10/18/2009
I am playing in NYC at a CMJ showcase this Saturday, October 24th at 7:45 PM. Check the Shows section for all of the info.
06/13/2009
I just lined up an L.A. show at the end of the month. Here are the details.
Dramaturgy Presents
Lazy Sundaes
Sunday June 28th, 2009 (last Sunday of every month)
@ The Mandrake
2692 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Between Venice & Washington
21+
No cover
Free Ice Cream
Bar opens @ 6pm
Open Mic from 7-8pm (anyone can come and play 1-2 songs) Let your friends know!
8:30pm-9:10 Graham MacRae - www.myspace.com/grahammacrae
9:30-10:10 Gin & Frolic - www.myspace.com/ginandfrolic
10:30-11:10 Nadine - www.myspace.com/nadinesongs
04/30/2009
The website has been revamped. I have added my music video, drawings, and some other treats. Take a look around. You can now sign up for my email list too.
07/23/2008
Next week I will be performing in Athens, GA at the annual Team Clermont bash.
Saturday, August 2nd
10:00 AM
East Athens Community Park
705 Sunset Drive
Athens, Georgia 30606
And stick around afterwards for the Koalas vs. Walruses Kickball Showdown.
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06/24/2008
Pop Matters reviewed my record and posted my video for "Who Will You Be Talking To?" today. Here's the link:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/59793/graham-macrae-graham-macrae/
Also, I am going to be playing on Friday, July 4th at the Unknown Theater. Here are the details:
Friday, July 4th
The Unknown Theater
1110 Seward St.
Los Angeles, California 90038
Cost: $5
18+ open domestic beer and wine bar for 21+ Doors at 10pm, 10:30pm set time
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06/17/2008
Paste Magazine is premiering my video for "Who Will You Be Talking To?". It was directed by Jurassic Technology, who are currently making a new video for Prefuse 73. It just went up this morning, so go take a look:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/media/2008/06/graham-macrae-who-will-you-be-talking-to.html
Some more friendly reviews and postings have been coming in from the likes of American Songwriter, the KEXP Blog, Paper Thin Walls, All Music, the Daily Vanguard, Muzzle of Bees, Metromix, Largehearted Boy, FensePost, and CMJ.
My debut album ended up peaking at #112 on the CMJ Top 200. Stations that added or charted the record include:
CILU (Thunder Bay ONT), CJLO (Montreal, QC), CJSW (Calgary, AB), KALX (Berkeley, CA), KAMP (Tucson, AZ), KBEACH (Long Beach, CA), KBUT (Crested Butte, CO), KCRW (Santa Monica, CA), KCSU (Fort Collins, CO), KFAI (Minneapolis, MN), KGLT (Bozeman, MT), KHNS (Haines, AK), KHSU (Arcata, CA), KLPI (Ruston, LA), KNDS (Fargo, ND), KNOM (Nome, AK), KRUI (Iowa City, IA), KTCU (Fort Worth, TX), KUMD (Duluth, MN), KUNI (Cedar Falls, IA), KUOI (Moscow, ID), KWCR (Ogden, UT), KWCW (Walla Walla, WA), KWUR (St. Louis, MO), KXZY (Stillwater, OK), KZFR (Chico, CA), KZSC (Santa Cruz, CA), Lasell College Radio (Newton, MA), SCAD Radio (Atlanta, GA), WDCE (Richmond, VA), WDOM (Providence, RI), WEGL (Auburn, AL), WGBK (Glenview, IL), WIRE (Norman, OK), WMUC (College Park, MD), WOUB (Athens, OH), WPKN (Bridgeport, CT), WSYC (Shippensburg, PA), WUML (Lowell, MA), WUSR (Scranton, PA), WVUA (Tuscaloosa, AL), WVUD (Newark, DE), WVUR (Valparaiso, IN)
Thanks to everyone who came out to my record release party at the Unknown Theater last month.
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05/09/2008
Howdy,
It’s been far too long since the last update…so here we go:
My self-titled debut record is finally coming out. May 20th, 2008 is the
official release date. I don’t think the CD will be in very many stores
that day. I am also doubtful that it will be available on all of the
digital retailers such as iTunes, Rhapsody, and the like. I’m doing my
best, but I am only one person. The CD is available on my website and at
all live performances for the time being, and coming soon elsewhere. I’ll
keep you in the loop.
To celebrate I am having a record release party in Los Angeles. Here are
the details:
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The Unknown Theater
1110 Seward St, Los Angeles, CA 90038
$5 / 18+
open domestic beer and wine bar for 21+
Doors at 10pm, 10:30pm set time
Some very kind early reviews have come in on the record already.
Click here to see what Americana UK has to say:
Click here to see what The Flagpole in Athens, GA is rapping about:
http://flagpole.com/Music/RecRev/GrahamMacRae/2008-04-09
Some noteworthy occurrences are going on in that good ol’ college radio
world as well:
Last week my CD was the 14th most added record at CMJ with 30 adds.
Stations that added the record include: CILU (Thunder Bay, ONT), CJLO
(Montreal, PQ), CJSW (Calgary, AB), KALX (Berkeley, CA), KAMP (Tucson,
AZ), KBUT (Crested Butte, CO), KCRW (Santa Monica, CA), KGLT (Bozeman,
MT), KHNS (Haines, AK), KHSU (Arcata, CA), KLPI (Ruston, LA), KNDS (Fargo,
ND), KNOM (Nome, AK), KRUI (Iowa City, IA), KUMD (Duluth, MN), KUOI
(Moscow, ID), KWCR (Ogden, UT), KWCW (Walla Walla, WA), KWUR (St. Louis,
MO), KXZY (Stillwater, OK), KZSC (Santa Cruz, CA), Lasell College Radio
(Newton, MA), WEGL (Auburn, AL), WIRE (Norman, OK), WOUB (Athens, OH),
WSYC (Shippensburg, PA), WUML (Lowell, MA), WUSR (Scranton, PA), WVUA
(Tuscaloosa, AL), WVUD (Newark, DE).
This week the record debuted at #154 on the CMJ Top 200. Stations that
charted the record this week include: KCSU (Fort Collins, CO), KGLT
(Bozeman, MT), KHNS (Haines, AK), KUMD (Duluth, MN), KUNI (Cedar Falls,
IA), KUOI (Moscow, ID), KZFR (Chico, CA), SCAD (Atlanta, GA), WDCE
(Richmond, VA), WEGL (Auburn, AL), WMUC (College Park, MD), WOUB (Athens,
OH), WVUD (Newark, DE), WVUR (Valparaiso, IN)
My video for “Who Will You Be Talking To?” is finished. It will be on the
internets as soon as possible.
Be on the lookout for a West Coast Tour this year.
Thanks for all of the support.
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12/22/2007
Happy Holidays,
Next Thursday, December 27th, I am playing at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle with Damien Jurado. I go on at 9pm and I'll be playing a pretty short set, so you should plan on arriving on the early side. Hope all of your Christmas dreams come true and I hope to see you at the show.
Thursday, December 27th
Damien Jurado
Josh Morrison
Josh Ottom
Graham MacRae
Tractor Tavern
5213 Ballard Ave., Seattle, Washington 98107
All Ages
$10 advance / $12 day of show
Doors open at 8:30pm
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12/9/2007
Hope you're all enjoying the holiday season. I'm happy to say that I finally finished my first official full length CD. It is now available here on the website in the store section and at my upcoming shows. I will be having a release party in Los Angeles early next and year, and I hope to have the CD more widely available at that time.
Some west coast shows this month:
Thursday, December 13th
Dramaturgy Presents
Terence Leclere 9:15
Graham MacRae 10:00
Frequentscenes 10:45
Scott Kinnebrew 11:30
Knitting Factory (7021 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90028)
$7 All Ages
Thursday, December 27th
Damien Jurado
Josh Morrison
Josh Ottom
Graham MacRae
Tractor Tavern (5213 Ballard Ave., Seattle, Washington 98107)
$10 advance / $12 day of show All Ages
I am also looking to play a show in Portland on either December 26th or 28th. Let me know if you can help in getting one set up.
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10/02/2007
There are a couple of upcoming shows to tell you about, and one of them is
in Los Angeles this week.
Thursday, October 4th
Dramaturgy Presents
Graham MacRae – 8pm
Micah Wolf – 9pm
Josh Ottom – 10pm
Math & Science – 11pm
Knitting Factory (7021 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90028)
$7 / All Ages
I am thrilled to be playing my first show in New York City during the
upcoming CMJ Music Marathon.
Friday, October 19th
Banjo Jim’s (700 East 9th St. NY, NY 10009 – Corner of 9th Street and
Avenue C)
11pm set time
Last night I finished mastering my debut record. The record is going to be
self-titled, and it will be the second release on my A MAN, A PLAN, A
CANAL imprint. There is not an official release date, but it should be
available in the next month or so.
Tracklist:
1. I Can’t Trust You
2. Who Will You Be Talking To?
3. Forty Winks
4. Voice and Guitar
5. Future Days
6. Wedding Wind
7. Things Couldn’t Be Better
8. Oh How He Knew
9. A Pick Me Up
10. Hollywood
11. Sign Off
Contrary to the rumors that keep spreading, I am not working on a musical.
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06/06/2007
Hello, here is the first installment of what will hopefully be a more regular update with what is going on in my musical world.
The first bit of exciting news is that I have a show coming up at The Knitting Factory in Los Angeles next week. Here are the details:
Thursday, June 14th
Dramaturgy Presents:
Graham MacRae 11pm
Samuel Markus 10pm
Ric Veda 9pm
Flashing Red Lights 8pm
With DJ Sets by High Voltage
Doors 7:30pm
$7
All Ages
Alterknit Lounge at The Knitting Factory (7021 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028)
This past December I finished a nine track CD-R release that I passed out to some folks. I have made all of the tracks available for download in the discography section.
I am putting the finishing touches on an album that I finished last year and hope to have it available by this fall. It was recorded by former Mighty Lemon Drop, David Newton (The Little Ones, The Movies, Aberdeen) and mixed at Tiny Telephone by Scott Solter. Hope to get the final master and the artwork finished soon.
I’ve been recording quite a bit this past year with Mr. Newton and have some projects in the works to come out in 2008.
The Sea Level era is coming to an end as the store is finally closing this month. There will be a going away party on Friday, June 22nd at Safari Sam’s (5214 Sunset Blvd.) featuring live performances by Division Day and The Switch as well as DJ sets by Sea Level Todd, Sylvia, Nikki (Silversun Pickups), Magic Marcos (The Movies), and Kevin Bronson.
Hope all is well in your world.
Graham MacRae
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05/09/2006
Hello, www.grahammacrae.com is now live. The store section will be up
soon. Thanks to all of you that were able to make it out for the "Sing
Song Celebration" last month.
