9/27: Nelsonville, OH @ Stuart’s Opera House
9/28: York, PA @ Capitol Theatre
9/29: Wilmington, DE @ World Cafe Live @ The Queen
10/2: Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere
10/4: Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre
10/5: Marshall, NC @ Marshal l High Studios
10/6: Wilmington, NC @ The Soapbox
10/9: Louisville, KY @ Clifton Center

Phantom Family Halo’s limited edition double LP Monoliths & These Flowers Never Die is available here. Download included. You can also download a track from the album, Alive & Well, at our Soundcloud.

250 copies will be pressed on sky blue vinyl. Karate Body Records has 75 copies available for order at $25 each (shipping not included).

The remaining units will be available at Bonnie “Prince” Billy shows beginning June 10, when they play The Belcourt Theatre in Nashville.

Please note: This title will not be available in stores, only through our website and at the shows.

You can order via PayPal on our site. All orders ship after June 16.

XOKBR

Cheyenne Mize & Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s Among The Gold will be available in record stores across the United States and maybe a few other continents on Tuesday, May 19 via Junket Boy.

JB’s digital store thinkindie.com will post 320 kbps mp3s of the six songs, transferred from the vinyl itself.

Aging is shit:  stuff starts to drag, things aren’t in the right place, hair leaves one area and moves to another.  Thankfully music just seems to get better with time.  The simplicity, honesty, and earnestness seems to trump any of that electro stuff you’ve been listening too, because that stuff is too big.  It’s unwieldy.  Old songs fit in your pocket.  They crawl behind your ear.  They remind you that someone could be singing to you.

That’s the beautiful recollection on Cheyenne Mize & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s EP Among the Gold out via local imprint/ne’erdowells Karate Body Records.  I wasn’t the biggest fan to Oldham’s last output.  It was too slick, too big, and too unhinged.  And besides, he didn’t have that smooth female croon that he’s been developing in his work (See:  The Letting Go).  Cheyenne Mize (from Arnett Hollow) is the perfect antidote.  These older tunes are elegant, focused, and beautifully spun.  Like a story that just keeps getting better with age, Among the Gold places us squarely in the past and present — drifting on a hushed sunbeam of song.

All “Among The Gold” pre-orders through April 11 have shipped.

For our transatlantic posses, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s European dates begin next week! Here they are:

April 2009
21 LONDON, ROUNDHOUSE
22 AMSTERDAM, PARADISO
23 BRUSSELS, AB
24 PARIS, LE CIGALE
25 PRINTEMPS, DE BOURGES
26 MARSEILLE, CABARET ALEATOIRE
27 TORINO, TBC
28 ROMA
29 ITALY, NUOVO TBC
30 ATHENS
May 2009
01 ISTANBUL

Almost lost in a hail of … code, we present Karate Body’s new website! (Which yer lookin’ at — yeah you.)

It’s a work in progress, but we’ll be posting new videos, links to interesting things, our thoughts on the current economic crisis, strange-looking animals, general observations on eating, and actual music.

What better day to launch than on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the same week that President-elect Barack Obama takes the big O? Don’t know about that Bono speech though. Geez.

But you’re here for the myoooozic, right?

Karate Body Records LLC is a vinyl label based in Louisville, Ky. We might go digital at some point, but for right now, it’s wax with tracks.

We’re celebrating an inaugural of our own next month when we release Louisville Is For Lovers Vol. 9 on double red and white vinyl in a custom Valentine’s Day package for the first … time … ever.

This year’s compilation features 19 — or is it 20? We lost count — exclusive tracks by Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Fervor, Whistle Peak, Lucky Pineapple, The Mack, Teneia Sanders and more. Our pal, resident artiste Lis4L founder Mr. John King has the complete details on the CD version over here. Pre-order your vinyl here through PayPal. All transactions are secure.

Three shows are scheduled for this sucker: Feb. 11 at The Lounge (947 E. Madison St.; 8 p.m., $3), a Feb. 13 Live Lunch at WFPK Studios (619 S. Fourth St.; free, first-come, first seated). Finally there’s an all-ages blowout at Skull Alley (1017 E. Broadway) on Feb. 14. That starts at 8 p.m. and is $5. It’s like a love overdose. You can hardly stand it.

Friend us and check for updates on our MySpace and Facebook pages.

We’re posting more info as we go, so keep checking back with us.

Thanks!
KBR