Press, Great Bands and Film

It's a nice sunny day here in San Jose California and the folks at Coffee Society are playing Blonde Redhead. Support from the local press has been great in most every town we have played. Thank you: Seattle Weekly, Portland Mercury (Seattle's Levator is the unlikely trio of guitar, drums, and sax, but they emit a florid, encompassing sound that is rich with shadow and detail. Guitarist Sky Lynn is a vocalist of surprising range, and on the band's new full-length, The Biggest Waves Come at Night, she weaves both wordless chorales and hard-rock vocals with equal skill. And don't be put off by the presence of Nate Henry's sax: This isn't Huey Lewis and the News or Men at Work. Henry's drawn-out, haunting lines aim for drama, mood, and mystery rather than rooty-toot gas piping. Together, the trio patiently creates a stormy, lush backdrop in which songs rise up slowly, then heavily crash down like waves hitting sand. NL Levator also performs tonight at 6 pm at Music Millennium (3158 E Burnside), Eugene Weekly, Hope Mountain Radio (http://www.takilmafm.com/), northcoastjournal in Eureka, San Francisco Weekly and the San Jose Metro for writing up our Street Light Records show and Humboldt's New Rock! KSLG 94.1 FM for broadcast love.

I'd like to share some of the great bands we had the pleasure of playing with this week!
http://www.myspace.com/secrethighways
http://www.myspace.com/theswallows
http://www.myspace.com/jongarciaportland - Live Harp! very nice Raelyn.
http://www.myspace.com/sniderland - Testface
http://www.myspace.com/origamighosts - Thanks for the love fellas!
http://www.myspace.com/heyeleanor - Amazing Aunty Mo's set!
http://www.myspace.com/aforeigncinema

Check out a film I put together befor we left for the road: Bruises, Biggest Waves Come At Night