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Label

Mazarine Records

 

U.S. Publicity:

Jeffrey Smith
Crash Avenue
jeffrey [at] crash-avenue [dot com]
502.384.3107

 

European Publicity:

Peter Holmstedt
Hemifrån
peter.holmstedt [at] telia [dot com]
+46 (0)33.26.0210

 

Booking

Dare likes to play any place where people want to hear him—living rooms, stadiums, art galleries, derelict strip malls, glitzy music venues filled with trend-setting starlets, fire-gutted churches with free enchiladas. Write STS Booking, and together we will find a way:

Bright Elephant
bright.elephant.booking [at] gmail [dot com]

 

Dare Dukes

dd [at] daredukes [dot com]

R2 Magazine

“Dare Dukes’ latest album is a striking combination of chiming REM-esque alt.rock and minimalist acoustica. An aching exploration of modern Americana, Prettiest Transmitter of All is a stunning piece of work from the Savannah-based songsmith.

—R2 Magazine (United Kingdom), December 2009


Consequence of Sound Adds “Bakersfield” to Friday Mixtape

 

Music blog Consequence of Sound included “Bakersfield” in their Friday Mixtape.  Cool!

Evaluate the level of nifty here.


GPB’s Georgia Gazette

Interview with Orlando Montoya on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Georgia Gazette, broadcast on 18 NPR stations across Georgia during evening drive-time:

GPB’s Georgia Gazette

—March 13, 2009


Georgia Public Broadcasting

“…an intimate-feeling guitar-led record with well-placed accessories, lyrical heft and finely-balanced melodies. Full of well-produced and air-worthy songs, it deserves wide attention.”

—Orlando Montoya, Georgia Public Broadcasting, February 1, 2009


Brooklyn Rail

“…passionately sung, and loaded with inventive instrumental arrangements, surprising melodic twists, and multiple layers of wonderful, shimmery guitar work. And it rocks out, too. A joy to listen to.”

—Dave Mandl, WFMU-FM DJ; Music Editor for The Brooklyn Rail


Best of 2008

“Best of 2008”

Lithuim Radio, December 20, 2008
Snob’s Music Blog, December 5, 2008
Wildy’s World, December 25, 2008


Insomnia Radio

“One of the best we’ve heard all year.”

—Insomnia Radio, December 10, 2008


Atlanta Music Guide

“Four stars…[Dukes’] melodies are hook-laden but intricate. If forced to choose between a major or minor chord, Dare always chooses the less obvious and more interesting latter…Like [Vic] Chestnutt, he shows a deep affinity for the strangeness and eccentricities in people. The people in Dukes’ songs are not losers per se; they are just different, kind of like we all are. And Dukes loves them for that, which makes it very easy to in turn love Dukes.”

—Al Kaufman, Atlanta Music Guide, December 10, 2008