February 2012
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Joan Of Arc announces 3 LPs for 2012
Joan of Arc are nothing if not unpredictable. In their 17 year history Joan of Arc have consistently side-stepped convention and expectation, often leaving less-adventurous listeners scratching their heads in the wake of their insane endeavors. In 2011 Joan of Arc released their most conventionally “rocking” album in years, the Albini-engineered Life Like. Now in 2012, Joan of Arc...
FEBRUARY FLEXI IS… MAKE BELIEVE! FEBRUARY 8, 2012
Joyful Noise is very pleased to announce that the February installment of the Flexi Disc series is an insane and unstable track from Chicago’s notorious Make Believe! This is the first Make Believe release since the “Going to the Bone Church” LP, released in 2008 via Flameshovel. The new song, “Can’t Tell Cop...
January 2012
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December 2011
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A new exclusive Make Believe song will be featured in the 2012 Joyful Noise Flexi Disc series. It’s a monthly subscription for $4 / mo which also features bands like Tortoise, of Montreal, Deerhoof, Lou Barlow, etc. Limited edition of only 500 copies. Subscribe at the link.
http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/catalog/jnr100
As part of Polyvinyl’s 15th anniversary celebration in 2011, Polyvinyl has curated A Brief History in Moving Pictures — an extensive DVD compilation featuring 60 music videos from 26 Polyvinyl artists, including Joan Of Arc, Owen, Mates of State, and many more!
This landmark project marks the first appearance on DVD for the first 15 years of Polyvinyl videos! The DVD is specially priced...
Victor Villarreal Tour & Kickstarter →
I am extremely excited to announce a partial list of dates for my very first solo tour to commemorate the release of my new album “Invisible Cinema.“
There are many costs associated with touring, even when travelling as a solo musician. I have decided to engage in this Kickstarter campaign to help ensure that my first tour as a solo musician is possible and that I am able to cover...
VICTOR VILLARREAL ANNOUNCES NEW LP ON JOYFUL NOISE!
Joyful Noise is very pleased to present Invisible Cinema - the first proper full-length album from Cap’n Jazzmastermind guitarist Victor Villarreal.
Embodying Villarreal’s distinctly innovative and other-worldly guitar style, this album includes a wide spectrum of sonic variety. Hinged on the tumbling rhythms of...
November 2011
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Hi everyone - please help spread the word via Facebook and whatever -
Next weekend we are performing an original live score for the Charlie Chaplin film “His New Job.” And why is this cool or interesting? The performance is happening in the same room in which the film was shot in 1915. Cool, huh?
Who: Joan of Arc + Luis Humberto Valadez + special guest
When: Saturday, November 19,...
Ghost Town is out today - here are the updated tour dates for OWEN:
Tour Dates
Nov 12, 2011 - Beat Kitchen (early all ages show), Chicago, IL
Nov 12, 2011 - Beat Kitchen (21+ show), Chicago, IL
Dec 2, 2011 - Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Dec 3, 2011 - North Star Bar, Philadelphia, PA
Dec 4, 2011 - Great Scott, Allston, MA
Dec 28, 2011 - The Social, Orlando, FL
Dec 29, 2011 - Orpheum, Tampa,...
I Hear A New Radio #7 - Tim Kinsella. Two-and-a-half hours of music and conversation with Tim Kinsella. Tim plays ten songs that have been influential to him in one way or another, around which we frame a conversation that covers everything from his recently published novel, “The Karaoke Singers Guide To Self-Defense”, the Cap’n Jazz reunion, his love of Voivod, his intense work...
October 2011
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All Owen Ghost Town orders are now shipping! (Polyvinyl) Less than 100 copies of the limited edition clear vinyl are left — be sure to grab one before it’s too late. All orders receive an INSTANT full album download at checkout along with a FREE button, sticker, and two digital bonus tracks. In stores November 8. Shipping now from the Polyvinyl E-Store. This is also the last weekend...
New JOA track on Benefit Comp
A digital only benefit compilation for a family in need after their four year old girl, named Kenna Rae Parfrey, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. This 33 band behemoth features A.D.O., American Draft, American Heritage, Cinco de Gatos, Damp Hay, Doleful Lions, Elika, Ersa Minor, The Friendly Lens, Gauge, Haymarket Riot, Hayweek, Heaving Mass, Joan of Arc, Lipreader, Lloyd Wants Steak,...
Owen Autumn Tour:
Nov 3, 2011 - Hailey’s, Denton, TX Nov 4, 2011 - The Korova, San Antonio, TX Nov 5, 2011 - Living Room Show, Austin, TX Nov 12, 2011 - Beat Kitchen (early all ages show), Chicago, IL Nov 12, 2011 - Beat Kitchen (21+ show), Chicago, IL Dec 2, 2011 - Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Dec 3, 2011 - North Star Bar, Philadelphia, PA Dec 4, 2011 - Great Scott, Allston, MA
Love Of Everything Mini Tour
Love of Everything
We play 4 shows next week: TUES Oct 18, 2011 - Black Sparrow, Lafayette, IN WED Oct 19, 2011 - Mike & Molly’s, Champaign, IL THURS Oct 20, 2011 - Cedar Lounge, Youngstown, OH FRI Oct 21, 2011 - The Rock Shop, Brooklyn, NY
Victor Villarreal Last Minute Live Shows
Attention Baltimore and Philly:
10/11/11
Victor Villarreal at the Bell Foundry | Baltimore , MD
10/12/11
Victor Villarreal at the Model Home | Philadelphia, PA
10/13/11
Victor Villarreal and Maritime at Johnny Brenda’s | Philadelphia, PA
August 2011
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THE WAIT IS OVER! Owen’s new album, Ghost Town, is now available for pre-order through our online store. The album comes out on Nov. 8th and is available on multiple formats including limited edition clear or black vinyl (clear limited to 800 copies), CD, T-shirt + MP3, and digital formats. And here’s the best part - all pre-orders receive an instant MP3 download for the entire album...
Love of Everything is the solo project of Joan of Arc bassist Bobby Burg (also of Make Believe and Vacations). Sooner I Wish is the latest installment in the Love of Everything discography. Written in the wake of Burg’s divorce, the 7” is his most personal work to date, and was recorded live with a loop pedal and no overdubs except on the vocals. The 7” is available on black...
July 2011
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June 2011
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August Joan Of Arc Tour Dates
08/04/11 Thu Pontiac, MI The Pike Room
08/05/11 Fri Toronto, ON, Canada The Garrison
08/06/11 Sat Montreal, QC, CANADA Casa Del Popolo
08/07/11 Sun Allston, MA Great Scott
08/10/11 Wed New York, NY Mercury Lounge
08/11/11 Thu Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
08/12/11 Fri Baltimore, MD Golden West Cafe
08/13/11 Sat Charlotte, NC Milestone
08/14/11 Sun Atlanta, GA THE EARL
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Catch Tim Kinsella's Blog →
May 2011
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Preorder Love Of Everything - Sooner I Wish 7"
Limited to 300 on white vinyl or limited to 700 on black vinyl.
Sooner I Wish, the latest offering from Love of Everything (solo project of Bobby Burg from Joan of Arc, Make Believe, Vacations, and more) features four of his most personal songs to date.
Recorded live with a loop pedal and no overdubs except on the vocals, these tracks feature new drummer Matt Holland (Air Waves, Vacations)...
So we're home for about 3 weeks and I got a few little weird events
happening:
Monday May 30 - Duo with Ben Mjolsness at the Myopic experimental music
series http://www.myopicbookstore.com/music.html - Free
Saturday June 4 - Reading from *The Karaoke Singer's Guide to
Self-Defense *with
Adam Levine, author of *The Instructions* (McSweeneys) at the Printer's Row
Lit Fest 1130 am - Free
Saturday...
The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self-Defense by Tim...
Pre-order Tim Kinsella’s debut novel due to hit book shelves Oct. 11, 2011.
When you feel life is a cliché, do you fight back? Tim Kinsella’s strange, dream-like debut novel is filled with painfully aware characters, families, and outcasts caught in inherited rhythms of cruelty and ambivalence. Dark secrets lurk when three siblings gather for a funeral: a thoughtful dancer back at...
WatchJoan Of Arc on Giant System
April 2011
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April 26 Joan of Arc Records Release Show
http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/event_detail.php?id=507&page=genev#joan%20of%20arc
Details. April 26th at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago:
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
Message from Tim Kinsella
Hello -
If you are free Thursday night, please consider checking out the one-time
performance of our new and original score to Dreyer's 1928 classic *The
Passion of Joan of Arc*. We've been immersed in it for a couple months now,
and are all very excited about it. The movie is so overwhelming and amazing,
we could really only fuck it up, and I promise we've done our best not to.
It's at the...
Joan of Arc - Film Score/Movie + Music Festival
please spread the word - http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=196191170415025 And here’s the Sun-Times write-up http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/4662650-421/cimmfest-celebrates-relationship-between-movies-and-music.html
Birthmark Kickstarter
Help Birthmark make his third album a reality by pledging on his Kickstarter project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1512887845/a-new-birthmark-album
Not only do you get to support Nate Kinsella’s project, pledge prizes are amazing including custom artwork by Nate and studio time with Nate!
and if you are in Chicago on May 28th, check out Abbey Pub and see Birthmark perform live;...
March 2011
4 posts
Be in a Joan of Arc Video
The fine and talented men at Giant Systems will be
presenting some of their videos at the Nightengale Theater 1084 N Milwaukee
Ave this Saturday (April 2nd).
After their presentation, they will demonstrate how they do what they do
with their first ever shoot with a live audience for a track off the new
Joan of arc record Life Like.
Details...
Love Of Everything East Coast Tour
Heading out on a mini tour accompanied by Matt Holland (Vacations)
03/26/11 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks EARLY SHOW w/School (from Brooklyn) and Legs Like Tree Trunks
03/27/11 Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar w/ The Greenbeans and Light Feelings featuring Travis J. Johansen
03/28/11 Brooklyn, NY @ Monster Island Basement w/ Dusin Wong(Ponytail), Lichens, High Society(PC Worship, Real Estate,...
Chicago International Movies & Music Fest feat JOA
Wicker Park Art Center: Where Music and Movies (Are) Live Wrekmeister Harmonies Do Kenneth Anger Joan of Arc on Joan of Arc In sound artist J.R. Robinson’s latest collaboration, music ensemble Wrekmeister Harmonies, composed of Trevor deBrau (Pelican), Jamie Fennely (Mind Over Mirrors), Mark Shippy (US Maple), Pat Samson (US Maple), Matthew Carson (Miracle Condition), David Yow (The Jesus Lizard),...
Joan of Arc @ SXSW
3/17 Music 4 U !!! Party @ -The Blue Theatre (916 Springdale)
3/18 Bearded Ponies Party @ The Grackle (1700 E. 6th St.) 3/19 New Granada Records Day Party @ The Ghost Room (304 W. 4th St.) 12:45 PM 3/19 Stem and Leaf Party @ Khabele School (801 Rio Grande) - 5 PM 3/19 Polyvinyl Showcase @ Parish (214 E 6th St) - 9 PM
February 2011
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Love of Everything Mini Tour
Love Of Everything will play a few select dates in March:
Mar 2, 2011 - Beauty Bar, Chicago, IL Mar 26, 2011 - Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA Mar 27, 2011 - Bug Jar, Rochester, NY
Owen - O, Evelyn
Preorder the new 7” by Owen titled O, Evelyn.
The A-side features the title track and the B-side is the Smiths-penned “Girlfriend in a Coma.”
Both songs are exclusive to this 7”.
http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/store/index.php?id=1604
Tim sat down with Synconation for an interview while we were at Common Grounds in Gainesville, FL. Check it at the link: http://synconation.com/reviews/tove-had-meaningful-work-a-conversation-with-joan-of-arcs-tim-kinsella/
December 2010
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Last Minute Joan of Arc Show
We’ve decided to add a benefit show this week on our day off during the session. Please spread the word accordingly - good cause, Jeff Tweedy, Bill Callahan, etc. http://www.secondcity.com/performances/detail/435/ We’re on at 2 a.m. XO, Tim
Joan of Arc - Oh Brother - Pre Order
Coming 2/8/11
Preorder: http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/catalog/jnr66
Featuring collaborations with 14 musicians, including Zach Hill of Hella & Rob Lowe of Lichens, this is indie-rock for the initiated. Oh Brother is the combination of four distinct albums embarked upon but never completed by Joan of Arc curator Tim Kinsella. Each album is broken up and spliced together into a...
Birthmark - SHAKING HANDS
Birthmark’s new album ‘Shaking Hands’ is now available on CD, LP and HQ download: http://birthmark.bandcamp.com/
November 2010
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Birthmark - Fossil Record [websingle]
http://birthmark.bandcamp.com/album/fossil-record-websingle Two-song digital single featuring “Fossil Record”, from Birthmark’s upcoming full-length album ‘Shaking Hands’, b/w “Be However You Please”, an exclusive, unreleased, non-album b-side. Birthmark is Nate Kinsella, from Joan of Arc and Make Believe. New album ‘Shaking Hands’ will be...
Kickstarter - Help Joan of Arc Record Our New... →
11 Days to go!
New Joan of Arc and Owen Tour Dates →
October 2010
4 posts
Birthmark Shaking Hands Vinyl PreOrder
Pre-orders for the vinyl LP - Shaking Hands - available now. There is no download code. Paypal $14 to birthmarkshakinghands@gmail.com for the new Birthmark LP, Shaking Hands. Orders will ship on November 30th.
Track list:
1. Socializing 2. Fossil Record 3. Separation 4. The Descension 5. OKKT 6. Tokyo/Portugal 7. Pendulum 8. Burst at Night 9. Balloons 10. On Birthdays
Tim Kinsella on WNUR today at 1pm CT - he’ll be playing some new JOA songs solo. You can listen here - http://www.wnur.org/ - Joan of Arc Free show today (10/18/10) at Chicago’s Empty Bottle featuring a new lineup - Tim, Theo, Bobby, Nate and Victor! Show starts at 9pm
Birthmark - Shaking Hands Preorder
http://parasol.com/catalog/catalog.asp?zoomtitle=100827
Birthmark is the solo project of Chicago-based musician and composer Nate Kinsella (Joan of Arc, Make Believe). Nate wrote and recorded the second Birthmark album, Shaking Hands, over a 3-year period. Evidence of Nate’s songwriting process of recording, editing, and re-recording can be heard in the album’s first two songs, which play as...