no, seriously -

roger powell, late of (the greatest band ever and why the hell aren’t their last two records still in print – i’m looking at you, rhino…) utopia has a new, self-released(ish) cd of solo piano called “blue note ridge.” it’s lovely, and as i pretty much abandoned the beatles for utopia somewhere in the middle of my musical development, i feel strongly about pimping it to you, the assembled masses. i’m sure david and kris would agree if they were returning my calls.

cdbaby
myspace
awesome picture of a polar bear

ok, then.

-thom
(the new record is in mastering as we speak…)

WELCOME (BACK) TO NOVASOCIAL.COM

IS THIS THE SINGLE?

Happy new year everyone. Yes, you too.

New for the new year from Nova Social land is the FCC-friendly single version of “The History of Entertainment,” from the never-pressed and now-deleted “Ham Sandwich EP,” up for streaming on the Nova Social myspace page.

The uncensored version will appear on “Other Words From Tomorrow’s Dictionary.”

Enjoy.

NOVA ALBUM NO. 2 SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC!

Loyal novasocial.com news readers, we admit that we’ve been giving a lot more attention to our more popular mistress. What can we say? We love you both very much.

However, now is as good a time as any to let everyone know that we are pretty much finished with our second full-length release. We’ve worked sporadically over the last six months at The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, New York (with a few sessions closer to home at Headgear in Brooklyn) with our dear friend Daniel James Goodwin. The final mixes are done and the songs are:

Diving
The History of Entertainment
Natural Eye Shadow
I Saw Your Car
Laundry Chute
Shine
Fucking the Past
My Teenage Stride
The Jitney
New York’s Glorious New Wave

Special guests include Therese Cox, Ginger Swiston, The HaveNots, and Rich Polatchek.

Title, final running order and label are TBD.

XO,
Nova Social

If anyone’s looking for an excrutiatingly cold February getaway for 2006, we highly recommend Rhinebeck, NY. We were up there for four-and-a-half days last week at The Clubhouse starting work on our as-yet-untitled second full-length CD — 10 songs in under 40 minutes, our ADD increases with every release. It’s a different studio than the one we recorded the bulk of The Jefferson Fracture at, but it still has the same charm, as well as the incredible Daniel Goodwin, one of our favorite people in the world. We got all the rhythm tracks done, most of the guitars, a lot of the keyboards and a handful of vocals. Recording is fun. We recommend it. More later.

We know that it may be a bit trite, but happy new year. So far so good, we hope.

Next week could take everything up a notch, mainly because there is not one, but two NOVA SOCIAL appearances.

They are:

Wednesday, January 19 @ 9:30 p.m.

Maxwell’s

1039 Washington Street

Hoboken, New Jersey

w/ Risk Relay at 8:30 and Skyline Rodeo at 10:30

$6

Saturday, January 22 @ midnight

The Charleston Bar & Grill

174 Bedford Ave (@ N. 7th St.)

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

“Jersey Beat Presents: Nova Social, The Squeaky Fromme, Sinclare and Prankstar”

This is a free show. Jim Testa is a swell guy and The Squeaky Fromme is Styx to our REO (or vice versa).

Also, I’m doing a solo show on:

Thursday, January 20

Pete’s Candy Store

709 Lorimer Street

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

I’m playing with Chris Mills, with whom I had the recent pleasure of assisting in the production of a highly ambitious and extraordinary album. The show is, again, free; I’ll go on at 10 and Chris is at 11. All covers? Or something.

And in February, there will be another live show at Pianos on Friday, 2/18 (opening up for former Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria) and later that month, we’ll begin recording our new album. No really.

-d