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Copeland

Copeland

Lovedrug / Lydia / Lights

Mon 10/27
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16+

6:30 PM Doors

$15

Copeland

  • www.myspace.com/copeland
  • http://www.thecopelandsite.com/
  • Aaron Marsh (vocals/guitar), James Likeness (bass), Bryan Laurenson (guitars), and Jon Bucklew (drums, formerly of Christian rockers Denison Marrs) are the members of Copeland. The earnest-sounding alternative rock band came together in Marsh's home state of Florida in 2000. Maryland native Laurenson and original drummer Rusty Fuller were added to the lineup just in time for the recording of Copeland's first release. Produced by Matt Goldman, the split EP release with Pacifico was issued in 2001. A year later, the band signed with the SoCal indie imprint, The Militia Group, and relocated to Atlanta to begin making its first proper studio effort. Bucklew stepped in to replace Fuller (who later went on to join the Beautiful Mistake) and Goldman signed on as producer for the emotionally driven punk-pop stylings of Beneath Medicine Tree (2003). Tours with the Juliana Theory, Mae, Hopesfall, Switchfoot, and the Early November followed into the next year; an EP of covers, Know Nothing Stays the Same, was released in August 2004, maintaining Copeland's rising popularity. In March 2005, Copeland released their long-awaited sophomore album, In Motion. The ten-song set debuted at number 115 in Billboard's Top 200 album chart within a week of its release. Copeland's most accomplished record to date, Eat, Sleep, Repeat followed in the fall of 2006, a tour with Jack's Mannequin leading up to its Halloween release. Soon after, the band announced it had joined the major-label ranks of Columbia Records. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide

Lovedrug

  • www.myspace.com/lovedrug
  • www.lovedrugmusic.com
  • The Ohio-based rock band Lovedrug, local heroes hailed by Cleveland's Scene magazine as its "#1 Band to Watch in 2004," will bring the band's powerful and haunting sounds to the clublands of America on a major U.S. tour with Matchbook Romance beginning October 27 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey and concluding November 25 at the Axis in Boston (see full itinerary following). Rounding out the bill are Gatsby's American Dream and Armor For Sleep.

    News of the Lovedrug tour dates arrives hot on the heels of the band's recent inking with Columbia Records, who will re-release the band's acclaimed debut album, Pretend You're Alive, on January 24, 2006.

    Originally released on the indie label The Militia Group in late 2004, Pretend You're Alive debuted at #4 on the Billboard Internet Sales chart, cracked the Top 50 Indie Albums chart, and quickly became the fastest-selling album in The Militia Group's history.

    Modern music fans may've caught their first taste of Lovedrug when the group's "In Red" was featured in the cult television program, "Point Pleasant." Also, their song "It Won't Last" was featured on MTV's The Real World.

    Formed in June 2002, Lovedrug released a 5 song EP that August and sold-out two pressings within three months. The stunning success of the group's self-titled EP led the band to enter the studio with producer Tim Patalan (Sponge, "Freddy vs. Jason" soundtrack, Aware compilations), who helmed the second Lovedrug release, the 6 song "Rocknroll" EP, released summer 2003.

    The Lovedrug-Patalan connection proved fruitful and fortunate, with the group reaching new heights of melodic prowess, band chemistry, and inspired songcraft on Pretend You're Alive.

    The press began to sit up and take notice. Blender.com called the album "…a rarity…Lovedrug combines smart lyrics with hearty rock & roll to create a record full of indiepop gems."

    "Pretend You're Alive grapples with many deep philosophical issues," observed Meanstreet, "which earns them legitimate street cred" while Copper Press called Lovedrug's debut "Remarkably polished and passionate."

    Over the course of the band's remarkable three-year evolution, Lovedrug has shared stages with a broad range of artists including Robert Plant, The Killers, Switchfoot, Joseph Arthur, Sam Phillips, Something Corporate, Copeland, Superdrag's John Davis, Braid, Straylight Run, Mewithoutyou, Action Action, Cat Power, Creeper Lagoon, Elliot, and Eisley, among others.

    The extensive roadwork has paid off for Lovedrug, whose performances connect directly into the hearts and souls of the group's ever-growing fanbase. Cleveland's Scene, described "Down Towards The Healing," a crowd-pleasing staple of the group's live sets, as "one of the most affecting songs of the year -- local or otherwise."

    Lovedrug are: Michael Shepard (vocals, guitar, piano), David Owen (guitar, vocals), Matthew Depper (guitar, bass, vocals), and Matthew Putman (drums).

    --ArtistDirect.com

Lydia

  • http://www.myspace.com/lydia
  • http://www.lydiamusic.com/
  • "Illuminate is a full album, and not just because it's eleven tracks and 15 minutes shy of an hour. The release isn't about singles, but several tracks administer fine on their own (see "I Woke Up Near The Sea" and "One More Day"). No melodic line or layer sequence is quite the same, but they all work in a correlative pulsating atmospheric crunch. Beginning with the prophetic, tickling keys of "This Is Twice Now" to the expansive and varied 7-minute ender, "Now The One You Once Loved Is Leaving," this album should be digested in whole passes."-Julia Conny, AbsolutePunk.net.

Lights

  • http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=72806790
  • My name is LIGHTS. I'm a small girl who dwells in Toronto. I make music with a computer and a couple sweet synths. I also play whatever other sound makers I can get my pincers on. Making music has been my crutch/drug/vent/vice for my whole life. Most of what you hear starts, and is often finished, in my room (wherever that may be, I relocate like a hermit crab). When I write songs I think about how my music makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy. If I'm sad then the last thing I want is to be made even more sad by music. If my music could be drawn I would picture it like a comic, with simple border lines and bright colors. On first glance there is a nice composition, but upon closer inspection there is a deeper story.

    When performing live, I could do everything myself if I were a squid, but I am only a hermit crab and I only have two arms. So there are two dashing musicians that join me on stage named Maurie and Adam. I am the littlest one on stage. But that only means that there is more stellar packed into each square inch. After a long time in the lab, I am finally releasing my first EP. This world is a little dark, and I am LIGHTS.

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