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“Monday” is track #3 on the brand new Ed Hale and the Transcendence album THE GREAT MISTAKE, their followup to last year’s ALL YOUR HEROES BECOME VILLAINS. While both albums were created in the same studio during the same time frame, instead of the dark, heavy and bombastic rock opera style of the ALL YOUR HEROES album, the band went in the completely opposite direction for THE GREAT MISTAKE album. A style they casually refer to as Garage Pop or Celebration Rock, none of the 12 songs are longer than three minutes, all of them upbeat, fast paced and uproariously raucous rock’n’roll, sounding like a mash-up of seventies Glam Rock and modern Indie Rock.
Another stand out aspect of this latest album is that all the band members were encouraged to bring songs in for the band to record. They tracked the album over a three day period, learning the songs right there on the spot in the studio, usually late at night into the early morning — after the producer of the ALL YOUR HEROES album had gone home — using the studio’s interns as engineers. They’d then run the songs a few times, recording each run through until a decent take was to be had — which is what lends such a live feel and sense of immediacy to the all the songs on the album. In between tracking the songs live, they took turns adding simple overdubs like their lead and background vocals, extra guitar lines and simple percussion like hand claps, shakers and cowbell to each song. “That was the most spontaneous album I’ve ever recorded,” Transcendence drummer Bill Sommer said about the project. “I hope we do more like that.”
About “Monday”, Ed Hale has said “My whole thing about this album was that I wanted to experiment by bringing in all the songs that I would normally never try to introduce to the band because I thought they would think they were too simple or pop sounding. We started off as such a complex unit, making such complicated music… I never would have dreamed the guys would be interested in songs as simple as “Baby Bop” or “Monday”. They were like throw away songs I thought. Now this is one of my favorite albums we’ve ever made. I’m so freaking glad we recorded it and released it.”
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Ed Hale will be giving an on-air radio interview with rock station Rockers Dive Radio at 2 pm EST today. Hale will be part of a guest panel discussing a new documentary film the singer/songwriter is featured in entitled INDIE STARDUST. Hale has also signed on as an Executive Producer on the film. INDIE STARDUST explores how the technology and indie revolutions have created a new entertainment business environment and what artists from all mediums are doing to survive and thrive in this new often confusing arena. More details about the film will be forthcoming as they become available. The radio show will also be spinning a few tracks from the latest Ed Hale and the Transcendence album The Great Mistake including the alt-rock radio smashes “Monday”, “Baby Bop” and the song heard round the country last week on Showtime’s hit TV show Shameless, “ManChildWoman”. Download the album on iTunes or Amazon.com if you haven’t already. And make sure to tune in to listen, call in and engage in this trending topic by simply going to the station’s website here: Rockers Dive Radio.
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