Fanatic Promotion
About Fanatic:
Fanatic Promotion was established by Josh Bloom in 1997 as a one-man operation with a passion for building fan-to-fan connections between artists and the media.
Since that time, Fanatic has established a reputation as a taste making and sales driving agency where Josh continues to communicate about the new artists of today that he believes you should be talking about tomorrow.
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“We’ve Got A Map”, the upcoming sophomore full-length by San Francisco-based duo Tidelands, was well on it’s way to completion before their debut album “If…” was released in the summer of 2011.
“We never really stopped after we completed that record,” says vocalist, guitarist and flugelhorn player Gabriel Leis, one half of the band completed by drummer Mie Araki.
The key word to describe We’ve Got A Map is spontaneity,” says Araki. “Much of our current songwriting style is based on this word.”
“Sympathies” is the latest single and video from Michael The Blind’s upcoming new album “Are’s & Els” out June 5th.
Denver-based indie rock band Dressy Bessy is back with a “Summer Singles” collection. Starting with “Hey, Alice!” b/w “Little Pieces”, Dressy Bessy has subsequent digital releases scheduled for July and September.
“It was a hard song to cover straight knowing that Phil (Lynott of Thin Lizzy) died basically from complications due to substance abuse,” says World Blanket leader Mike Pomranz, “So, I gave it a more sentimental and cautionary tone.”
“As someone who likes the occasional tipple, ‘Got To Give It Up’ seemed like a natural song for me,” explains Pomranz. “The tune never seemed to receive as much fanfare as it deserves, as both a hard-driving musical and lyrical masterpiece. I took a couple stabs at it acoustically, and it soon became apparent that buried below the song’s riff-rock exterior, it’s actually a deeply emotional recounting of despair.”
Pomranz concludes, “With this knowledge, the song becomes less barroom rocker and more of a confessional from beyond the grave. With the references to ‘mama’ and ‘pa’ and ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ it almost stands as a final apologetic note to family, friends and fans for a lifelong battle that eventually took a man’s life.”
Arriving as what MTV Iggy deemed “a new pop iconoclast,” Dearling Physique’s bold and exuberant debut full-length album Deadeye Dealer found a diverse audience captivated by its cinematic and synthesia-inducing sound.
The universal acclaim that followed helped earn the band such recognition as Metromix’s “Artist To Watch” and MTV Iggy’s “Artist of the Week.”
Dearling Physique’s stunning music video for the single “Discipline Your Hands” also received high praise, with favorable mentions from OUT Magazine, Afro Punk and The Onion.
“Ice” is the first single and video from the upcoming new album “Yaviz” by EDH!
“Another Circle of Fifths” is the first single from the upcoming Michael The Blind album, out June 5th. Michael The Blind is Michael Levasseur, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Portland, Oregon. Think Leonard Cohen, but not so low. Elliott Smith, but not so high. Suzanne Vega, but not so female. John Fahey when acoustic, Paul Westerberg when electric. A lyrical style that is both e.e. cummings and Mother Goose.
The new Phoebe Jean & The Air Force album “Heartbreaker” is out June 12th, 2012 preceded by the “Facts of Nature” EP which features this track “Day Is Gone.” Check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaYjFDDNgN4.
Blue Eyed Blacks revived an old idea they had lying around for a country album comprised completely of songs written by openly gay writers, an idea that eventually evolved into a full band recreation of The Magnetic Fields’ forgotten country classic The Charm of The Highway Strip. That idea hit the ditch as well but the band did salvage one song – an orchestrated duet version of “When The Open Road Is Closing In.”
