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The Wailing Wall

About Me

Discography:
- S/T EP (6 songs, self-released CD-R 2006, now available as a free download)
- "For My Baby Brother"/"Nails and Wood" 7" single (2 songs, yellow vinyl, limited edition, self-released 2007)
- Hospital Blossoms full-length LP (10 songs, self-released CD-R in 2008, remastered and reissued as a free download by JDub Records in 2009)
- Hospital Blossoms Bonus EP (4 songs, outtakes and demos, free download 2008)
Compilations:
- "For My Baby Brother" appears on the JDub Records compilation Rooftop Roots Vol 3.
- "The Words We Choose" appears on the Firecracker Firecracker Records compilation ...And Through The Woods.
- "Hospital Blossom" appears on the JDub compilation Rooftop Roots Vol. 4.
- Three songs - "Everything Around You Turns to Shit," "Praying Never Helped Much At All," and "One Last Fuck For The Road" - appear on My Heart Is About To Burst, a compilation of six-word songs assembled by Guy Capecelatro III.
Booking, or just to say hi - [email protected]
Booking - Jacob Harris - [email protected]
Label - Aaron Bisman - [email protected]
Marketing/Retail - Elliot Fox - [email protected]
Press - Emily Goldsher - [email protected]
Thanks for listening!
love,
The Wailing Wall

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/07/2005
Band Website: jdubrecords.org/artists.php?id=31
Band Members: Songs written, played, and sung by Jesse Rifkin.

In the past/in the future:
Jason Anderson (vocals, keys, percussion)
Ben Apatoff (bass)
Noah Aronson (piano)
Luke Bace (bass)
Ben Bernstein (keyboards)
Kevin Buckelew (accordion, banjo, keys, glockenspiel, percussion)
Guy Capecelatro III (words, engineering)
Dylan Clark (drums, percussion)
Jamie Cook (vocals, guitar, tambura, keyboard)
Tim Cronin (flugelhorn)
Meghan Crotty (vocals)
Vincent Del Signore (bass, percussion, vocals)
Emily Eder (xylophone, percussion)
Matt Elkin (vocals, guitar, mandolin, banjo, keys, percussion)
Chris Faroe (guitar, accordion, harmonica, jaw harp, melodica)
Pete Feigenbaum (guitar)
Maia Friedman (vocals)
Holly Fulton (viola, piano)
Jeremiah Glazer (guitar)
Matt Gordon(accordion)
Ted Gordon (bass)
Sei Harris (cello)
Joey Lawton (vocals, glockenspiel, posi vibes)
Alixandra Macmillan-Fiedel (harmony vocals, guitar, percussion)
Zach Mazzola (saw, accordion, glockenspiel, banjo, bass)
Ethan Meyer (drums, percussion)
Natalie Mirsky (accordion, keyboard)
Adrian Orange (vocals)
Taylor Pavlik (trumpet, glockenspiel, percussion)
Chris Roush (production/engineering, drums, percussion, vocals)
Alex Rubin (bass, drums)
Rebecca Seatle(vocals)
Nate Smith (guitar, percussion)
Patrick Southern (percussion)
Ian Staub (trumpet)
Giancarlo Sutton (drums, harmonica, percussion)
Tom Tierney (accordion, bass, guitar, harmonica, percussion)
Jen Vafidis (vocals, percussion)
Willa VanNostrand (vocals, percussion)
Colin White (sitar)
Stuart Wilson (drums, percussion)
Trevor Wilson (vocals, piano, accordion, chord organ, percussion)
Michelle Yu (vocals, melodica, harmonium, glockenspiel, recorder)

and you, if you want to be. we could probably figure something out...
Influences: Merzbow, Carter Family, Bill Callahan, Hildegard Von Bingen, Leonard Cohen, R. Kelly
Sounds Like: somewhere, somehow, somebody must've kicked you around some.
tell me why you wanna lay there and revel in your abandon?

The Wailing Wall

Record Label: JDub Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Lyrics to every song, in the order in which they were written

Feudal Lords/Gated CommunityMy debts are still unpaid to feudal lordsMy educators got their just rewardsI walked a tightrope and I swallowed swordsTo free my bones from their catacombsI tried to call ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:40:00 GMT

This is the most beautiful review a musician could ever ask for

From my friend Roy. Brings tears to my eyes."so jesse, just another word on your album. somethign little you might appreciate. First I gotta explain where I work at. I've been living in Juneau since ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 13:09:00 GMT

Press weve gotten

General Press: -I Guess I'm Floating-Team Love Records-SleepWhenDeadNYC-The Forward -http://auralwes.blogspot.com/2009/02/not-your-grandmothers- diner.html">Aural Wes-Obsession Collection Reviews...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:18:00 GMT

Radio Sessions!!!

On WFMU's "Beastin' The Airwaves": http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/KH - click on the 12/21/08 episode! We start at about the 2 hour mark. The band here is Jesse Rifkin, Holly Fulton, Jamie Cook, and Chr...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:51:00 GMT

Show History

Since this band started playing shows, I have kept detailed records of them for myself. In the event that someone else might be curious about these for any reason (i.e. "what was the name of that thir...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:14:00 GMT