Video: FIREWATER Infomercial: The story behind "The Golden Hour"

FIREWATER Infomercial: The story behind "The Golden Hour"
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Golden Hour

Jan 26, 2009, 7:31pm The Swill Merchant

I love it when musicians make youtube infomercials about their albums! So much cooler than reading a boring bio...plus, the lazy blogger in me can just embed the clip here and stop attempting to dissect someone else's inner most intentions. Firewater's 'Golden Hour' is a fantastic disc from last year that I just picked up over the weekend. Here is Firewater's main man Tod A explaining his motivation, process, and thoughts on the record. There is a song shared after the clip. * "Feels Like The End Of [...]

• * "Feels Like The End Of The World' MP3 » hour-feelsliketheendtheworld.mp3

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Link Text:	* "Feels Like The End Of The World' MP3
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Ugly Americans (Firewater, Cordero/Skeleton Key, Southpaw/Bowery Ballroom, 5/24 & 5/27/08)

Jun 17, 2008, 3:35pm heartonastick.blog-city.com

["Delhi Wall" by Tod A . "Clown Graffiti" (Franklin St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn) by d.billy . ( via )] Firewater ( myspace ) released a fine record last month, though all your favorite new media outlets were too busy suckling at Scarlett Johansson's massive PR teat to notice. The collective helmed by singer-guitarist Tod A. has been dealing in Waitsian carny cabaret and world musics since long before the current round of indie indulgences, and it doesn't have to resort to rummaging through record collections and staring at [...]

• Firewater - 6:45 (So This Is How It Feels
• Firewater - Another Perfect Catastrophe
• Firewater - Some Kind Of Kindness
• Skeleton Key - Roses
• Skeleton Key - The Barker of the Dupes

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Artist:	Firewater
Title:	6:45 (So This Is How It Feels
Link Text:	Firewater - 6:45 (So This is How it Feels)(mp3)
File Name:	04_645_so_this_is_how_it_feels .mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Firewater
Title:	Another Perfect Catastrophe
Link Text:	Firewater - Another Perfect Catastrophe (mp3)
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Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	1998

Artist:	Firewater
Title:	Some Kind Of Kindness
Link Text:	Firewater - Some Kind of Kindness (mp3)
File Name:	03_some_kind_of_kindness.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Skeleton Key
Title:	Roses
Link Text:	Skeleton Key - Roses (mp3)
File Name:	roses.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2005

Artist:	Skeleton Key
Title:	The Barker of the Dupes
Link Text:	Skeleton Key - The Barker of the Dupes (mp3)
File Name:	skeleton_key__the_barker_of_th e_dupes.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2002

Firewater: The Golden Hour (Review)

May 7, 2008, 3:00am PopMatters

Firewater blow up the laboratory and produce... a great pop record.

• Firewater - Borneo
• Firewater - Three Legged Dog

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Artist:	Firewater
Title:	Borneo
Link Text:	"Borneo"
File Name:	01Borneo.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps

Artist:	Firewater
Title:	Three Legged Dog
Link Text:	"3-Legged Dog"
File Name:	13ThreeLeggedDog.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps
Year:	2008

Firewater:: The Golden Hour

May 5, 2008, 12:30pm Parasites & Sycophants

In 2005, Firewater's Tod A embarked on what would become a three year sabbatical through the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia. Recording with a single microphone and a laptop in his pack, he captured performances with a vast array of musicians across India and Pakistan--and eventually Turkey and Israel. Bhangra and sufi percussion would form the basis for the songs he wrote along the way--songs about the world he left behind, politics, and dislocation. audio: borneo [...]

• Firewater - Borneo
• Firewater - Feels Like The End Of The World

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Artist:	Firewater
Title:	Borneo
Link Text:	borneo
File Name:	borneo.mp3
Bitrate:	160 kbps

Artist:	Firewater
Title:	Feels Like The End Of The World
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News You Can Use; Firewater to release The Golden Hour

Feb 25, 2008, 6:35pm Electronic Voice Phenomenon

It's been ages since we've checked in on Firewater. It's been a decade since the band's stellar The Ponzi Scheme which housed pederast in a simile and had bodies hitting the floor well before another, louder, more annoying track used in every 'cutting edge' program stuck in, well 1998. Before we go completely off the rails, allow us to give you the dirt on Firewater's May 6th release of The Golden Hour : In 2005, Firewater's Tod A embarked on what would become a 3-year sabbatical [...]

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This Is His Life

Feb 25, 2008, 2:41pm The Driftwood Singers Present

One of the loudest and most savage rock-and-roll shows I saw in the 1990s was Firewater , which laid sinister rock riffs over various Old World dance beats (klezmer, ska, etc.). This was at Brownies, a cavernous beer-and-smoke-stained club that used to reside on 1st Avenue in the East Village (anyone remember it?). I distinctly recall a Japanese keyboard player in a silver Star Trek shirt whose playing blew my mind. And the lead singer had a very bad attitude. Anyway, the album was called Get Off The Cross (We Need The Wood For The Fire) [...]

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[News] Bloodshot Records signs Firewater and Announces a New Record

Dec 19, 2007, 10:30am Radio Exile

Chicago based label Bloodshot Records has just announced that they have signed influential act Firewater to a multi-album deal. The group's debut on the label will be the ambitious and long awaited The Golden Hour , which will be coming out in...

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[News] Bloodshot Records signs Firewater and announces a new record

Dec 12, 2007, 3:26pm Radio Exile

Chicago based label Bloodshot Records has just announced that they have signed influential act Firewater to a multi-album deal. His debut on the label will be the ambitious and long awaited The Golden Hour , which will be coming out in April o...

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Firewater - The Golden Hour

Oct 9, 2007, 2:40am You Crazy Dreamers

As musically rich and joyful as a Manu Chao with La Mano Negra , as powerful and foot-taping dancing as a first Louise Attaque or Les Negresses Vertes - sorry for so much froggies - , as satanic as the Rolling Stones used to be, as drunken as some of the best irish Pogues , here's the Firewater come-back... After 3 years of silence since their last release 'Songs we should have written' - a collection of cover songs, Tod Ashley is back from an asian, eastern [...]

• Firewater - 02. This Is my Life
• Firewater - 13. Three-Legged Dog

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Artist:	Firewater
Title:	02. This Is my Life
Link Text:	Download
File Name:	this-is-my-life.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2007

Artist:	Firewater
Title:	13. Three-Legged Dog
Link Text:	Download
File Name:	three-legged-dog.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Year:	2007