For those UK fans be sure to tune into BBC 6 Introducing: Fresh On the Net this Sunday September 27th to hear "Colors." You can also listen online here!

Follow me around Lollapalooza while I check out some music and food!

Billboard: Lollapalooza Video: Touring the Grounds with April Smith:
http://www.billboard.com/..column/undergound/april-smith-..s-true-colors-1004001305...story#/news/kings-of-leon-..crown-wet-lollapalooza-friday-..1004001567.story

Billboard: Lollapalooza Video: Festival Food with April Smith
http://www.billboard.com/..column/undergound/april-smith-..s-true-colors-1004001305...story#/news/yeah-yeah-yeahs-..santigold-rev-lollapalooza-..1004001578.story

Check it, friends...we're FIRST on Roling Stone's list of bands to catch at Lollapalooza this year!

Rolling Stone's Guide to Lollapalooza '09!

Learn more at: Kickstarter.com


Dear fans and supporters,

Over the last few years, so many of you have asked me when I plan to release a new album. I'm always being asked when "Colors" and "Wow and Flutter" will be for sale on iTunes. It has been way too long since my last full length release and it's time to get back in the studio! So, I am calling on YOU to be a part of my next endeavor. Without the support of my fans, I wouldn't be where I am today.

The right label has not yet presented itself and I don't want to depend on a label to get this going. I've already been able to do some really amazing things independently and without a label. We're playing Lollapalooza this year, Perez Hilton has featured "Colors" on his site I've toured the country! If I do this on my own, I will have more creative freedom to make the album that YOU have been asking for, and that I want to make. The main thing that has been standing in my way has been having the finances to do this. In order to make this album, I need money for a studio and producer. After budgeting and crunching numbers, $10,000 would be a great starting point. I know that with your help we can achieve this goal together, and hopefully even surpass it! Because if we do, we might even be able to hire a publicist, plan a tour, and give this album the push that it needs to be a success!

I have decided to partner with a wonderful company called Kickstarter. Kickstarter helps people fund their projects by providing a medium, kickstarter.com, to raise money and keep things organized. It allows fans to invest on different levels and get cool stuff in return. Also how great is it that you can help be part of the whole process and help make this possible? I hope you'll all become a part of my project at Kickstarter.com. We've got until September 8th to raise this money so let's do this! I'm confident that with your help we can make a really amazing album together!

xo,
April

If you haven’t checked out this skillful songster yet, now is the time. He’ll be playing Public Assembly tomorrow, Saturday June 13^th, at 3 PM as part of the Northside Festival in Williamsburg. He will be accompanied by an orchestra, which I imagine will only  make the show even more magnificent. You may also want to pick up your very own copies of The Blue House and Wolfe Sings Field.  You'll find Henry among my top friends here on Myspace...go have a listen now!

Make sure to pick up a copy of the Spring 2009 copy of the Deli Magazine this month and catch a look at who ranked in at #5!   Full article below!

Sass and Class by Nancy Chow

April Smith and the Great Picture Show brings it back to the old school basics, where the key is full female vocals supported by great instrumentation - not modern girls with digitized alien voices and trite lyrics.  But Smith doesn't need to ride the coattails of the successful throwback trend to mesmerize listeners; this bird can croon and her band sure can swing.

With her varied, genre-leaping song structures, Smith falls somewhere in the cross-section between Duffy, Tom Waits, Amanda Palmer and the Andrew Sisters.  She flirts and manipulates jazz, rock and '50s pop to create a nostalgic but undeniably contemporary mash.

Smith and her band's entertaining theatrical sass and stage class stage a smoky, sexy cabaret show for the ear.  Her jazzy vocals swoop up and down with such grace and emotion that it entices bystanders to pull up a chair and stay for a spell.  One minute, the seductress will melt hearts with her gorgeous, unguarded ballads, but the next minute she will threaten to eat her victims in large consuming bites to a rollicking tune.  And with a rocking kazoo interspersed in some lively musical numbers, it's guaranteed to be a good time. 

Request it on these stations and tell them it's on the Now Hear This compilation from the Independent Music Awards!

WSYC in Shippensburg, PA
CIXS in Westmount, PQ
KWRS in Spokane, WA
WCLH in Wilkes Barre, PA
WMCN in St. Paul, MN
WVOF in Fairfield, CT
WBSU in Brockport, NY
WDCV in Carlisle, PA
WIDB in Carbondale, IL
WKKL in W. Barnstable, MA
WSUP in Platteville, WI
WSCW in Worcester, MA
CRAM in Toronto, ON
KWRS in Spokane, WA
WSVA in New York, NY
WECB in Boston, MA
WPTS in Pittsburgh, PA
KBSU in Boise, ID
WRUB in Amherst, MA
KSCR in Los Angeles, CA
KRUX in Las Cruces, NM
WFCS in New Britain, CT
WFPK in Louisville, KY
XTSR in Towson, MD
KUMM in Morris, MN
WOSP in Jacksonville, FL
KZOW in Forest City, IA
URH in Hilo, HI
WCCX in Waukesha, WI
WGTB in Washington, DC
WSUM in Madison, WI
WDET in Detroit, MI
WPRB in Princeton, NJ
KAMP in Tuscon, AZ,
WQAQ in Hamden, CT
WSRI in Eau Claire, WI
WMUL in Huntington, WV
WKHS in Worton, MD
WEXP in Philadelphia, PA
WSVA in New York, NY
KWCW in Walla-Walla, WA
KRNL in Mt. Vernon, IA
Lasell College Radio in Newtown, MA
WKNC in Raleigh, NC
KRSC in Claremore, OK
KALA in Davenport, IA
KRUX in Las Cruces, NM
KGLT in Bozeman, MT
KCSS in Turlock, CA
WDBK in Blackwood, NJ
KTRL in Stephenville, TX
WMUL in Huntington
WV, WSAM in Hartford, CT
WFDU in Teaneck, NJ
CIXS in Montreal

Earth Hour begins tonight at 8:30 PM. Please shut off all of your
lights for one hour! Get your candles out and let's make history!


Earth Hour 2009 Preview

Our 30+ hour drive to and from SXSW was totally worth it. Check out some photos from the festival!

First I met up with Jamil from BMI before a quick video interview for Roxwel.com...





Then I played a couple shows, including the Thru Windows Canon Records party at Fado...





...and we played the BMI brunch at the Four Seasons on Saturday...





And I got to see the Little Ones at the Atlantic/Chop Shop party!





We were at the Coffee No Pants party...which DID NOT have Coffee but DID have pants.