-Marissa
1/23/2012
Cell phone saga
My junky phone has a dinky little camera in it that's practically useless, but I've saved all of the cruddy photographs I've snapped from the road for the past seven years. Here are a few winners.
-Marissa
-Marissa
1/18/2012
1/17/2012
New Album Is Called UGLY & We Are Releasing A New 7 Inch in Feb & Going On A Mostly Free Tour
photo by: Christopher Patrick Ernst
Hello!
So excited for today! NPR has posted our Tiny Desk Session. Watch it below.
As NPR mentions in the writeup, - http://www.npr.org/event/music/145097524/screaming-females-tiny-desk-concert?ps=mh_frhdl3 - we have announced a bunch of details for our new album.
SCREAMING FEMALES
UGLY
April 3rd, 2012
DON GIOVANNI RECORDS
1. It All Means Nothing
2. Rotten Apple
3. Extinction
4. Red Hand
5. 5 High
6. Expire
7. Crow's Nest
8. Tell Me No
9. Leave It All Up to Me
10. Doom 84
11. Help Me
12. Something Ugly
13. Slow Birth
14. It's Nice
ALSO!!!
We are going to be releasing the album's first single, 'It All Means Nothing', on Feb 11, 2012 at the Don Giovanni Records Showcase @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY). The b-side of the 7 inch will be a live version of 'A New Kid' from our session at WFMU. Following the showcase we are doing a week of free shows at record stores (and a bookstore). The only place to get the new single will be from us at one of these shows. Most will be free!
RECORD STORE TOUR DATES
2/11 Brooklyn, NY - Don Giovanni Records Showcase @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - BUY TICKETS
2/12 - Manhattan, NY - Generation Records
2/13 - Cambridge, MA - Lorem Ipsum Books
2/14 - Northampton, MA - Feeding Tube Records
2/15 - Philadelphia, PA - Long In The Tooth Records
2/16 - Richmond, VA - Steady Sounds
2/17 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records
2/18 - Nashville, TN - Grimey's New and Preloved Music
2/19 - Chicago, IL - Permanent Records
Love you all! See you soon.
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OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
SCREAMING FEMALES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, UGLY, DUE APRIL 3RD
WATCH A VERY RARE STRIPPED-DOWN TINY DESK CONCERT W/ A NEW SONG
BAND REVEALS 7in RECORD STORE TOUR IN FEBRUARY
Screaming Females' seven years as a band, four full-length albums and 700 globe-spanning live shows has made them difficult to miss. Through it all, the New Brunswick, New Jersey trio have continued to exude a frenetic energy which is built upon the zeitgeist of America's punk and indie underground yet has always remained forward-looking. Fittingly, for Screaming Females' 5th album Ugly, the band enlisted legendary recording engineer Steve Albini, famed for his unique ability to capture the ferociousness of a live performance while delivering gorgeous sonic clarity. The album's 14 tracks reaffirm the touchstones of the band; they can still shred and front-woman Marissa Paternoster can still unleash a powerful howl. But it doesn't end there. The album ushers in new explorations for the band, a truly remarkable feat considering their already prolific output. Ugly has the perfect combination of raw energy and honed musicianship that produces the type of rock & roll which is still a force to be reckoned with.
As a lead up to Ugly, Screaming Females will release the album's first single, 'It All Means Nothing', on February 11, 2012 at the Don Giovanni Records Showcase in Brooklyn, NY. The 7" record will be backed with a live version of 'A New Kid' from a session recorded at the fabled independent radio station, WFMU. The showcase will be followed by a weeklong tour of free shows at record stores (and a bookstore). The new single will be exclusively available for purchase from the band during this run of shows.
RECORD STORE TOUR
2/11 Brooklyn, NY - Don Giovanni Records Showcase @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
2/12 - Manhattan, NY - Generation Records
2/13 - Cambridge, MA - Lorem Ipsum Books
2/14 - Northampton, MA - Feeding Tube Records
2/15 - Philadelphia, PA - Long In The Tooth Records
2/16 - Richmond, VA - Steady Sounds
2/17 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records
2/18 - Nashville, TN - Grimey's New and Preloved Music
2/19 - Chicago, IL - Permanent Records
SCREAMING FEMALES
UGLY
APRIL 3rd, 2012
DON GIOVANNI RECORDS
1. It All Means Nothing
2. Rotten Apple
3. Extinction
4. Red Hand
5. 5 High
6. Expire
7. Crow's Nest
8. Tell Me No
9. Leave It All Up to Me
10. Doom 84
11. Help Me
12. Something Ugly
13. Slow Birth
14. It's Nice
1/08/2012
Drums
I started playing drums at the age of nine. Being that I just turned 28 that means I'm coming up on two decades of drumming. I have been playing fairly continuously ever since I started. The only real break in my playing came in my freshman and sophomore years of college. The following year I jumped right back in, first learning to play the Bodhran while I lived in Ireland and then moving into a house back in New Brunswick with a drum set.
The first nine years of my drumming I studied percussion with the best teacher I've ever had (of any variety). Taking percussion lessons had a profound effect on my life and I highly suggest that all musicians study with a teacher at some point. The reason that my lessons were so meaningful to me was because they taught me how to teach myself. At some point I would love to take lessons again but for the most part I feel confident with my abilities to analyze what I want to learn and figure out how to get there. This attribute is what brought me to a recent epiphany. I was playing my drums way too fucking low!
I've always liked keeping my drums super tight together and low to the floor. I'm not exactly sure why I started doing this but I've never really questioned it. Well, now I'm definitely questioning it.
My whole percussion training was based around German grip. I still warm up on a practice pad before every show we play. During these warm ups, I use German grip. On our last show of the year at the TLA in Philly, I suddenly realized that while playing drumset I was using French grip! What the hell have I been doing?! Why have I trained myself for nearly 20 years with German grip and then play every show with a grip that I don't totally understand. After realizing the situation I came to the conclusion that if I raised my snare, hi-hat, and floor tom, I would force myself into German grip (actually, really it is more of an American grip, but close enough). Thus I have made the first major change to my drum setup in well over 5 years!
Along with realizing all this, I decided that I needed to spend more time with the practice pad, metronome, and classic drum books. Right now I'm spending a lot of time with 'Stick Control for the Snare Drummer' by George Lawrence Stone. This book was published in the 1930s and is still really annoying (I mean, a great workout).
-JD
The first nine years of my drumming I studied percussion with the best teacher I've ever had (of any variety). Taking percussion lessons had a profound effect on my life and I highly suggest that all musicians study with a teacher at some point. The reason that my lessons were so meaningful to me was because they taught me how to teach myself. At some point I would love to take lessons again but for the most part I feel confident with my abilities to analyze what I want to learn and figure out how to get there. This attribute is what brought me to a recent epiphany. I was playing my drums way too fucking low!
I've always liked keeping my drums super tight together and low to the floor. I'm not exactly sure why I started doing this but I've never really questioned it. Well, now I'm definitely questioning it.
My whole percussion training was based around German grip. I still warm up on a practice pad before every show we play. During these warm ups, I use German grip. On our last show of the year at the TLA in Philly, I suddenly realized that while playing drumset I was using French grip! What the hell have I been doing?! Why have I trained myself for nearly 20 years with German grip and then play every show with a grip that I don't totally understand. After realizing the situation I came to the conclusion that if I raised my snare, hi-hat, and floor tom, I would force myself into German grip (actually, really it is more of an American grip, but close enough). Thus I have made the first major change to my drum setup in well over 5 years!
Along with realizing all this, I decided that I needed to spend more time with the practice pad, metronome, and classic drum books. Right now I'm spending a lot of time with 'Stick Control for the Snare Drummer' by George Lawrence Stone. This book was published in the 1930s and is still really annoying (I mean, a great workout).
-JD
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