In honor of PRETTY & NICE's fantabulous new album, which was officially released yesterday, with a celebratory release performance tonight at Great Scott in Allston and a pre-party event at Store 54 just up Harvard Avenue, let's take a quick look back at their Vanyaland Plan of Attack from a few weeks ago, which included info on Golden Rules For Golden People and an interview with the boys in their van during SXSW...
Today is Holden Lewis' birthday [editor's note: Oh shit!] so there's no better time to map out PRETTY & NICE's upcoming plans for new record Golden Rules For Golden People. It's the fast-action follow-up to last year's tireless Us You All We EP, and while that four-song effort was self-released, GR4GP gets the dual label treatment from Albany's Equal Vision Records and Rory Records, which was founded by Max Bremis of Say Anything.
While the new Pretty & Nice joint is not officially out until April 30, you can hear the whole thing next Friday, April 5, at Store 54 in Allston. That's where the band made sweet sonic love to everyone several months ago by releasing Us You All We and feeding everyone free Boloco burritos. It's good to be back.
With all that info in mind, here's Pretty & Nice's Plan of Attack:
* Friday, April 5: Golden Rules For Golden People listening party at Store 54 in Allston.
* Saturday, April 20: Record Store Day 7-inch release for "Q_Q," limited to 500 copies of black vinyl off Equal Vision. There will also be a music video for this jam. "It will be artfully shot," says the band.
* Tuesday, April 30: Release of Golden Rules For Golden People.
* Wednesday, May 1: Record release party at Great Scott in Allston with Kal Marks and Pattern Is Movement. More to come on this as the date approaches.
Aside from previously-released "Yonkers," the a-side to the Fantastic Artifact 7-inch, the rest of the 11-track album is all new material (though many of the songs have been in the band's recent live sets).
A few weeks ago down in SXSW, I jumped in the Pretty & Nice tour van and did a quick afternoon-drunk interview with the band, after they were done playing at the Basement on 6th and Congress. I had a few drinks already in me, and they had not only just finished another SXSW set, but completed shooting a music video for "Q_Q" at 13 different locations around Austin. So it's one big shitshow. Pardon my language.
Now deemed “Buzzworthy” by the good folks at MTV, Boston’s PRETTY & NICE have been on the road prepping new record Golden Rules for Golden People, the Rory Records/Equal Vision Records follow-up to last year’s self-released Us You All We. After their gig exactly a week ago at SXSW at the Basement just off Congress Street (where they wrapped shooting a seven-location music video), I trrrrriiiieeeeeedddddd to get the scoop on the new tunes, and, well, did, in a tour van interview down in Austin, but it's lost in the WFNX black hole. It was cool, I pretended to be Pretty & Nice and Pretty & Nice pretend to be me. More shit that will never air. Vanyaland needs a soundcloud. Note to self.
Anyway, the new P&N record is not out until late April, but we’ll get a taste Thursday night when our favorite herky-jerky ampersand band hits Allston's Brighton Music Hall with the Charlotte-Zoller-tour-navigated Jukebox the Ghost and WFNX golden girl Stephie Coplan and the Pedestrians, who, as has been well documented, I am quite fond of.
There is seriously way too much going on Thursday night. WTF. We haven't even gotten to the Middle East show. I've been picking unemployment splinters out of my ass all week, and now there are at least four shows I need/want to be at tomorrow night. Dafuq.
