WE DID IT! Thanks so much for your pledges and support.
IVA DAWN raised $6,488 on KICKSTARTER from 94 backers. Ya’ll gonna love the record.
It’s now off to mastering, we’re closer and closer to the finish line.
L-R: Whitney Mower, Matt Chamberlain, Tom Biller, Lucas Gorham
WHITNEY MOWER along with her guitarist LUCAS GORHAM left Houston and flew out to Los Angeles to record her debut batch of songs last week. She is recording with producer TOM BILLER (Warpaint, 30 Seconds to Mars) at his studio in the Silverlake area.
In just the first week, they’ve already started laying down the bones for the six (6) song debut EP, which will be released under the alias IVA DAWN.
The tracks are sounding AMAZING — some song titles include “Officer,” “Laugh Until I Cry” and “The Only One.”
The group was joined by drummer MATT CHAMBERLAIN, who was able to add his exceptional percussion work on five of the songs. Nicknamed “the human loop” by Tori Amos, Matt was the drummer for Edie Brickell and New Bohemians and has performed drums-percussion work on hundreds of studio albums for artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Nickel Creek, Brandi Carlile, Sarah McLachlan, Eric Clapton, Dido, David Bowie and The Wallflowers. He’s currently on tour with Soundgarden – check out Matt’s website and credits.
Tom Biller – producer
“As long as you believe in yourself, you can go as far as your dream.” – Miss Kathy in the movie Goodbye Mr. Chips
Exceptionally talented producer-mixer-musician TOM BILLER has come aboard to produce the IVA DAWN album with Whitney Mower. Recording starts this month, May, in Los Angeles.
Tom received a GRAMMY Award for engineering Kanye West’s album, Late Registration, with producer JON BRION with whom he works with frequently.
Tom has mixed-engineered-performed on albums with Fiona Apple, Sean Lennon, Gomez, Karen O, Kate Nash, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Sea Wolf, Silversun Pickups, Elliot Smith and Evan Dando. Check out his credits on Allmusic.
Tom also produced the critically acclaimed album, The Fool (2010, Rough Trade) by the band WARPAINT.
KACEY MUSGRAVES’ acoustic version of “Apologize” from Triple Pop has charted in BILLBOARD at #23 on the Hot Singles Sales chart for week of February 15, 2014.
The song charted next to Adele’s “Skyfall” and Chvrches “Recover” – one of my favorite songs.
“Apologize” is available on Triple Pop’s exclusive two (2) song digital digital EP “Apologize / See You Again” on the iTunes Store, Amazon MP3 and dozens of other digital music stores.
This is our label’s FIRST Billboard chart entry. It’s wonderful news for an indie.
Congratulations to Triple Pop alumni artist KACEY MUSGRAVES for winning two GRAMMYS at the 56th Grammy Awards: Country Album of Year and Country Song of Year.
Kacey was nominated for four awards. She was the surprise winner that beat out superstar TAYLOR SWIFT for the Best Country Album of Year Award.
Kacey has won acclaim for her album Same Trailer Different Park, which has been cited as one of the Best Albums of the Year by Rolling Stone, Time, Spin, Paste and Entertainment Weekly.
Kacey performed her wonderful song “Follow Your Arrow” live on the GRAMMY Awards telecast on January 26, 2014, to widespread acclaim. Read all about it on Billboard, Huffington Post, CMT an E! Television.
Congratulations to KACEY MUSGRAVES for winning the NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD from the COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS!
Kacey won acclaim for her album Same Trailer Different Park. It’s an impressive achievement, especially for a newcomer.
ROLLING STONE said Kacey’s award was a “victory for country music” and it sets new marks in progressive values in the genre.
Same Trailer Different Park has been cited as of the Top Albums of the Year by Rolling Stone, Spin and Entertainment Weekly.
But we’ve known about Kacey for a long time. In 2008, Kacey lived in Austin for awhile, which is where we discovered her. I immediately knew she had the talent; she was a diamond in the rough.
I remember hearing her voice and being mesmerized. It was wonderful. She had great talent but needed better songs to sing, I remember thinking.
I pitched her my idea to record a couple cover songs together to see how we worked together. If it all worked out, I told her it was my intention to develop and produce her original songs afterwards. That was my plan, at least.
Recording with new talent is always risky – there are personality and timing issues and it takes money to rent good recording studios. You never know what’s going to happen. As a producer, I was Kacey’s first “super fan” willing to invest not knowing where she would end up next.
I pitched her several song ideas. She chose “See You Again” (Miley Cyrus) and “Apologize” (One Republic). We recorded on March 27, 2008, at Brain Machine Recording Studios with engineer Randy Avenell.
During the recording session, Kacey was professional and focused. She wanted the songs to be ‘just right’ and we spent a full evening working on the recordings.
I remember Kacey instructing the engineer, Randy, exactly how to mix her voice and adjust the levels, with acute precision. Kacey gave both songs an unique personality and she made them her own.
A few days later, she invited me out to see her perform at Momos above Katz’s Deli. I remember it was just her grandma and me in the audience, she was a great live performer, but nobody knew this girl. Heck, she had just gotten out of high school a couple years earlier.
Kacey invited me out to lunch a few weeks later – she likes Ethiopan food! For only being 21, Kacey struck me as being very wise beyond her years. We talked about recording original songs together in the future. As I recall, I suggested she move to Nashville and work with other songwriters to develop her craft.
I remember her telling me she was going to hit the road for awhile, play with some different musicians, and take it from there.
We promised to keep in touch. Kacey was restless. She wasn’t going to be stopped. We lost touch over the years.
Kacey ended up in Nashville, wrote some hit songs, got a record deal with a major label and there you have it.
The rest is history – it’s one in a million.
You can download both songs “See You Again” and “Apologize” from Kacey Musgraves on iTunes exclusively from my record label, Triple Pop.
Along with Taylor Swift, Kacey Musgraves is the top nominee for the Country Music Association Awards in 2013.
The 25-year-old Texas-born singer-songwriter takes on divisive topics on her critically acclaimed album “Same Trailer Different Park” not often heard on country radio, yet she still managed to generate hits because of her smart songwriting.
Kacey is nominated for six awards including Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and as a songwriter on her own hit “Merry Go `Round” and Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart.”
Kacey will be performing live at the CMA Awards on November 6th.
Austin City Limits also just announced Kacey will be performing a live TV episode taping on November 25th.
Triple Pop’s exclusive two (2) song digital digital EP from Kacey Musgraves is available online at the iTunes Store.
Dee Dee Ramone was also a prolific painter, often collaborating with artist Paul Kostabi.
Here is a never before seen image of Dee Dee’s only painting of Sid Vicious, the bass player for The Sex Pistols.
This painting has only been seen by a handful of people since Dee Dee painted it for me back in 2000, so consider yourself lucky. It’s now hanging in my office.
Dee Dee sure had some great stories about Mr. Vicious, whose life story was dramatized by Alex Cox in the feature film, Sid and Nancy (1986).
For some reason, in the mid-eighties, the exploits of The Sex Pistols, along with Sid Vicious, were popular stories among the punk rock kids.
So when I got to work with Dee Dee, I asked him about meeting Sid and Nancy one night at dinner.
Dee Dee sat down and custom painted this work for me the next morning.
Dee Dee’s last album of recordings, “Greatest and Latest” (2000), originally produced for the Conspiracy Music label, has since became part of Triple Pop.
The producers of NBC’s show, The Office, are going to use Kris Farrow’s acoustic guitar version of the classic Office theme song in the primetime season retrospective finale of the show, which airs tomorrow, Thursday, May 16th 8pm EST, 7pm CST.
This is the final episode of the show (which we’ve all loved over the years) and we are sorry to see such a great show end.
We’re not sure exactly at what spot in the episode they’re are using the recording – it’s all top secret and stuff being the last episode. Our guess it’s going to be used in special montage segment. Just listen for Kris’ unmistakable guitar playing!
We are thankful to NBC for licensing Kris’ amazing acoustic guitar version of the song, which is available on Acoustic Guitar Karaoke, Vol. 24 (Movie & TV Themes) on the iTunes Store.
Triple Pop has announced that a two (2) song digital Digital EP featuring songs from Academy of Country Music nominee Kacey Musgraves is available online at the iTunes Store.
Recorded over five years ago in 2008, the exclusive EP features Kacey Musgraves performing acoustic guitar cover versions of the songs “See You Again” and OneRepublic’s “Apologize,” which the label had thought been lost to the sands of time due to a computer hard drive failure.
The songs were recorded at Brain Machine Recording Studios in Austin, Texas when Ms. Musgraves first got out of high school.
“They’re just acoustic songs, but they showcase Kacey’s developing performing talent, which has now made her famous. She took these songs and made them her own,” says Triple Pop owner, Monte Robison, who produced the songs.
Ms. Musgraves’ hit Billboard single “Merry Go ‘Round” has been certified RIAA Gold and her debut major label album, Same Trailer Different Park, debuted at #2 in the Billboard Top 100 albums.
Kacey Musgraves was nominated for multiple Academy of Country Music Awards, including “Vocalist of the Year’, alongside Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.
Listen for free to the full stream of “Apologize” on Soundcloud.
Former Triple Pop artist Kacey Musgraves performed her hit Billboard single “Merry Go Round” on The Jimmy Fallon show last month.
Kacey has been nominated for three American Country Music Awards, including ‘Video of the Year’ as both artist and producer, and ’Female Vocalist of the Year’, where Musgraves is up against the likes of Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.
Kacey was recently profiled as an up-and-coming artist in country music in The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, Huffington Post, LA Times, and USA Today. And my hometown paper, The Columbus Dispatch, too. She’s everywhere.
Her debut major label album, Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury/Universal), was released just this week and it’ll debut in Billboard Top 10 albums of the week – pretty impressive! We’re so happy for Ms. Mugraves. When we met her so many years ago, she had a special something and we knew she was destined for greater things.
You can hear/buy Kacey Musgraves’ version of the song “See You Again” which you can find on iTunes and Amazon on Triple Pop’s Stars of Montana album compilation.
The Acoustic Guitar Karaoke series from musician KRIS FARROW finished 2012 with Volumes 27 and 28 … wow!
We’ve been releasing acoustic guitar songs now for over four years … and counting. We’re planning even more volumes in 2013, so be on the look out.
Click link here to Kris’ catalogue of 300+ tracks on iTunes.
Also, check out Kris Farrow’s website and see him perform live on tour as guitarist with the THE ZANE WILLIAMS BAND in 2013.
We appreciate all your support and thanks for checking us out. We wish everyone much success in 2013!
