02-26-98

From Bill:

Finally.

SA has finally confirmed that they will play during the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin. They'll be at Stubbs on Thursday, March 19, at 1:00 a.m. Here's the text from the Austin paper:

"Soul Asylum is finally confirmed to play there [Stubb's] Thursday, March 19, at 1 a.m. The Minneapolis wunderkinds, whose new 'Candy from a Stranger' album comes out April 28 on Columbia Records, made a mess of things at the '95 SXSW when they attempted a showcase at the Terrace that was also open to ticket buyers. The band's spokesperson, however, said that was all the workings of a previous manager."

"'They're coming partly to make up for that, and party because they know a good party when they see one,' said Howard Wuelfling at Columbia Records."

-Bill

 

02-26-98

From Lee and the Mpls Star Tribune

Quick spins   

Soul Asylum's "Candy For a Stranger" will be released May 12. It was produced by Chris Kimsey, known for his work with the Rolling Stones and others, and mixed by Bob Clearmountain, who has worked with Bryan Adams,

Bruce Springsteen and others.

02-18-98

album news:

The first single is "I Will Still Be Laughing". A video for the same song will also be released to music video channels.

The album was produced by Chris Kimsey, with the tracks mixed by Kimsey and Bob Clearmountain.

A tour is to follow the album release in May.

(info from soulasylum.com)

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02-16-98

ARGH!

From: ITS

Karl was on a Minneapolis local access show "Dave's tasty videos " on either the 14th or the 15th February. He said the new album was going to be released April 28th and be called "Candy from a Stranger" Tour dates were to be released soon. The album is now slated instead for May 12.

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02-13-98

re: 01-22-98

The photasylum (trademark/copyright all works blah blah blah) is still (still!) in it's infant stage but go ahead, check it out, find missing links and a few nifty photos (right click your mouse button to save, and print em, make wallpaper, tape covers or whatever!)

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9198/photoasylum.htm

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There is another new Soul Asylum Page in the works at

Http://members.xoom.com/SoulAsylum .

Its called the Sa Picture Archive.

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01/24/98

Check out SOUL ASYLUM Notes from the Road

fantastic 'fly on the wall' studio notes and photos from Sony

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from Postcard via the Geraldine Fibbers mailing list

GOLDEN SMOG RE-ENTER STUDIO TO FINISH ALBUM

It has been said that you can't rush success. Whether or not that's the case, it does seem to be the current mode of operation for the Minneapolis-based supergroup Golden Smog.

During an interview last January, drummer Jody Stephens (of Big Star fame) said the band had wrapped up a recording session for their third album, and were planning to shop the tapes to interested labels (allstar, Jan. 29, 1997). Finally, after a year's hiatus, the band is ready to finish the project. According to fellow Smogger Gary Louris (of the Jayhawks), they will reconvene at Ardent Studios in Memphis on Feb. 17. Louris also informed us that after shopping the album to various labels, the band has returned to Rykodisc. Ryko previously released the band's sophomore effort, Down by the Old Mainstream and reissued their debut EP, On Golden Smog. For those who may have lost their scorecards, the band's current lineup also includes Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy, Jayhawk Marc Perlman, and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, along with Kraig Johnson (Run Westy Run) and Jessy Greene (ex-Geraldine Fibber). According to Ryko, a release date is yet to be set for the album.

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01-14-98

Last week, Dave and Dan were in Ocean Way recording studio, doing who knows what. Funny thing is Paul Westerberg was there at the same time doing overdubs for his new album on Capitol. Cool eh?

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01-13-98

From Steve and Lee:

The new Rolling Stone magazine

(issue 779~ Feb. 5th)

Dave Pirner has nabbed every frontman's dream job: drummer.

In Pirner's new side project, the folk-pop group O'Jeez, the SOUL ASYLUM singer is joined by guitarist JESSY GREENE and RUN WESTY RUN's KRAIG JOHNSON on bass. ''It's like old times,'' said Pirner.

''We don't really care about anything except playing.'' O'Jeez often jam at their ''local,'' Minneapolis' 400 Club, where S.A.'s KARL MUELLER and BABES IN TOYLAND's LORI BARBERO are the house DJs. As for Soul Asylum, they've just finished recording a new album, Candy From a Stranger (out in March-now May 12 ed), with now-departed drummer STERLING CAMPBELL. Fear not- Pirner won't be behind the kit. ''We wanted Mel Brooks,'' Pirner joked. ''But he wasn't available.''

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01-06-98

Dope Dust & Krystal

Surprise.....a Soul Asylum Xmas Show.

Well kids, Cagedrat here seems to have missed news on a recent show...till now! Thanks to Paul for this information about a Dan, Dave and Karl show on 12-25-97.

from Paul:

I heard about the show from a friend at First Ave who said that Dave might be the warm-up for Run Westy Run.

When I saw that it was listed on the calendar as the

D D & K Surprise

I figured that stood for Dave, Dan & Karl. On the set times list at the door it listed them as Dope Dust & Krystal but it was definitely Soul Asylum (without a drummer).

It was a fairly short acoustic set that was somewhat similar to Dave's solo show at the 400.

Pretty Boy Floyd,

Stranger,

Never Really Been,

Closer to the Stars,

String of Pearls

Ooh La La

and more.

Jesse Greene played violin on a few and for an encore Kraig and Kirk Johnson came out and sang back up on Ooh La La.

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03-04-98

Pure Bedlam ..with a bit about Dave 

From "City Pages" March 4, 1998

                                    
by Kate Sullivan                                         
                                                         
BEG, BORROW, AND Steal: The Making of Crime and          
Punishment : The Musical is the name of a new            
"mockumentary" video born of the fresh young minds at   
Bedlam Theatre . A West Bank collective best known for  
its outdoor happenings featuring macho puppets, Bedlam  
has hit on a damn clever idea with this tape: A       
scrounging theater prostitutes itself to corporate and  
foundation funders alike in order to produce its         
"dream project," the above mentioned musical              
embarrassment. The thespians start off clueless--says   
one, "I heard there's a guy named Jerome, Jerome         
McKnight . He gives out a lot of money"--but they        
quickly learn their part in the arcane courtship dance  
of arts granting. Product placement becomes key:         
Raskolnikov is to kill the pawnbroker lady and her      
daughter with Top Flight golf clubs and subscribe to    
Guns and Ammo , which will be placed conspicuously on   
a table.                                                 
                                                         
Bedlam, a self-funded six-person collective, didn't     
expect their video to become a satire. Says Bedlam's    
Maren Ward , "Two years ago, we'd just finished our     
biggest show to date ( 100 Years of Pure Shit: A         
Centennial Aberration of Ubu Roi ), and we decided we   
should start trying to look into funding. We were also
trying to figure out what to do next, so we decided to  
do a creative project about the process of funding. We  
wrote our first grant to the Metropolitan Regional      
Arts Council (MRAC) for this, and we got it."            
                                                        
The film features earnest interviews from those early   
days with development directors at Theatre de la Jeune  
Lune and Penumbra; reps from MRAC and the McKnight      
Foundation; and a corral of low-budget artists,          
including director Jay Scheib , director Erica Christ   
, choreographer Myron Johnson , and many others.         
Bedlam's cheeky editing produces a narrative setting    
in which everyone wears varying shades of idiocy and    
pathos. (The most surreal clips feature a chance         
encounter with Dave Pirner outside Brit's Pub, in        
which the unsuspecting rock star is hit up for           
support: "Send me a script," he mumbles.)               
                                                        
In spite of amateurish production values, the tape is
hilarious, and its ultimate victims are artists       
themselves--at least those who operate with an         
assumption of entitlement, or those who failed to     
agitate for the NEA when they had the chance. The     
opening epigram from playwright Suzan-Lori Parks says 
it all: "Overweight Southern senators are easy         
targets. They too easily become the focal point of all
evil, allowing the arts community to willfully ignore 
our own bigotry, our own petty evils, our own          
intolerance, which--evil senators or no--will be the  
death of the arts."

There was a long line to get into the 400 Bar at the 9:00pm opening time. The place was crowded, but did not look sold out. Dave's solo set was a good set, but I got the feeling Dave was uncomfortable being alone on stage. Dave made comments before "So Close" and "New York Blackout" that these are new songs on the new Soul Asylum record.

being run by Soul Asylum's Karl Mueller and Babes in Toyland's Lori Barbero that we told you about (allstar, Nov. 7) now has a name: It's "House of Babes" featuring "DJs Lori B and Squirmin' Karl Herman."...

Drummer Sterling Campbell has left Soul Asylum after nearly three years and two albums with the Twin Cities-based quartet. "We knew this before the tours we did this summer," said bassist Karl Mueller. "He wanted to make sure the new album was as good as it can be. He finished up when he played the last note a month ago." The album, due for release early next year, is being mixed at Criteria Studios in Miami with producer Chris Kimsey and Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy. Campbell, 34, wanted to work on his own music and learn to play piano and guitar, Mueller said. "I just talked to him yesterday. He sounded great. There was never any turmoil. Sterling said, 'I'm scouting drummers for you.' Mueller said he learned a great deal from Campbell, a New York studio drummer who had worked with David Bowie, Duran Duran and others. Soul Asylum probably won't begin looking for a new drummer until everything is in place for the new album, Mueller said. After mixing the album, the band still needs to decide on a title and graphics, and make plans for marketing and touring. Will Campbell be in the group photo on the album? "That's a good question," Mueller said. "Maybe there won't be any of us on there. The focus has been on getting this recorded." Soul Asylum has been working on its third album for Sony for the past year. Work began earlier this year at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minn., with producer Matt Hyde (Jane's Addiction). The recordings were shelved but some of those songs were re-recorded in Miami with Kimsey (Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton). Meanwhile, lead singer Pirner has put together a side project called Oh Jeez, featuring him on drums and vocals, Kraig Johnson of Run Westy Run on bass and vocals and Jessy Green, formerly of Geraldine Fibbers, on guitar, violin and vocals.

Supposedly six songs from the list above are being re-recorded with six or seven new ones from Dave.

10-8-97

SOUL ASYLUM (by Danny Alexander)

10-11-97

09-22-97

07-22-97

includes originals plus "Hope', "Sexual Healing" and "Summer Of Drugs"

mail to cagedrat@erols.com