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March 2009 update
NEW BRENT WEINBACH ALBUM ON THE WAY!!
After an entire year sequestered in the Shill Building studios, we've finally got a doozy of doozies in the pipeline for scheduled release in September 2009 -- the new full-length album by comic extraordinaire BRENT WEINBACH (winner of the 2007 Andy Kaufman award) entitled, THE NIGHT SHIFT.
This is not any sort of traditional live record. Rather, The Night Shift is a densely woven mix of in-studio routines replete with instrumental roller rink-meets-Nintendo backing tracks (composed and performed by Brent), some live comedy club material, some of Brent's original piano and vocal songs that have a surprising heartfelt Tin Pan Alley bent, disturbing phone messages and much more. The overall vibe is perhaps somewhere in the outer Joe Frank universe but it's safe to say that there's never before been a comedy album like this one. Okay, so maybe it's the TUSK of comedy albums.
"...obscenely, disturbingly brilliant." -L.A. Weekly
"Weird, scary, hilarious." -Time Out NY
NEW BRENT WEINBACH ALBUM ON THE WAY!!
After an entire year sequestered in the Shill Building studios, we've finally got a doozy of doozies in the pipeline for scheduled release in September 2009 -- the new full-length album by comic extraordinaire BRENT WEINBACH (winner of the 2007 Andy Kaufman award) entitled, THE NIGHT SHIFT.
This is not any sort of traditional live record. Rather, The Night Shift is a densely woven mix of in-studio routines replete with instrumental roller rink-meets-Nintendo backing tracks (composed and performed by Brent), some live comedy club material, some of Brent's original piano and vocal songs that have a surprising heartfelt Tin Pan Alley bent, disturbing phone messages and much more. The overall vibe is perhaps somewhere in the outer Joe Frank universe but it's safe to say that there's never before been a comedy album like this one. Okay, so maybe it's the TUSK of comedy albums.
"...obscenely, disturbingly brilliant." -L.A. Weekly
"Weird, scary, hilarious." -Time Out NY
Bucky Sinister
Bucky Sinister's What Happens in Narnia, Stays in Narnia is currently available through I-Tunes, Amazon.com, Rhapsody, e-Music, Other Music, Insound, and other fine digital outlets.
Bucky Sinister's What Happens in Narnia, Stays in Narnia is currently available through I-Tunes, Amazon.com, Rhapsody, e-Music, Other Music, Insound, and other fine digital outlets.
For record stores and other wholesalers, Talent Moat product is available through Revolver/Midheaven and Last Gasp.
"San Francisco's fledgeling Talent Moat label has started rolling out
what promises to be the Laff Records of the new millenium, documenting
some burgeoning underground comedy that's taken place at the label's
related Club Chuckles nights at the city's Hemlock Tavern. Release
numero uno comes from Bucky Sinister, a shadowy, Bukowskian figure
who's loomed over town for a while, and his debut CD What Happens In
Narnia, Stays In Narnia is a journey through his inner psychoses via
perplexing segments with titles like "My Date With Laura Ingalls."
Sinister's approach finds himself propped up in a manner not unlike the
late great Bill Hicks, a refreshing literacy missing in a lot of
so-called indie comedy (so it's probably worth mentioning Bucky's
penned a bunch of books too). He sounds like someone who's spent a lot
of time recuperating from godknowswhat on the past's punk circuit
(something he sounds well versed in), crawling his way out of a pit of
fellow rehab zombies immersed in trash TV. His observations reel off in
the form of angry spittle and get downright speedfreaky at times, he's
a compelling and funny listen and quite different." - WFMU
what promises to be the Laff Records of the new millenium, documenting
some burgeoning underground comedy that's taken place at the label's
related Club Chuckles nights at the city's Hemlock Tavern. Release
numero uno comes from Bucky Sinister, a shadowy, Bukowskian figure
who's loomed over town for a while, and his debut CD What Happens In
Narnia, Stays In Narnia is a journey through his inner psychoses via
perplexing segments with titles like "My Date With Laura Ingalls."
Sinister's approach finds himself propped up in a manner not unlike the
late great Bill Hicks, a refreshing literacy missing in a lot of
so-called indie comedy (so it's probably worth mentioning Bucky's
penned a bunch of books too). He sounds like someone who's spent a lot
of time recuperating from godknowswhat on the past's punk circuit
(something he sounds well versed in), crawling his way out of a pit of
fellow rehab zombies immersed in trash TV. His observations reel off in
the form of angry spittle and get downright speedfreaky at times, he's
a compelling and funny listen and quite different." - WFMU
