Adam Weiner aka Ladyfingers and his various incarnations
BOOKING / PRESS : myladyfingers@gmail.com
Influences
Tom Waits, Sun Studios, VU, Charley Patton, Kinks, Hasil Adkins, Cab Calloway, Dion, Jerry Lee Lewis, Suicide, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Leonard Cohen, Beefheart, Klaus Nomi, Cramps, Mississippi John Hurt, Dylan, X, Springsteen, Young, Johnny Horton, Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon, Iggy, Richard Simmons, greek rembetika, and the Happy Days Theme Song
Suggested donation is $10, pay what you can! Available on vinyl May 13. Order now and get your free download!
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Other albums:
"MY HANDBOOK" by Ladyfingers (2008)
"MY PROM" (2006)
LADYFINGERS "Delectus" T-shirt (S-M-L-XL) - $12
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" My mind was blown away. Weiner stunned me with pipes of steel."
- Two Way Monologues
" Rubber room boogie-woogie act that smacks of Tav Falco aping Beefheart's first Magic Band. That shit's cool."
- Connect Savannah
" Ladyfingers' music, which is some wondrous medley of rockabilly and grimy punk, is as addictive as the cigarettes it makes you crave."
- the Radio Files, Montreal
" Ladyfingers' songs are funny, deep, hilarious and mad all at the same time."
- Indiemusic.com, NXNE
" Weiner manages to variously channel Elvis, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and Dion with incredible ease and fluidity. Somehow, through all this polyvalence he still manages to have his own voice."
- the Deli
"Arrest that man, he just about stole the whole night."
- Gig Scene with Graham Chalmers (Harrogate)
LADYFINGERS is the alter ego of eccentric New Jersey-born artist, Adam Weiner. His music is a spastic brew of lo-fi rock, rockabilly, punk, and cabaret stylings. Weiner developed the Ladyfingers aesthetic of wiggy theatrics and self-depracation while living and performing in New York City for 8 years. Drawing from such artists as Tom Waits, Ween, Hasil Adkins, and Cab Calloway, Weiner’s live shows are a rush of nervous energy and dark humor. His “rubber room boogie-woogie” (Connect Savannah), finds him yelping and crooning his heart out over a flood of gnarly guitar, slinky whorehouse piano, and his patented hard maple stompbox. With his hair piled high, and his eyes popping, Ladyfingers morphs from a yelping Nu-Elvis, to a menacing carnival charlatan, to a smarmy cabaret crooner…all within a few tender moments.
In 2006, Weiner released the first official Ladyfingers album, “MY PROM”, featuring the bracing, hiccupy single “Cure for the Common Cold” (featured in an upcoming MTV UK episode of Dirty Sanchez). The record received significant indie and college airplay all over the U.S. and Canada. Besides numerous shows in North America, Weiner has consistently toured the U.K., France, and Germany (the Europeans really appreciate the Ladyfingers schtick a lot!), and played the NXNE Festival in Toronto, SXSW in Austin, and CMJ in Manhattan. Audiences in various gin joints from Berlin to New Orleans have witnessed the striking energy of Herr Ladyfingers.
In 2008, Weiner released a full-length collection of demos and
bedroom tapes called "MY HANDBOOK". The record, which was recorded in
various motel rooms and warehouses across America, features the
psycho-midget porn-abilly of "Lite FM" and the sad-sack lo-fi classic
"Genius Friends". In reviewing the record the LA Weekly said this of
Ladyfingers: "He is a self-contained, self-aware and self-propelled
song factory, obviating the need for rock critics. Mr.Ladyfingers
sluices his raw ballads and electric-guitar-backed
shuffles with a mournful beauty that goes beyond simple jokiness."
In April 2009, Ladyfingers releases OPEN YOUR ROBE, a collection of piercing and pierced love songs. It will be a self-release both on vinyl record and pay-what-you-want digital upload. He will be touring the US in May and June to promote the album.
Ladyfingers is an independent artist. He has no management, label
affiliation, booking agent, or personal stylist. He performs all these
duties for himself. Are you impressed?
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"CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD" - live on Fox in NYC
"LADYFINGERS" - LIVE PIANO VERSION, NYC 2007
video by Susan Holland
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LA Weekly :
"I've got to lose some weight before the wedding, dude/I've got to
practice my handshake . . . All my friends are geniuses, and they all
respect me," Adam Weiner, a.k.a. the one-man band Ladyfingers,
brags/confesses on his new self-released CD, My Handbook. The New
Yorker has "no management, label affiliation, booking agent or
personal stylist," and, as he makes clear on the defiant folk-funk
rant "Scoliosis in Secaucus" ("Don't entertain me/I can entertain
myself"), he is a self-contained, self-aware and self-propelled song
factory, obviating the need for rock critics. He's a little bit like
the early, pre-cute Jonathan Richman, with such sarcastic lyrics as
"I'm happy listening to lite FM" and "There's a World War II memorial
underneath your dress . . . and I ain't impressed," but Mr.
Ladyfingers sluices his raw ballads and electric-guitar-backed
shuffles with a mournful beauty that goes beyond simple jokiness.
He'll be here all week (nightly, through December 5), but please don't
try the veal. It's been through enough already. (Falling James) ---
LA Weekly
It's all right... I recently found some pretty cool sheet music from the civil war era, there is one confederate song that I think is great, "The southron's Chaunt of Defiance" it makes me giggle. So when are you coming back through?
Hey! Happy Christmas! I am in Houston myself, gonna be in Austin?
I hope that you can come back through an area I am at sometime in the future, otherwise, I hope to see you in the future, you are terribly talented. I mean...fantastically talented.
In fact my mum is here in Houston as well, and she said that she loved you, so you have good music that everybody can like.
hello bro.. hope alls grand and you're well.. my boys are off to brazil and i dont know what to do.. hopefully see you real soon good buddy.. luv, t-bird xx
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