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Brooklyn songwriter Luke Temple is set to release, Brain, a limited edition vinyl 7-inch, on Feb. 26. It's the fourth volume of the Seven Inch Project, a series of limited edition vinyl collectibles, each by a different artist. Created during a late November recording session (right around the time when he was a Paste Artist of the Week), the 7-inch will be available through SevenInchProject.com and at Temple's shows. Previous contributors to the Seven Inch Project include Agent Ribbons, June Madrona and Half-handed Cloud.

Recording untraditionally and adhering to D.I.Y. philosophies as always, Temple laid down tracks for Brain in his apartment using two microphones.

He garnered praise for the 8-track recordings that made up Snowbeast, his most recent album (Mill Pond Records), but has turned to a new tactic for the material leading up to a new full-length release. After traveling solo for a while, he's recruited three bandmates, Tyler Woods on keys, Parker Kindred on drums and Mike Bloch on guitar, who have toured with him in the past and will collaborate on the next album.

You can hear two of the songs from Brain, "They're Gonna Land" and "You Could Be Anywhere", on Temple's MySpace (a taste of the digital versions that come with every vinyl purchase from the Seven Inch Project). Toting his new 7-inch and new bandmates along, he has a few upcoming live shows, including an appearance at SXSW.

Dates:

February
26 - London, UK @ The Paradise

March
1 - Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie
12 - Austin, Texas @ SXSW

April
5 - Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Brooklyn Public Library

Related links:
LukeTempleMusic.com
MillPondRecords.com
Stereogum: The 'Gum Drop: Luke Temple - "Into Fiction"

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It should come as no surprise that recent Artist of the Week Luke Temple—who recorded his 2007 release, Snowbeast, entirely in his Brooklyn apartment—would invoke the words “cheap” and “creative” in his call for aspiring auteurs to craft music videos for his latest LP. (Given his do-it-yourself approach to music-making, one might assume he’d be all about home-growing his own music videos, too. But he’s a nice guy, and probably just doesn’t want to push his neighbor too far, especially after everything she put up with during his most recent living room recording sessions— though surely some New Yorkers would agree that you could certainly do worse than having a folky, angel-voiced singer-songwriter for a flatmate.)

In a contest recently extended an additional month (old deadline: November 15th; new deadline: December 15th), Temple is gathering submissions from cinematically inclined fans who have given one of Snowbeast’s twelve tracks their own visual spin. Entries can be submitted via e-mail (more details here)— but no mention of itemized receipts is made, so maybe you don’t actually have to be cheap (though, uh, why wouldn’t you want to?). Fulfillment of the second criterion—creativity—is probably less negotiable.

The winning entry will become the album’s first official music video and will be, according to Temple’s camp, “sent out to every major music website, blog and several indie music video television shows.” In addition to the requisite IMDB listing, the winning director will also receive a signed poster and two backstage passes to one of Temple’s live shows in the city of the winner’s choice. And don’t be discouraged that the cities from which that winner could chose are currently quite limited by the fact that Temple is only scheduled to play one show (in NYC) anytime in the next month—additional dates are in the works, and will likely be announced soon.

January
17 - New York, N.Y. @ Joe’s Pub

Related links
Luke Temple on MySpace
Video contest details from Luke Temple on MySpace
Paste: Artist of the Week: Luke Temple

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