Balthrop, Alabama » Reviews http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:48:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Portland Mercury preview of our show at Dante’s http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2009/07/20/portland-mercury-preview-of-our-show-at-dantes/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2009/07/20/portland-mercury-preview-of-our-show-at-dantes/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:46:27 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=381 The kind folks at The Portland Mercury wrote a nice blurb for our show at Dante’s last night:

“I want to quit my job, burn my house to the ground (or maybe just sell it), and join Balthrop, Alabama. This 11-piece ragtag Brooklyn ensemble of Southerners—Alabamans, to be exact—thrives with a vivacious theatrical flair, using their indie pop leanings (the wit of Magnetic Fields, the urgency of Arcade Fire) to create an entire movement in the guise of a rock ‘n’ roll band. They are literally their own community (“population 11″), and keep the conceptual theme going with short EPs that wondrously follow certain topics—Subway Songs, Cowboy Songs—to their end. Tonight you will be tempted to shed your former life and hop onstage to join the band. Why not make it an even dozen?”

Original link: http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/up-and-coming/Content?oid=1502449

]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2009/07/20/portland-mercury-preview-of-our-show-at-dantes/feed/ 1 A Very Balthrop Christmas in the New Yorker Online http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/12/10/a-very-balthrop-christmas-in-the-new-yorker-online/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/12/10/a-very-balthrop-christmas-in-the-new-yorker-online/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:57:48 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=255 A nice write-up of our Christmas show at Joe’s Pub this Friday, featuring a song by Andrew Vladeck, known here in town as Cotton Tyler Guin.

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Also, our holiday album, A Very Balthrop Christmas, will be on sale this Saturday, December 13th!

Love you.

]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/12/10/a-very-balthrop-christmas-in-the-new-yorker-online/feed/ 0 End Up and Balthrop, Alabama in the Village Voice http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/08/19/end-up-and-balthrop-alabama-in-the-village-voice/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/08/19/end-up-and-balthrop-alabama-in-the-village-voice/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:53:13 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=166 Ben Westhoff did a nice write up about End Up Records and Caithlin and Kyle and Balthrop, published in this week’s Village Voice.

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PS. We live in Carroll Gardens. I don’t know what a ‘BoCoCa’ is.

]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/08/19/end-up-and-balthrop-alabama-in-the-village-voice/feed/ 1 Balthrop, Alabama featured in CRAWDADDY ! http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/07/30/balthrop-alabama-featured-in-crawdaddy/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/07/30/balthrop-alabama-featured-in-crawdaddy/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:44:12 +0000 Georgiana http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=144 Check it out! Our friend Ben wrote about us for the rock blog CRAWDADDY.
CRAWDADDY

Here’s a snippet…

The band Balthrop, Alabama does not hail from Balthrop, Alabama, because such a town does not exist. Its two primary members—siblings Lauren and Pascal Balthrop—grew up in Mobile, but nowadays live about four blocks away from each other in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood.

You can read more HERE!

]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/07/30/balthrop-alabama-featured-in-crawdaddy/feed/ 0 Balthrop, Alabama in Paper Magazine http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/05/02/balthrop-alabama-in-paper-magazine/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/05/02/balthrop-alabama-in-paper-magazine/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 06:53:21 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=117 They asked us what our favorite books was, so we told em:

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]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/05/02/balthrop-alabama-in-paper-magazine/feed/ 0 Balthrop, Alabama in the New Yorker http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/04/14/balthrop-alabama-in-the-new-yorker/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/04/14/balthrop-alabama-in-the-new-yorker/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:04:27 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=114 Pretty nice write-up of our show at Joe’s Pub this Friday with Michael Arthur and Caithlin De Marrais.

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]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/04/14/balthrop-alabama-in-the-new-yorker/feed/ 0 MyMixTapes reviews Your Big Plans & Our Little Town http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/02/18/mymixtapes-reviews-your-big-plans-our-little-town/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/02/18/mymixtapes-reviews-your-big-plans-our-little-town/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:29:29 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/02/18/mymixtapes-reviews-your-big-plans-our-little-town/ “…a well thought-out record, dark on the inside and coated with an indie, yet friendly pop-sensibility.”

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]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2008/02/18/mymixtapes-reviews-your-big-plans-our-little-town/feed/ 0 Review of our show in New Brunswick http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2007/12/08/review-of-our-show-in-new-brunswick/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2007/12/08/review-of-our-show-in-new-brunswick/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:04:44 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=72 From the Rutgers Review:

Rutgers Review Article

Thanks to Lindsay and Tin Kitchen and everyone at Courtlandt-Land!

]]> http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2007/12/08/review-of-our-show-in-new-brunswick/feed/ 0 Review of the week http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2007/10/24/review-of-the-week/ http://stage.balthropalabama.com/blog/2007/10/24/review-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:26:22 +0000 Jemison http://www.balthropalabama.com/blog/?p=60 Sometimes for fun I like to google our band and see what people are saying. I love finding little gems like this:

…they sound like a watered-down, less-musical version of The Hush Sound or New Pornographers.

Hahahaha!

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