Posts Tagged ‘harlan steinberger’

Join Ellyn and the Band Tomorrow for Poetry Rodeo at Beyond Baroque!

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

You are welcome to bring your own work and sign up to read with the Ellyn’s band! Show starts at 7:30!

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Ellyn Maybe and Her Band Jam with Jackson Browne for the Plastic Pollution Coalition

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Ellyn Maybe and Jackson Browne rocked the crowd the night before the Plastic Pollution Coalition’s heavy-weight Tedx Event at the Annenburg Community Beach House. Ellyn was among many incredible speakers, scientists, artists and activists all working to raise public awareness about plastic pollution and the crisis of our oceanic ecosystems. The reception for the event couldn’t have been more beautiful and the focus of the evening couldn’t have been more pressing. Check out the Plastic Pollution Coalition’s important work here and enjoy some photos from the event!
Plastic Pollution Coalition Fete at the Marion Davis Beachhouse

Plastic Pollution Coalition Fete at the Marion Davis Beach House

Robbie Fitzsimmons and Danny Moynahan Rock Out Amidst the Artwork

Robbie Fitzsimmons and Danny Moynahan Rock Out Amidst the Artwork

View from the Beachhouse

View from the Beach House

Ellyn and the Band Rehearse with Jackson at Sunset

Ellyn and the Band Jam with Jackson at Sunset

Robbie, Ellyn and Jackson after the Gig!

Robbie, Ellyn and Jackson after the Gig!

Join us Tonight for Poetry Rodeo at Beyond Baroque!

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Poetry Rodeo starts at 7:30 TONIGHT!

*Remember you are welcome to bring your own work and sign up to read with the Ellyn’s band!2010-09-30_19-43-37_910

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Gorgeous New Ellyn Maybe Video! Parallel Universe off of Rodeo for the Sheepish

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Video by: Jacob Mendel

Poetry Rodeo Rides on at Beyond Baroque!

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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Michael C Ford’s Review of Robert Peter’s Poetry Album

Friday, July 30th, 2010

A CAREER OF EVOCATIVE YEARS

by Michael C Ford

My initial thought was to decline an invitation to comment on these 49 spoken word tracks. As an associate producer at Hen House Studios, during the gestation period of this recorded document, there might have been some danger that the subjective nature of my prose would take on the PR complexion of a pinch of low grade salt. That being said, however, as someone who studied the important facets of the creative process with Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen and, later, with the poet and translator Jack Hirschman at UCLA, I have better chance of identifying with what’s concerned the Robert Peters compendium of five decades of literary contributions than, perhaps, most anyone. And I/m really talking about gifts which comprise his prolific catalogue, and how his many works have been assimilated into realms of the World Culture.

One has only to listen to Peters, on tracks like Father, Son, Cousin, Country-Western Band or Home-Made Saw-Rig. With a combination of rhapsody and lament he invites us to experience the rural landscapes, as well as the interior terrain of the years of his Wisconsin youth. Then, as with cuts like Memory Loss In A Parkinglot, we’re hearing him go onward, into an undeniable poetic maturity. It should be noted that executive producer Harlan Steinberger is responsible for the competently composed, engaging and thoroughly complimentary musical backdrop.

As a hyphenated American poet-playwright- essayist-critical analyst, Peters has been continuously, acknowledged as an author of evocative, imperious perceptions, generally, involved with the whole of international literature. (more…)

LA’s Poetry’lectronica: Harlan Steinberger’s serendipitious birth of a brand new pop music – part 1

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

May 10, 8:14 PM – LA Poetry ExaminerYvonne de la Vega

resized_Halan_SteinbergerHarlan Steinberger of Hen House Records wasn’t pursuing a reputation as one of the best poetry producers of the Los Angeles poetry and music scene, but today not only is he one of the best, he is also an innovator of a whole new budding genre in music.

Poetry’lectronica has been born – and the great news is, it’s pop music!

As the producer of Ellyn Maybe’s album of poetry and pop electronica, “RODEO FOR THE SHEEPISH”, Harlan Steinberger presents a clever and magical interpretation of a poet’s body of work. Steinberger has accomplished what not many others before him has ever done. He has produced a radio friendly showcase of poetry and pop- electronica in an album that, with most of it’s tracks might easily be played on pop radio.

The record is just about everything a pop record is. It’s got hooks, choruses and clever lyrics, it has a beat you really want to dance to. It has perfectly “out of the box” sound hooks that because of it’s sound – is catchy, just like a few pop hits in the past have had, such as the syncopated vocal musings that Michael Jackson innovated. It’s rhythmic and hip, easy to listen to, and once again, the best part is – it’s poetry! – and it’s pop! (more…)

Poetry Picks — The Best CDs of 2009

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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(Hen House Studios, 2009) Ellyn Maybe got her moniker because she was too shy to commit when she signed up for the open mic list—“Ellyn,” she’d write, “maybe.” She’s an LA phenomenon, published by Henry Rollins, the lovechild of Gertrude Stein and Allen Ginsberg, a lyrical poet in hippie couture, a one-of-a-kind. Now, with Rodeo for the Sheepish, she shows she’s ready for Las Vegas. Brilliant settings by producer Harlan Steinberger, superlative vocal backtracks by Tommy Jordan—all of a sudden, she’s gone Motown and you can hear the sheer force of Poetry vs. Pop music in an arena the size of Radio City Poetry Hall. Humor, poignancy, universality, individuality—like all great artists, how she does it is a mystery, but Ellyn Maybe is for real.