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FayRey has recently been added as an up-an-coming indie artist to the Canadian-US compliation: "Music For Coffee Beings"
www.myspace.com/musicforcoffeebeings
"Music For Coffee Beings is breaking new ground in promoting Canadian and world artists.
Our goal is to distribute quality Canadian music free of charge to 1000+ cafes and coffee shops throughout Canada.
We are creating a series of compilation CDs that will feature some of Canada's best independant and signed artists and sending them out to over 1,000 coffee shops and cafes across Canada, and the US" - Music for Coffee Beings
Six tracks of indie rock with a bit of Calexicp flavor. the sound is laid back, but there's an underlying subtle urgency that pokes its head up and shakes its tongue at you once in a while (as on "Hank" or "cool Slacks"). that dual vibe sets FayRey apart and gives the band spunk, - New Haven Advocate
Chosen by Performer Magazine, (the nation's largest trade publication for musicians, highlights the best unsigned and independent musical acts from the U.S.) to appear in an upcoming issue. - Performer Magazine
Chosen for the Original sessions National Band Search 2007
Bands get an opportunity to showcase for Major label & Indie label A&R + receive EP recording deal with indie label Vinvarg Recordings.
The series & band search take place in various clubs in NYC & over 11
satellite territories.
www.originalsessions.com www.fmfb.net
- Original Sessions
FayRey plays a moody mixture of rock and new-wave. The band just released a six-song EP that's chock-full of good tunes. We here at 'Weekend' really have fallen for hank, a guitar heavy song that's a little loose and is about Hank Williams. We Like Hank and FayRey - The Register
Recently PLAY
(www.playnewhaven.com), one of Connecticut's premier music journals sat down with Lillian Fuchs to talk music, her favorite CD's, and her upcoming CD release Party at Cafe 9 on Sat, May 19th. The result ended in Lillian being spolighted as one of their "first listen" musicians, where she turned the tables and offered her own thoughts of some great new music. - Journal Register Company, New Haven, CT
Band: “FayRey”.
Music Style: “art-house indie rock”.
Armed with: “My beat up and well-loved Gibson ES-335 and a really good mellow distortion pedal.”
WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECORD YPU BOUGHT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY?: ”Disintegration by The Cure. I remember loving the careen quality of Robert Smith’s voice, against the bacdrop of these tight quirky guitar riffs. Love that album!”
WHAT WAS THE FIRST CONCERT YOU ATTENDED: “I was a bit of a geek. I didn’t know there was any kind of music other than classical. Growing up in the Berkshires, my first concert was at Tanglewood. My first rock concert was R.E.M.”
WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING NOW?: “Feist, Let It Die...an amazing artist!”
WHAT INSPIRED YOUR FIRST NOTES?: “Seeing Sonic Youth in concert when I was in college, watching Kim Gordon just fearlessly move around the stage, and rock out with the guys, I thought: That is what I aspire to. I picked up an electric guitar and just kept playing.”
WHAT"S YOUR DRINK OF CHOICE? : “Depends on the night. Jameson on the rocks, or a gin& tonic.”
IF YOU COULD JOIN ANOTHER LOCAL BAND FOR A DAY WHO WOULD THAT BE?: “That’s hard, there’s not just one. Shadowgraphs, The Secret Ink, The Furors, Mates of State.”
OUTSIDE OF WRITING AND PLAYING MUSIC WHERE ELSE CAN YOU BE FOUND?: “Going to concerts, sitting in coffe shops, teaching music, watching the movie Hot Fuzz, loving Labywrinth Books, excited about Bjork at the Apollo, riding my bike.” - New Haven Advocate
FayRey has been featured on the followiing radio stations:
WPLR 99.1 FM
WKCI 101.3 FM
www.ultraradio.com
WESU 88.1 FM
WHUS 91.7 FM
WYBC 94.3 FM
- VARIOUS RADIO STATIONS
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Every so often a band comes along that makes you stop and take note. FayRey is that band. Well known in the indie-rock scene of New England, FayRey is quickly emerging as one of the more interesting and innovative art-rock bands today.
Eclectic in its genre FayRey is what happens when you combine a love of classic, gritty NY punk rock, with a love for contemporary classical music. Guitars thrash and buzz blending with front woman Lillian Fuchs vocal growls and taunts, bass notes surge and recede around carefully crafted primitive drum grooves, all evoking the glitter and grit of punk rock.…until the trademark FayRey moment happens of something unexpected. Keyboards and violins slowly weaves a melody that rises over the top of the pulsing grind of guitar and bass. Drums drop into a deconstructed shimmer of cymbals and out of it all emerges a haunting vocal line.
Its different, unexpected, exciting. Audiences press up to the stage wanting to meet the band members, know when FayRey will play again, signing the mailing list. There is a definite buzz growing around this band.
Begun as an experimental art-rock group three years ago by rocker girl Lillian Fuchs who states, "We wanted to put our own unique stamp on what rock-n-roll should be. Our songs play to that dirty glitter so unique to rock's genre... where you can croon or rage with any instrument to make a statement worth hearing. We've always loved bands like the Velvet Underground, The NY Dolls, Sonic Youth or artists like Patti Smith.
FayRey's love of anything raw and edgy led to their name choice. Taken from the 1930's Blond Bombshell vixen of the arthouse-gaudy-monster-flic fame, Fay Wray. She was the original rocker girl who rocked the screen and rocked America. Queen of the raw, primitive and bold 1930's America. It was a time when everything was new -- new ideas, new genres, new materials, new directions. Nothing was yet uniform, nothing too polished. All the stuff that FayRey puts into their music, constantly searching for new ground or the unexpected.
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