Critically acclaimed Irish-Blooded singer/songwriter JOE HURLEY collaborated with the best-selling novelist COLUM McCANN to create a glorious 3-part 12 min epic, "THE HOUSE THAT HORSE BUILT"(Let The Great World Spin). The piece was inspired by a chapter in McCann's novel, 'Let The Great World Spin' (2009 National Book Award winner).
" A phenomena...lyrically compelling, wondrously sung and superbly produced by Don Fleming"-NICK WEST, UK Americana Music Editor
With Hurley on vocals and guitar, the songs feature an extraordinary cast of musicians including Tony Shanahan-Bass, James Mastro-Guitar, Kenny Margolis-Piano, Matt Sweeney-Acoustic Guitar, Antonique Smith- vocals, Faith Hahn-vocals , Joe McGinty-Organ, Denis Diken-Drums, Soul Great Tami Lynn -vocals (Stones, Dr John, Dylan), and on the Uilleean pipes, Paddy Moloney of Ireland's legendary The Chieftains.
Produced by DON FLEMING and recorded by Matt Azzarto at Think Tank. Mastered by Warren Russell-Smith at Magic Shop, NY. Released 12/09.
The Dripping Tap - Don Fleming, Bob Bert, Matt Azzarto, Chris Grier - performing live at Sessions at Santa's, Santos Party House NYC, on Apr 21 2009. Video by Joly MacFie.
Don Fleming, Raymond McGinley DF
played guitar and sang with Teenage Fanclub at the Forum in London on
July 24, 2006. The band performed the Bandwagonesque album, in
it's entirety, for the Don't Look Back series.
Paul
GrimstadPaul is a
mad pop scientist, a musical wizard. We worked together on some
tunes from his amazing- The Other's Buzz- which compiled the cream of a one year crop of Paul's songwriting. It
came out as a numbered, limited edition on Genuine Particle, good luck
finding a copy. One song that we did that isn't on the
record is "A Dream in Full" with Murph on drums. Paul
is currently working on the follow-up to Buzz which is to
be called Blammo! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Pete Yorn
Pete Yorn, model american d.i.y. musician.
musicforthemorningafter released March 2001 on
Columbia Records. Featuring the Instant Mayhem produced track,
"Simonize".
We're
A Happy Family - A Tribute To The Ramones features "I
Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by Pete Yorn, produced by Don
Fleming.
Here's a clue for you all, a special
bonus track featuring Pete, Matt Azzarto on bass and Don Fleming on lead
gtr and drums. A little something we call "Hard
Rain".
And for those PY fans who still
can't get enough here's "Farmer
-vs- River".
From the front lines
of Native America comes BLACKFIRE's first full length album of
fire-ball punk, "One Nation Under", produced by Don
Fleming. This Diné (Navajo) power trio of 2
brothers and their sister, combine their traditional roots with a
youthful raw energy to create a real Alter-Native sound. "One
Nation Under" features Joey Ramone, Jones Benally, and 15
passionately burning songs of struggles, resistance, and hope.
BLACKFIRE is completely independent, only plays all ages shows,
and continues to tour nationally and internationally. Go to www.blackfire.net
to check out some of the tunes.
thanks joey
photo by don fleming 1978,
ebbits field, denver colorado.
Rocket
Rocket is Matt
Azzarto, A.J. Azzarto and Murph. Matt was the singer/songwriter
for Hoboken pop mainstays The Fundamentals and The Gefkens, A.J.
was in the sleepy L.A. band called Sleepington (and daughter of
Nancy Sinatra) and Murph is the
original Dinosaur Jr drummer. If you like your pure pop with
a power booster then Rocket will take you there!
Django
Haskins
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DJANGO & THE REGULARS | Laying Low and
Inbetween (Alyosha)
Laying Low is a nostalgic experience, a
collection of songs that recall golden autumns
and endless senior-year Friday nights. Appropriating equal parts country and jangle-pop,
Django treads lightly between both, forging a new
sort of shimmering Americana of songs that glimmer and glide. Each reads like a
diary entry, of a memory of past heartache ("Sooner") and disappointment
("Laying Low"). Like an Andy Partridge from
Tennessee, Django lets his voice soar high into
Wilson territory ("12 Gauge
Microphone") as slide guitars weep on the
ground beneath. Even the sad, smoky "Time
and Again," which billows up over gently
strummed guitar, speaks more of opportunity than
oppression, with Django swearing "I will put
down roots and I will mend time and again."
- J. Edward Keyes CMJ New Music Report
MO-HO-BISH-O-PI>
"It's their disdain for
niceties, their stupid matching sun visors and
their ability to snatch victory from the jaws of
complacency that make them the most unpredictable
(and best) new band." NME
"One of the singles of the year.
A vibrant slice of pop punk energy. Produced by
Don Fleming. Really Great." Rough Trade
We did six tracks at Twin Peaks studio, a
medieval mountaintop getaway in Wales. The "Hear The
Air" 3-song single came out 5/00 in the
UK on V2. Topped BBC1's Alternative Buzz Chart
the first week out. Then the boys came to NYC and we recorded
the album at Watermusic. The full length CD came out on V2 on
September 10th, 2001.
Wylde
Ratttz First
conceived to supply Stoogesque tracks for the
Velvet Goldmine flick, this supergroup of
yesterday and today has completed an unreleased killer
album for new centurions. Built around rock god
supreme, Ron Asheton, this line-up leaves no
stone unturned.
Blind
Zero We did this
record just outside of Lisbon at the label's
private studio. The first single "Daily
Matters" received very heavy airplay on Portugal's main
rock stations. The album, One Silent
Accident, was released
to great reviews.
Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn lives in the mountains
of Sierra Madre, CA. She sings, plays acoustic
guitar and writes all her songs. She has been
playing in LA and NY. We recorded two songs,
"Trains" and "Take a Rock" at
Sear Sound and Mutiny Zoo. Gwendolyn has a
beautiful and unique style and writes very cool
songs. The two songs we did are featured on her
new Ultrasounds CD,
which is available through her site.
The Walter
Sears Don Fleming,
Tom Smith, Thurston Moore, Steve Shelly, Sean
Lennon, Jim Dunbar and Rat Bastard got together for
this love-fest in tribute to our mentor, the
incomparable Walter
Sear. The tune is featured in
the film "Committed". Check out the
scene where Heather Graham hears us blasting on a stereo and yells
"Turn that OFF!".
The
Dictators That's right, the
original NYC punk rock band. I recorded and mixed the tunes "What's Up
With That", and "I
Am Right." "What's
Up With That" is in the soundtrack for
the film Boys Don't Cry. "I Am
Right" is from the D.F.F.D. album release.
Two other songs that we recorded are still brewing: "Laughin' Out Loud"
& "Find Something Beautiful."
Rockin'hamFour
heavy tracks down and mixed from rock n' rolls
only NASCAR theme band. The tunes are "King
Richard," "The Track Song,"
"Into the Wall" and "Ballad of a
Stock Car Man." Six more tracks coming
along. These guys ROCK.
AUDIO: MP3 of "The Track Song"...........................
Harper
SimonWe recorded several tracks, including this one
"Tuba City Emergency Room" with Murph (Dinosaur
Jr, Lemonheads) on drums and Dougie Bowne
(Cibo Matto, Iggy Pop) doing
keyboard and drum programming. Harper wrote the
tunes and sings and plays guitar and bass.
DEE/DONDee/Don
is Dee Pop, drum dervish (from the Bush Tetras,
Four Blind Mice) and myself. We explore the heavy
side of the sonic frontier on this ferocious
tune.
AUDIO: MP3 of "Gone Shoppin'"
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The Big ChopperImagine
Frankenstein on a Harley and you'll get a good
idea of what The Big Chopper is all
about. When this dude comes roarin' down the
highway dead dogs jump out of the way. Now the
crown prince of the ghouls comes down hard with
this scary Halloween romp. This all started as
one simple holiday single. The Big Chopper laid
down "Surfin'
Halloween" for the fledgling Holiday Label.
Soon after, the band HE
turned in the classic Christmas hit "Go
Rudolph Go" b/w "Jessica". During
the record release party for the HE single, a few choice
comments from the Big Chopper sent the always
agitated Rummager from HE
into a rage that quickly escalated into a full on
fist fight between members of both bands. Over
the next 2 years the contest was on, with each
band trying to top the latest single from the
other camp. The Big Chopper -vs- HE is the result of this
battle royal.
Under the supervision of Instant Mayhem Productions and EROC Rock
Creations, the Holiday Label
has molded the raw energy of these bands into a
unified sound and purpose, not unlike the
"Motown Sound" or perhaps Buddha
Records' "Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus"
which brought us the groovy sounds of bubble gum
music. And unlike the one shot mentality common
to today's music biz, these records are
perennials, ready to blossom each and every year,
growing better with age like a fine wine.
Bush
Tetras We did a record for Mercury
Records, everyone was fired at the label the week
we finished it, record is still on the shelf. It is SO powerful,
killer tracks, classic NYC band.
Badge I put out A.J. Lambert's
previous band, Sleepington, on my Instant
Mayhem Label. We've recorded two tunes'
"Summer Fling" and the Nilsson
tune "Me and My Arrow" for a project that we called Badge. The line-up includes A.J. on vocals,
keyboards and guitar; me on vocals, bass and
guitar; Fran Azzarto on drum, Bil Emmons doing
programming and Matt Azzarto on guitar.
photo by don fleming 1978,
ebbits field, denver colorado. 
AUDIO: MP3's
MO-HO-BISH-O-PI>
"It's their disdain for
niceties, their stupid matching sun visors and
their ability to snatch victory from the jaws of
complacency that make them the most unpredictable
(and best) new band." NME 
