Dangerbird Records

The Pablove Foundation benefit Thursday night at The Echoplex sold out in 20 MINUTES! We can’t thank you enough for your support, and we look forward to seeing you all there. We are also delighted to announce Shirley Manson as emcee for this special evening. For those of you that weren’t able to get tickets, we promise we will be updating our sites with pictures / videos / interviews. For more information on the Pablove Foundation, please visit pablove.org.

Silversun Pickups are featured in the latest edition of NME:

“[SSPU] created the masterwork most-likely-to sweep away the fun and frippery that’s typified most American rock since the dawn of the Strokes.”

Head over to the Dangerbird Blog for the full article.

Dear friends, 

This Thursday, April 30, Silversun Pickups and Eulogies will perform at a very special benefit for Pablo Castelaz and The Pablove Foundation, at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now for $25 via TicketWeb. Purchase will be limited to two tickets per customer and ONLY available through online purchase, with a scheduled will-call pick-up (No walk-ups). All proceeds will directly benefit The Pablove Foundation (pablove.org), named after Pablo Castelaz, the five-year-old son of Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann Thrailkill.

On May 17, 2008, Pablo was diagnosed with bilateral Wilms’ Tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer, and has been receiving treatment at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (childrenshospitalla.org).

The Pablove Foundation supports cancer research and cancer patient play activities, music and arts programs. Recently, The Pablove Foundation funded a year of evening and weekend hours in the play room on the fourth floor soft tumor units at CHLA. These ‘units’ are actually an entire floor of the hospital, which is filled with brave, beautiful children at any time of the year. This play room brings immeasurable joy to the heart of a child whose life has been turned upside down in the face of a life-threatening disease and whose world has temporarily been reduced to a small hospital room.

The Pablove Foundation also plans to contribute to cancer research and treatment at CHLA, including the efforts of CHLA’s Saban Research Institute, one of the top cancer research facilities in the United States.

This extraordinary evening will offer select items for sale to help commemorate the night and give back to the above noted charities. In addition to an exclusive, limited edition t-shirt, Give. Listen. Help. Volume 5, will be available for purchase. The two-disc benefit compilation CD was released earlier this year by Filter and Urban Outfitters and features an impressive collection of unique material from some of today’s most recognizable artists including Radiohead, Bloc Party, Oasis, as well as the Dangerbird Records roster. Each CD purchase will be accompanied with a free poster, crafted specifically in honor of the evening. 

We are fighting for Pablo Castelaz and kids everywhere. Join us! The Pablove Foundation: Fighting childhood cancer with LOVE.

Eulogies frontman Peter Walker and Silversun Pickups bassist Nikki Monninger got together Friday night to shoot the video for “Two Can Play,” the 4th track on Eulogies’ latest album Here Anonymous. Head over to the Dangerbird Blog for more pictures and info.

Silversun Pickups have announced a string of UK tour dates happening at the end of June / early July. Head over to the Silversun Pickups TOURS page for details!

Eulogies and The One AM Radio will be playing a show this Sunday (26 APR) at The Echo in Los Angeles for KiDROCKERS. Both bands will perform 4 song sets, and kids will be allowed to ask questions and interact with the artists in between performances. Show starts at 1pm; adults must be accompanied by a kid! Here’s all the info.

Silversun Pickups will be taking the stage at Coachella tonight at 9:05pm at the “Outdoor Theatre.” Their set runs until 9:55pm. Don’t miss it!

LA Weekly was kind enough to include Dangerbird on the cover of their annual Coachella issue, in a feature story entitled “Dangerbird’s Wings: Silversun Pickups’ Label Bangs Out a Template for a Post–Major Label Landscape.” Check out the full article here!

Silversun Pickups are featured this morning at shockhound.com. See above video, along with full article and interview here.

Eulogies is currently featured “On The Cover” at thetripwire.com. Click here for full article and interview.

Eulogies can be heard live tomorrow morning (16 APR) on “The Playboy Morning Show” by Sirius XM radio owners subscribing to Playboy Radio (Channel 99). The show airs between 7am and 10am PST, and Eulogies will be on at 9 (noon Eastern).

After months of anticipation, Silversun Pickups’ Swoon is finally available in stores and on iTunes. Click HERE to order your copy today.

The band will also be guests on Loveline tonight (14 APR). Listen to KROQ (in Los Angeles) or at lovelineshow.com tonight at 10:20pm pacific.

“A wily Cure-like mix of viscera (tumbling drums, explosive guitar) and vocal anxiety.” – Rolling Stone

“If you’re looking for a reference point for Swoon, think Radiohead’s highly textured In Rainbows.” – Alternative Press

“The Los Angeles quartet crafts a signature sound of harmony and havoc that mirrors the city iteself: gleaming, noisy, dense and seductive with a dark undercurrent of psychosis.” – USA Today

Silversun Pickups “pile on the sophomore album enhancements here, deepening a sound that scarcely wanted for depth beforehand. A trip best made with headphones.” – SPIN

9/10 “Vast, dark, a little mysterious, sad, dignified and palpably in pain” – NME

Silversun Pickups will be in the studio with Kevin & Bean tomorrow (14 APR) morning, and live on the air at 8:05am pacific time. Head over to kroq.com to “listen live.”

Eulogies “Two Can Play” is featured this week on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Click HERE to stream the song, featuring Nikki Monninger from Silversun Pickups, from NPR’s website.

Guitar Hero World Tour is releasing three new downloadable songs from Silversun Pickups today – “Panic Switch” and “Nice To Know You Work Alone”, bundled with “Well Thought Out Twinkles” from Carnavas. The much anticipated Swoon comes out next Tuesday (14 APR), and is available for pre-order through iTunes and Amazon.

Eulogies second LP, Here Anonymous, is in stores today, and is available for purchase on iTunes and through Amazon. The band is currently wrapping up a tour with Bad Veins that started in Austin at South by Southwest, and concludes in Denver tomorrow night. They will head back out in May with The Dears and Great Northern for a month of dates across the country. Head to the Eulogies tours page to find them in a city near you.

“There is something so appealing about Eulogies’ patient, understated songs, you’d be a fool to pass them by. Awash with emotion, recorded with care and so delicately simple they run the risk of being taken for granted…Nice and sweet and just right.” — RCRD LBL

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ — Alternative Press

Head to eulogiesmusic.com to download “Two Can Play” from the new album (featuring Nikki Monninger from Silversun Pickups) as well as a bonus track from the Homespun Sessions EP.

NME calls the record “vast, dark, a little mysterious, sad, dignified and palpably in pain” in their glowing 9 out of 10 review. Click here for the full review.

MTV’s The Leak will be premiering Swoon starting tomorrow morning (7 APR) and running until street date (14 APR). Stream the entire album here:
http://www.mtv.com/music/the_leak/silversun_pickups/swoon/

Here Anonymous is featured this week on Spinner’s “Full CD Listening Party”. Follow this link to listen to the entire album.

WATCH IT HERE

The video for Silversun Pickups’ “Panic Switch” will debut MONDAY (6 APR) on MTV2 and MTVU. Check back early next week for links and more information on Swoon and the video debut.

The Dears performance for CBC Radio will be broadcast this Saturday night on Canada Live (93.5FM) in Montreal at 8PM EDT. Listen to it HERE.