Adam Gnade

Adam Gnade plays "talking songs" that are crashy kind of folk rock a la Neutral Milk Hotel or early "talking" style Dylan. ("Talking New York Blues" etc.)from Wikipedia: Adam Gnade is a San Diego-born musician who now resides in Portland, Oregon. Often lumped into the New Weird America scene, he defines his music as "talking-songs" which he describes as mixing the spoken vocals of talking blues songs with modern psychedelic rock and noise or experimental drone influences. In 2005 Gnade signed to the California-based Loud + Clear Records, toured the US, and issued Run Hide Retreat Surrender his first official release after a series of self-released, independent albums (Goodbye Drunken Ghost 1998, Shiv Shiv Shake 2003).In 2006, he released a set of limited run experimental albums (We Are Bones and Ghosts Down Stone Walled Wells and 2) before signing a UK label deal with Drowned in Sound (home to Metric, Martha Wainwright, Secret Chiefs). Drowned in Sound is set to release Gnade's EP, Shout the Rafters Down! (which features members of Asthmatic Kitty Records' the Castanets) in October of 2006, after which he will be touring Europe in support of the record. DutchMoney Books will also release a book version of stories surrounding album's characters. Released in Oct 2006, it will also be called Shout the Rafters Down.Gnade also recorded a track with Faux-Hoax in mid-2006, a band featuring Dave Allen from 1970s UK punk act Gang of Four, John Askew from Tracker, and Danny Seim from Menomena. His current band is called Adam Gnade and the Confederate Yankees and includes Thaddeus Christian, Shiloh Halsey, Jessie Duquette, Brian Smith, and Johnny Askew. Recent radio singles include "Hymn California" and "We Live Nowhere and Know No One." Gnade also recently appeared as "the Silent Kid" in the indie film Loren Cass.www.myspace.com/gnadewww.adamgnade.com