More Midtown Dickens tour dates announced

Midtown Dickens has just released their triumph of a new album, Home, and now the band will hit the road to bring Home to your home. Don't miss a show near you, and stay tuned for even more shows to be announced! You can order the new album here and the full tour schedule is below:

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 #
04-28 New York, NY - Barnard College
05-10 Raleigh, NC - Tir Na Nog
05-11 Charlottesville, VA - Tom Tom Festival *
05-12 Harrisonburg, VA - Clementine
05-18 New Bern, NC - Broad St Social Club
06-01 Columbia, SC - Columbia Museum of Art
06-19 Richmond, VA - The Camel
06-21 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
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 ^

* with The Walkmen, Here We Go Magic, etc
# with Retribution Gospel Choir
~ with The Daredevil Christopher Wright
% with Wooden Wand
^ with Neko Case, Blitzen Trapper, Bowerbirds, Phosphorescent, etc

New Midtown Dickens album out today, new single released

Midtown Dickens' much anticipated new album, Home, is out today on Trekky Records. To celebrate the release, the album's new single "Walk, Don't You Run" is now available from Trekky Records. The song displays an uncanny unity between songwriters Catherine Edgerton and Kym Register, each strumming together and joining their voices as one, ruminating on the virtues of patience and the power of nostalgia.

"Walk, Don't You Run" is the third glimpse into Midtown Dickens' gorgeous meditations on the themes of home (both literal and abstract), family (blood and chosen) and space (within us and about us), following MTV Hive's debut of "Cross My Heart" and NPR Music's debut of "Only Brother".

Home is Midtown Dickens' third album, which is out now in Trekky Records' signature 3-part package, including an LP, CD and digital download. You can order the album now from the Trekky Records Online Store. NPR has already claimed that Home is "the North Carolina band's most nuanced and beautifully produced album yet", and Shuffle Magazine states that "leaps don’t come any bigger or bolder than the one Durham’s Midtown Dickens makes on Home". 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 #
04-28 New York, NY - Barnard College
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 ^

* with The Walkmen, Here We Go Magic, etc
# with Retribution Gospel Choir
~ with The Daredevil Christopher Wright
% with Wooden Wand
^ with Neko Case, Blitzen Trapper, Bowerbirds, Phosphorescent, etc

MP3: Midtown Dickens - Walk, Don't You Run [from the Home LP]

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.


Order now!

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!

New music from Vibrant Green on Amalgam mixtape

Vibrant Green, one of Trekky Records' first bands, hasn't released new music for over 6 years. Over that time, songwriter Stephen Tunnell has been slowly but surely building his canon of brilliant songs. Eventually, Ari Picker of Lost in the Trees (a long-tome devotee of Vibrant Green) convinced Stephen to record some of his new songs. The pair recorded a collection of 7 songs together, including "Rather", which now appears on our Amalgam mixtape. You can now stream and download "Rather" for a "pay-whatever-you-like" price. The mixtape itself comes out on March 6 and features songs from Lost in the Trees, Midtown Dickens, Phil Cook & His Feat, Brice Randall Bickford and many more. The release show is this Friday in Chapel Hill at Nightlight.

KCRW debuts new Lost in the Trees song

KCRW, one of the finest radio stations in the land, debuted Lost in the Trees' newest song today. "Golden Eyelids" is a dreamy track from the band's upcoming A Church That Fits Our Needs LP. The album will be out on March 20 on Trekky Records and Anti- Records, and the band will be traveling all over, bringing their intense and beautiful live show to the masses. See below for a video about the making of the new album, as well as upcoming tour dates, including a stop at Jeff Mangum's All Tomorrow's Parties Festival:




03-09 Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow's Parties
03-12 London, UK - The Lexington
03-16 Austin, TX - Antone's (SXSW)
03-20 La Jolla, CA - The Loft @ UCSD
03-22 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
03-23 San Francisco, 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 - The Slowdown
04-02 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Centre
04-03 Chicago, IL - Schubas
04-04 Evanston, IL - Space
04-05 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center
04-06 Toronto, ON - Drake Hotel
04-07 Montreal, QC - Il Motore
04-09 Burlington, VT - Burlington City Arts Center
04-10 Portland, ME - Space
04-11 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
04-13 Boston, MA - Boston Museum Of Fine Arts
04-14 Washington, DC - The Black Cat
04-20 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle

First song from Amalgam released

Our very first mixtape compilation, Amalgam, will be released in just a couple weeks. To give you a taste, we're releasing a selection from the tape, Brice Randall Bickford's "Working Woman/Lazy Demons". You can now stream and download the song for the cost of "name your own price". Feel free to name your price "zero", no big. The tape will contain selections from almost every Trekky Records artist and be released on a beautiful red cassette tape on March 6, 2012. NC folks should also join us for the release show on March 2, featuring performances by Butterflies, Phil Cook & His Feat, Vibrant Green and a special mystery guest band who you will not want to miss!

NPR makes Midtown Dickens' "Only Brother" Song of the Day

The unfailingly awesome folks at NPR Music have made Midtown Dickens' "Only Brother" their song of the day. Click here to stream the song and read NPR's take on it. Midtown Dickens' Home will be out on April 3, 2012 on Trekky Records. Also, keep an eye out for upcoming tour dates, including the band's release show at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC on April 7, 2012.

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

Lost in the Trees Perform at Housing Works Benefit Show in NYC

This Friday (February 17th) Lost in the Trees will perform at Housing Works in NYC. The show is a benefit for Housing Works, with all of the proceeds from the show going to benefit HW's mission to end the dual crises of AIDS and homelessness in New York City. For more info on Housing Works, please visit their website.

The show will be extremely intimate with very limited tickets. Our friends Daytona (featuring Trekky alum Hunter Simpson) will open the show!

February 17, 2012

Live From Home with Lost in the Trees and Daytona

Housing Works - 126 Crosby St. New York, NY

Doors @ 7:30, Daytona opens

Tickets on sale now

Lost in the Trees Announce Album Release Show at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC

After travels that will take them as far as Jeff Mangum's ATP Festival in Minehead UK, SXSW in Austin Texas, the basement of Portland's Doug Fir, the Drake in Toronto, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and everywhere in between- our very own Lost in the Trees will return home on April 20th to headline a show at the Cat's Cradle- their beloved stomping grounds. The show will be the official album release party for their new record, "A Church That Fits Our Needs". Tickets are on sale now! For more info, visit the Facebook event

If you haven't yet, make sure to check out Lost in the Trees' stunning new video for "Red", the first single from A Church That Fits Our Needs. For more insight into the images and inspiration for the video, head over to NPR's All Songs Considered.

Lost in the Trees are on tour in March and April. Fleet Foxes side-project Poor Moon open most dates.

02-17 New York, NY - Housing Works#

03-09 Minehead, UK - All Tomorrow's Parties^
03-12 London, UK - The Lexington
03-16 Austin, TX - Antone's (SXSW)
03-19 Tucson, AZ - Plush*
03-20 La Jolla, CA - The Loft @ UCSD*
03-22 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo*
03-23 San Francisco, 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 - The Slowdown*
04-02 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center*
04-03 Chicago, IL - Schubas*
04-04 Evanston, IL - Space*
04-05 Columbus, OH - Wexner Center*
04-06 Toronto, ON - Drake Hotel*
04-07 Montreal, QC - Il Motore*
04-09 Burlington, VT - Burlington City Arts Center*
04-10 Portland, ME - Space*
04-11 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge*
04-13 Boston, MA - Boston Museum Of Fine Arts*
04-14 Washington, DC - The Black Cat*

04-20 Carrboro, NC - The Cat's Cradle

#with Daytona

^with Jeff Mangum, The Magnetic Fields, Joanna Newsom, Thurston Moore, Boredoms, Earth, Sun Ra Arkestra, etc

*with Poor Moon

NPR dubuts new Lost in the Trees music video

NPR Music were kind enough to debut the new Lost in the Trees music video for "Red". The video was filmed in North Carolina and features a series of haunting images, some stop-motion animation and of course, Lost in the Trees' thrilling new song. For more insight into the images in the video, visit All Songs Considered.