That Promising Seadog Media presents
Eddy Dyer
celebrating the reissue of his 1999 debut album Explosion Alone
with special guests including
Summer Pierre, Pragnus Gray, Jah Sun Berube, and Black Wednesday

Saturday, August 19th, 7-10pm
$5 Cover

at the Lily Pad
Inman Square
1353 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
www.lily-pad.net

UPDATE: As you may have heard, the Lily Pad received a cease-and-desist order this past weekend, causing them to cancel all shows this past weekend. It looks like they've sorted things out for now, and the show is on for 8/19. Please come out and support this vital local venue!

In 1999, That Promising Seadog Media released Lowell, MA songsmith Eddy Dyer's debut album, Explosion Alone. Using only his voice and a lefty acoustic guitar, Dyer created an intricate landscape of sound—combining blues, folk, and good old fashioned punk rock with the spare psychedelic sounds of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd.

Dyer has been playing music a long time. Ask anyone in the Lowell music scene and they’ll be sure to have a story to tell—about his punk rock days, or about his youth as a juvenile delinquent pulling pranks around milltown Lowell. When he was a bit older, he traded up his amp for a mandolin and an acoustic guitar, and traded in his prankster days for a nursing career and a dedication to political activism. He moved out of Lowell, and recorded Explosion Alone.

Since then, Dyer has proved to be an extremely prolific musician. His second album, Butterfly Medicine, was released in 2001 on Smokin Moon Records. He recorded two albums with political folk band the Reagan Babies, and one with his latest band, the Walking Shoe Revival—with whom he is currently working on a follow-up. Between studio sessions, he has been actively touring with the Walking Shoe, and has increasingly been attracting attention on the summer festival circuit.

In 2006, seven years after its release, TPS Media decided it was the perfect time to reissue Explosion Alone—still a favorite among many of Dyer’s most loyal fans—and introduce the psych-folk masterpiece to a new audience.

Summer Pierre's most spectacular Great Gals calendar yet is here!

The 2006 calendar features bios and stunning portraits of: Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Coco Chanel, Sandra Cisneros, Imogen Cunningham, Marie Curie, Nan Goldin, Frida Kahlo, May Sarton, Amy Sedaris, Susan Sontag, Gwen Stefani, and Alice Walker -- plus, 365 days of great women's birthdays.

Get yours today. Get more to give away. The perfect gift for the great gals in your life. Buy one now from our online catalog!

Summer Pierre is back on the east coast! Our favorite fast-strumming singer-songstress has said farewell to her home state of California, and relocated in Brooklyn, NY. To celebrate her return, the New England states invited her to do a quick tour. She travelled from state to state September 7-14, 2005.

The complete tour schedule:

9/7 - Tazza Caffe - Providence RI - 8pm - $3
9/9 - Jitters - Southington CT - 9pm
9/10 - White Owl Farm - Backyard Breeze Fest - Tyngsborough MA - 2-10pm - FREE - with Eddy Dyer & many others
9/12 - Milky Way Lounge & Lanes - Jamaica Plain MA - 8pm - FREE
9/13 - Acoustic Cafe on WMUA 91.1FM - Amherst MA - 3:30pm - Live on air!
9/13 - Bishop's Lounge - Northampton MA - 9pm
9/14 - Free Street Taverna - Portland ME - CANCELLED

If it wouldn't be just a little too self-congratulatory, we'd have Summer Pierre's Far From Here at the top of our list of favorite 2004 releases. Once you get your hands on her CD, check out some of 2004's most intriguing records we didn't release ourselves: (Come back soon to read our reviews of 2004 favorites!)

RECORDS • Belle & Sebastian I'm A Cuckoo (single) • Guided by Voices Bee Thousand: Director's Cut (10th anniversary re-release vinyl) • Guided by Voices Half Smiles of the Decomposed • The Ocean Blue Waterworks (EP) • Snow Patrol Final Straw • Trashcan Sinatras Weightlifting RECORDS • Arcade Fire Funeral • The Believer Music Sampler • Ted Leo + Pharmacists Shake the Streets • Preston School of Industry Monsoon • TV on the Radio >Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes RECORDS • The Believer Music Sampler • The Devil Makes Three Long Johns, Boots, and Belt • PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her • Hayden Elk Lake Serenade • Jolie Holland Escondida • Zap Mama Ancestry in Progress BOOKS • Messy Thrilling Life : The Art of Figuring Out How to Live by Sabrina Ward Harrison • Locas: A Love and Rockets Book by Jaime Hernandez • Ariel: The Restored Edition : A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement by Sylvia Plath

RECORDS • Eddy Dyer and the Walking Shoe Revival • Le Tigre This Island • Ted Leo + Pharmacists Shake the Streets • Royal City Little Heart's Ease • Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans • TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes • Windmill Every Last Windmill Shall Fall BOOKS • Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende

Want more? Check out our 2003 favorites...

Jennifer Lee Stowers was a musician and a teacher. She was a friend. A foundation has been created in her honor, to work towards fulfilling her personal vision of "saving the world, one child at a time."

Sunday, December 12, the Middle East (Cambridge, MA) will be hosting a benefit concert for the Jennifer Lee Stowers Quintal Education Foundation. TPS artist Eddy Dyer will be playing, along with the Syphlloids, Pug Uglies, the Blue Bloods, Diver Down, Sin City Chainsaw, Suspect Device, Joint Custody, the Glamorous StuntCocks, Mike Verge of Virgil Cain and more...

The show is 18+, tickets are $12, doors open at 7pm, and the show begins at 8pm.

The Middle East
480 Massachusetts Ave.
Central Square
Cambridge, MA
Middle East Box Office: 617-864-EAST x221
Ticketmaster: 617-931-2000
www.mideastclub.com
Info about Jennifer Lee & the Foundation: www.js-qfoundation.org

"...perhaps one of humankinds worst mistakes was something so simple and innocent that it is never seen as such. I believe it to be the pencil. I've never used them. Although my path may be messy, full of crosses and bleeding overs, at least I can find solace in that the stains I made on the world's paper were honest, from the heart and always for the moment. I never erase. I never re-write. I pull off my pen's cap and live and love with what I've done-no matter what. A pen never lies. No regrets." - Jennifer Lee Stowers

tps Media is once again teaming up with legendary underground publisher, editor, and essayist Rummell Mudgins–this time with the purpose of creating a series of mini-books which will be launched this fall. The idea is to provide the unsuspecting public with a variety of inexpensive pocket-sized books, each containing a short story, an essay, comics, drawings, photography, or possibly even some subversive poetry, each carefully selected by Rummell Mudgins himself. He has already started contacting his favorite artists and writers for submissions, and asks that the general public also be invited to submit works for consideration.

Send yours to:

That Promising Seadog Media
PO Box 372, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Attn: Rummell Mudgins

That Promising Seadog Media needs your help! Is there a good radio station or program in your area that plays independent music? Is there a good indie record or bookstore down the street? Are there clubs or collectives that you think would be a good venue for any of our artists? Send us a note! And send contact names and phone numberss if you have them! We will be very grateful, and will send you goodies! And be sure to tell all your friends about tps Media!