I've said it hundreds of times around here but it sure seems theres something in the water in Detroit... Add The High Strung and the Singles to health list of bands emerging from there.
Here's a bit of gossip regarding The Sights...
The Sights new lineup — sans keyboardist Nate Cavalieri and bassist Matt Hatch — sports a two-in-one replacement in organist Bobby Emmett. “It’s fuckin’ beautiful,” coos Sights front man Eddie Baranek. “The only thing I would add if I was to add anything is a saxophone, one that could get really wrong-sounding and noisy … everybody’s like ‘oh, it’s the Doors’ and we’re like, ‘no, man, Terry Reid.’”
The Sights are fielding offers from high-end indies including, among others, Lookout and Yep Rock. The band returns to the UK in late August for a tour with stops at both the Reading and Leeds festivals. A possible Australian tour is in the works with Aussie mockers You Am I. Word is UK’s fey white-boy sentimentalists Travis requested the Sights as support on their forthcoming North American tour. The band also plans to start recording its follow-up to Got What We Want later this summer.
In addition, the boys of Sights are finishing a handful of covers at Jim Diamond’s Ghetto Recorders, two of which are set to be released on the increasingly ubiquitous Cass Records. The A-side is said to be a “stellar cover” of Titus Turner’s R&B dust-kicker “Sticks and Stones.”
Speaking of Diamond, the much-ballyhooed knob-twiddler says his new label — cleverly christened Jim Diamond Records — is “going to have promotion and all that stuff and it probably won’t even cheat artists.” Go figure. Diamond Jim says a Bogue full-length will most likely be the label’s debut release.
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if someone buys me a Travis ticket, I'll wear my kilt to the show
