Andy Friedman With Paul Curreri May 23, 2011

Artist and songwriter Andy Friedman tours in support of his forthcoming third studio album, Laserbeams And Dreams (April 2011), which was produced by guitarist David Goodrich, GRAMMY-nominated bassist and composer Stephan Crump, and Friedman. Friedman's reputation as a "dusty, paint-splattered Americana sage" (Rochester News & Democrat) germinated with the release of his 2009 release, Weary Things, garnering enthusiastic praise, a performance on NPR's coveted Mountain Stage, and a growing audience. The online cultural journal Slant hailed Friedman as "an arrival of one of the genre's smartest and deepest talents," while the Columbia Free Times announced Friedman as "one of the greatest Americana around today." His "hard-tack country originals" were described in The New Yorker as "the mark of a true artist," while NoDepression.com called his songs "unforgettable." Indie-icon Sufjan Stevens proclaimed, "I think the world of Andy Friedman. I've always wanted to be Andy Friedman." "Friedman can write a lyric, and he can deliver it," declared Stephen Wine. "He is not to be overlooked, that's for sure." Also a noted illustrator, Friedman's drawings of cultural luminaries appear regularly in magazines and newspapers around the globe, including The New Yorker, NY Times, Rolling Stone, and GQ.

"Paul Curreri's art comes from a vocally experimental, swarthy space, and this holds true on his sixth full-length album, the thirteen-track California... As an exploration of ideals, the record interweaves Curreri's personal struggles with a healthy dose of questioning why we believe in what we do... If the state of California conjures images of untroubled, sugary pop-sweet beach scenes, that's not the California heard here. By stamping his darker, instrumental aesthetics over the stereotypical sunshiney sheen California casts over a psyche, Curreri transfixes, provokes, and simultaneously soothes his listener." -- The Hook

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