DOWNLOAD: - Michael Hurley & Ida - Wildgeeses (MP3)

Glorytellers (the Boston trio fronted by Geoff Farina of Karate and The Secret Stars) have a new record out, Atone, on Southern Records. "Just What I Was Thinking" from that is streaming on their Myspace and another, "Fours" is at Southern Records. The band is planing an East Coast/Midwest tour for December, and a European trip in February. Dates for both are TBA.

Before that though, Glorytellers will play Union Hall in Brooklyn with Ida on Saturday, November 7th. Tickets are on sale.

Ida released a collaboration with old-school folkie Michael Hurley on the Gnomonsong label on October 6th. "Wildgeeses" off that record is above. Director Marc Israel put together a documentary of sorts (with copious puppetwork) on Hurley called "Snock 'N Roll: Adventures With Michael Hurley" (Snock is his nickname). It's worth watching and posted in full, with all album info, below...

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DOWNLOAD: Glorytellers - Awake At The Wheel (MP3)

Joe Lally

Joe Lally (of Fugazi) is touring with Glorytellers (featuring former Karate member Geoff Farina) this June. The bands will visit the Cake Shop on June 11th and Brooklyn's Union Hall on June 12th.

Those dates are in addition to a number of Farina solo gigs scheduled for Europe in April, and a number of spring/summer dates Joe Lally has on his own - playing his songs as part of a trio. Full schedules below.

This is not the first time Joe Lally and Glorytellers have toured. They last visited NYC in May 2008 for a show at the Knitting Factory.

All tour dates and some live videos below...

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DOWNLOAD: Joe Lally - Day is Born (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Glorytellers - Awake At The Wheel (MP3)

Joe Lally in Bloomington, May 19, 2008 (ipicktherecords)

Gothamist: Your newest album is called Nothing is Underrated, which seems to me to be open to a lot of different interpretations.

Joe Lally: Indeed, it is.

Gothamist: Do you have an interpretation of your own?

Joe Lally: For me I guess it's coming from more than just a few places. But I suppose with the pace of the world and how much - especially here in the U.S. - people feel like they have to be accomplishing. And it's really not just here in the U.S.; it's about the mind and what we feel we have to accomplish to feel satisfied and what allegedly makes us happy. I don't know; it just sort of came down at some point to the idea that doing nothing is underrated. Being silent and going to a quiet place where creativity can come from... It's a number of things; it's hard to say that it came from this and therefore it's that.

Joe Lally was in Fugazi. Geoff Farina was in Karate and is now in Glorytellers. Glorytellers came out with an album this year too. Joe Lally and Glorytellers are on tour together. They play Knitting Factory in NYC tonight (May 27, 2008). Read more about the tour in the Gothamist interview. All tour dates below...

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