Cake: A Music Zine, Issue 6

The Amazing Au Revoir Simone Special Summer Issue Our Top Summer Albums

Cake #6

Housekeeping And Such Cover Photo : Sara h Wilmer Financier : Derek Rogers

Editorial

This Summer issue is coming at the end of a very delicious season. It has been a pretty great summer.

Hopefully you all got to at least see one great summer show. There were so many. This fall looks to be another promising season of shows and album releases. 2009 has been a truly crazy year for music. I hope that you all enjoyed your summers and had one too many drinks just once. Fall is coming soon and Cake is gearing up with a lot of exciting things in store. Catch us in the beginning of September with a truly amazing first issue back. Enjoy the last days of hot and sun in style.

-Ryan Bryant Cake Editor In Chief

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Layout: Brad Collins Title Design : Brad Collins Copy Editor: Alex Palombo Staff Photographer: Taylor McIntyre Coloring Crew: Rose Cohen Westbrooke, Danielle Hendrickson, Taylor McIntyre Assistant Editor : Danielle Hendrickson Editor In Chief: Ryan Bryant Advisor: Lauryl Tucker Special Thanks : Carla, Heather The opinions expressed within express those of the individual writers or interview subjects and not necessarily those of the publishers of the magazine as a whole.

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“In These Arms” – Swell Season “Hard Times” – Patrick Wolf

Delicious Music Video “Crazy In Love” –Antony & The Johnsons

“Happier” – A Fine Frenzy “Melody” – Kate Earl

. “First Train Home” – Imogen Heap

Artist to Watch: Movits!

They’re known

for luxury sedans, affordable home furnishings, meatballs and fantastic health care. Now Sweden is trying to make its mark in a new field: swing/jazz/hip-hop fusion. With their first CD “Äppelknyckarjazz” released in 2008, the Movits! are raising their profile stateside and proving that Swedes can rap too. The group’s record sales have jumped recently following their performance of “Fel del av gården” on the wildly popular Colbert Report. Members Johan Rensfeldt, Anders Rensfeldt, and Jocke Nilsson say they found inspiration from Benny Goodman’s “Sing Sing Sing,” and hope to bring back an old-school jazz brand of hip-hop that the music industry seems to be lacking.

-Alex Palombo

Courtesy of Secretly Canadian

Where To Be Thursday September 10th: Ra Ra Riot @ Castaways 9PM $15 Advance Tickets Friday September 18th: The Mountain Goats @ Emerson Suites $10 Presale $12 Day of Show

Au Revoir Simone

One of the most talented indie pop bands around, Au Revoir Simone, just released their third album Still Night, Still Light. The albums otherworldly beauty showcases the ever-growing talents of Erika Forster, Annie Hart and Heather D’Angelo. Cake got to have a chat with Heather about the album, touring and her dreams of flight.

Cake: You girls have a show in Portland tonight?

Heather: Yes, we do.

Cake: Are you excited about it?

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By Ryan Bryant Photograph by Jeremy Williams

Heather: Yeah, we’re super excited about it actually. It seems like a really nice venue.

Cake: How has the tour been going?

Heather: It’s been good. You know, it’s tour.

Cake: How was SXSW? Heather: It was good. We played less shows this time so we had more time to relax and hangout. good Mexican food and saw a lot of good friends. The shows were good.

We got to try out some of the new material. That’s when we started playing songs from Still Night, Still Light for people.

They went over well, which is encouraging for the tour.

Cake: You guys did a song with The Friendly Fires. How did that come about?

Cake: What are some of your favorite things Heather: I think they just got in touch with us and asked us to put our voices on their song. I about touring? think it was that simple.

Heather: I guess meeting new people, all the Cake: I know you girls like to cook. What would people that we get to meet. you say is your favorite dish to make?

Cake: This album feels more intimate in Heather: I really like to make a risotto, like a seaways than your previous albums. Was there food risotto. anything you did different in approaching Cake: If you could have a band cover one of your this album? songs, which song and band would you pick?

Heather: I guess it was much different in Heather: I would love to hear Björk do “ A Violent the production of the album. The writing Yet Flammable World.” process was similar, in that we wrote the songs how we always do. We all bring in Cake: That would be cool. If you could have a a seed of an idea of a song and all work super power which one would you pick? together on it, or we completely collaborate from the very beginning and jam on a song Heather: Definitely flying. It’s something I’ve until we all like it. The writing process was been fascinated with since I was little. I would similar, but the production side was much love to fly a plane. different. We worked with a new producer Cake: Do you have any advice for starting musiTom Monahan, who really helped us to cians? create the lush warm sound that we were trying to get with the first two albums.

Heather: I guess just listen to yourself. Ask a lot There’s just a lot of trial and error. Kind of of questions because people are really, really like, we finally got it right thanks to Tom. Cake: You guys released this on your own label, do you like that kind of control?

Heather: Definitely, we get every last decision; when it comes to artwork, or deadlines or who we work with, who we hire to do our press, everything.

Every little decision is ours, which is good because we have a lot of friends on labels and they’ll complain a lot about how the label is giving them a hard time about the artwork or didn’t really promote them well enough... With us, we don’t have to deal with any of that stuff because we hire everybody.

helpful. Ask everyone about whatever you don’t know, but be discriminatory about which advice you listen to. If you ask questions, you need to listen to the answer.

Cake: Any last words for our sweet-tastic readership?

Heather: Thanks for your interest and hopefully wherever you are you can make it out to our shows.

Summer Favorites Danielle 1. Far - Regina Spektor 2. Monuments and Melodies - Incubus 3. The West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - Kasabian 4. The Ecstatic - Mos Def

Joanna 1. Bitte Orca - Dirty Projectors 2. Wilco (The Album)- Wilco 3. Veckatimest- Grizzly Bear 4. The Eternal - Sonic Youth

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Derek 1. Red - Datarock 2. Yesterday and Today- The Field 3. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix 4. Still Night, Still Light - Au Revoir Simone 5. Don’t Worry - Math The Band

Ryan 1. The Bachelor - Patrick Wolf 2. Still Night, Still Light - Au Revoir Simone 3. Lungs - Florence + The Machine 4. Manners - Passion Pit 5. Hands - Little Boots

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