Mother of Three at CMJ PureVolume showcase, Friday 23 Oct
There is probably no better way for Mother of Three to end the year than with CMJ. Both shows we’re playing are going to be off the hook parties with open bar, and some of the best acts we’ve played with. PureVolume and L’asso Pizza are sponsoring five nights of mayhem at Collective Hardware, with open bar and artists hawking their wares, and Mother of Three is playing two of those nights: our live set one night, and our alter egos as house band for the Heart of Darkness comedy show the other night. (The brilliant poster above was made by none other than Mother of Three posterer and bassist, Dima Drjuchin.)
On Friday 23 Oct, we’ll be playing with fellow New York bands Lavalier and The Bowery Riots. It’s going to be a throwdown, and your last chance to see Mother of Three for the rest of 2009. Best of all, it’s free: you just have to sign up at http://PureVolume.com/house. I don’t know how many spots they have for people without CMJ passes, so I’d recommend signing up soon. Mother of Three is going to bring it, and Lavalier and The Bowery Riots are sure to put on great shows too.
On Saturday 24 Oct, Mother of Three is going to be backing Heart of Darkness, featuring comedy/performance luminaries Reggie Watts*, David Cope, and Dave Hill* (as well as Heart of Darkness founders Greg Barris and Mike O’ Rourke) [*NOTE: Reggie Watts and Dave Hill both canceled -- boo. Victor Varnado will be performing instead, as well as a mystery guest]. After the show, at which point your mind is sure to be blown, and you’ll have certainly thought that’s all the expansion of the mind you’ll be able to endure for the night, you will have to prepare yourself to stretch that mind-hole just a little wider and catch a screening of the brilliant Everything is Terrible movie. People have been posting YoutTube clips put up by the EIT crew all over the place, and now you can see their best work all at once.
If you miss these shows, we’ll be sad, but you will likely be sadder. Mother of Three will be returning to the public in Feb 2010, so don’t cry too hard, or at least not too long. So, sign up now!
1. Next show is Thurs 1 Oct at Lit Lounge in New York. Full details here. It’s another birthday show — this time Yazan turns 30 and Jonas turns 29, and no higher authority is going to stop us this time. It’s our first show since Feb (our July show was canceled), and will be among our last for the year, so come on out!
Mother of Three, Thurs 1 Oct, 10:30PM, Lit Lounge, NYC
2. Mother of Three has started releasing select cuts from their massive library of rehearsal recordings. These recordings are almost completely improvised, and recorded live in a single room with a single stereo mic. It’s raw and unfinished stuff, mostly instrumental, but the choice bits we’re making available are just too nasty not to be heard.
3. Mother of Three is part of the Pure Volume CMJ Showcase at Collective Hardware. We’ll be playing a set (with awesome bands Lavalier and Bowery Riots) on Fri 23 Oct at Collective Hardware, and then we’ll be the backing band for the CMJ edition of the Heart of Darkness comedy show, featuring Reggie Watts,Dave Hill, David Cope, and of course Mike O’ Rourke and Greg Barris. Check out Dima’s sweet poster:
Mother of Three, Lavalier, Bowery Riots at CMJ 2009 Pure Volume Showcase
4. We’re working on booking a Brooklyn show for some time in Oct as well, so keep your eyes peeled, suburbanites!
The Telephones, who are one of my favorite local bands in New York, have hit the big time and are playing the Blender Theater next week. Fronted by triple-threat Jesse Adelmen, they play tuneful, rowdy rock songs that you possibly might hear at a bar, but will more likely be hearing at a venue with a marquee. Go see them play:
The Telephones
Monday 21 Sept, 9:30PM
Blender Theater (23rd St. and Lex), NYC
Well I’m sure those of you that came out on Friday night know by now that our July 10 show at Pianos was, unfortunately, canceled. Due to circumstances beyond our control, not all band members were able to be at the venue come showtime. We are super bummed that we had to cancel, but Dima still claims to have had the best birthday of his life, so thanks to those of you that came out and hung out in support of MO3 and Dima. If you want the full story, get off the internet and talk to a band member.
We’ll be booking some shows for late July and September and October, and we promise we’ll make it up to you all. If anyone didn’t get a refund, please email us (info at shoulder tap dot com) or leave a note here and we will make sure everything is squared. Our most sincere apologies for the disappointment and confusion. Our next show will be even bigger and badder, guaranteed. Thanks again for your unconditional support.
Ahoy friends! It’s been quite a long minute since we last were accounted for, but we are here still and in good health, thanks for asking. Mother of Three has begun work on some new recordings for the upcoming full length, tentatively titled Jreambs. We’ve also been writing some brand new tunes, and it’s been a more collaborative effort than previously. More guitar solos and echo-y sounds, less of the same part over and over, and pretty much the same amount of cowbell as before.
(EDIT: This show was canceled) To hear some or all of these new creations, you can come on down to Piano’s on Friday 10 July to see Mother of Three play at around 1030PM. It’s Dima’s birthday that night — shit will be so hot you’ll burn your lips on it. The poster below is only an indication of things to come.
Mother of Three was invited to play with local show-boaters BLACK TAXI for a night of their residency at Piano’s in NYC. Come vote with your dollars and buy a freshly silk-screened and hand-assembled MO3 EP at the show, cuz they’ll be on sale for the first time. These minor artistic masterpieces, each individually numbered, could be yours for US$6. T-Shirts and miscellany will also be available for you super-consumers. Check out the poster for the show, made by Dima.
Also, since we know exactly how many of you listened to the MO3 EP online at BandCamp (here), and we know how many of you actually paid to download it (let’s just say it’s not an insignificant difference), we here at Shoulder Tap Records began to wonder if pulling a Radiohead and allowing folks to pay a single copper penny to download the whole album would change those proportions. We know it’s not as simple as supply and demand in the music marketplace, but you can currently buy it for as little as US$3! If you want it for a penny, leave a comment and let us know (even anonymously).
The debut release from Mother of Three, MO3 EP, is now available for download here.
The EP is four songs long, and will be available on CD as a limited hand-made release later this month. If you want a CD, you can pick one up at Mother of Three’s next show, Thursday 19 Feb at Piano’s (details).
To download the songs, visit http://motherofthree.bandcamp.com. You can listen to the whole EP online for free, and to download, you can pick a format and choose how much you want to pay for it.
If you want email updates about Mother of Three and other Shoulder Tap artists, sign up for the mailing list at http://www.shouldertaprecords.com. If you’re on Facebook, you can find the MO3 band page here.
Mother of Three will be returning to the studio later this month to begin work on their LP for release later this year. Thanks for your support.
Photos from Mother of Three at Kenny’s Castaways on Nov 29 are up, taken by Nikolai Drjuchin. You can find them on flickr.com. Their EP is being mastered, and should be out by early Jan. In the meantime, Mother of Three will be performing again at the Christmas edition of Greg Barris’s Heart of Darkness comedy show, this time as The Missle Toes. Don’t worry, the show will be funnier than that name.
Mother of Three is just about done tracking and mixing songs for their upcoming four song EP. Jeremy Scott at The Civil Defense Studio in Brooklyn, NY (Vivian Girls, Taigaa!, These are Powers) has done a superb job engineering and co-producing the tracks, and we’re all very excited to put it out.
Some news about how it will be released: this release will be available as a CD (which will be available through the Shoulder Tap site) and as a digital download (which will be available at most all your favorite online retailers). However, the LP that Mother of Three is planning for release in the spring will only be available as a digital download and as a vinyl release.
We’ve thought a lot about how people get their music, and while lots of music fans still like to hold something tangible in their hands, we think that the CD is a medium that is on its way out (we personally don’t even drink enough beverages to use all our useless CDs as coasters around here). So what we’re going to do is offer a free digital download with a vinyl purchase. That way, people can buy the record (which will have nice large beautiful artwork that can be framed), if if they don’t have a record player, they can still download the songs and listen. We’re pretty excited about being one of the leaders in the music distribution revolution. We’ll have details soon.
In the meantime, Mother of Three’s upcoming EP will be put out on handmade, hand-packaged CDs (and the art will still be awesome). Keep your ears peeled.
Mother of Three are in the studio hard working on their upcoming EP. Here is a bit of a jam that they laid down in prep for their poorly capitalized tune “On and oFF”. Who cares if it’s sloppy, it sounds like Prince’s pinkynail playing guitar for Gang of Four.
