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Ill Lit

don't start nothing, won't be nothing...

About Me

TO PURCHASE A COPY OF THE ILL LIT ALBUM TOM CRUISE: ------------------------------------------------------
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"Somewhere squarely between Wilco and the Flaming Lips (though these two bands could use a little of what Ill Lit is selling), Ill Lit delivers a deceptively upbeat message of heartbreak and loss of hope, complete with broken electronics and layers and layers of sweet harmonies" - Indieworkshop.com
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"Where the realms of lush, sonic abundance meld with eroded, acoustic, weathered rawness...any way you look at it, this is an album worth making a fuss about" - CDBaby.com
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WHAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT ILL LIT IN THE PAST...
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"ill lit gives us songs that are elegies of American lostness, road music for a new breed of pioneers. Any person who is no longer young, and not yet old: rootless human beings of scattered family, no land, and only a home away from no-home. Who are nonetheless burdened with lustful urges to build something, somewhere; to say something, to someone: to call out of the ruins of all this glorious fucked-up American freedom we own." - Sound Collector
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"Cosmic in Gram Parsons' sense of the word, and with an understated Lou Reed-like intensity, ill lit's music moves the mind and mesmerizes the heart." - Franz Wright
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"a pop-perfect bit of alt-country, beset by a frail, ethereal synth whisper, like a ghost shooting through the farm, blowing up stalks of hay before finally crashing face-first into a wall" - Pitchfork Media
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"a perfect meeting of the old and the new" - CMJ ------------------------------------------------------- br

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/26/2004
Band Website: illlit.com
Band Members: daniel ahearn
presston brown
jason berkowitz
grant capes
shane carpenter
cmg
marty cornish
bernard elsmere
darrien fidmont
jens fleming
julie fowells
jason grisell
david j.
christopher larose
dylan magierick
alessandra maria
melanie moser
benjamin provo
rich ross
michael rozon
elizabeth schula
myriah scruggs
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Influences: christopher knowles, presston brown, franz wright, the boss, prince, boards of canada, prine, wu-tang, liszt, gang starr, hisao shinagwa, joan didion, jim mcbride, talking heads, flaming lips, glenn gould, dennis pavo, rilke, eno, mencken, chet baker, raymond carver, F.Y.P, tom waits, rimbaud, beck, kmd, porter ricks, faye dunaway, autechre, graham lindsey, nirvana, kazantzakis, aphex twin, gavin bryars, egon schiele, r.e.m, tammy wynette, daniel berrigan, michael rozon, hank williams, john berryman, milroy, the high strung, de la soul, denis johnson, lhasa de sela, old bull lee, baudelaire, jean-michel basquiat, liz phair, st. francis, anne carson, mobb deep, arthur schopenhauer, suga free, george jones, dwight yoakam, strunk and white, tomorrow's friend, tom cruise, wetnurse, nina simone, lyonel feninger, menuhin, john clare, dorthy day, leonard cohen, willie nelson, leak brothers, f. scott, randy newman, the beach boys, jack kerouac, richard buckner, yves tanguy, hart crane, mf grimm, phoenicia, merle haggard, herbert, steinbeck, jacques fesch, dorthy parker, mr oizo...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Men in Trees

Thanks to our friend TriciaIll Lit's 'Los Angeles' from the record Tom Cruisewill be featured this Friday on the ABC show'Men in Trees'Tune in friday to watch and listen!
Posted by Ill Lit on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:14:00 PST

Video for Los Angeles

heyour friends Dion, June and Jerrymade an awesome video for the songLos Angeleshope you like it!Los Angeles Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Ill Lit on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:02:00 PST

Tom Cruise .1 on Americana UK charts!

go to http://www.americana-uk.com/auk/index.phpto see for yourself.thanks very much to Mark Whitfield!awesome!
Posted by Ill Lit on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:32:00 PST

LA Times Buzz Band!!!

Ill Lit is in the Oct 12th Calendar Sectionof the LA Times...check it out...http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-w k-bands12oct12,0,7516208.story
Posted by Ill Lit on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:00:00 PST

Tom Cruise Available through Miles of Music...

Be sure and pick up a copyof Tom Cruise from Miles of Musichttp://store.milesofmusic.com/Compact_Discs/Ill_Lit/411 95.html
Posted by Ill Lit on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:58:00 PST

Tom Cruise available on ITunes...

Tom Cruise available on ITunes....cool.how very cyber-legit of us...
Posted by Ill Lit on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:48:00 PST

Cloak and Dagger Interview

Go to cloak and dagger mediaand click on features to read an interview with Ill Lit.thanks again to our good friends over at Cloak and Dagger Inc....
Posted by Ill Lit on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:06:00 PST

Tom Cruise Lyrics

Across CountryShe left her love in New York City,Hope in Tennessee; now, there's no way of her explaining what LA has done to me.Staring at the ceiling.Wishing the dead would let her be.Screaming "Do...
Posted by Ill Lit on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:59:00 PST