HOPSCOTCH

Our Hopscotch show is Saturday night at Five Star. Line up is as follows 9:30 Family Dynamics 10:30 Heads on Sticks 11:30 Unknown Mortal Orchestra 12:30 Dawn Golden and Rosy Cross. We'll also be doing the Hopscotch Hangover Party at Slims on Sunday night. We'll go on around 9pm, followed by Soft Spot and Old Bricks.

BRUTISH & SHORT ep

Just finished our new 6 song EP- Brutish & Short. Look for it later this month via Grip Tapes!

Whatever Brains, remixed

Check out the remix I did for "Blues Lawyers" from the new Whatever Brains LP

Saturday May 28

We have a show coming up this saturday at Kings with Americans in France and Burma. We just did a show last week over in Chapel Hill with Am n Fr and they were super rad. This is the release party for their new album. I haven't seen Burma yet but their tracks are aggro and they'll rip the begining of the evening to shreds I imagine. This poster was done by super talented local artist Nick Troutman.

We're playing the 4/21 Local Band Local Beer at Tir Na Nog with The Rosebuds and DJ SPCLGST. This is the launch party for the 2011 Hopscotch festival and the evening will kick off with a fashion show from Revolver Consignment.

Hopscotch Launch party!

We are stoked to announce that Heads on Sticks has been invited to play the Hopscotch Music Festival launch party on 4/21 at Tir Na Nog. This is part of their launch weekend celebration, coinciding with the announcement of the full lineup for the 2011 festival. Check their website for details. More details about this party coming soon...

also be on the lookout for a new HOS/ Juan Huevos collaboration single out very soon!

Grip Tapes

check out the new Heads on Sticks page over at Grip Tapes. We have rad stuff in store for this year. And while you're there, check out some of the other choice acts they work with- Veelee, Gross Ghost, Old Bricks....

Den Friends Compilation

The folks over at Denmark Records have put together a great comp of beat centric artists for across the southeast and were nice enough to include a new Heads on Sticks song in the mix. The comp is a free download and it's stuffed full of wide range of great stuff- get it here

Show Nov. 11th

Getting psyched for the first show with our new lineup on thursday Nov 11th at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh. This is the New Raleigh showcase for WKNC 88.1 FM's Local Beer Local Band series. We'll be opening the show (on at 10) and I'll be DJing between the bands- Gray Young and Bright Young Things. Fun times...

Yuxtapongo 21

some seriously far out videos for songs from Mocking Bird by Neill Prewitt, Nick Speaks, Miles Holst and Z.Hobert Thompson. This is a post of the entire episode that aired on public access in the triangle in september 2010

Yuxtapongo 21: Heads On Sticks from JamPak on Vimeo.

new mp3 on Mann's World

head on over to Karen Mann's excellent local music blog, Mann's World to check out a new track from Mocking Bird, "It Doesn't Matter Now". This track is a reworking of an earlier song, "Death Mask of Garland Jones", from last year's Oak City Version EP which you can (and should) download for free right now by clicking the tab on the right----------->

Mann's World MP3s of the week

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This month's episode of Neill Prewitt's Yuxtapongo, a monthly exhibiton of local experimental video art, will feature a series of videos made for tracks from the new Heads on Sticks album, Mocking Bird (out 8/31). The show will air on RTN cable channel 10 tonight at 11:30 and features videos by Neill, Nick Speaks, Miles Holst and Hobert Thompson. The episode will air throughout the month on Thursdays at 1130 and Sundays at 10. It also airs on The Peoples Channel in Chapel Hill and Pitsboro Thursdays at 3;30 and in Durham on channel 18 Wednesdays at 7. It will be posted on the Yuxtapongo website in October. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportuntiy to collaborate with these talented artists on this project. I'll post the videos here as well once I have a copy.

The Local Beat

went on Adam Kincaid's The Local Beat on wknc 88.1 fm last Friday to talk about Mocking Bird and preview some tracks from the album, link to the podcast below...

http://wknc.org/localbeat/podcastgen/media/2010_07_16_Heads_On_Sticks.mp3

New Raleigh previews Mocking Bird

The folks over at New Raleigh ran a preview of the forthcoming Mocking Bird album yesterday. They are also streaming an otherwise unreleased track from the album, "Trompe-la-Mort". Read the piece and hear the track here

A Wrap.

I've finally finished tracking and mixing. All production was done at Masterpiece Theatre with additional mixing by Greg Elkins at Desolation Row studios here in Raleigh. This is the third or fourth project I've done with Greg. I really enjoy working at desolation row and have learned a lot from his approach to mixing. He's never been one of these engineers who comes at you right off telling you what you can't do. He's a good listener and works hard to come up with creative solutions to the problems each individual mix presents, both on it's own and within the context of the whole project.

I'm just now beginning to work on the details of the actual release but at this point I'm hoping for late summer. More info on that as it becomes available. In the meantime here is a new track which is currently streaming on bandcamp.com where you can also download my two previous EP's- last year's Oak City Version and The Pamphleteer, from 2007 for free. You can hear this track and one other on the Heads on Sticks facebook page.

NCMA online videos

Two tracks from Oak City Version are featured in these online videos from the North Carolina Museum of Art, which document the instalation of two works in the new expansion. Special thanks to Chad Weinard, director of new media at the NCMA for involving me in this project.

Installing Congregation from The North Carolina Museum of Art on Vimeo.

Installing Ogromna from The North Carolina Museum of Art on Vimeo.

The Pamhpleteer- redux

A new version of my 2007 EP- The Pamphleteer, is now available for free digital download at bandcamp.com. I've switched out a few of the original tracks (the ones that, honestly, haven't aged so well) and replaced them with two tracks from the earlier Marsaupials EP and two previously unreleased tracks recorded at Masterpiece Theatre sometime in 2008-9. Just wanted to put this stuff out there in advance of the new material that I'll have availble soon. Free download here

A Wrench, A Rock on washeduphiptster.com

A Wrench, A Rock- from the Oak City Version EP is featured on the Washed Up Hipster comedy podcast this week. check it out here

Oak City Version on New Raleigh

excellent raleigh news/ culture blog New Raleigh ran a short piece about the Oak City Version EP yesterday. Check it out here

OAK CITY VERSION EP, free full download

The Heads on Sticks Oak City Version EP is now available for free download from bandcamp.com. Get it here
These four instrumentals were originally assembled for the Raleigh City Museum show "Abstractations" in the fall of '09. The show featured works by local artists inspired by the city of Raleigh. There was originally a limited run of CDR's for sale at the museum. After getting a number of inquiries about the EP, I decided to post it here for free download for anyone interested.

All performance and recording was done by me on Tascam 2488. Additional mixing/ mastering at Desolation Row studios in Raleigh by Greg Elkins, December 09. Special thanks to Ladye Jane Vickers for curating the original show and designing an excellent space within the exhibition for these tracks.

Cover art by Vince Carmody ( vinciple.blogspot.com )

Look for more new HOS stuff in '10!