THE LONESOME HEROES: News

 

We are on the Officially on the Short List for SXSW....

So like so many other awesome Austin bands we are on call to play The Festival whenever a band from Nova Scotia, Finland, Bulgaria, or wherever cancels.

We will send out a torrent of Text Messages, emails, and Telegraphs when we get our official date set.

Here are a few of our Non official Showcases:

(We will not call them SXSW ,since the people at the festival get very mad when you do that!)

 

Sunday, March 14^th

Headhunters

Atomic Honky Tonk Showcase

WE PLAY @ 11pm

With: Dave Insley, Leo Rondeau, The Preservation, Mike & The Moonpies, and every other awesome Austin Band.

 

 

Tuesday, March 16^th

Shangri-la

WE PLAY @ 5pm

1016 East 6^th st (& Medina st)

Austin, TX. 78702

With:

Broken Gold ,Reverend Glass Eye, Corto Maltese, Pretty Good Dance Moves

 

Friday, March 19^th

Jovitas

WE PLAY @ 9pm

1617 South 1st Street

Austin, TX 78704-3046

(512) 447-7825

with

The Preservation 7pm, Down Here Band 8pm, The Candeliers 10pm, Shotgun Party 11pm, Flatcar Rattlers 12am

 

Sunday March 21^st

Giddy Ups

Spring Fling Festival

10pm

www.giddyups.com

12010 Manchaca Road

Austin, TX 78748

(512) 280-4732

 

Please email for any more info:

thelonesomeheroes@gmail.com 

http://lonesomeheroes.blogspot.com/

We have now joined the 21st Century and have a proper blog on Blogspot.com

Please check it out and follow us... or whatever you do on the world wide web these days....

 

Hey we got a write up in the Flagstaff Weekly for our show tonight. 

 

It compares us to a hooker at a Church Bakesale... it's pretty rad check it out:

http://www.flaglive.com/flagstafflive_story.cfm?storyID=211388

LIVING IN A POSTCARD...    (Our new blog)

We have decided to join the 20th Century and begin keeping a Blog.

We will try to write interesting things that y'all want to read. A random assortment of Dutch oven recipes, hidden campsites, Landry's new art projects, and all the rad people we meet on the road.

 OUR NEW BLOG IS AT THE BOTtoM OF THE TOOL BAR ENTITLED:

LIVING IN A POSTCARD...

 It's a concept that predates the World Wide Web. It's some sort of Walt Whitman wanna be Jack Kerouacian compulsion to drive through the night and sleep on the side of the road with cars rushing past, afraid of bears, insane truckers, ghosts, or whatever, so that you can wake up in the morning and discover something new and distant, and feel like perhaps for that moment all your rushing was worth it, because you are living inside a postcard. 

Here's our postcard from this morning:

 

It was 22 degrees when we woke up this morning at a "roadside table," as we call it, somewhere outside Balmorhea TX. There was ice on the ceiling of the van and Landry and I were safe and warm sleeping in our clothes under two down blankets.

<read the rest in the blog section>

Lonesome Heroes "Don't Play to Lose" Music Video from Daniel Stolzman on Vimeo.

We woke up this morning and finally after 100,000 miles on the road we are famous!
REALLY FAMOUS!!!
Thanks world wide web...

Check out this awesome review of our new Music video from Austin's premiere Indie Rock news outlet/ purveyors of all that's cool: THE AUSTIN SOUND

January 5th, 2010
http://www.austinsound.net/2010/01/05/video-the-lonesome-heroes-dont-play-to-lose/
"The Lonesome Heroes are a wandering lot, so maybe we shouldn’t be too surprised that it took them about three years to make a video for “Don’t Play to Lose.” We give them a pass on the old tune, though, because the video is pretty great. How can you not love two adorable kids escaping from some hardcore bikers and bouncers?! It’s like Goonies II: Goonies in the City! Or something. Kudos to Daniel Stolzman of Frameless Films for directing the video, and to Rich Russell and Landry McMeans for wherever they dug up their younger counterparts. As for the Heroes themselves, they’ll be back in town after last month’s trek up into the north east for a gig at the Continental Club on Saturday, January 16 with Lil’ Cap’n Travis and Grand Champeen. Check out the video below:"

We are working on a new record this month due out in March for SXSW. Then, we'll be on the road again in February working our way west to California, and home via Wyoming.

Here are a few of our upcoming tour dates for February and March 2010. If you have any suggestions of where to play along the way, we'd love your input. See you on the back roads of Americia soon, and Keep on Keepin' on.

Feb 13 2010 10:00P The Hole in the Wall with Ethan Azarian & ChurchwoodAustin, Texas

Feb 15 2010 8:00P The Starlight Theatre (dinner show)Terlingua, Texas

Feb 23 2010 10:00P The PikeLong Beach, California

Feb 25 2010 11:00P The Crepe Place with Leopold & His Fiction & HodSanta Cruz, California

Howdy Y'all,

The New York City music video release and our east coast tour home were amazing. Despite breaking down in Nashville for 5 days, Helga, the star of our music video, made it home safe, and we even got a good country song out of it all.

Thank you to everyone that gave their time to help us with the music video, and a special thanks to Margo and Jeremy from Buffalo Clover and Lilly Hiatt for helping us out in Nashville, and to all the guys at Athens Imports for keeping the dream alive.

The NYC Video Release was so awesome. Thanks so Much To Danny Stolzman & Daryl Freemark at Frameless Films for all the amazing work.

You can watch the video here:
http://www.vimeo.com/7974902

Lonesome Heroes "Don't Play to Lose" Music Video from Daniel Stolzman on Vimeo.

You are cordially invited to
The NYC Music Video Premiere of


"DON'T PLAY TO LOSE"

by

THE LONESOME HEROES

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2ND

Union Pool
484 Union Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Doors Open at 8
Screening at 8:30

******

Live performance by
THE LONESOME HEROES

Followed by a dance party with

LOVE LIKE DELOREANS


******
"DON'T PLAY TO LOSE" MUSIC VIDEO - SYNOPSIS
The Psychedelic-Country duo The Lonesome Heroes take a whimsical road trip from the country to a Big City gig, where, in a twist of magical realism, two adventure-seeking kids try to follow along.

written & directed by DANNY STOLZMAN

produced by DARYL FREIMARK & DANNY STOLZMAN

music and lyrics by THE LONESOME HEROES

cinematography by BEN BLOODWELL

edited by JENNIFER NEEDLEMAN
production design by MARIA CRISTINA RUEDA & BILL HILGENDORF

starring
THE LONESOME HEROES
JAY HELINSKI
MARCELLA HELINSKI
BRIAN JORDAN
JIMMY REYES
REIF LARSEN
costume designer DEIRDRE McCONNELL
assistant camera MATT PORWOLL
gaffer JAMES DEMETRI
assistant director KYLE JONES

Thursday November 12th
Threadgills World Headquarters
7pm Vicky Emerson
8pm The Lonesome Heroes
10pm Gregory Alan Isakov
www.threadgills.com
301 W Riverside Dr
Austin, TX 78704-1226
(512) 472-9304

Greg is one of our all time favorite songwriters so please check him out.
www.myspace.com/gregoryalanisakov

DON'T PLAY TO LOSE MUSIC VIDEO RELEASE PARTIES IN AUSTIN & NYC.


FRAMELESS FILMS PRESENTS:
Quite possibly the most epic Western Magical-Realist music video ever made!

"Don't Play to Lose"
Lonesome Heroes Music Video World Premiere
Screening & Live Performance by The Lonesome Heroes
Thursday November 5th
7-10pm
@ Jo's Coffee
(FIRST THURSDAY ON SOUTH CONGRESS)
1300 South Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78704
*FREE ALL AGES EVENT*
www.joscoffee.com
After Party by RSVP only
11pm - ?
@ The Candy Shop on the Eastside
With live Music by:
Leo Rondeau
www.myspace.com/leorondeau &
Ron Scott
www.myspace.com/ronscott
RSVP for directions to the after party:
thelonesomeheroes@gmail.com

Please invite all your friends and movie stars.


SAVE THE DATE!!
NYC Gala Premiere
Wednesday, December 2nd
8-10p
@ Union Pool
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The video will be available on the worldwide web after the NYC Premiere.

GET OUT YOUR BED ROLLS WE'RE GOING CAMPING!


100% Acoustic Show in Longhorn Caverns
Saturday November 7th 5-8pm
@ Longhorn Caverns State Park
With Special Guests The McMercy Family Band

Optional Dinner @ 5pm $10
Show 6-8pm $16
**Don't Show Up Late They Will Lock the Cave**

Free Camping @ Inks Lake State Park After the Show!
This is A BYOB Event so Come Prepared
(But there are no bathrooms in the cave so don't over do it!)
Children under 13 Need Reservations & Parental Supervision.

WE NEED TO SELL AT LEAST 20 MORE TICKETS BEFORE THURSDAY
OR THEY WILL CANCEL THE EVENT SO PLEASE CALL TO BUY TICKETS
*******Reservations (512) 756 4680********

Longhorn Caverns
6211 Park Road 4 S, Burnett, TX‎ -(512) 756-4680‎

1 Hour & 34 minutes from the Continental Club
Between Marble Falls and Burnett on 281
Google it!

We will have our usual collection of instruments & Heroes
& a whole bunch of new songs.

If you have never heard the McMercy Family Band
Check em out!
www.myspace.com/mcmercyfamilyband
*****If you want to camp please email me asap
as we have limited space:
thelonesomeheroes@gmail.com

Thanks Rich
--
www.thelonesomeheroes.com www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes thelonesomeheroes@gmail.com
303.726.9406

Wow we are movie star! Landry and I make a cameo appearance in Erik Mauk's new film "Straight to the Bone."

Here's the story:
Jay and Shannon have been together since college. Now, both approaching 30, Shannon makes an understandable request for the ultimate commitment. Unfortunately, Jay does not see the need for such a legal definition of their relationship. Frustrated, Shannon seeks comfort in the arms of Blake - a new friend who seems to share her ideals about the future. Does she gamble on this new opportunity or stick it out with the one she loves - who may not be able to give her all she needs? Mauck weaves the always complicated story of relationships set against the backdrop of Austin, creating a film that also reads as a love song for the city in which it takes place.

We explain the logistics of Chicken Shit Bingo @ Ginny's Little Longhorn, then the characters come to the Hole in the Wall to watch our band play. It's really awesome!

The Film is showing at the Austin Film Festival this weekend.


9:30 PM Thu, Oct 22 Rollins Theater

5:15 PM Sat, Oct 24
Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bnYpJ1Vc7Y

Here's our August/September Dates.

Check our Myspace for exact time & dates....

www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes


Element Skate Camp
August 12-14th
Sequoia National Park, California

Aug 15 2009
9:30P
Ranch Party
@ The Original Farmers Market in Los Angles
Los Angles, CA

Aug 16 2009
5:30P
The Echo
Echo Park / Los Angeles

Aug 20 2009
9:00P
The Redwood Bar
w/ 50 cent Haircut....
Los Angles, California

Aug 21 2009
10:00P
The Pike
w/ Chuck Fleming...
Long Beach, California

Aug 22 2009
8:00P
Private Party
San Diego, California

Aug 28 2009
9:00P
The Brookdale Lodge
Santa Cruz(ish) or Brookdale, California

Aug 29th 2009
8:00P
Amnesia
San Francisco

Sep 2 2009
6:00P
Ace in the Hole Cider Brewery
W/ Chuck Fleming 6- 9pm Sebastopol, California

Oct 3 2009
5:00P
The Bear Tree tavern
Cenntennial, Wyoming

Oct 8 2009
10:00P
Continental Club *Welcome Home Show*
Austin, Texas

Oct 16 2009
8:00P
Festival in College Station TBA!!!

Oct 17 2009
5:00P
Longhorn Caverns State Park *Acoustic show in the Cave w/ McMercy Family Band Burnet,, Texas

Friday June 26th
Reggies Music Joint
2105 S. State St.
Chicago
7 pm
21+
$5

Mechanical Bull Riding Contest-

Winners get $100 and prizes from Record Breakers and Alcalas Western Wear and other TBA

FREE PIG ROAST!!! (with $5 cover)


Live music by:
7 pm Bull Riding
8 pm Kent Rose
8:40 pm Bull Riding
9:30 Lonesome Heroes
10:15 Bull Riding
11:15 Northside Southpaws
12 am bull bull bull

Our sponsors are:
Don Q Rum
Shiner Beers
Alcala Western Wear

Tonight's the big CD Release Party for Leo Rondeau @ The Continental Club. Landry designed the cover and just about every awesome player in town contributed something to make this the record that will let people around the world know just how awesome Austin Country Music can be. Please check Leo out:

www.myspace.com/leorondeau
TUESDAY APRIL 14TH
10pm Lonesome Heroes
11pm Leo Rondeau
12am Shotgun Party
$7
@ The Continental Club
1315 S Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 441-0202
www.continentalclub.com

We will be playing around town a bit if you are around for the big festival.

ALL SHOWS ARE FREE & TOTALLY RAD!

Mar 20 2009 1:00P
Township Records Showcase Austin, Texas

*VENUE: 2105 Senic Dr.
Austin, TX 78703
*DATE: Friday March 20th 2009
*TIME : 12-7pm

Please join us for an afternoon of FREE Savvy Vodka, Treaty Oak Rum, Texas beer, and all sorts of food.

Mar 21 2009 7:00P
Cissi’s Market SOCO Showcase
w/ Down Here Band & Chuck Fleming
1400 South Congress Avenue
78704 Austin TX

March 21st 11pm
Super Backyard Getdown on the East Side...
1710 Clifford Ave
78702
(google it i don't know where it is either)

Mar 22 2009 4:00P
Flipnotics SX(so what)
w/ Chuck Fleming
1601 Barton Springs Rd.
(512) 480-TOGO Austin, TX. 78704

Mar 22 2009 10:00P
Giddy Ups SXSW Spring Fling w/ Colin Gilmore & The Nortons Austin, Texas
www.giddyups.com 12010 Manchaca Rd
Austin, TX 78748
(512) 280-4732

STARRY EYES VOL III
Follow this link for a free compilation of local music:
http://www.austinsound.net/2009/03/11/sound-advice-vol-iii-starry-eyes/
Rich Russell and Landry McMeans meld their harmonies and guitar and dobro into delectable tunes that captures the Lonesome Heroes’ restless and wandering spirit. With a backing band that includes an impressive cast of Austin players, the duo delivers gentle ballads cut with a psychedelic country swirl, McMeans’ gorgeous vocals traded with Russell’s down-to-earth sound. Following 2006 EP Don’t Play to Lose, the group released their appropriately-titled sophomore effort, Crooked Highway, this past year, and are planning a live album for sometime in 09.

Holy Guacamole!

We are playing at La Zona Rosa on Saturday February 28th.

Its going to be an eclectic Show featuring Hip Hop, Funk, Rock, and of course some Psychedelic Country Music.

Please come dance and rock out or whatever.

Here's the details

Saturday February 28th
@ La Zona Rosa
9p The Nasty Clan
10p The Lonesome Heroes
11p Streetlight Suzzie
12a The Bus Stop Stallions

All Ages $10 cover
612 W. 4th Street
Austin, TX 78701

Check out this weeks Austin Sound Sound off about us....

http://www.austinsound.net/2009/02/23/sound-off-the-lonesome-heroes/
Sound Off: The Lonesome Heroes»
Few young artists have done as much to promote the local music scene as the Lonesome Hereos, who started up the Wednesday alt. country nights at the Hole in the Wall. Like the lineups that founders Rich Russell and Landry McMeans booked, the Heroes’ music has an eclectic roots range. There are touches of cosmic country and Sweetheart of the Rodeo in their psychedelic tinged, restless country tunes, but the real draw of the Heroes is excellent melding of Russell and McMeans in spirit and sound. McMeans dulcet twang and expansive dobro, and Russells’ more grounded drawl and guitar combine for a mesmerizing and beautiful exchange, while their songs evoke the open west Texas expanse of road and possibilities. With their latest album, Crooked Highway, they have assembled a stellar band of local luminaries, and you can see the songs come alive twice this week. The Lonesome Heroes play the Hole in the Wall this Wednesday with Tiny Tin Hearts and the Axons, and then will be dropping into Red River on Thursday, February 26 with Aimee Bobruk , Lee Barber, and Danny Malone for a show at Club DeVille.

The Lonesome Heroes
AUSTIN AFTERNOON SPLASH
Saturday Afternoons at Luckenbach.
412 Luckenbach Town Loop Fredericksburg, TX 78624.

Come enjoy a Saturday afternoon splash of wild country music from Austin in Luckenbach TX one Saturday a month. After three years hosting Austin’s Alt Country Showcase at the Hole in the Wall, The Lonesome Heroes will bring a collection of their favorite bands to play at the birthplace of Outlaw Country Music. An Eclectic lineup of bands that push the boundaries of country music can be expected ranging from Psychedelic Country, Texas Swing, to Bluegrass and beyond.

Saturday, February 21st.
1pm McMercy Family Band
www.myspace.com/mcmercyfamilyband 2:30 Dave Insley’s Careless Smokers
www.myspace.com/daveinsley 4:00 Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes
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Saturday March 14th
1pm Brennen Leigh
www.myspace.com/brennenleigh 2:30 Leo Rondeau
www.myspace.com/leorondeau 4pm Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes
*******************************

Saturday April 18th
1pm Shotgun Party
www.myspace.com/shotgunfiesta 2:30 The Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes 4:00pm The Maybelles
www.myspace.com/themaybelles
*******************************

Saturday May 16th
1pm Clay Nightingale
www.myspace.com/claynightingale 2:30 pm Lil’ Cap’n Travis
www.myspace.com/lilcapntravis 4pm Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes
INFO:
publicity@thelonesomeheroes.com
www.thelonesomeheroes.com www.myspace.com/austinaltcountry

Excerpt from The Austin Chronicle Article:
“Don’t Look Back, The Lonesome Heroes Rewrite the Rules of Alt Country.”
Since taking up residency at the Hole in the Wall last September, the Lonesome Heroes' alt.country nights have become one of the most popular weekly events in Austin. As a genre, alt.country hardly begins to characterize the eclectic lineups that Russell and McMeans put together… The Wednesday bills draw crowds mixing Mohawk punks and country kickers, as well as some of the town's top musicians and producers. Behind Russell and McMeans' infectious energy and their intent on building a collaborative environment, it's a scene that recalls the days of Doug Sahm holding court at the Soap Creek Saloon.
-Doug Freeman.
The Austin Chronicle. April 4, 2008.

Please come check Out some of Austin's finest local music.


Thursday February 5th
@ The Continental Club
1315 S Congress.
www.continetalclub.com
10pm Leo Rondeau
www.myspace.com/leorondeau 11pm Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes 12am Clay Nightingale
www.myspace.com/claynightingale
$7/ 21+

Howdy everybody. Landry & i will be hosting the pickers circle this
Saturday Jan 17th from 1-5 pm in Luckenbach. Please bring your
guitars, fiddles, dobros... or whatever and sing some songs.

$1 lonestars for all the pickers....


Directions are here:
www.luckenbachtexas.com (about 1hr 20 min from austin before Fredricksburg.)

This is sort of a preview of our upcoming Monthly Austin Music
Showcase in Luckenbach.

Once a month we are going to bring our band & two of our favorite
bands from Austin to play some wild crazy country music at the
birthplace of Outlaw Country music. The shows will be outside under
the Oaktrees (unless its really cold, then we will be inside the
dancehall)

Super cheap camping & cabins next door at the Armadillo Farm
Campground
www.armadillofarmcampground.com
830 997 5371
and we are going to have way too much fun...

Please check out these bands, they really are so awesome.


Here's the Schedule:
The Lonesome Heroes
AUSTIN AFTERNOON SPLASH
Saturday Afternoons in Luckenbach, TX.
**********************************

Saturday, February 21st.
1pm McMercy Family Band
www.myspace.com/mcmercyfamilyband 2:30 Dave Insley's Careless Smokers
www.myspace.com/daveinsley 4:00 Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes
*******************************
Saturday March 14th
1pm Brennen Leigh
www.myspace.com/brennenleigh 2:30 Leo Rondeau
www.myspace.com/leorondeau 4pm Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes
*******************************

Saturday April 18th
1pm Shotgun Party
www.myspace.com/shotgunfiesta 2:30 The Lonesome Heroes
www.myspace.com/lonesomeheroes 4:00pm The Maybelles
www.myspace.com/themaybelles
*******************************

Saturday May 16th
1pm Clay Nightingale
www.myspace.com/claynightingale 2:30 pm Lil' Cap'n Travis
www.myspace.com/lilcapntravis 4pm Lonesome Heroes

Howdy​ every​body we are super​ excit​ed to play some acous​tic songs​ in an ancie​nt storm​ drain​ tomor​row with Alexa​ Woodw​ard & Nic Walke​r.​

Every​one meet at
The Dog & the Duck
Wedne​sday Jan 7th @ 8pm
then we will walk to a secre​t spot under​groun​d.​
info @
www. myspa​ce.​ com/​theau​stins​ecret​show

the dog & the Duck
info is:

www. dogan​dduck​pub.​ com
406 W 17th St
Austi​n,​ TX 78701​
(​512)​ 479-​0598

email​ me if you get total​ly lost.​
Thank​s Rich
richr​ussel​l79@​yahoo​.​com