in case you missed Human Highway's performance/interview yesterday on NPR's World Cafe, you can stream the whole thing over at their website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104341103

enjoy.
xx

Hey gang,
HUMAN HIGHWAY's radio session with WORLD CAFE on WXPN/NPR is airing today, Wednesday 20 sometime between 2-4 PM EST. You can stream the session here: www.xpn.org/listen-live/listen-live

also, have an announcement about a one-off show coming up later this summer. 
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Human Highway plays NYC!  Two shows only.

9/15/2008

@

The Cake Shop

152 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
US
Cost: $8
One of two east coast appearances with Harper Simon [Yes, the songwriting son of Paul Simon!] and Becky Stark [of Lavender Diamond].

9/16/2008

@

Joe's Pub

425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003

Cost: $15
One of two east coast appearances with Harper Simon [Yes, the songwriting son of Paul Simon!] and Becky Stark [of Lavender Diamond].

Premiere: Human Highway (Nick Thorburn of Islands and Jim Guthrie): "The Sound" [Stream]


When he's fronting Islands, Nick Thorburn is free to explore his experimental side, folding genres including orchestral pop, calypso, and hip-hop into his peculiar musical stew. Working with fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Jim Guthrie as Human Highway, he appears to be getting back to basics, at least judging from this advance track from their forthcoming full-length debut Moody Motorcycle. On "The Sound", Thorburn and Guthrie's reverence for the close harmonies of the Everly Brothers brings to mind kindred spirits from the laid-back 1970s West Coast folk-rock set. The vibrations are good, the song-song tune sticks in your head, and the acoustic guitar bit is as simple as it gets. Stop, hey, what's that sound? Oh, "The Sound", OK.

Stream "The Sound" here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/50539-human-highway-nick-thorburn-of-islands-and-jim-guthrie-the-sound-stream

Breaking News!

Human Highway, featuring Nick Thorburn (Islands) and Jim Guthrie Announce Debut Album, "Moody Motorcycle," out August 19th on Suicide Squeeze Records!

"Moody Motorcycle" by Human Highway presents a sound reminiscent to that of 50's / 60's soul and doo-wop (i.e. the Everly Brothers), created by Islands member Nick Thorburn and Jim Guthrie (Guthrie is also an acclaimed solo musician currently working on a new album which is the follow-up to his 2004 release Now, More Than Ever.)

The album, which Guthrie says features "hot man on man vocal action," was put together in the course of one week at his house in downtown Toronto (what is said to be the only "House" in all of downtown Toronto), where the two spent their entire week both sleeping on, and recording on, Jim's living room couch ("my butt didn't leave that couch for the entire week" says Thorburn)

Human Highway came about while Guthrie and Thorburn were on tour with Islands, and was an idea which stemmed from the duo's mutual respect for each other as musicians.

Look out for some very exciting surprises around the release of "Moody Motorcycle," including an upcoming video, "classic" vinyl courtesy of Suicide Squeeze, a Canadian release courtesy of Secret City Records, and sporadic, one-off North American dates, all to be announced in the coming months.