Bill Callahan, Lights, Neil Morgan December 7, 2009

SPROUSE HOUSE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS....

Bill Callahan
Lights
Neil Morgan

Monday, December 7th
Live at Cosmic Charlie's
Corner of Woodland and Euclid

Doors open at 8 p.m.
$8 tickets.
More info at http://cosmic-charlies.com/

BILL CALLAHAN (Austin, TX)
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/bill-callahan

"Callahan started out with distinctly lo-fi recordings back in 1988; cassette tape releases and lot's of hiss. Smog, his 'band', were one of the first released on the groundbreaking Drag City Records label in 1991. He collaborated with Will Oldham and is said to have influenced the likes of Beck and The Flaming Lips with his loose, unconventional structuring of songs." - opbmusic.com

"As the resident Poet Laureate of Drag City, Bill Callahan only has two albums between his former moniker as Smog, but in this small gap of time we’ve seen a drastic evolution of style that would take most artists a lifetime to flesh out. On his newest effort Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle, Callahan’s protagonist, whether autobiographical or a fictional character, has finally abandoned his teenage spaceship." - TheDecibelTolls.com

"Sometimes "I Wish We Were An Eagle" is a record of grand hopes and epic imagery, and powerful, uplifting music--the most accomplished of his 20-year career." - MOJO

LIGHTS (Brooklyn, NY)
http://www.myspace.com/lightsmakemusic

"New York nu-discoists are signed to Drag City, but they're all DFA; ebullient bass lines, excellent drum production and an acceptance of dance music tropes. In the video for their slithering "Fire Night," the band get all trippy, dancing in bubbly and glittery environments, and throwing bones, for some reason." - Pitchfork

NEIL MORGAN (Portland, OR)
http://www.myspace.com/nealmorganmusic

""To The Breathing World" is a drum and voice record, composed entirely of my own drumming and singing, made in between tours playing with Joanna Newsom in support of Ys beginning in early 2007." - Neil Morgan

"(It) is, as the title implies, a debut album, as well as a letter of love to the world at large and small. Sober of voice, ecstatic in heart and mind, Neal Morgan has broken through, and coming through the polyphony of voices and blur of arms and legs and sticks and cymbals is the sound of a manifesto. . .” - Drag City

Official Website: http://cosmic-charlies.com/