http://lizasongs.com/news.html Liza & the WonderWheels: News Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:05:10 -0700 http://lizasongs.com/news.html#217 latourdeforceproductions.com used some WonderWheels music in a commercial! She's a talented video editor specializing in performer reels, promos, keepsake/event videos & photo/VHS archiving to DVD. This multi-talented sweetie has written a "play with music" called Temping & she'll be performing in two readings of it in April. Thanks Kristina! You rock!

View the commercial here! ]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#217 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#216 here . Thank you Alan Young & Lucid Culture!]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#216 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#215 Facebook .

And there's so much going on...

This YouTube post of us playing "Playing Checkers" live at our June 16th show at The Delancey for a start...

I'm sorry web site! I'll try to do better...

Next show is Friday, Sept. 4 @ The Parkside, New York City. ]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#215 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#214 this link to olden days.

So the WonderWheels played our first show in a year and a week last Friday. It was good to all be back in the same car going towards a gig. Red Hook, where ever. We did it for ourselves, to do it, and it was a huge bonus that so many friends came out to see.

It felt good, fun, strenuous. It was my first show playing with a distortion pedal which I used at a low-mid level pretty much throughout the show. It is this kind of pedal which has a rude name. Ian calls mine my Iron Muff because I purchased it at guitar center which is a crappy big-box type of place to buy gear, but we were in a time crunch on the way out for an England tour and needed guitar leads and another mic ASAP the day before. So I'm charging up the credit card & I see they're having a special on these distortion boxes and I'm like throw one in, thanks. But, partly because Guitar Center is so concerned that the people going in their store are secret master thieves masquerading as money-parting musicians that they keep your purchases out of your hands until you are out the door, and maybe partly because I was in a hurry and didn't double-check until already on the train, I ended up receiving the cheaper version made in Russia instead of the NYC re-issue one I wanted. Because we were on a plane to the UK the next day, I never did anything about it, and when I got around to using the pedal it was all crackly and crappy and past it's return date, so it sat around for a while until Joe said a friend of his, also named Joe, could probably fix it. So I left it in the Pit and forgot about it. Months later the pedal came back to me fixed, and it sounds great with my Gibson Goldtone tube amp, and that is the story of my Iron Muff.

Our set was:
After Last Night*
Where's My Robot Maid*
Learning Lessons*
Playing Checkers
P-E-T-R-O-L-E-U-M*
Walking Peaceful
Midnight Lightening
No Exceptions*
Eddie Come Down (MEET THE ANIMAL)
What You Want

*are songs that will be on our forthcoming third album]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#214 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#213 Rocky Sullivan's in Red Hook, Brooklyn. See our Shows page for info on that and the upcoming 8th annual Beefstock music festival taking place April 3, 4, & 5 at Full Moon resort in the Catskills.

It never ceases to amaze me, like magnetized particles, the power of people coming together. The adaptability as we type a winter's night away sharing thoughts and feelings and the human experience, everybody expressing their singular perception and bumping off of each other with a spectrum of intentions and velocities. And the scene's power to call itself together in Maplewood, NJ for a Song Swap in the afternoon then back on the Lower East Side for Love Camp 7's release of their excellent new album Union Garage in the evening last Saturday. The thought of playing solo acoustic feels scary and vulnerable, but the act of actually doing it is a lot of fun. I played 2 very new songs - "What You Want" and "Cast Away" - and "Midnight Lightening" which I would classify as sort of recent, no longer new. Rebecca put together a wonderful combination of performers, and we all got to know each other in an atmosphere of juice and mini doughnuts and an art exhibit of quilts hung from every wall.

Getting a lift back to the city in a car full of songwriters, we giggled about 'the business end of Maplewood' and the number of bright yellow 'Do Not Touch Quilts' signs strewn around the Arts Center. It reminded me of earlier days going to open mics and doing crazy late night no-pay residencies at songwriter cafes, happy just to have arrived in New York City and found a place to play, and still enthralled and unbelieving that songs are something I can write.

Great days! WonderWheels practice was pretty slamming this week. We're back in form and refreshed from our hibernations, diversions, illusions. The show at Rocky's is going to be very interesting.]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#213 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#212 Facebook - it's the new blogging...

Liza & Ian are looking forward to playing the Saturday Afternoon Song Swap at the 1978 Maplewood Arts Center this Saturday. See the shows page for details and an article about the swap in the New York Times.

For anyone feeling Maplewood, NJ is inaccessible without a car, join us on New Jersey Transit - the 3:11 train from Penn Station on the Morristown Line arrives in Maplewood at 3:50 and you will be guaranteed a ride from the train station to the Arts Center and back again after the swap.]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#212 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#211 photos up from the show video shoot we did at Kenny's Castaways back in February 2007. The resulting video for "Where Is My Robot Maid?" was released online in November and can be seen by scrolling down this page. Thanks again to the Yes We Can! Yes We Did! team of James Dean Conklin Elisa Zazzera. They're in India right now documenting the Climate Solutions Road Tour with Solar Punch. We're thinking we did something right in a former life to have such a high level fabulosity & professionalism helping with our visuals.

On the audio side, I am in possession of the tracked mixed comp of our third record! I know! It's been a long time commin'... we should be on to mastering by the end of the month.]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#211 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#210 The Larch . If you are in the New York metro area, come to the show at Arlene's Grocery for $10 at 95 Stanton Street on the Lower East Side OR - and I'm talking to you Berkeley Lovebirds and of course Portland & Seattle, you guys can relax with us when you get off work Friday, and UK if you'd care to stay up late we can have a nightcap together on the Strawberry Coast - because everybody can STREAM THE
SHOW FOR FREE at http://www.musikville.com]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#210 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#209 look who's actually booking showS (multiple) for 2009. I know!

Did you know (adept bass player) Andy is in India on the climate solutions road tour playing with solar powered band Solar Punch ?]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#209 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News http://lizasongs.com/news.html#208 shows page for more info.]]> http://lizasongs.com/news.html#208 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Pro-Fun glamourous folk-pop songs shimmering with clever harmonies ready to create instant melodic pathways in the empty crannies of your brain! - Liza & the WonderWheels - News