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TINDERBOX MUSIC 3148 Bryant Ave S. / Minneapolis, MN 55408 / (612) 375-1113
Tinderbox is a music promotions and distribution company. We work with unsigned, indie label, and major label artists across the country by obtaining press and radio airplay in appropriate markets and formats. We specialize in college radio and the artists that fit the CMJ (College Music Journal) and secondary FM and community formats. We also provide local and national distribution for artists as well as publishing and music licensing opportunities.
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 GRAMERCY ARMS
#14 Top Add! Charting at #92 on CMJ!
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 I FIGHT DRAGONS
Debut at #199 on CMJ!
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Gramercy Arms is a collective of New York-based artists comprising former members of Guided By Voices, Luna, Joan as Police Woman, The Dambuilders, Fuzzy and Too Much Joy. Their self-titled debut album features guest performances by Sarah Silverman, Lloyd Cole, Chris Brokaw as well as present and former members of Nada Surf, The Pernice Brothers, Dead Air, Fan Modine, Diesel, Elk City, Space Needle, Reservoir, Mascott, Shudder to Think, Scarce, Eve's Plum and others.
CHECK OUT: www.myspace.com/gramercyarms |
I Fight Dragons is Chicago's finest (and quite possibly only) NES-Rock band. They have very detailed delusions of grandeur, most of which include gross misuses of Nintendo products in combination with music in the Popular Rock genre.
CHECK OUT: www.myspace.com/ifightdragons |
SHOW SPOTLIGHT: THE NEW STANDARDS
Friday June 26 @ Pioneer Place on 5th
22 5th Ave South St. Cloud
7:30pm | $17 advance | $20 door
www.ppfive.com
(320) 203-0331
Additional upcoming shows can be found here.
Two Harbors perform in The Current studios
by David Campbell, Minnesota Public Radio
Two Harbors are finding out what it's like to be a new band all over again. Formerly known as Colonial Vipers Attack, Chris Pavlich and Kris Johnson teamed up with Ed Ackerson to release their new album "What I Keep Inside."
The band, along with Ackerson, stopped by The Current for a live performance on The Local Show.
Songs performed: "What I Keep Inside," "Silent Treatment," "You Pulled The Rug Out" and "Only Chance."
NASHVILLE-BASED BAND BRENN PERFORMS FOR TROOPS OVERSEAS
Group embarks on first Armed Forces Entertainment tour
Nashville-based, post-indie rock band Brenn will bring their unique blend of instrumental depth and memorable lyrics to U.S. troops stationed at bases in Turkey from July 1-5. This will be the first Armed Forces Entertainment tour for Brenn, which was formed in 2004 out of four college friendships at Lee University.
www.brennmusic.com
SPACESHIPS ARE COOL (AND SO ARE ORANGE SPACESUITS)!
The wonderful Spaceships Are Cool play The Monarch, Camden, London on 18th June 2009 as part of a Universal Music Showcase and as a warm-up to their forthcoming Glastonbury appearance. Enjoy! Track featured: "City Rooftops".
Five Amazing Albums in My iTunes You've Never Heard Of By Josh Jackson
5. The Honeydogs - 10,000 Years (2003)
If you've heard of one of the albums on this list, odds are it's 10,000 Years. After all, Minneapolis' Honeydogs have been putting out records for a decade and a half. The fact that this one didn't appear on more Best Of lists could have been chalked up to the fact that it's a sci-fi concept record, but Janelle Monae just proved that little obstacle can be overcome, and The Decemberists played Stephen Colbert after putting out a fantasy concept record. Maybe Adam Levy's epic, post-apocolyptic saga was just a few years before its time. Best listened all-the-way through, the album dips its toes in power pop, psychedelia, rockabilly, lounge-y nightclub ballads and even a Tropicalia-ish outro with the story providing the cohesion. Catch them this summer at the 10,000 Lakes Festival.
MORE MUSIC ON NBC'S CHUCK!
Tune in to Chuck on NBC April 13th to hear the song "Hear" by Mackintosh Braun!
 SPACESHIPS ARE COOL
Check out the latest batch of undiscovered artists selected by Spin, including our very own Spaceships Are Cool!
Spaceships Are Cool
Hometown: Nottingham, U.K.
Recommended if you like: The Beta Band, Grandaddy
Why we picked them: Glitchy psychedelia, matched up with sunny harmonies.
Listen: Spaceships Are Cool, "Let Things Go"
You can find out more here or here.
SXSW 2009
We're all slowly recovering from Austin! Check back here soon for photos and highlights.
WESS FLOYD & THE DAISYCUTTERS
One of the best shows I saw yesterday was totally free and open to the public. Nashville's Wess Floyd & the Daisycutters rocked the faces off two-dozen lucky patrons at Touché on E 6th St., playing an energetic set of epic Westerberg and Springsteen-inspired songs that would've sounded just as appropriate pumping from the stacks of speakers at New Jersey's Meadowlands. This band isn't re-inventing the wheel when it comes to its raw, no-frills sound; what it is doing is bringing bona-fide, fist-pumping, beer-swilling stadium rock to a dive bar near you. If you can't have a good time watching these rowdies lay it down, you might as well stay home.
JEREMY MESSERSMITH ON NPR'S CAR TALK!
Yup, that was Jeremy Messersmith's tune "Breaking Down" you heard on Car Talk this past weekend (episode #200907). You can find out more info on Car Talk here.
Jeremy Messersmith has been invited to record a session for Daytrotter!
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Peter Adams has just been booked for a Daytrotter Session on April 10th!
Check out their fantastic archive here.
2008 TINDERBOX BOWLING EXTRAVAGANZA
Next year we're drafting Justin from Copycats.
TINDERBOX WINS ALBUM MIX PROMOTER OF THE YEAR AWARD!
Radio Director Brandon Day just returned from Los Angeles where Tinderbox received The New Music Weekly (Gavin) Promoter of the Year award. Winners that night include 3 Doors Down, Clay Aiken, Liz Phair, Evanescense, Maroon 5...and our very own Brandon Day!
For a full list of winners, click here.
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UPCOMING ADDS:
June 23
June 30
Shaggy Wonder
Star Off Machine
Circle of One
The Verbs: #20 Top Add!
NOW AT RADIO:
April Cover
Teresa Peterson
The Mission Veo
Duck and Cover
Doug Swindel
Brad Hammond
After Glow
Zuu
I Fight Dragons: Chart #199
Brian Ledford
Mike Kotulka
Black Mercies
Redgy Blackout
Auto Defiance
Citizen Icon
Soldier Thread
Andrew Portz
Street Corner Champs
Mungus
Lachi
Kim DiVine
Michele Vreland
Soul Tree
Josh Weinstein
Mikey De Luna
Panic Years
Gin Betty
Kim Divine
Contact Us:
Tinderbox Music
3148 Bryant Ave S.
Minneapolis, MN 55408
P. 612.375.1113
F. 612.341.3330
Jon Delange
(jonattinderboxmusicdotcom)
Krista Vilinskis
(kristaattinderboxmusicdotcom)
Grant Flesland
(grantattinderboxmusicdotcom)
Brandon Day
(brandonattinderboxmusicdotcom)
Keith Lacock
(keithattinderboxmusicdotcom)
Jade Tittle(jadeattinderboxmusicdotcom)
Learn more about our current interns here.
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