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Ivan Howard of the Rosebuds on selling out Bowery Ballroom, Micheal Showalter, seeing Bon Iver and stuff
DOWNLOAD: Bon Iver - For Emma (MP3)
Merge posted Ivan's 2007 Top 10 list yesterday. Here are some excerpts....
10.) Selling out the Bowery Ballroom in NYC on our US Tour in May. You have to understand that our first ever show as The Rosebuds in NY was at a place called the Sidewalk Cafe on Avenue A, that held about 15 people all of whom were friends of the band we were playing with. Well, I should not say it was a real show because it really was an "Open Mic" night where everyone in the audience got in for free. The only catch was they had a two drink minimum!The Rosebuds have some shows coming up. Bon Iver has some shows coming up. More below....2.) Watching Bon Iver's" first show ever at our Rosebuds' show at the House of Rock in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We drove all night from Chicago to get to the afternoon show on time, and Justin (aka Bon Iver) who was our guitarist on tour kept telling us about how awesome his hometown was and about this place called The Joynt down from the venue where his parents met. Well what was awesome was the Bon Iver set. That was the first time any of us ever saw Justin play those songs. When he played "For Emma, For Ever Ago" and dedicated it to Kelly and me, it was all I could do to even watch the song it was so good. If I would have been more of a man I would have just balled my eyes out like I wanted to right there in front of everyone. But I kept it together that time.
6.) Kelly went up to NYC this summer to check out a few standup comedy shows and saw Micheal Showalter's comedy CD taping show at Union Hall (which we love by the way) and told me about a sketch he did about a poem he wrote in his high school literary journal. Well I finally heard that story on the CD and it is hilarious! Up there with "the Gorch" from Jon Wurster. What does it have to do with music you ask? Not really sure, but it isn't bothering me either way.Kelly is also a comedian.
Posted on January 3, 2008 11:17 AM
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Ivan and John Vanderslice should have a "nice-off" for the title of nicest indie rocker.
Posted by D.D.D.Dave | January 3, 2008 12:22 PM
a rosebuds video tribute that I found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETsSp6mdM8k
cheers
Posted by justin X | January 3, 2008 1:16 PM
a rosebuds video tribute that I found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETsSp6mdM8k
cheers
Posted by justin X | January 3, 2008 1:16 PM
Ironic that they can sell out Bowery, but can barely move 5000 copies of their latest album (a pitiful amount for a Merge band).
Posted by Dave | January 3, 2008 1:18 PM
maybe Merge are the pitiful ones in this case
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 1:20 PM
i wouldnt blame the rosebuds either. the new album, maybe not their best album, but it had two awesome singles on it that could of been minor hits had merge made the effort in promoting them.
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 1:52 PM
merge does NOTHING for their bands
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 2:02 PM
Yeah fuck Merge, they didn't do anything for that Arcade Fire or Spoon either
Posted by Dave | January 3, 2008 3:20 PM
maybe they ignore everyone that isn't Spoon or Arcade Fire
Posted by Anonymous | January 3, 2008 3:35 PM
Yes, they probably just ignore the bands that they invest the basis of their whole business in, that makes perfect business sense.
That must be how they've been going for almost 20 years now: by investing time and money into putting out albums and then just ignoring/doing nothing for the bands, crossing their fingers that maybe hopefully, they'll get no sales.
Posted by Alvis | January 3, 2008 4:13 PM
the Rosebuds and Merge Records are awesome. Most of the people who write comments to waste of time blogs like this (myself excluded, obviously) are fucking dumbasses. Everyone already knows that. And if I wasn't drunk I wouldn't be wasting my time, either. I feel gay. Not in a homo way, but in a retarded person way.
Posted by MC Prof. Kinga | January 4, 2008 12:21 AM