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Tiny Victories
Those Of Us Still Alive

Tiny Victories is Greg Walters and Cason Kelly. Their debut EP drops Feb. 28.

So here's where the band name comes from (or so they tell me): Greg and Cason were walking down the street in Brooklyn when they saw this guy scraping graffiti off his front porch. Somebody wrote "F— You" on his house. He had this gleam in his eye, like he was getting even with the universe in a small way. "All right, everybody, today is mine." And Greg's brother Doug, who was with them, turned around and said: "So what are the opposite of tiny defeats?"

For me, that's what this music is about: small moments of redemption, amplified. It's got the spirit of a marching band at a funeral. It's a party at the end of the world, and you can't help but join in.

It's a big sound for just two guys. In their live show, they play electronic music with an array of samplers and gadgets and live drums—no laptop. They'll sample crowd noises with a microphone during the set, process it live, and weave it into the songs. Their show has an uncommonly organic, improvisational feel for electronic music. I've seen crowds completely change when Tiny Victories takes the stage.

If you ask Greg and Cason about it, they'll tell you every song is an experiment. Each uses a method they've never tried before. It's a process that's impossibly complicated—they've tried to explain it to me, and I just nod my head and stand back.

Once (after a long night of drinking) Greg put it this way: "We make simple songs out of complex pieces." Take a melody that works on an acoustic guitar. Then orchestrate it with samples that have been reprocessed beyond recognition—like the sound of trash being thrown into a Manhattan dumpster. They sampled that one afternoon, then ran it through a gazillion effects and turned it into a backbeat you can hear in the ending of Get Lost.

I first found out about these guys last year, back when I had a job booking bands in Brooklyn. I'd scroll through hundreds of bands looking for something new, something that stood out. And then I came across these two. It was suspiciously great music.

They formed the band in 2010 after meeting in Brooklyn. Cason moved there from Athens, GA, and spent his early 20s doing social work with inner city kids. Greg, born in DC, moved to New York after six years as a foreign correspondent, covering a war (Russia-Georgia) and two revolutions (Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan). If you ask them to tell you a story, get ready for a crazy one.

Those Of Us Still Alive is their debut album. But these songs don't sound like a band's first effort. They have the confidence and consistency of a mature project. It's an album about how the outside world might not be as bad as it looks, or maybe it is. And it's about ghosts that won't shut up.

--Timber Wolf

Brooklyn, New York

http://bighassle.com/publicity/tiny-victories

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The story of Elliot & The Ghost begins in Austin, Texas where singer Will Thompson grew up listening to his dad's Rolling Stones and Clash records. By age 18, he led his band The Steps on multiple world tours and three critically acclaimed records. Now based in Brooklyn, Will has put new focus into his group Elliot & The Ghost. Rounded out by guitarist Brett Giroux, drummer Ilya Kuperman and bassist Jason Weiss, the band creates a unique melodic sound resonant of their punk, folk and rock influences. The band will release their debut EP in February and head down to Austin for SXSW in March.

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You might know Alicia Witt from her body of work as an actor on shows including Friday Night Lights, Law & Order and Cybill, and from the films 88 Minutes, Two Weeks Notice, Last Holiday and Mr Hollands Opusto name a few. But she is also a classically trained pianist and accomplished singer/songwriter. For the last 3 years, she's been performing her original songs at venues across the country such as Hotel Cafe and Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles, and Joe's Cafe and The Living Room in New York.Her self-titled first EP is out on iTunes. Alicia's first music video, for the single 'Anyway', was played on MTVu and VH1.com. She has also appeared as musical guest on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and is currently working on her next album.

...what a voice. It comes from tender, intimate appeals, soaring to roof raising heights, as she all the while works the piano with ease and command...where Witt really excels is in her ballads, personal and universal poems of love, longing, and everyday girl issues. Her lyrics flow with a poetic polish, and her piano playing rivals that of rockers Billy Joel or Elton John.

- What Duvet Said, review, 12/09

www.aliciawittmusic.com/

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Award-winning singer/songwriter Jeannine Hebb began her lifelong pursuit of music at only four years old. After developing a fascination with her grandmother's music box atop the living room piano, Jeannine would sit at the keys humming and plunking away until she figured out -- by ear -- how to play its only song, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina."

As a shy kid from the suburbs of Boston, that moment sparked the start of her formal music training and marked a turning point in her life. An only child, she spent a lot of time alone in her room writing colorful songs and perfecting her piano skills. By 13, she was touring with a professional musical theater troupe and after several performances, it became clear that she was more comfortable on stage than she was off. Music had given her the guts -- and the gift-- to communicate. "If I didn't discover music, I would still be the same shy little girl," she said. "Music helped bring me out of my shell. All of a sudden I started singing and I became a different person."

Hebb packed her bags and headed to Berklee College of Music as a teenager. A short three years later, Jeannine graduated cum laude at the age of 20. She won a litany of awards, including both the Berklee Singer/Songwriter and Songwriting Showcase competitions two years in a row. She was chosen as the recipient of the Frank E. Remick and E. Ione Lockwood awards for excellence in music and vocal performance, and was honored with the Susan Glover Hitchcock scholarship for outstanding musicianship. Upon graduation, Jeannine received the Scott Benson scholarship for songwriters - the highest honor in the Berklee songwriting department.

After graduation, Jeannine moved to New York City to pursue her career. In 2007, she released her debut EP Too Late to Change Me. With clever chord structures and purposeful melodies, Jeannine's well-crafted sound reflects her life-long study of music.

Jeannine has performed at notable venues in the Northeast including: Scullers, The Ragatta Bar, The Middle East, The Bitter End, The Living Room, Rockwood Music Hall, and Galapagos Art Space.

She's appeared with jazz legends Ben Monder, Clarence Penn, and Tim Ries, and has served as an opening act for two-time Grammy nominee Tracy Bonham. She recently sang on a track for internationally recognized DJ Breakfast, and has recorded a duet for country musician Greg Garing's upcoming release on L.E.S records.

With the release of her upcoming album, Jeannine shows her prowess as a technically trained singer/songwriter ready to step out of her former shell and step boldly into the spotlight.

The slow ballad "These Days" is an ambient, melancholy song about feeling trapped in the routine of everyday life. "It's an introspective song about being paralyzed and unable to do anything other than sit and think about what you should be doing. Unfortunately, I do a lot of that. But it makes me feel better to write songs about it."

"These days I do a lot of screaming / always cause all I am is dreaming / of someday one day that might never come my way where I could sit and wait / or scream and cry and everything would be just fine but I won't ever find them / those days"

Be sure to check out Jeannine on January 28th at Cafe Vivaldi in New York City.

More Information:
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www.jeanninehebb.com/

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