CLAIRECORDS NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER ‘06 Welcome to the 24th edition of the Clairecords newsletter, brought to you by any and all manner of ghosts, goblins and things that go bump in the night. Boo! AIRIEL Airiel will enter the studio to begin work on their debut full-length in January; the result should hit in the spring with tour dates to follow. In the meantime, the group are playing their biggest local show to date Oct. 21, so stop by if you’re in the neighborhood and throw your underwear at them! http://www.airiel.com EAU CLAIRE If you happened to be in attendance at the fifth annual International Indie Music Video Festival last month in beautiful Austin, TX, you very likely saw Rachel Staggs’ video for “To Berlin” screened alongside clips from Neko Case, Smog, Bright Eyes, the Heavy Blinkers and more. Jessica Bailiff, meanwhile, will be touring Europe in late November and early December in support of her latest Kranky release, Feels Like Home. http://www.eauclairemusic.com MALORY Achtung, baby! It’s been a project five years in the making, but we’re beyond thrilled to announce that our fabtabulous reissue of Not Here, Not Now, the 1999 debut from German dream-popsters Malory, will arrive Nov. 14 with bonus material aplenty! One of our mailorder department’s best-selling releases ever, this fascinating album inspired us to license its follow-up, Outerbeats, for release in America. Second chances don’t come around often, so if you never experienced of Not Here, Not Now in its auditory splendor the first time around, consider yourself fortunate. http://www.malory-music.com THE BROTHER KITE Music directors worldwide have developed such an intense infatuation with The Brother Kite that we’re sure that sort of thing is illegal in certain jurisdictions! (Not that we mind.) Waiting for the Time to Be Right has charted at #8 on WMBR-FM (Cambridge, MA), #30 on 3WK.com and #44 on KEXP-FM (Seattle WA). We’d also like to send shout-outs to WFMU-FM (NYC/NJ), WZBC-FM (Boston College), CHRW-FM (Univ. of Western Ontario), CKUT-FM (McGill Univ.), (WTUL-FM (Tulane Univ.), WPRK-FM (Winter Park, FL), KCRW-FM (Santa Monica CA), WPRK-FM (Rollins College), WKDU-FM (Drexel Univ.), DR Barometer (Denmark) and many, many more fine auditory outposts up and down the dial for adding Waiting for the Time to Be Right to their esteemed playlists. Radio adds mean extra treats in the Halloween bag! Those of you in the Great White North can tune in to see TBK in all their visual glory on Dirt TV at midnight PDT Oct. 22 and 29 (check http://www.dirt-tv.com for more details.) A whirlwind tour of the Midwest is in the works for January, so stay tuned! http://www.thebrotherkite.com ** CLAIRECORDS AND THE MEDIA: A DEADLY COMBINATION ** THE BROTHER KITE “When the Brother Kite's eponymous debut arrived in 2004, the band proved that you could still bang out shoegazer pop that mattered. On the new album, the quintet widens its sound, particularly on tunes such as "Hopeless and Unsung," in which lead singer and bandleader Patrick Boutwell embraces Brian Wilson as a brother.” -Bob Gulla, Providence Phoenix *** CLAIRECORDS COMIN’ AT YOU LIVE! *** AIRIEL 10/21/06 Chicago IL- The Metro 10/28/06 Minneapolis MN- Kitty Kat Club 01/22/07 Chicago IL- Empty Bottle EAU CLAIRE 11/17/06 Boston, MA- Regent Theater (Brainwaves Festival)** ** Jessica Bailiff solo performance MALORY 10/20/06 Dresden, DE- Groove Station THE BROTHER KITE 11/16/06 Cambridge MA- TT The Bear’s THE TANGLES 11/02/06 Sacramento CA- Old Ironsides ___________________________________________ Clairecords * Purveyors of Quality Noise http://www.clairecords.com http://www.myspace.com/clairecords