David Wax Museum
April 24, 2012:
We’re busying digging into all the final details for the record (mixing, mastering, track order, artwork!) and decompressing a bit after an unbelievable couple of months.
We were recently out on the West Coast supporting our good friends the Carolina Chocolate Drops. What an amazing run of shows! Be sure to pick up their new record Leaving Eden. There are some very exciting shows with the Chocolate Drops coming up. Stay tuned here for an announcement in the near future.
After two great festivals down South (Shakori Hills and Rhythm ‘N’ Blooms), we made our way to Greensboro, North Carolina to film a music video for the new record with our brilliant friends at Monkeywhale Productions. The filming involved a clover field, roller skates, a large animal, and some of the dreamiest cinematography you can imagine. Look out for the music video premiere this summer!
Now we’re gearing up for our big nationwide tour with Joe Pug that starts on May 19 in Chicago. He’s just released his fantastic new record The Great Despiser. We’ll be criss-crossing the country with Joe Pug & Company, so check the schedule because there’s a good chance we’re playing in a city near you.
The picture above is the real deal: a confectionary jawbone on a cupcake! Special thanks to the Miller family and to cupcake artist Janice.
about the band...
Recently anointed as Boston’s Americana Artist of the Year (2010 Boston Music Awards), the David Wax Museum has been called “pure, irresistible joy” (Bob Boilen, NPR) and hailed by TIME.com for its “virtuosic musical skill and virtuous harmonies.” It is no surprise that its acclaimed performance at the 2010 Newport Folk Festival was hailed as one of highlights of the entire weekend by NPR. The Museum fuses traditional Mexican folk with American roots and indie rock to create an utterly unique Mexo-Americana aesthetic. Combining Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey jawbone rattling, they have electrified audiences across the country and are “kicking up a cloud of excitement with their high-energy border-crossing sensibility” (The New Yorker).
The band’s new album, Everything Is Saved, produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter), has been drawing rave reviews from all corners and has propelled the band into the national spotlight. With an illustration in The New Yorker, a feature in Paste Magazine, a Daytrotter session, a nod from TIME magazine as one of the top ten acts of this year’s South by Southwest, and an appearance on NPR’s World Café, the band has quickly become “one of the hottest new indie bands around” (Better TV).
Management: Dolphus Ramseur - ramseurrecords@ctc.net
Booking: Dan Peraino - dan@concertedefforts.com
Press: Holly Lowman - ramseurrecords.holly@gmail.com
“Unfruitful” in the crowd at Newport Folk Festival 2010
Check out The New Yorker illustration of the band!
