valentine's day Dead Confederate & All the Saints LIVE tonight @ Pianos, NYC

EAR FARM favorites Dead Confederate and All the Saints are finally in New York City tonight playing a show together at Pianos! Be sure to check out both bands as they're undoubtedly going to blow the roof clean off that mother. For a preview of what to expect, check out the video (above) that we grabbed in Austin of Dead Confederate opening for R.E.M. during South by Southwest. Seriously, watch it. You get to see that at Pianos! Unreal.

More goodies after the jump...

Watch:
"Tortured Artist Saint" live @ Stubb's - 12 March 2008 (QuickTime, higher quality than YouTube)

Listen:
"The Rat" by Dead Confederate
"Sheffield" by All the Saints

Buy: Dead Confederate [EP]

See Dead Confederate/All the Saints live: dates HERE

See also:
- R.E.M. @ Stubb's BBQ - 12 March 2008 (SXSW Day 1, pics, live video/mp3)
- EF Band of the Week: Dead Confederate
- EF Band of the Week: All the Saints

Visit All the Saints & Dead Confederate on MySpace.

valentine's day Dead Confederate 2008 tour dates, EXCLUSIVE video of their SXSW show with R.E.M.

valentine's day Dead Confederate opened for R.E.M. at Stubb's Bar-B-Q on the first day of SXSW and EAR FARM was lucky enough to spend the entire day with the band. We got all kinds of exclusive video as a result, including hanging out backstage with Michael Stipe and their entire kick-ass set from that night. What follows is a snippet of documentary footage of the band being interviewed before the show as well as their final song from their set at Stubb's, "Tortured Artist Saint". In addition to this video footage, we're very excited to share with you some 2008 tour dates for the band - that's right, Dead Confederate is coming to your neck of the woods very soon and they're going to blow you away. So do yourself a favor and click through for the tour dates and this EXCLUSIVE video...



Dead Confederate have lined up a summer tour that begins on the 23rd of May with a KEXP session in Seattle. The rest of the dates are listed below, including seven West Coast stops with Drive by Truckers and performances at the Bonnaroo, Sasquatch!, and Rothbury festivals.

The band spent January and February in Austin, TX recording a full length follow-up to their acclaimed debut EP. The album was produced by Mike McCarthy (Spoon, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead), and includes many of the tracks they played at the amazing shows we saw them play in Austin. Frankly, we can't wait for the album.

Be on the lookout for more EXCLUSIVE video from our time with Dead Confederate at SXSW in the future. And if I might offer a viewing suggestion, watch the QuickTime that's posted below instead of that ugly YouTube stuff.

Watch:
"Tortured Artist Saint" live @ Stubb's - 12 March 2008 (QuickTime, higher quality than YouTube)

Listen:
"Tortured Artist Saint" (live @ Stubb's - 12 March 2008)
Dead Confederate live @ Stubb's - 12 March 2008 (entire show stream, via NPR)

Buy: Dead Confederate [EP]

See Dead Confederate live:
23 May - Seattle, WA @ KEXP
24 May - Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Festival
28 May - Washington D.C. @ DC9
29 May - New York, NY @ Piano's
30 May - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint
31 May - Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber
1 June - Boston, MA @ TT the Bears
4 June - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
5 June - Asheville, NC @ The Rocket Club
6 June - Knoxville, TN @ Barley's
7 June - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
14 June - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
17 June - Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Brewing Company*
18 June - Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff*
19 June - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre*
20 June - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern*
24 June - Sacramento, CA @ Empire Room*
25 June - Bend, OR @ Midtown Ballroom*
26 June - Spokane, WA @ Big Easy - Spokane*
5 July - Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Festival

* with Drive by Truckers

See also:
- R.E.M. @ Stubb's BBQ - 12 March 2008 (SXSW Day 1, pics, live video/mp3)
- EF Band of the Week: Dead Confederate

Visit Dead Confederate on MySpace.

valentine's day EXCLUSIVE SxSW ANNOUNCEMENT: Dead Confederate @ Stubb's with R.E.M.

valentine's day This just in: EAR FARM favorites Dead Confederate have been confirmed as one of the opening bands for R.E.M. (apparently hand-picked by R.E.M.) at Stubb's in Austin during this year's South by Southwest.

The show starts at 8:00pm on March 12th and Dead Confederate will be playing at 11:00pm directly prior to R.E.M.

Here's the entire lineup in order:

Summerbirds in the Cellar
Johnathan Rice
Papercranes
Dead Confederate
R.E.M.

Listen:
"Tortured Artist Saint" by Dead Confederate

Previously - EF's Band of the Week: Dead Confederate

valentine's day Band of the Week: Dead Confederate

valentine's day Dead Confederate wears their Southern heritage on their collective sleeve. Let's face it, for whatever reason we all do. But this band does it very openly within their name, eschewing pretension and cutting right to the chase like a bayonet through soft Union soldier skin. Say it with me: DEAD CONFEDERATE. Immediately they've declared roughly where they're from (specifically it's Atlanta, Augusta, and Athens, Georgia) and just as quickly they've laid out for you in no uncertain terms that their music is going to resonate a bit differently than the superficial drawl of the Southern Rock your parents grew up listening to. All of this is to say that by calling themselves Dead Confederate they've laid it all on the line right away. A band with this name is either going to blow listeners away with a sound that's entirely their own, or they're going to sound an awful lot like Blueshammer from Ghost World. There's really no in between. So which is it?

Well, if you read EAR FARM with any regularity then you already know the answer. Last month we picked the band as one of the Top Ten Bands To Watch Out For in 2008 - now that we're nine days into 2008, it's high time we go ahead an reinforce our belief that Dead Confederate is simply one of the top up and coming bands in the US. Want proof? Read more and listen below, OR just watch the people go crazy for them at South by Southwest in March. At this point I'm simply assuming they'll be there; after all, this is a band that's bound to find their way onto a memorable lineup in Austin and thus end up on more than a couple of lists of "top acts seen at SxSW '08".

It occurred to me that I, as an average American male who grew up in North Carolina with parents originally from the Northeast, speak a multitude of variations on the English language. To make things easier on you the reader, I've broken down the remainder of this post into sections. Each one is a rephrasing of my opinions on Dead Confederate, spoken in a variety of "languages". Just simply scan down to the one you're most comfortable with and go from there.

Normal speak:

Dead Confederate plays solid, and moody, rock music. A mixture of Band of Horses and The Verve, with touches of Nirvana in the percussion, Sonic Youth in the guitar work, and early Radiohead and/or U2 in the vocals.

Blogger speak:

If you wanna know what your gonna be listneing to for the rest of the year and making lists of saying that its the best thing your listeneing to ever, hear is my favorite band of forever. Dead Confederate. So. Damn. Amazing. BEST. BAND. EVER.

Southern girl speak:

Oh my God ya'll. For real, that Dead Confederate band? Ya'll, they're good as shit.

Dude speak:

Dude. Fucking 'ay dude. This band rules. Seriously. No, dude. Seriously.

Midwestern accented speak:

Oh gosh, theeyat Dead Confederate beeyand is so darn fun!

Ebonics:

I know ya'lls been seein' talk of Ded Con Fed all up in them internets, right? But check this out: thang iz, they actually IS all that. And then some. Son.

Blockheaded white guy speak:

Bro. Broseph. Bromaldehyde... check out this band. Dead Confederate. Yup.

Blockheaded white girl speak:

Like, ohmygod. I mean, I don't even like like loud music, right? And then but there I am out at this bar - tons of cute boys, but all so nerdy... not that nerds aren't like uber-hotness right now, but whatever it doesn't mean they had to be all up in my face. Like, I know you've never spoken to a hot girl before jackass, but doesn't give you the right to drool all over me and spill beer on my shoes, GOD.

Matt speak:

Dead Confederate favors depth, darkness, romance, and emotion in the songs they create, and in at least one moment of all of their songs is the power to slay the listener with greatness. Each track evolves and builds upon itself, nearly imploding, before exploding in rhythmic waves of music as equally informed by post-punk as it is grunge; combining shoegaze, noise-rock, and good old-fashioned rock and roll into a mixture that draws you deeper into their world the more you listen. Further and further under their control you'll fall, until suddenly, it's too late. You'll be a ghost* before you know it.

(*ghost, in this sense, is meant to mean a Dead Confederate fan)

Listen:
"The Rat"
"Silver Rocket" (an EAR FARM exclusive, live Sonic Youth cover)

Visit Dead Confederate on MySpace.

See Dead Confederate live.