Interview with Lucas!
Here is a short interview with our drummer/loudmouth Lucas Jensen in advance of our show at Secret Stages tomorrow in B’ham (Rogue Tavern—9 PM!).
An interview with the Red & Black
Karolyn did an interview with the Red & Black in advance of this Friday’s show. Now we’re on the hook for a toilet at the Georgia Theatre!
Apparently, we are a great Athens band?!
At least Paste Magazine seems to think so! There are a ton of bands we’d add to list (hello, Cinemechanica, the Glands, Phosphorescent, Quiet Hooves, Grape Soda, etc. etc. etc.), but it is nice to be included in such halcyon company.
Thanks!
#1 at Punk News!
Joe Pelone of Punk News listed our very own Sand & Lines as his number one record of 2010! He suffered the tragic loss of his cousin this year, and I guess our album helped him get through this tough period by focusing him on the positive aspects of his love. That means a lot to us. It feels good to create art that moves someone in any sort of way (even anger some of the time!). In case you were wondering, this is one of the reasons we do what we do.
“ Recorded live in the lost ambience of an empty Georgia Theatre, their album Sand & Lines is a stirring work that finally rallied me to their cause. Superb choices in cover songs, too! ”
He likes us…he really likes us! Jeff Clark of Stomp & Stammer kindly writes us up (and our pals in Oryx & Crake) here.
“ By releasing Sand & Lines, Venice Is Sinking accidentally etched its songs upon the headstone of the old Georgia Theatre. Recorded live at that establishment in late May of 2008 and then released shortly after it burned, Sand & Lines pairs songs by Dolly Parton and Waylon Jennings alongside the group’s own, giving all of them the same, intimate treatment, and all in the same, iconic room. But don’t let the album’s back story overshadow the album. The live performance experiment is a success: Sand & Lines plays like realizing your girlfriend is more beautiful without make-up than with. ”
John Seay of the Flagpole writes up Sand & Lines for the year-end review of Athens local releases.
Thanks for the kind words.
Band of the week!
Someone has some awfully nice things to say about us. Thanks, Andy!
A new interview!
Daniel and Lucas did an interview with Pretty New Songs in advance of this weekend’s Dean and Britta/Galaxie 500 show. It was an amazing experience, btw. Thanks for asking!
“ Of the covers, “Jolene” is pitched between Damon and Naomi and the VU (fuck yeah), but I gotta say, their baroque arrangement of Galaxie 500’s “Tugboat” (pace slowed to a graceful shuffle, strings, horns, and sleighbells) almost beats the original (and fucking On Fire changed my life at 17). “Falls City” smolders alluringly with ghostly Martin Rev organ, a head-nodding beat, a string section, and Link Wray twang. ”
From a review by Ink 19. Any day we get compared to Martin Rev is a good day!
