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Red Corduroy Music Lands Two Acts at International Pop Overthrow Chicago, April 25-26

LOUISVILLE, KY – April 10, 2013 – Louisville, Ky.-based Red Corduroy Music announced today that two acts on the label will perform at International Pop Overthrow in Chicago on April 25 and 26.

Nick Peay, the label’s founder, and his band will perform Friday, April 26, as part of a seven-band lineup; meanwhile, the Uncommon Houseflies, who also played the festival in 2012, will perform Thursday, April 25. IPO, in its 14th year doing power-pop music festivals all over the U.S. and in the U.K., will be held at Red Line Tap in Chicago.

Peay will perform songs from his newest EP Feathers & Fables, along with some power-pop gems of the past. Songs like the Gin Blossoms-esque “(Two Miserable) Blackbirds” will be a natural for melody-craving IPO attendees.

Meanwhile, the Uncommon Houseflies will bring their off-the-wall brand of power-pop to IPO Chicago for the second straight year, and will be promoting a forthcoming Red Corduroy release titled Hipster Apocalypse.

“We’re honored to be performing at a long-standing and respected festival like International Pop Overthrow,” said Peay, who launched Red Corduroy in 2010. “I know the Uncommon Houseflies and I are looking forward to it, and our hope is to bring more Red Corduroy acts to IPO in the future.”

“I’m definitely pleased to be having Nick Peay and The Uncommon Houseflies play the International Pop Overthrow festival,” David Bash, the festival’s founder and promoter, said. “Nick is a fine singer-songwriter who I’m looking forward to seeing for the first time, and The Uncommon Houseflies brought so much fun to IPO Chicago last year with their humor-inflected power pop that I couldn’t help but invite them back!”

International Pop Overthrow Chicago runs from April 18-27 at the Red Line Tap, 7006 N. Glenwood Ave. Cover charge is $10 per night.

ABOUT RED CORDUROY MUSIC
Red Corduroy Music was founded by musician Nick Peay in 2010 as a way to get his and other indie musicians’ music to a wider audience outside the Louisville, Ky., area. Red Corduroy offers not only music business consulting and PR, but also recording services. For more information, visit redcorduroymusic.com.

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW
International Pop Overthrow (or IPO, as it has affectionately become known) is a pop music festival which has been held for the past fourteen years in Los Angeles. We have also held IPO for various years in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Diego, Phoenix, Detroit, Milwaukee, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Vancouver, and Toronto, as well as in Liverpool (at the world famous Cavern Club), and London, UK. For more information, visit internationalpopoverthrow.com.

Check out the official preview of The Uncommon Houseflies’ new EP “Hipster Apocalypse.”

First listen of the new Uncommon Houseflies EP, “Hipster Apocalypse” here! Also, come see them at Dillinger’s in New Albany on Friday April 19th and you could get yourself a free sampler CD. “Hipster Apocalypse” will be released in early May. Stay tunes for more details.

Nick Peay has finished a new “Podcastiness” episode, this time with new red corduroy music band, The Uncommon Houseflies.

Nick has also launched a new website for “Podcastiness.” There you’ll find the first two episodes, the first with Kristen Cothron and Justin Conn from Nashville, TN and the second with Butch Bays and Kevin Gibson of The Uncommon Houseflies.

You can check out the official “Podcastiness” websites at:

www.podcastiness.com

There you can subscribe to get the latest podcasts from Nick, or you can subscribe on iTunes.

Nick Peay has launched a new podcast that he’s calling “Podcastiness.” The podcast will contain interviews with independent musicians, writers, artists and more. You’ll hear stories about what got them started, their experiences as well as some tips and tricks for aspiring artists.

You can hear and / or download “Podcastiness” at Nick’s website, Nick Peay Music or you can download them on iTunes.

Hipster Apocalypse is Coming: Louisville, Ky., Indie-Pop Band to Release New EP in May 2013 on Red Corduroy Music Label

LOUISVILLE, KY – February 27, 2013 – The apocalypse is coming on May 7, 2013; it just may not be the one most people are expecting. Red Corduroy Music announced today that on that date it will release the forthcoming new EP Hipster Apocalypse by The Uncommon Houseflies, an indie-pop band known for its musical diversity and an offbeat lyrical approach that utilizes humor and social commentary.

The EP will be the Louisville, Ky., band’s fifth release since 2007, and it will mark the third release for Red Corduroy Music, a Louisville-based label that focuses on helping indie artists connect with audiences outside their local scene.

The Uncommon Houseflies are a band that are truly unique. Their music is sometimes hard to pin down stylistically, yet every song they write is accessible in its own way. They might hit you with a pop-punk song in the vein of Green Day one minute, then will play something that sounds like 1970s funk, followed by a surf-rocker. And each one will be infectious.

The band is often compared to Fountains of Wayne and Barenaked Ladies, although the Houseflies point to a number of influences ranging from mainstays like the Beatles and Johnny Cash, all the way to lesser known artists such as Seattle’s Young Fresh Fellows and Boston’s Scruffy the Cat.

The EP will contain six tracks, including the title song which tells of an impending end of days not brought about by walking dead, but rather by hairy hipsters. Other key tracks include a foreboding spoken-word intro titled “Prelude to the End;” the smirking power-pop of “Nothing New;” the surf-meets-monster-movie-theme “Mystery Blend;” and the funky and salacious “Public Display of Affection.” “The Last Sing-Along” – a John Prine-esque tune which wraps up the apocalypse theme nicely – finishes out the CD.

The Uncommon Houseflies plan to do a mini-tour in April leading up to the release, with stops scheduled in Nashville and Chicago, and others pending. A CD release event is planned for May 11 at Apocalypse Brew Works in Louisville. Find out more at www.uncommonhouseflies.com.

Louisville, Ky.’s Nick Peay to Play Douglas Corner

Singer-songwriter is Touring to Support Latest Release, Feathers & Fables

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Feb. 5, 2013 – Nick Peay isn’t one to follow trends. The Louisville, Ky.-based singer-songwriter has his own voice and his own views on not just music, but also the world around him. His latest EP, Feathers & Fables, could be considered a look into that way of independent thinking, as it explores the themes of – as Peay puts it – “being who you are, being unique and finding your home.”

Fresh off a Louisville television appearance, and with the folky, sing-along “Mockingbird” burning up the airwaves on Louisville AAA radio, Peay is bringing his unique sound and vision to Nashville for a show with local artists Jenn Franklin and Kristen Cothron on Feb. 22 at Douglas Corner.

Peay’s four-song EP is quietly drawing high praise from music media. Drawing comparisons to the likes of Jeff Buckley, Tom Petty and even Matthew Sweet, HotIndieNews.com proclaimed F&F’s high-octane leadoff track “(Two Miserable) Blackbirds” as “sensible, pop music mastery that is better than most songs … heard on radio this year.”

Musicemissions.com, meanwhile, wrote that “Home” “is the best track on the EP, [and] “has an acoustic guitar line which could easily be mistaken for Jimmy Page in his more reflective moments,” while Musesmuse.com writes that the EP’s “deeply rich production value, amazing songs and strong vocal presence from Nick Peavy possesses enough musical talent and songwriting prowess to be extremely dangerous” in the future.

For Peay, it’s about expressing himself in unique and thought-provoking ways, both musically – he can go from playing a full-band rocker like “Blackbirds” to performing a tender ballad on ukulele without blinking – and lyrically.

“I like expressing the emotions of different things I’m going through,” he said, “but not necessarily the standard relationship stuff. I like making people think about things. I like writing songs that will make people say, ‘I never thought of it that way.’”

Peay will be in Nashville for one night only, so the audience should prepare for Peay’s best performance. The show at the legendary Douglas Corner, 2106 8^th Avenue South, begins at 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22. For more info, visit www.nickpeaymusic.com.

Nick Peay wrote a new song inspired by Groundhog Day. You can hear it and download it for free at www.nickpeaymusic.com.

See red corduroy music artist Nick Peay at ZaZoo’s tonight with his band, The Haiku Cowboys. Also on the bill are Spirit Animal from NY and The Neil Johnstone Band. Read an article about Spirit Animal and the show tonight here:
http://www.louisville.com/content/louisville-music-fans-will-get-treat-when-new-york-city-based-spirit-animal-performs-zazoo%E2%80%99s#.UQHWKdbXzZI.facebook

Nick Peay is set to release a new EP called “Feathers & Fables” on December 11, 2012. The EP Release Show will be held at The Bard’s Town on Friday, December 7th.

Read more here.