"Christy Schnabel has been through the major label drama with her old band, Ugly Beauty. Duchess is the lo-fi, eight track score to her life since she dropped out of the rat race- and it's a good one, reminiscent of Cat Power's early musings with it's stripped down, single electric-guitar ambiance." San Francisco Guardian Picks "Duchess blends styles both old and new to produce a beautiful, eclectic record that alternates between lean, spunky post-rock and a sparse, haunting Americana feel."- Weekly Planet- Top 10 Records of 2005** "Showcasing warm guitars and smart vocals, Duchess varies from the Joan Jett-like intensity of 'Let Me Gain' to the almost country balladry of 'Not Closer'. With no fucking around with extraneous prodcution, phony styles, or musical filler, it's a treasure.'- Giant Robot** "A new dark pop gem. Smolderingly heady yet catchy at the same time. The deeply potent vocals are the key here."- Aquarius Records** "Duchess's debut album showcases Schnabel's brooding vocals with alternately clean and jackknife guitars. Leadoff track "Diamond Ring" is the standout track on the album with Schnabel insisting powerfully in a monotone delivery, "baby, you don't have to bring me a diamond ring/baby, you don't have to bring me a goddamned thing." Her voice doesn't stick in that monotone, though, singing hook-filled lines over basic, yet enjoyable melodies. This is an impressive debut." Mesh Magazine **"Think of a blusier version of early Liz Phair, but take out the lurid sex references and add a ton of gloom and now you're getting close. There's a lot of turmoil in Schnabel's words, but she doesn't let it control her music. She may appear angry and frustrated and depressive, but she expels these emotions through song. The solution always seems very, very simple...let it out by any means, then kiss the bottle and move on."- Dig BMX Magazine
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Hi... We're writing this message to you only to tell you that A) We have two new tracks up and B) We're now selling a full LP (it's pretty cheap which is nice). We just wanted to tell you what's new with us (if you even cared to know that is) but if you're actually intrigued or just laughing and rolling your eyes at us... either way, have a most lovely day
Hey, we have a new song on our page. It would be cool if you could check it out, but if not we understand, we hate these comments too.
But anyway, we're feeling pancakes--are you feeling pancakes right now? we should have pancakes together. We think that'd be nice, even if you don't like or know who we are.
Anyway, hope to talk to you soon.
Love always,
Yes Means No
When are you gonna check out The Beastly Bombing??
The Huffington Post says that The Beastly Bombing is "the first great work of comedy to emerge from the post-9/11 little planet of horrors."
The LA WEEKLY says--
"Dr. Strangelove meets HMS Pinafore in Julien Nitzberg and Roger Neill’s completely whacked operetta about our even more whacked 21st-century politics. This is one of the few occasions where you’ll find dancing al Qaeda terrorists and skinheads sashaying together in a kind of chorus line, suspects of a crime they wanted but failed to commit, now all hiding in Orthodox Jewish garb. There’s something to offend everyone in this multi-culti hatchet job, but this musical has the rare virtue of proffering a theory for the senseless state of the world that actually makes some sense — more sense than any of our recently enacted national policies, or official explanations of them. Nitzberg directs with a storybook goofiness that’s deceptively well crafted. "
Don't delay. Come see the most offensive and morally unredeemable musical ever now!
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