| Live at Looney Tunes | ||||
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| Released | April 18, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock, Alternative rock | |||
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Live at Looney Tunes is a live CD of Kevin Devine's in-store performance at Looney Tunes CDs in Long Island, NY on April 18, 2009. [1] The CD (and performance itself) was a special Looney Tunes exclusive for Record Store Day 2009. It was given away for free to those who purchased Brother's Blood from the store. [2]
Kevin Devine is an American songwriter and musician from Staten Island, New York, who is known for his introspective and political themes. He is a contemporary member of the underground indie rock and indie folk musical scenes, and his influences range from older indie artists such as Neutral Milk Hotel, Elliott Smith and Pavement to more mainstream and well known acts such as Nirvana and Bob Dylan. In 2013, Kevin Devine rejoined his previous band, Miracle of 86, for a series of reunion shows.
Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn, and in Queens. However, many people in the New York metropolitan area colloquially use the term Long Island to refer exclusively to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and conversely, employ the term the City to mean Manhattan alone.
Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2008 and held on one Saturday every April and every Black Friday in November to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store". The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores across the world. A number of records are pressed specifically for Record Store Day, with a list of releases for each country, and are only distributed to shops participating in the event. The event began in the United States and remains headquartered there. Record Store Day has official international organizers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Spain, and Poland.
The CD was recorded and released on the same day, being printed on CD-Rs with "Kevin" hand-written on them. The track list is not printed on the CD.
CD-R is a digital optical disc storage format. A CD-R disc is a compact disc that can be written once and read arbitrarily many times.
The show was performed in a semi-acoustic fashion with no drummer.
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. Acoustic string instrumentations had long been a subset of popular music, particularly in folk. It stood in contrast to various other types of music in various eras, including big band music in the pre-rock era, and electric music in the rock era.
On December 29, 2014, the performance was released on vinyl through Looney Tunes's own Brookevale Records and Enjoy The Ride Records (the two previously repressed Kevin's debut album, Circle Gets the Square , in 2012). The release, limited to 500, featured new artwork on a hand number gatefold jacket, remastered audio and a digital download code. The 500 copies were split across three variants: 200 copies on sky blue, red & bone color split with leaf green splatter exclusive to the Enjoy The Ride Records webstore, 200 copies on bone with ginger splatter exclusive to the Brookvale Records webstore and 100 copies on black vinyl split between the two webstores.
Circle Gets the Square is Kevin Devine's first studio album as a solo artist. It was released in 2002 through Immigrant Sun Records. The songs featured on the album dramatically contrast with those of Miracle of 86, a band in which Kevin was the lead singer and guitarist. Kevin believed that the style and themes of his songs did not represent the band's music well.
