Thursday, Sep. 8 @ 11 pm:
The Love Language – The Lincoln Theatre

Friday, Sep. 9 @ 12:30 am (Saturday morning):
Hospitality – The Union

Saturday, Sep. 10 @ 6:45 pm:
Superchunk – City Plaza w/ The Flaming Lips and Dreamers of the Ghetto [tickets]

Saturday, Sep. 10 @ 12:30 am (Sunday morning):
Times New Viking – The Union

Saturday, Sep. 10 @ 12:30 am (Sunday morning):
KORT (Kurt Wagner of Lambchop and Cortney Tidwell) – Kings Barcade

In addition, there will be a few FREE Merge-related daytime activities:

Friday, Sep. 9, 2-4 pm: Foundation will host a Wild Flag listening party. Come by for great music, drink specials, and door prizes.

Friday, Sep. 9, 3-5 pm: Stuart McLamb of The Love Language will participate in an artist-and-author discussion panel called “Simple Words: The Power of Narrative Songs” at the Raleigh City Museum. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

Saturday, Sep. 10, 11 am-5:30 pm: Hopscotch presents The Rosebuds & Friends, a block party outside the Lincoln Theatre. The seven-band lineup concludes with a performance by The Rosebuds at 4 pm. Food will be provided by Ashley Christensen and AC Restaurants, the proceeds from which will benefit the Frankie Lemmon Foundation.

And finally, SHOPscotch, a temporary pop-up store, will be open in Raleigh’s historic City Market every day during Hopscotch and on Sunday the 11th. This is the place to get Merge releases as well as records, t-shirts, and other merchandise from some of the festival’s participating bands. Business hours and more details can be found here.

Tomorrow, The Rosebuds’ new album Loud Planes Fly Low will be available on CD, LP and digital download at all of your favorite record stores and digital outlets.

To celebrate, The Rosebuds will be performing live at Schoolkids Records in Raleigh, NC tomorrow June 7 at 6PM. Don’t worry if you don’t live in the Triangle, though, because The Rosebuds will begin a massive tour in support of Loud Planes Fly Low on Sunday, June 10 in Wilmington, NC and will be on the road until August 10!

Stream Loud Planes Fly Low in its entirety at Spin.com and pre-order your copy on CD or LP now in the Merge store. Also, read this great conversation with Kelly at InterviewMagazine.com.

The Rosebuds on tour:
# – w/ Bon Iver
Jun 07 Raleigh, NC Schoolkids Free in-store @ 6PM!
Jun 10 Wilmington, NC Brooklyn Arts Center
Jun 11 Raleigh, NC King’s Barcade
Jun 15 Asheville, NC Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
Jun 16 Atlanta, GA The Earl
Jun 17 Oxford, MS Proud Larry’s
Jun 18 Birmingham, AL Bottletree
Jun 19 Little Rock, AR Stickyz Chicken Shack
Jun 21 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
Jun 23 Dallas, TX Club DaDa
Jun 24 Austin, TX The Parish
Jun 25 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s Downstairs
Jun 28 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Brewing Company
Jun 29 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
Jun 30 San Diego, CA The Casbah
July 01 Los Angeles, CA The Satellite
July 02 Visalia, CA Cellar Door
July 05 Santa Barbara, CA SOHO Music Club
July 06 San Francisco, CA The Independent
July 08 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
July 09 Seattle, WA The Tractor Tavern
July 10 Bellingham, WA The Shakedown
July 12 Vancouver, BC Media Club
July 14 Boise, ID The Neurolux
July 15 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
July 16 Denver, CO Hi-Diver
July 19 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
July 20 Eau Claire, WI House of Rock
July 21 Madison, WI UW Union Terrace
July 22 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater #
July 23 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater #
July 24 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre #
July 25 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre #
July 27 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium #
July 28 Atlanta, GA Cobb Energy PAC #
July 29 Raleigh, NC Raleigh Amphitheater #
July 30 Richmond, VA The National #
Aug 01 Washington, DC 9:30 Club #
Aug 03 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre #
Aug 05 Boston, MA House of Blues #
Aug 06 Holyoke, MA Mountain Park #
Aug 08 Toronto, ON The Sound Academy #
Aug 09 New York, NY United Palace Theatre #
Aug 10 Brooklyn, NY Celebrate Brooklyn! #

After The Rosebuds released Life Like, their fourth album for Merge Records, the marriage that inspired the band ended. Ivan and Kelly were done, and The Rosebuds—Merge’s buoyant pop-rock couple who’d youthfully named their first album The Rosebuds Make Out—were in limbo.

But Loud Planes Fly Low, The Rosebuds’ fifth and most inventive album to date, is a sad-eyed and bright new start for Kelly and Ivan, beautifully born of the struggle to define their relationship as bandmates—and more importantly, friends—outside of the context of marriage. It wasn’t easy. Written and rewritten, recorded and re-recorded in fits and starts, Loud Planes Fly Low allowed Kelly and Ivan to have the very conversations about their relationship that they’d long avoided.

Despite the hard times now behind them, for The Rosebuds, the present is what’s most remarkable: These ten tunes are not only some of The Rosebuds’ riskiest and most rewarding to date, but they also reveal a band eager to push their own limits, a couple of musicians who have come to cope with their complicated story for this blessed moment of restart.

Proudly mature, genuinely reflective, Loud Planes Fly Low is the most honest Rosebuds record since Ivan and Kelly made their way out of the gates in 2003.

Visit TheRosebuds.com to download “Second Bird of Paradise” from Loud Planes Fly Low now! Watch this great “trailer” for the album, and pre-order Loud Planes Fly Low on CD and LP now in the Merge store, too!

Ivan with GAYNGS

Ivan Rosebuds’ Top 10 songs of 2010

10) “Lost in the World” – Kanye West
This is the song where Kanye samples the Bon Iver song “Woods” and turned it into the single on his new My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy record. I remember Justin playing “Woods” for me and Kelly in our home studio when we were recording Night of the Furies and just last week I saw Kanye perform it on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

9) “Mongrel Heart” – Broken Bells
I didn’t really listen to this record all year long, and finally decided to give it a go on one of my car rides from back and forth from Wilmington to Raleigh. It took about five seconds for me to decide this song was going to be on my top 10 list.

8) “Stylo” – Gorillaz
The video to this song actually made me notice it. Kind of like discovering the Afghan Whigs while watching 120 Minutes from back in the day. The Bobby Womack appearance is wonderful. He sang “Across 110th Street” for crying out loud.

7) “I Will Be” – Dum Dum Girls
This song is so good, that I want to write a reply song to it. It’s like the Wipers met up with the Mama’s and the Papas.

6) “Our Deal” – Best Coast
Any band that manages to put together “Everything Flows” by Teenage Fanclub with “Where Did Our Love Go” by The Supremes is okay with me. This is my favorite song on their record.

5) “The Letting Go” – Mount Moriah
I guess technically this song is not out on record yet. Not sure why. But having heard the recorded version and the fact that seeing this song performed live has yet to leave me with a single dry eye, it has to go on my list for this year.

4) “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” – Arcade Fire
Even though I had planned to listen to The Suburbs from front to back without interruption. I had to play “Sprawl II” three times in a row before I could go ahead to the next track.

3) “Anyone’s Ghost” – The National
If this would have been purchased as a cassingle, I would have wore out the tape by now. I love the way the drum sounds at the beginning of the song, and seeing them open up their set at ACL festival this year with this song destroyed me.

2) “Improvisation for Connor Pass” – Megafaun
This improvised 13 minute track from their Heretofore record blew me away the first time I heard the raw tracks on Brad’s bedroom floor, and still does today. It gives me the same feeling I had as a kid while watching the movie Swiss Family Robinson in elementary school. I just want to live there in the sounds.

1) “Gaudy Side of Town” – Gayngs
Full disclosure: Even though I am a member of Gayngs, I didn’t contribute to the recording of this song so I think it’s okay to be on my list.
I have to say that no song has affected my life this year as much as this song has. That, and it was my favorite song released. Nothing else sounds like it and it hits all of my sweet spots. It was a pleasure to perform this song on tour night after night with the group of amazing friends that collectively form Gayngs.

Words by Sean Moeller:

The Rosebuds have a brilliant way of taking us out into the tobacco fields, feeling the drying of the leaves and the crumbly, dusty as a drought would have them be gravel roads and then get us to hear things, to think that some sneaky evil forces were at work and moving in on us, way out here in the middle of nowhere. It was in a setting like this – out where the closest neighbors are between and a half mile and a full mile away, the postman always knocks twice and where the goings on are oftentimes between the ravens, the grasshoppers and the steamy sun – where Robert Johnson was said to have sold his soul to the devil and Howard and Crisp make the backdrop of such a transaction seem possible on “Life Like.”

Visit Daytrotter for the session!

Tracks:
Welcome to Daytrotter
Life Like
Cape Fear
Border Guards

1.) When we played the Middle East Club in Boston this year I introduced our bass player Brad Cook (from Megafaun and Gayngs) to the crowd and they actually clapped for about five minutes straight without stopping.  They realized what they were all doing half way into it and just kept getting louder and louder and louder till the place basically erupted and we had to almost stop the show early

2.) Playing “Leaves Do Fall” every night with just Kelly Crisp on an accordion and me on an acoustic guitar throughout Europe this fall.

3.) Winning the Merge XX Festival 3 on 3 basketball tournament with Roy Bourne,  the man who wrote Nightshade, and Grayson Currin from Brome.

4.)Kelly coming up with a percussion part using car keys in the recording of “Second Bird of Paradise” at Flying Tiger Studio in our home town of Raleigh NC.  Then The Rosebuds playing that song live with the NC Youth Ballet  dancing onstage behind us.

5.) Walking into my hotel room over looking the river after our show in Ghanzhou China and seeing the city lit up like an episode of the 1983 not so hit TV series AUTOMAN.

6.)) Getting to sing on some of my favorite bands recordings:
Singing on the Megafaun record in my basement
Singing on the Bowerbirds record in my basement
Singing on the new Gayngs record in Eau Claire

7.)The day I finally listened to what Kelly said, and realized that the Fever Ray record is brilliant and my favorite record of the year.

8.) Watching and Listening to 800 Germans sing along to “Nice Fox” in Berlin Germany

9.)The Mark Eitzel performance at Merge XX this year was amazing and beautiful.  It hit me just right and I was hiding my tears the whole time.

10.) Practicing for one hour before the show and playing the bass with Michael and Matthew in Telekinesis at Merge XX and actually pulling it off.

11.) Writing and recording the Christmas song “I Hear (Click Click Click)” for the Holly Raleigh Kidsmas Benefit Record this year.

12.) Hearing the words, “I want your body on me” come in when Brad was tracking the bass on the Gayngs Record in the studio.

13.) Getting a copy of the the Screen Vinyl Image Lp in the mail from my friend Jake in DC.

14.)  Driving back from the Wilmington NC alone and listening to the third Phoenix album in my car and hearing the song “North” come on and remembering how much I love that song.

15.) Performing our show at the small Woodwinds repair shop Marsh Woodwinds in Raleigh NC.

16.) Our Duke Gardens show with Rob Lackey, Wes Phillips and the horn section from Lost in the Tress.

The Rosebuds will play two shows with Megafaun at The Pour House in Raleigh on January 8th and 9th. Tickets on sale now!

The Rosebuds performance completes the six week series at Converse.com showcasing Merge bands performing stripped-down sets somewhat spontaneously in various locations during the festival. Visit the XX Merge section of Converse.com for videos from Superchunk, The Clientele, Telekinesis, Lou Barlow, Wye Oak, and The Rosebuds.

Visit Converse.com to watch the complete series, and don’t forget to check out the Merge channel at Babelgum for live footage from the XX Merge 20th anniversary shows held July 22-26th at the Cat’s Cradle and Memorial Hall.

Next up, The Rosebuds will tour Europe with labelmates, Telekinesis. Ivan will pull double-duty XX Merge style as the bass player in Telekinesis, too. Telekinesis mastermind, Michael Benjamin Lerner will, no doubt, have lots of great photos on his Flickr page!

The Rosebuds in China:
9/18 Tianjin, China @ Babi Club
9/19 Shenyang, China @ SOS
9/25 Guangzhou, China @ Classic Club
9/26 Wuhan, China @ Return 77

Telekinesis + The Rosebuds in Europe:
* = Telekinesis only
9/26 Hamburg, Germany @ Reeperbahn Festival *
9/28 Ghent, Belgium @ Cafe Video *
9/29 Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix *
9/30 London, England @ Cargo *
10/1 Nottingham, England @ The Malt Cross *
10/2 Belfast, Ireland @ Black Box
10/3 Cork, Ireland @ Cyprus Avenue
10/5 Manchester, England @ Dulcimer
10/6 Cardiff, England @ Buffalo Bar
10/7 London, England @ Windmill Brixton
10/9 Toulouse, France @ Le Saint Des Seins
10/10 Vic, France @ Jazz Club
10/12 Barcelona, Spain @ FNAC In-Store
10/13 Valencia, Spain @ El Loco Club
10/14 Madrid, Spain @ Moby Dick Club
10/15 Murcia, Spain @ Media Club
10/16 Salou, Spain (Terragona) @ Zeppelin Club
10/19 Dudingen, Switzerland @ Bad Bonn
10/21 Munich, Germany @ Feierwerk
10/22 Mannheim, Germany @ Alte Feuerwache
10/23 Bochum, Germany @ Banhof Langendreer
10/25 Dresden, Germany @ Beatpol
10/25 Berlin, Germany @ Lido
10/27 Hamburg, Germany @ Knust
10/28 Amsterdam, Germany @ Melkweg

Saturday, September 12th at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ BugFest, The Rosebuds and Telekinesis will perform at the Evening Insectival. Face painting, street food, and butterfly bingo all for free in downtown Raleigh.  For more information and directions visit the BugFest website.

Monday, September 14th, Telekinesis will play a free show at Tir Na Nog.

All of the Telekinesis shows will feature The Rosebuds’ Ivan Howard on bass! We hope to see you!

Read the story and listen to the song at New Raleigh. Visit the Hear Here website for more information on the compilation and to check out more great local bands from the Triangle!

Find more great music from The Rosebuds in the Merge store.

All photos by Brian Vetter

Click here to view the embedded video.

For more from The Rosebuds, visit the Merge store.

photo from Metromix by Ryan Muir

See lots more Merge showcase photos and mini-interviews at Metromix Reports, photos and videos are rolling in from CMJ 2008. Post ‘em if we missed some!

Wye Oak @ BrooklynVegan Party

video from NY Times

Idolator has several other Wye Oak videos!

The Music Tapes mini-video taken of the metronome at the Merge showcase!

photo from hooves on the turf

The Rosebuds will perform at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC on August 29th with Superchunk to raise money for the Cy Rawls Benevolence Fund. Their new record, Life Like, will be in stores on October 7, 2008.

Here is my Top 10 List Of Musical Events for me in 2007. It is impossible for me to pick a “top 10 albums” list since I have not heard a lot of new records this year, and every time I try make a top 10 list I always forget something either way!

10.) Selling out the Bowery Ballroom in NYC on our US Tour in May. You have to understand that our first ever show as The Rosebuds in NY was at a place called the Sidewalk Cafe on Avenue A, that held about 15 people all of whom were friends of the band we were playing with. Well, I should not say it was a real show because it really was an “Open Mic” night where everyone in the audience got in for free. The only catch was they had a two drink minimum!

9.) Watching the Red Sox clinch the division title from the center-field bleacher seats at Fenway park, with 9 of my best friends and watching the whole crowd sing the “ba ba bas” during Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.”

8.) The Quincy Jones Autobiography. Probably the best biography I have read. You can’t imagine the things that he has actually done, and the bluntness with which he tells his life story. He spares no one including himself.

7.) I had a random email from a band out in the San Francisco bay area called the Morning Benders one morning asking if they could send me the new e.p. that they just finished (called “Boarded Doors”). I told them I would love to hear it and when it arrived at our house, I put it on in the kitchen when I was doing the dishes and was blown away. We asked them to open up our show at the Great American Music hall in SF a few months later.

6.) Kelly went up to NYC this summer to check out a few standup comedy shows and saw Micheal Showalter’s comedy CD taping show at Union Hall (which we love by the way) and told me about a sketch he did about a poem he wrote in his high school literary journal. Well I finally heard that story on the CD and it is hilarious! Up there with “the Gorch” from Jon Wurster. What does it have to do with music you ask? Not really sure, but it isn’t bothering me either way.

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5.) I recently had reconstructive ACL surgery, and while I was laying around the house for a couple of weeks Kelly and I watched the Bourne Identity Triology on DVD. Man, I might trade a few songs to be able to speak 80 languages and fight like Jason Bourne. I guess I can already drive like he does though. Did you see Kelly and I
test drive that Volvo on the Rosebuds Blog?

4.) The first 3 hours of the new Tom Petty documentary Running Down a Dream. Full Moon Fever was the first cassette tape I ever bought.

3.) After we played the Parish in Austin, TX on our last US tour, we met up with Jim Eno from Spoon and he showed Kelly, Matt, Giorgio and I his new Public Hi-Fi Recording Studio. It’s a palace. He put me in the captain’s chair of the control room, and played two of my favorite songs in the world back to back and I almost died from how good they sounded over those speakers there… and the fact that I did not even suggest what songs to play, they were already cued up. “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Ain’t Know Sunshine When She’s Gone.”

2.) Watching Bon Iver‘s” first show ever at our Rosebuds’ show at the House of Rock in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We drove all night from Chicago to get to the afternoon show on time, and Justin (aka Bon Iver) who was our guitarist on tour kept telling us about how awesome his hometown was and about this place called The Joynt down from the venue where his parents met. Well what was awesome was the Bon Iver set. That was the first time any of us ever saw Justin play those songs. When he played “For Emma, For Ever Ago” and dedicated it to Kelly and me, it was all I could do to even watch the song it was so good. If I would have been more of a man I would have just balled my eyes out like I wanted to right there in front of everyone. But I kept it together that time.

1.) Eating breakfast with Ian Brown from The Stone Roses in Moscow, Russia. He is Kelly’s “Elvis.” It would actually be tied with hearing the bass line to “I Want to be Adored” with 3000 screaming Russians come over the PA speakers of the club we were playing together. I never thought that would be a possibility, but you never know what a random email could bring about.

(photo courtesy of Stranded In Stereo)

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The Rosebuds
The National
Thanks to recent Carrboro ex-pat, Soleil Konkel, for the photos! We miss you!

The Rosebuds tune “Night of the Furies” will be featured on tomorrow night’s episode of Damages on the FX Network! The show airs at 10pm Eastern.

From the Damages website:

DAMAGES is a legal thriller set in the world of New York City high-stakes litigation. The series, which provides a view into the true nature of power and success, follows the turbulent lives of Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) the nation’s most revered and reviled high-stakes litigator and her bright, ambitious protege Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) as they become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting the allgedly corrupt Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), one of the country’s wealthiest CEOs.