Interview: Gold Motel

Formed after The Hush Sound went on (permanent?) hiatus, Gold Motel is led by Greta Morgan and features members of This is Me Smiling. The band’s girl-group-sounding, pop-friendly full length debut, Summer House, comes out on June 1.

I e-mailed Greta some questions earlier this week. Here’s what she has to say.

The Gold Motel stuff sounds so “summery” to me – it’s bright, happy and shiny. If you owned a convertible, what songs would you have playing on your “Cruising Around Town – Summer ’10” playlist as you drive around and sing at the top of your lungs?

Vampire Weekend “Giving Up The Gun”
The Strokes “Under Control”
Generationals “When They Fight, They Fight”
John Lennon “Oh Yoko”
The Kinks “Drivin’
The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”
The Supremes “When The Lovelight Starts Shining In His Eyes”
The Zombies “Summertime”
Beach House “Walk In The Park”
Bob Lind “Cool Summer”
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Overkill books November tour dates

We haven’t even gotten to summer but old school thrash band Overkill has already booked a month worth of gigs for November as part of the second leg of KillFest 2010. Providing support on this tour are Forbidden, Evile, Gama Bomb, and Bonded By Blood.

Tour dates

11/5 – Montage Music Hall / Rochester – NY
11/6 – Crazy Donkey / Farmingdale – NY
11/7 – Club Hell / Providence – RI
11/8 – Sonar / Baltimore – MD
11/9 – Gil’s / Virginia Beach – VA
11/10 – Amos’ / Charlotte – NC
11/11 – Volume 11 / Raleigh – NC
11/12 – Hooligans / Jacksonville – NC
11/13 – Club Firestone / Orlando – FL
11/14 – Culture Room / Ft Lauderdale – FL
11/15 – The Masquerade / Atlanta – GA
11/16 – Peabody’s / Cleveland – OH
11/17 – Newport Music Hall / Columbus – OH
11/18 – Diesel Nightclub / Pittsburgh – PA
11/19 – Rocko’s / Manchester – NH
11/20 – Starland Ballroom / Sayreville – NJ

Via Audio played in Columbus (4/29)

Spent the late afternoon last Thursday with Brooklyn band Via Audio out at Electraplay studio where we did an on-camera interview and captured the band performing 4 songs on video. Look for that feature on Donewaiting.com in the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime, thought I’d share some photos from the day (and night). I don’t own an iPhone and therefore can’t play around with Hipstamatic which makes photos look totally retro and totally bad ass, but I did play around with some of the filters on my photo editing software and the results look pretty cool … at least I think so.

Here’s Jessica from Via Audio laying down vocals at Electraplay.

Later that night, Via Audio and local band Like Giants (playing their second to last show) played to a handful of appreciative fans at Rumba Cafe, perhaps my new favorite place to see a show in Columbus.
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I spent the night with Everest … and they made a video

Sounds dirty, doesn’t it? Fortunately, the two aren’t related.

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Last night’s plan was simple – slide into The Newport 5 minutes before Everest went on (8:45), watch their 45-minute set, and be back home before the 11pm news started. It didn’t quite work out that way.

After Everest’s amazing set (if you go into listening to their music knowing that singer Russell Pollard draws inspiration from Neil Young, Jeff Buckley, and Elliott Smith, you’ll be well prepared), I ran into guitarist Joel Graves at the merch booth. Being the liner note reading geek that I am, I recognized Joel’s name from Dig’s third – and final – album, Life Like. Joel told me that I’m the only person that has ever recognized him from his short lived time with the mid ’90s alterna-rockers.
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New music from Kyle Krone (The Shys)

The Shys have seemingly come to end but that isn’t stopping frontman Kyle Krone from continuing to make great music. Kyle’s hard at work on his debut album which he hopes to release this year. As a sneak preview, Kyle’s made a video of sorts for his song “Driving Deloreans” using old stock footage of the ’80s car made famous by the movie Back to the Future.