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Label

Mazarine Records

 

U.S. Publicity:

Jeffrey Smith
Crash Avenue
jeffrey [at] crash-avenue [dot com]
502.384.3107

 

European Publicity:

Peter Holmstedt
Hemifrån
peter.holmstedt [at] telia [dot com]
+46 (0)33.26.0210

 

Booking

Dare likes to play any place where people want to hear him—living rooms, stadiums, art galleries, derelict strip malls, glitzy music venues filled with trend-setting starlets, fire-gutted churches with free enchiladas. Write STS Booking, and together we will find a way:

Bright Elephant
bright.elephant.booking [at] gmail [dot com]

 

Dare Dukes

dd [at] daredukes [dot com]

Lyrics: “The Equipment Is Fine” by Dare Dukes

The casserole pan is in the wash,
Time to play board games.
Don’t get angry, don’t get cross,
This is how we stay sane.

Sane, I know no pain.
Golf umbrella for the summer rain.
Shot today an 89.
Doctor confirmed the equipment’s fine.

(more…)


Lyrics: “Sam’s Cathedral” by Dare Dukes

Gather the children near the escalator.
That Level 3 is my honey’s dream.
Where is that coupon super-saver?
In Sam’s Cathedral things are what they seem.

(more…)


Lyrics: “Ballad of Dairus McCollum” by Dare Dukes

West 4th, A Train to Borough Hall, transfer.
Be still and listen for your god’s whisper.

Chorus:
Don’t touch emergency breaks unless you’ve heard the call.
Electric motors are the prettiest transmitters of all.

(more…)


Lyrics: “Bakersfield” by Dare Dukes

 

They said, “Don’t go. Nothing in Bakersfield.
A hot wind do blow and cracks both heart and field.”
Through pleas and threats, the ache it would not yield.
I never meant to go out of my head, then I heard she’s in Bakersfield.

(more…)


Consequence of Sound Adds “Bakersfield” to Friday Mixtape

 

Music blog Consequence of Sound included “Bakersfield” in their Friday Mixtape.  Cool!

Evaluate the level of nifty here.


GPB’s Georgia Gazette

Interview with Orlando Montoya on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Georgia Gazette, broadcast on 18 NPR stations across Georgia during evening drive-time:

GPB’s Georgia Gazette

—March 13, 2009


Georgia Public Broadcasting

“…an intimate-feeling guitar-led record with well-placed accessories, lyrical heft and finely-balanced melodies. Full of well-produced and air-worthy songs, it deserves wide attention.”

—Orlando Montoya, Georgia Public Broadcasting, February 1, 2009


Brooklyn Rail

“…passionately sung, and loaded with inventive instrumental arrangements, surprising melodic twists, and multiple layers of wonderful, shimmery guitar work. And it rocks out, too. A joy to listen to.”

—Dave Mandl, WFMU-FM DJ; Music Editor for The Brooklyn Rail