Dan Costello
Indie / Folk / Hip Hop
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"We're hitting the road with a new record!"
Brooklyn, New York
United States
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| Dan Costello: General Info
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| Member Since | 7/24/2005 | | Band Website | dancostellomusic.com | | Band Members | Dan Costello, Rachel Devlin, Michael David Campbell, Brook Pridemore, and Eric Wolfson. | | Influences | Woody Guthrie, Harry Nilsson, Nina Simone, Ruth Pelham, Herbie Hancock, Buck 65, Little Richard, Eric Wolfson, Jerome Kern, Phil Ochs, Brooklyn, Johnny Cash, Creaky Boards, RUN D.M.C., Oscar Peterson, Lach, Loretta Lynn, Ahmad Jamal, Dan Penta, Grateful Dead, Joie DBG, Outkast, Leonard Bernstein, Blackstar, Milk Kan, Michael Chabon, Citizen Cope, Brook Pridemore, Pink Floyd, Jason Robert Brown, The Bobby McGees, John Poulos and My Brothers. Drugs. Depression. Showtunes. "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Rachel Devlin. Michael David Campbell. U. Utah Phillips, and My Dad. | | Sounds Like | "Even when he’s singing about relationships gone awry, Dan Costello sounds like he’s having a hell of a good time. The piano-pounding showman has an affinity for pot, a natural predilection for pumpkins, and a knack for making happiness pie out of prison food. The best part about it all is that Costello knows how to make music, and it’s the kind that everyone can relate to." - Breakthru Radio (read the interview here)
"Dan Costello knows how to make an impression. Fusing folk and hip-hop, his unmistakable songs convey an unforgiving sense of the world, life, love, and getting arrested for hanging flyers on a lamppost. Straight-up!" - Dan Dipollito (Attention Driver)
"Randy Newman playing a whorehouse at gunpoint" - Eric Wolfson
"I've never heard anything like that from a white guy with a guitar" - Karl Wilson
"So Harry Nilsson and John Prine smoke a joint at Flava Flav's house..." - Lach
"Jovial, Good Beard." - Dave Cuomo
"When I was an 11 year old at JCC Summer Camp I learned all the words to Rump Shaker and was yelled at by my counselor for demeaning women. Then I kicked her girlie ass in Capture The Flag." - Me | | Record Label | Pumpkin Guts | | Type of Label | Indie |
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Brooklyn Tea Party |
Brooklyn |
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The Water Heater |
Roanoake, Virginia |
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WonderRoot Community Arts Center |
Atlanta, Georgia |
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Birthday Show at The Zone! |
Tarpon Springs, Florida |
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The Fest 08 (Valley Cubs only!) |
Gainesville, Florida |
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511 House |
Florence, South Carolina |
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Poison Lawn (afternoon house show) |
Knoxville, Tennessee |
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Preservation Pub (evening venue show) |
Knoxville, Tennessee |
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The Double Door Inn |
Charlotte, North Carolina |
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TBA (Help!) |
College Park / Silver Spring, Maryland |
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TBA (Help!) |
Baltimore, Maryland |
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TBA (Help!) |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| About Dan Costello |
"Few singer-songwriters have a stage presence as welcoming and engaging as Dan Costello. Dan Costello comes to entertain, and he succeeds. Costello writes and performs vividly-worded folk songs in the anti-folk tradition: smart, funny, quirky, powerhouse songwriting, distinctly New York. Armed with a booming, clear voice and a six-string, Costello sings his thoughtful, intelligent lyrics from the heart. His performance was full of energy and imagery, and even a bit of the theatrical – Very cool!" - Jezebel Music
Dan Costello is the songwriter behind COSTELLO, a musical group centered at The Brooklyn Tea Party, a loft venue and apartment in Bushwick. COSTELLO features Rachel Devlin, Michael David Campbell and Brook Pridemore on a variety of instruments. All four sing in the band. Dan wrote a new album on the road this year, and the album, simply called COSTELLO, is completed and will be available on tour this fall and subsequently worldwide.
DOWNLOAD MUSIC AT dancostellomusic.com
The Facts:
Stepping out of the cultural cross streets of Brooklyn, Dan Costello's sound breaks all the musical molds. Writing from the influence of Folk, Rock, Jazz, Hip Hop and Broadway, Dan's songs cannot be restricted to any particular genre, as he fashions new sounds out of his eclectic influences.
Dan is an independent musician, having quit his corporate music job in January 2006. He works as a sound engineer, a recording engineer, a piano player, an open-mic host, an audio consultant, and occasionally as an album producer. He's a member of the Freelancers Union and various arts organizations. He has toured as a solo act, with Creaky Boards, and with fellow songwriter Brook Pridemore, playing shows all over the Northeast and the Midwest, and to the UK. This fall COSTELLO brings their new album on an East Coast Tour.
In addition to Costello, Dan is a member of Creaky Boards, Eric Wolfson and the War Cabinet, Felt Light Strikes, and Brook Pridemore and The Valley Cubs. Dan has produced albums for Soft Black, Annie Crane, Ben Godwin, and Peaks and Valleys and many more.
Dan has two solo records, "Halloween Baby" and "Come Home", available at dancostellomusic.com
You can read about what happens at Brooklyn Tea Party at myspace.com/brooklynteaparty
Read The Breakthru Radio Interview!
other quotes:
"A little bit country, a little bit, um.. other weird, cool stuff." - Boulder Weekly
"This folk-rapper-poet is [in] magically in-your-face in a pleasant way (but not too pleasant). Humorous social criticisms percolate tastily throughout his songs, a refreshing blast of lyrics in a songwriter climate of confessionals and narcissisms."
--Gabriel Levitt, jezebelmusic.com
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