6/12/10
The new album is progressing slowly but surely. One more track to go and we should be in the final mixing and mastering stages soon. We're also working with a couple of impressive guest artists that will be contributing some backing tracks on a couple of songs. Still no title or cover art, but we're working on that too, and hopefully it will all come together in time for a release date and some local shows this summer.
Stay tuned and sign up for e-mail updates here.
1/22/10
Starting on Monday, January 25th and continuing for two weeks, we will donate $1 from every CD sale through our website, and $1 from every download sale through CD Baby over $8.99, to the American Red Cross and to Mercy Corps, a Portland-based relief organization with a large presence in Haiti.
10/31/09
Hard to believe we released PANK over a year ago and reviews still coming from around the world. New reviews from Norway, Brazil, New Zealand and Germany.
Recording has begun for the next album!
9/1/09
Zip Tang takes 4th place for Prog Rock Album and 6th for Prog Song "Footprints" at the JPF Awards. We had a blast playing at BB KIng's on Friday and the Awards Show Saturday was phenomenal! See all the winners and finalists here:
2009 Album Winners: Top 4 Albums in All Genres
2009 Song Winners: Top 6 Songs in All Genres
8/27/09
Zip Tang has been selected to play at the JPF Pre Awards Nominee Showcase at BB Kings Nashville Aug. 28th.
Watch the webcast at JPF's homepage here.
6/28/09
5/26/09
Hey, that was a fun show at Martyrs' last week and a great crowd! Let us know how you like the new tunes here, at our MySpace, our Facebook, iLike, or at our Reverbnation page.
New video shown at The Abbey show with full length tracks of "Leaving Nothing" & "Cicada Jam" featuring Pank album art and graphics by Jess Rossi, and second from last image Luminiferous Ether cover art BY B.Y. Check it here.
4/23/09
2/19/09
Friday March 20th with Lobster Newberg at The Abbey - Chicago.
2/10/09
Part 1 - Podcast of Portugal's Rock Radio feature of Zip Tang and Pank including a long distance, in depth interview with Felipe Santos about the band, the writing & recording of Pank, Portuguese wine, and what to expect on the next album - on his radio show Pais Relativo RUA 102.7FM radio Portugal. skip to about 22:00, and 43:00 for the interview
Part 2 - skip to about 2:30 if you don't speak Portuguese.
1/27/09
The new album is progressing slowly but surely. One more track to go and we should be in the final mixing and mastering stages soon. We're also working with a couple of impressive guest artists that will be contributing some backing tracks on a couple of songs. Still no title or cover art, but we're working on that too, and hopefully it will all come together in time for a release date and some local shows this summer.
Stay tuned and sign up for e-mail updates here.
1/22/10
Starting on Monday, January 25th and continuing for two weeks, we will donate $1 from every CD sale through our website, and $1 from every download sale through CD Baby over $8.99, to the American Red Cross and to Mercy Corps, a Portland-based relief organization with a large presence in Haiti.
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10/31/09
Hard to believe we released PANK over a year ago and reviews still coming from around the world. New reviews from Norway, Brazil, New Zealand and Germany.
Recording has begun for the next album!
9/1/09
Zip Tang takes 4th place for Prog Rock Album and 6th for Prog Song "Footprints" at the JPF Awards. We had a blast playing at BB KIng's on Friday and the Awards Show Saturday was phenomenal! See all the winners and finalists here:
2009 Album Winners: Top 4 Albums in All Genres
2009 Song Winners: Top 6 Songs in All Genres
8/27/09
Zip Tang has been selected to play at the JPF Pre Awards Nominee Showcase at BB Kings Nashville Aug. 28th.
Watch the webcast at JPF's homepage here.
6/28/09
JPF reports
that their 8000
volunteer judges screened over 42,000 CD's and 560,000 songs to reach
these final results in 80 categories. Check it out! The
final voting is next and the Awards will be announced August 29 in
Nashville!
We'd like to thank the judges that voted for us and wish good luck to the other nominees. Maybe we'll see some of you in Nashville.
We'd like to thank the judges that voted for us and wish good luck to the other nominees. Maybe we'll see some of you in Nashville.
5/26/09
Hey, that was a fun show at Martyrs' last week and a great crowd! Let us know how you like the new tunes here, at our MySpace, our Facebook, iLike, or at our Reverbnation page.
New video shown at The Abbey show with full length tracks of "Leaving Nothing" & "Cicada Jam" featuring Pank album art and graphics by Jess Rossi, and second from last image Luminiferous Ether cover art BY B.Y. Check it here.
4/23/09
2/19/09
Friday March 20th with Lobster Newberg at The Abbey - Chicago.
2/10/09
Part 1 - Podcast of Portugal's Rock Radio feature of Zip Tang and Pank including a long distance, in depth interview with Felipe Santos about the band, the writing & recording of Pank, Portuguese wine, and what to expect on the next album - on his radio show Pais Relativo RUA 102.7FM radio Portugal. skip to about 22:00, and 43:00 for the interview
Part 2 - skip to about 2:30 if you don't speak Portuguese.
1/27/09
Pank
reaches #29 of the top 100 albums of the year for 2008 in Germany's Eclipsed Rock Magazine.
We're honored to be included with these great international bands and
artists. We haven't heard of a few of them either, but Google 'em and
check them out like we did. Lots o' good stuff...
Here are the top 50:
1. Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
2. Portishead - Third
3. Colour Haze - All
4. Opeth - Watershed
5. Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
6. Lunatic Soul - s / t
7. Pendragon - Pure
8. Fleet Foxes - s / t
9. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
10. Marillion - Happiness Is The Road
11. RPWL - The RPWL Experience
12. Xavier Rudd - Dark Shadows Of Blue
13. Simon Says - Tardigrade
14. Black Mountain - In The Future
15. Astrid Swan - Spartan Picnic
16. Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory
17. Matthew Parmenter - Horror Express
18. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
19. Seveen Steps To The Green Door - Step In 2 My World
20. The Black Angels - Directions To See A Light
21. Tribe After Tribe - MOAB Stories From Deuteronomy
22. Siena Root - Far From The Sun
23. No-Man - School Yard Ghosts
24. Lambchop - (OH) Ohio
25. Guapo - Exilirs
26. Caspian - The Four Trees
27. Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
28. The Season Standard - Squeeze Me Ahead Of Line
29. Zip Tang - Pank
30. Uriah Heep - Walk The Sleeper
31. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
32. Madrugada - s / t
33. Van Der Graaf Generator - Trisector
34. Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
35. Joe Jackson - Rain
36. The Cure - 4:13 Dream
37. Seven That Spells - Black Om Rising
38. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad
39. Sigur Rós - með Suð I Eyrum við Spilum Endalaust
40. Walter Trout - The Outsider
41. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
42. The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
43. AC/DC - Black Ice
44. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus, Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!
45. Shamall - Questions of Life
46. Slut - StillNo1
47. Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
48. Diagonal - s / t
49. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
50. Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
Here are the top 50:
1. Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
2. Portishead - Third
3. Colour Haze - All
4. Opeth - Watershed
5. Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
6. Lunatic Soul - s / t
7. Pendragon - Pure
8. Fleet Foxes - s / t
9. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
10. Marillion - Happiness Is The Road
11. RPWL - The RPWL Experience
12. Xavier Rudd - Dark Shadows Of Blue
13. Simon Says - Tardigrade
14. Black Mountain - In The Future
15. Astrid Swan - Spartan Picnic
16. Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory
17. Matthew Parmenter - Horror Express
18. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
19. Seveen Steps To The Green Door - Step In 2 My World
20. The Black Angels - Directions To See A Light
21. Tribe After Tribe - MOAB Stories From Deuteronomy
22. Siena Root - Far From The Sun
23. No-Man - School Yard Ghosts
24. Lambchop - (OH) Ohio
25. Guapo - Exilirs
26. Caspian - The Four Trees
27. Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
28. The Season Standard - Squeeze Me Ahead Of Line
29. Zip Tang - Pank
30. Uriah Heep - Walk The Sleeper
31. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
32. Madrugada - s / t
33. Van Der Graaf Generator - Trisector
34. Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
35. Joe Jackson - Rain
36. The Cure - 4:13 Dream
37. Seven That Spells - Black Om Rising
38. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad
39. Sigur Rós - með Suð I Eyrum við Spilum Endalaust
40. Walter Trout - The Outsider
41. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
42. The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
43. AC/DC - Black Ice
44. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus, Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!
45. Shamall - Questions of Life
46. Slut - StillNo1
47. Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
48. Diagonal - s / t
49. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
50. Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
12/19/08
Thanks to all of you that came out to Martyrs' to celebrate with us the culmination of a year's worth of work fueled by a few hundred bottles of excellent red wine lovingly hand picked by our sommelier Rick. Rumor has it, there is some video footage of the show coming soon.
Pank is getting some great reviews and exposure in European print and web publications and on radio stations in Europe and Canada. We'll post some more links soon.
In the meantime have a happy and safe holiday and we'll see you nex t year!
10/20/98
PANK CD Release Party at Martyrs' Nov. 20th at 9:00pm, door at 8:30.
10/15/08
Get PANK on iTunes
10/9/08
PANK is available on CD Baby!
9/27/08
It’s here. It’s new. You’ve been
waiting for it. Zip Tang wants you, our friends and fans, to be
the first to hear “PANK”, our NEW CD. Check out the redesigned website
and head for the music link where you’ll see that Digstation
has “PANK” ready to go. We’ll be releasing the entire CD to
the public within a week on CD
Baby and other download sites. So go hear what’s been brewing
in our little sanctuary from the world, ZiTi Studio. We go
deeper into the dark woods of musical exploration then surprise you
with sets of underlying humor. Read more about “PANK” here.
Zip Tang appreciates our fans and wanted to get you to our music first. You’ll be the first to know when the hard CD is ready to buy at CD Baby
Zip Tang appreciates our fans and wanted to get you to our music first. You’ll be the first to know when the hard CD is ready to buy at CD Baby
Thanks for staying with us. We hope you like what we have
for you. Check it out. Let us know what you think!
7/30/08
YouTube Video
Zip Tang & The Hush Sound - "Hourglass" @ House Of Blues
6/18/08
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The last time THS headlined at the House of Blues it sold out so get your tickets NOW! |
Getting much closer to completing the upcoming, still untitled, next album. 10 songs, all originals, (we considered a Jazzy cover of War Pigs, but we'll save that for an upcoming show) ranging in length from about 4 to a little over 8 minutes totalling over an hour of our souls set to music. As we're working hard to complete the final tracks, reviews are still coming in on our debut album LE. Here's another new one from Prog Rèsiste, a Rock magazine from Belgium.
Updates should be coming more regularly regarding the new album, release date. show dates, and a record release party/show.
1/25/08
We're busy writing and recording our 2nd album and are about half way into what we anticipate will be the final track selections. We're nowhere near announcing a release date yet but we're anticipating hopefully sometime around summer of 2008 if things go as well as they have so far. Stay tuned for updates on the progress of the album and possible sneak previews in the near future.
In the meantime - we're humbled by the overwhelmingly excellent reviews still coming in for our first effort - LE. Although we weren't necessarily striving to write "Progressive Rock" or some sub-genre of prog music, (that's just the way the music oozed out), we consider it an honor to be included in these esteemed circles of highly knowledgeable music fans and aficionados. Heartfelt thanks again to all of the insightful reviewers and to our new fans.
New review from our new friends at ProgressiveEars.com. Thanks Floyd!
12/26/07
Another good review from The Dutch Progressive Rock Page.
11/19/07
"Geil! Ganz einfach geil ist Zip Seaweed." We love Germany and Germany loves Zip Tang - thanks mainly to our distributor in Deutschland - Just For Kicks Music and Nicole. More German reviews here.
Luminiferous Ether is on the air in Europe - thanks to our new friends at MLWZ Radio - Poland and RUA - Portugal.
Zip is now also available at Napster and most major digital download sites including iTunes, PayPlay, GreatIndieMusic, AudioLunchBox, Muze, BuyMusic, and more being added regularly.
10/21/07
Loosely Translated International Reviews
Zip Tang on
9/20/07
Review
of Luminiferous
Ether from ProgressiveWorld.net
Zip Tang's long-awaited CD - Luminiferous Ether - is now available online!
PLUS - as a tribute to the most challenging cover song we ever attempted, this CD includes our interpretive rendition of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Tarkus - more than 18 minutes worth of classic progressive rock. You've just gotta hear it to believe it. This was a musical mountain that we just had to climb.
So if you've seen one of our rare live performances, or caught us on YouTube, or perhaps know us through a connection to The Hush Sound, check it out. Luminiferous Ether is available on CD Baby.
Also, watch your email for a CD release party announcement. We don't have a date or a location yet - but we're working on it. We hope to see you soon.
Thanks for your interest and support.
Perry, Marcus, Rick & Fred