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Lake Trout to Play NYC/Baltimore Shows; Plans to Record with Dave Fridmann
Lake Trout (www.laketrout.com) will play two shows this month: 12/17/09 at The Mercury Lounge in NYC and 12/19/09 at The Ottobar in Baltimore. The band has appeared only a few times in the past year, as bassist James Griffith has been working hard in London on the new UNKLE record, which is set to be released sometime early in 2010 (www.Unkle.com).
Lake Trout has been recording sporadically in Baltimore and now is also making plans to record in 2010 with producer Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT), who worked on their 2005 release “Not Them, You.” The band will be recording for The Biggest Label Ever, a nonprofit record label focused on contributing all record profits to various charitable organizations.
For nearly a decade and a half, Lake Trout has consistently defied genres within the music industry. The Baltimore five-piece has displayed a unique, multi-dimensional blend of rock, creating ambient soundscapes over ferocious rhythms that channel psychedelia and industrial and indie rock.
Reinventing their sound from record to record has been the calling card of this group of diversely influenced musicians. To fully grasp the ingenuity of this band, you must see them live. Alchemists of mood and emotion, Lake Trout push the limits of both intensity and volume. The band is absolutely confident on stage, and as the result of their widely heralded live performances, they have earned a diverse audience of loyalists. Lake Trout continues to attract a wide range of indie rockers, head bangers, math geeks and improv junkies.
Show Information:
12/17/09 at The Mercury Lounge
Doors 7:00 PM
Lake Trout 10:00 / Cruel Black Dove 9:00 / Steve Schiffman & The Land of No 8:00 / Hey Battlefield 7:00
$13 adv / $15 at door / 21+
217 E. Houston St., New York, NY 10002-1021 / 212-260-4700
F train 2nd Ave; J/M train Essex St.
www.mercuryloungenyc.com
12/19/09 at The Ottobar
w/Now What and The Water
Doors 8:00 PM / Show 9:00 PM
$12 / ALL AGES
2549 N. Howard St., Baltimore, MD 21218-4506 / 410-662-0069
www.TheOttobar.com
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New live album and December shows
At long last, the Baltimore-based band Lake Trout will release its first official live album. The album includes live versions of songs from previous releases as well as songs that have only been performed live, but never officially recorded. As a gift to their listeners, Lake Trout will be giving away their live album for FREE download via an innovative method of distribution called The Biggest Label Ever.
THE BIGGEST LABEL EVER (dot com) is a record label centered around a website consisting of free music supported by advertising. Lake Trout's live album will be the label's first release and the site will officially launch in 2009. In support of the release, Lake Trout will be playing 2 shows in December:
12/19: Baltimore, MD | Ottobar
12/20: New York, NY | Mercury Lounge
The long-awaited album comes after numerous other projects from its members. Mike, James, and Matt having been playing with the U.K. based Unkle, touring internationally, and playing major festivals since the summer of '07. Unkle's latest record, "End Titles..Stories for film", was co-written by James. In addition, other members have been involved with side projects as well. Lake Trout continues to work on new material, and will release one of these new songs in conjunction with the live album. The song is available for free download at www.laketrout.com/whatyouneed
For more information on Lake Trout as well as their various side projects, please visit www.laketrout.com.
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Dates
Lake Trout Live Album Release Shows
December, 19 2008
The Ottobar
2549 N Howard st.
Baltimore MD 21218
www.theottobar.com
December, 20 2008
The Mercury Lounge
217 E. Houston st.
New York, NY 10002
www.mercuryloungenyc.com
Big In Japan Shows
December, 30 2008
The 8x10 Night Club
!0 East Cross st.
Baltimore MD 21230
www.the8x10.com
Red Headed Temper Shows
November, 26 2008
The Ottobar W/ The Expotentials
2549 N Howard st.
Baltimore MD 21218
www.theottobar.com
December ,11th 2008
The Glasslands W/ The Izzys
289 Kent Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
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And now a word from Mike Lowry:
I have been sitting here all day trying to avoid writing this. I have no idea why, I guess I am just rusty.....I keep procrastinating by thinking up little jobs I can do, then rewarding myself with cigarette breaks or constant peeks at CNN to see whats going on with the election, thereby eating up time. For example I will think "hmm, that kitchen counter looks really dirty, i think I better wipe that down....then my eye shifts around our tiny kitchen nook and I see that maybe I can take the garbage out...again...then once I am outside..."Nice job buddy, you just worked really hard, why don't you sit down on the stoop and have a cigarette. Then I come back in and wonder what I can do that will take me outside again so that I can smoke another cigarette. All the while this darn thing isn't getting written. Even now I find myself eyeballing the CNN homepage, staring at polls for the umpteenth time today, knowing that the news probably hasn't changed that drastically in the half an hour it took me to get caught up with this weeks Entourage, but maybe hoping that if I just stare at the screen long enough maybe John McCain and Sarah Palin will just disappear...How cool would that be, I would be known as the guy that just made them disappear thereby saving the world from (at least in my eyes and certainly many others that I know) from certain catastrophe....of course it goes without saying that if I could affect such a change with just my mind I would would probably get drunk with power and take over the world so I would have to remain anonymous. I mean afterall I am not the world domineering type although it would be cool to have a cape and since I would be ruling the world with my mind I could probably pay off all of my wife's student loans and credfit card debt...but i digress........See what I mean about procrastination......Alright so back to the topic at hand. I guess its no secret that Lake Trout has kind of been off of the map for a while.....I can really offer no reason for this except that we wanted to take a break and see what else is going on the world and to just kind of get on with living. There is such a bubble that you exist in while trying to get along in this ridiculous business and after a while you realize, to paraphrase Ferris Bueller (God I hope that doesn't make sound like some out of touch old guy), "Life moves pretty fast and if you don't stop to take a look around once in a while you might miss it"......Well thats what we did.....We all have been very busy however.......Earlier this year Matt and Ed and Myself performed with the Ballet X company in Philadelphia providing music which Matt composed for their Rite to Spring performance.......That was amazing!!! They did use some of the instrumental Lake Trout stuff from yesteryear as well and its amazing watching someone else interpret your music...and interpret the fuck out of it!!! I mean if you had told me ten years ago that while I was sitting on the floor of the studio playing a coffee can with brushes over the song Iris, that later on, a proper ballet compnay would choreograph a whole work around it...I would have peed my pants from laughing so hard...But they did and it was cool......Woody has been building his commercial music empire while working on various side projects with us and some others...... and Matt and Woody have been poring over previously unreleased studio sessions which may result in some future Lake Trout music!....and Matt, James. and myself have been touring with the UK based elctronic act UNKLE for the past 16 or whatever months.....Thats been pretty crazy and that tour (to promote their last release "War Stories") has taken us all over the world in the past year and will finally conclude in a few weeks when we headline the Creamfields festivals in Chile and Argentina........wild......James is actually still in London working on the next UNKLE record and Matt and myself went back over in September to help start writing stuff for it......so thats exciting........I sure miss James though...Baltimore is just a little bit more boring without him, but I will see him soon enough.
ANYWAY.........I keep getting off on these tangents........Lake Trout has decided to dust ourselves off and do some shows around the Christmas holidays!!!!!!Its been along while and we miss playing with each other and just miss playing live so we are doing a show at the Ottobar in Baltimore on the 19th of Dec. and Mercury Lounge in NYC on the 20th of Dec..........We are releasing a live record (for real this time...really...... this is really happening) on a label called "the Biggest Label Ever" and that material comes from stuff that Ed and Woody and our good friend Steve have culled together from past live shows that we recorded and so it should be fun!!!!! We also wanted to say thanks to all of you guys for supporting us over the years. I think to many our hiatus came rather abruptly and we wanted to apologize but we had no more hair left to pull out so we had to take a break and let it grow back...I think we may even have a new song that Woody kind of put together so uh ......hey!.....Also before I go since James will be back from across the pond during that time......Big in Japan is doing a show as well...Dec. 30 th at the 8x10 in baltimore...as always we will be unrehearsed with no songs to speak of and probably more than a little tipsy..so it should be our typical kind of night......Anyway I'm going to go back to my CNN mind control experiments via a bar and a large beer and Hopefully see everyone at these shows..I feel like Ron Howard when the sad day arrived and Arrested Development got cancelled because middle america is full of humorless morons when he said "Please tell everyone you know to watch this show!!!" same goes for all you lot...ok?......bye for now....Mike
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Hello,
We hope everyone is doing well out in cyber-land. Not being big on grandstanding or soapbox sermons, I'll get to the point.
It's all in a new song we've just written ..... it's called......
VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take the 4th of November off and VOTE!!!!!!! Get some acupuncture,
or a HUGE cup of high octane coffee in the morning, go to the polls, commune with your neighbors, bring a book and catch up on that reading you've been putting off, wear a dress, sunglasses and a wig if you'd
like! Just Please get out there and vote! If you can vote early,do that!
We in Baltimore don't have the luxury of early voting but I've heard it's all the rage.
This is your chance..... our chance, to make history. There's so much at stake....
Roe v.
Wade
Iraq
economic regulation
energy independence
education
ethics
health care..........and so much more.
The election isn't over 'til the 5th and everyone actually votes.
And just so you never say we never gave you anything...
here's a new song we recently hatched.
It's called "What You Need"
http://425musicgroup.com/01WhatYouNeed.mp3
Please pass it on to help get out the vote!
Thank you so much for listening to our music and supporting us and giving us a reason to make music.
If any of you are in bands and have a mailing list or just happen to be an incredibly popular guy or lady with 10,000 myspace friends or facebook voyeurs please send a note to encourage your friends and fans to vote. voting is cool man...you want to be cool right??
Thank you.
woody, matt, mike, james and ed
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As many Lake Trout fans know, Matt, Mike and James are now also part of the group Unkle. James co-wrote the most recent record
"End Titles...Stories For Film" and the group has been touring around the world since the release of Unkle's "War Stories" in the summer of 2007. We are now going to post Unkle's News and dates on this site in addition to info on anything else Lake Trout related. The Lake Trout live record is still in the works. Sorry it's taken so long! We've been busy!
UNKLE Live’s last North America tour in October 2007 upon the release of their last effort War Stories in 2007 was a huge success, finding their eight-piece band touring the country including a performance at the Vegoose Music Festival where long time fan and collaborator Lupe Fiasco joined the band on stage. This turn, James Lavelle sets off on his own for a seven-date run of exclusive DJ appearances in Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Toronto, New York City and Los Angeles where fans can expect to hear remixes of UNKLE tracks along with other dance floor favorites. Look for UNKLE Live to return to North America in 2009.
Highlights on End Titles…Stories for Film—which garnered a 4 1/2 out-of-5 star review in REMIX magazine--include the full version of “Trouble In Paradise (Variation On A Theme)” from the hugely popular BMW European ad campaign, along with “Heaven” and “Blade in the Back” that are featured on Spike Jonze’s skate video Fully Flared, as well as being the opening and closing title tracks from Odyssey in Rome, the Alex Grazioli documentary about celebrated director Abel Ferrera for which UNKLE provided the entire soundtrack.
The album also covers collaborations with Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, with whom UNKLE worked on the artwork for War Stories. Other tracks are collaborations with Philip Sheppard who recently scored the movie In The Shadow of the Moon, as well as pieces of music created in their Surrender All studio by James and Pablo themselves. Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Black Mountain, James Petralli (White Denim), Chris Goss (Masters of Reality, Queen of the Stone Age), Joel Cadbury (South), Gavin Clark, Dave Bateman, James Griffith (from UNKLE’s touring band) and Aidan Lavelle also contributed to End Titles...Stories For Film.
www.Unkle.com
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Check out some of these reviews of Balletx's "Right To Spring" which was scored by Matt and played live by Matt, Mike and Ed:
http://phillyist.com/2008/03/28/phillyist_revie_102.php
www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/03/20/balletx
http://www.broadstreetreview.com/article.php?idc=5&ida=859
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March 24, 2008
Hi everyone! While we mix the live album we thought we'd let you in on some of the other happenings in the Lake Trout camp…
:: Philadelphia's Ballet X::
Matt was recently asked to write and arrange music for the latest performance of Philadelphia's Ballet X. The Ballet is named Right To Spring and will show for 5 days (March 26th -March 30th) at The Merriam Theater in downtown Philadelphia. The Music, performed live by Matt, Mike, and Ed will contain Lake Trout's "Iris", "Her", two songs from the upcoming Riot Trail album (Mike, Matt, and James), and Matt's own original instrumentals. Here are the vitals:
March 26-29 At 8:00
March 30 at 2:00
Tickets $25, Students and Seniors $20
The Wilma Theater
Box office 215-546-7824
265 S Broad Street
www.Balletx.org
:: Big In Japan will playing at Bedrock April 6th in Baltimore::
Sunday, April 6th
Bedrock
401 W Baltimore St.
Baltimore MD 21201
www.bedrockbaltimore.com
:: Red Headed Temper::
Red Headed Temper will be playing April 12th at Spike Hill in Brooklyn with The Izzys…
Saturday April 12th
Spike Hill
110 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn NY 11211
www.spikehill.com
www.myspace.com/redheadedtempermusic
:: With Lions::
With Lions is a new project featuring Woody along with Benzos singer Christian Celaya. Check out their Myspace page, which will have new music posted soon: www.myspace.com/withlionsmusic
Please continue to check laketrout.com for updates and free downloads.
LT December 2007 shows announced!
December 2007
Thursday..13th, North Star Bar
2639 Poplar St
Philadelphia PA 19106
215-389-9890
Tickets are $16
www.northstarbar.com
Friday..21st, Ottobar
2549 Howard St.
Baltimore MD 21218
410-662-0069
With Gun Wife Gone and Cocos Palme
Tickets $10 in Advance
$12 at door
www.theottobar.com
Saturday..22nd, Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St
New York NY 10011
between 9th and 10th Ave
212-414-5994
With The Epochs
General Admission Standing Room Only
Concert starts @ 9PM
Doors open @ 7 PM
Tickets $16.00 in advance
$18.00 at door.
www.highlineballroom.com
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September dates with The Flaming Lips!
July Tour Dates with Editors just announced
Lollapalooza after party at Abbey Pub Friday August 4th.
Lake Trout to play"Bleeding Kansas Festival"Saturday August 5th at Burcham Park in Lawrence Kansas with Death Cab For Cutie, Broken Social Scene and more..www.bleedingkansasfestival.com
Check dates section for details
ATTENTION NEW YORK CITY:
Tickets for the show at the Bowery Ballroom are going fast!
Harlem Shakes, Army of Me&Shelby have been added as the opening acts.
Dont be left out on the cold. Purchase your tickets in advanceHere
Thursday April 27th show at the Station 2 in Norfolk was canceled due to venue closing down. Stay tuned for a rescheduled show in Norfolk.
ATTENTION BALTIMORE:
Recher Theatre show confirmed on April 7th with The Oranges Band”
Visit the Online Store and pick up a copy of the Limited Edition UK version of Not Them, You that features a 2nd disk of Live, Ambient Instrumentals that are sure to blow your mind. For those fans that already purchased Not Them, You but are interested in the 2nd disk featured in the UK version stay tuned as there will be chance to purchase this CD by itself soon.
Lake Trout to play Maxwell’s with Calla
WEST COAST UPDATE: Seattle show at the Crocodile Cafe added Friday the 20th.
Solana Beach show at the Belly up changed to Sunday the 29th.
All shows [except Popscene] will be with the Benzos
All show [except Eugene and Silver Lake] will be with Viva K
ATTENTION WEST COAST FANS: LAKE TROUT IS FINALLY COMING YOUR WAY.
See the tour section for a handful of new dates at the end of January.
The World Cafe will be broadcasting‘Live with Lake Trout’session on Wednesday, January 4, 2006. The World Cafe with David Dye can be heard on more than 180 stations nationwide. Fans can find their local station by going to our website: http://worldcafe.org or they can listen online Monday to Friday at 2pm EST or 1pm EST by going to http://www.xpn.org/listen.php
Lake Trout have been invited to perform at the 4th annual Langerado Music Festival in South Florida’s Markham Park on March 11th and 12th. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Dec 9th and can be purchased at www.langerado.com/tickets.html. For more info and complete lineup visit www.langerado.com
Not Them, You in Stores Now!
November 9th - Dont't Miss LT's Official Mercury Lounge After Party at Corners Billiards - 110 East 11th Street [at 4th Ave] with a special DJ set by Matt Pierce [Free Admission]
Lake Trout is confirmed to play a free show at the 2005 WRNR Fall Festival in Annapolis, MD
Please see Tour Dates for more information
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Tour Update:
Pixies / Lake Trout Dates Just Around the Corner!
09/29 Charlottesville, VA - Pavilion {Main support for The Pixies}
09/30 Baltimore, MD–Sonar {Main support for The Pixies}
10/02 Kingston, NY - Broadway Theatre {Main support for The Pixies}
**Don't miss the"Across the Narrows Festival"**
10/01 Staten Island, NY - Richmond Park Stadium {With The Killers, Interpol, NY Dolls, Tegan and Sara, British Sea Power,&Lake Trout}
**“Across The Narrows”- After-Party at Corner Billiards **
Matt Pierce of Lake Trout Will Be Spinning Come Join Matt and the Rest of Lake Trout for Drinks&Pool
Corner Billiards
85 4th Ave. and 11th St.
New York, NY
212.995.1314
