Beat the Indie Drum calls it...

 "Beard-core"

Write-up in The Independent

 Chris Parker does a little backgrounding and foregrounding.

"With a name like Sinful Savage Tigers, you half expect cookie monster vocals, thundering breakdowns and a machine gun hardcore backbeat. But the Chapel Hill trio is a string band wedded to contemporary rock/pop sensibilities. In May, they released their debut, Rain is the Soup of the Dogs in Heaven. Their origins go back a lot further—to Seth Martin’s undergrad years at Sewanee College in Tennessee. It’s there that he met Rob Guthrie, his collaborator on the project’s songs..." READ MORE

Rain Check Goes Dutch

Johan Schoenmakers of Altcountry Forum has a review up of Rain. Overall, my opinion of it is that it's very much in Dutch, and I have no idea what it says. But the always flawless Babelfish might have a thing or two to say about it. No? A taste:

Their debuutcd Rain are the soup or the dogs in heaven are now a fact. Been the timekeeper in three days in December 2008 introduce Rob, Seth and sinfulsavagetigers10Joshua songs fine as the Sinful Savage Tigers 9 acoustic, americana and bluegrass style, related which of The Avett Brothers. Pleasantly in the interview located numbers with acoustic jet ear, banjo and mandoline accompaniment which there mattering toedoen.

So we're like the Avetts, only we have acoustic jet ear. Which means we're better. Or more like sound pollution.

Rain are the soup or the dogs in heaven are a cd (and title) which I continue nourish provisionally. And it remained still long restless in huize shoe-makers, after the pleasant consonances of The Sinful Savage Tigers.

I commend the critic on cottoning to our carefully crafted consonance.

So the Belgians are OUT and the Dutch are IN as our most favoritest Euros in the whole world. Wear it, Latvia.

WEZU's

Listen for two of our songs to appear on this week's "Mixed Bag" on WEZU at 11:30 am Saturday June 6th.

The half hour program provides an in-depth look at up-and-coming North Carolina artists with host Kim Terpening (who's own group Chamber Grass arranges chamber music for banjo, cello, and bass).

WEZU's live streaming internet feed can be accessed a-here.

I've uploaded to the media player (at the bottom of the page) a copy of the program that Kim was kind enough to send me. The program runs about 28 minutes, but we're first up.

Attention Low Countries!

You connoisseurs of all things La Roots Musique Belgique will already know this, but apparently we'll be appearing Thursday, June 4th on Belgian radio. It can be streamed via this site: http://www.goldenflash.be/news.php

A guy named Ray Pieters who hosts Somewhere Between... sent us an email about this, but didn't give us a time, so right now I'm guessing there's no way this is on the up and up. Or at least, I'll never grasp enough French/Dutch/German to weed through the site in order to find out if it was, in fact, on the up and up. So, it's probably only handy as a philosophical excercise. But thank you Belgium for your interest.

Watch out, Latvia. Belgium is bearing down hard on your Favored European Nation status. They came to this website to do two things -- eat fries and kick ass. And they're almost out of mayo.

Flash Clock!



UPDATE: As near as I can tell, if it does air, it will be between 3 - 6pm EST (2-5 Central).

UPDATE II: I was able to listen to Ray Pieters excellent program Somewhere Between... yesterday and heard "Town and Country" (came on right before Joe Purdy's excellent new title track "Last Clock on the Wall" ::whew::). I was able to pull some audio that you can hear at our spartan Media page.