Selfish Agenda

Detroit based record and tape label. Home to KATIEE, Winter Bear, Water Cops, This Robot Kills, and other fine friends."Don't ask us to put out your becord because we don't want to."

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Listen/purchase: Outdoor Elevator by Virga

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WE'RE BACK BAYBEE! SELF007 VIRGA "VAGUE SPLASH" CASSETTTE  THE TAPES IS HERE! WE IS READY! ALL HANDS ON DECK!

Grip a copy IRL this Friday at Riverside Park in Ypsi, or head over to Bandcamp to secure your very own RISO printed cassette or even just the digital files to listen to on your Zune any time you want. 

See you Friday?

http://selfisgagenda.bandcamp.com

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Katie Eastburn used to sing in the group Young People, under-sung legends who helped to further reimagine the possibilities of punk throughout the aughts. Now based in New York, Eastburn’s project KATIEE makes torch songs in the tune of thunderdome pop, minimalist mystic Terry Riley meets quiet storm Teddy Riley. Her debut LP “Out All Night” (Selfish Agenda) features dance floor beats, horns & strings with a lineup featuring members of free jazz slayers Sunwatchers. Here she presents a new set of tunes stripped down to the bones, just vox and keys.

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Coming up in a few weeks, this cool show I booked for my cool friends from cool Chicago. It’s gonna be cool. Tell your parents you’re gonna be out late on a school night and don’t take no for an answer. 😎

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trk - 2000

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AllMusic Best of 2016: Favorite Indie Pop and Indie Rock Albums

Indie pop and indie rock made strong showings this year, highlighted by albums from Teenage Fanclub, Parquet Courts and Bon Iver.

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Big ups to KATIEE's "Out All Night" for making AllMusic's Best of 2016 list for Favorite Indie Pop & Indie Rock albums!

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Punk Fliers - Part II

again, no computer used, just letraset and friends that worked the midnight shift at kinkos. never paid for anything. thank you, monday & trout.

i should mention that i almost always used a different year on the flier. unless we were playing with a band called “the 1985”, then of course the real year was used.

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Just because my heart can take it…

OST of the day: The Marquee - Gigi (with Katie Eastburn)

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On Friday, July 1, 2016, KATIEE celebrated the release of Out All Night with a record release show at Secret Project Robot with Invisible Circle, Dan Friel, and Alice Cohen. More images from the show are now available on Impose Magazine and Flickr.

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“As a Lyricist, I’ve Always Been a Collagist”: An Interview With Katie Eastburn

The first time I heard Katie Eastburn play music was well over a decade ago, at a show at which Young People, the band she was in at the time, was playing. Young People’s songs came at you si…

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“Indulge me in a little time travel. In 2002, an under-the-radar indie band, Young People, put out a song that has stayed with me to this day. "Collection," like a hymn performed by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ran at a gallop but sounded solemn enough to be a prayer.

Back to today: The memorable voice of Young People, Katie Eastburn, is back as KATIEE. Out All Night, her debut album, came out in July and it thrums on low throttle, featuring synth sounds and sparse drum textures instead of post-grunge guitars.

We're thrilled to have a first peek at the video for "Sudden Fear." Imagine standing in the dead center of the dancefloor while partygoers riot around you: that's the eerie, joyful feel captured here. While the song's wistful melody soars, happy, shiny people dance as if it's 3 a.m. Director Christine Edwards found herself in the perfect situation to capture this footage: "Katie had just come back from a vacation getaway straight from the airport to this boss little house party, still in her beach gear. It was packed and everyone was dancing up a storm." See if you can spot the person sporting Ryan Gosling's face from head to toe.

The look and feel of the video may be up-to-the-minute modern, but Eastburn says the song borrows from classic noir: "The title and all the lyrics are turns of phrase from the 1952 film Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford. I collaged bits of dialogue and the melody emerged from the lyrics, which are so evocative." It's a combination you're not likely to see anywhere else.”

- Estelle Tang (Elle Magazine)

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KATIEE Out All NIght 4.5 out of 5 Stars | Editors’ Choice AllMusic Review by Heather Phares Katie Eastburn's music has always fully transported listeners into her world. It's a place where nothing is simple and everything is direct, where joy and sadness are soulmates, and where old and new bring out the best in each other. As one-third of the criminally underappreciated 2000s band Young People, she combined traditional song forms with the avant-garde in ways that underscored her gifts as a passionate interpreter and singer. After Young People disbanded, Eastburn's music-making was delayed by a string of family tragedies. However, she continued to write and record, first on her own and then with a group including some of the finest from New York City's avant jazz scene as well as her husband Jim McHugh and composer Ray Sweeten. Out All Night, her first album as KATIEE, announces her as a solo artist with a bold vision while sharing Young People's gift for making innovative music steeped in tradition. "Atlantic City" even opens the album with a nod to her former band, as Eastburn quotes the mysterious song from the classic film Night of the Hunter that Young People reinterpreted on War Prayers. True to form, the way she incorporates electronics into Out All Night is powerful and unexpected. "Sudden Fear" is Eastburn's own form of dance music, driven by electronic drums and saxophone that feel like the night's heartbeat and lifeblood and full of emotions that can't be contained by a four-on-the-floor beat.

When Eastburn contrasts these sophisticated sounds with old-fashioned melodies, the results are stunning: the title track's rapturous strings and brass add to a feeling of hope that's far from innocent, which somehow makes this optimism stronger and more poignant. If it's possible, Eastburn pays homage to the intense emotions and deceptively simple words and melodies within vintage songs even more effortlessly on Out All Night than she did before. Her audacious electropop reimagining of "My Forgotten Man," a song from the Great Depression-era film Gold Diggers of 1933, is a standout; though she modernizes its surroundings, its tale of economic and emotional deprivation remains relevant nearly a century later. On the harder-edged "Bad & the Beautiful," a futuristic torch song befitting Blade Runner, Eastburn blends and bends sounds and eras with a dancerly grace reflecting her background as a choreographer. A remarkable sense of motion drives Out All Night, whether on "Could"'s thrumming wordplay or the sweep of "Rilke," which begins with beats borrowed from Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing" before clarinets take it to another place entirely. Out All Night may be Art with a capital A, but its ambitions and style only heighten the power of Eastburn's words and voice. This is especially true on "The Good Times," a celebration of the moment that is profoundly moving thanks to Eastburn's keening vocals. Here and throughout the album, the way she uses sophistication to express unbridled emotion makes Out All Night her most beautiful, and most compelling, music yet.

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In early June, I met Katie Eastburn, who is also known as KATIEE, to take portraits for an interview for Bandcamp.

That interview can be read on Bandcamp Daily here.

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Don’t Miss: KATIEE @ Black Cat, 7/23/15

Katie Eastburn (Photo by Sabine Rogers) Slinky and groovy vocalist Katie Eastburn, formerly of Young People, has launched a new project called KATIEE, which offers up some synthy noir for our liste…

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Katiee’s Big Moment

Photo by Edwina HayThe luxe Italian restaurant is practically abandoned when I meet up with Katie Eastburn one balmy Brooklyn afternoon in early June. It’s eerily quiet, save for a family on the op…

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Stream Katiee’s Hypnotizing Art-Pop Debut Out All Night

A collection of lucid, slowcore dream pop about the mundane; an impeccable record about ordinary things rendered significant in gorgeous, chilly frameworks.

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KATIEE on The Bj Rubin Show

Also featuring Deradoorian, Frankie Cosmos, Circuit Des Yeux, Jena Friedman, Alice Cohen, Carl Simmons, Dan Friel, Colleen Green, Jerry Paper, Suitcase Of Wonders, Ronald Paris, Shannon Hayden, Slim Twig, Cloudland Canyon, Cotton Candy, Sur Back & Bullies.