MP3: Beach House - “Gila” www.carparkrecords.com/gila.mp3

MP3: Papercuts - “John Brown” www.gnomonsong.com/mp3s/Papercuts-John_Brown.mp3

Beach House is the Baltimore duo of Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand. Papercuts is the primary project of San Francisco’s Jason Quever with a revolving cast of characters playing with him. The two like-minded bands will join forces in the Spring of 2008 for a lengthy North American tour, and for the first time, Quever will also perform live with Beach House, as their drummer. 2007 has been a great year for both bands, Papercuts released the excellent Can’t Go Back album on Gnomonsong, toured with Grizzly Bear and recently turned in an excellent set at the Force Field PR / Aero Booking CMJ Showcase. Beach House, who released their self-titled debut album on Carpark in late 2006, spent the year touring and working on Devotion, their sophomore album which sees the light of day on Feb. 26, 2008.

BEACH HOUSE & PAPERCUTS 2008 TOUR

02/28 Baltimore, MD Gspot
02/29 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
03/01 Atlanta, GA The Earl
03/02 Birmingham, AL BottleTree Cafe
03/03 Memphis, TN The Hi Tone Cafe
03/05 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
03/06 Houston, TX Walter’s on Washington
03/07 Austin, TX Emo’s
03/08 Denton, TX Hailey’s
03/10 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
03/11 Phoenix, AZ Modified
03/12 San Diego, CA The Casbah
03/13 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
03/14 San Luis Obispo, CA Steynberg Gallery
03/15 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
03/17 Portland, OR Holocene
03/18 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
03/19 Vancouver, BC Media Club
03/21 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
03/22 Denver, CO Hi-Dive
03/24 Omaha, NE The Slowdown
03/25 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
03/26 Chicago, IL Schubas
03/27 Cleveland, OH The Grog Shop
03/28 Toronto, ON El Mocambo
03/29 Montreal, PQ Casa del Popolo
03/31 Cambridge, MA The Middle East
04/02 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
04/03 Philadelphia, PA The Barbery
04/04 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel

Papercuts Press Materials - www.gnomonsong.com/papercuts

Beach House Press Materials - www.carparkrecords.com/devotionpresspage.html

www.myspace.com/beachhousemusic

www.myspace.com/thepapercuts

Hey Willpower is Will Schwartz of Imperial Teen and Tomo Yasuda of Tussle

MP3: Hey Willpower - “In The Basement”:
http://tomlabel.com/hwp/10%20In%20The%20Basement.mp3

VIDEO: Hey Willpower - “Hundredaire”:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d6pCFV_Rigg

VIDEO: Hey Willpower - “Double Fantasy II”:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sLPK4tPSGjo

Europe already knows the electro-pop joy of Hey Willpower’s full-length debut, P.D.A. (Tomlab), which has gone unreleased in North America until now - it streets on Jan. 22, 2008. The US edition features a revamped sequence, all new artwork, and the addition of their sugar-high cover of Architecture in Helsinki’s underground hit “Heart it Races”. The band will be touring the US in the Spring of 08, including several appearances at SXSW in March.

Here’s the whole story straight from Will:

Hey Willpower was conceived one night in July on 3rd Street in San Francisco when Linton and I were at a Tussle show and I was still smoking. We were talking about our love for R&B Pop/Hip Hop and how she had lived in the same building in Harlem as Sean Paul the summer before and our favorite songs on KMEL. I gave her a ride home and the Busta/Mariah song “I Know What You Want” came on and we just listened in awe. As if she was reading my mind, she said we should get together and make a song using all the elements of pop that we’ve ever loved. A couple of days later we started working on a song in her basement. I came up with some vocal melodies and keyboard/guitar parts and left Linton overnight with them. The result was the backing track for “Uh – Uh - Uh”. After exhaustively stalking Linton and trying to convince her to drop everything and work on this project, she told me she had to go on tour with her band The Aislers Set.

I was left despondent in SF with a new computer and this music in my head. I met Tomo through a friend and we hardly even asked each other on a music date before we were on a regular practice schedule furiously writing and recording music. Tomo loves blippy bleepy yet melodic landscapey music the most. I had to coerce him a bit into some ass-shaking, but he eventually caved in. Whether it’s a hot beat or bass part or a strangely beautiful keyboard melody, he always brings something unique and inspiring to the music. We’ll be hanging out and he’ll be tapping out a beat with the keys in his pocket and we’ll record that.

I grew up listening to Michael and Janet and L’Trimm and pop that my sisters would turn me on to. As soon as I heard Sonic Youth and the Velvet Underground my world turned inside out and I started voraciously ingesting anything other than what was played on the radio. I became immersed in the indie music world with my band Imperial Teen, all the while reveling in the latest greatest Pop/Hip Hop songs and records.

Hey Willpower feels like something new and exciting and postmodern without being smug or ironic. Although it’s different from Imperial Teen, it makes perfect sense to me to be making the music we’re making because it comes from what I love about music. When we’re performing live and people are doin’ their dances and making noise, we know it’s right. Dance is becoming a big part of our live show. I’m good with the chin scratchers and musicologists and philosophers too, but sometimes you have to let the emotions take over. Let’s dance now and we can talk about it later if you want.

xoxo,
Will

Hey Willpower - P.D.A. US Track List

1.Double Fantasy II
2.Uh-Uh-Uh
3.Retail Heaven
4.Silent Ring
5.Hundredaire
6.Phenomenon
7.Magic Window
8.Too Hot
9.Not Trippin’
10.In The Basement
11.Heart It Races

www.heywillpower.com
www.tomlab.com
www.myspace.com/heywillpower