Reggie Pace joins Bon Iver!

20 06 2011

Excited to let everyone know that our esteemed trombonist Reggie Pace just joined the band of the mighty Bon Iver! Wanted to drop everyone a line today, because tonight (Monday, June 20, 2011) you can catch him and the rest of the band on The Colbert Report, and tomorrow (Tuesday, June 21, 2011) they will be on the Jimmy Fallon show!

And if that wasn’t enough—Reggie’s coming back to RVA on Thursday to play with us at Balliceaux for MONDO ITALIA DANCE PARTY!

Don’t worry, Reggie’s still in the band–despite the whole, “I’m a rockstar and only eat things with truffles or truffle oil in them” thing. I’m using this opportunity to write some new tunes for our next record.

And we’re all getting our truffle hunting skills on point!

For more info on Reggie joining Bon Iver, check out this article on RVA NEWS.





MAY 24 Album Release AND Concert!!!

4 05 2011

Join us for the official release of our new album:

BEACH OF THE WAR GODS

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Live Performance at The Camel (1621 W. Broad St.)

9pm All Ages and FREE!!!

ZAHA (NYC) will open.

This follow up album has been a long time in the making, and we’re excited to finally unleash it in the wild!

We will have a limited number of physical CDs available for $10 each, but fear not, because the album will also be available to download on iTunes, AmazonMP3, eMusic, and more.

We’re also thrilled to be joined by NY experimental band ZAHA, who will be opening!

Also, if that weren’t enough, we are excited to unveil a video for the song “Gary Glitter” created by the amazing Mitchell Craft!!!

Glows in the Dark – Gary Glitter from g4ztop on Vimeo.

Here’s a tracklist and more info on the record:

Beach of the War Gods (2011)

1 Revolver 5:31
2 Violent Rome I 1:03
3 Beach of the War Gods 6:49
4 Manhunt 6:58
5 One Armed Swordsman 7:12
6 Violent Rome II 1:06
7 The Silence 7:34
8 Violent Rome III 2:35
9 Caliber 9 3:52
10 Gary Glitter 3:48
11 Violent Rome IV 1:07
12 My Name is Cameron Vale 7:37

Recorded by Lance Koehler Jan 22-24, 2010 at Jo Ann-land Studios in Cullen, VA
Mixed by Lance and Glows in the Dark Feb. 1, 2010 at Minimum Wage Studios in Richmond, VA. Mastered by Lance Koehler.

Every song on this album is inspired by the movie of the same name, except “Gary Glitter.” “My Name is Cameron Vale” being inspired by David Cronenberg’s Scanners.

All songs by Scott Burton except Violent Rome I-IV by Glows in the Dark
One Armed Swordsman contains elements of “Halloween 1978″ and “The Shape Stalks Laurie Strode” by John Carpenter. Produced by Glows in the Dark. Associate Produced by Brandon Mitchell.

Special Thanks to Tray Eppes for the hospitality, inspiration, and goat. Steven Bernstein for continued support, and helpful analysis. Jneiro Jarel for the advice. And Richmond for it’s constant excellence and Lance for getting it on tape.





MONDO ITALIA DANCE PARTY!!!

15 02 2011

February 24, 2011
Performance at Balliceaux
10:00pm, FREE 21+
203 N. Lombardy, Richmond, VA
www.balliceauxrva.com

Join Richmond band Glows in the Dark as they delve into brand new territory. Inspired by the Italian Crime films of the 1970′s, Glows will present 2 solid sets of grooves taken from these films in a format unlike anything the band has done before. Playing in front of a backdrop of sex and violence from these films, they will treat the material as a DJ would—-transitioning seamlessly between grooves to keep the people dancing. Dancing? That’s right, Glows will leave behind their free form experimentation, in order to properly keep the crowd moving, and honor the great Italian groovesmiths of yore! This is an exciting time for Glows, and they are very excited to bring this great old music to a whole new audience.





Show Download: 7.26.10 First Eurogroove Performance!

31 07 2010

Eurocrime: being a synonym for the word Poliziotteschi…which we discussed here.

Here’s an interesting one. This recording finds us in the early stages of a new show we’re working on, playing hard hitting Eurocrime covers mixed with music we recorded for the documentary Eurocrime. We play this music in front of scenes from Eurocrime films being projected on the wall behind us. The idea being to give an authentic 70′s Italian funk vibe that you can sometimes even dance to (whaaaa?)

For the projection, I had a DVD of Eurocrime movie trailers that ended up being slightly more extreme than I had intended. Tons of violence and sex. It added to the vibe, but the rape was unexpected. Glows is no fan of rape…so I’m gonna retool the footage for our next go round!

We got some good and interesting writeups, and over all the response was very positive. I can’t wait to get everything tighter and add more tunes.

We performed 2 extended suites of tunes. Here’s how they broke down:

Eurogroove #1=One Against Many (Glows), Mark il Poliziotto (S. Cipriani), Betrayal (Glows), La Via Della Droga (Goblin), Corsa Mortale (P. De Luca).

Eurogroove #2=Roma Violenta (De Angelis Brothers), J & B (Glows), Drug’s Theme (E. Simonetti, Goblin), Racket (Glows)

There will be more, and it will be glorious!

Also, check out Through a Glass Darkly in the second set. Scott Clark and I just started a duo and have been using our free section in this song to work out new ideas.

Enjoy.

7.26.10 Balliceaux, RVA

Set 1 (First Eurogroove Performance)

1) Eurogrooves 1

2) Eurogrooves 2

Set 2

1) Beach of the War Gods

2) Up and Down

3) Winterlight

4) Through a Glass Darkly

5) Manhunt

6) Revolver





New Year, New Album, New York

5 01 2010

Happy New Year to all! Glows has several exciting things going on, and I think it’s only proper to enlighten the people.

First, on January 19, we will be playing at The Stone in New York. Matana Roberts is curating the whole month of shows, and was kind enough to invite us along with Fight the Big Bull to present a night of music from Richmond. Glows will play at 8pm and Fight the Big Bull at 10pm.

All the deets are on The Stone’s website.

Then from Friday January 22 to Sunday January 24 we will be recording material for our next record. The new record will focus on material that’s been performed live often, but has yet to be put to tape. Right now the song list looks like this:

Beach of the War Gods
The Silence
Revolver
Manhunt
Caliber 9
Gary Glitter > Turtle

There will be more, and it will rule! The best part about this recording is that we will finally be laying down tracks with John Lilley on sax. He’s been a HUGE part of our musical growth, and a phenomenon that has only been experienced LIVE thus far.

We will cap off the last night of recording by playing a show at Commercial Taphouse. A good and just musical week.

Also, you might be wondering what happened to my writing about film. Well, for the past year, I have been writing for RVANews. Most articles are about older films that I love, with a few new ones thrown in for good measure. RVANews wants me to focus on newer films, meaning that my focus on older gems will return to this blog. The nerdery shall continue!





Show Download: 10.25.09 Commercial Taphouse RVA

28 10 2009

After having rocked a jazz crowd in Charlottesville, we made a mighty return to Commercial Taphouse in RVA to jazz a rock crowd. I love playing Taphouse, because everyone’s so comfortable that it gives us a chance to try new things. In the first set we opened with a newer tune (aka a Ones and Zeros oldie) called Gary Glitter that we morphed into Turtle. We also played the newer tune Beach of the War Gods (based on the Jimmy Wang Yu movie). We then played the Poliziotteschi inspired Manhunt, and ended with an epic Winterlight.

The second set started with the new tune Revolver. We then took our tune One Armed Swordsman, and crammed some John Carpenter music from Halloween in the middle of it. The Halloween 1978 tune hadn’t been played since we initially premiered it at Taphouse last year. We followed that up with our favorite Carpenter medley, consisting of The Fog into Across the Roof into Halloween 3 into Assault on Precinct 13 (follow?). We then ended with two old favorites, the last of which we stretched way out on, but of course my recorder didn’t catch it all.

10.25.09 Commercial Taphouse RVA

Set 1

1) Gary Glitter > Turtle

2) Beach of the War Gods

3) Manhunt

4) Winterlight

Set 2

1) Revolver

2) One Armed Swordsman > Halloween 1978 + The Shape Stalks Laurie > One Armed Swordsman

3) John Carpenter Medley

4) Through a Glass Darkly

5) Nero





mp3s—->7.13.08 Rumors RVA

21 07 2008

Here is the first performance of Crippled Avengers. Went pretty well–luckily it will keep getting better.  Unfortunately we didn’t get all of Nero recorded–but you get the idea (hopefully).

7.13.08 Rumors, RVA

1) Turtle

2) GTO

3) One Armed Swordsman

4) Crippled Avengers

5) Winterlight

6) Nero








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