Cinema, Cinema: News

we are proud to announce the release of our new EP.

It's a soundtrack record. A truth based play & a relic/monument to what was the 1st great tragedy of the place we so proudly call our home, BROOKLYN.

It was written with congruous intention to the following facts:

On the night of December 5, 1876, over 300 people (including some of the actors) who had come to see the popular actress Kate Claxton in "The Two Orphans" died in a fire that engulfed the Brooklyn Theatre.

The L-shaped theatre built in 1871, occupied a large portion of the Johnson Street block front. Started by a kerosene lamp, that swept up the ceiling and turned the auditorium into an inferno. The theatre had no fire escapes and only 5 narrow exits.

Finally, someone shouted "FIRE”!!

it is available at any/all digital distributors you choose - Itunes, Emusic, Rhapsody, Amazon, Napster, etc...(the ITUNES link is on our homepage) - or try to rip it for free from somewhere...

or come out to one of the upcoming shows and the old-fashioned hard copies will be available....the price? your attention for & true want of the 16 minutes of sound on the record.

the art we make is not commerce nor are our feelings commodity... but a game is a game because it plays you and you play it and it plays you and you play along, like air and the number zero and the last night on earth and the bell jar and a view from a bridge.

we have released it on our own new label - THE LUMIERE LABEL.... and will be having a kickoff show for the label in April at Bar Matchless (rather than a lame-o overrated needless "release party" for the record alone, the music is the celebration and our ego's are big enough)

moving fwd there will be more news and reviews and madness as it all ensues again, cinema is in flux!

we are putting the finishing touches on our 2nd e.p., which we plan on releasing in early 2008....(more info on specific release date/label possibilities/and dreams for the sleepers to come)

It's called -

THE BROOKLYN THEATRE FIRE.

we have posted "ASSASSINS" & "A CERTAIN EMERGENCY" on http://www.myspace.com/cinematwice -for yr general consumptive pleasures....3 dimensional suspended animation & halo/wing expansion programs.

also, we have made our 1st e.p. VIVA! available for free download here at our website - www.cinemacinemaband.com & http://www.purevolume.com/cinemacinema - also, anyone interested in obtaining a hard copy can email or contact us here and we will get it out to you, we already made our millions off of that one and our mansions are just too big.....so we want to clean out the closet and bury it... blowing yr stack during the present is our only concern...so if yr missing a copy of our 1st record - go grab it for free.... - obv the mansion thing is bullshit - music is not commodity....art is free, please do partake....

ev will be playing a solo-experimental electric set at Laila Lounge in williamsburg on thursday 12.13...and as of now, our end of the year main-stay gig - the last friday in DEC at Freddy's Bacroom - is set for 12.28 with some surprises in store.

it's never too late for 2008. never. ..............see you soon.

mixing vs. m.e.a.n.y ....& a CMJ date

after spending time in late august and thru september at HEADGEAR & at DOCUMENT studios...laying down the basic tracks that will comprise our upcoming 2nd e.p. - we have currently locked ourselves away in williamsburg and begun the mixing process... due to our schedule we couldn't participate in the M.E.A.N.Y. Festival this year....

we would like to thank the M.E.A.N.Y. folks for asking us to headline the 1st night of the festival at Fontana's ........and to let all our peeps who have been asking us why we had to cancel the gig ...exactly what the deal is....(sorry for any confusion, we guess that the village voice couldn't resist listing us in last weeks and this weeks paper --as still playing....which was nice of them anyway)

art is hard & amazing, crushed & clear, LIBERATION of the idea!!!!. and we are acting like mad scientists, huddling over our shared pile of blueprints and gold....proud of the glow from the raw materials and ushering our hopes towards the control panels set for the heart of the sun.

understand?

also, we will be taking a break from the studio to do the CMJ thang again this year - we are at MIDWAY on the opening night (tues 10/16) at midnight...

http://www.cmj.com/marathon/showcase_by_band.php?band_id=157

cool - see you then.

recap in the context of proper presentation.....

ok, we had a blast in June at the Battering Room Blog show...Bissell was outta sight and proved a true kindred.....Antlers do something special...and PEEL didn't dissapoint in their first brooklyn gig...was such the nice way for cinema to start the summer. thnx chris, viva la battering!!

July found us fleshing out plans and formalities to pursue the recording of our new EP. -time spent laying blueprint and locking in. We also passed thru and burned down the Annex...had a good time sharing the bill with our new friends -My Other Friend...good stuff. great gig to solidfy the ground that we had begun to lay in anticipation of summers apex and new recording plans.

A headlining spot in AUG at Luna Lounge proved the perfect catapult for us, hurdling us out into space far enough for us to find the right place to land in and the right shoes to walk in for the start of recording our new record. We got to share the bill with HULA again (as we did in May at Cake Shop) which was sweet, they are killer (Jesse - thnx for repping the C,C with the t-shirt that night during yr set,..cool).

Now, with Union Hall (w/ NUH Uh and Bella) ahead this month (Sept) and CMJ in Oct,....we head into HeadGear Studios with SF Norton to start tracking our new record. We will also be working at Document Studios with Christopher Spanninga at the controls.

....keep the car running

leading into the knockout gig tomorrow night.... <><><><>

-the Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Blog has named us band of the week...

http://poptartssucktoasted.blogspot.com/search/label/cinema%20cinema

cool. fukkin supercool. - see you tomorrow...

...when space comes into the formula the only thing that you concede is that yr "in it"...indeed, love still exists in the future...even in 2021.

next friday night we are happy to say that we will be doing the Battering Room Blog's - KNOCKOUT ROUND.5 gig @ Bar Matchless....

we had gone too and fro on dates and it all worked out and worked out proper this time!

http://batteringroom.blogspot.com/2007/06/kor5.html

the lineup is sick including Charles Bissell (of The Wrens)/Antlers (you gotta hear this guys voice)/and Peel (who kick serious teeth)

it sponsered by none other than WOXY (the ne-plus ultra indie station)

http://woxy.lala.com/

and The Underrated Blog & Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Blog peeps will be there to DJ

http://www.underrated.typepad.com/blog/

http://poptartssucktoasted.blogspot.com/

tis not to be missed.

get in the ring motherfukker!!

.........cmj was at our murderous gig @ Piano's the week before last and blogged proper on the ways of the cinema -

look here for Cinema, Cinema talkin' and playin' -

http://www.cmj.com/relay/?p=1958

you had come here in secret and returned and i barely saw the image against the warm grass, it was more like a doctor or soldier. because to accept this breeze is to continue to choose, to distinguish.

we will be at cake shop next week, see you then....

alive she cried!

there is a very cool fullpage piece on C,C in the new issue of the Brooklyn Magazine 24/7... see it here :

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18244396&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=553358&rfi=6

..thnx so much for yr votes in the zig zag thing. we came in 2nd. silver medals shine in uncertain light...

our gig at the brooklyn lyceum will be re-scheduled for later in the summer - for the time being - see you at PIANO's on friday....

the parting of the sensory

ok..competion is a dirty word, especially amongst musicians, - i mean - does anyone who is good actually ever win a grammy?..and ambition makes you look pretty ugly........................- so let's by-pass that....

anyway -

we have been nominated amongst 8 other great bands in CMJ/Zig-Zag Live's Spring Band thang... - <<<<..for full story - http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=32047260

one band will move fwd - secure their slot at CMJ.07 at the zig-zag showcase venue - recieve massive promo from CMJ (a banner ad in the CMJ email Blast; a track on the CMJ New Music Monthly CD Compilation Series; 1 ¼ page ad in the corresponding CMJ NMM; 1 track posted at www.cmj.com "Download This" Section) and a shot at opening some big Zig-Zag shows...

we are happy to be a part of it and aren't into campaigning but -

a vote for us is a vote for a band that matters, a band that is trying to communicate, a band that is not going with a gimmick, a band that goes for it and leaves it all on the stage everytime, a band that bleeds the same blood as the vintage stock in all your veins.......a vote for us is a vote for you.

visit: http://www.zigzaglive.com/live/ - to vote - click on the VOTE FOR BANDS button on the bottom right hand beneath the homepage picture

the voting opens today (3/1) and runs through the end of MARCH - vote everyday - once a day- if you have nothing else going on and a free 15 seconds to click yr mouse.

thnx - and thnx to everyone who came out and made our gig at LIT last saturday a great time.

cool.

doing an interview on StreetBlast Radio this coming WED 2/21 - for all info and to check it out - please visit

http://www.streetblast.com/

also - taken some more BATTERING on the chin.

http://batteringroom.blogspot.com/2007/02/cinema-cinema-shows.html

nice - we are gonna do one of their shows in the next few months when the timing works right...

Lit next saturday. cool. [a.huxley & r.hell]

cmj was at our gig last friday night (1.26) at FatBaby and spit some wisdom about us on the Cmj Staff Blog this morning...

Cinema, Cinema, review, review, interview, interview can be seen here -

http://www.cmj.com/relay/?p=1474

and The Battering Room Blog had something cool to say also -

http://batteringroom.blogspot.com/2007/01/cinema-cinema.html



far away..taking you far away.

our new e.p. VIVA! - is now available at Itunes and thru the Digitone Records site. (see links on our BUY page)

we blew the doors off of CMJ in Brooklyn in NOV....
fun fun fun till daddy took the t-bird away

our single "Born In NYC" has been featured on MAGNET MAGZINE's Sampler 43, Modirn Records Sampler 3, & Lollipop Magazine's mp3 comp#68....and is also in regular rotation on XM Radio - with XMU (ch. 43) playing all the tracks off of the e.p.

and we move fwd...

strap in. it starts now.

welcome to the show....we are happy to blow yr stacks and we will do so with an outro-energy unmatched.......lilting and free......drifting and driven....blah and BAM.

we are brooklyn based....indie-art...and our debut e.p. Viva!! Cinema, Cinema will be released later this summer.

the lead single "Born In NYC" is already slated to appear on Shut Eye Records Buzzlighter 13 compilation, Lollipop Magazine's MP3 comps #69 & 70, MODiRN Records Volume 3 compilation, and RVR Records Comp 1.......as well as copping spins on internet radio - taking over yr college after its officially released.

we are currently in talks with a few labels and taking in meetings in Williamsburg (like big grown up professional indie boys) this upcoming weekend........and are booked up thru AUG (Arlene's, Sin-e`, & Fat Baby).....

see you out there...and see you soon.

you can't buy this shit on a street corner or beep a buddy for it......just sit back, relax and enjoy the explosion.