Year end round up!

Thank you for all of your support throughout the year. I know it seems cliche to say it, but we would not be here without you. I'd like to go in depth with all of the things we've done, but the fine people over at the Communist Day Care Center did a great year in review with a big focus on what we were doing so we're going to direct you over that way:

http://communistdaycarecenter.blogspot.com/2012/12/cdcc-year-in-review.html

Thanks again and here's to hoping you have a safe and prosperous 2013!

Jeremy & DandyLyon Whine

TRust Never Sleeps

Miss our set as Neil Young and Crazy horse? Well CDCC has your back. They have officially released the audio as a new album and the video stream to youtube. Check out Trust Never Sleeps below:

DandyLyon Whine as Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Two weeks from now DandyLyon Whine is masquerading as Neil Young and Crazy Horse as part of the first annual CDCC Spec-Tacular Halloween bash.  Check out the facebook event here:

http://www.facebook.com/events/122768781206274/

The Day After Labor Day, Sept. 4th, 2012

Once again we find ourselves at the day after labor day, day when summer ends, the day we go back to work. 

DandyLyon Whine has had an eventful year. Last November we were part of CDCC's Nigel Tufnel Day celebration and None More Red tribute album. In early 2012 we welcomed percussionist Justin Velic to the band and in February we released our 2nd full length album Coelacanth to rousing success. I Don't Want To Live Anymore has over 1,100 views on YouTube. We have had the most active summer of our career playing many gigs all to great crowds with phenomenal reception. 

We have many great things planned out for this next year. First things first, we've been writing and we're going to debut a lot of new material in the upcoming months. Those of you that have been to the last handful of shows will have heard a few of these new tunes. 

We are going to be posting a lot more archival material and from behind the scenes. If you check our events page you'll find a complete listing of our previous gigs and we are starting to archive set lists and show audio/video where applicable. Today we'll be posting two live shows, the webcast of most recent show at PJ's Lagerhouse, and the long awaited Coelacanth release show! 

In the next few months we'll be posting "Live Versions" of songs. Many of our songs are very different live than on record. We are going to make high quality studio recordings and videos so you can access these versions any time. Eventually we'll be posting the rehearsal demos of the new material as well. And of course, another album. With any luck this one will take less than two years to put out.

Thank you so much for your continued support. We've had an incredibly successful year because of you. We appreciate every album purchase, download, every show you've gone to, every track listen, every facebook like, every time you've been walking down the street quietly singing "I Don't Want To Live Anymore," all of it. Without you, we are nothing. Thank you. 

Coelacanth Release Show, The New Dodge Lounge, 2/18/2012

PJ's Lagerhouse 8/31/2012

Watch live video from PJsLagerhouse on Justin.tv

Next Up: Lagerhouse!

Thanks to everyone that came out to the New Dodge Lounge last night! We had a super fun time playing with Superbomb and The Brown Bottle Flu.

Next up: The Lagerhouse with our good friends St. Zita and Isle Of Rhodes from New York, Friday August 31st!

And Out Of Nowhere: GIGS!

Hey everyone,

All of a sudden we have a pretty full calendar that we're pretty excited about! Quickly approaching is a show just over a week away! We are playing the New Dodge Lounge in Hamtramck with Brown Bottle Flu from Bloomington, IN, and local heroes Superbomb.

This is going to be a great show. Hope to see you there!

Also don't forget about Rebellatrix, where you can remix our latest album Coelacanth

Thanks!
DLW

Playing a big show next week! We're opening up for Smoking Spore from Texas and then we will be treated to the triumphant return of Mustash!

July 25th
DandyLyon Wine, Smoking Spore, Mustash
The Berkley Front, Berkley, MI
$5

Rebellatrix

Thanks to everyone that came out to the show last night! Check out these awesome pics by the amazing Kelly Sarver:

Last night also served as the launch of the Rebellatrix project wherein we invite you to remix our latest release Coelacanth. Currently you can either click the banner above the news feed or you can go directly to the project here: http://communistdaycarecenter.net/DLW/Rebellatrix

We'll post all of the results and CDCC will put out a release of our favorites later this year!

Big Show / Rebellatrix

Just a reminder that there is a big DLW show tomorrow with special guests Heartbreak Dallas & The Unfaithfuls, and a special solo performance by Keith Bedore of Ashleys / Sound & Fury fame. The event is at the Berkley Front and is Free. Doors are at 9.

This show will also serve as the official launch of the Rebellatrix project, in which we want YOU to remix our most recent release 'Coelacanth'. Get more info here: http://communistdaycarecenter.net/DLW/Rebellatrix

The Berkley Front
3087 12 Mile Rd
Berkley, MI

City Slang Review

Ah ... monolithic-alt-rock, that's what genre we are.

http://blogs.metrotimes.com/index.php/2012/05/city-slang-weekly-music-review-roundup-46/

The years after Labor Day

I sat down today and listened to The Day After Labor Day for the first time in a very long time and I've come to a realization; I like it. I mean, I always meant to put out an album that I would like, and I certainly have always liked the songs that appear on the album, but as I listened to it today all the little flaws that used to scream 'this isn't good enough' at me all seemed to have melted into the character of the album.

I think that the release of Coelacanth has helped me to realize that I am actually an artist and that my art does stand on its own. In other words, I am not a one hit wonder. I am capable of creating good work and I am here to stay.

Thanks for listening,
-otto

Adam Yauch

Thank you MCA, for helping the young, close-minded rocker I was learn to love hip-hop.

Thank You

A wholehearted thanks to everyone that came out to the release show last night. Thanks to Looking Up At Down and Cocaine Keith Bedore for opening up. A great time was had by all!

Tonight! Live! Not Sold Out!

Tonight is the night! Come get your copy of Coelacanth and enjoy some great music at the New Dodge Lounge in Hamtramck! 9ish, $5

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=the+new+dodge+lounge+hamtramck&hl=en&cid=15112732773288474921

Coelacanth as a physical entity

Schizoid

The deluxe edition of this album says on it "This album is dedicated to all those that have inspired this music."

A lot of the songs on this album are inspired by real people and real events. Every time I play a song I think about the people and events that have inspired it.

Schizoid is no different, including that at the end of the day it is selfishly about me.

But at the same time this album is about self destruction in the hopes that something better can rise from the ashes.

Let's hope. I'm gonna try real hard.

Your Last Song

Not the last song on the album ...

Most of this song is the bridge to an older song of mine "The Object Of My Affection." The bridge of this song is the verse of the same song. Interesting how things change.

It's a fun pretty little exercise in rhyme and reason.

And we honkey tonk it up live. Only a few days until the release show where you'll get to hear it for yourself!

Penn Station

So, this is the one about my father.

Or at least anger I had towards my father.

A big part of this album is saying things so that I can move forward with my life.

So, I hope that is possible.

The Hollow Spine Waltz and If You Loved Me

The Hollow Spine Waltz -

This one was inspired by the CAKE cover of Willie Nelson's "Sad Songs and Waltzes." It's called the 'hollow spine' waltz because the word "Coelacanth" means "Hollow Spine." Lucky for me, the lyrics also lead to having a spine a little less than solid.

If You Loved Me -
This one is the other tune inspired by a friend's bad breakup. I was working on the music for a while, and then he had this realization that he had to get out, that he was in a really bad situation. I tried to put myself in his shoes and this song is what happened.

As a side note, I put together the deluxe editions tonight and they look really good!

I Don't Want To Live Anymore

I wrote this song one morning when a rehearsal got canceled. What initially was supposed to be a demo, but it turned out really good. A day later I got a video of a guy flying a kite by the disc golf course and it just seemed to fit. That's where the idea to have a DVD with the deluxe edition came from. Here's the video:

Solenoid

Solenoid is the newest of all the songs on the album. I believe it to be inspired by a friend's rather nasty break up, though maybe just a residual vibe, as there is another tune that comes later on the album that is definitely inspired by said events.

That being said, I have put a starter in every truck I've owned, except the most recent one.

I'm sure it's coming. It is inevitable .

The Old Man And The Me

Amazingly, this one is not about my father...

It's about a guy slowly realizing that waiting for unrequited love is a bad idea and that investing time in doing and being what one wants to be is a good idea. In this case he decides to head out to sea.

Special thanks to Josh Foeller for the line "You can teach a man to sail, but you can't teach him why." I guess it is an old family saying, but I would not know it if it were not for him.

Satanic Mechanic

Satanic Mechanic started many years ago as an attempt by a colleague and I to write a modern day blues tune, one about selling your soul to the devil. We were brainstorming and thought that maybe these days the devil drove a big black sport utility vehicle instead of a big black Cadillac. The original lyrics went "I know he's coming, he's coming for me rolling along in that SUV. He should be driving a Cadillac. It ain't that long, but it sure is black." A version with these lyrics will be available on the extras DVD that comes with the deluxe version of the album.

The lines "Don't want to die. Don't want to die alone. Don't want to lay in the garden of stone. That's why I call you on the phone, cell phone towers, they guide me home." is an homage to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album on which two tunes make reference to towers guiding him home. One being the refinery towers and one being radio towers.

I'd like to think that this song has an overarching Nebraska feel to it. I think of it as about a good man forced to make a hard decision and now he has to pay for it or die running from it.

Coelacanth .... the song

Today I start posting about a song everyday. Today we'll take a look at the lead off track - "Coelacanth"

Dreamed I was an ancient fish swimming in the sea.
Nothing ever changes here, nothing except me.
One day soon I know that they will come looking for me saying
everything's been changing here, everything but me.

This is it, the crux of the album. I wrote it quickly on a hot summer night and I recorded it on my phone to make sure I wouldn't forget it. I recorded the song multiple times afterward and for a long time none of them lived up to the original. The original will appear on the DVD of the special edition.

I have always hated songs that are about the hard life of rock stardom. In line with that I must state that I love Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good To Me So Far. I liken the song Coelacanthto the lines "It's tough to handle all this fortune and fame. Everybody's so different. I haven't changed."

This song, and this album, is all about change, a change I need to make, but in order to do so I need to let go of a lot of pain, and a lot of baggage, and start the slow process of becoming a better, more open, well-rounded person.

Regular and Deluxe Editions

Coelacanth will be available in two different versions, standard and deluxe.

The standard version will come with the full 10 song album. It will cost $5.

The deluxe version will come with the full album and a dvd containing a video for all 10 songs as well as some alternative takes and demos from the recording process. The deluxe version will be available for $10

You can pick up either copy at the Coelacanth Release Party, Feb 18th at The New Dodge Lounge!

My first encounter with a Coelacanth

Sometime in 2010 I was in a biology for dummies class titled 'Life On Earth' to get gen ed credit towards my music degree. The class mostly consisted of watching the David Attenbourough series of the same title. The class was run by a scrawny asshole full of dry, biting humor. I loved the class.

The material for the class was presented as the timeline of life on earth, from the first proteins and amino acids up through modern day. One day we were talking about the evolution of fish and how they worked their way out of the water. Let's take a moment to talk about these fish. There are two kinds of fins that can be found on fish, ray fins, and lobe fins. Unless you've seen a Coelacanth you have never seen a lobe finned fish. Why is this important? Well, lobe fin fish have four lobe fins, two up front and two in back, ...and the bone structure shows five tarsals inside the fin.

Ever notice how all animals with fingers and toes have five of them? That's because it was a lobe finned fish that first came out of the water and survived. There are plenty of these fish in the fossil record, but we thought they had been extinct.

That is until 1938 when they were found off the shore of South Africa. The ancient fish lives. It has changed a bit. The one found was a new species, and another species has since been discovered.

Coelacanths live in dark, cold water at high pressure depths. They are about six feet long and weigh about 180 pounds. They reach sexual maturity somewhere between 20 and 25 years, and they live to be somewhere between eighty and a hundred years old. They've lived for millions of years, forgotten and abandoned in the dark while the world changed. Now roughly one Coelacanth's lifetime has passed since they've been discovered. Are they perfect for not needed to have changed or are they doomed to die off slowly for all the change that has happened around them?

INFORMATION!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth

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Useless Fact #1

In the push to the release of Coelacanth comes the daily posting of something ....

Some kind of news having something to do with the album. Today's info falls into the completely useless category, hopefully the information to come will be much more interesting and edifying ...

Coelacanth will be exacty 40 minutes and 22 seconds long if you are obtaining it digitally.

Add two seconds to that if you are planning on procuring the album on compact disc as there will be a standard two second buffer at the beginning (though not tabulated on your CD player's time clock).

This has been useless fact number one (#1). Please check back tomorrow for something hopefully a bit more useful.

Website Redesign and Coelacanth Release Details

DandyLyonWhine.Net has gone through a redesign. Spend some time and check it out. With any luck you will find it more functional and easy to use.

Coelacanth, DandyLyon Whine's second full length album, is coming out February 18th at The New Dodge Lounge. Opening up are Looking Up At Down and Keith Bedore. Show starts circa 9:30 and the cost is five dollars.

The New Dodge
8850 Jos. Campau
Hamtramck, MI, 48212

Here's the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/271014969628849/?ref=ts

official release date for Coelacanth, Saturday February 18th 2012

At the New Dodge Lounge in Hamtramck.

Details and stories to come...