EVER RECORDS are proud to announce that they will be attending South by South West and celebrating the fact with a showcase on Wednesday 14th March that will render the rest of the week an utter anticlimax (except for any events that follow that continue to involve our artists, natch). Never ones for understatement, EVER RECORDS will blow registrants away with music from CORTNEY TIDWELL, CYANN & BEN and HOWIE BECK at THE ALE HOUSE from 11pm until curfew. CORTNEY TIDWELL and CYANN & BEN will also be performing at various other locations during the course of the week.
EVER RECORDS – recently described by influential website Boomkat as “quickly becoming synonymous with high quality alternative pop music… a label to watch very closely indeed” – has established itself as a home for highly individual but wonderfully addictive music. Alongside the artists showcasing at SxSW, the label is also home to LEE HAZLEWOOD (North America, Japan & Australia), WHEAT (world excluding the USA) and ADJÁGAS (world excluding the USA) with further signings to be announced imminently.
EVER RECORDS SxSW SHOWCASE:
WEDNESDAY MARCH 14th 2007
THE ALE HOUSE, 310 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701
11pm/2300 Howie Beck
12am / 0000 Cortney Tidwell
1am / 0100 Cyann & Ben
In addition to our official showcase, Ever artists will be taking part on other events as follow:
WEDNESDAY MARCH 14TH 2007
SESAC MUSIC DAY STAGE CAFÉ, AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER, UPPER LEVEL, BALLROOM G
5pm Cyann & Ben
FRIDAY MARCH 16TH
END OF AN EAR, 2209 SOUTH 1ST, AUSTIN, TX 78704
4pm Cyann & Ben
SATURDAY MARCH 17th
CHEAPO DISCS, 914 NORTH LAMAR BOULEVARD, AUSTIN, TX 78703
5pm Cortney Tidwell
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PARTICIPATING EVER RECORDS ARTISTS
CORTNEY TIDWELL’s debut full length DONT LET STARS KEEP US TANGLED UP was released in the summer of 2006 and in North America in February 2007. It’s an album in love with dynamics and harmonies, full of a feminine grace throughout which TIDWELL’s spectacular vocals swoop and soar. Comparisons have ranged from The Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser to Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, Sinead O’Connor to Bjork. The Sunday Times rated her album as one of their Top Ten of 2007.
“Ms. Tidwell follows the idea of pop music as a slow, unfolding, abstract dream- the kind of thing Mazzy Star used to do well, but it’s a dream rooted in an actual place. Its layered vocal harmonies make it more recognizably American and Southern…but there’s extreme beauty in parts of it.” The New York Times
CYANN & BEN’s first album for Ever Records, SWEET BELIEFS, is an epic and yet intimate album that gives the space rock template a Gallic makeover by adding a much needed romantic grandeur. Our French heroes portray a Paris that is far from the one you see in Amelie: it’s dirty, dark and stressful as much as beautiful and SWEET BELIEFS, with its multi-layered and ambitious sweep, sounds as unsettling as it is irresistible.
“Sweet Beliefs possesses a sweeping beauty, placing Cyann & Ben squarely in a lineage that stretches back through Stereolab and Pink Floyd.” Pitchfork
HOWIE BECK released his third album at the start of 2006. It features guest appearances from Feist, Ed Harcourt and Matt Caws from Nada Surf, with whom HOWIE toured in late 2005. Recent touring (including Scandinavian shows with Josh Rouse) has helped spread the word about what Time Out London described as “an emotionally articulate, beautifully plangent pop affair”. HOWIE is currently producing the new Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene) album and working on a new album for Ever.
"Most remarkable on Howie Beck’s album, however, is the enchanting anthology of melodies that accompany these emotionally devastating stories... (an) inspired and cathartic album." Nick Kent, Liberation
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