Heading to Park City, Utah to perform at Sundance. New album Future Sons & Daughters will now be available at record stores across the USA on Feb. 9th, 2010.

Support the tour now by preordering the CD and get a free instant download of the album here: www.amsounds.com/music 

AM playing live on 89.9FM KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic on March 3rd, 2010 at 9am.

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AM TAKES FLIGHT WITH AIR ON NORTH AMERICAN TOUR;  WARMS UP IN PARK CITY, UTAH WITH SEVERAL SUNDANCE GIGS

LOS ANGELES— AM has been invited by French electro-pop kings Air to open their first North American tour in three years. Kicking off March 13 in Miami, the jaunt will serve as the perfect launching pad for AM’s new album, Future Sons & Daughters, produced by Charles Newman (The Magnetic Fields) and due for release on February 9 at record stores across the U.S. on Filter U.S. Recordings. The run will end with a concert at the illustrious Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. which sold out in the first 30 minutes tickets went on sale.

The imminent new year will start with a few shows at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where AM will perform at the Sundance ASCAP Music Café, Friday, January 28 and Saturday, January 29. No stranger to the film world, AM’s music, which possesses an undeniable cinematic quality, has been featured in more than 80 movies and television shows, including two films that premiered at Sundance last year, including the biggest acquisition of 2009’s Fest, Ashton Kutcher’s “Spread.” Now, AM has added film scoring to his impressive resume, co-composing his first motion picture, “Man Maid” (Warner Bros.) alongside established composer Tom Hiel (The Practice, Swimming With Sharks).

As a Tulsa-born, New Orleans raised artist with a flare for distilling global musical influences into his own unique and infectious pop confections, AM’s genre-blurring music, while hard to classify, goes down as smooth as a Mai Tai on a tropical island. Or as Creative Loafing succinctly put it, “AM has an uncanny knack for crafting pop songs shaken and stirred with Philly R&B, Motown soul, ’60s rock and folk, and Brazilian rhythms that get in your head and swirl around for a spell.”

Expect to hear AM’s music in the fourth season, second episode of NBC’s hit television show “Friday Night Lights” starting in January 2010.

January 2010

28- Park City, UT- Sundance ASCAP Music Café**

29- Park City, UT- Sundance ASCAP Music Café**

March

03- AM playing live on 89.9FM KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic

AIR TOUR DATES: www.amsounds.com/shows

1. Uh…well.

2. Super obscure Jorge Ben record…thanks Chris.

3. This record is magic.

1. Breezy Surf-Psych.

2. One of Jorge’s meanest and dirtiest sounding records. Can’t get enough.

3. A favorite of mine for many years.

1. So bad ass. Carol Kaye plays bass on these tracks. My bass player Mark Getten is now taking lessons from Carol. So surreal.

2. Another LA artist and someone I’ve had the privilege to hang with a time or three.

3. A great compilation I picked up in Seattle while on tour a couple of years ago. I wish I could remember the name of the place as the guy who owned the joint was super cool and turned me on to a few nuggets.

Some other guitars used on “FS&D”…namely the vintage burst 1960′s Silvertone in front (courtesy of Steven Stern). That guitar was used on several tunes…namely the electric guitar parts in “Darker Days”.

I used this 1966 Gibson ES 330 (on lend from friend Seven Stern) on a few tracks on “FS&D”. I believe this was taken during the recording of “When the Dust Settles”…the haunting, twangy part in the chorus. Run this through the Silvertone 1485 and the Fender Reverb and you’re in bizness.

An original 60′s Fender Reverb through a Sears Silvertone 1485. Pure and raw.