NMR Live! SXSW & 35 Denton.

March 2013 is shaping up to be one of our busiest months for shows! We are having some of our best come back for some great all day showcases. Here are the lineups:

Saturday, March 2nd:
@ NMR, 1329 Hurley Ave. Fort Worth, TX
11pm Year of the Bear
10pm Nervous Curtains
9pm Wirewings

Saturday, March 9th:
@ 911 W. Hickory Denton TX
Stage A
1:00 Eyes Wings & Many Other Things (Dallas)
2:30 The Migrant (Denmark)
4:00 Don Feagin of The Theater Fire (Fort Worth)
5:30 Jacob Metcalf (Dallas)
7:00 Tiger Tooth & Paw (Denton) 
8:30 Skeleton Coast (Fort Worth)

Stage B

1:45 Ghost To Falco (Portland)

3:15 The Angelus (Dallas)

4:45 Clint Niosi (Fort Worth)

6:15 Twigs & Yarn (Austin) 

7:45 Sisson (Austin)

Sunday, March 10th:
@ NMR, 1329 Hurley Ave. Fort Worth, TX

Indoor & outdoor performances by…

1:00 JAKE PALESCHIC of The Longshots / The Patriot {Fort Worth} 
2:00 RALPH WHITE of The Bad Livers / Precious Blood / Rubble / Gulf Coast Playboys {Austin} 
3:00 THE MIGRANT {Denmark} 
4:00 TWIGS & YARN {Austin} 
5:00 LO-FI CHORUS {Fort Worth}
5:30 KIRKLAND JAMES {Fort Worth}
6:00 D.H. PHILLIPS of True Widow {Dallas}
7:00 DON FEAGIN of The Theater Fire {Fort Worth}
8:00 CLINT NIOSI {Fort Worth}
9:00 GREG ASHLEY of Gris Gris / The Mirrors {Oakland / Austin}
10:00 LESLIE SISSON of The Wooden Birds {Austin}

/// ARTIST LINKS ///

JAKE PALESCHIC - www.facebook.com/fwpatriot?filter=3 
RALPH WHITE – www.ralphewhite.com 
D.H. PHILLIPS - www.relapse.com/label/true-widow.html?show=biography#submenu & www.dhphillips.com
LO-FI CHORUS – www.lofichorus.bandcamp.com 
THE MIGRANT - www.themigrant.net 
TWIGS & YARN – www.twigsandyarn.net 
DON FEAGIN - www.theaterfire.com
CLINT NIOSI – www.clintniosi.com 
GREG ASHELY – www.birdmanrecords.com/gregashley/index.html 
LESLIE SISSON – www.lesliesisson.com
KIRKLAND JAMES - www.myspace.com/kirklandjames

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Live In Studio: Ralph White.

Ralph White - Austin Texas based Avant Folk.

One of our foremost instrumentalists and a true hidden American treasure, Ralph White has taken the back roads in his inspired pursuit of the ancient roots of music.  The "folk/noise/avant-whatever genius" (Joe Gross, Austin Statesman) has made many strange travels as an itinerant musician and laborer.  Thus his intimate, nuanced musical language has slowly revealed itself, along a path that meanders from the apple orchards of British Columbia to the villages of Zimbabwe and Namibia, from the lonesome moors of Ireland to Australia, Brittany, Peru, Louisiana and beyond.  There is also the influence of White's hometown of Austin, Texas, a rich musical crossroads in and of itself. 

Listening to Ralph is like letting yourself get carried out to the middle of a swaying ocean on a raft. His music is fluid, the sound of a stream of consciousness, of being inside the music. The man practices tirelessly to hone his sound, and breath that deep; and as you can see in this video, summon the cathartic ghosts of the muse of suffering. It was an honor and a privilege to have Ralph in studio. Our many thanks to Ramtin Nikzad who shot and edited this beautifully. Come and see Ralph this Thursday, September 13th at 7.

Ralph White - See That My Grave is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson)

ralphewhite.com/

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Clint Niosi: For Pleasure and Spite

We here at New Media Recordings are proud to announce our newest and most anticipated album this year: Clint Niosi's For Pleasure and Spite. It was released today digitally and will have hard copies on saturday, in time for record release party at Good Records! We were so honored to be able to work with such amazing people on this recording. Listen to it here or come out to a show near you!

Update: Check out Clint Niosi on KXT with Paul Slavens going track by track! Here.
 

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: : : : : : : NMR Presents : : : : : : :

• The Angelus Weird Weeds Eyes, Wings & Many Other Things   Sons of Hermann Hall - doors @ 8pm - $5 The bands will be performing their new albums in their entirety.

       We will be live audio and video streaming from this site. 
  
  As one of the most original and innovative performance ideas in the area, Dallas based The Angelus, and Eyes Wings & Many Other Things, and Austin based Weird Weeds will be performing their new albums in their entirety on June 20th, at Sons Of Hermann Hall. While none of these albums are “concept records”, they do well to be heard sequentially. This will be the first and likely last time these bands will play some of these songs and The Angelus will be pulling in extra help from Petra Kelly (Spooky Folk, Hares on the Mountain) on violin. The show is put on by New Media Recordings, an up and coming studio and production company. They will be live streaming Audio and Video of the show from their website NewMediaRecordings.com. If you are in N.Y., you can join in on a watching party by way of New Wilderness (http:// newwildernessparty.tumblr.com/) This looks to be a fun and special night.
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  The Angelus - On A Dark and Barren Land
  The Angelus have been stirring hearts and unhinging jaws all over Texas for more than half a decade with a brand of honest- to-God flat out glorious electrified folk music that is as difficult to pin down as it is to forget. The Angelus often leave even the hardest hearted hipsters teary eyed and shaken.
  http://theangelusband.com/album/on-a-dark-barren-land
  
  Weird Weeds - Self Titled
  “A shimmering, soft bed of hazy acoustic guitars, heartfelt vocal harmonies and strangely affecting tunes that may pass by in an instant but linger in the soft air for a good while afterwards.” – foxydigitalis.com 
• http://weirdweeds.bandcamp.com/
  
  Eyes, Wings & Many Other Things - Napalm Beach
  Trip down a spooky wormhole with Dallas collective Eyes, Wings & Many Other Things, an emerging duo from Dallas who deal in some decidedly unchill waves: Fragile strum, dungeon-trapped drones and dizzy, bent Beach House harmonies that can't muster up anything more coherent than "ooh" and "ahh." It's like your favorite '90s Kranky band bound and gagged by Sun Araw.
  http://pourlecorpsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/napalm-beach
  

Sons Of Hermann Hall

3414 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75226

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This Is Our House: London! Little Rock! & Long Beach Island! European Premiere!

'This Is Our House', The heart wrenching documentary by filmaker and producer Ramtin Nikzad, had a busy week.                                      

     First, in Long Island Beach, New Jersey, There was a showing at The Lighthouse International Film Festival. It was shown along side the great film, You Laugh But It's True, by David Paul Meyer. Next, it was time to head south to the Little Rock Film Festival where we were honored to screen next to Jonny Mars' 'America's Parking Lot'. If you're from Texas, and someone you know is a Cowboys fan, you need to watch this film. 

Last but not least, across the pond to the prestigious London International Documentary Film Festival where 'This Is Our House' had it's European Premiere.  Screening next to some of the most interesting and innovative documentaries around the world, this was a great honor as well. below is a synopsis of the film and links to their screenings!

Synopsis: 
In the aftermath of the Iraq war, Abdul Ameer Alwan seeks asylum in the USA. There he experiences overwhelming isolation and anonymity. A renowned painter in his native Iraq, his artwork had been inspired by routine encounters in his neighbourhood. Now, living abroad, he is disconnected from the source of his creativity. Meanwhile, his young daughter Aman, born just weeks before the 2003 invasion, has spent most of her life outside Iraq and retains only the faintest understanding of her country of birth. The film explores a relationship between a father and a daughter through the themes of memory, culture, identity, and displacement. 

At London: 

http://www.lidf.co.uk/event/international-shorts-2-2

At Little Rock: 

http://littlerock.festivalgenius.com/2012/films/thisisourhouse_ramtinnikzad_littlerock2012

At Long Island Beach: 

http://lighthouse.festivalgenius.com/2012/films/thisisourhouse_ramtinnikzad_lighthouse2012#screenings

http://www.thisisourhousemovie.com/

View Ameer's Beautiful and Haunting Work Here: http://ameerart.com/

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FW Weekly: Music Awards Nomination!

New Media Recordings' James Talambas has been nominated for best producer in the Fort Worth Weekly. We are very honored to be in such high company. Please vote for us and other NMR affiliated artists here:
FW Weekly Awards 2012.

If you are not familiar with the FW Weekly publication here is a little about it:
Fort Worth Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper that serves the Greater Fort Worth area (all of Tarrant County and some of Denton County). The newspaper has an approximate circulation of 75,000^[1]. The Fort Worth Weekly is published every Wednesday and features news, editorials, profiles, and reviews of art, books, theatrical productions, food, films, music, and more. With the exception of film, the Weekly's editorial coverage is 100 percent local. The Weekly also publishes the annual Best Of Tarrant County issue in the fall, special advertising sections (including ones devoted to restaurants, holiday shopping, and education), and produces several events, including Thursday Night Live, a free weekly outdoor spring/summer concert series produced in collaboration with Central Market; First Friday on the Green, a free monthly outdoor spring/summer concert series produced in collaboration with Fort Worth South Inc.; the Visionary Awards, $500 cash awards given to three outstanding up-and-coming Fort Worth artists; and the Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards and Music Awards Festival, a free daylong concert featuring nearly 50 bands, all local, performing in several different venues scattered throughout Fort Worth's West 7th Street corridor.'


Thanks to our friends at the Weekly, keep up the good work!

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SXSW: Thanks!

Thanks to everyone for coming out and playing and listening to some music, we had a great turnout and some superb performances! For anyone who did not get a hard copy of the compilation email us at NewMediaRecordings@gmail.com or go by any of your local record stores and pick one up for free! and you can still download the digital tracks on our soundcloud page. Thanks to the FWWeekly and DFW.com for covering the show, and again, thanks to all the wonderful performers that made just some ordinary day where everyone is forced to dress in green and punch you if you don't wear green and all of the beer suddenly turns green and people talk like leprechauns, into a better day where....
Here is some video that different people shot:

courtesy Preston Jones.
and stayed tuned for some live and downloadable tracks!

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