The Ladybug Transistor
Spectrum (featuring Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3)
The Instruments
Saturday, January 26th 2008 at The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street New York NY
Advance tickets available now here
Ladybug Transistor @ The Knitting Factory!
January 25, 2008 – 6:06 pm
Always on the Telephone Video
October 30, 2007 – 5:46 pm
Want to see those hot lips in action?! Watch the new Ladybug Transistor video for “Always on the Telephone” below!
The Hair, The Baby & the Bands!
October 18, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Imperial Teen wake up those still hungover from Tuesday night’s fun!
Luke “the baby,” at his first rock show!
(CONTINUED: Click permalink below for more photos of CMJ fun!
Pat from KVCU – clearly not “the hair” Imperial Teen were talking about!
Bon Iver at the Brooklyn Vegan party – doesn’t that drummer look familiar??
Lindsey, Julia & Kyle at Union Hall after the Ladybug Transistor played.
The Rosebuds!!
Mega dance Party at Union Hall!
Mind Whip Tour rocks the Duke Coffeehouse!
October 2, 2007 – 4:13 pm
The Ladybug Transistor along with Still Flyin’ and The Lucksmiths invaded the Duke Coffeehouse last night with keg stands, mad dance moves, and at least two saxophones! Only a couple of chances left to experience “the whip”!
Hump Day Radio Goodies!
August 8, 2007 – 1:50 pm
The Ladybug Transistor are on the West Coast and will be stopping by to visit our friends at KEXP in Seattle at 11 am PST / 2pm EST today! Listen live here. If you miss it, check back for the streaming archive.
If that isn’t enough to dispel your mid-week desperation, check out M. Ward’s recent performance & interview with Rhonda Garner at Sugar Hill Studios for KPFT Houston’s The Radio Sessions at Sugar Hill. You can download the MP3′s: Part 1 and Part 2.
Enjoy!
Christina
Tales from the Road . . .
June 6, 2007 – 4:18 pm
With so many bands on tour, it is nice to get an occasional update about crowd size, celebrity sightings, drunken antics, etc. The Broken West are excellent at sending their reports that we post here, but we thought a little blog collection would be fun “hump day” reading for you! Enjoy!
The Clientele: Alasdair, Mark, & Mel.
The Rosebuds
Portastatic
And as a bonus – The Ladybug Transistor on Daytrotter
Feel free to post your own show reviews & gossip! We love it! Full list of Merge Tour Dates here!
MERGE – Best Of 2006 – The Lists (entry 12)
January 9, 2007 – 8:25 pm
SAN FAYDL (Ladybug Transistor)
Hmmm, so last year I sent you guys something, and it actually APPEARED (!) on your website…. YIKES! So here I go again, pushing my luck. As per usual, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with top 10 albums, films etc. (My Top 10 albums have been
roughly the same since 1967…. :0). Hope you like it. :) Love & miss you guys, San in Swizzy. XOXO
TOP 10 REASONS TO REMAIN A STRUGGLING MUSICIAN
10 You get plenty of healthy excercise, carrying gear up and down horribly steep steps, to trains, busses and venues without elevators.
9 You face daily the wonderful challenge of trying to explain to your family and friends, the joys of playing music for less than the minimum wage.
8 You end up posessing a deeper sense of appreciation in simple things, that most people take for granted…. such as food.
7 When you do finally get that job in your local suburban music store, it’s actually a step up.
6 You get to hear and see in person, so many trendy young bands passing you by on their way to the top.
5 You will never feel the unbearable pressure to kill yourself, because you’re on your way down.
4 At least you’re not a struggling “Slam Poet”.
3 You are happy and secure in the knowledge that your love life will always be new and exciting, because absolutely no one is stupid enough to stay in a long term relationship with you.
2 You have “cred” by default.
1 Because successful musicians are such GOD AWFUL BORES!!!
MERGE – Best Of 2006 – The Lists (entry 7)
January 2, 2007 – 4:41 pm
JULIA RYDHOLM (Essex Green/Ladybug Transistor)
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat (and live in Sweden!)
Kelley Stoltz – Below the Branches
Yo La Tengo – I’m Not Afraid of You, And I Will Beat Your Ass
Band of Horses – “The Funeral” (single)
Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
Phoenix – “Long Distance Call” (single)
Jackie DeShannon – Laurel Canyon (reissue)
The Decemberists- ‘O Valencia!’ (single)
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Justin Timberlake
Da’ Bears
Merge @ CMJ wrap-up!
November 13, 2006 – 3:40 pm
Photo by Doron Gild
Ahh, the post-CMJ sickness. It comes like clockwork. Now that I’ve been given a week to recover, let me tell you how awesome it was to see 5 of the Merge bands rock New York City! The Broken West burst onto the scene via CMJ’s Station of the Year,KEXP!
Thursday was College Day at Lincoln Center, where CMJ set up panels for all the music directors and handed out awards to the best of the biz – and yours truly was given one of the highest honors, Sexiest Phone Voice! Don’t ask me how I did it, but apparently I’m not allowed to send emails anymore.
Friday night at the Knitting Factory was definitely the highlight of the trip! The Broken West, Portastatic, White Whale, and Richard Buckner all represented in usual Merge fashion by blowing everyone away! It was an early night, which was good, since Saturday was full of Brooklyn fun.
The team at Sound Fix Records welcomed the Ladybug Transistor, Portastatic, and White Whale for a packed set of in-store performances! It was a relaxing ending to our CMJ trip, and hopefully some of you were there with us!
Oh CMJ, I’ll never forget you.
Lindsey K.
- Arcade Fire join Foo Fighters as Mick Jagger’s band for Saturday Night Live season finale
- M. Ward visits WNYC and The Late Show with David Letterman
- Merge partners with the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC
- New Superchunk 7-inch “This Summer” b/w “Cruel Summer” in June
- The Magnetic Fields premiere video for “Quick!”
- Redd Kross sign to Merge!
- Crooked Fingers releases acoustic version of Breaks in the Armor
- Hospitality visits NPR’s “Tiny Desk”
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