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    <title>SBR44-EJRC075LIFEGUARDS
Pr...</title>
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&lt;h3&gt;SBR44-EJRC075&lt;Br&gt;LIFEGUARDS&lt;Br&gt;&lt;i&gt;
Product Head&lt;/i&gt; 7-inch vinyl&lt;Br&gt;Pre-Order Now. &lt;Br&gt;
Release: October 5th&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/61-Product-Head-" target="_blank"&gt;

&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/banners/pollard.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;Br&gt;PRE-ORDER HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

A. Product Head (3:55)&lt;Br&gt;
B. Naught Windsor (3:10)&lt;br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;

The weird and wirey post-punk chugalug "Product Head" inhabits the A-Side and Bob's words are brilliantly off the deep end. Here is a taste. "Facial blasts and soft gels barely make it / cougar mouth and game man rarely fake it." Prepare yourself. The non-album B-Side is a hard-driving Gillard power-pop instrumental with a mysterious Pollard vocal contribution. &lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
Produced by Doug Gillard and Travis Harrison at Serious Business Music, NYC. &lt;Br&gt;
"Product Head" comes from the forthcoming second Lifeguards LP &lt;i&gt;Waving at the Astronauts,&lt;/i&gt; the follow up to 2003's &lt;i&gt;Mist King Urth&lt;/i&gt;. The LP is set for release in February 2010. This is the first formal collaboration between Pollard and Gillard since the disbanding of Guided By Voices in 2004. &lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/store/buynow/release_SBR44-EJRC075"target="_blank"&gt;BUY NOW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;The 7-inches will ship to arrive by the October 5th release date and they come with a free download. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
This release comes to you from Serious Business in conjunction with &lt;a href="http://www.ernestjenning.com" target="_blank"&gt;Ernest Jenning Record Co. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/61-Product-Head-" target="_blank"&gt;
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    <title>Two Man Gentlemen Band on W...</title>
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&lt;h3&gt;Two Man Gentlemen Band on WNYC Soundcheck&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND stopped by Soundcheck on WNYC on Tuesday August 31 to play "Chocolate Milk," "Franklin Pierce" and "A Gentle Stomp" from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/60--Dos-Amigos-Una-Fiesta- target="_blank"&gt;&#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;and to talk business with Jon Schaefer. &lt;a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/2010/aug/31/two-man-gentlemen-band-studio/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wnyc_home+%28WNYC+New+York+Public+Radio%29" target="_blank"&gt;Check it out on the WNYC site here&lt;/a&gt;. Or just listen below:&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    <title>LIFEGUARDS 7-inch Pre-Order...</title>
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    <updated>2010-09-01T13:48:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;LIFEGUARDS 7-inch Pre-Order Coming Next Week&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard are the&lt;h3&gt; LIFEGUARDS. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Product Head&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
7-inch vinyl (SBR44/EJRC075)&lt;br&gt;
A. Product Head (3:55)&lt;br&gt;
B. Naught Windsor (3:10)&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/61-Product-Head-" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR44_225.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;br&gt;

&lt;i&gt;Product Head&lt;/i&gt; 7" out October 5. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
"Product Head" comes from the forthcoming follow-up to 2003's &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gbvdb.com/album.asp?albumid=946" target="_blank"&gt;Mist King Urth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; which is called &lt;i&gt;Waving at the Astronauts&lt;/i&gt; and is coming out in February. That was 1971. This is 1979. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Produced by Doug Gillard and Travis Harrison &lt;br&gt;
Made at Serious Business Music, NYC.&lt;br&gt;
Pre-order starting 09/07/10. 7" comes with free download. 
&lt;i&gt;brought to you by Serious Business in association with &lt;a href="http://ernestjenning.com/home.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Ernest Jenning Record Co.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/bob_doorway.jpg" width=111&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/MillerLite_GB.jpg" width=200&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Serious Business proudly un...</title>
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    <updated>2010-08-30T11:44:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;Serious Business proudly unveils &lt;i&gt;
&#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!&lt;/i&gt;, the 6th and finest album from&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;
THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/60--Dos-Amigos-Una-Fiesta-"target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR45_500.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;i&gt;
&#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!&lt;/i&gt; (SBR45)&lt;br&gt;
1. A Gentle Stomp&lt;br&gt;
2. Chocolate Milk &lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/02_Chocolate_Milk.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;(DOWNLOAD MP3)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
3. Me, I Get High on Reefer&lt;br&gt;
4. Put it in My Ear (When You Make that Music)&lt;br&gt;
5. Going Into Business&lt;br&gt;
6. I Already Have a Dance Partner&lt;br&gt;
7. Andy Bean's Bounce&lt;br&gt;
8. Franklin Pierce&lt;br&gt;
9. There's Somthing In My Trousers&lt;br&gt;
10. I Like to Party with Girls&lt;br&gt;
11. The Leisure Class&lt;br&gt;
12. Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta&lt;br&gt;
13. Wine, Oh Wine!&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/60--Dos-Amigos-Una-Fiesta-"target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
LISTEN TO THE WHOLE ALBUM&lt;br&gt;
BUY THE CD $13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/id385413446" target="_blank"&gt;BUY IT ON iTUNES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Y5PP9O/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1283183346&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"&gt;BUY IT ON AMAZON&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;object height="345" width="66%"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Fthe-two-man-gentlemen-band-dos-amigos-una-fiesta&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="345" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Fthe-two-man-gentlemen-band-dos-amigos-una-fiesta&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/the-two-man-gentlemen-band-dos-amigos-una-fiesta"&gt;THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND - &#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

The Two Man Gentlemen Band's hot, raucous, old-time Vaudevillian sound has made them an underground sensation. They traverse the country incessantly, playing hundreds of shows per year including recent dates with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Their style - musically &amp; visually - incorporates elements of hot jazz, rhythm &amp; blues, tin-pan alley, and western swing and their original songs consistently "prove that making old-fashioned music needn't be polite or predictable" (Time Out New York). They deftly balance lighthearted and often hysterical romps about reefer, wine, boy/girl parties, and chocolate milk with tender ballads of loneliness and fidelity. And with their cautionary, gospel-tinged stomp about the forgotten, alcoholic President Franklin Pierce they once again "take smart songwriting to a whole new level." (Mental Floss) It is a party record, and a dance record, yes. But it's also a musical portrait of the thrills, troubles, and temptations of a life spent barnstorming from coast to coast.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.thetwogentlemen.com" target="_blank"&gt;TOUR DATES AND MORE AT THETWOGENTLEMEN.COM&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/gents2010.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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    <title>Straight Talk with Andy Bea...</title>
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;i&gt;Straight Talk&lt;/i&gt; with Andy Bean&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/StraightTalkWithAndyBean.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
"&lt;i&gt;&#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!&lt;/i&gt; is out on August 31st. Let us put it in your ear." &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
This has been &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Straight Talk with Andy Bean&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/60--Dos-Amigos-Una-Fiesta-" target="_blank"&gt;SBR45&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;
THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR45_225.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;object height="345" width="100%"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Fthe-two-man-gentlemen-band-dos-amigos-una-fiesta&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="345" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Fthe-two-man-gentlemen-band-dos-amigos-una-fiesta&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/the-two-man-gentlemen-band-dos-amigos-una-fiesta"&gt;THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND - &#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Dig Our TUMBLR

 seriousb...</title>
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&lt;h3&gt;Dig Our TUMBLR&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt; seriousbusinessrecords.tumblr.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;I think I'm gonna start tumbling the shit out of it.     </content>
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    <title>Pitchfork Announces Robert ...</title>
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&lt;h3&gt;Pitchfork Announces Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard's LIFEGUARDS Project Coming to Serious Business. &lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/39589-robert-pollard-plans-five-new-albums/"&gt;Read all about it.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;new solo records, new Boston Spaceships, Mars Classroom, an art show...And then in February comes a record from his Lifeguards  project with ex-GBV guitarist Doug Gillard called &lt;i&gt;Waving at the Astronauts&lt;/i&gt; on Serious Business and Ernest Jenning Record Co.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

OCTOBER - &lt;b&gt;LIFEGUARDS&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;i&gt;Product Head&lt;/i&gt; 7"&lt;br&gt;
FEBRUARY - &lt;b&gt;LIFEGUARDS&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;i&gt;Waving at the Astronauts&lt;/i&gt; LP&lt;Br&gt;&lt;bR&gt;

Bob Pollard: Working harder than you since 1957.&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/summer2010-banner---pollard.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;Br&gt;    </content>
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    <title>THE PAPARAZZI and THE TWO M...</title>
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&lt;h3&gt;THE PAPARAZZI and THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND Stop By BreakThruRadio's Live Studio Show (Recorded at Serious Business Music). &lt;/h3&gt;

NYC based internet radio institution BreakThru Radio recently welcomed two of our bands onto their long running BTR Live Studio show. Both of these sessions happened at &lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessmusic.com" target="_blank"&gt;Serious Business Music&lt;/a&gt; Recording Studio (which I recently finally started &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/seriousbusinessmusicrecordingstudio" target="_blank"&gt;a Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; for) and were presided over by me, Travis. &lt;Br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.breakthruradio.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.jdayz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/breakthruradio-128.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;
THE PAPARAZZI&lt;/b&gt;
Erik Paparazzi assembled &lt;a href="http://www.wardwhite.net" target="_blank"&gt;Ward White&lt;/a&gt; (acoustic guitar / sweet ass harmony vocals) , Craig Smith (drums), Adam Chilenski (bass and vocals) for this very special session. Erik, a noted guitar slinger and bass man, decided to focus on piano for this session, which was a treat because he is the consummate musical bad-ass. He so infrequently assembles a live incarnation of &lt;a href=the Paparazzi these days that it was essential to capture these efforts for this recording. Believe it or not, these musicmasters pulled this off with 0 rehearsal. You are treated to several tunes from this year's gorgeous &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/52-Rococo" target="_blank"&gt;Rococo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; record, a piano redux of old Paparazzi mainstay "Zanzibar," and a handful of new tunes which will get you salivating for the next Paparazzi record which may not emerge for a while but will be worth the wait. Interspersed throughout Erik talk's to Maia McDonald about &lt;i&gt;Rococo&lt;/i&gt;'s cover art, the spirit of the Beatles and his time playing with Cat Power and recently with Bambi Kino.  &lt;Br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=11002"&gt;Listen to the Paparazzi's BreakThru Radio Live Studio appearance here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.breakthruradio.com/userfiles/Image/papparazzi4.jpg" width=333&gt;&lt;br&gt;
00:00 BTR Live Studio&lt;Br&gt;
00:57 Zanzibar&lt;Br&gt;
04:24 Epic Proportions&lt;Br&gt;
08:48 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
16:06 Late or Later&lt;Br&gt;
20:19 Rosebud&lt;Br&gt;
22:49 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
26:27 And Away We Go&lt;Br&gt;
31:19 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
36:09 The Rococo&lt;Br&gt;
37:53 Wave Wave Away&lt;Br&gt;
41:36 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
43:43 Any Other Way&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;
THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
BTR stopped by the studio while Andy Bean and the Councilman were in the midst of recording their 6th and finest LP, the unforgettable mono experience that is &lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/60--Dos-Amigos-Una-Fiesta-" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&#161;Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Hear a sneak preview of the album on this show, along with typically hilarious banter from these kings of retro Vaudevillian olde-time music. Fans of the Gentlemen's furious live shows will be delighted to hear their trademark fast-paced routines in all their glory here. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=10936" target="_blank"&gt;Listen to the Two Man Gentlemen Band's BreakThru Radio Live Studio appearance here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.breakthruradio.com/userfiles/Image/2MGB2.mp3.jpg" width=333&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.breakthruradio.com/userfiles/Image/2MGB3.mp3.jpg"width=333&gt;&lt;bR&gt;
00:00 Two Man Gentlemen Band&lt;Br&gt;
01:06 Wine, Oh Wine / Franklin Pierce&lt;Br&gt;
13:13 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
14:07 I Like to Party With Girls&lt;Br&gt;
16:33 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
20:37 Leisure Class&lt;Br&gt;
22:57 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
24:45 That Gentle Stomp&lt;Br&gt;
31:14 Chocolate Milk&lt;Br&gt;
34:18 I Already Have a Dance Partner&lt;Br&gt;
36:54 Interview&lt;Br&gt;
38:39 William Howard Taft&lt;Br&gt;
41:30 My Baby's Off the Market&lt;Br&gt;    </content>
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    <title>What's Happenin'? Serious B...</title>
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    <updated>2010-07-14T09:18:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;What's Happenin'? Serious Business Business Update&lt;/h3&gt;

Hi. This is Travis. I'm going to take a few minutes to inform you what
Serious Business Records has been up to so far in 2010. Even if you care,
you could find this tedious. &lt;br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;

New shit...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;b&gt;THE TWO MAN GENTLEMEN BAND&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;i&gt;Dos Amigos Una Fiesta&lt;/i&gt;
The sixth album from the Gentlemen was recorded in glorious mono by me
at &lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessmusic.com" target="_blank"&gt;Serious Business&lt;/a&gt; in April 2010. Richard Morris and I mixed it. He
mastered it. Jarrod Engel supplied his ample man ears. Andy Bean and the Councilman supplied their finest
song-batch yet. The entire record was recorded live to 2" tape with no
overdubs. Song titles include "I Like to Party With Girls," "There's
Something in My Trousers," "Going Into Business," and of course the
sweet ass Grammy magnet "Me, I Get High on Reefer." This will be out
officially in the Fall. If you happen to catch &lt;a href="http://www.twogentlemen.com" target="_blank"&gt;the Gentlemen on the road&lt;/a&gt; this summer you are likely to find the CD for sale already. Please feel free to &lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/60--Dos-Amigos-Una-Fiesta-" target="_blank"&gt;pre-order the CD here&lt;/a&gt;. It will ship on or before the release date, AUGUST 31, 2010. &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/60--Dos-Amigos-Una-Fiesta-" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR45_225.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/60yrDmmkvuY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/60yrDmmkvuY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;Br&gt;Here is a sneak peek of the guys recording the title track at &lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessmusic.com" target="_blank"&gt;Serious Business&lt;/a&gt;. 

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THE UNSACRED HEARTS&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;i&gt;The Honor Bar&lt;/i&gt;
There is also &lt;i&gt;The Honor Bar&lt;/i&gt; which to chief Hearts Joe and Dave and I
has been the album we've been working on since late 2006. Mind you we
work very sporadically so it isn't like we've been slaving away or
anything. It sounds like a slow motion photograph. This record has a
warm and cohesive sound which might surprise someone who only knows us
from &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/17-In-Defense-of-Fort-Useless" target="_blank"&gt;In Defense of Fort Useless&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (2006) which was gloriously scattered.
&lt;i&gt;The Honor Bar&lt;/i&gt; can be played in one's home while one is chilling out
drinking tea with one's special lady friend.  And then there is this
little EP called &lt;i&gt;Night Shift at the Hawk Refinery&lt;/i&gt; which sports more loud rock and which will
undoubtedly reveal itself as a free EP soon. To summarize, we are trying really hard to finish &lt;i&gt;The Honor Bar.&lt;/i&gt; For now, enjoy downloading and listening to &lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/06_I_Am_Joe.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;"I Am Joe."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;object height="81" width="66%"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fthe-unsacred-hearts-i-am-joe"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fthe-unsacred-hearts-i-am-joe" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="66%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/the-unsacred-hearts-i-am-joe"&gt;&lt;br&gt;THE UNSACRED HEARTS - I Am Joe&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;b&gt;ROCKETSHIP PARK&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;i&gt;Cakes &amp; Cookies&lt;/i&gt;
This record has been gestating slowly since as early as 2006 but most
of it has happened in the past year or two. It is safe to describe
this record as a little more "up" than its predecessor &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/35-Off-and-Away" target="_blank"&gt;Off and Away&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; but that alone would be doing it a great disservice. Josh continues to prove himself as a songwriter capable of cutting deep.
Josh enlisted performances from the usual suspects: Eric
Jackson, Brian Kantor, Annie Nero, Mike Phillips, Dawn Landes, Bryan
Devendorf (the National), me, engineer Halsey Quemere. Chances are there'll be a little
supplementary EP called &lt;i&gt;Nuts and Bolts&lt;/i&gt; that will emerge too and this
puppy has a sweet title track with a lead vocal from Lauren Balthrop.
Release date? Who knows? It is in bad form to be talking about this stuff right now at all since things change and nothing is 100% official yet. But I'm an emotional guy (50% Sicilian) and I'm excited. We're really close to finishing the mixes which sound very alive and three-dimensional and exciting to my ears and then Jamal Ruhe is probably going to expertly master it for us this summer up at
West West Side and then we'll let you know what's up.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/joshredsoxgtr.jpg" width=300&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/12" target="_blank"&gt;BENJI COSSA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; has a record brewing that is blowing my mind as we work on
it and hopefully we will get it done and into your earholes before too
long. There are a lot of songs. Over thirty. They are all golden hits.
This is the second record Benji and I have worked on together at the
Serious Business studio in NYC (the first was Benji Cossa and the
Tightens). Here is "Annie Delia" which was originally leaked on our year end sampler in December but has since been altered with more harmonies and some sweet horns. &lt;br&gt; &lt;object height="81" width="66%"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fannie-delia"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fannie-delia" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="66%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/annie-delia"&gt;&lt;Br&gt;BENJI COSSA - Annie Delia&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/12" target="_blank"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/Benji_Acc_Socks.jpg" width=150&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/benjigetshigh.jpg" width=150&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt; 

&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/15-Higgins" target="_blank"&gt;HIGGINS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; also has follow-up to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/39-Zs" target="_blank"&gt;Zs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in progress which the last time I
spoke with Kevin was going to be called &lt;i&gt;Straight As&lt;/i&gt;. Again, it is in poor taste to reveal this at such an early stage. He also had an
amazing cover idea but you know how these things go and it is early in
the game. The band recorded some basic tracks last year with me at
Serious Business and some more with our buddy Jamal Ruhe in a big ass
upstate NY church. Kevin has been pruning these tracks since then but
has been distracted by life, work and love (aren't we all) and none of
these tracks have reached the mixing stage so it is safe to say at
this point we won't be getting &lt;i&gt;Straight A's&lt;/i&gt; for a while. Early 2011 at the soonest. That doesn't
mean you shouldn't be excited however. Back in December Higgins
visited me for the first &lt;a href="http://www.casualbusiness.org" target="_blank"&gt;Casual Business&lt;/a&gt; session. Now we haven't
dropped this session on the Internet yet because we're trying to get
that project rolling a little bit before we jam all kinds of Serious
Business bands up inside of it. But believe me when I say Higgins
brought it that day and these recordings of old classix, new hits and
a deep old Turtles number will be in your ears for free this summer.
Kevin also recorded a version of a new Benji Cossa song called Leaving
Hell last year and why haven't I finished mixing that yet? Your ears
need this! Jesus, I have so much work to do!&lt;Br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/15" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/BK_KP_control.jpg" width=333&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;
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...and more (... a tease ...)&lt;/i&gt;: There is another big project underway that will emerge
out of the ether this fall/winter and you'll be very pleased to find out what
it is. You'll find out when it is the right time. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
---------------------------&lt;Br&gt;
...aaaand I can't help myself but to inform you that I am now a new proud daddy and Ruby Roses Harrison is my baby daughter. She was born on July 7, 2010. She rules: &lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/RUBY.jpg" width=333&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
Love,&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;
Travis Harrison&lt;/i&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title> SONG OF THE WEEK: "Pollen ...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/244" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-06-05:/news_items/244</id>
    <updated>2010-06-05T13:40:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt; SONG OF THE WEEK: "Pollen Seeking Bees" by SAADI&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;div align="center" style="width:500px"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/songoftheweek.png" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" style="background:url('http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/sotwrecord.png') no-repeat top center;width:500px;height:400px"&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="5" style="font-weight:bold;margin-top:125px"&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/sb_logo_01.gif" width="100px" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt; Song:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/03_Pollen_Seeking_Bees.mp3"&gt;Pollen Seeking Bees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;Artist:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/20-Saadi"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saadi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;Album:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bad City 12"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/03_Pollen_Seeking_Bees.mp3"&gt;DOWNLOAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="border:2px solid black"&gt;&lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt; &lt;object height="81" width="100%"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F03-pollen-seeking-bees"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F03-pollen-seeking-bees" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/03-pollen-seeking-bees"&gt;Saadi - Pollen Seeking Bees&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right:10px" src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/saadiphotosmoky.jpg" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt; ONE TRACK MIND said this: "Pollen Seeking Bees" is premised on two main elements: SAADI&#8217;s vaporous vocals and a plucky piano rhythm that burbles throughout the two and a half minutes. When SAADI sings &#8220;fading into ether that transmogrifies a heart, the fog is knee deep,&#8221; she may as well be referencing the song itself, which floats through an entrancing haze despite the crispness of the production. &#8220;Pollen Seeking Bees&#8221; is simply the sort of cut that sucks a listener in, immersing one in the world the song is actively constructing. There are shades of Cocteau Twins and Asobi Seksu at work, but SAADI retains a clarity to her sound that neither of these acts was ever concerned with. Rather than achieving ethereality through walls of fuzzed out reverb, SAADI concocts the same dreamy feeling with the delicacy of her voice and instrumentation."
One Track Mind&lt;br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
"Boshra al Saadi, a songwriter with visionary aesthetics and a voice in the birthing stages of becoming legendary"&lt;br&gt;-the Ampeater Review&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt; Buy the hand numbered, autographed (in Arabic) white vinyl 12" EP &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/58-Bad-City-12-" target="_blank"&gt;Bad City 12"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR42_109.jpg"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>THE PAPARAZZI: RococoMy O M...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/242" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-05-13:/news_items/242</id>
    <updated>2010-05-13T16:29:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;THE PAPARAZZI: &lt;i&gt;Rococo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;My O My /// .video. &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q2QGcxjcS2A&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Q2QGcxjcS2A&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="240"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;this video was made by erik paparazzi and aj lambert. &lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/52-Rococo" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR40_225.jpg"&gt;&lt;br&gt;SBR40&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;object height="265" width="100%"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Frococo"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="265" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Frococo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/rococo"&gt;The Paparazzi - Rococo&lt;/a&gt;by&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/52-Rococo" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br&gt;this record is available on vinyl. support independent music. get yourself some beautiful wax.&lt;/a&gt;     </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Sixth Album From the Two Ma...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/241" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-04-23:/news_items/241</id>
    <updated>2010-04-23T15:15:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;Sixth Album From the Two Man Gentlemen Band Recorded, Coming Later This Year&lt;/h3&gt;

The Two Man Gentlemen Band are widely regarded as America's best dressed two man band, the proudest purveyors of sophisticated silliness, the viceroys of Vaudevillian novelty numbers, etc. They recently spent a few days in the Serious Business Music recording studio recording tracks for their forthcoming sixth album. Here's a sneak peek. &lt;br&gt;
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&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/60yrDmmkvuY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/60yrDmmkvuY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Oofah! The MP3 directory fo...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/240" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-04-21:/news_items/240</id>
    <updated>2010-04-21T12:42:00Z</updated>
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Oofah! The MP3 directory for our entire Serious Business Records website mysteriously vanished last week. This sucks salty nutzen. Stick with us. We're fixing it.&lt;br&gt;There is music here:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/soundcloud.jpg" width=101&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Rocketship Park and Benji C...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/239" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-04-05:/news_items/239</id>
    <updated>2010-04-05T11:21:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;Rocketship Park and Benji Cossa &amp; the Key Players Join Devin, Gary and Ross for Friday Night Show at Southpaw in Park Slope. &lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;i&gt;come to this serious business-curated live-on-stage-music-concert starring the talents of &lt;b&gt;benji cossa&lt;/b&gt; and his key players, josh kaufman's &lt;b&gt;rocketship park&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;devin, gary &amp; ross&lt;/b&gt; (flynn, panter &amp; goldstein) starting early at 7:30 and concluding at 11 at southpaw in the neighborhood of park slope in the borough of brooklyn in the city of new york.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=107345159286450&amp;ref=mf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/southpaw.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;Br&gt;
It isn't often enough that our beloved Serious Business family gets out of the studio and onto the stage. &lt;a href="http://spsounds.com/2010/03/17/726/" target="_blank"&gt;Park Slope's exquisite Southpaw will host an unequaled triumvirate this Friday.&lt;/a&gt; night. 
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7:30 PM&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;
DEVIN, GARY &amp; ROSS&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
This group consists of Devin Flynn of Pixeltan (whose recent dfa ep spawned &lt;a href="http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/3978-pixeltan-yamerarena-i-dfa" target="_blank"&gt;this music-vid made by devin&lt;/a&gt;), and  and &lt;a href="http://www.garypanter.com" target="_blank"&gt;GARY PANTER&lt;/a&gt; (the man behind pee wee's playhouse set design and &lt;a href="http://www.garypanter.com" target="_blank"&gt;a legendary artist&lt;/a&gt;).
&lt;br&gt;
8:30 PM&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/14" target="_blank"&gt;
ROCKETSHIP PARK&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the solo joint of Mr Josh Kaufman whose work with Dawn Landes, Caithlin DeMarrais and the Serious Business family has earned him endless hugs and kisses. Rocketship's debut platter &lt;i&gt;Off and Away&lt;/i&gt; snuck gently into ear-holes in the election year of 2008. The follow-up record, which has been gestating for a long time, is now nearing completion. &lt;br&gt;
9:30&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/12-Benji-Cossa" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BENJI COSSA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a lovable singer and a songwriter whose playful and very catchy slices of AM Gold seem simple but are actually very very very complex. He rules. He has released several records on Serious Business (&lt;i&gt;Between the Blue and the Green,&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Benji Cossa's Vault Vol II: Jewels and Gems&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Merry Christmas to Friends and Family, Love Benji Cossa&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Rollercossa&lt;/i&gt; 7", &lt;i&gt;Benji Cossa and the Tightens&lt;/i&gt;) and is currently working on a double record he's calling &lt;i&gt;II&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Benji&lt;/b&gt; will be backed by the &lt;b&gt;Key Players&lt;/b&gt; who on this night will include Josh Kaufman, Annie Nero, Eric Jackson, Brian Kantor, Travis Harrison, and Matt Moon. It's a safe bet that most or all of these people will also be &lt;b&gt;Rocketship Park&lt;/b&gt; for the evening, give or take a few humans like Mike Phillips, Nate Martinez, maybe others. &lt;br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;

Here's what TimeOut NY said about this show: "Benji Cossa is a local songwriter who creates mini pop fantasias. Listening to his work, we&#8217;re reminded of the Beach Boys, the Band and other classic groups who refused to believe that sunny, sentimental pop couldn&#8217;t be a vehicle for transcendent beauty." &lt;a href="http://newyork.timeout.com/events/rock-pop-soul/334637/benji-cossa-rocketship-park-devin-gary-and-ross#ixzz0kG6Rwjja" target="_blank"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=107345159286450&amp;ref=mf" target="_blank"&gt;BE SURE TO VISIT THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE PLEASE THANKS&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Here is a song called "April" that BENJI recorded with DEVIN many years ago and which remains a classic. &lt;Br&gt;
&lt;object height="81" width="100%"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fbenji-cossa-april"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fbenji-cossa-april" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/benji-cossa-april"&gt;Benji Cossa - April&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Here is a Rocketship Park number called "Because, Two Candles" which was a hit jam from the first record &lt;i&gt;Off and Away&lt;/i&gt; and points to the sound of the second record a little bit as well. &lt;Br&gt;&lt;object height="81" width="100%"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F01-because-two-candles"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F01-because-two-candles" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/01-because-two-candles"&gt;ROCKETSHIP PARK - Because, Two Candles&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
Here is a newer Benji Cossa number called Annie Delia which has Travis on drums and Josh playing guitar, bass, keys, etc. Benji wants to put a horn section on this song before it comes out on his next album which we're calling &lt;i&gt;II&lt;/i&gt; and will probably consist of about 30 songs.&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;object height="81" width="100%"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fannie-delia"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fannie-delia" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/annie-delia"&gt;BENJI COSSA - Annie Delia&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/onions.JPG" width=300&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Benji slicing onions.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2543745815_c1d3ba443a.jpg?v=0" width=300&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rocketship Park &lt;/i&gt;.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title> SONG OF THE WEEK: "Bad Cit...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/238" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-03-17:/news_items/238</id>
    <updated>2010-03-17T12:49:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt; SONG OF THE WEEK: "Bad City" (Serious Business Remix) by SAADI&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;div align="center" style="width:500px"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/songoftheweek.png" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" style="background:url('http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/sotwrecord.png') no-repeat top center;width:500px;height:400px"&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="5" style="font-weight:bold;margin-top:125px"&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/sb_logo_01.gif" width="100px" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt; Song:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/02%20Bad%20City%20(Serious%20Business%20remix).mp3"&gt; Bad City &lt;Br&gt;(Serious Business Remix)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;Artist:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/20-Saadi"&gt;&lt;em&gt;SAADI&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;Album:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bad City 12"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/02%20Bad%20City%20(Serious%20Business%20remix).mp3"&gt;DOWNLOAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="border:2px solid black"&gt;&lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt; 
&lt;object height="81" width="100%"&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F02-bad-city-serious-business-remix"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F02-bad-city-serious-business-remix" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/02-bad-city-serious-business-remix"&gt;Saadi - Bad City (Serious Business Remix)&lt;/a&gt;  by  &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right:10px" src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/saadi.png" width="150px" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt; 
"There's something beautifully unsettling about the music Syrian-born rocker-turned-synth-queen SAADI makes. Sure, it's jaunty, canorous, and massively danceable. But it's also composed of broken-down doll melodies, tainted by screwy pops and wormy schizophrenia."
RCRDLBL&lt;br&gt; Buy a signed, hand-numbered WHITE vinyl copy of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/58-Bad-City-12-" target="_blank"&gt;Bad City 12"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR42_109.jpg"&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/seriousbusinessrecords#!/event.php?eid=372044876950&amp;ref=mf" target="_blank"&gt;See SAADI this week at SXSW.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>SBR40 is 
THE PAPARAZZI: R...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/237" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-03-16:/news_items/237</id>
    <updated>2010-03-16T16:19:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;SBR40 is &lt;Br&gt;
THE PAPARAZZI: &lt;i&gt;Rococo&lt;/i&gt;. 12" vinyl (w/ CD) / Digital&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/52-Rococo" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR40_225.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Paparazzi&lt;/strong&gt; is the musical pseudonym of songwriter and rock auteur Erik Paparazzi, who has spent the better part of the past decade as a sideman with Cat Power's Dirty Delta Blues. His new record &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/52-Rococo" target="_blank"&gt;Rococo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, recorded back in 2004, has finally seen release in March 2010 thanks to Serious Business. Expect a lush and dreamy ride that harnesses the best moves of several purveyors of lost classics and lost weekends: Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson, and Todd Rundgren. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Back in 2004 when &lt;strong&gt;The Paparazzi&lt;/strong&gt; was performing regularly as a 7 piece band, they recorded the tracks for what was to become &lt;em&gt;Rococo&lt;/em&gt;. But something was missing in the final results, and Erik shelved the record until 2007. On the road with Cat Power, he began remixing it on his laptop and wound up deconstructing many of the original performances and arrangements, sometimes drastically reinventing the songs. In so doing he gave new life to the project, and brought us a sonically stunning and wholly immersive record.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is one to play through. From the first note to the last, &lt;em&gt;Rococo&lt;/em&gt; thrusts listeners into a quasi dream state, conjuring rich images and soundscapes while reveling in pop thrills with enough happy accidents to subvert any hint of predictability.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/52-Rococo" target="_blank"&gt;BUY THE VINYL (w/ CD).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
or buy digital...&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rococo/id352070202"&gt;Buy &lt;i&gt;Rococo&lt;/i&gt; on iTunes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Paparazzi-Rococo-MP3-Download/11791785.html"&gt;Buy &lt;i&gt;Rococo&lt;/i&gt; on eMusic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rococo/dp/B0035TUHQK/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1268775359&amp;sr=301-1"&gt;Buy &lt;i&gt;Rococo&lt;/i&gt; on Amazon&lt;/a&gt;



&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;object height="265" width="100%"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Frococo"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="265" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2Fsets%2Frococo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/rococo"&gt;Rococo&lt;/a&gt;  by  &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/17" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/Erik_EDIT.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/17" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/ROCOCOVINYL.jpg" width=300&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>THE OCTAGON and SAADI Enric...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/236" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-03-15:/news_items/236</id>
    <updated>2010-03-15T10:04:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
&lt;h3&gt;THE OCTAGON and SAADI Enrich Your SXSW Experience&lt;/h3&gt;

SXSW is the real March Madness. Here is how Serious Business will help you lose your mind this week in Austin.&lt;br&gt;

Thu Mar 18 - THE OCTAGON - 1PM - Pianos Day Party @ Kung Fu Saloon&lt;Br&gt;
Sat Mar 20 - SAADI - 2PM - Paper Garden Showcase @ Parkside&lt;Br&gt;
Sat Mar 20 - SAADI 4PM - Right on Rainey - 89 Rainey&lt;/br&gt;

&lt;Br&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/events/show/703" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Thu Mar 18&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;Br&gt;
THE OCTAGON
&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://kungfusaloon.com/ target="_blank"&gt;Kung Fu Saloon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Pianos party  &lt;/h3&gt;
510 Rio Grande
Austin, Texas 78701 (corner of 6th St)
&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.pianosnyc.com/news/pianos-invades-austin-sxsw-2010-day-parties" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.pianosnyc.com/images/1027.jpg" width=400&gt;	&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;



&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/events/show/706" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Sat March 20&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
SAADI&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Paper Garden SXSW Showcase&lt;Br&gt;
Parkside&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.parkside-austin.com/" target="_blank"&gt;PARKSIDE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
301 E. 6th Street @ San Jacinto- Austin, TX&lt;br&gt;

Presented by Paper Garden Records, Market Publique &amp; Howl Interiors&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

RSVP to sxsw@papergardenrecords.com for your chance to WIN A SWIMMING POOL!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
See SAADI with excellent lineup of Boshra (vox/bass), Travis Harrison (drums), Jonathan Goldberger (gtr)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

12:00 PM - The Loom &lt;br&gt;
12:40 PM - Emanuel and the Fear &lt;br&gt;
1:20 PM - The Lovely Feathers &lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;2:00 PM - SAADI &lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
2:40 PM - Peasant &lt;br&gt;
3:20 PM - Mighty Tiger &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://papergardenandmarketpublique.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://eventbrite-s3.s3.amazonaws.com/eventlogos/3315141/604984525.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/events/show/704" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Sat Mar 20&lt;Br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
SAADI&lt;Br&gt;
89 Rainey (Cesar Chavez and Red River)&lt;/h3&gt;
Come visit the GRAND OPENING of &lt;b&gt;the AWFUL WAFFLE!&lt;/b&gt;
89 Rainey St (Cesar Chavez and Red River)&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
SAADI at 4:30&lt;Br&gt;
w/ Prayer For Animals, Glass Trees, John Biz, The Blanks Tapes, JLD, Sound of Kaleidoscope&lt;br&gt;
This show is of additional interest  because our friend John Biz will be backed by &lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/15" target="_blank"&gt;Higgins&lt;/a&gt;' Brian Kantor and Billy Filo. &lt;Br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.industrialparkrecords.com/righton/images/RightONRaineyFINALMOCKUP.jpg" width=400&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.industrialparkrecords.com/righton/" target="_blank"&gt;More info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;

&lt;Br&gt;

&lt;b&gt;
THE OCTAGON&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/53-Warm-Love-and-Cool-Dreams-Forever" target="_blank"&gt;Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever&lt;br&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR41_225.jpg"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;object height="399" width="100%"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://a1.soundcloud.com/player.swf?g=wi&amp;url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/warm-love-and-cool-dreams-forever&amp;player_type=waveform"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="399" width="100%" src="http://a1.soundcloud.com/player.swf?g=wi&amp;url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/warm-love-and-cool-dreams-forever&amp;player_type=waveform" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/octagon1web.jpg"&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;
SAADI&lt;/b&gt;:
&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/58-Bad-City-12-" target="-blank"&gt;Bad City 12"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR42_225.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;object height="249" width="100%"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://a1.soundcloud.com/player.swf?g=wi&amp;url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/bad-city-12&amp;player_type=waveform"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="249" width="100%" src="http://a1.soundcloud.com/player.swf?g=wi&amp;url=http%3A//soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/sets/bad-city-12&amp;player_type=waveform" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/SaadiintheWoods.jpg"&gt;




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  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title> SONG OF THE WEEK: "Clew Ha...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/235" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-03-08:/news_items/235</id>
    <updated>2010-03-08T10:29:00Z</updated>
    <content type="html">
&lt;h3&gt; SONG OF THE WEEK: "Clew Haywood" by THE OCTAGON&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;div align="center" style="width:500px"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/songoftheweek.png" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="center" style="background:url('http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/sotwrecord.png') no-repeat top center;width:500px;height:400px"&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="5" style="font-weight:bold;margin-top:125px"&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/sb_logo_01.gif" width="100px" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt; Song:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/11_Clew_Haywood.mp3"&gt;Clew Haywood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="right"&gt;Artist:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/9"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Octagon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="right"&gt;Album:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warm Love and&lt;bR&gt; Cool Dreams Forever&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/mp3s/11_Clew_Haywood.mp3"&gt;DOWNLOAD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="border:2px solid black"&gt;&lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;

&lt;object height="81" width="100%"&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F11-clew-haywood"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;  &lt;embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fseriousbusiness%2F11-clew-haywood" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/11-clew-haywood"&gt;The Octagon - Clew Haywood&lt;/a&gt;  by  &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 


&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right:10px" src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/octagon1web.jpg" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;
"Raw yet pervasively warm and wise, it&#8217;s the kind of record that reminds you just how poignant lo-fi indie rock can sound." - Time Out&lt;br&gt;

Buy a vinyl copy of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/53-Warm-Love-and-Cool-Dreams-Forever" target="_blank"&gt;Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever&lt;/i&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/albumcovers/SBR41_109.jpg"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;

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  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>SBR42 IS SAADI: BAD CITY 12...</title>
    <link href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/news_items/show/234" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:seriousbusinessrecords.com,2010-03-07:/news_items/234</id>
    <updated>2010-03-07T20:52:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt;SBR42 IS SAADI: &lt;i&gt;BAD CITY 12"&lt;/i&gt; 
*** WHITE VINYL *** 
*** NEW YORK CITY AND SXSW SHOWS ANNOUNCED! ***&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/58-Bad-City-12-" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/saadi/background.png" width=400&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
Recently, Saadi has enjoyed the buzz of music media hype houses such as Pitchfork, RCRDLBL, MTV Iggy, The Music Slut and Prefix Magazine&#8230; and for no other reason than the music is good, really good. &lt;Br&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/images/photos/SaadiintheWoods.jpg"&gt;&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;
"There's something beautifully unsettling about the music Syrian-born rocker-turned-synth-queen SAADI makes."- RCRDLBL&lt;Br&gt;&lt;Br&gt;

"&#8230;a songwriter with visionary aesthetics and a voice in the birthing stages of becoming legendary" - The Ampeater Review&lt;Br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

"the best piano line Regina Spektor never wrote" - Absolute Punk&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

"Rather than achieving ethereality through walls of fuzzed out reverb, SAADI concocts the same dreamy feeling with the delicacy of her voice and instrumentation" - One Track Mind&lt;Br&gt;&lt;bR&gt;

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&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://seriousbusinessrecords.com/releases/show/58-Bad-City-12-" target="_blank"&gt;Get your 12" "Bad City" EP on Limited Edition White Vinyl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/saadi" target="_blank"&gt;Purchase of the vinyl gets you exclusive access to MP3 and lossless download of the EP, exclusive video, photos, lyrics, etc. &lt;/a&gt; &lt;Br&gt; &lt;br&gt;

Tracklist&lt;Br&gt;
1. Bad City&lt;Br&gt;
2. Bad City (Serious Business Remix) &lt;Br&gt;
3. Pollen Seeking Bees&lt;br&gt;
4. Birds&lt;Br&gt;
5. Daddy You Been On My Mind&lt;Br&gt;
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Support us by buying the EP digitally:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003B1C7H4/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1268145415&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"&gt;AMAZON&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bad-city-12/id359932785" target="_blank"&gt;ITUNES&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Saadi-Bad-City-12-MP3-Download/11851488.html" target="_blank"&gt;EMUSIC&lt;/a&gt;
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Upcoming shows&lt;br&gt;
03/13 - New York, NY @ Silent Barn&lt;br&gt;
03/20 - Austin, TX @ Paper Garden Records Showcase&lt;bR&gt;
03/20 - Austin, TX @ Right on Rainey Showcase&lt;Br&gt;
03/24 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall (with Apache Beat)&lt;/h3&gt;

Saadi Resources&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/saadinyc" target="_blank"&gt;Myspace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/SAADI/145202038898" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/saadinyc" target="_blank"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title> SONG OF THE WEEK: "Don't T...</title>
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    <updated>2010-02-25T07:16:00Z</updated>
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&lt;h3&gt; SONG OF THE WEEK: "Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger" by the UNSACRED HEARTS&lt;/h3&gt;
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      &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness/dont-treat-me-like-a-stranger"&gt;THE UNSACRED HEARTS: Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/seriousbusiness"&gt;seriousbusiness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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    &lt;td valign="top"&gt; A short EP called &lt;i&gt;Night Shift at the Hawk Refinery&lt;/i&gt; will descend into yr iPod this spring. Here's a taste. Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger was a live staple as far back as '05. This version features an ornate horn arrangement written by &lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/14" target="_blank"&gt;Rocketship Park's Josh Kaufman&lt;/a&gt; and performed by Jordan McLean of Antibalas. &lt;br&gt;
      &lt;a href="http://www.seriousbusinessrecords.com/artists/show/1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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