Justice Records, a full-service record company based in Austin, is looking to retain several unpaid interns immediately. Justice would give anyone wishing to participate in our program this semester preference for the Fall 2009/Spring 2010 semester.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate would be someone who has a love of music as well as a strong desire to work in the music industry after graduation.
Justice Records is looking for two different types of interns to begin immediately...
Viral Marketing Intern: We are looking for 2-3 students to assist with updating and creating web site content as well as viral marketing efforts. The ideal candidate would be familiar with navigating and using social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and the like, as well as music-related sites such as LastFM. The viral interns will be assisting in marketing the various Justice Record acts on the Internet, both at the direction of Justice Records as well as viral marketing firms Justice employs on behalf of its acts.
Office Management Intern: We are also looking to retain 2-3 interns to assist in the everyday office activities of Justice Records. This would include assisting with band mailings, regular office work such as filing and answering phones, working the local live shows for those who are interested, and involvement in creative brainstorming with the publicity teams assembled for each act.
Advantages and Opportunities: Every intern at Justice Records will be given a full opportunity to advance within the company upon graduation. Particularly with viral interns, the opportunity to continue working with Justice full-time at a future point is open. We currently employ firms from around the country to assist with viral marketing, but would like to eventually develop an in-house team that markets all of our acts. The members of that team could well come from within the Justice intern program. Justice Records interns will be exposed, through participation in strategy sessions and direct work involvement, to music industry professionals we use to assist with every aspect of our bands’ careers, including viral marketing, radio and press promotions, booking, etc. Justice Acts.
Our current Justice Records acts include Electric Touch, nelo, Trail of Dead, Greta Gaines, Ian Moore and Bobbie Nelson.
Please visit www.justicerecords.com, as well as the bands’ individual web sites and MySpace pages, to learn more. www.electrictouchmusic.com www.nelomusic.com www.trailofdead.com www.ianmoore.com www.gretagaines.com www.bobbienelsonmusic.com
Please send resume and cover letter to: Deana Saukam
Executive Assistant Justice Records
512-443-3000 deana@justicerecords.com
TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan recorded a cover of LOVE AND ROCKETS' "Holiday on the Moon" with his band PUSCIFER for the tribute compilation "New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets" (released on July 28 digitally and August 18 physically via the Arsenal Rock 'n' 
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We hope you enjoy being a fan of Justice Records on Facebook. To reward our fans and to encourage active fan participation, we're running a contest that can yield you some great free merch like CDs, t-shirts, and concert tix.
The contest starts now and ends on Sept 17th at 11:59pm CT. Here are the details:
We want more Facebook fans, so that's where you come in. Below our profile picture there are some links. One says "Suggest to Friends". Suggest the Justice Records fan page (found here) to as many of your Facebook friends as possible. Every time a friend of yours joins our fan page because of your suggestion, send us an email titled Friend Suggested To Justice. Be sure to include the full name of your friend in the email message so we can verify our new fan. We'll tally up the results on Friday 9/11 and announce a winner the same day.
Here is the email address: justice.interns@gmail.com
The person who successfully suggests the most new fans will get to choose one of three different prize packs, depending on the band of your choice.
Trail of Dead Prize Pack:
- Century of Self CD
- Trail of Dead t-shirt
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's newest album Century of Self has garnered rave reviews and earned the band a spot on this year's Austin City Limits Fest. Listen to the new album for yourself.
Electric Touch Prize Pack:
- Electric Touch CD
- Electric Touch t-shirt
Electric Touch has swept through this year's summer festival circuit with many impressive performances. Find out what makes them electrifying.
nelo Prize Pack:
- 2 tickets to nelo's La Zona Rosa show on 9/24
- nelo stickers
nelo works hard and has been touring all over the country this summer with stops in the midwest, south, and mountain states. Welcome the boys home with this show at La Zona Rosa.
Justice Records wants to give our artists the exposure they deserve, but we can only make that happen with help from the fans.
Cheers,
Justice Records
EXCLUSIVE PUSCIFER TRACK, “HOLIDAY ON THE MOON” This installment is a cover of Love and Rockets’ 1986 cut “Holiday on the Moon,” as performed by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s side project Puscifer. It appears on the tribute album New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets (Justice). Mr. Keenan himself was kind enough to tell us, sort of, why he likes the song Holiday On The Moon.
So this record is out now - New Tales To Tell – A Tribute to Love and Rockets – featuring the Dandys’ cover of ”Inside the Outside” along with a whole slew of super cool covers by a whole slew of super cool cats. Look for it in stores now or download from the usual suspects like iTunes.
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A few panel-related notes to kick off this week’s SubModern Report. First off, at KRQR/Chico, CA the New Music Show is changing over into a nightly feature and hopefully Randall will be staying aboard the panel with a new format for the playlist. I neglected to mention that shortly after launching their specialty show, KTNI/Denver unfortunately flipped formats and is now a Talk station (though they are still online at 1015fmradio.com). But they are off the panel now. And some more unfortunate news, as Ronda Chollock has exited as MD of Triple A WNRN/Charlottesville. You can contact her at chollock.wnrn@gmail.com.
Julian Plenti Is…Skyscraper is the #1 album for the second week in a row, as the Interpol side project comes in at #3 on the singles chart with “Games For Days.” Arctic Monkeys land on the album chart with Humbug’s debut at #2, while “Crying Lightning” is #4. The Big Pink’s A Brief History of Love lands at #3t with “Velvet” at #6. Heavy Young Heathens move up to #3t with their radio sampler EP, with the track “Drawn From Memory” in at #12t. The Resistance from Muse moves up to #5t with their awesome new single “Uprising” rising up to #7t. Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson’s surprising collaboration Break Upis at #5t, with the single “Relator” at #7t. The reunited, reconstituted Alice In Chains debut at #9t with the album Black Gives Way To Blue and the single “Check My Brain” at #11. Division Day and Blitzen Trapper can also be found on both charts.
The Temper Trap was one of last week’s Buzz Bands and they reach #1 this week with “Sweet Disposition.” The rocking newWolfmother single “New Moon Rising” debuts at #2…I just hope it isn’t supposed to be a Twilight reference. “In Case Of Rapture” from As Tall As Lions is at #5. RX Bandits and Saosin are tied at #9 on the singles chart. The Love And Rockets tribute album New Tales To Tell is at #5t this time around, and last week’s other Buzz Band, Datarock, stay at #8 with Red.
Read on for this week’s Buzz Bands, Florence And The Machine and Plastiscines, as well as up-to-date retail data, a complete list of songs and albums that are available for airplay, and the weekly FMQB SubModern singles and albums charts. Don't forget to send your playlists and add dates in to specialty@fmqb.com.
~ Joey Odorisio
“NEW TALES TO TELL, A TRIBUTE TO LOVE AND ROCKETS” FEATURING BONUS TRACKS EXCLUSIVELY FOR ONLINE!
Various Artists :: New Tales to Tell- A Tribute to Love and Rockets
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Reviewed on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 by Avalon Jeffrey
Doing a successful cover is a difficult task. Not only does a band have to show their respect to the artist whom they are covering, but they have to add their own personal, unique touch to the song. Many of the acts on New Tales to Tell successfully step up to this challenge and pay homage to Love and Rockets.
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Stick an Englishman in a band with three true blue Texans and you’re bound to come up with something pretty damn original.
In this case, the result is Electric Touch, the type of unbridled rock band that’s been missing from the scene for sometime now— a monster of a group whose sound is big enough to fill an arena.
Really, their name says it all. “I thought it was like A Clockwork Orange….almost a paradox,” says charismatic frontman Shane Lawlor. “But everybody thought it sounded like a vibrator.” That wasn’t exactly a negative. “That probably is this band in a nutshell,” he concedes.
He’s not too far off: Electric Touch’s mind-blowing self-titled debut album (due out this summer from the Austin-based Justice Records), is a tour de force of brilliant melodies, rock hard riffs and stick-in-your-head lyrics. Produced by Frenchie Smith (Built to Spill, The Dandy Warhols, Meat Puppets) and mixed by Gavin Mackillop (Goo Goo Dolls, Sugarcult, The La’s), the album announces the arrival of a bold new talent.
The four piece’s chemistry was instantaneous. Shane, who’s originally from Nottingham, England, landed in Austin after he fell in love with an American girl and decided to stick around. (He’s been in Texas for three years now). He met guitarist Christopher about a year ago and things just clicked. Soon Christopher’s twin brother Louis ditched Houston and headed to Austin to join Electric Touch on drums. “After our second session I realized I needed to stop everything else I was doing in my life and pursue this band full time,” says Louis. “It was the first time I could actually listen to one of my songs and have total confidence in what I was doing.”
Bassist Ross Dubois, a friend of their producer’s from Corpus Christi, rounded out the line up in September. “When we met him and jammed with him it felt almost preordained that he was the one,” says Christopher.
Electric Touch’s eponymous debut record is compelling from start to finish, full of ever-changing moods and textures. “Who Put The Fire Out?” which starts out with subtle, syncopated piano and culminates with a soaring, old-school wave-your-lighter-in-the-air guitar solo, packs not only power chords but a powerful message. On the track, Shane asks “who decides sinners are sent to be saved/who appoints killers and who appoints the preyed/who do we ignore/who do we obey.” He explains, “I took one long at the world and decided that rather than preach to anybody to let people come to their own conclusions."
Another standout is the charging, big-chorused “Don't Be Afraid” the first song Shane and Christopher wrote together. “I remember it being really late at night,” says Christopher. “We had a jam and came across a nice rhythm that we structured the song around, then laid a nice melody on top.” The unabashedly optimistic “Saved” is another favorite of his: “It’s beautiful song,” he says of the open-hearted ballad which recalls two of literature’s most well-known characters—the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet. “I can't help but think of people I love and everyone I care about when I hear it. When you're down and out you need someone to be there for you…someone to save you.”
"Lines,” with its sly groove and Bowie-meets-Beatles sensibility, is a song that hits especially close to home for Shane. “A lot of people think the title is a drug connotation,” he says, “but no one could afford drugs like that in my hometown when they were young.” Instead, the song is about his experience of going on the dole. “I was a bad lad, you know, when I was 16,” he recalls. “I got the good grades but I took a turn and got kicked out of school for having a little too much fun.” Nottingham was a rough place at the time and still is full of crime and soul-killing assembly line jobs. Shane found himself signing on to public assistance briefly before eventually earning a pittance packing boxes at a factory. As you can imagine, that didn’t stick for long. “I felt like Marlon Brando in The Wild One,” he says. “I wanted to be the one that got out.” (Eventually he moved to London, got session work as a multi instrumentalist, toured with Oasis and landed a U.S record deal as part of The Thieves).
In contrast “Breakdown, a good-time tune built around a killer guitar riff, shows the band’s gritty, bluesy side. Says Christopher, “It’s the kind of rocking song which is good to play at two o’ clock in the morning and just explode for two and a half minutes.” Ross is a fan of “Give Me A Sign,” which he aptly describes as sounding something like “the Bee Gees if they were a punk band.”
But it’s the anthemic “Love Is In Our Hearts,” with its idealistic lyrics (“We can take the world on/We make it/just stay strong) and Britpop bluster that is arguably the best introduction to Electric Touch. The track veers brilliantly between a raw blues taunt and melody-laden message of hope. “It’s about harmony; it’s about the light at the end of the tunnel; it’s about how we can make it if we show a little love,” offers Shane.
One explanation for Electric Touch’s refreshingly original sound is the members’ wide-ranging inspirations. If you check out their MySpace page, you’ll see everyone from literary giants (Bukowski, Dylan Thomas, and, of course Lawrence) to movie stars (Brando) and classical composers (Mozart) to rock bands (Aerosmith, Led Zep, The Beatles) referenced.
“We wanted to show that our inspiration is from all those things, and honestly it is,” says Shane. “If you came over to our house we could be listening to anything from Mozart to the theme for Batman. We draw inspiration from not just music we like but from life—from all the things that turn us on.”
Additionally, each member injects a bit of his own musical history into the equation. Christopher grew up on Bay Area punk and liked Green Day as a kid. His brother Louis was the hard rocker of the Messina family and got off on Aerosmith and Kiss. “Being a drummer, I’m a big fan of that arena rock sound,” says Louis. “I want pure power behind the drums, nothing fancy.”
Shane recalls spending Sunday mornings in his youth listening to the radio show “Gem AM” with his family while at the breakfast table. “They played all the golden oldies-The Hollies, ELO and T-Rex,” he remembers. “I used to hate it but it must have gotten under my skin because years and years later that was the music that I found myself drawn to.” Ross was more of a classic rock guy whose tastes ran the gamut from Led Zeppelin and The Beatles to Elton John and Billy Joel (thank his piano teaching mom for the latter two). “I’ve been playing in bands since I was 14,” says Ross. “When I was a kid I tried sports and figured out that I wasn’t very good, so I picked up the guitar. That’s all I’ve really done since.”
That hasn’t changed much for Ross, or for the rest of the group. Since forming the band less than one year ago, it’s been Electric Touch 24/7. Not only do the guys live and breathe the band, but Shane, Christopher and Louis actually share a house. “It’s like the Monkees really, writing songs, reading and becoming better musicians,” says Shane. “We’re like brothers.”
But none of the guys are going to tolerate any monkey business when it comes to the band’s future. They’ve all had their share of bad experiences with past groups and recognize that Electric Touch’s chemistry is a once-in-a-lifetime proposition. “We’re four very determined young men who know exactly where we want to go,” says Shane, “and that’s to the top.”
Electric Touch is off to an impressive start. They've wowed crowds at SXSW, Coachella and Bonnaroo and are also booked to appear at Lollapalooza and the ACL festival. But they’re not taking their early successes for granted. “We don’t expect anything to fall in our laps,” stresses Shane. “And I’m not going to bullshit you, we all work really hard.”
At the end of the day, Electric Touch is all about the music: the adrenaline release, that intoxicating feeling that only a killer rock song can give you. Says Shane, “For me rock and roll was always about escapism—quite literally it was a way to escape my hometown.”
“When people come to see us play, we want them to leave their troubles at the door. Their worries will still be there tomorrow,” he continues. “But for right now, let’s get together and have a good time.”
Consider that an invitation.
As I began to write this review, I heard that John Hughes had died. The man who almost single-handedly defined the '80s in film, starting in 1983 with Vacation and moving on through Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club before closing out the decade withUncle Buck. As the '90s rolled into town, he changed up his schtick a bit, and did three Home Alone movies, Curly Sue and a few others we won't mention here before ultimately petering out. Regardless, he is remembered for his work in the '80s, which helped to define not only that decade, but much of what came after; where would Judd Apatow and Kevin Smith be today, if not for Hughes? I mention this here because like Hughes, Love and Rockets got started and rose to fame in the '80s, helping to define that decade and influencing many bands that came after. They broke up in the 90s after changing up their sound, and despite a few feints at getting things back together, gradually petered out. And much as I remember growing up with The Breakfast Club, I also remember growing up with Love and Rockets. It is somehow fitting, then, that I have the opportunity to review New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love and Rockets today, because it's an opportunity to doubly reminisce. Most tributes tend to end right there, at reminiscence; fans buy tributes to be completists, and aside from one or two good songs, what they often end up with is a bunch of filler material from lesser-known bands. In this case, however, the filling is full of tasty goodness, and there's little here to dislike, from start to finish. Read the complete review at the link below...
Sun. 09/13 New Orleans, LA @ Republic
Mon. 09/14 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
Tues. 09/15 Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
Thurs. 09/17 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Mon. 09/21 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Tues. 09/22 Toronto, ONT @ Lee's Place
