EZTV Writes for The Talkhouse

EZTV’s Michael Stasiak wrote a personal piece for The Talkhouse about the trials and tribulations of being a band living in a major city in 2016.

 

“A couple of weeks after we sent Captured Tracks the final mixes of our forthcoming LP, High in Place, for mastering, the label asked me to take a crack at writing our press bio. I don’t mention this as a gripe. It’s work that I think I would have excelled at decades ago, when that effusive, adjective-crazy style of writing was slapped onto the backs of most LPs and called liner notes.

My first thought was a flashback to a conversation that my band mates and I had had last April with Chris Cohen, our label mate, who helped arrange and produce one of the songs on High in Place. We were standing on the roof of Braund Studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, looking at the impressive, imposing skyline: Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Chrysler Building, Empire State, that hideous, pencil-thin luxury high-rise right on the edge of Central Park — all lead gray and heavy against a delicate blue sky. Chris groused about a phone interview he had done the day before that he felt had gone poorly.”

Read the rest over at The Talkhouse site and catch the band on the road this 2016.

09/16 – Wilmington, DE – Grand Opera House ^

09/17 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre ^

09/18 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre ^

09/29 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater $

09/30 – Saxapahaw, NC – Haw River Ballroom $

10/04 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop $

10/05 – Champaign, IL – The Accord $

10/08 – Madison, WI – Club Majestic $

10/10 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Pyramid Scheme $

10/11 – Columbus, OH – Skully’s Music Diner $

10/12 – Ithaca, NY – The Haunt $

10/13 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade (RECORD RELEASE SHOW w/ OMNI)

10/26 – Aarhus, Denmark – Tape *

10/27 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Stengade *

10/28 – Bielefeld, Germany – Nr.z.P *

10/29 – Leipzig, Germany – Westwek *

10/30 – Berlin, Germany – Tiefgrund *

10/31 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – S105 *

11/02 – London, UK – The Lexington *

11/03 – Manchester, UK – The Castle Hotel *

11/04 – Birmingham, UK – Sunflower Lounge *

11/07 – Brussels, Belgium – Rotonde – Botanique *

11/08 – Paris, France – Mecanique Ondulatoire *

11/10 – Bern, Switzerland – Rössli *

11/11 – Milan, Italy – Cox *

11/12 – Correggio, Italy – i Vizi del Pellicano *

11/13 – Marghera, Italy – C.S. Rivolta *

11/14 – Zagreb, Croatia – Mocvara *

11/15 – Linz, Austria – Posthof *

11/16 – Prague, Czech Republic – Café V lese *

11/26 – Nashville, TN – High Watt %

11/27 – New Orleans, LA – Saturn Bar %

11/28 – Austin, TX – Barracuda %

11/29 – Dallas TX – Double Wide Bar %

11/30 – Memphis, TN – Bar DKDC %

12/01 – Columbia, MO – Café Berlin %

12/02 – Chicago, IL – The Hideout %

12/03 – Detroit, MI – El Club %

12/04 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern %

12/05 – Montreal, QC – Casa del Popolo %

12/06 – Cambridge, MA – Middle East Upstairs %

12/07 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom %

^ Supporting Jenny Lewis

$ Supporting Real Estate

* Supporting Merchandise

% Supporting Ultimate Painting

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