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The Freakout 2017 Lineup Announced, Dates set for Nov 17 & 18 in Ballard

Freakout Records is so excited for the 5th annual return of THE FREAKOUT! - join us Nov 17 & 18 at the Tractor, Conor Byrne, Sunset Tavern, Hattie's Hat, & CC. Filson in Ballard, Seattle, WA.

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Freakout Records is so excited for the 5th annual return of THE FREAKOUT!- join us Nov 17 & 18 at the Tractor, Conor Byrne, Sunset Tavern, Hattie's Hat, & CC. Filson in Ballard, Seattle, WA.

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Thank you to our presenters Artist Home Record Club, Audioasis on KEXP, Killroom Records, & Treefort Music Festival

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Smokey Brights to headline Bread & Butter Release Show

Smokey Brights will headline the Tractor Tavern (Seattle) on April 15 for the Bread & Butter album release show (Killroom Records) with Great Spiders. #KEXPpresents

Smokey Brights will headline the Tractor Tavern (Seattle) on April 15 for the Bread & Butter album release show (Killroom Records) with Great Spiders. #KEXPpresents

Tickets: http://m.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=7191045&pl=tractor

Photo by Boone Sommerfeld

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Freakout Festival 2016 Announced

Freakout Records is proud to present the 4th annual Freakout Festival, Dec 8 & 9 in Seattle, WA. featuring Spencer Moody (of The Murder City Devils), Smokey Brights, Erik Blood (Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, The Maldives), MASZER, Maiah Manser, Acid Tongue, Cumulus, Wyatt Blair (of Lolipop Records) & more! For the full lineup, visit the Freakout Festival page.

Freakout Records is proud to present the 4th annual Freakout Festival, Dec 8 & 9 in Seattle, WA. featuring Spencer Moody (of The Murder City Devils), Smokey Brights, Erik Blood (Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, The Maldives), MASZER, Maiah Manser, Acid Tongue, Cumulus, Wyatt Blair (of Lolipop Records) & more! For the full lineup, visit the Freakout Festival page.

FREAKOUT FESTIVAL
Dec 8 & 9
Chop Suey / Pony / Bar Sue / Lovecitylove
E Madison St & 14th Ave, Seattle, WA

2-Day Pass ($28) - http://bit.ly/freakoutfest
Day 1 Only ($15) - http://bit.ly/freakoutday1
Day 2 Only ($15) - http://bit.ly/freakoutday2

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Thank you to Audioasis on KEXP, City Arts Magazine, Pabst Blue Ribbon & Jameson Irish Whiskey for their support.

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Poster design by Meggyn Pomerleau & Ian CunninghamPoster design by Meggyn Pomerleau & Ian Cunningham

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Smokey Brights - 'Hot Candy' Out Now!

Seattle band Smokey Brights have released their sophomore full-length "Hot Candy" on 12" vinyl!

ORDER HERE: http://www.freakoutrec.com/store/smokey-brights-hot-candy
HOT CANDY + T-SHIRT COMBO: http://www.freakoutrec.com/store/combo-smokey-brights-hot-candy-lp-t-shirt

Seattle band Smokey Brights have released their sophomore full-length "Hot Candy" on 12" vinyl!

ORDER HERE: http://www.freakoutrec.com/store/smokey-brights-hot-candy

HOT CANDY + T-SHIRT COMBO: http://www.freakoutrec.com/store/combo-smokey-brights-hot-candy-lp-t-shirt

Read more about the album from CityArts' Jonathan Zwickel:

Hot damn, Hot Candy! Modern rock n roll never sounds this fresh. The second album from Smokey Brights is both a rebirth and a milestone, a head trip and a body high, meticulously crafted but natural as daylight. The music taps into history and stretches out a kind of visionary rock that rolls relentlessly forward while recombining iconic sounds—prog, funk, Bowie, Styx, Wilco, Flaming Lips—into something urgent and fun and utterly surprising.

Seriously: If you're not already listening to Hot Candy, you're losing precious seconds.

What else do you need to know? Two singers (married), a guitar hero some call Keanu J. Fox, and a crack rhythm section with veteran status. Since their 2014 debut Taste for Blood, Smokey Brights have amassed a rabid base of fans across the West Coast, gaining momentum with every show. They are a self-started, self-sustaining rock n roll machine that generates maximum joy through musical communion.

The members of Smokey Brights have been singing and playing together in various incarnations across Seattle for more than 15 years. Ryan Devlin and Kim West—the married singers—write the bones for most of the songs in their North Seattle living room. The mind-meld between drummer Nick Krivchenia and bassist Jim Vermillion leads to unpredictable, shape-shifting groove. Mike Kalnoky—the guitar hero—tops it all off with counterpoint melodies and soaring solos. Coming together at Wizard House, their hand-me-down rehearsal space, the band bursts with life and love and an offbeat energy that's infectious. Hot Candy is an album made by a company of pros finding their finest voice in collective effort.

Listening yet?

Start the album from the beginning and dig it all the way through. Every song is a discreet, complex world unto itself that rewards patient listening. Right from the start Hot Candy evokes a rock n roll fantasy, born from a whoosh of noise to coalesce into the hard-driving opener—and lead single—"In Demand." Is this a fist-pumping rock anthem or a brazen indictment of Internet-driven overconsumption? Yes and yes.

Kim steps to the mic for song two, the sinuous, sultry "Desiree," outro-ing with full flange and four-four stomp. "Not Enough Time" is simultaneously beautiful, foreboding, complex and catchy—a swirl of emotions that might be Smokey Brights' signature cocktail. As Kalnoky unleashes one of the album's most luscious guitar hooks, Ryan sings, "You’ve got to stand some in the rain to get lightening struck/And that’s just how it is."

Four songs in, "Malibu Musk" slows down and slithers into a sinister, twilit foreboding that foreshadows the album's latter half. The band describes the next track, "Baby Bigshot," as a lullaby for the Baby Boom generation, Ryan singing, "We're waiting for the trickle down!"  No, that isn't a Theremin’s weird coo on "Start Wearing Black"—that's Kim's natural singing voice, which goes on to boost a stunning finale and one of the album's finest, freakiest moments. "Ugly Evergreen" features achingly lovely vocal interplay between Ryan and Kim as the band builds to another monumental climax. Closer "Stickman" is a sweet, sad coda, acoustic-strummed and fingersnapped like a tender farewell.

To make Hot Candy, Smokey Brights decamped for a week at the end of 2015 to the Rock n Roll BnB, a live-in recording studio on Sauvie Island, a verdant refuge surrounded by the Columbia River a few miles from Portland, Oregon.  The digs were throwback, but the gear was impeccable, as was the ear of host/producer/engineer Sean Flora. The result is simply one of the most refreshing records you'll hear all year. Trust.

Now get yourself to the nearest sound system and do the damn thing!

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Smokey Brights featured in The Seattle Times

Smokey Brights are featured in the Seattle Times to discuss the release of 'Hot Candy' this Friday at Neumos.

Read: http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/smokey-brights-has-hot-candy-for-you-at-neumos/

Smokey Brights are featured in the Seattle Times to discuss the release of 'Hot Candy' this Friday at Neumos.

Read: http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/smokey-brights-has-hot-candy-for-you-at-neumos/

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Smokey Brights - "Hot Candy" available Oct 21

Seattle band Smokey Brights will be releasing their sophomore full-length "Hot Candy" on 12" vinyl via Freakout Records on October 21, 2016.

PRE-ORDER HERE: http://www.freakoutrec.com/store/smokey-brights-hot-candy

Seattle band Smokey Brights will be releasing their sophomore full-length "Hot Candy" on 12" vinyl via Freakout Records on October 21, 2016.

PRE-ORDER HERE: http://www.freakoutrec.com/store/smokey-brights-hot-candy

 

 

Read more about the album from CityArts' Jonathan Zwickel:

Hot damn, Hot Candy! Modern rock n roll never sounds this fresh. The second album from Smokey Brights is both a rebirth and a milestone, a head trip and a body high, meticulously crafted but natural as daylight. The music taps into history and stretches out a kind of visionary rock that rolls relentlessly forward while recombining iconic sounds—prog, funk, Bowie, Styx, Wilco, Flaming Lips—into something urgent and fun and utterly surprising.

Seriously: If you're not already listening to Hot Candy, you're losing precious seconds.

What else do you need to know? Two singers (married), a guitar hero some call Keanu J. Fox, and a crack rhythm section with veteran status. Since their 2014 debut Taste for Blood, Smokey Brights have amassed a rabid base of fans across the West Coast, gaining momentum with every show. They are a self-started, self-sustaining rock n roll machine that generates maximum joy through musical communion.

The members of Smokey Brights have been singing and playing together in various incarnations across Seattle for more than 15 years. Ryan Devlin and Kim West—the married singers—write the bones for most of the songs in their North Seattle living room. The mind-meld between drummer Nick Krivchenia and bassist Jim Vermillion leads to unpredictable, shape-shifting groove. Mike Kalnoky—the guitar hero—tops it all off with counterpoint melodies and soaring solos. Coming together at Wizard House, their hand-me-down rehearsal space, the band bursts with life and love and an offbeat energy that's infectious. Hot Candy is an album made by a company of pros finding their finest voice in collective effort.

Listening yet?

Start the album from the beginning and dig it all the way through. Every song is a discreet, complex world unto itself that rewards patient listening. Right from the start Hot Candy evokes a rock n roll fantasy, born from a whoosh of noise to coalesce into the hard-driving opener—and lead single—"In Demand." Is this a fist-pumping rock anthem or a brazen indictment of Internet-driven overconsumption? Yes and yes.

Kim steps to the mic for song two, the sinuous, sultry "Desiree," outro-ing with full flange and four-four stomp. "Not Enough Time" is simultaneously beautiful, foreboding, complex and catchy—a swirl of emotions that might be Smokey Brights' signature cocktail. As Kalnoky unleashes one of the album's most luscious guitar hooks, Ryan sings, "You’ve got to stand some in the rain to get lightening struck/And that’s just how it is."

Four songs in, "Malibu Musk" slows down and slithers into a sinister, twilit foreboding that foreshadows the album's latter half. The band describes the next track, "Baby Bigshot," as a lullaby for the Baby Boom generation, Ryan singing, "We're waiting for the trickle down!"  No, that isn't a Theremin’s weird coo on "Start Wearing Black"—that's Kim's natural singing voice, which goes on to boost a stunning finale and one of the album's finest, freakiest moments. "Ugly Evergreen" features achingly lovely vocal interplay between Ryan and Kim as the band builds to another monumental climax. Closer "Stickman" is a sweet, sad coda, acoustic-strummed and fingersnapped like a tender farewell.

To make Hot Candy, Smokey Brights decamped for a week at the end of 2015 to the Rock n Roll BnB, a live-in recording studio on Sauvie Island, a verdant refuge surrounded by the Columbia River a few miles from Portland, Oregon.  The digs were throwback, but the gear was impeccable, as was the ear of host/producer/engineer Sean Flora. The result is simply one of the most refreshing records you'll hear all year. Trust.

Now get yourself to the nearest sound system and do the damn thing!

Read More