news and updates

❧ What Laura Says Daytrotter session now up!
[06/09/2009]

What Laura Says - Daytrotter session now up!

Click to go to the Daytrotter website.

Illustration by Johnnie Cluney

❧ Coming up soon!
[06/09/2009]

June 26th @ the Local 506 in Chapel Hill
Sunfold
Hammer No More the Fingers
On Photon
Thoughtspeak

July 25th @ NC Museum of Art in Raleigh
Annuals
The Old Ceremony

Click here for more info from the NC Museum of Art website.


June 13th-27th
Lonnie Walker on tour!

Click here for Lonnie Walker tour dates.

 

❧ Check it!!
[05/15/2009]



❧ Out Now!
[03/30/2009]

Official CD Release Show @ Schoolkids Records 5pm Saturday May,30th

Buy it now at our web store!

These Times

❧ SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST!
[02/19/2009]

We are pleased to officially announce Terpsikhore's participation in the 2009 SXSW music conference in Austin, TX! On Wednesday 3-18-09 Terpsikhore alongside our friends at Favorite Gentlemen (Atlanta, GA) will co-host the Terpsikhore/Favorite Gentlemen showcase at the Radio Room. As many already know, Terpsikhore and Favorite Gentlemen are both artist run indie labels that operate in conjunction with Canvasback music in NYC. Annuals and Manchester Orchestra have both invested a lot of love and time into their respective label-projects. We're all thrilled to be at SXSW showcasing our bands together and representing a new generation of indie labels. The line up of the showcase will include Manchester Orchestra, Annuals, Kevin Devine, What Laura Says, All Get Out, and Lonnie Walker. Manchester Orchestra will be unveiling material from their upcoming sophomore LP, available this spring via Canvasback Music.

Annuals, What Laura Says, and Lonnie Walker will be popping up at different places around Austin throughout the conference, more SXSW updates soon!

❧ Lonnie Walker selected for The News & Observer's Great Eight...
[02/16/2009]


http://www.newsobserver.com/great8/



❧ Things we're excited about...
[01/15/2009]








❧ Happy New Year!
[01/04/2009]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Twenty o nine is going to be a good one, it's already been decided amongst ourselves. Annuals and What Laura Says will be holding hands through their maiden voyage into the first part of 2009, joined by the wonderful songstress Jessica Lea Mayfield. We're very excited and proud to be parading cross country together and truly can't wait much longer to get started! We definitely recommend coming out to catch one of the upcoming shows, you won't regret doing so.

Just before Annuals hit the road again- we'll be seeing 2 more performances from Sunfold in a week's time. Anyone around Wilmington and Chapel Hill NC should mark their calendars for the weekend of January 9th-11th! They'll be joined by Tennessee companions Boroughs and yet another great/new band from Chapel Hill called Lafcadio.

Lonnie Walker enters into 2009 with an abundance of new recorded material and a continued determination to make people joyous and drunk with music- keep a look out for upcoming Lonnie tour dates as they cover (much) more ground this year.

More site updates coming soon! We hope everyone has enjoyed their holidays!
-Mike R/Terpsicrew

Here are the new dates for the Annuals/WLS and Jessica Lea Mayfield tour.

Check back soon for more shows.

❧ Holiday Art and Music Show!
[12/03/2008]

Come see live music and check out artwork at our Holiday Art and Music show! Music from Lonnie Walker, Sunfold, The Never, and On Photon!

❧ New Annuals Video
[10/01/2008]

New Annuals video "Confessor" online now!

Annuals "Such Fun" is out October 7th and Annuals hit the road with Minus the Bear October 8th!! Go check out the new CD and catch the nearest show!

Webmaster Note: I've also added an awesome acoustic version of the song with a short interview done by Gen Art Pulse. Click the video thumbnail below.

While you're at it, get a more in-depth look at the Annuals recording process by reading their interview at Indy Week - Check it out here.


❧ RWO3
[09/18/2008]

Thanks to everyone who came out to Raleigh Wide Open 3 and grand opening of the convention center. If you couldn't make it out or just want to read some good coverage on the event check out Earfarm's story on the festivities here(link here - http://earfarm.com/band-of-the-week/special-feature/1262). Also, if you didn't get a chance to see Lonnie Walker at RWO3 or can't get enough of them come out to Slim's this Saturday as they will be playing w/ Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls for the Sparkcon Festival. Show starts around 10pm, and while you are there look for the new LW shirts, which are also up in the store here on the website.

If you landed here after hearing about Terpsikhore on WKNC and would like more information about the Studio, please contact Johnny @ 919-749-2702 or at johnny.hobbs3@gmail.com.

❧ New Site!
[09/02/2008]

We got a new face! We're all really excited about our new website as well as this next year. What Laura Says is touring the country relentlessly, Lonnie Walker is brewing up some magic in various studios around NC, and very shortly will come the release of Annuals sophomore album "Such Fun" via Canvasback/Ace Fu/Terpsikhore! Look for more updates around the old webpage following this new layout launch.

On a related noted: we've kicked up our recording studio a couple notches and we're very much open and ready for business! If you or anyone you know are looking for some recording time, our digital studio is fully equipped to handle world class mixing and vocal takes- and our room is now treated for tracking as well. It's the biggest little studio in the Triangle area! Feel free to e-mail us for more information.

And just a reminder to go check out our webstore as we will be adding many new items soon! Check out all the new tourdates too!

Webmaster note: there are currently some issues when viewing this site in Internet Explorer, they will be corrected shortly. For best viewing use Firefox/Safari/

❧ Sunfold Status
[07/26/2008]

Sunfold road report: 3 shows down and all went as good as we could have hoped! We've been playing the small crowds but we've felt the love in as intimate a way as we have in awhile. We all have been having a blast playing Sunfold and we're even getting to cut some teeth on this trip by bringing out some green touring-friends with us. So no complaints here! Tonight we're really amped up to go play at Mercury Lounge, we have a good feeling about it. Then onward to Boston. If you haven't checked out the new record hop on iTunes and take a gander why don't you? Loves

-Sunfold

❧ Sunfold - Toy Tugboats Out Today!
[07/22/2008]

Toy Tugboats is out today! Go on iTunes or go dig one out of your local record shop! And if none of your record stores have it tell them they need to order it! It's that easy, and it makes our worlds go round. This album has been years in the making and we would unendingly appreciate it if you could check it out. Sunfold is on an east coast run this week and if you are anywhere near or have friends near the shows in their tourdates- maybe plans ought to be made?

In other news- Annuals played a set at Siren on saturday that has yielded a lot of pictures, videos, and words scattered about the internet. Here's one to pass some time to:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLvtNP3QDc0

More soon!

❧ New What Laura Says Site!
[07/22/2008]

WhatLauraSays.com is now up! Go check it out, and remember to check back too!

❧ July!
[07/01/2008]

It's July, and that means only one thing! -That if you live in North Carolina you can probably make a sandwich with 2 pieces of bread and some humidity in between. Mmmm- summertime wetness.

Here are some things you should click on:

On Photon's myspace (look for singer, Chris Wessels on tour with the Sunfold crew later this month!)

Brian Vetter's pictures of Annuals and Lonnie Walker at the Carrboro Art's Center a week ago.

Chris Florence (our resident marimba master and Kenny's little brother) performing Stubernic for his final senior-recital. High school is over now, go get em' Chris

More substantial updates coming soon! I'd say "promise"-except you know... I don't

-Mike/Terp Fort

❧ News and Notes
[06/28/2008]

Lookie - Sunfold love from Spin.com!http://spin.com/articles/sunfold-0

And be sure to check out the new tour dates for both Sunfold and What Laura Says, we have a feeling this is going to be a good July.

❧ All Kinds of mess
[05/29/2008]

First of all- tommorow is Kenny Florence's 21st birthday! We're having a party- AND it's going to rule.

Secondly, Annuals go back on tour this Sunday as they head off to Arizona to play with What Laura Says at Modified Arts- if you're in and around the area you can't miss it! It's a redo of one of the bands favorite shows in recent memory. Come cram into that space with us for some fun.

And beyond all of that- we're all getting really excited about the fact that a nice amount of folks have found us worth mentioning over the last couple of weeks..

We can't thank people enough for reading and keeping up with what we're trying to do over here. The last handful of months have been a good stretch for us and our excitement over our first two national releases is just plain snowballing.

We also have a new website underway as well to keep an eye out for! And lastly- as mentioned earlier- Annuals hit the road for about 3 weeks on Sunday. If you live in driving distance of any of these shows please come check them out! We know gas is ridiculous, but Annuals are on a mission to bring good times to different towns and it can only happen if you come out and bounce around with them! They'll see you there??

- Terp

❧ What Laura Says
[04/17/2008]

So we have to go ahead and announce that we have a new branch on the Terpsikhore family tree. They're called What Laura Says- they're from Tempe Arizona- and soon enough everyone will become entranced by their uncanny ability to write beautiful and sometimes spastic pop music. The sound of this band is as haunting as it is endearing- and we know that our first and only signing outside of North Carolina is going to prove it's potency when it hits ears on both coasts this summer. Check out their artist page and go take a gander on myspace- it won't disappoint you to do so! If you live in Arizona we're sure you already know the deal, but they have a nice string of shows coming up all over and around the state. What Laura Says thinks & feels coming sooner than later! Keep checking back in if you'd be so kind..

-Terpsikhore Fam

❧ No Jokes Here
[04/01/2008]

April Fool's has never been at the top of my list for important days. I've never been very good/have ever really desired to pull elaborate or boneheaded pranks on people. But in 2008, April Fool's is one of the bigger days of the year. "Wet Zoo" hits stores today and it marks our first release with our new label and friends at Canvasback music.

"Wet Zoo" is a 5 song EP. It features 3 new/unreleased tracks from Annuals as well as 2 tracks from Sunfold. As many may or may not know Sunfold is our other band lead by Kenny (formerly known as Sedona). We're extremely excited to get to debut our sister project alongside new Annuals material- and working with Canvasback has been nothing but completely great so far.

So if it's not to much to ask- please find a way to get yourself a copy of this new EP. We've been working hard on a lot of new music and this ought to serve as a preview of things to come. Thanks so much for any love or support you've ever thrown our way- we hope you can lend a little more! -Mike R/Terpsikhore/Annuals/Sunfold

❧ Recent News
[03/18/2008]

Lonnie Walker is home from a nice week long trip up the east coast and back. They will be in the studio and out playing shows through the spring so continue to keep an ear open for them!

Chris Wessels is continuing work on his studio project On Photon. The songs are coming together nicely and you can probably expect some shows to come together for him relatively soon.

A Sunfold music video is underway! Shooting took place over the weekend in downtown Raleigh for the song "Oregon" (song is at www.myspace.com/sunfold)

Annuals/Sunfold split EP "Wet Zoo" comes out in 2 weeks! Maybe you could be our absolute best friends and either pre-order online or maybe even plan to make a trip to/support your local record shop? (a novel idea!)

Annuals will be heading out to Boone to play at Legends Thursday March 27th! Definitely make plans to come out, (even if it means planning a completely awesome trip to the mountains)

❧ Recent News
[03/04/2008]

First and foremost we have to extend a huge thanks to all of our wonderful neighborly Cackalackians who made it out to our leap year show last Friday. We all had a wonderful time putting the show together and performing and getting to be among friends.
You can check out some awesome photos from the show taken by our great friend and photo-fiend-extraordinaire Brian Vetter here:
Terpsikhore Leap Year Photos

Getting straight into current events- Lonnie Walker (coming off of a victorious performance on leap year) is preparing to head off on a quick tour up to NYC and back at the end of the week. So if you're in the Baltimore/DC/Philly/NYC area(s) please check the tour page and try to make it out to a show! People are certainly starting to catch on about our favorite Greenville weirdos- and we want you to be in the know as well!

We've been holding off on the official announcement- and we technically are still holding off even right now. But it's too important to not mention at all any longer-

Terpsikhore is currently in the process of bringing on a particularly amazing young band out of Arizona- with plans to release a record this summer right around the same time the debut Sunfold LP comes out. This particularly amazing young band is going to be playing several shows at South by Southwest and we want everyone to make sure they get a chance to see them if they plan to be in Austin next week.

You want actual details? Find out here.

Speaking of Sunfold... Sunfold is the new name of the project formerly known as Sedona (aka K-Flo's project). We ran into the classic trademark-hang up, and rather than pay a licensing fee to use the name we've called the band for the last 6 years (???) we decided to take the free-of-cost route. So that left Kenny a whopping 2 days to decide on a new band name before the press release for the upcoming "Wet Zoo" split with Annuals came out. But fortunately we've landed happily on Sunfold as the new name. So hopefully that will clear up some of the confusion bouncing around, particularly with our more long-time appreciators.

And other than that- AB's been hammering away on the new Annuals LP, Mike's going on tour with Lonnie Walker as their whipping boy, Kenny's been recording some tasty Nashville country and playing pedal steel, and we're trying to stay busy and buzzing as much as possible! Plenty to come in 2008!!
Stay in the loop!

-Terpsikhore Commandos

❧ Recent News
[01/28/2008]

Annuals confirmed for Coachella 2008!

Terpsikhore Leap Year Party!
Friday February 29th @ the Brewery in Raleigh
Annuals/Sedona amalgamated set
Lonnie Walker
I Was Totally Destroying It

Lonnie Walker will briefly hit the road this March in conjunction with the release of their forthcoming tour EP. Tour dates still coming in- check upcoming shows for details as they unfold!
Speaking of the Lonnie clan- be sure to check them out as they lend their sound to this great backwoods BMX romp

Lonnie Walker at the Spazzatorium