HARRIET UNVEIL DAYTROTTER SESSION

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Harriet - Daytrotter Session

"The songs that you're about to hear are staggering. They knocked us completely the fuck out, when we heard them the first time a few months ago, so fully thought out and developed were they. These were hearty pieces of writing, full of impressive depth - the sorts of tales that could have come from the best pages of a Richard Yates or Raymond Carver short story. They were formative and incredible and terrifying all at the same time."

Sean Moeller, Daytrotter 

  

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"Harriet blends Americana and electronic music to create a sound that embodies the L.A. rock scene: Its debut EP, Tell the Right Story, sounds like a chillwave re-imagination of Kings of Leon or The National. The group combines hoarse vocals, dramatic riffs and electronic flourishes on its debut."

NPR Music

  

 LIVE DATES

5/7 - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA

5/14 - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA

5/19 - Brick & Mortar - San Francisco, CA 

5/21 - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA

5/28 - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA

6/23 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA 

 

   

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HARRIET PREMIER   "I SLEPT WITH ALL YOUR MOTHERS" MUSIC VIDEO ON SPINNER

Click To Watch Harriet's "I Slept With All Your Mothers" Music Video [via Spinner]   "It's this beautiful room but there's something wrong. We were trying to place a character at his lowest point and set him on a journey to find his way out." - Alex Casnoff, Harriet Read more at Spinner    Harriet is a new Los Angeles-based band fronted by former Dawes member Alex Casnoff. The quartet's self-released debut EP Tell The Right Story is currently available for free download at www.HarrietMusic.Com.  Inspired largely by classic storytelling and the spectacle of the movies, Tell The Right Story weaves eerily romantic ballads with unwavering anthems, and features classic elements of Americana and folk music contrasted with futuristic electronic samples and beats. "I wanted it to feel big... cinematic. I wanted every song to be a movie, " said Casnoff. "I wanted it to feel like an occasion. I wanted it to feel like a wedding." Casnoff was formerly a member of notable Los Angeles bands Dawes and PAPA, bands both named after grandfathers. In flipping the tradition, Casnoff decided to name the band after his grandmother, Harriet. After touring the country for years with his prior bands and with a growing arsenal of his own songs, Casnoff stepped into the studio in June 2011, armed with his nicest suit and a bottle of fine tequila, to record what would become Tell The Right Story. The result is a striking collection of songs that draw on the influence of classic American singer-songwriters, film, electronic music, and Casnoff's experience as a touring musician. "I may have seen every gas station in the country, but the America I feel indebted to is not in the past, at least not that far. I am a product of my time. We make music about the retro-future. Music about coping. Anti motivational motivational music." Harriet is Alex Casnoff, Aaron Folb (bass), Henry Kwapis (drums), and Adam Gunther (guitar). Tell The Right Story was produced by Sean O'Brien and recorded in Los Angeles and Sacramento. FREE DOWNLOAD OF TELL THE RIGHT STORY [EP]   ------------------ UPCOMING LIVE DATES February 27, 2012 - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA March 3, 2012 - Hotel Cafe - Los Angeles, CA March 13-17 - SXSW - Austin, TX         www.harrietmusic.com

HARRIET'S TELL THE RIGHT STORY 

Out Now!!!

  

DEBUT EP AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD 

AT HARRIETMUSIC.COM

=The debut EP from Los Angeles band Harriet is now available for free download at HarrietMusic.Com. Fronted by former Dawes member Alex Casnoff, the Los Angeles based quartet will celebrate the release of the EP with a headlining performance at LA's Harvard and Stone on Thursday, February 2nd. 

Inspired largely by classic storytelling and the spectacle of the movies, Tell The Right Story weaves eerily romantic ballads with unwavering anthems, and features classic elements of Americana and folk music contrasted with futuristic electronic samples and beats.

"I wanted it to feel big... cinematic. I wanted every song to be a movie, " said Casnoff. "I wanted it to feel like an occasion. I wanted it to feel like a wedding."

Casnoff was formerly a member of notable Los Angeles bands Dawes and PAPA, bands both named after grandfathers. In flipping the tradition, Casnoff decided to name the band after his grandmother, Harriet. After touring the country for years with his prior bands and with a growing arsenal of his own songs, Casnoff stepped into the studio in June 2011, armed with his nicest suit and a bottle of fine tequila, to record what would become Tell The Right Story. The result is a striking collection of songs that draw on the influence of classic American singer-songwriters, film, electronic music, and Casnoff's experience as a touring musician.

"I may have seen every gas station in the country, but the America I feel indebted to is not in the past, at least not that far. I am a product of my time. We make music about the retro-future. Music about coping. Anti motivational motivational music."

Harriet is Alex Casnoff, Aaron Folb (bass), Henry Kwapis (drums), and Adam Gunther (guitar). Tell The Right Story was produced by Sean O'Brien and recorded in Los Angeles and Sacramento. 

 

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Harriet - Tell The Right Story [YouTube Stream]

"Hints at some of Dawes' more dynamic moments while capturing Casnoff's own unique emotional delivery." 

Paste

"Nodding to Wilco with the right touch of Queens of the Stone Age-style grit, Harriet eloquently transform alternative rock... elegantly ethereal and heart-wrenchingly honest. From sparsely soothing piano passages to dreamy distorted hooks, this is the best story the indie world has produced in a long time..."  

ARTISTdirect

"... Notably cinematic in nature with pointedly dramatic lyrics and melodies. "I Slept With All Your Mothers" is an aching indie rock number, as heavy in parts as it is forlorn."  

RCRD LBL

 "Like the lovechild of Neutral Milk Hotel and Wilco, delivered twenty years late. It's a full-bodied elixir for the heartbreak of a crashing American Dream."
Neon Gold  

 

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UPCOMING LIVE DATES

February 2, 2012 - Harvard & Stone - Los Angeles, CA [EP RELEASE SHOW]

February 5, 2012 - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA

February 20, 2012 - Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA

March 3, 2012 - Hotel Cafe - Los Angeles, CA

March 14-18 - SXSW - Austin, TX

 

  

   

www.harrietmusic.com

 

Who:  Harriet  What:  "I Slept With All Your Mothers" For Free Download  Where:  RollingStone.Com When: Now Why:  "The song sprouted from a lot of conflicted feelings. We were trying to echo that in the music. Mixing pretty ambience and lap steel with the anxiety of the relentless piano chords  and the heavy ending. "  Alex Casnoff, Harriet on "I Slept With All Your Mothers"   . . .  Harriet is a new Los Angeles-based band fronted by former Dawes member Alex Casnoff. The quartet will self-release their debut EP, titled Tell The Right Story, on January 31, 2012.  Inspired largely by classic storytelling and the spectacle of the movies, Tell The Right Story weaves eerily romantic ballads with unwavering anthems, and features classic elements of Americana and folk music contrasted with futuristic electronic samples and beats. "I wanted it to feel big... cinematic. I wanted every song to be a movie, " said Casnoff. "I wanted it to feel like an occasion. I wanted it to feel like a wedding." Casnoff was formerly a member of notable Los Angeles bands Dawes and PAPA, bands both named after grandfathers. In flipping the tradition, Casnoff decided to name the band after his grandmother, Harriet. After touring the country for years with his prior bands and with a growing arsenal of his own songs, Casnoff stepped into the studio in June 2011, armed with his nicest suit and a bottle of fine tequila, to record what would become Tell The Right Story. The result is a striking collection of songs that draw on the influence of classic American singer-songwriters, film, electronic music, and Casnoff's experience as a touring musician. "I may have seen every gas station in the country, but the America I feel indebted to is not in the past, at least not that far. I am a product of my time. We make music about the retro-future. Music about coping. Anti motivational motivational music." Harriet is Alex Casnoff, Aaron Folb (bass), Henry Kwapis (drums), and Adam Gunther (guitar). Tell The Right Story was produced by Sean O'Brien and recorded in Los Angeles and Sacramento.  "Hints at some of Dawes' more dynamic moments while capturing Casnoff's own unique emotional delivery."  Paste   "... Notably cinematic in nature with pointedly dramatic lyrics and melodies. "I Slept With All Your Mothers" is an aching indie rock number, as heavy in parts as it is forlorn."   RCRD LBL   "Triumphant cinematic pop." One Thirty BPM "Like the lovechild of Neutral Milk Hotel and Wilco, delivered twenty years late. It's a full-bodied elixir for the heartbreak of a crashing American Dream." Neon Gold                www.harrietmusic.com    ###