The Apples in stereo, The Generationals, Laminated Cat April 16, 2010

SPROUSE HOUSE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS....

CD CENTRAL'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

APPLES IN STEREO
GENERATIONALS
LAMINATED CAT

Friday, April 16th, 2010
Live at Cosmic Charlie's
Corner of Woodland and Euclid

Doors at 8 p.m.
$12 tickets.
Available at CD Central, Cosmic Charlie's, cosmic-charlies.com, and the door the night of the show.

APPLES IN STEREO (Lexington, KY / Denver, CO)
http://www.myspace.com/theapplesinstereo

"The Apples in stereo are celebrating the start of a new decade with the release of their seventh studio album, Travellers in Space and Time, their most hi-fi and hook-laden production to date.

Travellers contains sixteen piano-driven tracks, bubbling over with vocoder harmonies and sci-fi sound effects, like 70's AM radio filtered through a UFO. The musical theme heard in these songs is strung throughout Travellers: intense pop hooks and electronic sounds, mixed with a pumping, get-up-and-moonwalk beat.

The band spent well over a year in the studio recasting their signature pop sounds in chrome-plated futurism, all while adding a dance-driven vibe channeling ELO, Barry Gibb, Wild Honey-era Beach Boys and Off The Wall-era Michael Jackson.

The 2007 hit album, New Magnetic Wonder, spawned late night performances on Conan and Colbert, commercial placements for The Apples' music, invitations to perform at many prestigious festivals and venues (All Tomorrows Parties, Pitchfork, Primavera Sound, R.E.M. Charity Tribute Concert at Carnegie Hall), and a world tour that took the band as far away as Taiwan - not to mention a polished performance of their hit song "Energy" by the contestants on American Idol.

Since then, the band has been increasingly busy, gaining ownership of their spinART Records back catalog and readying the albums for re-release, compiling the best-of #1 Hits Explosion, and releasing Electronic Projects for Musicians, an album of rarities. Schneider also made his children's music debut with 2009's Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine, which made it to many Year-End Best Of lists; made numerous mathematics convention appearances; released Buddha Electrostorm, an album of lo-fi garage-psych recorded with his brother-in-law Craig Morris under the name Thee American Revolution; and topped it all off with his featured keynote talk and Australian debut performance at the Big Sound Music Conference, where he was featured alongside many musical luminaries, including noted Brian Wilson collaborator (and one of Schneider's heroes), Van Dyke Parks... and all of this while hard at work on The Apples' most ambitious studio production yet." - Bio (Condensed)

GENERATIONALS (New Orleans, LA)
http://www.myspace.com/generationals

"The two men behind the creation of Generationals - Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer - don’t know what they’ve done. They couldn’t possibly have that sort of clairvoyance to perceive the effect that one of the songs they wrote has had on the few and will have on the many before the year is up. The song in question - “When They Fight They Fight” - is a HIT recording the likes of which summers cream for, the likes of which makes everyone go a little woozy and a lot bananas. It’s the sunlight accentuated. It’s a pulsing, slow-drip of Motown bass and slinky guitar, melded with plenty of sing-a-long moments and the most perfect set of pop lyrics about fighting and what seems to be unconditional love through the thicks and thins. But “Con Law,” the debut full-length from this New Orleans-based band doesn’t stop there. It’s a record that’s solid from front to back, serving up songs that are meant for unburdened afternoons meant for strolling, crawfish boils, lengthy and enjoyable conversations with dear friends, never-ending hugs, watermelons being sliced into pieces as thick as four plates and no hint of a sunset." - last.fm

"Con Law is a must-own album for the summer." - Hearya.com

LAMINATED CAT (Athens, GA)
http://www.myspace.com/laminatedcatt

"The best young psychedelic band in years." - Robert Schneider

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