alice texas

Alice Texas comes to you through hell and highwater by way of New York City and wants to take you along for the ride. Having spent a few years in Lawrence, Kansas learning and living life with an outlaw poet...forget it. Here's the latest press, http://www.pitch.com/2007-06-14/music/wak-party/print And here's some more: "Alice Texas is Alice Schneider, a native New Yorker who rides through the oppressively small towns and dry prairies of her imagination searching for love and redemption." -The New Yorker"...(her) music is an oddly appealing hybrid of David Lynch-like macabre and rambling Western tumbleweed scenes. Forboding and melancholy"- Time Out NY"Schneider doesn't need gimmickry. With her raven-tressed, smoldering good looks, lyric sensuality and charismatic delivery, she's a force of nature."- No Depression"A voice somewhere between P.J. Harvey and (on the high notes) Sinead O'Connor and a band that sound like serious Calexico and David Lynch Fans ... Dark, atmospheric insurgent country with the odd gentle ballad. " -MOJO"Schneider is equal parts Patti Smith, Polly Harvey, Hope Sandoval and Loretta Lynn and as artistically combustible as that collision of personalities might suggest." - MAGNET MAGAZINE"Glorious and melancholic Texan magic...The romantically driven viewpoints of these fine desert soundscapes suggests that Schneider is a woman who knows the hurt of a broken heart. ... Schneider's soulful brooding makes for glorious listening."-NME"The scaffolding remains fixed on an unforgiving landscape haunted by dustdevils and black vultures. Schneider's delivery is part-P.J. Harvey, part- Patti Smith with Hayseeds, while the music is all slide guitar, reverbed Gretsch and moody strings"-UNCUT"Sounds like sitting in a honky-tonk, out of your head on morphine"- Alternative PressStill without an american label, the debut 'Gold' (self-released 2001) met with critical acclaim, while 2003's 'Sad Days' (Parisian label Fargo) met with outstanding UK and European press, all of which you can read at www.alicetexas.org. The live reviews of the European tour with Chris Whitley-R.I.P- are even better, if you care to google and can read French or German. Sad Days was released here in the U.S through Redeye distribution on May 3rd. The new record ihas been recorded onto 2" 8 track and nearly completed. Who gets it is anybody's guess.But for the time being, the new song "Love is All Around", is available here for you to listen to a put on your myspace site. Produced by the wonderfully tall and talented Bad Seed, Grinderman and good good man, Jim Sclavunos, gorgeous guitar playing and e-bowed bass courtesy of dollfaced Bellmer Doll and long-time partner-in-crime, Peter Mavrogeorgis, and engineering and bass compliments of Mark Dann. For my mom, and yours.xxooalice