Volgende week vrijdag speelt Rilo Kiley in Paradiso. Tot mijn grote verbazing kwam ik bij het zoeken op FOK! bijzonder weinig tegen over deze band, en ook in
Overzicht Bands & Artiesten kon ik ze niet vinden. Vandaar dus een topic over deze prachtige band.
All Music Guidequote:
Jenny Lewis (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Blake Sennett (guitar, vocals), Pierre de Reeder (bass), and Dave Rock (drums, later replaced by ex-Lassie Foundation member Jason Boesel) formed Rilo Kiley in 1998 in Los Angeles. Three years after its formation, the band released Take Offs and Landings on the Barsuk label. The supporting tour found the band opening for the Breeders, Pedro the Lion, and Superchunk. Rilo Kiley's follow-up, The Execution of All Things appeared on Saddle Creek in fall 2002. The quartet earned major-label distribution (through Warner) for their third album, 2004's More Adventurous.
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Last.fmquote:
Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles-based alternative rock band fronted by Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett. They began their career as an indie rock band on Barsuk Records and moved to Omaha based indie label Saddle Creek for their second album. But come time of their third release, More Adventurous, the band had left the indie label Saddle Creek for Brute/Beaute, a Warner Bros imprint. Rilo Kiley have released three albums, all of which combine country, folk, and pop sensibilities. They have sold nearly 75,000 records in three years and toured the United States repeatedly. Lewis sings lead vocals and shares writing credits with guitarist Sennett. The band also features Pierre De Reeder on bass and Jason Boesel on drums.
2004 saw a great increase in recognition for the band, as Sennett and Boesel released an album with their band The Elected and Lewis sang backup on Ben Gibbard's (Death Cab for Cutie) indie electronic side project The Postal Service. Lewis toured with The Postal Service before heading out on two tours in support of Rilo Kiley's More Adventurous in the summer and fall of 2004. The album spent late 2004 high on Billboard Magazine's Heatseekers Chart, success only furthered by appearances on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The band opened for Bright Eyes on the international leg of Conor Oberst's tour for 2005's I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. In the fall 2005, Rilo Kiley was the opening act for the North American dates of Coldplay's Twisted Logic Tour.
In May of 2005, Lewis announced in an interview that Rilo Kiley had signed with Warner Bros. and that the label was preparing to re-release More Adventurous. The album was re-released later that year.
Lewis released her first solo album in January of 2006, with Leigh and Chandra Watson as Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins. The album, entitled Rabbit Fur Coat, was co-produced by M. Ward and Mike Mogis. Furthermore, The Elected released their second album, Sun, Sun, Sun on the same day as Lewis.
Their fourth LP, Under the Blacklight, will be released on August 20, 2007 in the UK, with a release in the US on the following day.
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Albums2001 - Take offs and landings
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2002 - The execution of all things
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2004 - More adventurous
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2007 - Under the black light (releasedatum 17 augustus 2007)
Websitehttp://www.rilokiley.com/Hier is de single "The moneymaker" van de nieuwe plaat te horen, dus zet je speakers aan.
OptredensVrijdag 24 augustus 2007 - Paradiso, Amsterdam
Wellicht dat bij de meesten van jullie bij het lezen van de Rilo Kiley vraagtekens verschijnen. Wie, wat? De meeste mensen die ik ken hebben nog nooit van de band gehoord. Zelfs toen ik bij de Free Record Shop kaarten ging halen voor het optreden werd ik echt aangekeken alsof ik van een andere planeet kwam.
blue_funk: Hoi, ik wil graag kaartjes voor Rilo Kiley, Paradiso 24 augustus
FRS geit: "Wie zegt u??!"
blue_funk: "Rilo Kiley"
FRS geit: "Is dat een festival?"
blue_funk: "Nee, een band"
FRS geit: "Oh." (FRS geit zoekt in machine) "Ik kan niets vinden. Kunt u het voor me spellen?"
blue_funk:
Misschien kennen jullie de naam wel niet, maar ik ben er bijna zeker van dat jullie minimaal een nummer van de band ergens gehoord hebben. Hun plaatjes worden namelijk vrij vaak in Amerikaanse tv-series/ films gebruikt, bijvoorbeeld "Portions for Foxes" van het album "More Adventurous" in Grey's Anatomy (staat overigens ook op de soundtrack van GA).
Als je ze niet kent, luister er eens naar. Ze zijn zeker de moeite waard!
Gaat er hier trouwens nog iemand naar het optreden volgende week vrijdag?
Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux. ~Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
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