Kind Monitor

"Sharks" is now playing on the radio in Amarillo, TX

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:06:00 +0000

If you happen to live in Amarillo, TX ... you can hear our song Sharks on KACV's indie hour.

Enjoy!

KM's "Sharks" in the top 10 on Logo's Click List

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:01:00 +0000

Our music video for "Sharks" has spent two weeks in the top ten video on Mtv/Logo's viewer-driven click list.

Watch the video and vote for it at this link!

Kind Monitor's SHARKS on MTV!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:46:00 +0000

Long time no see ... apologies for major lack of blogging for the last year.

Let's just get started, shall we, with the exciting news:

Kind Monitor's SHARKS on MTV!!!

Woo hoo!!!!

Kind Monitor Reviewed in Beyond Race Magazine: 'true songwriting talent'

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:09:00 +0000

The new issue of Beyond Race Magazine (beyondrace.com) has a short review of Kind Monitor's debut EP. Here's the text:

"For a band that's mainly known for their live performances, Kind Monitor delivers their delicate melodies just as well on recording. The lyrics here are sentimental while still being sincere -- a hard feat to pull off. 'I love the Ending' and 'Somebody Saves' show of their true songwriting talent. 8/10" -- Erica Block, BRM

Thanks for the great review!

KM

John Polly blogs about Kind Monitor's Cairo on Logo

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:12:00 +0000

http://www.newnownext.com/2009/03/kind-monitors-cairo-video.html

Kind Monitor's Cairo airs 7 times this week on LogoTV

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:36:00 +0000

Airing schedule for Newnownext on LogoTV, featuring Fleet Foxes, Death Cab for Cutie, and Kind Monitor:

3/1: 12 midnight
3/2: 7am, 12 midnight
3/3: 6pm, 1:30am
3/4: 12 noon
3/8: 7am

And then KM's Cairo video will be available online on Logo later this week at: http://www.logoonline.com/video/franchise.jhtml?ctid=1768

KM explosion! Tonight on LogoTV; Monday@The Bitter End; Tuesday on Itunes

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:04:00 +0000

Suddenly it's a three day Kind Monitor explosion! Do enjoy ... this took some doing!

1. Tonight, Sunday, March 1st, at midnight: Kind Monitor's video Cairo debuts on NewNowNext on LogoTV, alongside Fleet Foxes, Death Cab, and Peter Bjorn & John. Later the week, you can watch here: http://www.logoonline.com/video/franchise.jhtml?ctid=1768

2. Tomorrow, Monday, March 2nd, 8PM: Kind Monitor at The Bitter End's New York Song-writers Circle Show-case. 147 Bleecker St. Btwn Thompson & LaGuardia Pl. More info: kindmonitor.blogspot.com.

3. Tuesday, March 3rd: Official Release of Kind Monitor's critically acclaimed album Somebody Saves My Life Most Every Single Day on Itunes. Support local music. Your Ipod will thank you. Download now!

With your enjoyment in mind,
KIND MONITOR
cdbaby.com/kindmonitor

PS: Just added: KM to play at BRM's release party, Thursday, March 5th at Williamburg's Public Assembly (details TBA).

Kind Monitor at The Bitter End and on Itunes

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:22:00 +0000

Hi, friends and fans -- come out next Monday night, March 2nd, and hear Kind Monitor and several other songwriters play songs about life and love ... Album is officially available on Itunes March 3 Buy buy buy buy a song! Support real live musicians!

Kind Monitor at The Bitter End's New York Song-writers Circle Show-case, March 2 at 8PM

Kind Monitor will perform at the March 2nd Song-writers show-case held at Manhattan's legendary The Bitter End. For over 16 years, The New York Songwriters Circle has been the premiere spot in NYC featuring an eclectic mix of up and coming as well as many legendary Songwriters. Previous performers have included Norah Jones, Vanessa Carlton, Lisa Loeb, and Marc Cohn. Tina Shafer, the program's director, states of KM's music: "Beautiful melodies and dreamy production, unique lyrics ... what a breath of fresh air. I wanted to book them immediately." She especially likes KM's dirge-like version of Piano Man, and has asked it to be played at the show.

Videos!!! Happy sad videos!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:35:00 +0000

Blog is back in business

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:47:00 +0000

Hello and welcome to Kind Monitor's blog. The blog was discontinued during building of kindmonitor.com, but now it's ready for business.

The first announcement of our revived blog is that the video for Cairo is posted to youtube.

"The love that got away takes a long to explain./ Talia walked miles before she'd say it: I oughta know."

Cairo video still:

A talented Manhattan-based video artist, Federico Kuhrmeier, has completed and posted an intensely minimalist video for Kind Monitor's song Cairo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TdN3f_SQgY

About the video: Our song Cairo is the audience favorite at our live shows here in NYC and since we'd like more people to hear and enjoy it in other places around the world, we made a video and are sharing it with our friends. Shot in high contrast HD, the video has a stark, Butoh-influenced feel to it and ends with a woman's shaky splattered awakening from the hold of her memory.

Here's a link to the video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TdN3f_SQgY

Check out the video for free on Youtube and pass this message on to 5 or 10 of your friends and ask them to share with their friends ... we're using the Cairo video as a way to spread the word about the digital advance release of our debut album Somebody Saves My Life Most Every Single Day (now on CDBaby and I-tunes). We'll know we're reaching new people by the # of plays of Cairo on You-tube. Help spread the word so we can come play in your city one day!

Glad to be back!
Kind Monitor

PS 4-star review of the album by Ben Westhoff: http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/kind_monitor/Content?oid=551020

Rainy day in Bushwick, rainy day songs

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:27:00 +0000

Hi, played a handful of tunes at Ray's fund-raiser event yesterday. Rain pushed the show from the garden to Good-bye Blue Monday, a quirky little spot in Bushwick known for cheap beer and hip live music.

Indeed, the Village Voice picked it last year as the 'best place to see emerging indie musicians before they start believing their own hype.' Of course, that begs whether or not Kind Monitor believes its own hype or not.

At any rate, we were happy to help Ray's local garden improve the quality of its soil through money earned at the live show. And Pablo Masis, a great trumpeter, joined us for the set.

High-light of the day as a listener: Lady Rizo's bizarre cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" in which she imagined herself to have escaped a mental ward as she sang the audience her song. Highly entertaining.

Yours,

KM

PS To celebrate the rainy day feeling yesterday, I posted the world's slowest cover of Piano Man for your melancholic enjoyment.

KM's Billie Jean cover at Joe's Pub

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:23:00 +0000

Submitted by Jerald Stein

Album review of our EP by Ben Westhoff

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:19:00 +0000

Check out our review written by Ben Westhoff for our EP, ''Somebody Saves My Life Most Every Single Day' in Creative Loafing.

Love,

KM

Live tracks from Joe’s Pub EP release show are posted.

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:18:00 +0000

Exciting update: Sandwiched somewhere between the Sex Pistols and Blonde Redhead, SMU College radio in Dallas played 'Cairo' and 'Reversible' today; they also discussed Project:Reversible, describing it as a project raising awareness of our continuing cultural struggles around race, sexual orientation, and suicide.

KM

kindmonitor.com is active and downloads are available on-line

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:15:00 +0000

kindmonitor.com is active, check it out. great design work by Nick Keppol.

And you can download songs from the EP for .99

KM

Joe’s Pub show and after-party were a smashing success

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:08:00 +0000

We had an amazing Saturday night playing at Joe's Pub, our dream venue in New York ... and then had a buzzing after-party at KGB Bar down the way that stretched late into the night. Several critics and photographers were on hand, one of whom has featured us as his Artist of the Week ...

Exciting results of the show: Linda started out the night with the infamous bass line from "Sharks" and we were on a roll from that point onward. We introduced "We Fought all the Battles" and the audience cheered wildly during "Wedding Song's" interlude with bass solo, viola and violin flourishes, and general musical madness. We sang a gritty but pretty version of Liz Phair's classic "F--k And Run," which allowed Joshua and Ilana the chance to drop the F-bomb on stage against Nick's insistent drumming. The "Billie Jean" cover was a darkly pleasing experience. The audience called us back for an encore and then still were sad to see us go after we played a few more songs. And when we were breaking down the set, the Joe's Pub mix engineer said, "Someone in hip hop is going to sample your song 'Cairo,' that song's just too good to pass up."

There were dozens of new faces in the audience and after the show we sold our freshly completed CD "Somebody Saves My Life Most Every Single Day," and Kind Monitor T-shirts to totally new listeners. They said they particularly enjoyed "A Single Tiny Story", "Cairo", and "Baby Blue," describing it as a rather gorgeously sad duet between Joshua and Barret. A funny thing happened during the after-party: several people said to us: "It's so weird, but friends have told me to come hear you play and I finally did after all this time ... and you're actually, like, really good! It's like you never know about bands, but you guys are like really, really good." We'll take that as a huge compliment.

Many thanks are in order for making this show such a huge success: to Joe's Pub for booking our release party, all the amazing people who came out in 100-degree weather to fill the house, Joe Hankins for press and publicity, CC Bursell for promotional support, Jerald Stein for photography, Nick Keppol for designing the poster and website (www.kindmonitor.com), the band itself who played with such flawlessness and dedication (Barret, Alex, Linda, Ilana, and Nick). Jen Guthals flew in for the show and took some great pictures of the band from the audience. And so many more people need thanks, especially our friends and fans who spread the word about this weekend's big party and helped draw such a big crowd! You made this all possible.

We can't wait to play for you again.

KM

The album is done!

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:00 +0000

The album is done; sample tracks are posted.

Kind Monitor's first EP is completed, it's a six-track album filled with studio versions of everyone's favorites from the live shows. Months of hard work has finally generated a lovely collection of songs. There will be a live show and celebration at Joe's Pub on Saturday, July 19th, at 9:30PM. Get tickets at joespub.com.

Cairo, Absorb, I love the Ending, Somebody Saves, End of the Game, and Sharks all receive the royal treatment for the album, which highlights the musicianship of Joshua, Sonia, Ray, Barret, and guest vocalist Scott Matthew.

Three tracks are posted here on the myspace page; also kindmonitor.com is being resurrected with the help of designer Nick Keppol and will feature streaming tracks from the album, full lyrics to the songs, and links to purchase music and T-shirts.

Thank you to all in involved in creating the album and thank you to everyone for checking out the tunes here on myspace.

KM

Joe’s Pub here we come!!! Record release party!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:57:00 +0000

Joe’s Pub here we come!!! Record release party!!!!
Just confirmed: A mid-summer Kind Monitor EP-release party and performance at Joe's Pub!

After 15 shows in Williamsburg and Manhattan, we've attracted the attention and interest of 'one of the best small venues' in the world (BBC Radio) for our album release party. We're thrilled and honored to grace the stage that has Alicia Keyes raving "my favorite rock and roll venue is Joe's Pub" ... 'Cairo,' 'End of the Game,' 'Somebody Saves,' 'Sharks' are all as excited as us to be heard by music lovers everywhere!

And as the music industry sees Joe's Pub as a the best place in the U.S. to discover 'break-out bands,' this show is real opportunity for Kind Monitor to transition from being an adorable indie Brooklyn band playing locally into being a world-class band that can contribute to and touch many people through touring with our music around the country and world.

We request your support as friends and fans, by coming to enjoy the music on July 19th and bringing along your favorite people to create a packed house that night! All we ask if for your attendance and support to help in making this exciting night a success.

Kind Monitor EP-release: Saturday, July 19th, 9:30 PM, Joe's Pub

Love,
KM

Tonight's the night: Show 2 of our Pete's residency

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:46:00 +0000

From Last Week's Show W/ Special Guest Scott Matthew

Let the residency begin. 10PM, Friday.

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:05:00 +0000

We had a great time playing for everyone at Monkeytown!

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:01:00 +0000

Wednesday night's show was a dream come true in a variety of ways -- it was our first SOLD OUT show, it was our first show at Monkeytown, a venue we love, and it was the first time for us to play for an audience surrounding us on all four sides. Having you beautiful people all around us made me a little, well, intimidated!

The first song felt really good; I played Reversible alone for the audience and felt connected to the people around me right away and sensed that audience felt that way, too. Sonia came up on stage and joined me for Kind Monitor done acoustic-style and then we were off from there! Skye T's video art was projected for the rest of the show, everyone seemed to be enjoying the music and the food, I dedicated the song Sharks to a meatball on someone's plate.

After the show people's comments were as follows: "We really liked the song 'End of the Game;' it was so intense it made us both tear up." "Watching you play at Monkeytown let me hear your songs in a whole new way, I felt like I was in the 60s or something with the video art and couches and pillows listening to you play." "My friend dragged me to the show to hear this new band and I was totally won over once you played 'Cairo.'"

All in all, it would be hard to imagine the show could have gone better -- good people enjoying themselves, good acoustics in the space to make us sound pretty, a full house! Yes!

Thanks so much for being a part of a magical night! See you in August at Pete's Candy Store!
KM

SOLD OUT show at Monkeytown Wed July 11 8:30PM

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The Monkeys are coming!!!

Last chance to reserve your seats for our Monkeytown gig. It's currently sold out but there's now a waiting list in place in case of last minute cancellations, so it's still worth calling or emailing them to reserve yourself a seat.

To refresh your memory -- show's at 8:30PM sharp, there's video art from Skye T (with help from Steve S), there's amazing food, there's two other bands, and of course there's Kind Monitor playing songs for your enjoyment. Please don't be late.

Also, we're getting T-shirts made last minute that we'll have available for you at the show; they're really quite lovely. Our first limited edition T-shirt!
Come be a part of really cool night of artful entertainment. http://www.monkeytownhq.com/reservations.html or 718.384.1369.
Yours truly,
Kind Monitor

We're playing for you at Pete's this Friday Night

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:37:00 +0000

Head to Pete's Candy Store this Friday night and hear your favorite Kind Monitor songs live, remixed for your listening pleasure. Beats courtesy of Manalilli. Playing with Magdyn Osh 9 and The Low Anthem. KM's on at 11PM sharp. Cute, loveable people just like you will be everywhere before, during, and after -- guaranteed. Cold drinks on the patio afterward.

www.petescandystore.com
www.myspace.com/kindmonitor

Happy 4th!

Kind Monitor
"A diamond in the rough in the Brooklyn indie music scene." -- The Living Room Lounge

PS Please forward this info widely to good people.

PPS Don't miss succulent food, video art projections, three bands, cool vibe next Wednesday night -- Reserve your seats for KM's Monkeytown show (Wednesday, July 11th, 8:30) now to insure you get a seat as seating is very limited. http://www.monkeytownhq.com/reservations.html or call 718.384.1369.

Welcome to our newly created website

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:10:00 +0000

We've finally got a web-site! Look for updates and improvements over the next weeks and months.

KIND MONITOR

KIND MONITOR Show tonight, 9PM, Living Room Lounge

noreply@blogger.com (Kind Monitor) — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:57:00 +0000

Hi, we a show tonight, June 16th at 9PM at the Living Room Lounge in South Slope (myspace.com/livingroombrooklyn). It's a great venue with exposed brick walls and a light airy sound.

Come if you can! Bring friends. Show starts at 6PM, we go on at 9PM sharp. All bands $5.

KIND MONITOR
myspace.com/kindmonitor

The Living Room Lounge
Located at 245 23rd St. at the corner of 5th Ave.
3 blocks away from the 25th St. stop on the R train. 2 blocks away from the 5th ave bus line.

Phone: 718-499-1505