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Love, Everyday Joe’s | vol. 3 | Wake Up, Oh Sleeper

The Communiqué — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:37:44 +0000

It’s here!

Your digital Santa Claus has arrived. The third installment of our annual compilation CD – Love, Everyday Joe’s - is now available for FREE DOWNLOAD. Not for a limited time, mind you, but for always. Our gift to you for being the community and family that we love to bits.

Volume 3 – entitled Wake Up, Oh Sleeper – is made up of 18 tracks donated by 18 artists that we love very much who donated tunes to this project just for you. Would you like to know who they are? Here you go:

You & Yourn, You Me & Apollo, Aaron Strumpel, Shadows On A River, Candy Claws, The Changing Colors, The Blackthorn Project, Danielle Ate The Sandwich, Paper Bird, Katie Herzig, Cody Crump, Midwest Dilemma, Paean, ABoyandHisKite, John Common & Blinding Flashes Of Light, Karli Fairbanks, Sara Swenson, and Oh Starling (Dan Craig and Jessica Sonner).

That’s a dandy, eh? A free dandy. Of course, you can always donate to the cause if you see fit. All donations will go to paying our music licensing fees that make it possible to have musicians play at Everyday Joe’s. This is all explained at the download page, which you can get to by clicking here or on the cover art below. Happy listening!

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…in which we announce the 2009 Everyday Joe’s 90/10 Benefit

The Communiqué — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:14:34 +0000

It is that time of year again, folks. A good time of year. An exciting time of year. A lovely time of year.

Once every 12 months, Everyday Joe’s throws a party for itself. A party to celebrate community & relationships & how much we love you. This party is in the form of a benefit concert for your favorite non-profit coffee house, and the musicians playing this year have me all kinds of excited and I have goosebumps.

Back in April, our longtime friend Aaron Strumpel released an album called Elephants. To record it, he enlisted the help of people he loves from Portland, the mountains of Woodland Park, and Boulder. These people stretched him and told him to throw away what he knew as songwriting and create something from the ashes. The result is an award-winning album that has received critical acclaim from places all around:

If you would have told me six months ago that one of my favorite albums of the year would be based on the Psalms, I would have told you that you don’t know me very well. Long the purview of schlockmeisters and saccharine hacks, Aaron Strumpel has stolen the hymnbook of ancient Israel back for the regular folks, including folks like David (the original blues harp player) who bitch and moan and cry out in pain. This album wails. Add the tribal chanting and the horn section cribbed from avant-garde jazzbos The Art Ensemble of Chicago and you’ve got something very rare and special indeed. - Paste Magazine

Here’s a fresh reminder of the literary and musical beauty of the Bible — no matter what, or whether, you believe. - USA Today

While nothing can replace a live performance, Elephants is by no means any less exciting or musically inferior. Thanks to the layers on each of the tracks, the concert experience translates nicely into the album. The album title is fitting as most tracks are interlaced with deep drum stomps, rough-skinned backing loops and Aaron’s own trumpet. The sound is experimental, but with purpose, folk rock based but uniquely integrated with a variety of instrumentation; it carries an element of abstraction to it with soul that bleeds through the vocals. - Relevant Magazine

That last review speaks of live performance, comparing it to the album. What good is this to you? Allow yourself to now be informed.

On December 5, Aaron Strumpel will perform Elephants in its entirety with the help of those who helped make the album: The Blackthorn Project, Aboyandhiskite, and Agents Of Future. The performance will headline this year’s Everyday Joe’s 90/10 benefit, with short opening sets from each of Aaron’s friends. The creation of the album is one that came out of community & relationships, so we only saw it as fitting to have Aaron perform it from the Everyday Joe’s stage on the very evening we celebrate such things. The 90/10 Benefit has always been an evening to portray the heart of what happens at 144 S. Mason, and if that heart was a person it would be Aaron Strumpel.

Tickets for the show are for sale online here and will be available at the shop soon. Show time is 6:30 pm, and all proceeds from the evening will go to benefit Everyday Joe’s.

FURTHER:

Why 90/10?

Whenever an artist plays at Everyday Joe’s and charges a cover, they get to keep 90% of the ticket sales. This is a generous cut, and we do it because we believe in supporting the arts. One night each year, the musicians split the 10% and allow Everyday Joe’s to take the 90% so we can make improvements and serve you better.

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Free Music Friday: Free EP from Kate Hurley

The Communiqué — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:13:00 +0000

Oh, Kate Hurley.

She is a very funny lady. Very funny and very easily distracted…and those qualities are very endearing when you are in the room with her.

Kate has played Everyday Joe’s quite a few times. She has an album out that is fantastic and features the likes of The Blackthorn Project, Aaron Strumpel, Andrew Jed, Trace Bundy, and Aboyandhiskite (who also recorded/produced the record). She was also featured on our little treat we gave you back in December of ’07.

In the spirit of most independent musicians these days, Kate is giving away a free EP of her music for you to enjoy.

Download the You Are Not Alone EP by clicking right here.

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