW 2011.

FRIDAY, March 18  SXSW 2011 Showcase @ The Ale House
The Ale House
310 East 6th Street
Austin, TX
Friday, March 18, 2011
Time: 10pm

Indie pop artist AM and groove master Shawn Lee have created a new album of “electro soul” with plans to showcase it through a live performance on March 18^th at The Ale House (Time TBA) at the SxSW Music and Media Conference in Austin, Texas.

The as-yet-unnamed album – the first-ever collaboration between AM and Lee — will be released in May 2011 with plans for a 12-inch single available in April 2011.  They have been offered several tours with plans to tour the USA in April and the worldwide festival circuit in the summer.

The new album promises to push the boundaries of soul, pop, electronica and Latin grooves. Strategic Revolution Media Group client AM combines several musical styles including pop, soul and R&B, tropicalia, British Invasion and ’60s psychedelia. His music has been compared to the likes of Beck and Jeff Tweedy. His album Future Sons & Daughters was named in the Top 100 albums of 2010 by Rough Trade, given a four-star rating by Q Magazine and a five out of five-star rating by U.K. Sunday Express as “one of the great pop albums of the year.”

Lee, who also records as Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra, is well known as an innovative instrumentalist whose music spans funk, soul, acid jazz, and electronica. Lee’s landmark recording Strings and Things: Ubiquity Studio Sessions, Volume 3 was described by music critic site Allmusic.com as is “a hotbed of mischievous imagination, intense focus, and crazy mad technique, as well as loads of fun.” Lee has also collaborated with artists ranging from Jeff Buckley and Money Mark to producer Clutchy Hopkins (the latter as Clutch of the Tiger).  A movie featuring his score will showcase at the SXSW Film Showcase this year as well.

According to Strategic Revolution Media Group, the collaboration between AM and Lee started after AM heard Lee’s Music and Rhythm album on the radio in Los Angeles. After AM reached out to Lee, the two became quick friends, sharing a similar love for vintage grooves and ‘60s and ‘70s soundtrack music.

The two decided to record together after AM played guitar on a few of Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra shows (including KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic”) in summer 2010. Lee, armed with a four-track and other vintage tape machines in his London studio, started sending AM drum and percussion beats over the Christmas holiday in December. AM took the beats into the studio in Los Angeles and wrote songs and lyrics over the grooves, adding guitars, Casio synths, vocals and occasional bass.

The new music occurs amid busy period of touring and recording for both AM and Lee. AM spent 2010 on the road opening for AIR, Caetano Veloso and Charlotte Gainsbourg while Lee played Bonnaroo and toured the west coast of the United States.  Their recording will build off a music portfolio that has appeared in more than 200 movies and television shows, with AM’s music appearing in shows like Big Love and Friday Night Lights and Lee’s in Desperate Housewives and Lost.

I want to thank all the artists who submitted such great designs and all those that helped vote for their favorite poster. I’ve chosen a winner. Check it out here along with the two runner-ups.

POSTER CONTEST WINNER: Gregory/ Baston from South Carolina

RUNNERS UP:

Daniel Guszta from Poland

and TJ Harley from Georgia

Limited Edition

Hand signed

Numbered

180 Gram

virgin vinyl

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AM’s album “FUTURE SONS & DAUGHTERS makes Rough Trade’s “Top 100 Albums of 2010″.

Rough Trade’s Top 100 of 2010:

1. Caribou – Swim
2. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
3. These New Puritans – Hidden
4. Caitlin Rose – Own Side Now
5. Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy
6. Darkstar – North
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
8. Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner
9. Wild Nothing – Gemini
10. Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
11. Broken Bells – Broken Bells
12. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
13. The National – High Violet
14. Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
15. Beach House – Teen Dream
16. Voice Of The Seven Thunders – Voice Of The Seven Thunders
17. Perfume Genius – Learning
18. Crocodiles – Sleep Forever
19. The Black Keys – Brothers
20. The Morning Benders – Big Echo
21. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
22. Salem – King Night
23. Brian Eno – Small Craft On A Milk Sea
24. Dylan Leblanc – Paupers Field
25. Joanna Newson – Have One On Me
26. Matthew Dear – Black City
27. Warpaint – The Fool
28. Liars – Sisterworld
29. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
30. John Grant – Queen Of Denmark
31. Konono No 1 – Assume Crash Position
32. Smoke Fairies – Through Low Light And Trees
33. Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
34. Villagers – Becoming A Jackal
35. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
36. Mount Kimbie – Crooks And Lovers
37. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
38. Best Coast – Crazy For You
39. PVT – Church With No Magic
40. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
41. Vampire Weekend – Contra
42. Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep
43. Yeasayer – Odd Blood
44. Midlake – The Courage Of Others
45. The Soft Pack – The Soft Pack
46. Sleigh Bells – Treats
47. O Children – O Children
48. Glasser – Ring
49. Zola Jesus – Stridulum 2
50. Holly Miranda – The Magician’s Private Library
51. Sea Of Bees – Songs For The Ravens
52. JJ – No3
53. Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise
54. Twin Shadow – Forget
55. Gonjasufi – A Sufi And A Killer
56. Bear In Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
57. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
58. Cours Lapin – Cours Lapin
59. Darwin Deez – Darwin Deez
60. School Of Seven Bells – Disconnect From Desire
61. Beach Fossils – Beach Fossils
62. Shit Robot – From The Cradle To The Rave
63. Jonsi – Go
64. Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
65. Belle And Sebastian – Belle And Sebastian Write About Love
66. Chilly Gonzales – Ivory Tower
67. Connan Mokasin – Please Turn Me Into The Snat
68. Holy Fuck – Latin
69. The School – Loveless Unbeliever
70. Tobacco – Maniac Meat
71. Dios – We Are Dios
72. Allo Darlin’ – Allo Darlin’
73. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
74. Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts
75. El Guincho – Pop Negro
76. Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
77. Kort (Kurt Wagner And Cortney Tidwell) – Invariable Heartache
78. Solar Bears – She Was Coloured In
79. Free Energy – Stuck On Nothing
80. Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz
81. Kings Go Forth – The Outsiders Are Back
82. Grinderman – Grinderman 2
83. Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards – Shakes
84. Stornoway – Beachcomber’s Windowsill
85. Tamaryn – The Waves
86. The Tallest Man On Earth – The Wild Hunt
87. Four Tet – There Is Love In You
88. Magic Kids – Memphis
89. Marina And The Diamonds -Family Jewels
90. Mystery Jets – Serotonin
91. Black Angels – Phosphene Dream
92. Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul
93. Fool’s Gold – Fool’s Gold
94. Frankie Rose And The Outs – Frankie Rose And The Outs
95. Aloe Blacc – Good Things
96. Drums Of Death – Generation Hexed

97. AM – Future Sons And Daughters

98. Field Music – Field Music (Measure)
99. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
100. Time And Spacemachine – Set Phazer To Stun