The Honeydogs

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What Comes After 00:00 Tools
I Miss You 00:00 Tools
Your Blue Door 00:00 Tools
Rumor Has It 00:00 Tools
Dear Prudence 00:00 Tools
Particles Or Waves 00:00 Tools
Those Things Are Hers 00:00 Tools
Too Close To The Sun 00:00 Tools
Aubben 00:00 Tools
John Brown 00:00 Tools
Cherub 00:00 Tools
10,000 Years 00:00 Tools
Broke It, Buy It 00:00 Tools
Sour Grapes 00:00 Tools
Truth Serum 00:00 Tools
Losing Transmissions 00:00 Tools
Into Thin Air 00:00 Tools
Ms. Ketchup And The Arsonist 00:00 Tools
Everything In Its Place 00:00 Tools
Amygdala 00:00 Tools
Test Tube Kid 00:00 Tools
Don't Cut To The Chase 00:00 Tools
Seen A Ghost 00:00 Tools
Dead Stars 00:00 Tools
Rattling My Tin Cup 00:00 Tools
Fiber Optic Paramour 00:00 Tools
Always a Long Time 00:00 Tools
Sans Sucre 00:00 Tools
Wilson Boulevard 00:00 Tools
Fighting Weight 00:00 Tools
Stonewall 00:00 Tools
Twitch 00:00 Tools
Better Word 00:00 Tools
The Firing Squad Reloads 00:00 Tools
Sweet Pea 00:00 Tools
Tar Baby Napalm 00:00 Tools
Cut Me Loose, Napoleon 00:00 Tools
Poor Little Sugar 00:00 Tools
Devil's Advocate 00:00 Tools
Mainline 00:00 Tools
The Rake's Progress 00:00 Tools
Devil We Do 00:00 Tools
Panhandler's Serenade 00:00 Tools
Heads or Tales 00:00 Tools
Invertebrate 00:00 Tools
Blood is Blood 00:00 Tools
Sunshine Committee 00:00 Tools
Death By Boredom 00:00 Tools
Elan Vital 00:00 Tools
For The Tears 00:00 Tools
Pins In Dolls 00:00 Tools
Turned Around 00:00 Tools
Belle Epoque 00:00 Tools
Donna's 7 00:00 Tools
Blues for Castro 00:00 Tools
Red Dye #40 00:00 Tools
Good Fight 00:00 Tools
Damascus Way 00:00 Tools
Hearts & Heads 00:00 Tools
Balaclava 00:00 Tools
Hygiene 00:00 Tools
23rd Chromosome 00:00 Tools
Freakshow 00:00 Tools
Devices 00:00 Tools
Last War Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Were The Heavens Standing Blindly? 00:00 Tools
Stash 00:00 Tools
Ms. Anne Thrope 00:00 Tools
The Crown 00:00 Tools
Before The Fall 00:00 Tools
Art & Vandalism 00:00 Tools
Levers, Pulleys & Pumps 00:00 Tools
Over You 00:00 Tools
Kandiyohi 00:00 Tools
Glee 00:00 Tools
Miles Away 00:00 Tools
Moth 00:00 Tools
Miriam 00:00 Tools
Oh! You Pretty Things 00:00 Tools
What I Want 00:00 Tools
Becky's Hand 00:00 Tools
Busy Man 00:00 Tools
That's Me 00:00 Tools
Lost Again 00:00 Tools
Piece of Cake (Jun 1919) 00:00 Tools
P'Twgs 00:00 Tools
Vermillion Billows (Shouldn't Take It So Hard) 00:00 Tools
Chasing The Sun (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Rosie Flores Came To Town (Mar 1914) 00:00 Tools
Like A Fortress 00:00 Tools
Put Me To Bed 00:00 Tools
Tell Me 00:00 Tools
Bad Day, Good Night 00:00 Tools
Can I Change Your Mind? 00:00 Tools
The Houses Next Door (Jan 1971) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Mind 00:00 Tools
Red Velet Cake (Nov 1966) 00:00 Tools
So Long 00:00 Tools
Sandstorm 00:00 Tools
Left Alone 00:00 Tools
Wheels 00:00 Tools
The Sun Won't Shine... (Oct 1929) 00:00 Tools
Blue-Backed Speller 00:00 Tools
Arguing with Fiction 00:00 Tools
Little Sister 00:00 Tools
Look Through the Sun (Photokeratitis) 00:00 Tools
Piece of Cake 00:00 Tools
Ordinary Legs 00:00 Tools
Chasing The Sun 00:00 Tools
Le Sha Ni Ja Ni 00:00 Tools
Rosie Flores Came To Town 00:00 Tools
Gaslight Face 00:00 Tools
Indomitable (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Royal Jelly 00:00 Tools
Smile to Yourself (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Houses Next Door 00:00 Tools
Panacea 00:00 Tools
Corazones y Cabezas (May 1945) 00:00 Tools
Cut to the Chase 00:00 Tools
The Kiss 00:00 Tools
Smile To Yourself 00:00 Tools
Red Dye #41 00:00 Tools
Corazones Y Cabezas 00:00 Tools
Red Velvet Cake 00:00 Tools
The Sun Won't Shine... 00:00 Tools
Wrong 00:00 Tools
Third Ear Stomp 00:00 Tools
Red Dye #41 (Sep 1901) 00:00 Tools
Pornogamy 00:00 Tools
Crippled Pink 00:00 Tools
Donna's 00:00 Tools
A Night With the Famous Grouse 00:00 Tools
Royal Jelly (Aug 1960) 00:00 Tools
Back Home Again 00:00 Tools
Chasing The Sun - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Le Sha Ni Ja Ni (Sep 2001) 00:00 Tools
Who Stole Tiki Rose? 00:00 Tools
Potalotagotonya 00:00 Tools
Hearts and Heads 00:00 Tools
Panacea (Jun 1933) 00:00 Tools
Your Own Shadow 00:00 Tools
Wrong (Mar 1999) 00:00 Tools
It's So Strange (The Way Love Works) 00:00 Tools
belle époque 00:00 Tools
Ms. Anne Thorpe 00:00 Tools
Indomitable 00:00 Tools
Were the Heavens Standing Blindly 00:00 Tools
Looking Through the Sun (Photokeratitis) 00:00 Tools
Élan Vital 00:00 Tools
Broke It Buy It 00:00 Tools
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The last thing The Honeydogs' lead singer songwriter, Adam Levy, wants his band to be is a Sunshine Committee. You know, the cloying co-workers who attempt to bring a little Trojan Horse happiness to the dysfunctional corporation on the eve of mass layoffs with flowers, pizza, ribbons, lace, and cupcakes? No, the Honeydogs have chosen a tough path, singing about serious subject matter always avoiding the maudlin and producing some music of great emotional intensity, complexity and beauty. Starting with 2001's brilliant day darkener, Here's Luck, the band charted a course of, as Paste magazine said, capturing "the Zeitgeist of this anxious era." The follow-up, 10,000 Years, was hailed as the bands' masterpiece—a concept album based on Levy's experiences in social work telling the story of a poor urban test tube kids’s rise and fall during a genocidal apocalypse in the not-so-distant future. In 2006 the band released Amygdala, a record thematically exploring fear in its varied forms—abandonment, losing children, war & death, aging, social decay. In 2009 the band emerges with an offering considerably more hopeful in these desperate times. The tracks on Sunshine Committee reflect a complex, often nuanced intersection of art and humanity while marking a return to a more live, rocking sound. Once featured guests, Matt Darling on trombone and Steven Kung on trumpet have now become integral core members of the band, adding a vintage Stax/Volt-Muscle Shoals unctuousness to the record. Bass player Trent Norton’s writhingly hooky parts almost singularly define the new improved sound. Levy and Brian Halverson have further perfected their guitar matrimony, playing off each other and swapping leads and obbligatos. Peter Sands, given extra real estate space, layers clavinets, harpsichords, pianos, Hammond organs, Chamberlains, and various odd keyboards from his museum of myriad electronic instruments. Drummer Peter Anderson directs traffic like an empathic inner city principal, alternately slamming and playing with great economy, sensitivity and restraint. As always, the band refers to the traditional soul and rock touchstones while creating something interesting, unpredictable, insightful, and moving: shades of the Stones' Exile on Main Street, Fresh-era Sly Stone, twilight Hendrix and Revolver-esque Beatles, all with Levy's surreal, evocative and enigmatic lyrics winding sinuously through the savory mix. Sunshine Committee is the band’s first truly self-produced effort, with the entire band involved in the conception, engineering and editing of the record. Granted permission to record this and his children’s record (Bunny Clogs) at the Institute of Production and Recording where Levy is a teacher, the EP's production provided top students with a “laboratory” environment in which to experiment with various mics and recording techniques, comment on arrangement and performance, and assist in the editing process. Capping off the roster of contributing talent, friend and mainstay John Fields, freshly finished with recording the Jonas Brothers, offered up his mixing expertise to the band. On the eve of this, the Honeydog's 10th release, with solo projects and new records percolating, the band emerges confident in their ability to reinvent their sound while keeping alive the best musical and thematic features that have been their trademarks for nearly 15 years. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.