De Novo Dahl - Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound
NEWS
Hey everyone. Keith here. We've set off across the U.S. and it's a little scary. We're playing in places we've never even been so we could really use your help. There are a couple real easy things you can do.
First, you can CHECK OUT OUR BLOG to grab a code that you can use to put our tour poster on your profile. It looks neat and lets people know when we're playing in their town.
If you want to get even more involved, you can join our street team.
Just fill out the following info and send it to streetteam@roadrunnerrecords.com with the subject DE NOVO DAHL STREET TEAM.
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Here's where you can see us for the next month:
5/12 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues Cambridge Room w/Tally Hall
5/14 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress w/Tally Hall
5/18 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey w/Tally Hall
5/20 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's w/Tally Hall
5/21 - Portland, OR - Roseland Grill w/Tally Hall
5/22 - Seattle, WA - LIVE IN STUDIO PERFORMANCE ON 90.3 KEXP AT 8 AM PACIFIC TIME!!! http://www.kexp.org
5/22 - Seattle, WA - The High Dive w/Tally Hall
5/24 - Provo, UT - Club Velour w/Tally Hall
5/25 - Denver, CO - The Falcon w/Tally Hall
5/27 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room w/Tally Hall
5/28 - St Louis, MO - The Bluebird w/Tally Hall
5/29 - Dayton, OH - The Pearl w/Tally Hall
5/30 - Indianapolis, IN - Radio Radio w/Tally Hall & The Spinto Band
5/31 - Chicago, IL - Do Division Street Festival
6/1 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry First Ave
6/4 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement
6/6 - Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
6/7 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Downstairs
6/8 - Philadelphia, PA @ North Star
6/11 - Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
6/14 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
7/4 - Lexington, KY @ Free 4th of July Festival
Hard-to-please music website PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM reviewed our new album...AND liked it...
"Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound is a strong sophomore effort. Some of the sprawling ambition of Cats & Kittens is certainly missed, but the focus present in its place and the plain old good songs they filled the record with ably compensate for that loss. Their sharpened focus and re-jiggered lineup have also given them the chance to really perfect their sound and fill it with the kind of details that keep a listener coming back."
Read The Full Review Here
Sorry I haven't been able to speak to you myself in a little while, but we've been crazy busy travelling the country with our friend Jesse Malin. Now that we have a couple days off, I want to take a minute and share some of our exciting goings-ons.
First of all, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for your amazing support during the MTVu Freshman contest. We ended up losing by less than 1% of the vote, but our fan response was so overwhelming, that they decided to add us anyway. If you have MTVu, start watching on Monday for Shout. It'll be airing regularly beginning then.
In other huge news, we've been added to some of this summer's biggest festival line-ups. In June, we'll be playing at Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN. CLICK HERE to check out the full line-up and buy tickets. In August we'll be hitting Chicago for Lollapalooza and Jersey City for All Points West Festival. Follow THIS LINK to order your Lolla Tickets and THIS ONE for All Points West.
Wanna hear a great live set we did in Memphis' famous ARDENT STUDIO? Check Us Out At Breakthrough Radio.
Nashville fans:
"Join De Novo Dahl as they help Grimey's New & Preloved Music in Nashville celebrate the first National Record Store Day on April 19th by having their very own FREE Bake Sale! Swing by Grimey's anytime between 12 & 2pm to say hello to the band and grab a free sweet treat at their table and enjoy all of the festivities!"
Also for Nashville fans, we've finally made arrangements to have a proper CD Release Party. We're going to be joining forces with our buddies Autovaugn at The Cannery on May 9th to co-headline a co-release show. The Pink Spiders are opening. It's going to rule.
To non-Nashville fans:
We're planning a tour that'll take us coast to coast in May. Stay tuned!
And finally, don't forget to buy Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound. It's available everywhere and it makes a perfect Veteran's Day gift for your loved ones.
Thanks so much for your support,
Keith and the Dahl.
Join De Novo Dahl as they help Grimey's New & Preloved Music in Nashville celebrate the first National Record Store Day on April 19th by having their very own FREE Bake Sale! Swing by Grimey's anytime between 12 & 2pm to say hello to the band and grab a free sweet treat at their table and enjoy all of the festivities!"
Grimey's New & Preloved Music
1604 8th Ave South
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 254-4801
Check out the funny video we made at South By Southwest for Blender.com. It's a 3 minute documentary about our quest to meet Dolly Parton. The direct link is THIS LINK.
And PLEASE don't forget to vote for us on MTVU's Freshmen competition. We want to win, dang it! CLICK HERE
Dahlheads? Dahlites? Dahlfaces? I don't know what you are calling yourselves yet, but we REALLY REALLY REALLY need your help right now.
At 11am EST today, mtvU is beginning a vote to determine which of 5 artists will have their video entered into rotation.
SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE VOTE FOR US! and tell your friends to vote for us.
Use this link http://www.mtvu.com/music/freshmen/
Thank you so so much,
Keith and DND
GO HERE to listen to our new album, Move Every Muscle Make Every Sound, for free. Yup, every single note at no cost. That's how confident we are that you'll love it enough to buy your own shiny new copy.
Love,
Keith
TOUR
BIO
Joel J. Dahl - vocals, guitar
Serai Zaffiro - omnichord, vocals, percussion
Keith Lowen - bass, vocals
Matthew Hungate - keys, vocals
Mixta Huxtable - drums
Fun Facts About Nashville, TN:
• One of the lowest cost-of-living rates in the U.S.
• Average year-round high temperature: 70 Degrees F
• Home of the best biscuits, red-eye gravy, and ham ever (Loveless Café)
• Population 575,000 (most of them diehard music lovers)
• Home to rising pop stars and vintage swimwear connoisseurs De Novo Dahl
It’s no secret that Nashville has bragging rights to much of our nation’s musical backbone. Ranked as one of the Top 10 best places to live and work in America, it also boasts the Grand Ole Opry. The Bluebird Café. Every major country and Christian-music recording player in the game. The ghosts of country past emanate from the city’s Greek-inspired architecture, from its tiny cafes serving heavenly, greasy weekend brunches, from the streets known as Music Row.
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman frequently haunt their local Starbucks, catching up on their Sunday papers like normal folk. Reese Witherspoon still keeps a home here, close to her roots. Happy new resident Jack White – who left his native Detroit last year because it was too “negative” – still sets off a wave of excitement when he frequents a local music venue. Local Southern-fried rockers Kings of Leon are splashed on late-night TV, on the radio, on billboards around the country.
Don’t tell anyone, but Nashville’s gradually found itself becoming another kind of Music City: one that’s also pop- and rock-friendly. And within this comforting revelation resides De Novo Dahl, an eclectic psych-pop crew that favors stunning Nudie suits as stage uniforms; names The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev among its major influences; and has nothing against having, say, beach-themed shows in the dead of winter (of course, fans wearing bikinis and trunks get in for free).
“Nashville is kind of a weird situation, if you’ve been here a long time – Kings of Leon ushered in some attention outside of country and Christian music, and it seems like there’s a bit of explosion,” explains singer-guitarist Joel J. Dahl. “Rock bands cling and support to one another; to get a really great show at a great venue, in the past you had to have a really great bill to get them to let you play. Bands would stick together to get them. Three or four years ago, we were all clinging together to create a gang of Nashville rock bands.”
Still, De Novo Dahl’s always felt at home in Nashville’s small pop community, but the five-piece can’t resist standing out in a crowd. They’re the first pop band to be signed to Roadrunner’s roster, the class clowns in a world of session musicians that take themselves very, very seriously. “We’ve always really enjoyed sticking out like a sore thumb,” says Dahl. “We wear ridiculous outfits, and we try hard to not play a normal rock show. We had a spaghetti Western night where we all dressed as cowboys and served free spaghetti to a big crowd of people who’ve been drinking for a couple hours. They were grateful to not have to go stand in line at Burger King afterward.”
With the release of its Roadrunner debut, The Shout EP, De Novo Dahl – whose moniker is a blending of Latin for "the new" and the last name of creative and visual author Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, anyone?) – is poised to take its creativity to strange new heights. Self-produced and mixed by their heroes, David Fridmann and Tony Dugan (Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Belle & Sebastian), the outfit’s sound has deservedly hit its sometimes glammy, sometimes retro stride. Mixing electronic layers with more spare vintage garage-rock sounds, DND arrives at a modern, completely engaging axis of experimentation and catchy songcraft.
Most importantly, the group wants to leave people with a memory, and an experience. “Rock bands today often don’t really put on a show,” says Dahl. “[I like it when someone’s trying] something early Genesis or KISS would do, like wearing costumes or really leaving your mark on an audience that says ‘Woah, this wasn’t like the last 50 times I’ve been to a show!’”
Like their beloved Flaming Lips, DND’s members pride themselves on adventurous recording acrobatics. “You can’t ever be afraid of different ideas in the studio, of taking things apart,” says Dahl. “When we were making the record, we were giggly like little children – we wanted to dance through the house after a recording session, like we were in middle school. It was ridiculous! All the excitement was perpetuating, pushing us further.”
From the Shins-y harmonies, gritty blips (think “Video Killed the Radio Star”), and catchy yesteryear singalongs of “Shout (Popple Mix)” to the giddy, Brendan Benson-esque “Sexy come Lately” -- a B-side leftover from the band’s stellar 2005 debut, Cats and Kittens – The Shout EP is an exercise in deconstruction, of tearing something apart and starting over to make it a completely new form of self-expression.
“Oddly enough, we found out that’s how the Flaming Lips started changing their sounds,” Dahl explains. “Dave and Wayne [Coyne] did some remixes for fun for other bands, and decided to mess around w/their own stuff, some old Lips songs, and ended up liking the remixes better. I like that mentality.”
Just as Cats and Kittens glittered with promise, and its confidently rhythmic tracks garnered praise from critics, The Shout EP beckons more ears to pay heed to the Nashville scene. Pitchfork said, "The net impression left by the two discs of Cats & Kittens is one of a confident, talented band letting its collective imagination run wild, deconstructing it own ideas and recycling them into something new... overflowing with mostly realized ambition," while CMJ remarked that the band was "bursting with new ideas."
De Novo Dahl’s full-length Roadrunner album will be released in early 2008.
MEDIA
SHOUT, live at the CD 101 Big Room
Live at the Mercury Lounge, Girl Talk show
The long anticipated video for De Novo Dahl's "Shout" is up now for your viewing pleasure's. The bands debut album, Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound hits a store near you on March 25th, 2008.
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ALBUMS
Released: March 25th, 2008 - Roadrunner Records
1 Shout
2 Heartbreaker
3 Means To An End
4 Make Some Sense
5 Be Your Man
6 Shakedown
7 Marketplace
8 Sky Is Falling
9 New Hero
10 Wishful Thinking
11 Subject Of The Kill
12 Been Kept Up
13 Not to Escape
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Released: August 14th, 2007 - Roadrunner Records
1 Shout (Popple Mix)
2 Sexy Come Lately
3 Dance Like David
4 Crap Your Pants Say Shout
5 Sexy Mr. Falcon Jive Mister
6 Dance Like David Bason
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Released: 2005 - Theory 8 Records
1. All Over Town
2. Jeffrey
3. Listen Up
4. I Woke Up Late
5. The Funk
6. Push Bottons
7. Ryan Patrick Huseman Darrow
8. Piggy's Adventure
9. Be Your Man
10. End of Time
11. Rub You Wrong
12. Conquest at Midnight
13. Monday Morning
14. Cowboy and the Frenchman
15. Sexy Come Lately
16. New Belief
17. Magic
18. Sexy Mr. Falcon Jive Mister
19. Pop He Stop He
20. I Broke A Plate
21. Dinosaurs!
22. Big Ol' Buttons
23. Wanna Beer Man?
24. Target Practice
25. Rhythm PHD.
26. Turtle Italian
27. Rubber Dubbie
28. Doddy-Ball Upside Down
29. Little Conquest on the Prairie
30. Piggy's Misadventure
31. Jose', You Love Me?
32. Absentee Ballad
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DANCE
CONTACT
VIA MYSPACE
De Novo Dahl on Myspace
Management:
Aaron Hartley
Email: aaron [at] theory8records.com
Andrew Simon @ CAA