Lost in the Trees featured on All Things Considered

If you were tuned into NPR this weekend, you might have heard Ari Picker of Lost in the Trees on All Things Considered. Ari talks about his new album A Church That Fits Our Needs, the death of his mother and the risk of getting to personal. You can listen to the piece on NPR's website now. Lost in the Trees' new album is out now and you can order it from the Trekky Records Online Store as well as other places music is sold!

Lost in the Trees' new album out today!

Happy release day to Lost in the Trees, whose beautiful album A Church That Fits Our Needs is out today on Trekky and Anti- Records. The New York Times has called it "a stirring blend of modest rusticity and urbane ambition", while NPR's Bob Boilen described it as "the sound of a band taking tragedy and coming to terms with it, finding beauty in a life too short and weaving bittersweet melody out of melancholy." We agree whole-heartedly, and can't wait to share the experience with you. You can now order the album from the Trekky Records Online Store, in both LP and CD versions.


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Stream new Lost in the Trees album at NPR First Listen

The wait is over! Today NPR’s First Listen premiered the highly anticipated new Lost in the Trees album A Church That Fits Our Needs. The album will be in stores March 20th via Anti- and Trekky Records.

A Church That Fits Our Needs is an ambitious work inspired by loss and transformation. In the summer of 2009, Ari Picker lost his mother when she took her own life. Picker has reconstructed the event into an evocative and moving musical celebration. Far from being a somber affair, the classically trained composer has utilized rhythm as its own emotional language, creating aggressive and engaging pieces filled with darkness and redemption. To stream this exhilarating new record in its entirety visit NPR First Listen now.

Lost in the Trees kicked off their international touring with a performance at the Jeff Mangum curated All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival on March 11th, followed by a run of appearances at South By Southwest this week in Austin, and then a full North American tour with Fleet Foxes members Christian Wargo’s and Casey Wescott’s new project Poor Moon in tow.

SXSW Schedule:
03-14 KUT Event @ Four Seasons, 7:00AM
03-15 ADA/WMG Day Party @ La Zona Rosa, 2:10PM
03-15 Big Star's Third "LIVE" @ Paramount Theater, 8:30PM
03-16 Under The Radar Party, 12:30PM
03-16 Play Network Day Party @ Speakeasy, 3:30PM
03-16 Billions Corporation Official SXSW showcase @ Antone's, 1 AM (Friday Night)

North American Tour Dates:
03-20 San Diego, CA - The Loft
03-22 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
03-23 Oakland, CA - Bottom of the Hill
03-24 Arcata, CA - Arcata Playhouse
03-25 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
03-27 Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
03-28 Boise, ID -Neurolux
03-29 Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room
03-30 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
03-31 Omaha, NE - Slowdown
04-02 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center
04-03 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern
04-04 Evanston, IL - Space
04-05 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
04-09 Burlington, VT - Burlington City Arts Center
04-10 Portland, ME - Space Gallery
04-11 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
04-13 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts
04-14 Washington, DC - Black Cat
04-20 Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle

MTV debuts new Midtown Dickens song, US tour announced

MTV Hive debuted a new song from Midtown Dickens' Home today. "Cross My Heart" is one of the darkest passages on Home, beginning with an ominous drone and an anxious finger-picked guitar and building into a tense wave of synths and bowed cymbals before breaking into a hopeful campfire sing-a-long. Home will be out on April 3, 2012 in Trekky Records' signature 3-part package, including an LP, CD and digital download. The band has also announced a US tour in support of home, including shows with Retribution Gospel Choir, Wooden Wand, and a stop at Portland's celebrated Pickathon Festival. Dates below:

04-07 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *
04-12 Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle
04-13 Greensboro, NC - The Green Bean
04-19 Wilmington, NC - The Satellite
04-21 Pittsboro, NC - Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival
04-26 Washington DC - IOTA
04-27 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool #
05-11 Charlottesville, VA - Tom Tom Festival
05-12 Harrisonburg, VA - Clementine
05-19 New Bern, NC - Broad St Social Club
06-01 Columbia, SC - Columbia Museum of Art
06-24 Ithaca, NY - Lot 10
06-25 Thomas, WV - Purple Fiddle
06-30 Minneapolis, MN - 1st Ave 7th St Entry
07-01 Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club ~
07-02 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop
07-03 Lexington, KY - Al's Bar %
07-05 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light
08-03 Portland, OR - Pickathon ^

* Album release w/ Kairaba
# with Retribution Gospel Choir
~ with The Daredevil Christopher Wright
% with Wooden Wand
^ with Neko Case, Blitzen Trapper, Bowerbirds, Phosphorescent, etc

MP3: Midtown Dickens - Only Brother [from the Home LP]

Video: Vibrant Green - "Hunny Bunny" @ Nightlight

Vibrant Green made a rare appearance at our Amalgam mixtape release show last Friday. Here's footage of them performing the unreleased "Hunny Bunny". Stephen Tunnell's backing band featured Emma Nadeau of Lost in the Trees, Yan Westerlund of Bowerbirds and Joe Norkus of Embarrassing Fruits.

Amalgam mixtape out now!

Introducing: Trekky Records. These are our friends, our sisters and brothers, our collaborators and advisers. This is our future as well as our past. These songs are an amalgamation of everything we've worked on for nearly 10 years, supporting each other as artists and picking up new friends along the way. Like the mixtapes you've received from friends and kindred spirits in the past, we hope Amalgam will introduce you to some new music that may come to shape your life, as it has shaped ours.

With contributions from Lost in the Trees, Midtown Dickens, Phil Cook & His Feat, Brice Randall Bickford, Butterflies, Vibrant Green and more, the mixtape features some our favorite songs from our past releases as well as brand new and unreleased gems. Amalgam is limited edition cassette tape that includes a digital download and is now available in the Trekky Records Online Store, as well as NC records stores. You can also download the whole mixtape for the price of your choosing ($0.00 is fine, we all gotta eat!) at Bandcamp. Enjoy!