Canned Acoustica Turns One!
Canned Acoustica Five
December 22, 2011
Warehouse Live’s Green Room
Doors 7pm

Benefits The Houston Food Bank
http://www.houstonfoodbank.org/

Admission: 4 Cans of Food
Most Needed Items:
http://www.houstonfoodbank.org/donate_food.aspx

Performers:
The Last Place You Look
The Nice Guys
The Suffers
Shellee Coley
Khruangbin
Kelsey Lee Bland

Canned Acoustica was the winner of the 2011 Houston Press Best Of “Best Concert Series”

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Art by Jason McElweenie http://www.canerican.com/

Canned Acoustica Numero Cuatro
Friday, August 26th
7pm
Warehouse Live’s Green Room
Houston School Supply Drive

Performances by:
Los Skarnales
Literary Greats
Springfield Riots
Venomous Maximus
Nick Gaitan
Frank Freeman
Screwtape
Brandon West and The Black Hats

Canned Acoustica loves Houston music and helping our community. We invite the best musical acts in town to perform in our concert series and challenge them to rethink, rearrange, and deliver a unique performance of their songs using only acoustic instruments. With no electric frills and thrills to hide behind, the artists have only their skill as songwriters and their talent and ability as performers to deliver a great and unique performance. All proceeds from the concert support and raise awareness of a local charity or cause.

Canned Acoustica Numero Cuatro will benefit a local school is dire need of some of the most basic school supplies. To attend CA#4, simply bring any three of the following school supplies:

Loose leaf notebook paper (>80 sheets)
Spiral Notebooks: 70-page, single subject
Pencils (1 pckg >24 count)
Kleenex
Markers: fine point and regular (>2)
Multi-colored construction paper (>30 sheets)

To find out more:

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Art by Jason McElweenie http://www.canerican.com/

SET TIMES: TBA

                                   Photo by Anthony Rathbun

Recording for the project began just over a year ago as a follow-up to his début EP, A Fine Time. Tracking is now more than half complete, and we hope to finish the remaining songs before the end of the year. This project was approached in a very different way from his first, which was entirely created and performed by Chase and Producer Derek Dunivan. Since the release of A Fine Time, Chase put together a band to do live performances of those songs, as well as many new ones. For VAUdeVILLE, Chase’s newly formed band, Robert Ellis on Drums, Geoffrey Muller on Bass, Corey Power on Guitar, and Jeremy Nuncio on Keys, all worked together with Chase to write and arrange their own parts.

I engineered the first six songs with the full band performing live at SugarHill Recording Studios over three different sessions, all tracked to analog tape before being dumped into Pro Tools. Chase and I then took the basic tracks (Drums, bass, electric guitars, and piano) to Whoopy Cat Studios and my home studio, Château de Rosewood, to overdub other instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, musical saw (Muller), keyboards (Nuncio), and vocals (Hamblin, Power, and myself).

After overdubs for “Beautiful Things” and “Round and Round” were completed, we mixed both tracks at Château de Rosewood, then sent them to The Lodge in Manhattan where they were mastered by Joe Laporta. I’m very proud of the work, and hope you enjoy the music as much as I do!

Look for an article and photo spread with Chase Hamblin in the upcoming issue (September 2011) of 002 Magazine and for the release of VAUdeVILLE towards the end/start of 2011/2012.

Cheers!
-Josh

The picture to the right is from my recent performance with Chase Hamblin at The Living Room in New York City. I joined Chase for his summer tour on percussion and vocals.

Canned Acoustica loves Houston music.

We believe we have some of the best and most inspiring artists in todays dense entertainment landscape. We also feel fortunate that we are able to lend a helping hand to those in need. Canned Acoustica is a concert series that invites the best acts of Houston to perform an intimate show that supports and creates awareness of a local charity.

Typical performances from these acts feature some or all electronic elements, but for twenty-five minutes they are challenged to perform, rearrange, and deliver a unique performance using only acoustic instruments: No Electronics Allowed! With no electric frills and thrills to hide behind, the artists have only their skill as song writers and their talents and abilities as performers to deliver a great and unique performance.

Please join us at Warehouse Live this Thursday, May 26th to support the Help Japan – Houston organization, and to experience Canned Acoustica for yourself.

Performances by:
Two Star Symphony featuring Fat Tony
Hilary Sloan
The Manichean
Jeff Crowder (Deep Ella)
Holy Fiction
The Handshake
Tax The Wolf
Alicia Gianni

Canned Acoustica has teamed up with the Help Japan-Houston organization for this edition. Find out more here: http://helpjapan-houston.org/ Your $5 donation will not only be directed to The Japanese Red Cross Society, but it will also enter you in a drawing to win tickets to the 2011 Free Press Summerfest to be held June 4th-5th at Eleanor Tinsley Park.

Find out more about FPSF: http://www.freepresssummerfest.com/

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Art by Jason McElweenie

Join us at Warehouse Live on Thursday, March 3rd for the second installment of Canned Acoustica.

Canned Acoustica is a recurring musical event that spotlights local musicians in a very unique light. These performances are stripped down, acoustic and mind-blowing. Come out and see your favorite local musicians execute unique, one-of-a-kind performances while helping a great cause.

This concert features The Tontons, Roky Moon, Come See My Dead Person, Southern Backtones, Finnegan, Lee Alexander, Young Girls, Poor Pilate, and Erin Rodgers. Donate two canned or non perishable food items to The Houston Food Bank for admission.

The concert series will be audio and video recorded, and silence is expected of those who attend. Check out videos from Canned Acoustica I at the Canned Acoustica YouTube page, follow on Twitter, and please RSVP at the Facebook Event page.

Food trucks will be on site serving throughout the night.

The following is a list of food items most needed by the programs served by the Houston Food Bank.
• Protein items
Canned tuna or chicken, packed in water Canned stews and pasta/meat, easy on salt and fat
• Peanut butter
• Canned fruits in light syrup, natural applesauce
• 100% juice cans or boxes
• Canned vegetables, tomatoes, tomato sauce
• Soups with meat and/or beans, meal-in-a-can, easy on salt and fat
• Cereals and cereal bars, easy on sugar and fat
• Pasta, spaghetti, macaroni, noodles
• Packages of dry beans

For the safety of those we serve, the Houston Food Bank is unable to accept:
• Open packages
• Homemade food items
• Perishable foods
• Baby food
• Items with “expired” dates

For more information, call the Houston Food Bank’s Department of Nutrition Services: 713-532-3663. Thank you for helping the Food Bank help our community.

The independent film Honky Tonk Blood premieres February 24, 2011 at Landmark River Oaks Theater. First viewing at 9:30 PM, second viewing at 11:30 PM.

From the Honky Tonk Blood Facebook page:

“Honky Tonk Blood is an independent horror film. 5 years in the making and starring a veritable who’s who of the Houston music scene.
The concept began when Hank Schyma, frontman of the incredibly popular indie rock band Southern Backtones pooled resources with recording artists John Evans and Johnny Falstaff to create a new kind of content vehicle for their music.
Working in-between gigs, heavy touring schedules, recording sessions and storm chasing, Schyma, Falstaff and Evans managed to bring together myriad loose ends to create this chiling, tounge-in-cheek, indie music slasher pic.
Honky Tonk Blood is solid entertainment and a tribute to the city and the music scene that gave it life… and death.”

Josh Applebee is credited for recording audio and acting in a scene as a recording engineer.

The Honky Tonk Blood Soundtrack is now available on Amazon.com and features music by Johnny Falstaff, John Evans, Southern Backtones, Sideshow Tramps, and Two Star Symphony.

Please RSVP to the Honky Tonk Blood Facebook Event page.
Honk Tonk Blood Website
Facebook Page for Honk Tonk Blood Movie
Buy Advance Tickets Here

Chase Hamblin‘s first EP “A Fine Time” will be rereleased by SteadyBoy Records on February 15th, 2011.

Chase will perform with Al Staehely and Mitch Jacobs at Jax Neighborhood Cafe in Austin on February 18th and The Continental Club in Houston on February 19th to celebrate the release of albums by all three SteadyBoy Records artists.

“Infectious pop songs, lavish Beatlesque production, psychedelic imagery, and a sweet, soaring voice to pull them all together. Rufus Wainwright? Jeff Buckley? Beck? Houston’s Chase Hamblin brings the passion of Buckley and Beck along with the lush sound and impressionistic imagery of Wainwright, but he’s also as jangly and hip as the Small Faces grooving in Itchycoo Park. Put another way, he rocks. ‘We’re Gonna Make It’ is a rock and roll nugget of pure radio-friendly sunshine; ‘Never Let You Go’ an urgent blast of power pop; ‘Bye Bye’ a swirling Sgt. Pepper tour de force.

The sixties are alive and well in Hamblin’s indie pop world, but so is the Texas singer/songwriter music tradition. Chase Hamblin: remember the name, remember the sound, remember the songs. It’s all too beautiful.” - Rush Evan, SteadyBoy Records

A Fine Time was produced by Derek Dunivan and recorded and mixed by Josh Applebe at SugarHill Recording Studios (record) and Château de Marshall (mix) in Houston, TX.

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SteadyBoy Records
Facebook
Myspace
Reverbnation

Andy McWilliams second solo album “Jawboxer” has been released by Island Def Jam Digital Distribution and is now available at a number of online retailers, including iTunes and Amazon.com.

Jawboxer was mastered by Josh Applebe at Château de Marshall in Houston, TX.

Amazon
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Reverbnation

Johnny Falstaff’s latest release, Live in Köln Germany, is now available for purchase at CD Baby and local record stores.

Johnny Falstaff recorded Live in Köln Germany during his summer 2010 European tour, No Bar Too far, No Hall Too Small. The tracks were mixed and mastered late summer by Josh Applebee at Château de Rosewood in Houston, TX.