Joey Sweeney announces his Long Hair release October 29th and upcoming tour dates
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There's been a lot of talk regarding Joey Sweeney's forthcoming full-length record,
Long Hair - to be released OCTOBER 29 by the eclectic
La Société Expéditionnaire
imprint (home and spawning pool of Lewis & Clarke, Judson
Claiborne, Strand of Oaks, Arc In Round) - the first bearing his name
since The Trouble With Sweeney's
Fishtown Briefcase in 2004.
Today, we announce the release of
Long Hair, his debut record for La Société Expéditionnaire, in collaboration with
BITBY Records & Tapes.
Long Hair
is a Laurel Canyon-inflected singer/songwriter record for sure, but
it's also a party of unlikely collaborators: Grammy award-winning
salsa/tropical producer
Aaron 'Luis' Levinson mans the controls, and mindbending rapper/producer
Lushlife (aka Raj Haldar) penned string arrangements for the string trio that appears on the record.
Long Hair
drops next month, as well as some new live dates that will feature both
Joey Sweeney solo and with his 10-piece Long Hair Arkestra, including
Record Release Party October 26th at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, PA
and an appearance at the Mercury Lounge in NYC this Sunday with
Mascott. More live dates are forthcoming.
About Joey Sweeney:
Joey Sweeney has been writing songs and prose since he was a teenager in
the 1980s. Over the years, he has fronted the groups The Barnabys and
The Trouble With Sweeney, as well as recording and performing as a solo
artist. Meanwhile, he's also written for a wide array of publications,
including Salon.com, Philadelphia Weekly, the Philadelphia Inquirer and
his daily perch, Philebrity.com, the cityblog he established in 2004
after a decade-long run as a rock critic.
His songs and records have received widespread critical acclaim over the
years; of his last record with The Trouble With Sweeney,
Fishtown Briefcase, Pitchfork said:
"[Sweeney] mixes autobiography and fiction against the group's
70s-inflected indie pop, resourceful- and unabashed- enough to digress
into an E Street interlude or an AM-rock guitar coda." - Pitchfork.com
He's also garnered curse and praise as a writer of prose, having won the "AAN Award for Music Criticism" and appeared in
Best Music Writing 2002.
From 2004 through 2010, Sweeney mostly shied from performing and
recording, focusing instead on his role as Publisher & Editor of the
website Philebrity.com. In 2011, however, Sweeney stepped back into his
old role of singer/songwriter, this time fronting the rock band Arctic
Splash.
Joey Sweeney Your Life Is Calling compiles the best of everything before the Splash.
In early 2013, Sweeney went on to record
Long Hair; he is also currently working on a novel and other prose projects.
Joey Sweeney tour dates:
Sun. Sept. 22 - New York City, NY @ Mercury Lounge w/ Mascott
Wed. Sept. 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Khyber Pass w/ Needle Points
Thu. Oct. 10 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Grand Victory w/ comedian Doogie Horner
Sat. Oct. 26 - *Record Release Show* Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
Joey Sweeney online:
http://joeysweeney.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/veryrealjoeysweeney
https://soundcloud.com/joeysweeney
http://la-soc.com/joeysweeney.html
