Laughing Falcon releases hard-rocking debut LP Saturday
Get Laughing Falcon’s Kevin Chasek going on his Lincoln-based hard rock project, and what has him most excited is the prospect of reaching new audiences. Understandable, given his time in touring bands like Wasteoid.
That desire created the motivation for the band’s first full-length album. Chasek says that Laughing Falcon has applied to SXSW and is looking to book tours in early 2016 around that trip. An LP was an important piece of the puzzle.
“I felt like in order to make that stuff work we should have some sort of product,” Chasek says. “It’s always one of those things when you play a show. You can have t-shirts or whatever but people want the music if they’re into [our band].”
Laughing Falcon will release debut LP Sonic Possession this Saturday at The Bourbon with fellow Lincoln hard-rockers Beaver Damage, Domestica and Rift (RSVP here). The album was recorded over two three-day sessions in April and August with Charlie Johnson at Fuse Recording and mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering.
During those sessions, Laughing Falcon managed to capture its blaring, straightforward hard rock in a way that mirrors the band’s life performance. There’s a concert-hall feel to songs like “Getting Somewhere” to the point that you can imagine guitarist Matt Kaminski ripping off solos in your living room. Add Kyle Gibson’s rumbling bass and Nate Christiancy’s murderous drumming, and you get the iron wall of sound befitting the band known as one of Lincoln’s loudest.
“I’m definitely a no frills type person, so there’s not alot of trickery or anything going on with it,” Chasek says. “[We’re] just trying to [make] straightforward heavy rock.”
Following its release show Saturday, Laughing Falcon will start writing again before taking to the road in 2016. Chasek says he already has constructed five new songs, three of which the band has fleshed out. Then, he hopes to be on the road for roughly two months out of the year.
“That’s one of the things that’s gonna be most important for us, frankly,” Chasek says. “We can do interviews until we’re blue in the face, but the only way for people to be exposed to us is for us to get off our asses and get on the road.”
Sonic Possession is available now on Spotify and iTunes, or in person at Laughing Falcon’s Bourbon release show Saturday.
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Make Believe Recordings featured in Solid State Logic
Make Believe Recordings is garnering attention in the sound engineering community.
Sound blog Solid State Logic recently featured Make Believe and engineer/co-founder Rick Carson, briefly rehashing the last three years of success and delving into the studio’s recording philosophy.
The article gets a bit inside baseball at points, but it’s an interesting read for those with working technical knowledge (which, we assume, comprises much of the blog’s audience). It’s also good timing for a heavily active record label and recording studio, which just celebrated a year’s worth of boundary-pushing artistic output at its annual showcase.
Check out the Solid State Logic article here. See highlights from Make Believe’s 2015 showcase below:
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See Through Dresses release delayed
One quick new music update: North Carolina indie/punk label Tiny Engines has announced that See Through Dresses’ new album will release a week late.
End Of Days, the Omaha band’s Tiny Engines debut, was originally set for this Friday, Oct. 23. The EP, which will also see a split with labelmates It Looks Sad., will now drop Oct. 30. Its vinyl release will follow at an undetermined date.
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Concert Round-up
Tonight, Katie Crutchfield, known by her stage name as Waxahatchee, plays The Waiting Room with Try The Pie. Crutchfield, an Alabama native, has recorded and performed as Waxahatchee since recording her first album American Weekend in her bedroom in 2012. She has since signed to Merge Records, which released her third LP Ivy Tripp in April. She says of the album via press release: “I think a running theme [of Ivy Tripp] is steadying yourself on shaky ground and reminding yourself that you have control in situations that seem overwhelming, or just being cognizant in moments of deep confusion or sadness, and learning to really feel emotions and to grow from that.” Tickets are $15, RSVP here.
In Lincoln, Oakland’s Planet Booty plays Vega with Omaha R&B artist Dominique Morgan and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln DJ Club. The EDM act has been on tour for most of 2015 since appearing at SXSW earlier in the year. Planet Booty dispenses a sexy, potent mix of electro-funk and overwhelming beats. Surely, there will be sweat. Tickets are $8 for the 9 p.m. show. RSVP here.
As always, head to our statewide calendar at hearnebraska.org/events for a fuller listing of shows. If you do not see your show or one you plan to attend, email us at news@hearnebraska.org, or add it yourself. And keep those song submissions, story ideas and news tips coming.