Lost in the Trees - Live in LA!

Lost in the Trees are performing in Los Angeles starting this Friday, August 6th! With several shows – 1 on the West side, 2 in the middle Hollywood, and 1 on the East side – there is no reason to miss them. While in LA they will be shooting a video for the song “Firepalce.”

As you may have heard by now, “All Alone In An Empty House” was handpicked by Bob Boilen for the prestigious NPR First Listen album premiere and is available for streaming from start to finish right here.

Saturday, August 7, 2010 Santa Monica, CA McCabes Guitar Shop @ 8:00 PM

Monday, August 9, 2010 Los Angeles, CA Spaceland @ 8:00 PM

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Los Angeles, CA Amoeba Music @ 7:00 PM

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Los Angeles, CA Hotel Cafe @ 7:00 PM

Lost in the Trees

LOST IN THE TREES PREMIERE ON NPR’S FIRST LISTEN

All Alone In An Empty House Featured On NPR’s Prestigious First Listen!

On Tour With Neko Case

The Apples in stereo

The Apples in stereo’s “Told You Once” is NPR’s Song of the Day!!

(New York, NY): This past Friday, The Apples in stereo’s “Told You Once” was the National Public Radio’s Song of The Day!

NPR’s Christian Hoard explains: “The best song on The Apples in stereo’s newish album, Travellers in Space and Time, “Told You Once” is written from a point of view that recalls The Beatles‘ “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl.” The singer addresses an uncaring boyfriend, warning him that his bad behavior will cost him his lady — whom, unsurprisingly, the singer is happy to pick up off the pavement. The bright sing-along chorus (”I told you once, I told you twice / I’m gonna treat your baby nice”) comes off as almost comically polite.” Listen here.

In other news, the band will start their tour to the West Coast on October 22^nd.

Friday, October 22, 2010  DENVER, CO  The Bluebird Theater
Saturday, October 23, 2010  COLORADO SPRINGS, CO  Armstrong Hall
Sunday, October 24, 2010   SALT LAKE CTY, UT   The State Room
Monday, October 25, 2010   BOISE, ID  Neurolux
Tuesday, October 26, 2010   SEATTLE, WA    Crocodile Café
Wednesday, October 27, 2010  PORTLAND, OR  Mississippi Studios
Thursday, October 28, 2010  ARCATA, CA  The Depot @Humboldt State Univ.
Saturday, October 30, 2010  SAN FRAN, CA   The Independent
Sunday, October 31, 2010   SAN JOSE, CA   The Blank Club
Monday, November  1, 2010   LOS ANGELES, CA  Echoplex
Tuesday, November 2, 2010  SAN DIEGO, CA  Casbah
Wednesday, November 3, 2010  TUCSON, AZ  Plush
Saturday, November 6   AUSTIN, TX   TBD
Sunday, November 7  HOUSTON, TX   Walter’s On Washington
Monday, November 8, 2010  DALLAS, TX  Granada Theater

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Perform on Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson

Haw River, NC (July 19, 2010) - The Apples in stereo, fresh from releasing their guerilla-style “Hey Elevator” music video, are pleased to announce the next leg of the “Travellers in Space and Time Tour” in honor of their new album of the same title. Travellers in Space and Time (Simian/Yep Roc) has garnered some of the highest praise of the storied band’s career and has also offered many opportunities to get creative with the web and video, as well as with the way they interact with their dedicated fans.

But first, on the terrestrial front, The Apples in stereo performed on PRI’s “Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson” twice in the past several weeks.  Robert Schneider and the band discussed and performed songs from the new album Travellers in Space and Time, Robert’s “Non-Pythagorean Music Scale” as well as a new fan project. On a second visit, the band performed Schneider’s newly penned American anthem “Beauty of America” custom-written by Schneider for Studio 360 in honor of the July 4^th holiday. Check out the interview, video and music HERE.

The Universe Broadcast Project, presented originally via WIRED Magazine, uses satellite array technology to broadcast messages into deep space. Through UBP’s patent-pending Umail service, the initiative transmits the new album into outer space alongside personal messages by fans.  Check out the story on WIRED.com HERE.

Also in honor of the release of Travellers, the band previously released a short film and video starring their Simian Records honcho Elijah Wood and the exploratory web app at www.stepthroughtheportal.com where fans can watch the videos and explore the Apples catalog and the Elephant Six Collective genealogy. Watch Elijah and Robert discuss the time-twisting film and video in behind-the-scenes footage HERE. Exciting times in the Apples cosmos!

The Apples in stereo Fall 2010

FRI          10/22     DENVER, CO                         The Bluebird Theater

SAT          10/23     COLORADO SPRINGS, CO  Armstrong Hall

SUN         10/24     SALT LAKE CTY, UT               The State Room

MON       10/25     BOISE, ID                             Neurolux

TUE         10/26     SEATTLE, WA                        Crocodile Café

WED       10/27     PORTLAND, OR                    Mississippi Studios

THU         10/28     ARCATA, CA                          The Depot @Humboldt State Univ.

SAT          10/30     SAN FRAN, CA                      The Independent

SUN         10/31     SAN JOSE, CA                       The Blank Club

MON       11/1       LOS ANGELES, CA                Echoplex

TUE         11/2       SAN DIEGO, CA                    Casbah

WED       11/3       TUCSON, AZ                         Plush

SAT          11/6       AUSTIN, TX                           TBD

SUN         11/7       HOUSTON, TX                     Walter’s On Washington

MON       11/8       DALLAS, TX                           Granada Theater

Thursday, March 18

12:30 PM Quickies: Music Supervisors
Dan Efram /Tractor Beam
Austin Convention Center 16A

Lost In The Trees
3:45 PM Homeslice Pizza
1415 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78704
Across from Jo’s Coffee, Next to The Continental Club

Lost In The Trees
5:00 PM Trekky Records’ Carolina Jubilee
Hyde Park Parlor
4301 Guadalupe Street (at 43rd)
9:40 PM Aloft Hotel Party,11601 Domain Drive

Friday, March 19

Lost In The Trees
12:45 PM Mess With Texas Party
Waterloo Park, 1001 E 6th Street

Lost In The Trees
8:00 PM Billions Corporation Official Showcase
Antones 213 W 5th St (bet Lavaca and Colorado)

Saturday, March 20
3:00 PM Doors: Austin City Limits Taping
KLRU-TV / UT Communications Complex / Guadalupe  and Dean Keaton (formerly 26th) Streets

For a free download of the song All Alone In An Empty House from the album of the same name, just go here: http://bit.ly/c9qIS2

Lost In The Trees Signs With ANTI Records
Monday March 10, 2010

Tractor Beam Management is thrilled to announce the signing of Lost In The Trees, an inventive music collective from Chapel Hill, North Carolina helmed by composer and songwriter Ari Picker to ANTI Records. The band merges the dramatic symphonic elements of classical music with the accessibility of American folk and modern pop, creating a sound that is simultaneously intimate and sonically ambitious.

Creative Loafing has described their unique sound as “beautiful soul baring music combining folk with unconventional classical that will make your toes curl.”

Picker, who has already composed and publicly debuted his first symphony with members of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, draws band members from prestigious music schools such as Berklee, Eastman and University of North Carolina, as well as the rich, indie-rock community in North Carolina.

Lost In The Tree’s forthcoming album “All Alone In An Empty House” was co-produced by Scott Solter (St. Vincent, Mountain Goats, Okkervil River, John Vanderslice) who provides a sonic landscape in which classical and pop composition can co-exist with stirring results.

The band will be bringing their ambitious sound to the SXSW Festival and some additional selected performances.

Lost In The Trees Live Dates:
3/19 Austin, TX – Antone’s, SXSW*
3/21 Shreveport, LA – Hayride Diner & Venue
5/15 Carrboro NC – Cat’s Cradle
*Billions Corp. showcase with Liars, Shearwater, Quasi, etc

Lost in the Trees SXSW

Thursday, March 18

3:45 PM Homeslice Pizza
http://www.homeslicepizza.com
1415 South Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78704
Across from Jo’s Coffee, Next to The Continental Club

5:00 PM Trekky Records’ Carolina Jubilee
Hyde Park Parlor
4301 Guadalupe Street (at 43rd)
http://www.theparloraustin.com/

Friday, March 19

12:30 PM Mess With Texas Party
MWTX LOT @ 1001 E. 6th St. Austin, TX
http://messwithtexasparty.com/

8:00 PM Billions Corporation Official Showcase
213 W 5th St (bet Lavaca and Colorado)
Antones http://www.antones.net/

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CELEBRATED INDIE ROCKERS THE APPLES IN STEREO RELEASE TRAVELLERS IN SPACE AND TIME ON APRIL 20TH

January 26, 2010 – Studio-obsessed indie rockers The Apples in stereo are celebrating the start of a new decade with the release of their seventh studio album, Travellers in Space and Time, their most hi-fi and hook-laden production to date. Described by frontman Robert Schneider as “retro-futuristic super-pop,” the album is the official follow-up to 2007’s New Magnetic Wonder, and the band’s second release for Elijah Wood’s Simian Records. The album will be released on April 20 via Yep Roc/Simian/Elephant 6.

Travellers contains sixteen piano-driven tracks, bubbling over with vocoder harmonies and sci-fi sound effects, like 70’s AM radio filtered through a UFO; including the robotic first single “Dance Floor”, the four-on-the-floor dream-scape “Hey Elevator”, the Hall and Oates-tinged “Told You Once”, and the epic, yearning “Dream About The Future,” among many instant hits. The musical theme heard in these songs is strung throughout Travellers: intense pop hooks and electronic sounds, mixed with a pumping, get-up-and-moonwalk beat.

“I wanted to make a futuristic pop record, to reach out to the kids of the future,” Schneider relates. “It is what I imagine their more highly-evolved pop might sound like: shiny soul music with robots and humans singing together, yet informed by the music of our time. So we are sending a pop music message through time, hoping they will decode it and be into it.”

It is the first studio album from The Apples in stereo to feature new drummer John Dufilho, lead singer of Dallas indie rockers The Deathray Davies; and sees Bill Doss (Olivia Tremor Control, Elephant 6) and John Ferguson (Ulysses, Big Fresh), longtime Schneider collaborators, as full-time keyboardists in the band, alongside veteran members John Hill (guitar) and Eric Allen (bass). Original drummer Hilarie Sidney left the band in 2006.

Anyone familiar with The Apples in stereo’s career will know Schneider’s ever-evolving production process is as intricate as the recordings he generates. Engaging the same primary engineering team used to record New Magnetic Wonder, most notably Bryce Goggin (Trout Studio’s vintage recording wizard), as well as many studio-savvy friends and cohorts, the band spent well over a year in the studio recasting their signature pop sounds in chrome-plated futurism, all while adding a dance-driven vibe channeling ELO, Barry Gibb, Wild Honey-era Beach Boys and Off The Wall-era Michael Jackson.

With Travellers in Space and Time, Schneider continues experimenting with his recent invention, the Non-Pythagorean musical scale based on the logarithm, a mathematical function. Schneider is a passionate student of mathematics, and recently composed music based on prime numbers for a play written by world-class mathematician Andrew Granville, performed at the hallowed Institute for Advanced Study (home of Albert Einstein) in Princeton, New Jersey. Travellers includes “C.P.U.,” the first pop song ever to incorporate this novel scale.

In addition, the album features songwriting contributions from all of the other Apples, including “Wings Away” (Bill Doss/John Ferguson), “Next Year At About The Same Time” (Eric Allen), “No Vacation” (John Ferguson/Robert Schneider), “Floating Away” (John Dufilho), and “Dignified Dignitary” (Robert Schneider/Bill Doss/John Hill).

The 2007 hit album, New Magnetic Wonder, spawned late night performances on Conan and Colbert, commercial placements for The Apples’ music (Pepsi, New Balance, Samsung, and numerous others), invitations to perform at many prestigious festivals and venues (All Tomorrows Parties, Pitchfork, Primavera Sound, R.E.M. Charity Tribute Concert at Carnegie Hall), and a world tour that took the band as far away as Taiwan – not to mention a polished performance of their hit song “Energy” by the contestants on American Idol.

Since then, the band has been increasingly busy, gaining ownership of their spinART Records back catalog and readying the albums for re-release, compiling the best-of #1 Hits Explosion, and releasing Electronic Projects for Musicians, an album of rarities.

Schneider also made his children’s music debut with 2009’s Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine (Little Monster Records), which made it to many Year-End Best Of lists; made numerous mathematics convention appearances; released Buddha Electrostorm (Garden Gate Records), an album of lo-fi garage-psych recorded with his brother-in-law Craig Morris (who played and engineered on Travellers) under the name Thee American Revolution; and topped it all off with his featured keynote talk and Australian debut performance at the Big Sound Music Conference, where he was featured alongside many musical luminaries, including noted Brian Wilson collaborator (and one of Schneider’s heroes), Van Dyke Parks… and all of this while hard at work on The Apples’ most ambitious studio production yet.

Official Track Listing:
1. The Code
2. Dream About the Future
3. Hey Elevator
4. Strange Solar System
5. Dance Floor
6. C.P.U.
7. No One in the World
8. Dignified Dignitary
9. No Vacation
10. Told You Once
11. It’s All Right
12. Next Year at About the Same Time
13. Floating in Space
14. Nobody But You
15. Wings Away
16. Time Pilot

For more information, please visit:
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Steve Earle, Levon Helm, Mickey Hart, Dave Stewart, Billy Bragg, and Sonic Youth To Headline New TV Series Beginning January, 2010

(December 22, – Toronto, ON): Toronto’s Original Spin Media, producers of the 39 part Beautiful Noise concert TV series and Solos: The Jazz Sessions, are pleased to announce Innovators In Music, a new series of documentary profiles on six dynamic musicians from a variety of genres, backgrounds, and disciplines. The series premieres on Bravo! on January 7, 2010 at 8:00PM EST and includes: Steve Earle (1/7), Levon Helm (1/14), Mickey Hart (1/21), Dave Stewart (1/28), Billy Bragg (2/4) and Sonic Youth (2/11).

Each half-hour episode explores how the artistic impulse extends beyond music-making into other realms of creative pursuit. From photography, painting, and politics to bonsai and beyond, the series examines the surprising and inspiring world of six Innovators In Music.

“We’re very excited about Innovators In Music” states Producer Daniel Berman. “We caught each artist in a variety of places, sometimes in their homes, sometimes on the road – it’s a great cross-section, there are some things shown and said on a more intimate, candid level.” Berman continues, “it was a revelation as a true fan of the genre to go to Levon Helm’s home in Woodstock and tape him perform, and interview him on his 69th birthday; hang with Steve Earle at his favorite guitar store in New York City and go for sandwiches, it’s just stuff you just don’t see that often. I see the programs as mini-documentaries, they’re quick but they have substance.”

Series Schedule:

All shows 8:00PM EST

January 7 – Steve Earle
In the premiere episode, American singer-songwriter Steve Earle passionately addresses the importance of art in society, Townes Van Zandt, the elusive nature of fear, drug addiction and the death penalty, among other topics. His solo performance at the Bijoux Theatre is featured throughout.

January 14 – Levon Helm
Come celebrate Helm’s “Midnight Ramble Sessions: 69th Birthday Edition” directly from his home in Woodstock, NY, with his all-star band including Donald Fagen and Larry Campbell.

January 21 – Dave Stewart
Stewart, best known as one-half of The Eurythmics, is also a very successful Songwriter, Producer and Photographer. He shares songs and stories at his Morrison Hotel Gallery opening of his photography exhibit and book release.

January 28 – Mickey Hart
Innovators grants you exclusive access to Mickey Hart’s creative world – his recording studio, remarkable musical instrument collection and paintings. The Grateful Dead percussionist and world music troubadour also treats you to a special, improvisational jam session filmed specially for our crew.

February 4 – Billy Bragg
Come and check out backstage access with Billy Bragg, as he performs at the beautiful Calvin Theater in Northampton, MA and sits down with us to share his views on politics, music, family and Smokey Robinson.

February 11 – Sonic Youth
Join us as we meet-up with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo to discuss their record collections and musical explorations live from the Kansas City’s historic Uptown Theater. Includes previously unseen archival footage.

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Since 2004, Original Spin Media has produced more than 150 hours of HD content with an international reputation for music specials, nature programming and documentaries. Original Spin’s programs have been broadcast on DiscoveryHD, Bravo!, CBC Bold, HDNET, Mezzo France, VTRChile, HD Suisse, SkyArts UK, ABC Australia, Voom Networks, GloboSat Brazil, OasisHD, NRK Norway, and Knowledge Network among many others.

The Toronto based company has produced multi-part productions including Beautiful Noise, SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions, The Berkeley Sessions, Night Sounds, Rhythm and Blooms, Classic Racers, DUOS: the jazz sessions, and Dewey Time (90m).

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For more information http://www.innovatorsinmusic.com/

Daniel Efram – Tractor-Beam
917-204-8043
dan@tractor-beam.com

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416-384-2629
matthew.almeida@ctv.ca