Welcome to Talent Moat!
Brent Weinbach's album was selected as one of the Top 20 comedy albums of 2009 by I-Tunes and also hit "heavy airplay" status on WFMU in mid-December. Ordering info can be found below. Legs? This album's got them!
In upcoming 2010 action, production is set to begin for the next Talent Moat release, the debut album by Toronto, Ontario, comedy sensation, NICK FLANAGAN. A veteran of Club Chuckles, the Fuck Yeah Fest tour, Don't Mess With Texas, and other "kiss the ring" tastemaking events, we have not yet been able to raise the money to pay a publicist to put into words just how much we love this unique and supremely talented individual.
Brent Weinbach's album was selected as one of the Top 20 comedy albums of 2009 by I-Tunes and also hit "heavy airplay" status on WFMU in mid-December. Ordering info can be found below. Legs? This album's got them!
In upcoming 2010 action, production is set to begin for the next Talent Moat release, the debut album by Toronto, Ontario, comedy sensation, NICK FLANAGAN. A veteran of Club Chuckles, the Fuck Yeah Fest tour, Don't Mess With Texas, and other "kiss the ring" tastemaking events, we have not yet been able to raise the money to pay a publicist to put into words just how much we love this unique and supremely talented individual.
Brent Weinbach's The Night Shift!!!
Brent Weinbach's new album, The Night Shift, was released on Tuesday, Sept. 15th, 2009.
The album is available worldwide through all the major digital music services such as I-Tunes, Amazon, et al, as well as being on sale at our nation's finer brick-and-mortar retail shoppes. Mail order customers can purchase copies through the fine folks (and comedy masterminds) at A Special Thing.com
Brent's sold-out album release show this past Friday, co-presented by SF Sketchfest at the Verdi Club in San Francisco, was a rousing smash-hit success. Thanks to Alex Koll, Moshe Kasher, Laura Weinbach, and everyone who attended!!
Brent will be performing The Night Shift at Comedy Death Ray in Los Angeles tonight, 9/15. Special guest sets by Neil Hamburger and Todd Barry!
Just scroll on down for more info on the album and Brent's U.S. fall tour dates.
Rave reviews for The Night Shift!
"Brent Weinbach’s second full-length album, The Night Shift, is a surrealist audio collage far removed from conventional comedy. It's a whimsical and oft-incongruous 64-minute journey, worthy of repeat listens and unlike anything you’ve heard before." – SF Weekly
"For a comedy record, it’s got a damned impressive experimental streak, and it deserves to be widely influential. A lot of studio-recorded auditory noir which recalls nothing so much as a gleefully immature take on the radio theater of Joe Frank." - Dusted
“Why is he instead cursing in a bad Russian accent through the entire 26-letter alphabet? Why is he rigidly hunched over, jerkily snapping his hands like crab claws as bygone video-game themes bleep and bloop overhead? Why is it the most absurd and flat-out hilarious thing you've witnessed in your sheltered life?” – LA Weekly
"While this might paint Weinbach as someone uninterested in the conventional comedy album, much of The Night Shift is irresistibly funny - silly, surprising and oddly relatable from someone renowned for being strange." - A Special Thing.com
Here are the links to full reviews!
SF Weekly album review by Mike Rowell.
Time Out New York's Joke of the Week!
Album review in Dusted!
LA Weekly preview for Brent's show at Comedy Death Ray.
SF Chronicle 96 Hours cover story.
Interview/article on Brent in 9/2/09 issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Seattle-based Resilient Rabbit comedy blog.
SF music blog/website, The Bay Bridged
The Sound of Young America, syndicated on NPR, interview with Brent.
The Comic's Comic comedy blog.
Weinbach Fall 2009 Tour Dates
Brent will be supporting "The Night Shift" with a slew of U.S. (and Japan) tour dates this fall.
Sept. 11 - Verdi Club, San Francisco - Album Release Show
Sept. 15 - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Los Angeles (Comedy Death Ray)
Sept. 16 - Missoula, MT
Sept. 24-26 - Global ComedyFest, Vancouver, B.C.
Oct. 1 - Lincoln Lodge, Chicago, IL
Oct. 2-3 - Arlington Drafthouse, Washington, D.C.
Oct. 7 - Comix, New York City
Oct. 9 - Flicker Theatre, Athens, GA
Oct. 10 - 529 Club, Atlanta, GA
Oct. 19-25 - Okinawa Military Base, Japan
Nov. 4 - Chop Suey, Seattle (Laff Hole presents)
Nov. 6 - Bagdad Theater, Portland, OR
Nov. 17-21 - Cap City, Austin, TX
Brent will be supporting "The Night Shift" with a slew of U.S. (and Japan) tour dates this fall.
Sept. 11 - Verdi Club, San Francisco - Album Release Show
Sept. 15 - Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Los Angeles (Comedy Death Ray)
Sept. 16 - Missoula, MT
Sept. 24-26 - Global ComedyFest, Vancouver, B.C.
Oct. 1 - Lincoln Lodge, Chicago, IL
Oct. 2-3 - Arlington Drafthouse, Washington, D.C.
Oct. 7 - Comix, New York City
Oct. 9 - Flicker Theatre, Athens, GA
Oct. 10 - 529 Club, Atlanta, GA
Oct. 19-25 - Okinawa Military Base, Japan
Nov. 4 - Chop Suey, Seattle (Laff Hole presents)
Nov. 6 - Bagdad Theater, Portland, OR
Nov. 17-21 - Cap City, Austin, TX
Weinbach videos for The Night Shift
Brent's made a couple of videos for his forthcoming album. Check 'em out!
Night Shift video #1
Night Shift video #2
Brent's made a couple of videos for his forthcoming album. Check 'em out!
Night Shift video #1
Night Shift video #2
Brent Weinbach's new album, THE NIGHT SHIFT, to be released on September 15th!
After an entire year sequestered in the Shill Building studios, we've got the doozy of doozies in the pipeline for scheduled release on September 15th, 2009 -- the new full-length album by comic extraordinaire BRENT WEINBACH (winner of the 2007 Andy Kaufman award) entitled, THE NIGHT SHIFT.
Not any sort of traditional live record, 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.
The Night Shift will be available through all digital outlets such as I-Tunes, Amazon, et al, and in all finer brick-and-mortar retail establishments.
After an entire year sequestered in the Shill Building studios, we've got the doozy of doozies in the pipeline for scheduled release on September 15th, 2009 -- the new full-length album by comic extraordinaire BRENT WEINBACH (winner of the 2007 Andy Kaufman award) entitled, THE NIGHT SHIFT.
Not any sort of traditional live record, 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.
The Night Shift will be available through all digital outlets such as I-Tunes, Amazon, et al, and in all finer brick-and-mortar retail establishments.
Bucky Sinister's What Happens in Narnia, Stays in Narnia
Released in 2007, Bucky's album is still available through I-Tunes, Amazon.com, Rhapsody, e-Music, Other Music, Insound, and other fine digital outlets.
Released in 2007, Bucky's album is still available through I-Tunes, Amazon.com, Rhapsody, e-Music, Other Music, Insound, and other fine digital outlets.
WFMU weighs in!
"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
"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
