NEWS ARCHIVE
MOA / IVAN JULIAN TO PERFORM AT CMJ 2011
10.10.11 Swedish rockers, MOA, will be returning to the United States with special performances surrounding their official CMJ showcase on Friday, October 21st at The Living Room. NYC legend, Ivan Julian, and his band will also be in on the fun. Check out the GIGS page for more info.IVAN JULIAN PERFORMS LIVE ON WFMU
08.13.11 Ivan Julian and his band performed 12 scorching songs live in the studio on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with host Terre T on WFMU 91.1. You can hear the entire set + interview + all of the other cool songs picked and played by Terre T in the archives here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TTIVAN JULIAN - PREMIERE GUITAR FEATURE
06.16.11 There is a fantastic feature/interview with Ivan Julian in Premiere Guitar where they talk bassoons, glued-together vintage Strats, and how acoustic strings on electric guitars led to the magic on his new album, The Naked Flame. Interview by Adam Perlmutter. http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2011/Jul/Ivan_Julian_Spleen_On_His_Sleeve.aspxIVAN JULIAN IS FUTURESOUND'S SONG OF THE DAY
04.20.11 "The Naked Flame" by Ivan Julian is the Song of the Day on FutureSounds today!http://futuresounds.com/blog/archives/3499
TLIOF IN AUSTIN
03.30.11 Steve Five and Pete Sustarsic from The Library is on Fire rocked Austin during SXSW at a very cool show. It was captured in photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwyb/5573517192/in/photostream/ and in print: http://meccalecca.com/blog/?p=8695MOA PERFORMS AT LEMMY MOVIE PREMIERE
02.23.11 MOA performed last night at the premiere of the Lemmy documentary film in Stockholm. Please check out this excellent movie if you get a chance.CULTURE AS GIVEN PICKS TLIOF IN TOP 10 OF 2010
01.03.11 Magic Windows, Magic Nights by The Library is on Fire was picked as #4 of 2010 on Culture As Given: http://cultureasgiven.blogspot.com/WATCH 'MASTERS FROM THEIR DAY' WEBISODE FEATURING TLIOF!
10.07.10 'Masters From Their Day' is a web series sponsored by Benchmark Media. Here is a word from Benchmark about the project:Listening to music from the legendary catalogs of Decca, Atlantic, Stax, Sun, Parlophone, etc, it's hard to believe that several of those immortal recordings were made in a single session. How could any of those revered recordings have been made in one day? Simple... They had a killer studio, great gear, an extremely talented crew, and, most importantly, great artists. They were the masters from their day.
In homage to these craftspeople, Benchmark has created this web series, 'Masters From Their Day'. Each episode will document a cooperative team of highly-skilled 'collaborators' (artists, engineers, studios, etc) gathered for one day to execute a studio recording. The resultant mastered recordings from each day in the studio (the 'Masters From Their Day', as it were) are featured at the end of each episode and are available for you to download as uncompressed audio files.
Enjoy!
http://www.mastersfromtheirday.com/episode-3-the-library-is-on-fire/
ALTSOUNDS INTERVIEWS THE LIBRARY IS ON FIRE
07.21.10 Fantastic feature interview:http://hangout.altsounds.com/features/120321-the-lowdown-the-library-is-on-fire.html
TWO DIGITAL RELEASES TODAY FOR TLIOF
07.20.10 Two albums from The Library is on Fire catalog were re-released digitally today and are available around the world online: Cassette (originally released January 24, 2008) and Blue Rider & The Looking Glass Fern (originally released April 21, 2009). Go get 'em...TLIOF REVIEW IN CMJ
05.11.10 CMJ loves TLIOF:http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=180048196
FUTURE SOUNDS: THE LIBRARY IS ON FIRE
04.27.10 Future Sounds raves about TLIOF in their New Sounds Feature:http://futuresounds.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-sounds-library-is-on-fire.html
THE LIBRARY IS ON FIRE "MONKEY IN MY CHAIR" VIDEO
04.08.10 - Directed by Craig Snodgrasshttp://gorillaengine.com
YES IN MY BACKYARD SHOWCASES TLIOF
03.24.10 Christopher Weingarten interviews Steve Five about "Vanessa's Theatre of Peace" from Magic Windows, Magic Nights by The Library is on Fire. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/03/download_the_li.php "Brooklyn trio The Library is on Fire is a straightforward, all-thrills, unpretentious alt-rock blast--a band that understands the perfect balance between noise and melody."MAGIC WINDOWS, MAGIC NIGHTS RELEASED TODAY
03.02.10 The January recording sessions with Guided by Voices producer, Todd Tobias, lasting less than two weeks in the freezing Northeast Ohio cold showed the band's ability to work at a breakneck pace with pinpoint accuracy and culminated in the fifteen-song monolith LP/CD entitled Magic Windows, Magic Nights. Blending lo-fi cassette performances, urban NYC field recordings and tape samples with baroque orchestration and Tobias' high-fi analog indie production, Magic Windows, Magic Nights clamors with the noise of a band firing on all pistons.FREE MP3 FROM THE LIBRARY IS ON FIRE
02.17.10 The Library is on Fire released an exclusive free mp3 today of "Vanessa's Theatre of Peace" from their upcoming album, Magic Windows, Magic Nights. The album will be released on March 2nd - but you can pre-order it on the STORE page now.The free mp3 can be found here: http://www.highrisepr.com/images/stories/audio/vanessas_theatre_of_peace.mp3