THE TEENAGE PRAYERS "EVERONE THINKS YOU'RE THE BEST" IN STORES TODAY, MARCH 18TH
SXSW Tour Continues Through Saturday
“Everyone Thinks You’re The Best,” the sophomore release from NYC based The Teenage Prayers, hits stores today. Distributed by MRI/Red, the album is available digitally through iTunes, Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, Virgin and others, and available in fine record stores and chains including Amoeba, Newbury, Virgin, Dimple, In Sound, and many more.
All Music Guide: Everyone Thinks You're the Best is a rocking good time, executed with soul and conviction, and ultimately a wonderful endorsement for a band that must be a blast in a live setting.
Bruce Warren of WXPN-Philly: Frontman Tim Adams comes with the drama and energy so lacking in indie-rock these days and his brother Terry is adept at riffing on soul music as he is with the classic rock. The songs on this album promise you a bright future should you indulge.
The Tripwire: "Everyone knows music achieved perfection in 1974," explains Homer Simpson. "It's a scientific fact." I wager that the Teenage Prayers not only agree with Mr. Simpson, but also are hard at work developing the time machine capable of transporting an entire band back and forth to that point in our history. Until that day, they--and we--will have to live in the present and enjoy Everyone Thinks You're The Best, the second album from a band poised to resurrect and revitalize the past.
PopMatters.com: Bucking the "nostalgia band" trend by being authentically nostalgic, the Teenage Prayers cause you to give blessings to that raw, purely enthusiastic adolescent music fan in all of us.
Brooklyn Rocks: The forthcoming sophomore release from The Teenage Prayers hasn't left my CD player for the last week. The band's music is somewhat of a throwback to the 70's but it touches on all points of the spectrum. There are elements of Cheap Trick, New York Dolls, Queen and California funk-rock on this disc.
The Teenage Prayers continue their SXSW Tour with 5 dates remaining of the 13 stop tour. The band played 4 successful shows in Austin, TX during SXSW including a Stubb’s Cellar show along side Nicole Atkins on the night of the R.E.M. show, an Amoeba Records showcase also sponsored by CarsonDaly.TV, and the After The Jump showcase curated by a number of influential music bloggers. The band is keeping a video diary of their journey, including performance footage, which can be seen at www.youtube.com/TheTeenagePrayers. The tour concludes on March 22nd in Baltimore.
SXSW TOUR DATES
Tue, 3.18 The Groove (In-Store), Nashville TN Wed, 3.19 Star Bar, Atlanta, GA Thu, 3.20 The Milestone, Charlotte NC Fri, 3.21 Slim's Downtown, Raleigh NC Sat, 3.22 The Lo-Fi Social Club, Baltimore MD
ADDITIONAL UPCOMING DATES
Fri, 3.28 TT the Bear's, Boston, MA (Boston CD Release Show) Sat, 3.29 The Oasis, New London, CT Sat, 4.5 Soundfix (In-Store), Brooklyn, NY (New York CD Release Show)
ABOUT THE TEENAGE PRAYERS
It's a risky business to meet your musical heroes. They can shatter your illusions in a word. Or they can turn out to be the people you dream them to be. So far, The Teenage Prayers are two-for-two on the winning side of that equation.
In 2005, Grammy-winning soul legend Solomon Burke offered to produce a final track for their first album, Ten Songs, flew the New York group to LA and did just that. In 2006, Steve Wynn -- founder of the Dream Syndicate and 30-year hero of the DIY rock world -- watched The Teenage Prayers open a gig for him. He, too, offered to produce them. The result: Everyone "Thinks You're the Best."
"Everyone Thinks You're the Best" is filled with raucous melodies, a truly dislocated sense of time and place and lyrics that explore the dark corners of manhood and mankind. Touching many points on the musical spectrum, the album cavorts through garage rock, glam, America's south, soul, gospel, reggae, bossa nova, and Teutonic stomp. Amazingly, the diverse menu always sounds like The Teenage Prayers.
Lead singer Tim Adams, who has been called "a cross between James Brown and Isaac Brock" (of Modest Mouse) by the Boston Phoenix, is one of the band's signature elements; brotherly harmonies by guitarist Terrence Adams provide perfect counterpoint. The rhythm section of Kyle Chrise on bass and Kyle Wills on drums, underpins the oddly familiar yet totally unique sound of this band.
FOR MORE INFORMATION www.teenageprayers.com www.myspace.com/theteenageprayers videos: www.youtube.com/TheTeenagePrayers contact: converted@teenageprayers.com management: rathbonemusic@gmail.com publicity: meredith@piratepirate.com
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look at all the praise! nice. it's important to curb that nostalgic trend and make it feel authentic. if the critics are right, then sounds like you guys have it down.