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  Oct 10, 11:00 PM

  news, shows, releases, radio

  Hi There.
  
  <b>*</b>We are playing on Saturday 10/18 at Pianos!
  Pianos is at 158 Ludlow Street on the corner of stanton.
  we play last.
  you will love it!!
  
  <b>*</b>Other than that, we made our debut appearance on XFM this week, maybe you caught it, some nice people played "Can't Keep These."
  
  hopefully they will play it more, especially if you ask them to - you can do it here:
  <a href = "http://xmfan.com/guide.php?q=Autodrone&mode=artist">http://xmfan.com/guide.php?q=Autodrone&mode=artist<a>
  
  <b>*</b>Also, Strike A Match can now be pre-ordered from a variety of sources. I think that Darla might be the best deal, but you can also check out Amazon, Target, and everywhere else which would make sense.
  
  Reserve your copy from Darla here:
  <a href = "http://www.darla.com/catalog/search.asp?id=14361">http://www.darla.com/catalog/search.asp?id=14361<a> They are super nice people! you should totally hop on this if you want a physical copy of the CD.
  
  We will have copies at shows, in stores, and on itunes everywhere in he world after November 11th. Look for a release show some time around there!
  
  <b>*</b>Also, Clairecords  their first official CMJ showcase in New York City and we are playing!! its on October 23rd at Lit Lounge and if you have badge you can get in for free, there is limited guestlist space available for both shows, hit us up here if you want one, but do it sooner rather than later.
  
  <b>*</b>Finally, the UK based Call of Wyld Blog posted an AWESOME review of Strike A Match, it is copied below.
  
  <img src = "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b0MHydXJDrw/SNkyu2hnOyI/AAAAAAAAASY/P39FzlLEZ0g/s1600-h/Autodrone+-+real+Strike+A+Match.jpg" width = "400">
  
  About eighteen months ago, I happened to be in New York and caught a very interesting band called Autodrone. At that time they had a feisty front woman and played a dark brand of pop. I have kept an eye on them ever since.
  
  In the time that has elapsed, the band has undergone changes. Rachel Luria has gone and vocal duties have now been taken by Katherine Kennedy. The music too has changed direction – and for the better.
  
  So I am delighted with Autodrone’s first album proper ‘ Strike A Match”. This fuzzy guitar-led rock is beautifully geared for late night /summer evening listening. Strike that; it’s damn good whenever you fancy listening to it.
  
  After the opening title track, which sets the scene, the epic ‘Final Days’ comes crashing in. What a tune! Uplifting, noisy and yet equally tuneful. A guaranteed smash at the indie-disco of your choice.
  
  ‘100,000 Years of Revenge’ follows, a white-noise instrumental that mutates into the lengthy, strong ‘Kerosene Dreams’. Another stand out track.
  
  ‘A Rose Has No Teeth’ and ‘Through the Backwoods’ are further examples of feedback heavy, warped pop, songs that sound sweet to the ear while also making your speakers rattle.
  
  ‘Moth of July’ (yes, the insect rather than a typo) is where the band live up to their name. This is pure drone, five minutes of guitar wash and treated, muted voice. ‘Can’t Keep These’ is another dynamic song with a soaring, distorted vocal, as is ‘With Arms Raised’.
  
  ‘Of Home’ is the track that most closely resembles the work of My Bloody Valentine, if those worthies had ever managed to produce a record that did justice to their live shows.
  
  The album ends majestically with ‘Pictures’, which is a power ballad of sorts, although it is also an epic guitar drone.
  
  In the last year, the UK has embraced like-minded New Yorkers Asobi Seksu to its bosom. Well, if you liked them, you’ll bloody love Autodrone.
  
  ‘Strike A Match’ is already available digitally. A physical release is released 11 November 2008 on Clairecords.
  
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  Aug 22, 05:04 PM

  Autodrone Live at the Mercury Lounge. Tuesday Sept 2nd.

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  Jun 30, 10:15 PM

  strike a match

  Hello there.
  
  Two bits of information.
  
  1. This weekend, Will Joines and Kristin Mulgrum were kind enough to come by and help us to make the cover art for Strike A Match. later that same night, and over the course of the next day,  Niger Miles completed the graphic design and layout for it, the end result is below and we feel that it completely speaks for its self. We sincerely thank all involved parties for their time and exceptional talent.
  
  <a href="http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd30/autodrone/?action=view&current=SAM_front_web.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd30/autodrone/SAM_front_web.jpg" border="0" alt="strike a match!"></a>
  
  
  2. The above record is soon to no longer be unreleased  officially nor unofficially, as an arrangement has been made with the awesome people at clairecords.
  
  <a href = "http://www.clairecords.com"><img src = "http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/160/1855293.gif"></a>
  
  we are absolutely thrilled to be working with them, and look forward to the album's official release this fall.
  
  in the meanwhile, we will be playing lots of shows all over the place.
  
  please email autodrone (at) gmail (dot) com for booking enquiries.
  
  our next live performance will be at Pianos in New York City's lower eastern corner. we will be playing with the dark and chic Cruel Black Dove, and the beautifully atmospheric saints and lovers, both of whom we absolutely love.
  
  xoxoxoxoxoxo
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  Jun 03, 04:25 PM

  new york city this summer

  

  we have shows this summer.

  more info at reverbnation.com/autodrone or myspace.com/autodrone 
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  May 14, 07:35 PM

  MyMixTapes Reviews Strike A Match!!

  

  from mymixtapes.org
  
  All attempts to make this an unbiased review are gone; I am in love with this album! Strike A Match combines the elements of indie rock, shoegazer and experimental music into an easy to swallow depth charge. Autodrone’s first full-length album is awash in contradictions, a single song can range from claustrophobic to a sweeping landscape of sounds in just a few measures. The song “Strike A Match” plays at both ends of that spectrum, at once melodic and upbeat as well as chaotic and searing. Between several songs are instrumentals that flawlessly bridge the gaps while allowing divergent themes to play out. The closest they come to a conventional pop song is the Throwing Muses meets Cocteau Twins “Through The Backwoods”. A beautiful, fast paced anecdote of adolescent memories. Followed by “Moth Of July”, a stunning six-minute instrumental dirge, distorted vocalizing accompanied by a mournful accordion (perhaps just a synth) and psychedelic guitar.
  
  “Moth...” has a creepy Current 93 / Coil vibe, the kind of sound feels like an especially dark cloud has passed over the sun on a blistering summer day -- cold and unwelcome, but wonderful. “Pictures” rounds out the album on a heart-breaking note. A dramatic dance between guitar noise, piano and lilting vocals, a perfect end.
  
  Strike A Match is required listening for fans of the post punk era. They have an unabashed love of the genre, but also have the talent to make it their own. The perfect playlist for a walk in a wet garden at night.
  
  10 out of 10 stars - Review By: Rev. Doktor Alejandro Fruitbat

   

  NEXT AUTODRONE SHOW - 06.07 at The Delancey. more info at stereoactivenyc.com 
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  Apr 16, 07:48 PM

  Mark Barton of Losing Today (UK) reviews Strike A Match.

  

  autodrone 'strike a match'
  
  Autodrone
  
  Strike a Match
  
  Self Released
  
  More knee knocking loveliness this time from New York's Autodrone whose name for the more hardened and long standing readers among you may well remember us mentioning a few years via their debut demo EP which if we recall rightly had some thing of a Sonic Youth twist about its wares which had us pricking our ears up in admiration. There's no doubting the bruised beauty and intensely epic thorough breeding that pulses throughout the whole of 'Strike a Match'. Over the course of the ensuing years Autodrone have honed their mercurial spirit to the point of an enviable fine art, all at once intricate and devastating, caressing and crushing, tender and turbulent 'Strike a Match' is in one short word colossal and in another ravaged.
  
  Within the grooves that weld together these 12 monolithic slabs Autodrone fuse sublimely the family tree roots that tie together the disparate generic dialects of shoe gaze, dream pop and psych along the way taking the unusual step of front loading the turbulence and attrition to morph and develop towards the close into a hitherto more stream lined and tender natured spectacle so that you have the contrasting book ended bridging of the opening salvo of the title cut the simmering strike a pose 'strike a match' - (a hollowing crystalline and ethereal shade wearing fuzz fuelled tailgates of feedback induced cosmic interference peppered by momentary eruptions of hyper driven grinds a la Curve though ostensibly edgier in texture) - and the frailly majestically mellowing and softly unwinding stratospheric serenade of the blissed out and utterly touching key motifs of 'pictures' (think hallowing hazes of Flying Saucer Attack shimmers scratching away at a distantly dreamy Sundays - nuff said).
  
  From the almost Cathedral-esque framing of the darkly curdling mantra like 'final days' to the spectral chill of the kaleidoscopic cruise controlled 'kerosene dreams' with its wrappings of astral ambience and lunatic lightshow swirls all decoded and dusted in its seductive trestles of sonic embroidery deliciously looses itself in its own incubated igloo of mind expanding florescent fog, Autodrone indelibly craft out lush star crossed atmospheric landscapes dimpled with psychotropic accents occasionally breached by shimmering surges of shock treated raptures of grinding power driven bliss out grooves deftly masked in shadowy terrains that to these ears tap sublimely with enviable ease into worlds previously occupied by the likes of the Cranes, Heart Throbs, MBV (check out 'through the backwoods'), Bleach and Bang Bang Machine the latter of whom are admirably arrested albeit as though shimmying up to mid 80's era March Violets on the vibrantly sugar rushing effects laden dream coat that is the uber cool and refined 'Something'. Elsewhere the frazzled and fractured proto punk-a-delic death disco goo that is the unforgiving 'can't keep these' is certainly pre packed with enough sly knowingness to make Garbage turn green while the buzzing 60's sourced bubblegum pop thrill of 'with arms raised' is tastily festooned with a pulse racing feel good effervescence as though a face off between the sugary peppermint pop of Strawberry Switchblade had undergone a spot of re-spraying at the hands of Lush though personally for us we are quite smitten by the doom lashed bleakly barren austere grip of windswept cinematics bled through the drone drilled death rattle of the psycho-tronically opining and haunted 'moth of July'.
  
  Unquestionably recommended.
  
  http://www.myspace.com/autodrone
  
  Key tracks -
  
  Moth of July
  
  Kerosene dreams
  
  Pictures
  
  With arms raised