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Balthrop, Alabama songs featured in upcoming film

The Myth of the American Sleepover is an upcoming film from Roman Spring Pictures, directed by David Robert Mitchell. A few songs by Balthrop, Alabama are featured in the film, and in the trailer below:

The Myth of the American Sleepover will be making its premiere at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival this coming March. You can read more about the film at http://www.americansleepover.com.

Balthrop, Alabama will also be at SXSW this year. It’ll be our first time there — come say hi!

MMIX by Kyle Fischer & Seb Leon

Kyle Fischer & Seb Leon recently collaborated with the Association for Cultural Equity, fashion label Sportmax, and various End Up musician to create MMIX (2009). MMIX is a multi-speaker sound piece mixing Alan Lomax’s field recordings with End Up’s music. See below, as interpreted by choreographers Andrea Miller an Jodi  Melnick.

Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUUZDmXuiNI
Check it 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e50OOlhFfQ

Here are two of my favorite speakers from the show.

We will be releasing the “MMIX ­ – Opus 1″ record shortly. Stay tuned!

Spatial (yes spatial) thanks to Andrew Vladeck, Caithlin De Marrais, Josh Kaufman and Konrad Meissner.

New Drawing Video for Valentine’s Day!

In honor of the oncoming day of sweet manufactured love, Balthrop, Alabama’s Toxey Goodwater has made a little video Valentine. Check it out on YouTube (and pass it around to your Valentines!):

I Look at You by Balthrop, Alabama, drawn by Toxey

And come see A Very Balthrop Valentine’s Day at Joe’s Pub, Sunday, Feb 14 at 7:00.

The End Up Brain Trust

Here’s a photo from the recent End Up Meeting — big plans for 2010!

What a fresh-faced crop of artists!

Ear to Ear Project — Caithlin De Marrais

Ear to Ear Project interview with Caithlin! Shout outs to Van Halen, The Smiths and the Cadbury Crunchie bar.

Check it out!

http://eartoearproject.com/2010/01/caithlin_de_marrais/

Subway Songs & Cowboy Songs: Now Available!

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The two new compananion records from Balthrop, Alabama
are now available– get yours now!

New Fred & Daily video: My Special Someone!!!

Fred & Daily’s 3rd video from their whacked out album “The Hypocrite Ballet” on End Up Records

Someone special is making her debut at Bottletree karaoke nite … Those watching will never be the same!

Starring:

Dama Nichols, Keith Goodwin, Chris Lawson, Brianna Payne, Tina Pilgrim, Brian Teasley, Tom Bagby, Peter Wilm and Paul Wilm

filmed at Bottletree, Birmingham AL



A Very Balthrop Christmas now for sale!

A collection of twelve brand new holiday classics from the bubbling folk-rock collective Balthrop, Alabama. All proceeds benefit End Up Records in its efforts to make music easier and more fun to make. It’s some kinda feel good doo wah diddy all the way around.

Get in on it!

Online Store Now Actually Online

The big news: our online store is now open for business at http://endup.org/store/

Our resident web gremlin has been toiling away for several gremlin lifetimes. The result is an eyeball smorgasbord! So please, come and feast your eyes for free. While you’re there, check out the whippy-dippy shopping cart, complete with imaginary sound effects. It’s totally alchemical! You can use it to convert images on the screen into music for your ears. Fill er up!

Buy Now!

New Releases – Tuesday, October 28th

Three new records available Tuesday, October 28th!

Caithlin De Marrais — My Magic City

Caithlin De Marrais is releasing her impossibly intimate, beautiful love letter to your very heart– her first full-length album My Magic City. Recorded in a cottage, an apartment, and a fire-ravaged church in Brooklyn, it was produced together by Rainer Maria’s Kyle Fischer and Rocketship Park’s Josh Kaufman, and mixed to perfection by Dave Schiffman (Johnny Cash, Mars Volta, etc). Eleven magic songs.

Fred & Daily — The Hypocrite Ballet

Our favorite costumed supergroup Fred & Daily are letting loose their shredtastic, uproarious, and imminently danceable full-length album Hypocrite Ballet upon the world. Containing hardly a half-second of silence, it perfectly fills that aching gap in between the Talking Heads and Hedwig. Physicists are still struggling to explain where it comes from–we’re not telling.

Ne’er Do Evers — 100% Wrong

Ne’er Do Evers‘ hyperbolic, brilliantly self-aware magnum opus, 100% Wrong, will also be available for public consumption. Equal parts Dinosaur, Frank Black, scuff marks, coffee and a beer, this record plays like a 30-minute Zen koan at 120db, refuting all logic. We wish it was a double-album, so we use the “repeat all” function in our media players. We suggest you do the same.

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