As you may know, our new record Sweethearting came out yesterday. Today's Baltimore City Paper has a great review of the album.
Also, CP's music blog, 'Noise', has a nice post about our recent Walters Art Museum show. Thanks to Jess and Al at CP!
We've started to pop up in some music blogs as well.
The album is available now! (We recommend getting it from our friends at The Beechfields!)
Yes, today is the day. Our new record, Sweethearting, is now available on The Beechfields Record Label! You can get it right now at their site!
It's also available at Amazon.com, on iTunes and Emusic (for you downloaders out there) and at select record stores in the Baltimore area. More stores should be stocking the record very soon as well.
We're extremely proud of this album and we can't wait for you all to hear it! If you haven't yet, you can hear a few of the songs at the Music section of our website. Please go grab a free mp3 or two, share them with your friends, and pick up a CD if you like them!
SHOWS
For our DC friends, our DC-area CD release show is this coming Monday, April 30, at IOTA:
Mon April 30
Arlington, VA | IOTA
Opening up a great bill, with Kitty Hawk and Last Town Chorus!
2832 Wilson Blvd. | 8 pm | $10 | 21+
Baltimore people, you'll have to wait until May 18 for our big party at the Golden West:
Fri May 18
Baltimore, MD | Golden West
With Monarch!
1105 W. 36th St. | 10 pm | $5 | all ages
Everyone else: If you have suggestions for where to play in your town, please let us know! We will be on the road in July and August and we'd love to see you again.
RADIO
has just arrived at radio stations across the country, but it's already starting to do well, with several Top 5 adds this week! If you live near a college radio station, feel free to request us...
Thanks for the support, everyone! Please pick up a copy of the record and let us know what you think!
We are quite excited to announce that our cover of a Go-Betweens song called "Love Goes On!" will be appearing this fall on a tribute compilation for late Go-Betweens co-leader Grant McLennan. We're so honored to be chosen to be a part of the project... We're big Go-Betweens fans, and fans of Grant's songs in particular, so getting to cover one of them was really fun for us. We'll be in good company on the album as well, alongside bands like the Clientele, Portastatic, Ivy, Stars, and so many other good bands.
You can hear our version of the song (as well as the best of the other submissions -- the Bank Holidays' version is pretty awesome) at the MySpace blog of the label releasing the album, Rare Victory. Thanks to Rare Victory! We should know more details about the actual release soon.
Until then, if you don't know them, go buy a Go-Betweens record.
UPDATE: Looks like this story got us our first mention on Pitchfork!
A few photos from the Walters Art Museum show last weekend. If you have more, let us know!
1. interior shot of the auditorium at sound check. (yes, more people showed up later.)
2. close-up of the films projected behind us.
3. full-band shot from the balcony.
Thank you to everyone who came out last weekend for our show at the Walters! We had a great time. What a beautiful space... Getting to play on that stage, and seeing so many of those seats full, was quite an experience. Thank you! (And thanks to Mike from The Beechfields for making us sound good.)
We got a few good pictures that I will try to post here soon. If any of you in the audience took photos that you'd be willing to share, email them to privateeleanor at gmail dot com.
Tomorrow (Friday April 13) will be our first Baltimore show since last year... We've been so focused for the past 6 to 8 months on getting our new record made and released that we've been hardly playing any shows. Honestly, it's been kind of nice to get a break from worrying about the live-performance aspect of being in a band, but it's exciting to get back into it too. We had a fun warmup show in DC last weekend -- a little shaky on a few of the songs we hadn't done in a while, but we got the hang of it.
We're particularly excited for tomorrow because this is such an amazing venue: The Graham Auditorium at the Walters Art Museum. Possibly the most beautiful room we've ever played in! We're going to be projecting film behind us on their giant screen as well. The best part is that it's a totally free show. Please come out and welcome us back!
The show is at 6:30 and will be over before 8 -- so you'll have plenty of time (and cash) left for your Friday night plans. Here's a handy page with directions and parking info.
Hello! Welcome to the new Private Eleanor blog. Things look a little rough at the moment, but we'll be up and running soon. In the meantime, check out the rest of the new PE website or our MySpace page, where you can find out about our new record that's coming out on 4/24. Thanks for caring about what we're up to! Check back again soon!