new tvfordogs CD out today on wampus multimedia

Wampus Multimedia announces the release of Roller, the new CD from London-based modern-rock outfit tvfordogs.

Post-grunge melodicism: call it the destiny of nineties rock. Riding the crest of the wave, tvfordogs follow their acclaimed 2003 debut, Heavy Denver, with the beguiling new Roller. Built on crunchy guitars, soaring vocals, and tightly honed songwriting, Roller evokes the broad-based appeal of Coldplay and Foo Fighters, passing it through a new lens. Rooted in alternative, tvfordogs reach to the stylistic periphery for trips into shimmering roots rock ("Drive") and melodic pop ("Be Careful"), displaying an adventurousness increasingly uncommon in contemporary rock. Released by U.S.-based independent label Wampus Multimedia, Roller is very hard to forget, a stirring entry in the modern-rock sweepstakes.

Built on the sturdy songs of singer-guitarist Neil Luckett, tvfordogs are anchored by bassist Mark Homer and drummer Paul Jarrett, who fuel this classic British power trio's salutes to touchstones from Radiohead and Queens of the Stone Age to Beck, Todd Rundgren, and the Beatles. Liberally quoting but not replicating their influences, the band melds and recasts them in the manner of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, refracting New Wave through a prism of the Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Jam, and XTC.

Built around a radio-ready mix of the title track by Nirvana producer Jack Endino, Roller evolves from the punk-infused opener, "The Universe Is Blue," to the Kurt Cobain nod "Everlasting Sun," to the Chili Peppers pastiche "Always There," to the towering mea culpa "Monolith." It is the stunning, AAA-inflected "Drive," however, that delivers the payoff, bridging the gap between noise and melody, aggression and serenity, age and youth. In its poetic narrative, a couple travels aimlessly from town to town, searching for a new home, sleeping in their car, pondering the destiny they deserve and the one they will find. "I'm not even sure," Luckett sings, "if we should be forgiven. So we drive."

Produced by Luckett in London with assistance from engineers Oliver Goodall, Dave Fowler, and Tony Perretta, Roller joins a Wampus Multimedia roster that includes new releases from Cafebar 401, Casey Abrams, Arms of Kismet, Johnny J Blair, and Alice Despard, as well as Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon, to which Luckett contributed a version of Zevon's "Mutineer." Skilled interpreters of the work of other artists, tvfordogs also covered "How Do You Think It Feels" for 2003's After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed.

Roller is available at Amazon, CD Baby, Tower Records, iTunes, and other fine stores.

http://cdbaby.com/tvfordogs4

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Hurry Home Early Featured at WarrenZevon.com

Wampus Multimedia's Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon is currently being featured at the welcome page of WarrenZevon.com, the official Zevon site edited and managed by his son, Jordan Zevon. Wampus started the Zevon project in 2001, after it released its first tribute CD, If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman, and was working on its second, After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed.

Contributors include: Phil Cody, who toured with Zevon; Matt Cartsonis (Zevon, Van Dyke Parks, Peter Himmelman), guitar on "Splendid Isolation"; Rami Jaffee (Wallflowers), organ on "Splendid Isolation"; Chris Butler (Waitresses), bass on "Reconsider Me"; Last Train Home, who recently appeared on CBS-TV's Late Late Show; Neil Luckett of tvfordogs; Gary Eaton (founding member, Continental Drifters), guitar on "Mr. Bad Example"; Robbie Rist (L.A. power-pop producer known in a past life as Cousin Oliver of The Brady Bunch); and Simone Stevens and Jordan Zevon, who cover the previously unheard "Warm Rain." Jordan Zevon has also just released a new EP.

Hurry Home Early was mastered by Eamon Loftus at C&C Studios (www.candcstudios.net) in Sterling, Virginia.

Wampus Multimedia is donating one dollar from the sale of each copy of Hurry Home Early to the American Cancer Society.

Track list:

Hurry Home Early is available at Amazon, CD Baby, Tower Records, iTunes, and other fine stores.

http://wampus.com/warren.html

http://cdbaby.com/hurryhome

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tvfordogs / Roller

Melodic, crunchy, and already under your skin.

Alice Despard / Vessel

Patti Smith meets Neil Young -- with a little Mission of Burma to boot.

Johnny J Blair / Treadmarks

Imagine if Raymond Chandler and Sam Cooke were street musicians busking with David Bowie's beat-up 12-string guitar.

Various Artists / Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon

Emerging artists interpret the literate, modern songcraft of the "poet of Gower Avenue."

Arms of Kismet / Cutting Room Rug

Brooding and poppy, funny and foreboding, it's toe-tapping, tragicomic rock 'n' roll.

Casey Abrams / Like a Mirror

Reflecting folk, jazz, and the American songbook, it takes Paul Simon and Don McLean back to their roots.

Cafebar 401

Brimming with darkly sweet pop hooks, it calls to mind Coldplay, Radiohead, and Queens of the Stone Age.

Arms of Kismet / Eponymous

Literate and insidiously catchy, it's postmodern pop for the savvy, ironic streetcrawler.

Various Artists / After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed

Emerging artists tell the story of an artist unencumbered by popular expectations, yet... popular.

Various Artists / If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman

A wildly entertaining ride through the repertoire of one of rock's most original and eclectic songwriters.

tvfordogs / Heavy Denver

Definitive modern rock from London-based trio.

Kowtow Popof / Kowtow Drops the Pop Off

Powerfully nuanced postmodern rave-ups that set the car radio ablaze. "Preternaturally surrealist post-pop." --Eve Zibart, The Washington Post

Amateur God / Near Life Experience

Dark gothic-semi-vocal-ambient music in the tradition of Mylene Farmer, Art of Noise, and Voivod.

Mitch Renault & Arms of Kismet / Ted's 12: Original Soundtrack

Snappy songs and snippets from the film.

Various Artists / Glass Flesh 2: a Tribute to Robyn Hitchcock

Twenty-one great ways to skin Robyn Hitchcock's cat.

Wampeters / Murder Your Darlings

It's the end of the line... until the line starts again. "A great narrative album. The last great mainstream release that exemplifies this method of development of style and sound is Wilco's Summer Teeth." --Heidi Drockelman, IndieMusic.com

Mark Doyon / Bonneville Stories

Crisp fiction from Arms of Kismet's Mark Doyon that's as dark as optimism gets. "A brilliant collection of beautifully written stories that made me cringe, grimace, and laugh, while sometimes moving me to great pity.... There just aren't any flaws here, and I can't possibly do this book justice in a review. No one could, really...." --Laurie Edwards, CultureDose.net

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1929763093/qid=1034199246/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_7/102-8551637-2399362?v=glance&n=507846

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Coming in 2005-07

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