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| 3/18/2010 | Two new releases, finally! You can download them digitally thru CDbaby or if you want a hard copy email your address to denise.l.dill@gmail.com. Click on the image for more info!
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/denisedill4 City Cemeteries is my new solo cd. Cover art by Sy Blumenthal.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ShadyPawPaws The Shady Paws Paws are made up me and Sy Blumenthal. A collaborative process of songs written by both Sy and I.
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12/7/09
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New Oldmanforest EP out & new show added for Monday, Dec. 7th in Portland, ME |
| 11/18/09 | Show this friday , Nov. 20th at Alive in Lewiston, 6:30pm. 208 Bates Street. Music, Food, and art. The place to be. |
09/17/09 |
New show added Oct. 17th at Guthries in Lewiston. Performing with the band "Old Man Forest" |
| 5/3/09 | links to 2 songs from faire-op house show w/ silent city music (ithaca). one from me and one from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6UH3Ol-zVE |
4/21/09 |
More pictures and videos from the Neighbor by Neighbor premiere and show w/ big blood on 4/17. Thanks to Grace Kendall for all her documenting and sharing!!! http://cozink.blogspot.com/2009/04/guthries-041709-photos-video.html |
| 4/12/09 | I'm playing music as a duo now with my friend Jessy Kendall! New shows on the calendar for April in Lewiston & Turner, ME |
3/16/09 |
Jessy Kendall and i are have shook hands and agreed to play together as a duo from now on. not sure the name this duo will take nor if others will join. stay tuned! Neighbor by Neighbor Premiere and soundtrack has been changed to April 16th still at guthries. New show added in June with Chris Sutherland at Guthries!! |
| 12/17/08 | Here's a new song! Vocals: Jessy Kendall & me; Guitar: Sean; Words: adapted from a poem by Ryan Noland. |
12/17/08 |
So i played this awesome little radio show called "The Red Telephone" at WSCA Portsmouth, NH Community Radio. Alicia Ines and Will Etheridge were the hosts and they're great! They cooked me and some friends dinner the night before :) It was good. Alicia and Will also help coordinate the Tower of Song in Portland, ME (which is a badass venue). Will was nice enough to send along a recording of the radio show and here it is! Check it out please.... I also recently played the Allstar Lesbian Review. Wow. They really know how to sexualize performers and their songs. I sang a song, literally about my love of baking bread, and they thought it was a metaphor for sex. It does make a good metaphor for sex, but that's definitely NOT what the song is about to me. It makes for a good story though :) |
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10/07/0 |
Tower of Song in Portland was pretty fucking cool. They literally blast speakers out this tower they live in, which happens to be situated in a canyon of sorts so the music projects very very far. Folks hung out in little clusters in the street staring up, listening. Thank you to Alica and Will and Johnny for ahving me. Johnny Fountain and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper played. Aly and TJ from LLB were terrific so you should check them out on my space. Sherie and I had to leave before they were done (which was hard to do cuz i wanted to listen for longer), but we got to listen to them as we walked down congress street and could hear them for many many blocks. It carried so far and sounded so damn good. Their cd is on repeat in my house. I love it. On our walk to get some food after the show, strangely enough, we saw two tigers anxiously pacing and pawing at the metal bars in their cages waiting to be fed and out of the darkness we saw these quiet rocking figures appear......elephants. I guess the circus was in town. Such a strange visual and it broke our hearts to see them there.....there should not be tigers and elephants in portland, me. |
| 09/28/08 | ok, so lots of news. first, check out these links for videos from the L/A Comp CD release party held 9/25 at Guthries in Lewiston, ME. thanks to jessy kendall, my hero for what he created with this. Click on the links below. The Boardmans! (can i have my capo back?) another update is that i played about 4 shows this past week and 5 in the last two weeks. 3 out of 5 were for the League of Young Voter's events "Relcaim your World" i met some pretty unforgettable folks. katie diamond and linden, Will, Sean, and Nate (along with Olivia) from Port Veritas! oh my god! poets. good fucking poets. inspiring fucking poets. they hooked me up with a feature after the first night i met them. thanks for that. i plan on having them back in lewiston! check out www.portveritas.com . at the portland show i met alicia and will who run tower of song in portland and a radio show in portsmouth and their friend aly from lady lamb the beekeeper! lots of new friends :) lastly, because of all these new people i've met i have some new shows coming up! see the shows page and keep your eyes peeled for sneak peaks of the new cd, which i will be recording this october. |
07/13/08 |
You must check out sharon van etten (brooklyn). so moving and so genuine and generous. i owe her a cd in exchange for the one she just gave to me without anything in return but a hug. her music is that kind of soothing that we all need. Thanks to my friends Arborea for their ever beautiful music and for the chance to play. Thanks Shanti and for Jeresa for the ukulele, kalima, cello jam at the beginning of the night. That made my week. new show added august second at the Northeast Climate Confluence on august 2nd. |
06/30/08
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went on tour with dave end. he can make up songs on the spot. he is very good at it. i liked all his costumes. one involved tentacles. he let me play his accordian and i had a brief affair with it and now i want one of my own. we played in nyc at the sidewalk cafe. apparently that is where jeffrey lewis, beck, kimya dawson, etc. got there start. a lot of my friends from indiana were there. they are more like family really, but not they live in new york and it was nice to feel so at home in such a big and strange place. dave had everyone rolling in laughter with his slam poet improv. then we moved on to tivoli, ny where we played on the backporch of a house he used to live in when he went to bard college. the porch had lovely people playing music on it and they let us record the chorus of their new hit single :) there was a beautiful curtian blowing in the wind and the windchimes were made out of spoons and forks and now i think all music should have wind chimes in the background. i played his ukulele alot and he gave it to me! we played in boston and ended in at my home, the faire-op. quite a crowd too! i immediately want to go on tour with dave again. he's playing in portland on saturday july 5th at the meg perry center!!! i wanna go but i'm playing too (at the chill yoga stduio with Arborea (http://www.myspace.com/arborea), Israeli singer-songwriter Noa Babayof (http://www.myspace.com/noababayof) , and Sharon Van Etten from Brooklyn (http://www.sharonvanetten.com/). They were nice enough to ask me to play a short opening. It'll be brief but will involve the ukulele : |
03/28/08 |
end of april/ early may tour w/ daveend!! NYC, Philly, D.C., Columbus OH, Bloomington, IN, and more! check o ut t he shows page for details. i'm pretty darned excited about this. |
01/20/08
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New album available online! Click the icon to buy or listen to samples. Please feel free to leave a review!!
To see my collective works go to www.cdbaby.com/all/denisedillmusic |
02/02/08 |
new show added for June 13th @ BangARang in Lewiston w/ Tinyfolk and Redbear! |
01/20/08
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Had the cd release at guthries in lewiston and some surprise guests came, micah and drew (to add to deacon and i). the place was packed, not sure how much i had to do with it cuz guthries has a huge draw in this city, but most everybody i knew was there and i was lucky enough to have sherie and myles join me on a song or two. drew, from auburn did a supurb job on his hand-made (that he made himself) guitar. what a great storyteller and he played this fucking cute song about a girl he had been in love with since he was 8 :) micah, who i guess just got off a tour from eastern europe was there and i felt pretty honored that he came out. i've had his cd for a while and am a lot of respect for his music and his other projects (the band big blood!). he played the 12 string, clawhammer style.....i was truely inspired and mesmorized and possibly a little star struck (in a sense). deacon was, as always, fiery and spectacular. the words and images that flow out of him amaze me and inspire me to write more poetry. it just seems like he can grab all of life and spit it out in a poem and the poem is about everything. i could listen to him several times a week and still learn something new. thank you all for coming out. it was a dreamy evening. the follow up show from the bangarang was a more intimate crowd huddled up together on couches and floors in the living room. rose, ethan, deacon, and i played by passing the guitar around. i wish i was more able to articulate how much i am moved by ethan's music, but i seem to awkwardly fail everytime. maybe someday he'll know :) rose was cute as ever and left a pretty catchy new song he wrote in my head, "shivers". the new cdwill be available soon at bullmoose music and the ronj in lewiston and cdbaby and other online locations in the next week or too. for now you can get it at guthries, by request, or at any shows i play. the next show is feb. 21st in lewiston . |
12/19/08 |
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01/09/08 |
The new cd is done and available at the cd release show t o be held on 01/12/08 after that i'll keep ya'll updated about where else you can get it. It's called "In Me" and features Sherie Blumenthal and my dad on some of the tracks :) Stay tuned for samples on the site and the lyrics to updated soon. New shows added to the calander as well so keep an eye out for more dates. i'm ready to play a lot more than i have been. |
