Catalina Shortwave

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 3, 2014
AMERICAN ROCK BAND “CATALINA SHORTWAVE” RELEASES >>REPEATER>>
June 3, 2014, New York, New York.
YES, THIS IS PRETTY MUCH NOT A GOOD PRESS RELEASE
Why? Because it's being written by a guy in the band - Catalina Shortwave - that would rather be playing music, but who is filling up his "free time" from his day gig trying to promote his band, and being told that he needs to do all sorts of things and spend all sorts of yet-to-be-earned money to do it. And the bank keeps calling about his credit card.
So he’ll keep it simple.
He is me, and here's what I'd like to tell you:
Three guys made this record. Each of them is a musician at heart who deals with the daily ups-n-downs of day gigs, finding day gigs, keeping day gigs, raising families, waiting in line at Dunkin for the same stuff he ordered every other Saturday or Sunday for the last year. These three guys knew each other from their town in Western Connecticut - a bucolic, leafy place that - if you look hard enough - has deep, dark cracks. They've fallen in and out of those cracks. Like, a lot.
So they got together in 2013 and started putting songs together. Dave had an overstuffed folder of fraying lyrics that he'd accumulated over the years, adding to the pile week by week, getting up in the middle of the night to go into his closet to whisper melodies into his iPhone. Brent brought his guitar and bass over to Dave's basement, where Dave's son had a drum kit getting dusty (even though the kid's pretty good), and they'd construct these songs. They started recording into a Mac so old it forgot to die, which they named - somewhat but not completely affectionately - "Success", because of its habit of freezing when the take was going perfectly. Marty then joined them, bringing in his guitars and occasionally a 4-track tape cassette recorder that made the Mac look like Peter Pan.
After many weeks of collaborating, including through one nasty New England winter plugging away in Dave's cold, unfinished basement, they came up with these fifteen songs, collected on their album >>Repeater>>.
So what about these songs, then? Well, they are very different from each other. The record starts off with this blues rock burner, switches to this punky, power pop, skinny tie deal, and down the track list it gets into among other things some Springsteen-cum-punk experimentation, some updated 70s singer-songwriter type stuff, high energy hard rock, electric-acoustic rock with a southern rock vibe, a short dark country-ish ditty that could be a warped drinking song, and a Planet Caravan-type mood piece that puts you in a car traveling along a desert highway. Then it comes in for a landing with a bouncy Johnny Cash-like song with a kazoo solo.
So yeah, the songs are different. By design and by default. Because these guys are lovers of music and have a lot of different things on their personal playlists. Glen Campbell co-exists with Raydio, Iggy Pop and Satie. You get the picture. And this album is for like minded folks who just want music that's good, who can appreciate all sorts of music if it's written fearlessly but lovingly and the songs are performed with fidelity to whatever passions that caused them to be. That said, >>Repeater>> is most definitely a rock album, and the tracks are united in their attitude, themes, and the "feel" of the guys who played them.
So that's our press release. We'll tell you anything you'd care to know about us or the band or the record, as quickly as we can and though the medium of your choice. Please just ask.
This record was a light in our lives for the past year. We hope it shines some light in yours. - CATALINA SHORTWAVE