Let's Go Sailing
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Best New Song For A Rainy Day: Icicles
Let's Go Sailing is a dreamy, breathy indie-pop band from LA fronted by former Irving chanteuse Shana Levy and their song, "Icicles" is so pretty and soft and strummy and hopeful that it actually makes you feel like winter is melting away and the little buds of spring are spoking through the earth. (Of course we mean that metaphorically, as it has yet to snow anywhere due to global warming/the nuclear apocalypse/the second coming of Christ.) Any time you're feeling blue, we recommend you drown out the doldrums with this gorgeous ditty. It's like musical Prozac. - Rollingstone.com
Best New Song For A Rainy Day: Icicles
Let's Go Sailing is a dreamy, breathy indie-pop band from LA fronted by former Irving chanteuse Shana Levy and their song, "Icicles" is so pretty and soft and strummy and hopeful that it actually makes you feel like winter is melting away and the little buds of spring are spoking through the earth. (Of course we mean that metaphorically, as it has yet to snow anywhere due to global warming/the nuclear apocalypse/the second coming of Christ.) Any time you're feeling blue, we recommend you drown out the doldrums with this gorgeous ditty. It's like musical Prozac. - Rollingstone.com
http://music.msn.com/artist/?artist=49817489
Heartachy, hush-voiced singer-songwriter Shana Levy has spent a half-decade crafting piano-driven, string-supported swoon pop. For her fans, from the Flaming Lips to Rilo Kiley, this album has been a long time coming. And in case you were wondering, yes, this is the same Let's Go Sailing that had not one but two songs in that "Grey's Anatomy" episode a few weeks back.
- MSN.com
http://music.msn.com/artist/?artist=49817489
Heartachy, hush-voiced singer-songwriter Shana Levy has spent a half-decade crafting piano-driven, string-supported swoon pop. For her fans, from the Flaming Lips to Rilo Kiley, this album has been a long time coming. And in case you were wondering, yes, this is the same Let's Go Sailing that had not one but two songs in that "Grey's Anatomy" episode a few weeks back.
- MSN.com
Let's Go Sailing Release Debut, Tour With Elvis Perkins
by Staff | 01.29.2007
Los Angeles pop band Let’s Go Sailing have set the details of their debut full-length album. The band will release The Chaos In Order on March 27th via Yardley Pop Records. The lineup on the album is a veritable who's-who of the LA indie-rock world. Singer-guitarist Shana Levy and drummer Brent Turner were once members of Irving, while Levy also played keyboards on Rilo Kiley. Bassist Nikki Monninger is in Silversun Pickups and cellist Tanya Haden played on the band's Pikul EP.
The album was recorded with Chris Chandler (Elliott Smith) and Jim Putnam of Radar Bros. Let’s Go Sailing has inspired a devoted following with its lilting indie-pop, a tender blend of memorable melodies, sophisticated arrangements, and affecting, heart-on-the-sleeve vocals. To coincide with the album release the band will be touring the west coast and midwest with support from Elvis Perkins.
Let's Go Sailing Tour Dates:
March
19 Santa Fe, NM - O'Shaughnessy
20 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
21 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
24 Los Angeles, CA - Largo
25 San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord
26 Santa Cruz, CA - The Attic
29 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
30 Seattle, WA - The Tractor Tavern
April
03 Denver, CO - Soiled Dove
04 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
05 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
06 Chicago, IL - Schuba's
- Filter-mag.com
Let's Go Sailing Release Debut, Tour With Elvis Perkins
by Staff | 01.29.2007
Los Angeles pop band Let’s Go Sailing have set the details of their debut full-length album. The band will release The Chaos In Order on March 27th via Yardley Pop Records. The lineup on the album is a veritable who's-who of the LA indie-rock world. Singer-guitarist Shana Levy and drummer Brent Turner were once members of Irving, while Levy also played keyboards on Rilo Kiley. Bassist Nikki Monninger is in Silversun Pickups and cellist Tanya Haden played on the band's Pikul EP.
The album was recorded with Chris Chandler (Elliott Smith) and Jim Putnam of Radar Bros. Let’s Go Sailing has inspired a devoted following with its lilting indie-pop, a tender blend of memorable melodies, sophisticated arrangements, and affecting, heart-on-the-sleeve vocals. To coincide with the album release the band will be touring the west coast and midwest with support from Elvis Perkins.
Let's Go Sailing Tour Dates:
March
19 Santa Fe, NM - O'Shaughnessy
20 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
21 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
24 Los Angeles, CA - Largo
25 San Francisco, CA - Cafe Du Nord
26 Santa Cruz, CA - The Attic
29 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
30 Seattle, WA - The Tractor Tavern
April
03 Denver, CO - Soiled Dove
04 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
05 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
06 Chicago, IL - Schuba's
- Filter-mag.com
Discography
The Chaos In Order (2007)
*tracks Sideways, Icicles, All I Want From You Is Love have received radio airplay on KCRW, Indie 103.1, WXPN, etc.
Sideways Remix (2007)
Winter Remixes (2008)
Oversleep (2013)-UNRELEASED
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Bio
Fronted by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Shana Levy, Let's Go Sailing has inspired a devoted following with its lilting indie pop, a tender blend of memorable melodies (informed by Levys classical training), sophisticated arrangements, and affecting, heart-on-the-sleeve vocals. The weekly My Little Underground L.A. called its music "beautiful, in that sad sort of way one can only imagine a balloon feels when it finds itself free from a child," and remarked, "Let's Go Sailing is hope and love and hurt in a few chosen words and notes." The Chaos in Order is the band's full-length debut.
LGS took shape in 2002 when Levy asked guitarist Brent Turner (from the outfit Irving, of which Levy herself was a member), bassist Nikki Monninger (Silversun Pickups), cellist Tanya Haden (Haden Triplets), and drummer Byron Reynolds (Possum Dixon) to help her flesh out the songs she'd been writing. After she was approached by producer Rod Cervera
(Weezer, The Rentals) to record the Chaos standout "All I Want From You Is Love," Let's Go Sailing issued a three-song EP titled Icicles that sold nearly 1,500 units. Thereafter Levy collaborated with a variety of musician, producer and engineer friends. Those behind the board included Chris Chandler (Flaming Lips, Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse), Jim Putnam (Radar Bros.), and Ben Mumphrey (Frank Black). The highly anticipated result, bearing cover art lovingly crafted by Levy, is an album of bittersweet pleasures perfect for late nights, rainy days and wandering upon the waves.
"The Chaos in Order" was released in 2009 in europe and the UK in 2009.
Let's Go Sailing is currently in the studio recording songs for an EP and album.
Highlights
� Sales: Sold approximately 8,000 units of debut full length album The Chaos In Order, 1,500 units of three-song EP Icicles; consistent presence in Top 10 independent sales at market- leader Amoeba Records (L.A.). Over 16,000 digital song downloads since release date.
� Radio: Repeated airplay at KCRW and Indie 103.1 (both L.A. market),; appeared live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic with Nic Harcourt, appeared live on Indie 103's show Big Sonic Heaven, WRAX (Birmingham, Ala),; featured on NPR's All Songs Considered; airplay on influential commercial specialty shows nationwide including Morning Becomes Eclectic (KCRW), World Cafe WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), Rodney on the Roq KROQ (Los Angeles), Xspace XTRA 91X (San Diego, CA) to name a few; Commercial Specialty: charted #7 in songs for "Sideways", #12 in albums; "Sideways Remix" (see You Oughta Know below) debuted at #3 in songs and stayed in the top 5 for 3 weeks (campaign began 10/23). College Radio: Charted on CMJ Radio 200 for 7 weeks in a row, peaking at #68, #35 on the CMJ Independent Select Albums charts and #63 on the CMJ Radio Select Albums charts.
� Press: Covered in L.A. Times (LGS was dubbed a "buzz band"), Rollingstone.com, Filter.com, NPR.com, MTV News Online, E! Online, Spin.com, Washington Post, CMJ and CMJ Online, Campus Circle, NME and various tastemaker blogs, among them Rock Insider, You Ain't No Picasso, Said the Gramophone, Large-Hearted Boy and Underrated
� Television: National Commercial for Radio Shack 11-12/09 "Icicles" used for "Product Tree Farm"; "All I Want from You Is Love" appeared on the Saturday Night Live digital short Murray Hill; Four songs ("Sideways," "All I Want From You Is Love," "Better Off," and "This Rope Is Long") featured in ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Other placements include Newport Harbor (MTV season finale), One Tree Hill (ABC), The Real World Philadelphia (MTV), Fallen (ABC Family). Independent film placements include independent feature film The Babysitters (directed by David Ross), indie hit "Weathergirl" (directed by Blaine Weaver) and others.
� Live: National tour March/April 2007 with Elvis Perkins (XL Recordings); West Coast Tour July 2007 with Oh No! Oh My! and Deadly Syndrome; have played with They Might Be Giants, Cold War Kids, Little Ones, Rilo Kiley, Deerhoof, Lisa Germano, Lou Barlow, dios (malos), Silversun Pickups, Birdmonster, and Of Montreal among others; 2007 showcased at SXSW Music Festival (Austin); 2006 West Coast tour with Harvey Danger; 2006 residency at Spaceland (L.A.); 2005 appearance at Sunset Junction Street Festival with headliners John Cale and The Walkmen (L.A.)
� Lifestyle/retail: Songs featured in store programming nationwide at retail outlets like H & M, Guess, Express, Madewell,
Limited, Anne Klein, Enzo, and several boutique shops
� You Oughta Know: 2007 Remix for "Sideways" done by Asa Taccone who did the music for SNL skits "Dick in a Box" and "Natalie Portman Rap"; Let's Go Sailing songs have been played as the house music at Flaming Lips shows for the past several years; in late 2003 Courtney Love
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