Music From An Alien Lounge

Music From An Alien Lounge by L.A. Reed Machine

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http://new.music.yahoo.com/l-a-reed-machine/albums/music-from-an-alien-lounge--59670661

ASTRAL ALIENS

General Info

• Genre: Rock
  Location Los Angeles, CA, California, US
  Profile Views: 755202
  Last Login: 1/11/2011
  Member Since 10/8/2006
  Website astralaliens.com
  Record Label Wizard (AU)
  Type of Label Unsigned

Bio:

The Australian Rock band ASTRAL ALIENS - the only-ever, 2-Time Champions of the KROQ BATTLE for LOS ANGELES.

The Aussies again battled it out against 30 of LA’s other elite bands, winning the 2009 KROQ Grand Finale at The Knitting Factory, Hollywood. One of America’s leading music publications, Music Connection Magazine, reported on the KROQ event, saying: “Astral Aliens conquered the Los Angeles rock scene once again…they blew the competition away.”

With KROQ being one of America’s iconic Rock Radio stations, the bragging rights attached to winning The Battle For LA are among the most highly sought after by up and coming bands in America…and the Astral Aliens have won it twice.

This month, ASTRAL ALIENS will find themselves at the top of Music Connection Magazine’s “HOTTEST 100 BANDS”, listed in MC’s year-end issue.

Plus, they are in the Final Four of 7-ELEVEN’s 2009 US National Battle of the Bands.

The ASTRAL ALIENS are also getting the attention of a lot of new fans in America, with a combined total of over one and a half million hits and plays on their Myspace page since their arrival in Los Angeles, where they have spent most of the past year.

During that time, the Aliens have made multiple appearances at most of Hollywood’s leading Rock venues, including Viper Room (8 times), House of Blues (4), Key Club (3), Knitting Factory (4), Whisky A Go-Go (3), The Mint (3), The Derby (7), and several other prominent LA venues.

The band members are: brothers Jakob Fehres (vocals/bass) & Mablo Fehres (vocals/guitar), and singer/lead guitarist Eric Slater. The Fehres brothers and Slater are seasoned Karate practitioners, and martial arts katas and the Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo form part of the ASTRAL ALIENS’ unique, high energy stage performances.

When asked by LA’s All Access Magazine what it means to the band to win the KROQ ‘B4LA’ again, Jake Fehres said: “Winning the first time was very cool, but I guess that doing it for a second time means that we’re one of the top bands in LA, one of the music capitals of the world. For some guys from Brisbane Australia, that is truly awesome for us.”

The band members are no strangers to band contests – they’ve won several of them in Australia. The Aussies first rose to prominence Down Under by winning the “Bandfest” rock contest, soon after which they won the "Best Radio-Friendly Band" title at the finals of "ROCKSTAR…The Real Deal!", the rock band search sponsored by Australia’s leading rock radio network, Triple M, and Coca-Cola. They were also the Runners-Up in the Australian Grand Final of the Jim Beam National Band Competition, as well as the Winner of the Queensland State Final of the World Battle Of The Bands contest.

ASTRAL ALIENS is the latest in a long line of chart topping Australian artists who were discovered, produced and launched in Australia and internationally by Wizard Records, which has been among Australia’s leading independent record labels for over 30 years. Those artists, including Air Supply, Rick Springfield, Daddy Cool, Marcia Hines, Tommy Emmanuel, Colleen Hewett, and Hush, have collectively chalked up over 40 1 and Top 10 records through Wizard, and have sold over 50 million records around the world.

Many top international artists have also been released on Wizard Records Australia, including such diverse acts as The Sex Pistols, The Captain & Tennille, Helen Reddy, Three Dog Night, Buzzcocks, and numerous others.

Wizard recently took another of its Australian bands, Porcelain, to the U.S., signing them to a multi-album world-wide deal with Universal Records USA. Porcelain is now hitting the Australian charts with their new single “The Last Song”, released on the Island/Wizard label through Universal.

Wizard is hot on the trail of doing the same with the ASTRAL ALIENS.

UFO, Sausalito '75

UFO '- SAUSALITO - 14.10.1975

1.Let It Roll
2.Doctor Doctor
3.Oh My
4. Built For Comfort
5.Out In The Streets
6.Space Child
7.Mother Mary
8.All Or Nothing
9.This Kids
10.Shoot Shoot
11.Rock Bottom

Place: Sausalito, CA, USA
Date: 14th October 1975
Sound Quality: 9-10/10

Link:
http://lix.in/7319e2

pass: www.hard-rock-cafe.blogspot.com

Alien City - Alien City ( Dog Star, 1979 )

Alien City - Alien City ( Dog Star, 1979 )
By Evan ~ August 26th, 2009


Originally released in a limited pressing of 500 copies, this album took five years to complete. That’s an absurd amount of time for a microscopically small, self-financed recording at any time — perhaps more so in the ’70s, when not everybody had the means of producing, pressing and distributing an album electronically like so many bedroom artists today. The man responsible for Alien City was a Seattle, WA native named Jon Turnbow, and his labor of love is actually a concept album. The concept is a little vague, it is described as “the Incarnation of Celestial Visitors,” but the message gets a bit lost over the course of the album.

The best description one could give of Alien City would be “Ziggy Stardust” or “Aladdin Sane” era Bowie, a little more glam/prog, a little less punk, and a bit more out of left field. Reports indicate that Jon might have spent time in an asylum after recording this album. Unlike Stephen David Heitkotter — whose stunning album Heitkotter was posted here on Monday — hopefully he has since been rehabilitated.

Original copies included a lyric sheet. There are currently no plans for a reissue, but just like the Harbinger album yesterday and the Heitkotter LP on Monday, both of these lost gems deserve to be heard. Thanks again to Swan Fungus reader Viagra Falls for this recording — I can’t wait to see what else he uncovers for us to enjoy in the future.

Enjoy!

Alien City

Tracklist:
01. Alien City (Overtura) – Get Away
02. Cathode Rays
03. Information Overload
04. Older Men
05. Suffer
06. Almost Every Day
07. Target Area
08. Keep Your Cool
09. Between The Lines (Ruby’s Blues)
10. You’re Being Used
11. Dirty Heaven

From :

http://www.swanfungus.com/2009/08/alien-city-alien-city-dog-star-1979.html

Alien Fashion Show

Voice, trumpet: Eldon Daetweiler - Licensed to thrill. 
Drums: Jeff Daetweiler - Krupa's back! Hide your daughter and hold your hat. 
Guitar: "Junkyard" Todd Thurman - Daddy's on fire. Big fat guitar and gasoline on the rocks. 
Keys: Kenji Saito - The secret weapon. cool, baby....cool. 
Bass: Jeffrey Alan - When this cat walks, everybody swings....hard....as in barnstorm.





The boys landed in late 1996, and have since shaken the rafters from The House of Blues and Tipitinas in New Orleans to San Francisco's Warfield Theatre to Los Angeles' Greek Theatre. (OK there's really no rafters at the Greek) In April 1998 they recorded their debut on Surfdog Records, produced by Jim Wirt who's producing and engineering credits include Sprung Monkey, Fiona Apple, and guitar slinger Brian Setzer. In August they'll hit the road opening 15+ shows for Setzer and his 17 piece rockin' big band.




This band is creating quite a little buzz in Los Angeles, and their debut disk shows they are worthy. Alien Fashion Show gracefully straddle the line between lounge jazz, rockabilly and rock and roll. These songs would feel equally comfortable in the 40's, the 50's and the 90's. Lead singer Eldon Daetweiler's smooth vocals surf over a swinging bed of guitar, bass and horns.
Styles stray from the rollicking rhythm and roll of "Rocket #95" to the jump shout boogie of "Mocambo" to the spaghetti western neo-Orbison vibe of "Bad Man On The Moon." Keep an eye out for Alien Fashion Show. It looks like a contender.