On The Road with Donovan Quinn

West coast heartbreaker / song-maker Donovan Quinn has left his perch in San Francisco to tour the east and midwest in support of Six Organs of Admittance (a solo Chasny). The gigs are nigh, please share with friends -

08/11 - Ithaca, NY - Delilah's
08/12 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
08/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Littlefield
08/15 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
08/16 - Washington, DC - DC9
08/17 - Charlottesville, VA - The Southern
08/19 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
08/20 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
08/22 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records
08/23 - Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light
08/25 - Louisville, KY - Uncle Slayton's
08/26 - Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle

Donovan Quinn & 13th Month play KUSF benefit

Embattled, excellent free-form radio station KUSF are holding a benefit show this coming Wednesday, and our man Donovan Quinn (& the 13th Month) will be performing. The show marks the debut of the all-new 13th Month line-up, which now includes Michael Tapscott (of Odawas, etc) on synth. Check the show, help the station...

The official word --

Wednesday May 4, 2011
7:00pm door, 8:00pm show

Tartufi and the Verdi Club Present
DARK NIGHTS:
A BENEFIT FOR KUSF

Featuring:
Mammatus
Tartufi
Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month
Life Coach (Phil Manley of Trans Am)

http://www.verdiclub.net/events.html

Donovan Quinn video - new song, live

Good ol' Donovan Quinn recently opened a string of shows for Six Organs of Admittance, and the video above features our pal playing an as-yet released new song solo with a modified acoustic 12 string. Check elsewhere for live footage of The New Bums, his duo with Ben Chasny, playing a few tunes from a forthcoming full-length.

Tonight in SF: Pigeons / Fabulous Diamonds / DQ13

Pigeons, Fabulous Diamonds and Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month are all playing tonight at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, preceded by an in-store at Aquarius Records. Thanks to Alice Cohen for the killer flier...

Pigeons US tour underway, new album Liasons due 16 November

Bronx sweetheart duo Pigeons are out on tour right now with Fabulous Diamonds, in support of their forthcoming third album, Liasons, due on Soft Abuse as CD/ LP / DL on 16 November. Here's their complete list of confirmed dates --

10/31 - Boston, MA - Spectacle
11/02 - Chicago, IL - Permanent Records in-store
11/02 - Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle (with Wet Hair, Running)
11/03 - Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College
11/04 - Iowa City, IA - White Lightning (with Wet Hair)
11/05 - Minneapolis, MN - Club Med (with Wet Hair, Shahs, Robust Worlds)
11/06 - Minneapolis, MN - Hexagon Bar (with Brute Heart, Leisure Birds)
11/07 - Omaha, NE - The Manor (with Wet Hair)
11/11 - Anacortes, WA - The Business Records in-store
11/11 - Bellingham, WA - NoHouse (with Jazz Magazine)
11/12 - Seattle, WA - Josephine
11/13 - Portland, OR - East End (with Monopoly Child Star Searchers)
11/16 - Sacramento, CA - The Hub
11/17 - San Francisco, CA - Aquarius Records in-store
11/17 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill (with Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month)
11/18 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo Curio (with Donovan Quinn)
11/19 - Irvine, CA - UC Irvine
11/20 - Phoenix, AZ - The Dressing Room (with Eddy Detroit)
11/23 - Houston, TX - Notsuoh
11/24 - New Orleans, LA - The Circle Bar (with Hosanna)
11/26 - Pensacola, FL - The Handlebar
11/27 - St. Augustine, FL - TBA
11/28 - Tallahassee, FL - The Farside (with Langtry)
11/29 - Atlanta, GA - Wonder Root
11/30 - Chapel Hill, NC - Nightlight (with Dan Melchior und Das Menace)

More dates may be confirmed, for the latest, check out Pigeons homepage here.

Liasons is the third Pigeons full-length, following on the heels of Si Faustine (released by Olde English Spelling Bee earlier this year), and 2008's Virgin Spectacle (on Black Dirt). Liasons finds the band in the midst of an enormous creative leap; the psychedelic chanson moves of previous releases now cohabit with spacious westcoast art-blues & wistful cosmic folk tunes, casually invoking Catherine Ribeiro, Brigitte Fontaine, Grim and Opal. Pigeons’ singular approach to structure, arrangements & production techniques - mirrored by the disruptive spelling of Liasons – culminate with Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin lacing their songs with flute, saxophone, echo, drum machines and languid guitar lines. Liasons also includes two songs in French, one of which is a brilliant a take on Laisse Tomber les Filles (by Serge Gainsbourg). Artwork from Mary Nicholson appears throughout. We're now taking pre-orders for Liasons, all of which will ship to arrive before the release date...

Also in time for the tour, we've released a 7" single (Visions of the Valley), pressed in an edition of 200, and have printed up some Pigeons shirts as well. Click here to preview or purchase the single, and click here for shirt info. The band will have plenty of each to sell at their gigs as well...

Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month: new album & video

We're pleased to announce that the sophomore album from Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month will be released August 3, 2010. The LP (with free DL) version is on Soft Abuse, while CD / DL fans will find theirs via the esteemed, venerable Shrimper label. The album is called "Your Wicked Man."



"Your Wicked Man" was created in collaboration with Nick Marcantino (bass), and Paercuts' Jason Quever as producer and multi-instrumentalist. In much the same way his presence molded early efforts from Cass McCombs, Quever's touch on YWM serve Quinn's narratives with arrangements that range from barely there to lush & ornate. There are some rockers, too. The band's particular take on art-pop & folk-rock song forms plays out like a re-imagining of the early efforts from Mekons, Nikki Sudden and John Cale as filtered through a distinctly Californian approach. Quinn's enigmatic deadpan & dense, fragmentary style reveal a reverance for Robert Forster, Malcolm Lowry, Pavement and Thomas Pynchon (in equal measure).

The first song released from "Your Wicked Man" is the hypnogogic, otherworldy 'Mom's House' (mp3 available here), which seems almost like a hallucination. Donovan himself put together a video for the song; we hope you agree that its brilliant....

Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month "Sister Alchemy" video

Marcy Saude (website here) filmed this super-8 video for 'Sister Alchemy' in San Francisco in 2008. Features Donovan Quinn, Grace Cooper and Jason Quever. The song, written by Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month, appears on the limited 7" single of the same name (purchase here), as well as the band's self-titled debut album (purchase here). Cameras by Marcy Saude and Michael McWay.

DQ13 at CMJ in NYC (& beyond)

Donovan Quinn - friend to dogs, lover of all things October, writer & singer of songs - is making his first solo trek out east today for the annual CMJ fest. Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month are making several appearances over the course of the fest; read on to find out when & where. For the east coast shows, the 13th Month consists of DQ (guitar, voice), Nick Marcantonio (bass) and Pete Nolan (the drums). Jason Quever will be back behind the kit for the band's headlining homecoming gig in early November -

10/23 - Brooklyn, NY - The Bell House
(Gothamist CMJ showcase, 2 PM)
10/23 - New York, NY - Piano's
(ForceField PR CMJ showcase, 8 PM)
10/24 - New York, NY - Cake Shop
(Chouette CMJ showcase)
10/25 - Boston, MA - P.A.'s Lounge
(with D. Charles Speer & the Helix, King Darves, Moore & Sons)
11/05 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern
(with Lazarus, The Sarees)

Look for more west coast dates (hopefully with Lazarus) before too long...

Donovan will also be playing with The Skygreen Leopards in support of Woods in a few weeks...

11/13 - San Francisco, CA - Amnesia
(with Woods)

Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month "The Wind At Her Craft"

Live footage (courtesy of 'bcfaulkner' on YouTube) of Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month live at the Bottom of the Hill. That's Jason Quever on the drums...

DQ at Big Sur

Happening Friday February 22...

Donovan Quinn in the UK / October Lanterns is nigh

Our friend Donovan Quinn is headed across the pond later this month for a string of live dates throughout the UK. Catch him if you can over there, or be sure to greet him in SF in December...

11/25 - London, UK - In the Pines @ The Harrison
11/26 - London, UK - 93 Feet (with Six Organs of Admittance, Mick Flower)
11/30 - Wigan, UK - Fourpaw - Tudor House Hotel
12/01 - Coventry, UK - Taylor Johns House
12/02 - Newcastle, UK - The Tyne
12/03 - Hull, UK - The Adelphi
12/04 - Bristol, UK - Cube Cinema (with Little Wings)
12/05 - Edinburgh, UK - TBA (with Little Wings)
12/06 - Manchester, UK - The Music Box (with A Hawk and A Hacksaw)
12/18 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern (with Giant Skyflower Band)

Also on the horizon is the limited CDR issue of Donovan's 'lost' solo album, October Lanterns, which was recorded in ’02-’03 but shelved for reasons long since forgotten. Audio samples are available on Donovan's MySpace page and at Soft Abuse HQ.