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Canon Logic’s “Rapid Empire” Makes Year End Best of Lists!

Engine Room Recordings — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:01:31 +0000

We don’t release any music here at Engine Room Recordings that we don’t actually really really like ourselves, I know, crazy right. If you looked at my play count on iTunes all our releases can be found at the very top….well except for that Casey Shea cover on GBA 1, just kidding Casey! So it’s nice when others enjoy the music just as much as us. The great folks at The Wild Honey Pie placed Rapid Empire on their Top 15 EP’s of 2011 list, and they sit there in great company with Foster the People, Surfer Blood and Dom to name a few. Atlas and the Anchor also named Rapid Empire to their 2011 Top EP list…thanks Justin! Then podcast Indie Soup Runner included title track “Rapid Empire” in their “best of” end of the year show (listen here!). And last Jeff Giles, Editor-In-Chief at Popdose, listed Rapid Empire as one of his favorite albums of the year saying “I’d never heard of Canon Logic before listening to these songs, and they provided five of the year’s most pleasant surprises for me. Maybe they’ll do the same for you.” Yes, maybe you! So if you haven’t listened to Canon Logic yet this year there’s still time, check them out here.

Happy Holidays!
Chris

New Release: “Guilt By Association Vol. 3″

Engine Room Recordings — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:56:01 +0000

Engine Room is back with another installment of our covers compilation series Guilt By Association. The Guilt By Association concept is easy, we ask artists to cover songs that one could call a guilty pleasure, but the catch is we all love these songs guilt free! Past volumes included tracks by Devendra Banhart, Will Oldham, Superchunk, My Brightest Diamond, Matt Pond PA, and Frightened Rabbit covering artists such as Mariah Carey, My Chemical Romance, Ace of Base and Destiny’s Child.

On Guilt By Association Volume 3 we’ve gone one step further and added a theme within this theme. For this newest installment all the songs had to be plucked from everyone’s favorite genre, 80’s hair metal! Vol. 3 features Helmet covering Loudness, Mike Viola tackling Ratt, Madison Square Gardeners doing Poison, Canon Logic taking on Cinderella and Bird of Youth covering Skid Row. It’s streaming and available for sale on our music/store page here. Please check it out and let us know what you think!

And we couldn’t of asked for a better album cover (below) for this newest edition, many thanks goes to the very talented Carolyn Wachnicki for the amazing design.

-Chris

Engine Room Recordings Official CMJ Showcase!

Engine Room Recordings — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:33:30 +0000

For our CMJ party this year we’ve partnered up with Easy Apple promotions to present an amazing lineup of bands for the opening night of CMJ. Please join us at Spike Hill this coming Tuesday night for Peasant, Shayfer James, Johanna & The Dusty Floor, Canon Logic, American Babies, Lowry and closing out the night is The Revivalists from New Orleans. Free to CMJ badge holders or $8 at the door, which works out to like a buck a band, can’t beat that. For set times and links to the bands visit the official facebook invite.

Hope to see you at the show!
Chris

Canon Logic on tour in support of new EP

Engine Room Recordings — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:53:06 +0000

Canon Logic hit the road today to promote their new EP “Rapid Empire”. The tour wraps up at this years CMJ Music Marathon in NYC where they’ll be playing a string of dates including Engine Room’s official showcase at Spike Hill in Brooklyn.

First stop on the tour is Rock House in Indianapolis and then they’ll also be playing shows in Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh (full list of tour dates below). Plus the amazing folks at Daytrotter have invited the guys to their Rock Island, IL studio to record a Daytrotter Session to be released later this year which we are very excited about!

For the Chicago and St. Louis dates they’ll be joined by friends The ACB’s; if you don’t know them you should definitely check them out here.

10.06 – Rock House – Indianapolis
10.07 – Jefferson Warehouse – St. Louis
10.08 – Goose Island – Chicago
10.09 – Daytrotter – Rock Island, IL
10.11 – The Outpost – Kent, OH
10.12 – Euclid Tavern – Cleveland
10.13 – Lava Lounge – Pittsburgh
10.18 – Spike Hill (Official CMJ show) – NYC
10.19 – Maxwells – Hoboken, NJ
10.23 – Sounds Australia/Cyber PR CMJ Wrap Party – Brooklyn

American Babies announce New Video and Fall Tour Dates

Engine Room Recordings — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:08:42 +0000

American Babies are kicking off their Fall with a new look to their online presence with the release of the new VIDEO for Flawed Logic’s “Joeline”, as well as a revamped home at www.americanbabies.net. This is the band’s third video from Flawed Logic directed by Hamilton and finds a cast made up of some of Philadelphia’s finest musicians, including members of Dr. Dog, Hezekiah Jones, and the Disco Biscuits.

American Babies “Joeline” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oStHvWi51Wg

This is all leading up to the Fall 2011 portion of tour dates behind their latest release, which finds the band sharing bills with Bruce Hornsby and the Felice Brothers throughout the east coast.

AMERICAN BABIES TOUR DATES:

September 23^rd – Charlottesville, VA – The Box (Post-Umphrey’s Mcgee Party)
September 24^th – Floyd, VA – Sun Music Hall
September 30^th – Englewood, NJ – Bergen PAC (Supporting BRUCE HORNSBY)
October 1^st – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
October 2^nd – Boston, MA – The Wilbur Theatre (Supporting BRUCE HORNSBY)
October 4^th- Harrisburg, PA – Appalachian Brewing Co. (Supporting FELICE BROTHERS)
October 16^th – Easton, PA – Lafayette College
October 18^th – Brooklyn, NY – Spike Hill (Engine Room Official CMJ Showcase)
October 20^th – Raleigh, NC – The Pour House
October 21^st – Wilmington, NC – The Pour House

New Release: “Rapid Empire” by Canon Logic

Engine Room Recordings — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:40:00 +0000

The Day is now upon us, Rapid Empire has been released unto the world! Lets see here — dynamic soundscapes, check — unrelenting energy, check — striking rhythms, check — rock solid vocals, check. Yep its got everything, and I challenge you to listen to EP opener “Sirens” and not start tapping your foot or nodding your head, go ahead try.

Please listen to Canon Logic’s Rapid Empire streaming here, and if you like what you hear go pick it up on the trusty old iTunes or anywhere digital music is sold.

Thanks!
Chris

Canon Logic to release new EP on Engine Room!

Engine Room Recordings — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:34:32 +0000

We’re very happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with NYC’s Canon Logic for the release of their upcoming EP titled Rapid Empire, due out on August 30th. Being fans of the band for a while it’s great to work with them on this release and we can’t wait for everyone to hear these new songs. And if you head over to the band’s website right now you can download one of the songs off of the EP for free! CanonLogic.com

New Release: “Flawed Logic” by American Babies

Engine Room Recordings — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:00:05 +0000

Today is the day, Flawed Logic is now available for sale on iTunes and everywhere digital music is sold. Or if you’re still on a high from Record Store Day and need a physical fix, then pick up the CD through our online store.

The press has been very kind so far; here’s what a few people are saying: My Old Kentucky Blog said “My first instinct, when I heard the captivating single Dance All Night off American Babies sophomore effort, Flawed Logic, as literally a visceral, full-body sigh of “aww, yeah…” This Buddy Holly-drenched two-stepper almost guarantees your legs will involuntarily begin line dancing under your desk.” And Glide Magazine gave it 4 out of 5 stars, and said “Hamilton’s penchant for producing a majestic elegance inside all his musical voices is second to none and on his new American Babies release, Flawed Logic, he further cements his reputation as major talent.” Then AOL Spinner is streaming Flawed Logic all this week and had this to say “Tom Hamilton invokes Ryan Adams and other alt-country troubadours with his band of babies.”

Please give it a listen for yourself, and then catch the band live all year when they will be touring throughout the US, including stops in Philly, Boston, NYC, Burlington and North Carolina. More shows are being added daily, but to see where they will be going so far look at the tour calendar on this page or go to AmericanBabies.net

Best,
Chris

Under The Radar premiers American Babies single “Dance All Night”

Engine Room Recordings — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:14:57 +0000

American Babies’ “Flawed Logic” will be released on April 19th, but you don’t have to wait until then to get your hands on some of the songs. We’ve partnered up with Under The Radar Magazine to premier the single “Dance All Night” and give it away for free! Please grab it here.

Engine Room is on Songza

Engine Room Recordings — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:41:26 +0000

Songza is a free source for streaming music on the web, where people can create their own internet radio stations, and collaborate on other peoples stations. We’ve partnered up with Songza and our first offering is Guilt By Association the station, where you can hear songs off of the first two volumes of GBA. But what’s fun is people can also add on to the station with their favorite guilty pleasure songs. So click below and add your guilty pleasure hits.