
Bowerbirds are coming to Louisville's 930 Listening Room on Monday, November 16, 2009. If you recall, Backseat Sandbar was super excited when Bowerbirds were supposed to come to the 930 with Bon Iver back in August 2008 , but the show was canceled by Bon Iver when he was added to the Wilco tour. While last time around, the show would have been supporting the re-release of Hymns of a Dark Horse on Dead Oceans, but this time they're out for Upper Air (Dead [...]

We have launched a brand new sampler where you can stream and download tracks from several of our upcoming records. Check it out over at www.therecordmachine.net/sampl er . Next week is our second A Night of Record Machine-ness in Kansas City for the summer. The last one was a great sucess. We had about 200 or more people packed into Bryce's house for so much fun they almost fined us. This time we are having it at a proper venue: The Czar Bar. It will be to celebrate Perhapsy coming to Kansas [...]

There is a good chance that you have stumbled into a set by The Parade Schedule somewhere around town because frontman Matt Kinder has been setting up shop all over town for the past few years. Kinder falls under the tutelage of great masters of indie-folk like Damien Jurado, David Bazan or J. Tillman. His sepia-folk style sets him apart from a lot of his contemporaries and his songwriting constantly captures loss, love, duty, and honor like few can. The arrangements are lush and his blue-collar delivery is complemented greatly by the harmonies of Jenn Feikert. The band [...]

This month's song of the month is the debut of The Parade Schedule on the site. The Parade Schedule is Matt Kinder and a revolving cast of musicians. As The Parade Schedule Kinder crafts classic sounding folk songs that feature his soothing baritone voice and guitar with just the right amount of backing instrumentation to fill out the songs. Some songs on his debut Trees To Be Cut, Seeds To Be Planted feature as many as 16 people singing harmonies. For the song of the month he gives us his track Old. The Parade Schedule will be playing shows [...]

On Tuesday I was invited down to Lawrence to share a lot of new Record Machine releases with Richard Gintowt's Lawrence.com Podcast. I played several new songs from upcoming releases. You can hear songs from State Bird, Max Justus, Perhapsy, Capybara, The Parade Schedule, Sam & Dan Billen, Caleb Winn and new solo song from Sam Billen. Listen to the Podcast at Lawrence.com First thing first we have a few exciting upcoming Kansas City shows. One is a not so secret basement show on July 18th with State [...]

This Tuesday is the digital release of Perhapsy - Perhapsy you will be to get it at Emusic and Amazon.com . The physical cd will be ready in time for their tour in August. Which is starting to coming together nicely. If you are able to help out in the cities that are yet to be booked that would be great. Jul 30 2009 Nashville, Tennessee - The 5 Spot Aug 1 2009 Louisville, Kentucky - TBA Aug 2 2009 Bloomington, Indiana - The Pourhouse w/ Parade Schedule and Heavy Hometown Aug [...]

Parade Schedule, When We Might, and Ben Purdom @ The Rud, 8/14, 8pm Give a few dollar donation at the door.